DISCLAIMER!
This is my own personal experience, it may seem like i'm saying this WILL work, but you undertake this method at your own risk and i have no proof this working for anyone other than me.
Spent long enough listening to people going on and on and on about their diets!
"i can eat this.." "If i have this i can't have something else"
you're all morons, the BEST way to lose weight is simple, and you all know it, but you try and dress it up with names, and methods and guides, and books, EAT LESS!
Obviously a bit more complicated than this but before i get started, here's some pictures:
On the left, is me, in June 2010, 18 stone (114.305 kg) , on the right is me, June 2012 11.8 stone (75kg)
unfortunately this is the best picture of me at 18 stone, but i weighed exactly the same when i started university, and stuck to a strict student diet (beer, pizza, burgers, sausages etc.) until I decided it was time for me to start losing weight (in April (by decided i mean i ran out of money, this is when i found out the true secret to weight loss)) I lost 10 stone in 2 months, and here's how:
First! calculate how many calories you burn at rest (your Basal Metabolic Rate) this is basically how many calories you would burn if you stayed in bed all day and watched tv.
now, there are two ways you can do this either:
via a formula
or there are many websites that will do it for you, for the sake of this blog i will use
this websites calculator based on my 21 stone weight and my height of 6 ft 2 inches
Plugging these numbers into the calculator along with age and gender (this is important! men burn more calories at rest than women, so if a man chooses the wrong one, he'll loose weight faster, if a woman does, she'll loose weight slower) gave me (at 23stone) a BMR of 2546.56 this means, if, at 23 stone, I'd have laid in bed all day i would have burnt almost 2500 calories.
Secondly! eat less calories than that, its simple as that, i successfully did this on eating just tuna and rice for a month, and lost my first 2.5 stone, then i got some money, and started eating burgers again, but ALWAYS making sure my calorie intake never breached this magic 2500 (for example. a double whopper with small fries and a small drink is 1430 calories, meaning after a burger king i had 1000 calories left for the day)
I KNOW we're told that calorie counting is bad, and the first week of this is torture, you're starving all the time, but there are ways around this, drinking water, for example very few calories but fills your stomach sufficiently, (also, drinking water has been linked to weight loss) and (which in my case this was VITAL) its free! haha.
But eventually, you begin to learn, your body adapts, your stomach shrinks so you feel full off less, and the calorie counting can stop completely (i read labels for a month, because i had to make sure i was getting enough food to survive and function (anyone who reads this blog a lot will know that i blacked out at some point in this process, on account of i messed up on my intake one day (only ate lunch the previous day, didn't have time for breakfast ) ) and you will start learning what your body needs to survive, exactly the same as all the other animals on this planet, (we humans are the only animals who don't have to hunt/forage for food any more, we go to the supermarket) this is a natural instinct that is suppressed in us because we only need to open a fridge to find some food, but given time these instincts will come back, your body knows what it needs, it just needs reminding.
Thirdly, and i think most importantly, go to bed hungry, its during the night the body converts excess food into fat, and when you're asleep, you don't feel hungry at all, and the body is still respiring, so is still burning calories, many of us eat tea (evening meal) as the main meal, however, despite being told that breakfast is the most important meal, it is LUNCH that is most important, breakfast merely has to get you to lunch (whole grain toast/oat biscuits are great for this) then lunch is when you pig out (if you want to speed up the process drink 2 tall glasses of water prior to the meal, you will feel fuller sooner)
ever since i lost the 10 stone, my weight has been comfortably sat between 65-80 kg (i had to prove my theory to myself so reversed it, calculating how many calories i burnt a day, and making sure i ate more than that and put on 10 kg in a week, i then returned to eating what my body said i needed and i went back to 75 kg (which is where it generally hovers around))
now, all this sounds ruthless, horrible, but i haven't mentioned the best part yet,
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU EAT!
you could sit and pig on 2500 calories worth of chocolate a day (not ideal obviously) and this would work
its not WHAT you eat, its HOW MUCH!
There is one key rule to this method however, and that is sleep, not how much, but how hungry you are when you go to sleep, when you sleep, you are burning less energy than your BMR, this means there will be excess energy in your system than needed to run your system, this food, is stored as fat, so the last meal of the day, has to be at lunch time, the cut off seems to be about 3 o'clock, after this, there will be more energy in your system when you go into this "low energy state" so it will be stored as fat.
Since doing this my stamina, energy and strength had increased so much (due to the rapid weight loss, i still have the muscle tone of someone who's got 18 stone of weight dragging him down, but minus 6 stone.
Fuck fad diets, fuck nutritionists , fuck surgery, go back to your instincts
