Weight / Fat loss

I can't recomend a specific one, but my mate has the standard argos pole between the door frame one and he always says he wishes he'd got an hooping one that wraps fully round.

like this:

As opposed to this:

Personally I quite like the neatness of the latter, but you are more limited when it comes to hand positions and potentially the placing of your door in relation to things around it. Personally if I had one, I would never do a "full" workout on it, it would always be more of a press-ups before a shower kind of thing. But if you want to do it seriously...

...I guess one like this would give you everything:

argh so hungry at work!!!

WTF are they in the bottom picture? They look so bright they belong in the Simpsons!

[quote][/quote]I think in general everyone who recommends diets to other people is a moron (no offence to anyone here, yeah?). I've found out through my long years of dieting and looking for advice that different eating regimes work differently for everyone. Do you exercise, do you have a lot of stress in your life, do you drink coffee, alcohol, do you smoke, do you have kids, how old are you... All those things are not to be ignored when it comes to dietting, as they determine one's lifestyle inevitably and thus you can't recommend one diet for all humans.

I found that low-carb diet works the best for me. I've been on the separate eating regimes and all kinds of other diets, have quit alcohol and smoking at times, have done the regular meal thing, the exercising, the l-carnitine, everything you can think of, really, but the high-fat low-carb diet works the best for me - not only it's technically all that I like eating anyway, but it's also cheap, makes me feel good and energetic and makes me lose weight.

And despite this, I won't go as far as immediately recommending it to everyone else, cause who knows what balance you have in your bodies, maybe that diet will just make it worse.

I don't think this thread is necessarily about certain 'diets' more about an individuals diet, like you've said low carb works for you.

keeping a log of diet and exerceise is something which has made a big difference for me. Having some kind of idea of what you are eating in terms of calories and food groups and the amount of exericise you are doing means that you can then have some idea of what works for you and what doesn't.

I can't recomend a specific one, but my mate has the standard argos pole between the door frame one and he always says he wishes he'd got an hooping one that wraps fully round.

like this:

As opposed to this:

Personally I quite like the neatness of the latter, but you are more limited when it comes to hand positions and potentially the placing of your door in relation to things around it. Personally if I had one, I would never do a "full" workout on it, it would always be more of a press-ups before a shower kind of thing. But if you want to do it seriously...

...I guess one like this would give you everything:

the first and last one look good, do you have the links please hugo?

That last one needs a picture of the flat, one week on, with laundry hanging on the chin-up frame.

We have the first one, and it is excellent, only problem is it doesn't necessarily fit on all doors, it prefers newer door frames than old ones. The two positions allow for a variety of pull-up techniques. I would recommend it for sure, 'loin assured product.

^^ nothing more than google I'm afraid.

It looks like this.

Just thought I'd chuck my 2p in as my friend does use his regularly, but as I said regrets his one.

He climbs quite a bit and has a length of rope with knots tied in it hanging down so you can do semi-one-armed pull ups. The knots are so you can vary the resistance. Not sure if that's of any use, but it might be(?).

Like this:

cheers, i've found the last one on the bay for cheaps but looks like you have to start drilling stuff.

tenderloin where did you get yours and does it just clip on the frame?

GYM MASTER EXERCISE BAR / DOOR GYM, PULL UPS,CHIN UPS SIT UP: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Leisure

Can you enlightened us? personally I figure that a natural diet and decent exercise is all that needed, but would like to hear what you have to said.

For all practical purposes, that's pretty much all you need to know. Eat well, keeping moving about, get some rest. if you need to lose weight, reduce the food a bit, up the exercise a bit. Within those simple parameters, do whatever works for you.

There's no need to focus on magic bullets or special techniques because a) there are so many variables it's never a simple cause/effect and b) the gains from little specific tricks (like upping your caffeine intake) are usually negligible compared to the effect of just eating a little bit less or doing a little bit more.

Our research could loosely be described as trying to answer the question "where does food end up in your body, and what are the factors that influence this?" The clinical link (gotta have that in grant applications these days) was that some patients who've suffered major trauma or infection can waste away, even though they are being fed all the nutrients they could possibly need*. Clearly, it's not as simple as "good thing go in, good things happen".

I'm glad people are interested in how they tick, but there's so much bullshit out there. The best weight loss "programme" is the one you can stick to without being miserable.

• we looked at healthy subjects too. Fed them radioactive cakes.
  

Did you create any baking superheroes?

I lapsed a little over the weekend, ate a bit more than I should have but still under 2000 calories each day.

It's strange that I already feel myself getting full much easier and myfitnesspal has really helped!

both me and the GF are back on healthy eating as of today. was a slight hiccup this morning insofar as my boss brought 5 boxes of krispy kreme's back with him following his wedding and I was ravenous when I got in. but it's been taken into account and shouldn't put me over my 'allowance'

but my day is planned out to look something like this...

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/hatbeard

I'm impressed Hatbeard, I find planning the day really helps as I know what I can/ cannot eat throughout the day.

Also on your exercise diary, is the light cycling just commuting miles - just a question as I'm unaware what to put down for my commuting miles.

yeah I typically give it some on my commute but I also stop for every red light so I figure that's a happy medium between the two. plus I'd rather underestimate than overestimate in that regard.

That's ok then. I've put my commuting as the same. I thought I'd rather go under the figure than over and start to over eat!

We have the first one, and it is excellent, only problem is it doesn't necessarily fit on all doors, it prefers newer door frames than old ones. The two positions allow for a variety of pull-up techniques. I would recommend it for sure, 'loin assured product.

+1 Though you can't use it on narrower doorways, my last place hadn't got a single doorway that was wide enough.

MrsFix is happy today because she reached her myfitnesspal target weight - about 0.75lb per week over 5 months; 28lb / 12.7kg total :)

Almost 13kg wow!

And just over a year on:

Height 188cm
Weight 76.4kg
Fat 10.4%
Bone 3.4kg
Water 60.3%
Muscle 46.8%

I seem to have lost some bone- maybe I wrote that down wrong last time:

Weight 76kg dead
Fat 10%
Bone 3.2kg
Water 68.3% (I'm a balloon filled with water! Stay away with sharp things!)
Muscle 46%

So, I've got 1kg to lose in the next month to achieve my target of hitting the alps at 75kg on a 6.8kg bike, bike is done and I think I could shift that kilo pretty easily.

Rather unfortunately it looks like the trip is off, so I'm at a bit of a loose end after all that training now.