Training and not losing any weight (Help!)

[Greig]

15 is probably too young to be thinking about dieting unless your diet is REALLY shit...

Bu as someone who has lost a lot of weight (In two years I've gone from 95-100kg to 71-73) I can offer some suggestions.

For me, the first ten kilos came off piece of piss - just joining a gym and attending fairly regularly did that. That got me down from morbidly obese (not really, but I was a fat bastard) down to just a heavy guy at around 80-85kg. After that I had to make dietary adjustments - I was still eating a lot of crap sugary and fatty foods, as well as going out and having too many pints of lager/Guiness on the weekends. Of course, it's not just the piss - after a few pints, pizza or a chinese sounds like a GREAT idea

So, for four months last year I became like a monk - no chocolate, sugar, beer or anything remotely bad in my diet at all for four months. That got me down to around 69-70kg by Christmas time. I also cut out ALL fast foods and haven't had any since (Subway excepted).

Now it's ok - I can have a blowout on choc or a rich pasta or ice cream or something and, because I'm doing the work at the gym, I don't really notice it on the scales. But it's important to only do it as a treat or reward. For instance if I have pulled a monster session at the gym and have sweated my bollocks off, sometimes I will pull in to the deli on the way home and grab a couple of Snickers for me and the missus.

But, there will come a time when you will have to make sacrifices. For me, I'd been an unhealthy drinker/smoker all through my twenties and I had a bit of a bender one weekend that left me feeling like I was dying. I went to the doc and he did a whole heap of tests that came back negative. He basically just said 'mate, your fat and your lifestyle is attrocious - get off your arse'. Best advice anybody gave me. I turned 30 earlier this year and I'm feeling great and am doing regular sparring at the gym - something that would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago. All my mates are jealous and call me the Biafran when we are having a few scoops (they are all overweight).

Anyway, hows that for war and peace? Do it now while the bad habits you have are still young. I did it when I was 28 and I'm glad I did, because I bet at 40 it would have been a lot harder. Good luck with it dude.

[sourpuss]

Good advice Greig.