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    Fuck IF today...4 beers with lunch. Playing touch tonight....ill be awesome 👌

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    @taniwharugby said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    Fuck IF today...4 beers with lunch. Playing touch tonight....ill be awesome 👌

    play loose!

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    @mariner4life always do!

    But in my mind I expect I will be the fastest I have ever been and I'll put TR Jnr into every gap and he will be too slow to take it!

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    how to lose weight

    count calories, take in less than 2,000 a day. Remove beer, sugar, and most carbs. Work out nearly every day

    Get a stomach bug that gives you the shits for the better part of the week

    job done! according to my established targets, i have already achieved the desired weight loss. 45 days? bullshit! did it in 9! 3kg down boy!!

    so i now need to make some changes or i am going to fade away. more calories. more carbs. eat more around my workouts, especially the lifting days.

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    @mariner4life

    You sound like one of those fluffybunnies, who when they talk about losing weight, need a good kick in the nuts.

    Well done though, that's a good effort! What's the plan now? For me, I can usually maintain by skipping breakfast, cutting beer, and working out 2 -3 times a week.

    Or, are you going to try and make some big changes to the body?

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    @gt12 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @mariner4life

    You sound like one of those fluffybunnies, who when they talk about losing weight, need a good kick in the nuts.

    Well done though, that's a good effort! What's the plan now? For me, I can usually maintain by skipping breakfast, cutting beer, and working out 2 -3 times a week.

    Or, are you going to try and make some big changes to the body?

    I'll stick to the calorie counting (i'm eating pre-prepped meals which are surprisingly good, if fuuuuucking small) and add some carbs. Have an additional protein shake every day. And try and get up early enough to eat something before i work out (this will be an issue, 5.30 is hard enough, 5 is going to be a massive struggle).

    And stick with the lack of booze and sugar right through.

    That said, if the weather gods come to the party, i'm off to the races this weekend, and no way i will not have a few beers.

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    surprisingly it's not the beer that i miss the most. i miss cooking and eating the foods i fucking love, with all the rich ingredients i usually use. And obviously the portion sizes i am used to when i make it too.

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    Counting calories is certainly a decent way of losing weight. Ultimately if you stay under a certain level you have to lose weight. But some people take the piss with this. A mate of mine for example will sometimes only eat dinner so he can smash junk food. He never eats breakfast and always eats some form of shit every day. So he’ll lose weight but his health will still be farked.

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel yeah if you are going down that path then what is the point? i mean i could skip every meal and have 14 stubbies and still come in under.

    right now i am absolutely fanging for the shitty afternoon snack i would have had. fanging i tell you.

    but i am disciplined!!

    and i only have enough calories left in my day for dinner.

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    @mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    but i am disciplined!!

    That's the secret - stubbornness. I dropped an amazing amount of fat by not consuming carbs for an entire January. A work acquaintance just decided he'd only drink water until the fat melted off him. Another mate has dropped 16 kilos and plans to dump another 20 to get back into marathons. He'll do it no problem.

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    @antipodean definitely stubborn about it. but it's week 2. lets see how i am in another couple

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    @antipodean discipline trumps motivation every day of the week 👍

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    @Paekakboyz said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @antipodean discipline trumps motivation every day of the week 👍

    little bit of vanity helps too

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    Discipline, motivation.....and also realising we’re all over 40 now so it will be tougher.

    I also make sure there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t do something physical. Just today was a paperwork/tidy up day but I still did a bunch of knuckle push ups and plyometric jumps to kickstart the metabolism before lunch.

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    @mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @Rancid-Schnitzel yeah if you are going down that path then what is the point? i mean i could skip every meal and have 14 stubbies and still come in under.

    right now i am absolutely fanging for the shitty afternoon snack i would have had. fanging i tell you.

    but i am disciplined!!

    and i only have enough calories left in my day for dinner.

    Said like it's a bad thing. I'm disappointed.

    I have to admit that I do this - my diet is based on me making good decisions on weekdays during the hours of the day when the sun is out, which means I can have a few glasses of wine each night and do whatever the fuck I want on the weekends.

    It's awesome to see that you are putting in the effort. I'm almost motivated. Almost.

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    @gt12 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @Rancid-Schnitzel yeah if you are going down that path then what is the point? i mean i could skip every meal and have 14 stubbies and still come in under.

    right now i am absolutely fanging for the shitty afternoon snack i would have had. fanging i tell you.

    but i am disciplined!!

    and i only have enough calories left in my day for dinner.

    Said like it's a bad thing. I'm disappointed.

    I have to admit that I do this - my diet is based on me making good decisions on weekdays during the hours of the day when the sun is out, which means I can have a few glasses of wine each night and do whatever the fuck I want on the weekends.

    It's awesome to see that you are putting in the effort. I'm almost motivated. Almost.

    dude, that is my usual lifestyle. it slipped a bit towards the back end of the year, when i was skipping breakfast, but found myself chuffing lollies at 10:30am and the beers had gone from just the weekend to during the week a bit as well

    and then i went on holiday and smashed stubbies every day

    so this is a short term thing as a reset, something different, and hopefully it will shift that little bit of soft around the middle that is very hard to move in your 40s

    come early March i'll revert to my previous lifestyle, hopefully with a few better habits though.

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    Too many beers are pretty bad.....too many craft beers are worse, there’s a reason hipster craft beer piston wristed gibbons are all bearded, checked shirt and pudgy.

    I’ll have spirits and red wine more than beer these days but sessions on some IPAs are still bloody good in moderation. Plus hot day/cold beer is still a great combo.

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    I can’t recommend the treat/cheat day enough. Takes the edge off and you can reward yourself for being so good. Drawback of course is that you can get carried away. The next morning on the toilet can be lengthy.

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    @gt12 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    @Rancid-Schnitzel yeah if you are going down that path then what is the point? i mean i could skip every meal and have 14 stubbies and still come in under.

    right now i am absolutely fanging for the shitty afternoon snack i would have had. fanging i tell you.

    but i am disciplined!!

    and i only have enough calories left in my day for dinner.

    Said like it's a bad thing. I'm disappointed.

    I have to admit that I do this - my diet is based on me making good decisions on weekdays during the hours of the day when the sun is out, which means I can have a few glasses of wine each night and do whatever the fuck I want on the weekends.

    It's awesome to see that you are putting in the effort. I'm almost motivated. Almost.

    Exactly me. I'm healthy as during the day. Salads, lots of water, never any sugar.

    Come the evening or the weekend, its hello wine and a proper feed!!!

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    @Rancid-Schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:

    I can’t recommend the treat/cheat day enough. Takes the edge off and you can reward yourself for being so good. Drawback of course is that you can get carried away. The next morning on the toilet can be lengthy.

    Is every 2nd day too frequent for a cheat day?

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