The Silver Fern

[quote name='Paj']<br />
Excellent stuff Tomoko, and well done on losing all that weight.<br />
<br />
Reading a couple of the sites now and some good info.<br />
<br />
Two years is one hell of a mission, have you reached your goal?<br />
[/quote]<br />
<br />
I think so - my weight actually goes up/down by10kg or so during most years, but the main thing is I now know how to lose it whenever I want. Once your body learns a base level of fitness and leanness, it's much easier to get back there than it was the first time...

Good luck to everyone doing this...it's not easy but it's not that difficult either. I lost 40kg in about 6 months a couple of years ago, <cartman> so follow your dreams, you can acheive them....I'm living proof...BEEFCAKE!!!</cartman><br />
<br />
Here's the best site I've seen on the net for weight and fitness information - it's absolute gold: <br />
[url="http://www.exrx.net"]http://www.exrx.net[/url]<br />
<br />
Also, for those who want to obsess over kilojoules and grams of fat, the US FDA Food database: <br />
[url="http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/"]http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/[/url]<br />
<br />
That is US based so it's hard to find the right foods sometimes but they have hundreds of thousands of samples. The dietclub in Australia lets you search their database for free too: <br />
[url="http://www.dietclub.com.au/"]http://www.dietclub.com.au/[/url]<br />
<br />
I found that obsessing over it was basically the only way to succeed - I made losing weight my job. For about 2 years I recorded everything that I ate, all exercise etc on a spreadsheet and calculated how much weight I should have lost as I was doing it. It worked - after 6 months I should have lost X, and I had. 7000kj a day seemed about the sweet spot for me, but I was doing a LOT of exercise.<br />
<br />
Speaking of which, by far the most effective and easiest exercise for losing weight is bodysurfing. I didn't realise how much difference that made until I moved away from the beach <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
<br />
Here is a list of activities and their respective energy consumption: <br />
[url="http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist.htm"]http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist.htm[/url]<br />
<br />
And finally, here's some info that will shed some light on how to do weight training effectively:<br />
[url="http://www.hardgainer.com/"]http://www.hardgainer.com/[/url]<br />
<br />
I acheived much more with weights once I made an effort to work out less often....<br />
<br />
Cheers