The Summary - Want to Lose Weight?

I Know that allll the below is... A) TERRIBLY written! :)... B) Very Long... and C) Not mega interesting... SO - I wanted to write more of a bulleted list of major changed I would make now if i wanted to lose weight, gain muscle and become more toned - if I hadn't ever done anything like that before - wasn't eating right, not taking supps, not training... Hope it helps... If you need any help with Losing weight feel free to comment and im happy to advise.

• Eat Right! - I tried putting it off for a LONG time - but it turns out diet is the MAIN thing you have to change to lose weight - no matter how much you train, if you eat the right things then you will lose fat a lot faster! Try to reduce carbs and not eat any carbs later at night - also reduce saturated fat and normal fat intake. try to cut your calories by 300-500 per day for healthy weight loss.

Why? Sugar makes you crave Sugar, You have a sugary breakfast... your body gets excited. it uses up the sugar... and then it wants more! so you get hungry! it also increases insulin levels which makes you store more fat! - fix this by having a protein based breakfast!

• Train Right! - Start off with Low Intensity Cardio, this is tough endurance cardio, so high resistance onthe cross-trainer, high incline walking on the tredmill - try and do this for 45mins-1hour atleast 4 times per week - you WILL see a hugeeeee difference!!

Progression - If you fancy a change, once you have started exercising, then try HIIT Cardio, warm up with a 5 min walk... then Run/Sprint for 1 min on the tredmill for 1 min and then walk/jog for 2 mins to recover, try to really push yourself, im now doing this for 40mins and it burns off so much fat. I wouldn't do it longer then 40mins though, you might die! ha :D

• Hydrate! - Drink 2-3 Litre's of water per day, this is essential to ensure transit of the fat out of your body, plus its sort of a mathamatical equation, Water + the right Supplements + your body having to use fat for energy because your eating below 2200 calories per day and not many carbs = Body Fat BYEBYE!!

• Supplement! - Omega 3 is amazing for fat loss - 2 1000mg soft gels when you wake, 2 at mid day!, Multivitamin keeps your body strong and immune to illness, Protein shakes (low carb ones) are great to keep your bodys metabolism up, give it the protein it needs and in doing this help you get toned while losing fat

• Eat Little and Often! - Instead of eating a big breakfast, big lunch, big dinner, and snacking... Have a big breakfast to keep you full for ages... and then snack mid morning on nuts or a protein shake, have a medium sized lunch, again snack in the afternoonm nuts or protein and then after training/at dinner another medium protein meal...

Why? - this keeps your metabolism up, so your body is always using the food you eat for energy, instead of eating too much, storing loads as fat and then getting more for energy... your body uses the food for energy, then you snack again and it uses that for more energy... ect... so you dont have that overlap and you dont gain as much body fat as you would if you were overeating at the big meals!

• Finally - Motivation - Take Pictures of yourself, before you start dieting and training, measure and weight yourself once a week. this was you can see progress and it makes you feel great and strives you to keep going!

Receiving posative compliments about your body when dieting and training makes people something like 30% more likely to achieve their goals (that was in mens health or something), personally, I think its more. If you surround yourself with positivity and take away the negatives - negative comments, people who criticise, either because they are jealous, synical - or just wankers - then you will achieve SO much more, I did it, and im more positive then ever now!

As mentioned - if you would like any help what so ever with your weightloss - drop me a comment and im happy to advise.

This blog isnt meant to be science or fact - im not qualified or anything like that, all the infomation is what iv learned from my peers, magazines (mens health mainly!) online forumes such as UKMuscle and Bodybuilding.com and just from looking things up from my journey from being 17 and 22st, to being 22 and 15st 2 and a LOT happier!

Thanks for reading!