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Quote from: Clockd 0NeShe measured me as 67kg and 183cm

wtf?  Im only 10cm taller than you, but I weigh (just) over 100kg


I guess its true what the girls say... that extra 10cm really does make a big difference !

Your just a fatty

Quote from: neXusYour just a fatty

people take the piss out of me and call me skinny !

Yeah Jessica said youre a skinny runt too  

I cant compete with your sexy level of muscular physique, Alan :bowdown:

Quote from: Clockd 0NeI forgot to mention, i was at the nurses today as Ive just joined the local practice. She measured me as 67kg and 183cm, Im 10kg down on my optimum weight! I need to act fast lol

Tis always worrying when you get your BMI measured and youre borderline underweight

Ignore BMI, its a bollocks measurement with no actual relevance to the real world. Its an outdated invention that was never intended for use in medical diagnosis and has no place in good clinical practice.

I been soooo busy with work and other things of late and been lax so I am a few months behind my program But I am gaining a lot of bulk but flatter belly so it going well. Give it to end of year and I shall post some pictures of progress myself. Trying hard this year now my hand is good and hope to play rugby again next year.

Good luck with your efforts Nige, if you need any info again just ask.

Cheers, so far Im going to add a bit more egg into my diet as I like them and they are cheap/quick to cook, and also lots of bags of nuts to snack on every hour or so!

Guocamole/homous and pitta bread seem to be good protein/carb snacks too. Also started doing an hours walk every day down and around the castle and back along the shore, asd well as some mild exercise.

Dont do running or walking because itll make you lose weight.

Honestly heres the diet you need:

Breakfast:
4x weetabix with sugar and full fat milk.

Lunch:
Baguette and cake and chocolate bar with orange juice.

Dinner:
Sandwiches. Lose the knife and fork. Take what you normally have and make sarnies with lots of healthy marg and mayo. Its what I did:
Pie sarnie
Pasta sarnie
Pizza sarnie
Washed down with 2 beers.

Its the little things that add up. Mayo on everything, beer or juice instead of coffee or water, dollop of baileys in coffee instead of milk. Bags of peanut m&ms are great - a 250g bag is an easy 1300 calories and loads of carbs. OJ has a good amount of calories and carbs so drink that instead of coffee.

Seriously. I did excercises and the eating loads of healthy stuff thing for years and was stuck on 10.5stone @ 510. Then I got some big dumbells and started the above diet and Im 11.5stone now, flat belly and no blubber at all


 

Actually while pie and pizza sarnies sound awesome, I think getting OJ and mayonaisse on everything sounds easy to achieve and inexpensive.

We talking cheap carton no bits 20p OJ or £1 a litre tropicana stuff?

Shame I dont like peanut m&ms, but nutty chocolate is a good snack idea. Drinking more beer would not be a problem either.

^ Just not to excess mate

I like with-bits but I get the cheap one. Same sh*t different price.

Quote from: sdpDont do running or walking because itll make you lose weight.

Will have to do a weight before and after my trip to the lakes.

Generally in the fieldwork season I end up losing a stone or nearly a stone in weight when I get active. Which isnt great when Im already quite low weight wise at 10 stone!...

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Quote from: zpyderFace it clocked, youre like me, cursed with the ability to eat anything in any quantity and not put on weight. I say embrace it and gorge yourself on a block of lard.

In all seriousness though take it easy on the high fat foods, you may stay thin but chances are your arteries are getting clogged full of the stuff and youll be in trouble in later life.

Lots and lots of protein coupled with good resistance training is what you need if memory serves. High mass low repetition workouts with only a small amount of cardio exercise to help you build up muscle mass.

oops, didnt see this thread :whoops: I put a daft comment about saturates on fbook a while back and didnt realise you where being serious!  :whoops:

Above = best advice on here.

I train quite a lot nowadays, I changed it round a couple of years ago (maybe more now thinking about it) when I realised I was starting to get fat after I had a life of eating what I wanted, a switch was thrown and it was a case of game over sonny, no more free rides

If you want to put on quality lean muscle not layers of flappy skin hit white meat like chicken hard and often. I used to eat only 3 meals a day but sod that, I would say eat breakfast, brunch, lunch etc, big meals for your main 3 and smaller between, I tend to smash bagels left right and centre, often 3 cinnamon and raisin new york bagel jobs a day, especially when im training that evening.


The term that you will probably benefit from googling is hardgainer there are many guides on how to pack on quality muscle etc without looking like a thin mr blobby, its perfectly possible to be almost stick thin but ugly and wobbly, so be warned. Although some of the comments on this thread incinuate you could get away with eating a birthday cake every day I wouldnt advise it, you are what you eat and all that

http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/hard-gainers.aspx

Even if you get a bit of muscle it will look good if youre thin, if you pack on a load of cake fat you will be bigger, but get a fatter belly/face etc

Honestly youre in a good position right now to tone up/gain quality muscle if you wanted to put the effort in, my metabolism used to be exactly like yours and I didnt think about training etc till I got passed the magic age (for me) and wish I did it earlier now! if youre as thin as you say you are and eat and train right keep that fat down and you could look cut like a badass


Oh and yeah BMI is a defo pinch of salt job, im 6ft just under 80kg and one point under overweight, yet my stomach is flat standing up (maybe I have a fat ass? ), muscle weighs more than fat and all that, just ask Mark, I bet his arm muscles weigh half my bodyweight

Cheers for taking the time to write all that up. It definitely seems lots of meals is the way to go. Thanks for the suggestions on what to try too, I really like bagels so Ill start eating more of them.

Eat more at breakfast and lunch, less at dinner.

I dont really believe theres a difference between metabolisms.

Nige is skinny because he eats nothing, by his own admission.

I am fat because I have 4 chocolate bars a day, and only eat bagels and drink 6 beers a night.