[quote]big nurse wrote:
Back to your thread now, busy earlier in the week .
With regard to eating out a lot : is that a work thing for instance having to eat out on the road ?
I was going to suggest having a good look at the first couple of sticky threads over on the beginners board --hoping that if you have been a lifter before that it would still be good value as ‘the basics don’t change’.
When you were lifting/training before what made you give up or did it just drift ?
One big thing to get a hold of now is that 43 is a very good time to get training again , the little i know of muscle physiology is that 35 seems to be the point at which most of us start losing muscle mass, catching it now should be easier than in 10 years time which is my perspective.
In my own limited experience it seems to work well to get one thing working at a time ie getting a good exercise programme and then starting in on the diet–and even then it has been a stage by stage thing : like firstsimply cutting down on the garbage, then cutting down on some of my lifelong basics like bread and pasta and gradully heading towrds a leaner/cleaner all round diet.
On very basic stuff, walking has worked very well for me for fat loss especialy an early morning fasted walk.[/quote]
Well in regards to my diet, it’s mostly about being on the go afterwork and not getting home to make dinner. It actually happens on work out days. Since I am out already (I hit the gym right afterwork), I go take care of whatever errands I need too and I usually eat out.
You know, I never gave up lifting, it is more about drifting in and out.