Winter gut luggage

How much weight did you gain over winter and how's it going getting rid of it? My sailing weight is 80 kilo's as I believe for my strength and fitness level it gives me a good balance between getting planning early and power in the windy stuff. As of September 1st I was ballooned out to 83 kilo's mainly due to recreational eating combined with a few beers. 3 kilo's might not sound like much but I'm a type 1 diabetic and 3 kilo's is a catastrophe lol. I've cut out the nasty foods(mostly) which enables me to reduce my insulin dose and combined with some stand up paddling and busting a gut on the formula board I'm back down to 81 kilo's. That 1 kilo will be difficult but I'll get the bastard don't worry lol.

What do you guys do to get rid of the winter blubber?

Don't eat carbs after lunch time.
They take 8 hours to convert and by then you're sleeping in bed.
You wake up wearing them on your belly.

Eat all the vegies you want, boiled or otherwise. Flavour them up with spices and a bit of sweet chilli source if you want. (but not too much sweet)

And most of all, if you're not doing physical work, then eat less of everything.
All easy to say,.. but much harder to do.

Get a digital scale and weigh yourself every day, it's much easier to prevent gaining weight than reduce it.

Just going to drop this here :P

I bumped into an old colleague of mine a few months ago and he mentioned fasting a couple of days a week. I thought it sounded extreme and didn't give it further thought. then I saw programme last night last night espousing the benefits of fasting and the 5-2 approach.

Essentially you fast for 2 days a week then normal the rest. They claimed that when your fasting your body is not processing food but us free to repair and rebuild cells. As a result, in addition to weight loss there we're a range of other health benefits, eg curing diseases. They also claimed that best results from exercise were doing intense bursts. So don't spend an hour jogging, doable 3 min sprint instead.

Cut out the junk - sugar and sail 2 x a week does it for me.. 61kgs summer up to 65 in winter..
I usually go XCD skiing for a week and find after that I lose all excess weight and am fit as.. Nothing like 5 days of 6- 8hrs skiing + climbing mountains to get you fit ( or kill you)
It didn't work this year as too many health issues to get out on trips.. only lost a kilo odd then sedentary with head cold for last 2 weeks..

No has mentioned beer as a food so thats all good!!

I do a lot of cycling. I started as I was not getting as much exercise from other sports (including sailing) as I used to with family commitments. I started just commuting to work (takes about the same amount of time, but I can stay fit rather than sit in traffic). I liked it so much that I quickly started fitting a long ride in early on a Saturday morning for around 200kms a week (around 7-8 hours a week). I did not change my eating habits, and lost around 10kgs over around 6 months and was still losing weight. I then increased my eating to stabilise my weight around 70kg which seems about right for me.

I really enjoy being able to eat whatever I want and stay at a good weight for my health (my wife makes sure I eat fairly healthy food, as I would be happy with burgers and fries and do eat a lot of that too!!).

Just adding in here, as I think that exercise is a great option for losing weight and at the same time keeping fit. I personally much prefer to feel great, stay fit and not be hungry then to battle myself from eating. It benefits my windsurfing also, as I will be sailing fit very quickly when I start up again for the summer (after 6 months off sailing). Normally I can pretty much straight away go out and do 100+km sessions.

Tips to get and maintain that six pack:
1. Don't drink callaries
2. Cycle 3 hours a week with mates. You won't keep it up without mates.
3. Have a goal. (Mine is to be fit and strong for a big upcoming windsurf trip)
4. Short burst exercise. My daily 20min routine is: 60 push-ups. 25 shoulder side, front then back raises. 25 military press. 25 chin-ups. 50 sit-ups. Keep the dumb bells under the coffee table and watch TV doing it.
5. Don't eat until you are full