Daily routine + weight loss?

Usual daily routine:


Up at 5am


Home at 7PM





12 min walk to bus stop (down 7 hills)


1 mile walk to college (25 mins at a fast walk,pretty much flat but tiring with a heavy bag)


Climb 4 flights of stairs x6


1 mile walk from college (25 mins)


15 min walk up 5 steep hills





Breakfast: Dried fruit + Cereal (semi-skimmed milk) (If I have time,sometimes I don't so I skip breakfast)


Lunch: Sandwich + Yogurt/fruit health bar (sometimes skip lunch depending on college times,not often though)


Dinner: (Below + fruit and Yogurt)





Monday JP with Tuna Mayo


Tuesday: Chicken Stew


Wednesday:Noodles


Thursday: Ham Pita's


Friday: Tuna Pasta


Saturday: Golden Rice


Sunday: Chicken Sandwich





I can never eat much in the first place.I lost my sweet tooth when I was 12 and swore off sugary foods for good.I found I couldn't really stomach greasy foods and I don't drink alcohol.


I sleep 6 - 8 hours a day.


I'm 18 and 5'6ft weight 158lbs and have a medium frame.


I keep trying to lose weight,and I see so many of my mates eating junk food + drinking and yet they still stay nicely and thin,so where am I going wrong?


In the summer it all drops off despite me barely changing my routine and I like my figure then,but in the winter I pile it on and no matter what I do I just can't shake it.


I know I will never been the sort who has a stick thin figure,and I wouldn't want to be,but if I could i'd like to drop back to 9 stone (126lbs) I know that's under the suggested weight but I felt and looked my best then.

Daily routine + weight loss?
you need to increase your exercise....your body is used to the same routine that your doing every day...thats why your probably maintaining instead of losing......try running instead of walking...and throw in some other exercises when you have time.....its hard to do with a busy schedule...i know....hope this helps.
Reply:Lots of walking and not a lot of anything else, there has to be some real exercise, and the best exercise is something that you can build into your life instead of being a chore that you HAVE to do,,, for example, cycling to work rather than taking the bus,


I say cycling rather that jogging because once you get to work you still have to work etc, and you might not have the chance to change etc,,,


If your brisk walk is tiring with a bag, maybe change it to a rucksack and really let your arms move across your body increasing your activity and getting more of your body going.


Your diets not too bad but missing meals is a bad idea, just messes your body up causing you to binge later and you think its OK cause you missed breakfast,, doesn't work like that. Make sure you drink plenty of water.


Don't be fixated on WEIGHT, go more for looks, muscle is heavier than fat, so you can be heavy as long as its muscle, right. Don't go on the scales every day, if you must try weighing yourself once a week at the same time and keep a training diary writing your activities in it, only then can you see how much or how little your doing.


If you throw a ball up it comes down, if you keep throwing the ball up it keeps coming down, why would you expect it to do anything different, not increasing your activity levels but expecting a different result is the same as expecting the ball to loop the loop before it comes down covered in chocolate, just won't happen.


Remember all people are different, if your mates can eat junk food then lucky them, your body is yours, look after it.


GOOD LUCK.