Hello All
Bit of background first, rewind to the end of last October, have always been a big boy (fat not muscle), last October weighed myself in Boots on their "industrial scales" and got the shock of my life, 30 stone 2 pounds at 37 years old and 5 foot 10, always carried it really well though and it had been a long time since I weighed myself so was a bit of a surreal moment
Enough was enough, there was no way on this earth I was going to ever weigh more than this and the verynext day it began, fast forward 4 months and 50kg has gone! Great achievement for me but still a long way to go, now I have achieved this through fasting, a bit like the 5 / 2 diet but turned upsiode down, so 5 days "fasting" 2 days eating, on the fasting days all I eat is around 150 - 250g of meat and usually maybe 30 - 50g of hard cheese, lots of water and not much of anything else. The 2 days I eat, which are generally Saturday and Sunday all I eat is 1 decent size meal that usually consists of a good protion of meat, piles of veg and then 3 or 4 pieces of fruit for afters, zero carb since October, well apart from what naturally occurs in the foods I am eating but nothing, not 1 single crumb of amnything flour related, bread, potato, rice, pasta not a single crumb
Now, yes this is extreme, yes it has been hard but the results have so far been great and I have lived by the idea that my body has more than enough of most things stored to not do me an serious damage, so far so good. For various reason I will go in to on another thread I only got back to the gym properly 3 weeks ago, I am there every day for gym, swim and sauna, gym at them moment consists of maily cardio (bike, treadmill and cross trainer) with leg presses and a very small amount of upper body, don't want to go wild on the weights yet until the bulk has gone. Swim 10 lengths every day (250m) and then unnwind in the sauna afterwards until I am on the verge of dying
After having a chat with a friend in the gym whois also a personal trainer (known him for years so all good intelling him what I am doing) he suggested taking some vitamins as I will be very deficient in all sorts by now, no symptoms to report really, feel m#ore healthy and alive than I have done for 20 years but got me thinking that he must be right as I am just not eating the foods regularly enough to keep these things at optimum levels.
Here is where you knowledgabkle lot come in, I need to start a daily vitamin "regime" but have no clue where to start and what, if anything would be a good thing to take to help me on my way, I am sure there are many things out there that will help but have no idea what.
I would rather not be taking hundreds of pills a day and do not have a £200+ per month budget, I am fine spending money on this but would like to somehow see a return for my invstment, also I would rather not go widly over RDA's either unless there is clear almost guaranteed benefit with minimal risk, I just want to make sure my body has all it needs to get the rest of this weight off, start to build muscle in the future and keep me in tip top health.
I am noob to vitamins and this kind of nutrition so please assume I have no clue what anything is (probablt don't anyway!), I know a bit about Zinc and have already decided to take a daily suppliment of this but apart from that have no clue so I thought I would try and tap into the wisdom and knowledge all you have built up
Thanks in advance
Bit of background first, rewind to the end of last October, have always been a big boy (fat not muscle), last October weighed myself in Boots on their "industrial scales" and got the shock of my life, 30 stone 2 pounds at 37 years old and 5 foot 10, always carried it really well though and it had been a long time since I weighed myself so was a bit of a surreal moment
Enough was enough, there was no way on this earth I was going to ever weigh more than this and the verynext day it began, fast forward 4 months and 50kg has gone! Great achievement for me but still a long way to go, now I have achieved this through fasting, a bit like the 5 / 2 diet but turned upsiode down, so 5 days "fasting" 2 days eating, on the fasting days all I eat is around 150 - 250g of meat and usually maybe 30 - 50g of hard cheese, lots of water and not much of anything else. The 2 days I eat, which are generally Saturday and Sunday all I eat is 1 decent size meal that usually consists of a good protion of meat, piles of veg and then 3 or 4 pieces of fruit for afters, zero carb since October, well apart from what naturally occurs in the foods I am eating but nothing, not 1 single crumb of amnything flour related, bread, potato, rice, pasta not a single crumb
Now, yes this is extreme, yes it has been hard but the results have so far been great and I have lived by the idea that my body has more than enough of most things stored to not do me an serious damage, so far so good. For various reason I will go in to on another thread I only got back to the gym properly 3 weeks ago, I am there every day for gym, swim and sauna, gym at them moment consists of maily cardio (bike, treadmill and cross trainer) with leg presses and a very small amount of upper body, don't want to go wild on the weights yet until the bulk has gone. Swim 10 lengths every day (250m) and then unnwind in the sauna afterwards until I am on the verge of dying
After having a chat with a friend in the gym whois also a personal trainer (known him for years so all good intelling him what I am doing) he suggested taking some vitamins as I will be very deficient in all sorts by now, no symptoms to report really, feel m#ore healthy and alive than I have done for 20 years but got me thinking that he must be right as I am just not eating the foods regularly enough to keep these things at optimum levels.
Here is where you knowledgabkle lot come in, I need to start a daily vitamin "regime" but have no clue where to start and what, if anything would be a good thing to take to help me on my way, I am sure there are many things out there that will help but have no idea what.
I would rather not be taking hundreds of pills a day and do not have a £200+ per month budget, I am fine spending money on this but would like to somehow see a return for my invstment, also I would rather not go widly over RDA's either unless there is clear almost guaranteed benefit with minimal risk, I just want to make sure my body has all it needs to get the rest of this weight off, start to build muscle in the future and keep me in tip top health.
I am noob to vitamins and this kind of nutrition so please assume I have no clue what anything is (probablt don't anyway!), I know a bit about Zinc and have already decided to take a daily suppliment of this but apart from that have no clue so I thought I would try and tap into the wisdom and knowledge all you have built up
Thanks in advance