Weight loss but a poor diet

[Deadly]

Context is important here, did you start at 25 stone or 12 stone?

[Woody84]

Context is important here, did you start at 25 stone or 12 stone?

Around 16, Which is why I’m sure it’s the all the extra miles and not an underlying condition, although appreciate all the concerns from every commenting that.

[Basildon Bond]

Context is important here, did you start at 25 stone or 12 stone?

Around 16, Which is why I’m sure it’s the all the extra miles and not an underlying condition, although appreciate all the concerns from every commenting that.

And your height?

Using a BMI (or body mass index) calculator for a rough guide to your ideal weight, you need to be around seven foot tall to be healthy at 16st. If you're now about 13.5 stone now you need to be slightly taller than 6 foot to be classed in the "healthy" zone.

Of course you can be short and packed with muscle and the calculator will think you're overweight etc. - muscle weights more than fat. However, it is rough guide.

[iHateD2Ds]

Keep off the cereal bars they are full of sugar always best to eat un processed food if possible.

Take a pack lunch with you and park up for 15 mins whilst on delivery. Pasta made with lentils high in protein (yep it's processed) throw some feta cheese in and bit of salad.,cherrys tomatoes etc .
Followed by Nuts and seeds in yogurt. Yum Yum

[CharlesSpooner]

We are not born to walk 10 miles everyday up hills and steps.

We kind of are though. It's just lately - in evolutionary terms - we have decided to veg out.

Traveling parties in medieval Europe were not exactly rolling in transportation options: horses, carts, and human feet. That last was by far the most common. It is just incredible to think about people walking from Italian cities to the French coast, from Toledo to Salerno [1,444 miles], from Paris to Constantinople [1,698 miles]. According to Marjorie Nice Boyer, who combed through records from fourteenth-century France, travellers on foot could expect to walk around 30 miles per day. That could mean somewhere between eight to ten hours of just walking, one step after another, and all of them without hiking boots, memory foam insoles, or Darn Tough socks.
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/st ... iddle-ages

[Roman] Soldiers were often expected to march 20 miles a day, wearing all armour and carrying equipment. After a long day, Roman soldiers had to build a camp, complete with a ditch and a wall of wooden stakes. The next day, they had to do it all again!
https://coriniummuseum.org/roman-army/

While antelopes, horses and zebras easily galloped away from human hunters, our ancestors...did not give up. Yet for most of human history, hunting animals meant getting up close. The first stone-tipped spear dates to around 500,000 years ago, and the bow and arrow was invented just 100,000 years ago.

Persistence hunting seems to have been widespread. This involves humans running and walking after prey, never letting it cool down, and tracking it until it overheats and exhausts itself. The San hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari in southern Africa have been recorded hunting in this way, with the average distance slightly longer than a half marathon [>13 miles].
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science ... -1.4412604

You neglect to mention that the average life span would have been till around their forties for a Roman soldier and likely less for your average citizen of medieval Europe. If you checked the skeletons of these people you'd see clear signs that walking excessive mileage was harmful to their well being.

People used to do lots of things, doesn't mean we were necessarily ever born to do them.

[Londonsburning]

We are not born to walk 10 miles everyday up hills and steps.

We kind of are though. It's just lately - in evolutionary terms - we have decided to veg out.

Traveling parties in medieval Europe were not exactly rolling in transportation options: horses, carts, and human feet. That last was by far the most common. It is just incredible to think about people walking from Italian cities to the French coast, from Toledo to Salerno [1,444 miles], from Paris to Constantinople [1,698 miles]. According to Marjorie Nice Boyer, who combed through records from fourteenth-century France, travellers on foot could expect to walk around 30 miles per day. That could mean somewhere between eight to ten hours of just walking, one step after another, and all of them without hiking boots, memory foam insoles, or Darn Tough socks.
https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/st ... iddle-ages

[Roman] Soldiers were often expected to march 20 miles a day, wearing all armour and carrying equipment. After a long day, Roman soldiers had to build a camp, complete with a ditch and a wall of wooden stakes. The next day, they had to do it all again!
https://coriniummuseum.org/roman-army/

While antelopes, horses and zebras easily galloped away from human hunters, our ancestors...did not give up. Yet for most of human history, hunting animals meant getting up close. The first stone-tipped spear dates to around 500,000 years ago, and the bow and arrow was invented just 100,000 years ago.

Persistence hunting seems to have been widespread. This involves humans running and walking after prey, never letting it cool down, and tracking it until it overheats and exhausts itself. The San hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari in southern Africa have been recorded hunting in this way, with the average distance slightly longer than a half marathon [>13 miles].
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science ... -1.4412604

You neglect to mention that the average life span would have been till around their forties for a Roman soldier and likely less for your average citizen of medieval Europe. If you checked the skeletons of these people you'd see clear signs that walking excessive mileage was harmful to their well being.

People used to do lots of things, doesn't mean we were necessarily ever born to do them.

You forgot the main one. Walking 15 miles a day on concrete

[stevejm]

I’ve lost around 2.5 stone since Christmas, walking around 13 miles a day/24k steps… but my diet is absolutely awful, well in the afternoon-evenings it is.

I’ll have a decent high protein and carbs breakfast around 6am, usually I’ll have a cereal bar on the go at around 10:30am and then not have time to eat or feel sluggish after eating during the day so skip eating and then I’ll eat like a horse when I get home around 4pm (usually stopping on the way home for a chocolate bar or two)!

Im looking for any high calorie meals/snacks to replace the burnt calories because I know if my diet continues the way it is my body will surely eventually get used to walking/extreme exercise and I’ll balloon. It’s also making me feel quite sluggish in the mornings.

Its's very normal for newbies to lose a lot of weight in the first 3 months. Months 4-6 you'll lose more but at a lesser rate. 2.5 stone from 16 is probably a good thing. No need to go and see a doctor unless you have other more worrisome symptoms. If you were losing weight and had no reason to be losing that amount of weight then that'd be another thing but it isn't is it?
Now obviously you can't continue to lose weight or you'd eventually die from starvation. Same for all posties but we never hear about the postie mortality rate "there goes another one! - walked too any miles and it all caught up with him - good job they are paid so well for such deadly work". Nah we don't hear that so much.
What actually happens is the brain lowers out basal metabolism rate (BMR) a few hundred calories by doing less 'house-keeping'. Meaning, given the food we eat on a normal diet then it's enough to meet the new BMR.
BTW - continually walking 50+ miles a week is a form of stress.
Diet - your breakfast sounds good, Eat a healthy sandwich mid morning or end of round. You could prep your lunch the night before. Spag bol or chile con carne, chicken curry with brown ice - or veg versions. Have a lighter evening meal as then your body isn't digesting so much in our sleep so you're sleep will be more restful. My go o treat for sweetness is Greek yogurt and blueberries (frozen are cheaper)

[NWpostie]

My usual routine is porridge and banana for slow release of energy to sustain you, midday banana and a sandwich granary bread, avoid sugary stuff they're harmful as they're highly processed and can bring on early onset of type 2 diabetes with the sugar highs and crash.


*I would check the big weight loss out by having your blood sugar checked out, you can buy blood testing kit online or at chemists to check yourself if you don't want it on your medical record just for a peace of mind.

[Londonsburning]

My usual routine is porridge and banana for slow release of energy to sustain you, midday banana and a sandwich granary bread, avoid sugary stuff they're harmful as they're highly processed and can bring on early onset of type 2 diabetes with the sugar highs and crash.


*I would check the big weight loss out by having your blood sugar checked out, you can buy blood testing kit online or at chemists to check yourself if you don't want it on your medical record just for a peace of mind.

Is the midday banana and sandwich before or after your first delivery point?

[sindba]

When I first started I lost shed loads of weight.

After a while though, your body kind of gets "used" to the exercise. It becomes your new normal, and you'll stop losing weight.

[Londonsburning]

When I first started I lost shed loads of weight.

After a while though, your body kind of gets "used" to the exercise. It becomes your new normal, and you'll stop losing weight.

It's almost as if your body gets accustomed to your weight before you were a postie lol. Stomach=brain

[WalkerX]

Context is important here, did you start at 25 stone or 12 stone?

Around 16, Which is why I’m sure it’s the all the extra miles and not an underlying condition, although appreciate all the concerns from every commenting that.

Woody, I started after being furloughed then fired. I larded up badly during that time, but when I started at RM I lost nearly 2 stones. If you`re like me, you`ll probably plateau and retain a similar weight give or take a few pounds if you`re naughty with the chocs. I was 16 stone and am now hovering around my "fighting" weight of 14.