Weight loss but a poor diet

[Woody84]

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.

[clashcityrocker]

You don't mention how old you are or how much you drink. (I don't mean alcohol)
Craving sugar is sometimes a sign of dehydration as is feeling sluggish.

Losing weight could be a symptom of many things.
It is probably best to consult a professional.

[raXor]

Peanut Butter. Buy in bulk in big tubs from bulk.com. Just make sure what you buy doesn't contain palm oil as that ain't good for you at all.

[Woody84]

Water intake could definitely be better tbh.

I’ve always tried to take in around 2 litres a day but being out and about for 4+ hours and not being able to to get to the toilet would be an issue, surely I’m not the only one?…

I’m physically healthy and I’m confident it’s the walking as I’m a newbie and although was active before this job, I wasn’t walking over sixty miles a week.

[Woody84]

Peanut Butter. Buy in bulk in big tubs from bulk.com. Just make sure what you buy doesn't contain palm oil as that ain't good for you at all.

Thanks for the tip.

Do you eat it like a yogurt or have it in a sarnie like our cousins over the pond?

[raXor]

Thanks for the tip.

Do you eat it like a yogurt or have it in a sarnie like our cousins over the pond?

I literally just stick a big spoon in the tub and eat it from that.

[Shirtbuttons]

All the walking will break you in the end. We are not born to walk 10 miles everyday up hills and steps. Most ex posties I know and many still in the job have bad knees, bad backs, arthritis and many other ailments. The newbies think it’s great, but just wait a few years in. Bad feet,fallen arches, slipped disc, hernias. It’s all present in my office.

[Londonsburning]

All the walking will break you in the end. We are not born to walk 10 miles everyday up hills and steps. Most ex posties I know and many still in the job have bad knees, bad backs, arthritis and many other ailments. The newbies think it’s great, but just wait a few years in. Bad feet,fallen arches, slipped disc, hernias. It’s all present in my office.

Yup, don't forget hip and knee replacements, carpal tunnel and tennis elbow too.

[scotchy1962]

All the walking will break you in the end. We are not born to walk 10 miles everyday up hills and steps. Most ex posties I know and many still in the job have bad knees, bad backs, arthritis and many other ailments. The newbies think it’s great, but just wait a few years in. Bad feet,fallen arches, slipped disc, hernias. It’s all present in my office.

When i started 18yrs ago we had all the young runners, now we have the same guys all struggling who don't run anymore.
Even i move a bit slower.

[Gary55]

Like reading my mri. We all think we're invincible when young. The pounds stay on more when you're older

[barrychuckle]

Loosing 2.5 stone in under a couple of months could mean an underlying health condition. I’d get it checked out.

[Basildon Bond]

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

[Gary55]

For Christ sake no one let the management see this

[Basildon Bond]

It's the working our socks (literally) off when everyone else doesn't seem to be and you don't get paid what you think you're worth. We feel like a chump and daft for caring about the job. That's what annoys most. I don't think we see enough appreciation from RM for the work we do - work that any manager and those in office jobs higher up in the company would not be able to do and certainly not five or even six days straight, week after week, and in whatever the weather is doing on the day. We only see that appreciation in the eyes of a few - mainly old dears - when we call with their mail. I've had the door open, parcel handed over, and the door slammed shut without a single word to me - or even that they haven't stopped talking on their mobile phone call or "Zoom" meeting chat while I handed them their parcel. I've seen them wearing their remote working handsets and when I've said "Good Morning" I've been shushed or they put a finger to their lips telling me to not say anything. Zero appreciation.

Anyway, a good balanced diet and a multi-vitamin tablet, plenty of water early in the morning and after your shift is important. Plenty of sleep is important too. Limit the coffee and cut out or down on the alcohol as well. I think most people know this really, but it's hard to do. When you didn't get what you deserve during the shift (money or appreciation or failed to complete), you "treat" yourself with chocolate or chips afterwards. You end up eating high fat and sugar foods in the afternoon and evening to compensate. Or you have a few drinks just to numb it all.

[Woody84]

It's the working our socks (literally) off when everyone else doesn't seem to be and you don't get paid what you think you're worth. We feel like a chump and daft for caring about the job. That's what annoys most. I don't think we see enough appreciation from RM for the work we do - work that any manager and those in office jobs higher up in the company would not be able to do and certainly not five or even six days straight, week after week, and in whatever the weather is doing on the day. We only see that appreciation in the eyes of a few - mainly old dears - when we call with their mail. I've had the door open, parcel handed over, and the door slammed shut without a single word to me - or even that they haven't stopped talking on their mobile phone call or "Zoom" meeting chat while I handed them their parcel. I've seen them wearing their remote working handsets and when I've said "Good Morning" I've been shushed or they put a finger to their lips telling me to not say anything. Zero appreciation.

Anyway, a good balanced diet and a multi-vitamin tablet, plenty of water early in the morning and after your shift is important. Plenty of sleep is important too. Limit the coffee and cut out or down on the alcohol as well. I think most people know this really, but it's hard to do. When you didn't get what you deserve during the shift (money or appreciation or failed to complete), you "treat" yourself with chocolate or chips afterwards. You end up eating high fat and sugar foods in the afternoon and evening to compensate. Or you have a few drinks just to numb it all.

Sounds about right and spot on to be fair.

I’ve only been doing the job a few months but my eyes have well and truly been opened to the amount of rude and ignorant people there are in the world, like I knew there’s a lot of them but it worse than i thought.

Standing in the pissing down rain waiting for someone to answer the door only to finally be met with attitude isn’t a nice feeling. But at the moment the good in the few people is making it worthwhile, but I’m guessing that doesn’t last the longer you do the job.