Weight Loss Techniques.

In fact obesity is clearly linked to how many calories you eat/drink and how many calories you burn off.

Gyms are counter productive ? how ? does going to the gym make you fatter ? less fit ?.

Gyms are joyless ? thats nonsense,look up endorphins, you get a a similar buzz after good work out too good sex thats a reason why some people get addicted to exercise.
You dont say if you have been a regular gym user ? but from your negativity about gyms  I would say that you have never been to a gym,or if you have it was the wrong gym for you or  that you were doing the wrong exercise regime.
Going to the gym is stimulating,gets you motivated and very enjoyable,gym membership has massively increased over last 20 years,it is also a very cheap.

I used to run every morning but I rarely run now,over a long period of time constant running exacerbates joint and spinal problems, I enjoy walking but it isnt great for burning calories off,swimming is better.

I dont like to give advice on food but most people into fitness see breakfast as being important,I have porridge and a pint of water...need a cup of coffee to wake me up though, not going to be for everyone, I also dont eat carbs after 18.00,its whatever works for you.

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner/tea like a pauper” is a popular adage that suggests that one should eat a hearty breakfast, a moderate lunch, and a light evening meal.

Scientists at King’s College London have claimed when you eat could be just as important as what you eat, asserting that irregular eating and meal-skipping could be linked to a higher risk of metabolic syndrome, which includes high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and obesity.

The researchers made their claims in two review papers, published in the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , which also calls for more large-scale studies in the future to establish the impact of chrono-nutrition on public health.

Chrono-nutrition is the principle of eating foods at times of the day when they are most useful, to meet your body's energy requirements and prevent storage of food as fat in certain parts of the body.

The scientists argue that the rise in shift workers and "social jetlag", where many of us live by social clocks rather than our internal body clocks, is leading to a change in food consumption patterns.

The scientists argue that over the past decades, more meals are being skipped, consumed outside the family home, on-the-go, later in the day and more irregularly.

The research claims that this is linked to how regularly people eat and what they choose to eat, for example with poorer food choices at lunch and dinner linked to breakfast skipping.

However, according to Dr Gerda Pot, visiting lecturer in the Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences Division at King's College London, while we have a much better understanding today of what we should be eating, we are still left with the question as to which meal should provide us with the most energy - hence why further research is required.

“Although the evidence suggests that eating more calories later in the evening is associated with obesity, we are still far from understanding whether our energy intake should be distributed equally across the day or whether breakfast should contribute the greatest proportion of energy, followed by lunch and dinner,” she said.

The scientists also suggested we need further study into "with whom we eat", pointing to evidence that regular family meals contribute to healthy eating habits in children and adolescents.

If I don't have breakfast before going to work, usually a slice of toast and cereals,with coffee then it would be a waste of time me even going out the door.

Yes,skipping breakfast isnt a great idea, remember the old 'go to work on an egg' advertising campaign years ago ?

Another ad was for (I think) Special K  'can you pinch more than an inch ?'   its more like grab the flab now.
There used to be a model in a Special K ad who wore a belt marked like a tape measure...that wouldnt be a great idea now either, the female figure has totally changed in 40 years the hourglass figure with a tiny waist wasnt unusual then it seems very rare now.

Very true,I dont envy young blokes these days, why do girls get their lips blown up so big now ?  saw one earlier and her mouth looked like a sink plunger...not attractive at all.

As this turned into a health thread i thought that i would add smoking and the goverments plan to stop smoking outside pubs etc,if Starmer is concerned because smoking is such an unhealthy habit (which i would agree with) why not ban the sale of tobacco instead of tinkering around with where it can be smoked?

Isn't the plan to bring in Rishi Sunak's proposal to age limit tobacco sales?

I suspect they'll do what happens already in the children's play areas I've witnessed, just stand the other side of the fence, not really further away.

I'm a non smoker too, I've lost close family to smoking related illnesses and nearly lost a few others. Anything that moves smoke and vapes further away from my family, the better.

There is no need to ban, but I'd support further distancing.