*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***
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Willpower is useless, start building systems
Largely don't have tempting foods around the house to begin with
That's bloody obvious.. But such good advice I argue with the wife all the time about NOT buying chocolate, cakes and biscuits.. She even like to buy a bar of chocolate and eat 1 tiny bit Then rest will sit about until I eat it..
I have binned so much food.. I find it (fairly) easy not to buy bad food.. But if its there I just eat it..
Early days obviously, but last night my wife offered me a piece of toblerone and i said no. The resolve is strong!
On the downside, MFP tells me i was ~400 calories over for the day. Mainly since i've set my goal to lose 2kg a week and being as inactive as possible due to my ankle so it only allows 1500 calories a day. Breakfast and Dinner were healthy (porridge/soup), however tea was sausage/chips/beans/egg because we're trying to just do really quick meals that don't require too much time on my feet cutting/chopping foods. I also always massively underestimate chips when i'm cutting the potatoes and end up with more than i think and wasn't helped that my wife didn't like some of the sausages so i ended up having 5!
Still, being at 2000 calories in the day should still see a small drop i'd suspect.
Also going to start using my medicine ball for some arm based exercise to burn some energy and try and keep a slim bit of fitness.
On the downside, MFP tells me i was ~400 calories over for the day. Mainly since i've set my goal to lose 2kg a week and being as inactive as possible due to my ankle so it only allows 1500 calories a day. Breakfast and Dinner were healthy (porridge/soup), however tea was sausage/chips/beans/egg because we're trying to just do really quick meals that don't require too much time on my feet cutting/chopping foods. I also always massively underestimate chips when i'm cutting the potatoes and end up with more than i think and wasn't helped that my wife didn't like some of the sausages so i ended up having 5!
Still, being at 2000 calories in the day should still see a small drop i'd suspect.
Also going to start using my medicine ball for some arm based exercise to burn some energy and try and keep a slim bit of fitness.
4lbs a week is a lot to lose through dieting alone. I'd aim for 2lbs at most.
Yeah, i think it's just old settings carried over from when i could run. I've always said i'm inactive and then add on the extra calories from exercise on top because my day to day activity is minimal otherwise.
1500-2000 a day feels about right for me though i think. Yesterday was 2000 and there was a large tea included and my wife had brought me a coffee with biscuits earlier on which i'd eaten. I would like to cut that out though for a few weeks just to get as low as possible so that when i can use my ankle more i'm putting as little stress on it as i can.
I'm back on the bandwagon too, apart from obvious benefits, also as per @Martynt74 thinking, want to take my running up a notch and take the strain off my joints, it can't be good for them long term to run at this weight.
How are you getting on with your cycling? If you up your mileage then that should help your weight loss. Or even cycling for an hour before breakfast should give you some results.
Not well at the moment, but that's because of my messed up ankle so i can't do a single thing which is annoying.
Prior to September i was running ~25 miles and cycling ~40 miles a week. Yes somehow still putting on weight which shows how rubbish my diet was!
could you do some core work? abs and arms? rent a wheelchair and find a steep hill etc? Anything is better than nothing.
Haha the thought of doing hill reps in a wheelchair feels hilarious. I'd never even considered that'd be a thing.
I've got a medicine ball so have been doing some arms/shoulder work and will throw in some abs based stuff too. Not of it will be very calorie burny though i wouldn't have thought.
If you're a member at a gym you could get on a rowing machine and just use your upper body, or one of those arm bikes?
What rowing machines does your gym have? Mine need your feet in the restraints to stop you pinging off the slide! Not very practical with a broken ankle?
You only need the one leg to hold yourself in position. There is an older lass missing a leg who uses the rowing machine that way where I go, only reason I thought to mention it. Though I guess having a leg with a broken ankle on the end is a lot more awkward, you need to put it somewhere and not hurt it after all.
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Yeah, just not worth the risk, especially with the drive there and then the stairs up into the gym bit (also the fact that i cancelled my membership when it went from £25 to £55 due to losing a discount!)
I think i'll be ok with just diet control for 2 weeks, then hopefully can start cycling. I have found someone selling a dumbell bar and 10kg of weights on facebook for a fiver. I'm going to pick that up and use it for a small workout.
I have some resistance bands fixed to the wall which would be ideal, but they're mainly high up and i'm still struggling to support my weight stood up and i'm trying to avoid putting too much strain through my good ankle.
Was when i lost my Vitality Health Insurance through a job change so lost the discount. Think they did off it for £35 to keep me, but it was still more than i could justify.
Well as expected, a lot of the 7kg increase after the holiday was water weight or just my body holding onto other rubbish.
Today clocked in at 101.8kg which is broadly in line with where i was before i went away which is reassuring as it gives me a more realistic starting point. The more interesting element will be next weeks movement i think.
Today clocked in at 101.8kg which is broadly in line with where i was before i went away which is reassuring as it gives me a more realistic starting point. The more interesting element will be next weeks movement i think.
I'm a sad case tbh. Was fit and running regularly back in 2014 the our first daughter was born and so there was never time, then the second arrived and there was even less. Sadly I'm the body type that demands exercise and I will steadily put weight on whenever it stops.
Anyway lockdown made it even worse as any physical activity I was getting, getting to work basically ended and the most movement I got was from bed to bathroom to office. June this year I kind of reached the point where enough was enough so made the decision to start back running. We have a treadmill so the embarrassment of outdoor running was spared but it was pretty painful. I'm not a big eater, don't like cakes, sweet stuff and haven't drunk alcohol for going on 5 years. Back in the day we religiously maintained myfittnespal and were hovering around 2000 calories a day whilst running 40km a week and I never got below 92kg (1880mm tall).
Anyway I still daren't get on the scales, but I know I've lost weight at a decent rate as older clothing is coming back on line and I'm running 5km a day Monday - Friday. Calorie intake has taken a bit of hit though, I'm eating about 1500 a day at the moment but expending nearly 700 on running, walking the girls to school and generally just making the decision to not sit on my **** all day. The Garmin is averaging me at about 8500 steps a day.
I'm pleased with where I am but I regularly beat myself up for letting it slide, I'm 48 now and it's genuinely not as easy as it was, my running pace is dire and gone from a sub 25min 5km to a just inside 36min 5km. I am looking forward to some winter park runs though.
When I've plucked up enough courage to weigh myself I'll post up but it might be meaningless as I have no idea of the starting point but it wouldn't have been pretty.
Anyway lockdown made it even worse as any physical activity I was getting, getting to work basically ended and the most movement I got was from bed to bathroom to office. June this year I kind of reached the point where enough was enough so made the decision to start back running. We have a treadmill so the embarrassment of outdoor running was spared but it was pretty painful. I'm not a big eater, don't like cakes, sweet stuff and haven't drunk alcohol for going on 5 years. Back in the day we religiously maintained myfittnespal and were hovering around 2000 calories a day whilst running 40km a week and I never got below 92kg (1880mm tall).
Anyway I still daren't get on the scales, but I know I've lost weight at a decent rate as older clothing is coming back on line and I'm running 5km a day Monday - Friday. Calorie intake has taken a bit of hit though, I'm eating about 1500 a day at the moment but expending nearly 700 on running, walking the girls to school and generally just making the decision to not sit on my **** all day. The Garmin is averaging me at about 8500 steps a day.
I'm pleased with where I am but I regularly beat myself up for letting it slide, I'm 48 now and it's genuinely not as easy as it was, my running pace is dire and gone from a sub 25min 5km to a just inside 36min 5km. I am looking forward to some winter park runs though.
When I've plucked up enough courage to weigh myself I'll post up but it might be meaningless as I have no idea of the starting point but it wouldn't have been pretty.
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