What was that you were saying about being nearly 19 stone a couple of weeks ago. I think you should concentrate on your own weight issues instead of criticizing mine. No offense but people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
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What was that you were saying about being nearly 19 stone a couple of weeks ago. I think you should concentrate on your own weight issues instead of criticizing mine. No offense but people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
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Google protein fluff or dessert and make some of that.
Cheers, i'll have a look at that.
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I'm not sure he was being particularly offensive here, just offering advice - I have a smart scale which does all this and as Tom says - its fine for tracking trends / progress but the actual measurements it gives aren't hugely accurate - so many of them are easily thrown by how much water you're carrying, etc. To give you an example, my scale was around 18% off my actual figures on the same day when I went to Nuffield for a full health MOT earlier this year.
My advise may not be what you want to hear but I wouldn't say I've critised at any point, your initial post of "this is how you do it" after you explained how you do it is certainly not how to do it sensibly.
According to the supplier of the scales on Amazon the precision is...
Precision range:
50 kg: ± 0.3 kg (110 lb: ± 0.66 lb)
100 kg: ± 0.4 kg (220 lb: ± 0.88 lb)
150 kg: ± 0.5 kg (330 lb: ± 1.1 lb)
What's the precision range for the bf/water/lean mass? They've got nothing to do with how well it weighs anything.
Who really cares as long as the main weight is accurate enough.
Because you were using it to state your visceral fat and then had a huff when I accurately pointed out that any home scales aren't great at giving you an accurate number for that so you must care
Because you were using it to state your visceral fat and then had a huff when I accurately pointed out that any home scales aren't great at giving you an accurate number for that so you must care
The only thing that’s important to me on a day to day basis is the weight, all the other stuff is nice to have but I don’t really take that much notice of it.
I only mentioned it’s Visceral fat reading because another poster before me mentioned it.
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I stood on one of those scales once when I got dragged to some health event towards the end of a diet phase and it said I was 2% bf. Everyone was amazed, except me that had to point out if that were true I’d be dead.
Fair enough.
I apologise if I came across as criticising but I've been around the whole gym/weightloss thing for long enough now that I can be a bit blunt in pointing things out.
I only mentioned my weight to show it's not the be all and end all of health, but it is a part of the puzzle which is why I've dropped 10lbs since.
Haha I’ve gone to ****.
Went out for a bike ride with the wife. Ended up at a local brewery which had an artisan market on. Had 2 pints and then bought some pizza and garlic bread.
Then bought some cans of Guinness on the way home and got red wine for with tea (chicken and chickpeas so that’s healthy enough)
Going out for food with friends tomorrow too to another brewery with an on site pizza place!
On the plus side the bike ride was ok for the most part. Only did around 30 mins in total but can start building that back up again.
Went out for a bike ride with the wife. Ended up at a local brewery which had an artisan market on. Had 2 pints and then bought some pizza and garlic bread.
Then bought some cans of Guinness on the way home and got red wine for with tea (chicken and chickpeas so that’s healthy enough)
Going out for food with friends tomorrow too to another brewery with an on site pizza place!
On the plus side the bike ride was ok for the most part. Only did around 30 mins in total but can start building that back up again.
How did it go today? Did you manage to avoid the temptation of the booze and pizzas or did you fail abysmally.
2 additional pints but shared a pizza with the wife.
MFP is actually showing me as in a deficit for the day since we were out walking a while.
I'm still hovering around the 100kg mark. I'm not sure why but even though i feel really determined, my willpower has just left me completely. Last Thursday i was in the pub as my mate was doing a gig, then Saturday we went to an Oktoberfest event at a local brewery, complete with lots of beer and bratwurst.
Yesterday i was hungover as hell and caved into Chinese for tea!
I'm hoping that the fact i'm maintaining weight through diet at the moment will accelerate when i can start running again, but that feels a long way off still. Need to be better though. My main culprit (other than beer), is the boredom eating when the wife goes to bed. She goes around 8-9pm generally and then i go for a short walk and then get back and get peckish around 10pm. I might try and change routine and get up early for walks which means i'd go to bed around 10.
Yesterday i was hungover as hell and caved into Chinese for tea!
I'm hoping that the fact i'm maintaining weight through diet at the moment will accelerate when i can start running again, but that feels a long way off still. Need to be better though. My main culprit (other than beer), is the boredom eating when the wife goes to bed. She goes around 8-9pm generally and then i go for a short walk and then get back and get peckish around 10pm. I might try and change routine and get up early for walks which means i'd go to bed around 10.
A suggestion for the boredom eating / peckishnesh. I know it's boring but try a small bowl of porridge or Swiss style sugar free muesli (or I should say no added sugar!), preferably with skimmed milk. Not a huge amount of calories in either (especially if you do the porridge with water, I'm not big on porridge being sweet so I chuck a bit of salt in and it satiates any craving I have for savoury).
I'm sort of happy that I'm stuck at 77kg. I've been able to eat some goodies and offset it with daily 5km jogs. Still, I'd like to get to <70kg at some point. But with Christmas coming up - and the mince pies already stocked up in the cupboard - it's probably not going to happen until next year. 
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Went out for a meal last week for mum’s birthday - ate sensibly - and weight has remained static since. Measurements down in a couple of places today though compared to last Monday… this is why it’s good to use more than one metric when tracking. Water not budging but some more fat seems to have gone.