*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***
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It's amazing what a bit of walking can do for you.
Recall I was talking about having 1800-1900kcals a day (with a TDEE of supposedly 2400kcals) and seemed to be stuck. Weight wouldn't budge at all. I would go jogging 3-4 times a week for 5K and the other 3 rest days sit on my arse at my computer doing bugger all.
But just by changing the routine and making sure I am doing 10,000 steps each day (from jogging and walking), it's made a massive difference. The weight is just flying off, indeed too quick I think. Not far off crossing from 12 stone something into the 11s... Not been this light since I was a teenager I think.
Recall I was talking about having 1800-1900kcals a day (with a TDEE of supposedly 2400kcals) and seemed to be stuck. Weight wouldn't budge at all. I would go jogging 3-4 times a week for 5K and the other 3 rest days sit on my arse at my computer doing bugger all.
But just by changing the routine and making sure I am doing 10,000 steps each day (from jogging and walking), it's made a massive difference. The weight is just flying off, indeed too quick I think. Not far off crossing from 12 stone something into the 11s... Not been this light since I was a teenager I think.
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100% agree. I have an hour for lunch at work and have found just adding a 45 minute walk when i wouldn't be doing anything anyways made much more of a difference than I thought it would.
Funny you say this, since my back problems the last few months, I can't do any weight bearing exercise so started walking to/from work, approx 4 miles a day/5 days a week.
My weight hasn't actually changed a great deal but my clothes fit better, in fact my jeans are a little loose on the waist - a few t-shirts which were on the tighter side are hanging looser as well.
I was in a similar boat in that I didn't walk much at all before and started making an effort to hit 10k steps per day since the middle of January to help with my weight loss journey. The walking clearly helped. Since then I've clocked up 1.85mil steps, according to Fitbit that's 476k calories burned, I've eaten 375k Cals according to MFP, if we use the old 3.5k Cals per 1lb of fat loss that roughly worked out to 28lb, well I'm down 25.6lb, having gained some muscle along the way, it all seems to add up.
Another thing I'm really surprised with is reverse dieting. After finishing my cut 3 weeks ago having started in December (including a maintenance phase) I'm now in the reverse diet phase, slowly building back up my calories having been on 1700 Cals at the end of my cut.
I've done the following:
Week 1: 2150
Week 2: 2350
Week 3: 2575 (slightly over target +25).
At the end of my cut I weighed 146lb as at the end of week 3 of reverse dieting I weigh 144.6lb. My maintenance level has increase from 2250 where it was before the extra activity, weight loss and muscle gain, to in the range of 2.5-2.6k i would assume.
Week 4 is on to 2650 as I want to enter my bulking phase.
**I'm not sure if here will be the best place to continue my weight progress, so if this should shift to the gym rats thread ill do that.
I’ve noticed something strange now that I’ve lost weight and can feel my ribs. I seem to have a weird deformation on the bottom left rib, as if it’s been broken and not knitted itself back together cleanly! Very bizarre.
Sure its just not an oblique you are mistaking it for?
Pfft, man I am starting to look like the skinny guy off Mr Muscle adverts, ie I have none!
Quite a surprise for me this morning. For a couple of weeks I've been eating reasonably well, but not cutting back too much and have been hovering around 15st 6 and 15st 7. On Thursday I met with some friends and we went to Kervans where we always get this -
I tend to eat more here than I really should or would anywhere else. It's just sooooooooo nice.
Anyway, I've ridden as normal on Saturday and Sunday (115 miles) but expected to be up a lb or two, given the volume eaten on Thursday, but no, 15st 5 dead, lowest I've been for over a month!
Mind you, today I fly to Porto and will be eating out meeting with people from work, so I fully expect to come back 5 or 6 lbs heavier!
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Last week, I have tried watching my calories and have ensured I have a calorie deficit of 500 - 800 everyday. I have even been on the exercise bike every other day for 45 mins. each time.
My weight has only yo-yoed between 74 and 75 kilos. (Target is 67 kilos)
This is absolute bs and clearly not working for me. I need to go back on my tried and tested lime water and two boiled eggs every three hours for that drastic weight loss.
My weight has only yo-yoed between 74 and 75 kilos. (Target is 67 kilos)
This is absolute bs and clearly not working for me. I need to go back on my tried and tested lime water and two boiled eggs every three hours for that drastic weight loss.
Obviously, do whatever works for you, but I would suggest whatever you had set as your base, was simply too high. Drop it be 300-400 and keep going.
Out of interest, do you know what your average heart rate was for these?
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1 week is not enough time for any sort of progress. How are you confirming you are in a 500-800 calorie deficit for sure, what are you using to track, are you 100% tracking everything, how are you setting your calorie level to know you're achieving 500-800 below etc.
My wife was the same, first week in she was calling BS on the process, now shes 8 weeks in 7lb down and starting to believe what ive been telling her for months.
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Has anyone gotten results from just this only eating within a certain window thing?
I don't do breakfast and generally wont eat until 1030/11am, if I can get my tea in before 1900 will it actually make any odds, I would have thought as long as I'm not banging the calories in and not eating too close to bed time I wouldn't expect it to make any odds?
I don't do breakfast and generally wont eat until 1030/11am, if I can get my tea in before 1900 will it actually make any odds, I would have thought as long as I'm not banging the calories in and not eating too close to bed time I wouldn't expect it to make any odds?
It's something I started doing with keto and sort of kept up, even though I'm not trying. I just eat naturally between 0900-1700 now but I'm still counting calories. So I don't know whether it does anything or not. I sometimes get ravenous around 8pm but I am usually successful at riding it out with drinks of water and brushing my teeth.
You pretty much just described intermittent fasting 16:8 approach
Like you say it's simply a way for people to manage their calorie intake as they have a shorter period to get them in and can therefore generally enjoy bigger more exciting meals than spreading low kcals out over a full normal day.
There may be some actual metabolic benefits to longer periods of no eating but from a pure weight loss view then it's just a way to calorie control.