*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

Mentioned in the cycling thread but have signed up for a fairly difficult long bike ride. It includes a lot of elevation which I’m hoping gives me good motivation to shed weird as hills are massively a weakness for me.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Which is great, well done. But... think about how things have changed since you began. You're probably fitter now and you weigh less, so an hour of football might only burn 500 cals instead of maybe 800 when you started. Then, your BMR will be less, maybe 200 cals a day less, now that you're lighter. If you haven't changed anything since you began, it's normal to plateau.

Again, it's energy in vs energy out, so you kinda need to know both sides of that equation.
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That makes a lot of sense and something I've not thought about. I think it's time to look at my diet. My goal is to get under 100kg and see how I look / feel and then make a decision on where to go next.
 
tom_nieto said:
@MR_Punk - amazing progress so far. I guess the question is what’s your end game? If you’re satisfied with things now, carry on! If you want to lose more, I guess you need to think about things in more detail. Sounds like you’ve got the right idea. I’m mostly venting my own frustrations, as I’ve not been able to kick myself back into a really serious cut since Christmas. Have I changed shape, or put on loads of weight? No. Am I where I could be? Also No.

This week has been derailed somewhat with a work conference, but I guess life is for living.
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The main thing is I've not found it hard and looking back I'm a bit annoyed I let myself get so big. The real test will be when I get to a weight I'm happy with to maintain it and not slip back
 
Deja Vu post upcoming!

After a fairly rubbish weekend, today i was 104.3kg. I'm partly blaming my mother in law being here as yesterday we went out for a meal and both her and my wife only ate around 60% of their meal which i then finished :p
 
i'm still stuck at 224-6lbs... suppose huge pasta bake I made for 6 and eaten by 2 again didnt help...followed by chocolate LOL
but no increase over all so its still there..

last June, when i was channging jobs, new trousers I had to buy for the office were 40..over few monhts swapped them for 36 ...went to the mall on Saturday and tried some Levi's
ended up getting size 33 :eek: ok, 512's are bit stretchy, but still are not tight in the waist- or under whrer they rest...
so bought them :cool:
size smaller and my legs would not get in LOL

so weight is not all ;)
yes, i want few lbs less still ;)

happy monday all
 
Yeah, true on weight not being everything. When i was working away from home for around a year, when i first started running and going to the gym as not much else to do, i was around 94kg by the time i came home, but looked much better/slimmer than when i've been 95kg around this time last year.

I'm hoping when i have my house built and have my home gym i can start doing more strength work. I know i could still do more than i do in the current house rather than making excuses though and thinking i'll suddenly be different in another situation.
 
no change from Friday, but I don’t know why the scales always make a big drop on the weekend, twice in a row now lol.

But at least after going to dim sum, and then had 4 egg tarts not done any harm lol

If you ignore that sudden drop…probably some glitch, then it’s still good.

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AndyCr15 said:
I use the same scales. Can I recommend to you not to use anything less than quarterly?
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As has been said many times in this thread, there's so much fluctuation from day to day it's better to keep an eye on averages/trends.
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I only started 3 weeks ago…there’s no quarterly lol
 
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I stopped drinking completely at the new year and not had a drop of alcohol (usual pub goer after work), cut down the weekly takeaways (only had 4 in the last 3 months) and was disappointed to see I haven't lost a single pound. Although I haven't done any exercise due to some health issues in the last six weeks
 
rumple9 said:
I stopped drinking completely at the new year and not had a drop of alcohol (usual pub goer after work), cut down the weekly takeaways (only had 4 in the last 3 months) and was disappointed to see I haven't lost a single pound. Although I haven't done any exercise due to some health issues in the last six weeks
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That is surprising. Any uptake of other snacking as an alternative to alcohol?
 
Raymond Lin said:
I only started 3 weeks ago…there’s no quarterly lol
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Ha ha, fair. Assuming you don't mean in a literal sense though (it lets you use Quarterly, right?) I would still be looking at that as a minimum. It's not about the period of time it covers, it's about what each point represents. In monthly it shows each individual measure, which we're saying isn't very good to monitor. Switch to quarterly and keep an eye on your weekly average, which you should have 3 or 4 of by now :cool:
 
AndyCr15 said:
Ha ha, fair. Assuming you don't mean in a literal sense though (it lets you use Quarterly, right?) I would still be looking at that as a minimum. It's not about the period of time it covers, it's about what each point represents. In monthly it shows each individual measure, which we're saying isn't very good to monitor. Switch to quarterly and keep an eye on your weekly average, which you should have 3 or 4 of by now :cool:
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Well, it seems the app only shows Week, Month and 6 months...it might change to quarterly if there is data between 1-6 months? I don't know yet.
 
I guess the iOS app is just different. I know I'd be using the 6m view though. As it is, I tend to look at the annual view more (month ave), but sometimes check in on the Quarterly (weekly ave).
 
finally a weight drop..2lbs.. strange in a way as i usually weigh bit more after the gym or same..and yesterday session took all the crap out of me. I was dying at home ..maybe it had something to do with deadlifts on Sunday as well :rolleyes: :cry:
so now 101.6kg
 
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Started at 16 stone 9 on 8 Jan, down to 15 stone 7 today so 16 pounds lost. Aiming to get to 14 stone by end of June.

Main things I've changed are

Exercise (peloton) 4 times a week for 30 mins
Rowing
No alcohol
No takeaways
Lean meats and veg
Low carb and low sugar, similar to keto
Only drinking water and coffee

Have joined the gym as well for strength training but finding it hard to find the time to go.
 
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I have been working at the gym since October doing weights. I've gone down from 18 stone 10lb to 16 stone 3lb so far
I have mostly cut carbs from my diet to aid the loss.

I do around an hours weights at the gym 6 days a week. I have gained some muscle so the fat loss I would say is more than 3 stone of blubber
 
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ic1male said:
Do any of you track your carb intake or just go purely via calories?
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I'm tracking carbs more than cals.

I was going to the gym daily and eating less 2k cals but not losing weight. I then after 3 months reviewed my diet and saw even though low cals it was a lot of carbs. So I cut carbs but kept cals at 2k and the weight flew off.

Now I aim for sub 50g a carbs a day and under 1750 cals. It's working for me with weight training.
 
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