it is so easy to eat junk food, chocolate and drink alcohol.
for a while i was trying to substitute with protain bars...but started to eat too many they were so good hahah
c'mon, you can do it.
cycle daily as you have better weather than most of us
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for a while i was trying to substitute with protain bars...but started to eat too many they were so good hahah
c'mon, you can do it.
cycle daily as you have better weather than most of us
it is so easy to eat junk food, chocolate and drink alcohol.
for a while i was trying to substitute with protain bars...but started to eat too many they were so good hahah
c'mon, you can do it.
cycle daily as you have better weather than most of us
That's my plan. I think my body will adjust to the increase in load. I just probably ramped up a little too fast and sent my body into craving food!
I've not even been that bad with booze recently. Just keep snacking but never on healthy stuff. I think i might get some kind of Huel. It really bloats me having something like that, and so if i feel hungry i might reach for that. Yes calories will be around 400kcal for a full portion, but at least that's then a max limit and it'll contain a decent mix of carbs/protein. Whereas now i'm stuffing like 6 digestive biscuits, which is the same kcal but just all sugar!
The main thing is at least i'm getting consistency in MFP and recording it and seeing the impact of ending the day around 2500kcal rather than my goal. Hopefully that'll snap at some point. Whereas in the past i've just stopped logging it at a certain point!
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6 digestives have 400 cals ??!!??!! pack of lentil crisps has that..or pack of lentil cakes from Kallo....
no more buiscuits for me at work now !! - always full tin by coffee making facilities and i do grab few at a time...
stopped eating at work .. might grab something small if i plan to go to gym after work.
stopping is harest byt craving will go eventually
foce yourself in to drinking water
Yeah, MFP says 79kcal per biscuit!
Yeah, need to drink more water too, that's unlikely to be helping. I always used to drink loads, now maybe 2L a day.
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I found out about this years ago and biscuits is the first thing I cut. The way I think of it is “would I prefer to eat 6 chocolate digestives (88cal I think) or 1 BigMac” and I would pick the BigMac.
I also found out this week almond croissant has 100cal more than a chocolate one…no more almond croissant for now. Easy 100 cal saved in the morning.
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I used to have a Waitrose Croissant most nights, then found out they were 460+ cals...
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An Almond one from Morrison's is 396 calories, and it is tiny... compared to say one from a French Bakery.
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Yeah. There are definitely a lot of croissant monsters in here.
It’s very important to raise awareness of the dangers of delicious almond croissants.
Progress - dry weight between 89.5 and 90kg currently. I’ve definitely put on some flesh weight. Don’t think it’s too much around the tummy as my bench is back up to 82.5kg and I managed a pretty decent spin class yesterday without feeling totally broken today. 34” trousers still fit and some of the large size T shirts are fitting better than the XL. General fitness is good, but as usual, life tends to get in the way of perfection with these things. I’m hoping to actually get on my bike this weekend (it might actually be dry weather
) which will help with some Easter festivities.
Progress - dry weight between 89.5 and 90kg currently. I’ve definitely put on some flesh weight. Don’t think it’s too much around the tummy as my bench is back up to 82.5kg and I managed a pretty decent spin class yesterday without feeling totally broken today. 34” trousers still fit and some of the large size T shirts are fitting better than the XL. General fitness is good, but as usual, life tends to get in the way of perfection with these things. I’m hoping to actually get on my bike this weekend (it might actually be dry weather
) which will help with some Easter festivities.
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Friday checking in. On the 28th Feb I was 89.25kg (farthest left dot on the graph), on course to hit 85kg by end of April.
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I still eat a pastry every morning for breakfast, but instead of 2, I just have 1.
Not cutting any food out at all. I’ve also had chocolate this week, packet of crisps, even drinking some juice, still put 1 sugar in every coffee.
I think my problem with pastries is calorie to filling ratio.
They’re always high calories but one never feels enough. Then you eat 2 and are hugely over!
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That’s the problem with them, I could easily devour 3 in a sitting too but that also means 1,000 calories easy in under 5 mins, could be as much as 1,500 calories if it’s one of those with icing on top. When I’m on holiday I would get a full English and put a croissant on the side…because they are not really filling foods and so easy to eat.
I went for a walk today, due to rain I was “stuck” in the shops killing time and wait for it to blow over and lingered longer than I wanted so by the time I got home I walked 8km and that was only 550 calories. It wouldn’t make a dent into that 3 pastries.
I guess this is where MFP really helped, I “trust” that I am getting enough calories, and thus energy and then tell myself this hunger I’m feeling I just got to suck it up for an hour or 2 until the next meal.
At dinner I eat normally, a couple of times I had pasta, 2 servings’ worth even, covered in Parmesan.
