*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

Yeah, it's pretty mental. I'm not even sure how you eat that many calories and maintain a healthy diet.

Even if i think i eat a lot, then i'm generally maxing around 3-4k for a day. Getting beyond that you need to really be throwing down a lot of cakes etc surely!

For example on Sunday i had bought some huge steaks. I estimate that mine was around a 500g Sirloin (woman in the butchers had a last piece around 800g and i got her to cut it in two. Was probably a mistake!), and that's only ~1000kcal. Throw some veg/rice and you're maybe at 1500kcal and that was an absolutely huge meal i struggled to finish!
 
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Martynt74 said:
Yeah, it's pretty mental. I'm not even sure how you eat that many calories and maintain a healthy diet.
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Generally you don't or at least not the generally accepted view of a healthy diet, when you're getting to those sort of levels there'll always be a bit of "Just need the calories" the source becomes irrelevant and a quick big mac or whatever for an easy hit starts to come in.
 
Yeah i guess, even a big mac though is only 600kcal, and how many of those can you eat! I guess it's what you have to do to be at those kind of levels. Not sure i could manage it.
 
Urgh… why does grant writing require so much chocolate? :(
Going to see whether wine is a more calorie efficient method of enhancing productivity over the weekend :cry:
 
Coming in to this thread just ends up making me hungry these days...:D

Wife brought home a case of Malteser Easter bunnies free from work yesterday (she works for an office supply company, why do they even have these and why are they giving away in date chocolate for free!? It's a trap!), they've had to be hidden away at the back of the cupboard so I forget about them.
 
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I've switched things up a little the last week or so which seems to be positive. I was getting a little bit all or nothing on the calorie counting resulting in days with low adherence followed by super strict. I've decided to move to a 3 large meals model, no snacking (unless I need a banana pre run or something) with a focus on being mindful on portion size and quality...

Looking something like this at the moment

Breakfast: 65g Oats with Semi Skimmed Milk, some Raisins and loads of raspberries/blueberries with a Nespresso latte
Lunch: Half a tesco pre marinaded chicken pack (180-200 calories) with a full pack of stir fry veg and either a half bag of cook in bag potatoes (done in air fryer instead) or half a uncle bens rice packet.
Dinner: whatever we are having at home mainly, fajitas, curry, burgers with mash/green veg... my basis being is my 140lb wife is eating it and not getting fat then its likely not the issue. Friday is Half a Tesco cook at home pizza for example.

Ive dropped just over a kg this week so going to try it on for size for a few weeks and see if it works for me or if I need to be a bit more calculated. I'd rather keep the macro counting for a specific push towards a weight / event
 
I'm still getting frustrated with lack of weight loss but trying not to let it bother me as i've been ramping up cycling and so confident at some point doing 5-7hrs of cycling a week will drop it off even if not as quick as i'd hope.

One thing i do want to address is the lack of protein in my diet. I generall have porridge for breakfast, scrambled eggs/cured meat sandwich for dinner and then tea is similar to @blairw where it could be curry, burgers, fajitas. So i'm generally eating decent stuff and having eggs/chicken most days, but MFP always shows me very low and i'm wondering if it's hindering progress with cycling a bit.

I've been eyeing some protein powder to add a drink each day to artificially increase intake, but being my usual cheap self. I'm going for the cheap end of the scale. Is there anything between these that i need to consider?


Or even something to avoid where i need to be less cheap?
 
I wouldn't overthink it - why drink calories when you could eat them? Have some chicken sausages/eggs alongside your oats, change your cured meat sandwich to have cooked chicken breast or similar instead
 
blairw said:
I wouldn't overthink it - why drink calories when you could eat them? Have some chicken sausages/eggs alongside your oats, change your cured meat sandwich to have cooked chicken breast or similar instead
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I guess it's part laziness/convenience.

Breakfast/Lunch for me are quick/easy meals, and with generally eating around 15 eggs a week, i'm reluctant to add any more into the mix!
 
I make my porridge using water and then add a scoop of vanilla whey isolate or casein and a pinch of salt - it's creamy, very filling and has more than 1g of protein per 10 calories.

One thing to note is that you'll probably suffer from extreme wind for a week or so, but you soon adjust!
 
hey all, its been a while - week ;)

@Martynt74
get smaller pack of protein powder first. dont want to waste money on one you don't like and wont use.
consider one without any flavours.

been cycling with my mate and his wife today.
she has been using services of a nutritionist as she wants to build some muscle - she's skinny as they get LOL she does a lot of zwift and gym lately.
shes on 2k cal a day ! more than I try to get haha
around 240carbs and 175g of protein !! that's insane amount of protein

reduce bread intake.
try rice cakes with scrabled eggs ;)

count them bloody calories...its boring but does work...
you eat a lot of eggs a week...switch some eggs to egg whites and reduce calories and add protein ;)
 
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