*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

[Raymond Lin]

Not even that big, maybe take a sheet of A4, fold it in half, and then half again. They just seemed to be massively calorie dense!

Chocolate a la taza Virgen de los Desamparados (200 g)

Azúcar, pasta de cacao, manteca de cacao, harina de arroz, emulgente (lecitina de soja) y aroma de vainilla.

chocolatesperez.com

It's 200g still.

Just compared it to Dairy Milk and that has 534cal per 100g so Dairy Milk is worse, that looks darker so technically more healthy. I would say 200g would be 5 bars of regular chocolate as they would be 40g each usually. So works out about right.

 

[Martynt74]

I've never had Spanish chocolate, did it have a nice taste? It looks like it could be the same as the thick chocolate dip you get with churros.

It was alright, but i'm much more of a fan of cheap milky chocolate like Daily Milk/Galaxy!

@Raymond Lin Yeah it was purely just me being fat. Told everyone i had no will power once something was opened! It wasn't *too* bad when i thought we were sharing the bar as that's only ~500kcal each. It was just when the wife pushed it aside that it got extra unhealthy

 

[Raymond Lin]

I have also been eating pringles at night around 9pm the last few days too....but only about 1/4 of a tube each time...

 

[Martynt74]

Get out of here with your willpower!

 

[alec]

pringles....but only about 1/4 of a tube each time...

pretty sure that is impossible in this universe. Breaks some fundamental law of physics, Planck constant etc

 

[Karl]

I have also been eating pringles at night around 9pm the last few days too....but only about 1/4 of a tube each time...

Wife bought a tube of pringles yesterday, I've somehow managed to keep them holstered...

She also turned up with a Turkish Delight (one of my favourites) and that's also still in its packet, at least until the weekend.

Last week, I ate badly for 5 out of the 7 days, having had a curry out with a friend, wetherspoons food, few beers, ice cream, large cod & chips (and I mean LARGE) from the local takeaway, a full english, and loadza pizza.
On Sunday I thought I'd be extra healthy, and while others were ordering the steak & eggs for brunch, I ordered the fisherman's breakfast to avoid the red meat. Turned out it had:
- 2 large mackerel fillets
- 2 poached eggs drizzled with hollandaise sauce
- A few fried new potatoes
- A thick rasher of bacon

Was well over 1,000 calories, but delish.

This week I reset again, as I always find it easier to eat carefully / train when I'm at home rather than out with the family, and have had a good week.

Weighed in this morning at 13st 3lbs which is my joint lowest weight for the last 10 years, so even though I'm really enjoying food at the moment, I'm still managing to lower / maintain a decent weight.
My strength training has gone down a bit so I'm conscious that some of that might be loss of muscle mass, not sure. I'm feeling pretty skinny though

Father's day fry-up on the weekend, can't wait!

 

[Raymond Lin]

Wife bought a tube of pringles yesterday, I've somehow managed to keep them holstered...


Weighed in this morning at 13st 3lbs which is my joint lowest weight for the last 10 years, so even though I'm really enjoying food at the moment, I'm still managing to lower / maintain a decent weight.

You and I weigh almost exactly the same at the moment. I am doing no training though besides walking. There is also a lot of stress happening that honestly taken away my appetite in the past couple of weeks...not the way to lose weight but I will take it anyway.

 

[robj20]

Not hopeful for tomorrow mornings weigh in. Eaten a lot of crap this week, fully expect to have gained.

 

[Karl]

You and I weigh almost exactly the same at the moment. I am doing no training though besides walking. There is also a lot of stress happening that honestly taken away my appetite in the past couple of weeks...not the way to lose weight but I will take it anyway.

Sorry to hear you're going through it at the moment. I know what you mean about stress reducing appetite. The stress puts strain on your body anyway that food would've done, so mindfulness might come in to play here, trying to clear your mind a bit. Always easier said than done!

Not hopeful for tomorrow mornings weigh in. Eaten a lot of crap this week, fully expect to have gained.

As long as you enjoyed the food... I get really annoyed with myself if I eat something that's several hundred calories and I haven't even enjoyed it! I had a HUGE cod & chips with curry sauce last week, and, MY GOD IT WAS AMAZING. No problem spending ~ 2000 cals on that

 

[Karl]

Had a weekend of food and drink-related debauchery, felt physically ill because I ate so much, felt positively relieved to go back to some sort of dietary structure today.

 

[bastic]

back from 6 days in Spain.
cycling trip, 4 days of excercise
coffees, pastries, ice cream ,pizzas, beers etc.
added approx 4lbs and that is me weighted this morning, after almost whole weekend at home and finishing some spanish biscuits i brought home

not bad i think...bad to diet thingy now...

 

[Karl]

Went bananas on the buffet at Taylor Swift on Tuesday, approx 3,600 cals that day. Been balancing it out ever since! Weighed in this morning at 13st 5lbs which I'm fairly happy with considering I've been treating myself a fair bit this week.

 

[Martynt74]

Good work.

I'm higher this week than last week. Impressive considering i've just been through my records and worked out the following

31/05 102.4kg
21/06 104.3kg

So added 1.9kg

In those 3 weeks, i've supposedly burned 14,525kcal during activites recorded on my watch using a HR strap and power meter for the cycling activies which make up the majority.

If i assume my baseline is 2000kcal, and 1.9kg equates to around 4000kcal (i think 1kg weight loss is ~2000kcal) which over 21days is around 190kcal, and 14,525kcal divided by 21 days is an average of 692kcal/day

Then i can assume that my average daily calories is 2882/day. I know reported calories on devices is usually a bit on the high side, but still. I'm sure i'm not that unhealthy!

 

[Karl]

At this stage mate, I'm convinced that you are a cycling wizard, fuelled solely by beer & wine.

 

[Martynt74]

Haha you’re not entirely wrong!

Maybe add bread in there too.

 

[AndyCr15]

i think 1kg weight loss is ~2000kcal

I'm not sure where you got this from, but I've always worked to 3,000 cals is 1lb and a quick google says 1kg is 7,700 cals...

Good news for your eating, but bad news for your exercise!

 

[Martynt74]

I'm not sure where you got this from, but I've always worked to 3,000 cals is 1lb and a quick google says 1kg is 7,700 cals...

Good news for your eating, but bad news for your exercise!

Ah seems you’re right. No idea where I got that from.

Makes my calculation above even worse!

 

[Somnambulist]

Coming up to the end of week 7 - down 3.5kg and probably due another drop shortly although I underslept all last week and feel like I held more water. So far down 3.5cm on the chesticle circumference, 4.5cm on the narrowest part of the waist, 5cm on navel and 3cm on the lower abdomen and no longer look sloppy. Hips down 3.5cm as well. Arms looking vascular now but still waiting for the ab veins to make an appearance. Managed to not lose any strength so far other than a rep or so on flat bench… incline still holding up just about though!

 

[tom_nieto]

Came in to say that I did a cycle today. Strava has told me I must eat 2000 kcal otherwise the wheels will fall of my bike.

In all seriousness I do need to get leaner (don’t make me look at the 2024 goals thread ), but today was the first time in a long while that it felt like I had some gas in the tank. It was baking hot and yet once I’d warmed up I think I could have done another hour. 1:40 for 27.7 miles at 16.5 mph average is my best effort for a long time. Sure, I’m a couple of kg above where I’d like to be, but fitness seems decent… probably because I’m not in a huge deficit. Got to make more effort this summer!

 

[Martynt74]

Came in to say that I did a cycle today. Strava has told me I must eat 2000 kcal otherwise the wheels will fall of my bike.

In all seriousness I do need to get leaner (don’t make me look at the 2024 goals thread ), but today was the first time in a long while that it felt like I had some gas in the tank. It was baking hot and yet once I’d warmed up I think I could have done another hour. 1:40 for 27.7 miles at 16.5 mph average is my best effort for a long time. Sure, I’m a couple of kg above where I’d like to be, but fitness seems decent… probably because I’m not in a huge deficit. Got to make more effort this summer!

Yeah. This is similar to me. I was out for just over 100km with around 1100m elevation which was both my longest and hilliest ride and whilst feeling a bit tired at the end I could’ve carried on a while.

So whilst if you read my posts in here everything is disappointing (today was 104.7kg!) my actual fitness is building pretty well and Strava is showing a few PBs for power outputs and segments even though it felt an easy ride in zone 2 generally.