*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

I dread to think what will happen when I next step on the scales. I hadn't fully got back down after my trip away, then my mother has been staying for 5 or 6 days, so eating plans kinda go out the window...

I did cycle 180 miles in the last few days though, so hopefully I've balanced it reasonably well!
 
That’s the crazy thing isn’t it and it’s probably similar to @tom_nieto

Yesterday Strava says I burned 3000kcal which makes you think I’ll be skinny in no time!

However adding in a larger breakfast preside ~400kcal, some carb drinks during the ride ~400kcal and other snacks during the ride and then food when I got home to aid recovery I probably didn’t have quite the deficit you actually think you will.

So when training for things and trying to eat properly for best performance and recovery you end up being close to equal.

Especially as you’re body then craves food all day afterwards and you give in and go to the local Irish bar and have a huge doner meat pizza…..
 
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Martynt74 said:
So when training for things and trying to eat properly for best performance and recovery you end up being close to equal.
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It's certainly a tough balance, but once it becomes routine I don't think I eat that much more. If I ride 50 miles and burn maybe 2,500 cals, often I only eat about 400 cals more than I would on a day I don't ride. Sometimes I do get super hungry and I might have one or two extra protein bars throughout the day, but it's still going to be a 1,200 to 1,600 deficit.

If I just go out for a 20 mile blast, my diet wouldn't change at all, so just burn 800 to 1,000 and not eat anything extra.
 
I'm obviously just greedy though, i guess that's the benefit you have of building up a better endurance base. I'm also trying to be quite strict on eating a lot to build routine on that side so when i grow activity time to 10+ hours i'm already used to eating regularly.

I probably worked out i consued around 1500kcal just during the ride! Although this was including a coffee and Tostada break which i don't usually do but felt a little weak as i'd missed tea the night before after a big lunch.
 
It’s a chastening reminder that I lost a whole bunch of weight by really focusing on diet, not by trying to increase exercise. I just need a couple of good weeks and I’ll be back on it. Problem is all those nice summer events!

@Martynt74 - I was 100% motivated to cycle because I wanted to enjoy a pub dinner!
 
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My biggest calorie deficit days are when I play football on Wednesdays. I have a careful day as I do most weekdays, then have a normal dinner, and if I feel hungry I might have a weetabix before I go, but the games are 8-9pm, so by the time I get home I'm comfortably in deficit and then go straight to bed so I don't ruin it :D
 
Hi, Not posted in this thread before but I want to lose some weight and need some sort of accountability.

A few years back, with the support of people at work - we had our own 'fat club' and weighed in together every week - I managed to lose 6 stone and start running. Since then I have stopped running, and done a lot of eating and gained back pretty much all of the weight - being comfortable in a relationship was a big part of this.

Last May I hit a peak of 132kg (sorry for the mixed units...lol) but started weighing in and logging my food by November I had got down to 109kg with very little actual effort and no exercise. Then my partner ended our relationship, which completely broke me. Lots of comfort eating later and I'm currently sitting at 117.6kg but I'm feeling a little bit more myself and I want to get back to weight loss...partially because I have a dance weekender booked in for November and I want to lose as much as I can before ten (150 days away from today)

On the exercise front I have gone back to dancing, which I try to do at least once a week, and in time I want to get myself back to running. Right now, my focus is my food and getting myself logging it again (I use mynetdiary) as I know it helps me hugely.

Anyway, just posting in here in the hope that I can get some support and some pressure from people to post regularly and stay on top on my food and increasing my exercise. :)
 
I'm finding it a lot easier to stick to my calories in the hot weather, all I've been wanting is ice cold water and iced black coffee.

I've switched from Fitbit to Garmin to monitor my steps etc. (the pixel watch's battery life was terrible) and noticed that the estimated calories burnt is a lot lower than Fitbit. For example, I've done 10k steps at a decent pace and a workout today and burnt 3500 calories whereas I'd usually be at about 4000 for a similar day on the Fitbit app.
 
Even 3,500 cals seems quite high for walking and a workout? I guess it depends what you've done in your workout and also what your base is set at though.
 
1 hour of very intense football for me is absolute max 750 cals. i did just shy of 20,000 steps yesterday plus some weights stuff, and still only managed 606 calories burned.
 
Well, I was assuming that was a daily target, rather than the total burnt in the two activities. If his BMR said he burns 2,300 a day for example, then I guess 1,200 isn't too crazy over 10k steps and a workout, if they workout includes some cardio too.
 
Ah yeah sorry, that includes a BMR estimate of about 2,300 (edited to update Garmin's BMR rather than the calculator I use) and my workout included 15 minutes of cardio before moving on to back and biceps.
 
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Swam 2k today. I need to somehow reframe my diet as I keep beating myself up about it. I’m enjoying food, maintaining my weight rather than gaining and seem to have decent energy levels and fitness.

My goal however is to drop body fat and to do that I’ll need to drop 4-7kg. I don’t want to over promise, but I’ve done it before!
 
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