6xl to just xl I hope

I would take that with a pinch of salt but that said, given your current weight you'll be burning an absolute ton of calories simply being alive and moving around.

Do you have a record of your fat loss since starting with the diet? Per week?
 
Ok so listening to Tom_e if I amke the following changes - I should eb able to balance out my diet better

My scrambled eggs veggie sausages / porridage start is standard. Both yoks in the eggs

2x brown muffis with lettuce, cucumber, carrots and mixed peppers with some dried nuts (not roasted or salted just plain) and fruit for dinnerAdd plain tuna (Not in brine or oil, just plain spring water) or Chicken to the sandwhich

1/2 chickenn breasts oven baked with a baked sweet patatoe and some peas, carrots and sweetcorn.

3x4 750ml bottles of water a day

4-6 mugs of greeb tea.Last mug of green tea at the end of the working day no later to allow my body to work this through (5pm)

Fruit - use a mug as a measurement for a daily portion (think normaly brew sized mug not large or anything?)
 
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@French - No I don't.

While it is about losing the weight - I find for myself I just go from to the other if I look at the weight loss, I can go to extreem and really cut food, not eat get deppressed etc.

In terms of were I am - Shirt's are looser now, I have about 1/4 of inch either side on my work chair were as before my 'love handles rofl' were on the arm's
 
I'm sure that'll help but aside from that I'd do the following:

1) Make sure you start logging on MFP - as accurately as possible...which requires that you...

2) Weigh your portions. At least for a bit until you get a good eye for estimating the weight of things. This is the best way to get an accurate idea of the amount of food you're eating.

You don't need to log your water or green tea in MFP but everything else should be logged.

Another tip is that for lots of things with the MFP app on your phone you can scan the barcode to record the food - saves a lot of time and hassle searching the food database :)
 
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@French - No I don't.

While it is about losing the weight - I find for myself I just go from to the other if I look at the weight loss, I can go to extreem and really cut food, not eat get deppressed etc.

In terms of were I am - Shirt's are looser now, I have about 1/4 of inch either side on my work chair were as before my 'love handles rofl' were on the arm's
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The reason I ask is that you may be losing weight too fast, which would be another sign that you're under-eating.
 
Definitely get on the logging (I know I sound like a broken record :p) as it's much better to know exactly how many you're eating/not eating. I've had days where I thought I'd been really bad and eaten way too much, got down about it, then logged my kcal and realised actually it wasn't that bad at all.
 
Hello fella, I'm on a similar journey if you excuse the lame journey phrase.

I've lost 38kg since September and just ordered some new shirts, I've lost 8" on the waist and 3" around the neck and gone from a 'comfort' shirt to a slim fitting from TM Lewin.

I pretty much started struggling to get off the couch, getting sloshed 3-4 times a week and even though my diet was pretty varied I binged when I drunk so a double whammy.

I've not monitored anything I eat, I have cut alcohol completely, gluten, wheat, anything processed and anything containing added sugars. I can't really overeat just meat and veg really :p

Today I had bacon, eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast then a roast chicken lunch with plenty of veg followed by a spinach omelette tonight and a couple of medjool dates when I got in as I was flagging from an intensive 2hr boxing session last night followed by a 5am wake up call for a London meeting this morning.

Exercise and movement, I started walking a lot more, I stopped parking so close to my site / office and I dusted down my push bike, I started personal training crossfit and boxing / MMA and built from there. Now I can manage 25 - 30k on my bike in a couple of hours, an hour of PT boxing / strength where I cycle there and back and now just started 2 hours of intensive puking passing out boxing in a class on a Monday.

You know as we all do it's daunting but if as I did think about it that it took 30 odd years to put it on it won't all fall off in a few weeks.

Couple of things that helped

http://frankpersonaltraining.com/ for £5.99 a month access to a range of meal plans, shopping lists, home exercises and access to a Facebook group for inspirstion, support and general moaning.

Crossfit did help me to start especially as I did lots of PT sessions but it got very old and boring very quick and I ultimately have given myself a lifetime injury (shut it FT) that I now have to work around

I picked up a local PT with his own gym and the investment has been superb.

Once my fitness level got better I have started boxing in a group, it's hard hard work but the feeling after is great.

Stick at it fella and keep away from the pudding, pies chips and gravy :D
 
Cheers Macca

Yeah having done it to a point sort of last year, I'm really annoyed at myself for letting it get back on.

I'm not after a uber fast look howmuch I lost in 5 weeks sort of daft thing. I'd be happier with at christmas family looking and going wow you you've lost a fair chunk this year
 
Ok well update time seen as a week has flown by.

After a couple of days of measuring what I have eaten etc, and noticed how almost scarly low the intake was ( for example I was off work Thursday waiting for my meters to be changed to credit meters from pre pay ones - I ate what felt like a lot, and was just under 1800 calories.) I've slowly been upping my intake to a more sustainable level - I now average 2200 the past 2 days and I feel much better for it.

Intake is basically

Breakfast
1 - 3 scambled eggs, 2 vegatarian sausages, sliced fruit and a large green tea
2 - Porridge (made with almond milk) fruit and a large green tea

Lunch
1 - Wholewheat wrap, Lettuce, cucumber, carrots, peppers, 1 whole chicken breast, pineapple and a banna. 2x bottles of water and a large green tea
2 - the veg from above, with tuna and some low fast mayo (1 table spoon) - think chinese takeaway size tub helping. In work i grab some carrot sticks and cottage cheese aswell. 2 x bottles of water and a large green tea.

Tea
1 - Poached Salmon, 2x baked sweet patatoes, sweetcorn, peas and carrots. Pint of water.
2 - 2x Chicken breasts grilled, sweet patatoe salad and carrots

Snacks over the day to boost my intake is whole meal cashew nuts, carrot sticks, rasins, grapes. Normally have 3 mug size containers of the above to graze over the day.

Daily routine is still on - though thursday, I spent most of the day just going up and down the stairs while waiting - but the bottle's in each hand feel light - so may have to get some proper weights now
 
Sounds like you're eating a lot better though I still think 2200 is quite low for someone of your size :)

I'm glad to hear that you've had a similar experience to me with regards to realising that sometimes when you think you've eaten a lot you actually haven't. Logging is great for that.
 
Well due to a mistake by my houe mate leving the heating on, coupled with me not having the 3 bottles of water I normally have in the office with me I have definatly dehydrated as I have had a pounding headache for the past 2 days.

Been drinking water like a fish since and I already feel a lot more with it, still have a dull head ache but nothing like before.

Slight change to food today -The works canteen had poached salmon in lemon water with lemon grass, baked sweet patatoes and carrots and sweet corn.

I can ahve my wrpas at home - or just a plain simple chicken salad as I'm not feeling like warps
 
Do you add salt to your tap water? Great for rehydration. And stops you peeing like an alcoholic.

I slip off the wagon and start feeling silly hungry if don't keep up 3ltrs a day. It's just thirst not hunger but then it's too late :p

I bought a bag of himalayan pink salt and took a little pot to work where I put a pinch in each glass of water.
 
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