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What height are you?
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What height are you?
What height are you?
5'10" when I'm lying down.
BMI is 32-ish. But I feel really good about this now. My enabler has been disabled by this coronavirus quarantine so there really should be no more tempting items in the house for me to scoff. Last week was totally my own fault though, I did an online shopping order and went mad ordering Gu puddings and pizza. This week, I've got nothing but Huel, meat/fish and vegetables.
While this COVID-19 situation is going on, my work has opened up the dinning room for free... which is really messing with my calories!!! It's so hard to resist when it doesn't even cost. It almost seems like I'm wasting the opportunity!
Mind you, I'm cranking up the cycling miles now the weather is nice, so maybe I accept I will eat around 4,000 calories a day, because most days I'm burning about 900-1,200 out cycling!
Mind you, I'm cranking up the cycling miles now the weather is nice, so maybe I accept I will eat around 4,000 calories a day, because most days I'm burning about 900-1,200 out cycling!
Huel makes me feel very sad.5'10" when I'm lying down.
But I feel really good about this now. My enabler has been disabled by this coronavirus quarantine so there really should be no more tempting items in the house for me to scoff. Last week was totally my own fault though, I did an online shopping order and went mad ordering Gu puddings and pizza. This week, I've got nothing but Huel, meat/fish and vegetables.
Why’s that?
I just couldnt get on with it.
Oh. I’ve felt like that at the beginning when I was sitting on the bog. It upset my system but it seems to have settled down now. I don’t have any problem with the taste so it makes a perfect post-exercise breakfast. But it doesn’t fill me up for more than a couple of hours so I have to really resist snacking.
Hmm for me it was more the taste. I would sit there and it would take me like 4-5 hours to slowly drink it because every mouthful was torture
I have had much more success by meal prepping with chicken.It depends how you make it too. If I use out nutribullet it’s a huge amount more enjoyable than with just the shaker.
I’ve had a fairly ropey week. Haven’t been running much as I hit my head and was getting dizzy but still eating a lot. Especially over the weekend and probably averaged ~3500 calories per day.
Weighed myself this morning and was 96kg which is still a drop from last week. I think sometimes little blips probably help reset your body’s system somehow!
I’ve had a fairly ropey week. Haven’t been running much as I hit my head and was getting dizzy but still eating a lot. Especially over the weekend and probably averaged ~3500 calories per day.
Weighed myself this morning and was 96kg which is still a drop from last week. I think sometimes little blips probably help reset your body’s system somehow!
I like weighing myself every day as I keep a spreadsheet to draw nice graphs. But then it makes me sad when my weight goes up as it seems to do - up one day, down the next two, etc. Luckily, it's going in the right direction. I've managed to undo all the **** in the last few months so I'm back to where I was on Christmas Eve before it all went wrong.
I've been reading about the 5:2 diet so might give that a try next month to mix things up.
I've been reading about the 5:2 diet so might give that a try next month to mix things up.
Decided to start the 5:2 diet anyway, today. It's just past noon. I've not eaten anything at all yet so I've been fasting for 18 hours already. I know you're allowed 600kcals (or even 800 on his new, updated version) but I'm going to test myself to see if I can get through the whole day without eating anything, just drinking water.
If you don't hear from me by tomorrow, call 999. LMAO.
If you don't hear from me by tomorrow, call 999. LMAO.
Bad time to be calling 999
Oops, yes I suppose it is.
I was thinking about the ADF but I'm not sure how I'd be able to handle running on those fasting days. I'm starving enough when I've finished a run and then to not be able to eat anything... With two fast days a week I can time them to be the days when I sit on my arse playing on the PC. The other five, I'm either doing running or light weights.
Have you been doing it a while now, @neoboy ?
Have you been doing it a while now, @neoboy ?
Did it in March for almost 2 weeks and had good experience (dropped from 118kg to 113kg) but then lost my job, gyms closed etc and discipline fell apart as it's difficult to maintain fasting days stuck in the house with a fridge full of food!
I was doing the 5x5 in the gym on eating days and frankly didn't feel any different from power point of view (not that I'm lifting particularly heavy). I feel better running on an empty stomach anyway so no change there as I run on fast days.
See how I get on this week now that I'm semi adjusted to new home routine.
And was it a complete zero calorie intake on those days or did you eat 500/600/800kcals? The woman in the USA who came up with "The Every Other Day Diet" said she saw great results with people still eating (but a lower amount) on fast days. It might be more manageable.