*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

arc@css said:
Has anyone here tried using a blood glucose monitor, and if so, what does a decent/accurate one cost? My interest for getting one is purely curiosity, as I am interested to see how much certain foods affect my blood sugar. Ta.
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I feel like these monitors are an example of too much data. Really useful for diabetics, they tend to just scare other people into worrying about the normal, healthy way that blood sugar is supposed to vary after eating.
 
another week, another week of cycling to work here - dry weather defo helps.
back to gym as well - 4 times last week.

weight doesn't really move...stuck at around 225lbs which is around 5 more than at the beginning of december...
will see how it goes.
defo not oevereating...
 
Mr Jack said:
I feel like these monitors are an example of too much data. Really useful for diabetics, they tend to just scare other people into worrying about the normal, healthy way that blood sugar is supposed to vary after eating.
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I've thought about getting a glucose monitor to see what happens before/during/after exercise, and to see what changing when and what I eat does. But I doubt I'd be able to interpret the data properly.
 
down to 216lbs this morning, so a 10lb drop from peak Christmas. Knee is giving me a bit of jip but I've tweaked my supplement stack to hopefully ease that off.

Goal is still 200lbs and then see where we go from there, to be honest I'll probably aim to hold it around there unless it naturally settles lower as I'm doing less weight training these days and more cardio/Krav Maga.
 
I really want to join the gym but I wouldn't have any idea what to do. The only strength training I've ever done has been with Peloton which is more of a timed circuit-based thing.
 
3 swims done this week. It’s been hard work after a month of deconditioning over Christmas, but I’m not far off where I was now. Still very hungry and still got a few weeks of hard work ahead!
 
Anyone tried a weighted vest? I'm thinking carrying around another 10 kilos has to be good for burning extra calories, especially when working out.
 
I'm reading (listening to) Why We Sleep at the moment and have just listened to a chapter about sleep and weight loss. Very interesting. The short version of things, there are three reasons sleep can affect your weight -
  1. Sleep helps your body deal with sugar
  2. Sleep helps reset something that controls your desire to eat
  3. Sleep helps control something that tells your body you're satiated
So, with bad sleep you want to eat more and keep eating! It also referenced a study of groups that were limiting calories, those with 5.5 hours lost weight but 75% of the loss was lean mass (muscle) compared to those that slept 8.5 hours whose weight loss was over 50% fat. Interesting stuff!
 
Currently on annual leave, had to use it or lose it, which means I'm not walking as many kms per day and I'm definitely not humping ~250kg beds around. Just weighed myself and to be honest I thought it'd be a lot worse, have only gone up from 74.9 to 75.1kg. Could probably work that off by simply dropping the kids off at the pool. :eek: :D
 
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I'm 44 & 192cm, 2nd Dec I was 99.4kg and it was like a switch was flipped mentally and I decided to take action.

Today I'm down to 91.4kg and it's basically down to the following primarily:

1. Intermittent fasting, kind of close to the 16:8 way.
2. Strict calorie counting with myfitnesspal and much healthier meal planning.
3. Huel Black for breakfast.
4. Lots of zone2 training timed before I come out of the fast.

I'm not working currently so I've got plenty of spare time for training and batch cooking soups and healthy dinners etc. Not decided yet how I'll adapt this when I'm back at work.

I managed to lose a bit through Christmas as well as I did the rapha festive 500 on zwift which meant I could have a few more calories.

So that's me back to my pre-pandemic weight which is nice. I'm going to keep this going to see if I can get closer to 85ish kg
 
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