Soldato
I would tend to agree. I am generally quite carb heavy but I'm a traditional yorkshire man meat and 2 veg sorta guy. Sandwich for lunch, bag of crisps here and there.
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I would tend to agree. I am generally quite carb heavy but I'm a traditional yorkshire man meat and 2 veg sorta guy. Sandwich for lunch, bag of crisps here and there.
Caporegime
Cut out the crisps would be my first move. I find they are the most calorie heavy but not hunger satisfying foods. So easy to gorge of them and the suffer in the waistline.
If you can manage it, cut out the drinking too, perhaps half it. Drink bottles instead of pints perhaps. Same number per night but just bottles, so you are physically consuming less calories but not changing your routine.
Well... yes. I do wonder if people think IF is something magical that makes them lose weight. I'm sure there are some benefits, but it's still energy in vs energy out at the end of the day.
Soldato
I was more coming from the fact I've managed to lose over 20kg without micro analysing everything I eat.
Soldato
@MR_Punk - amazing progress so far. I guess the question is what’s your end game? If you’re satisfied with things now, carry on! If you want to lose more, I guess you need to think about things in more detail. Sounds like you’ve got the right idea. I’m mostly venting my own frustrations, as I’ve not been able to kick myself back into a really serious cut since Christmas. Have I changed shape, or put on loads of weight? No. Am I where I could be? Also No.
This week has been derailed somewhat with a work conference, but I guess life is for living.
This week has been derailed somewhat with a work conference, but I guess life is for living.
Which is great, well done. But... think about how things have changed since you began. You're probably fitter now and you weigh less, so an hour of football might only burn 500 cals instead of maybe 800 when you started. Then, your BMR will be less, maybe 200 cals a day less, now that you're lighter. If you haven't changed anything since you began, it's normal to plateau.
Again, it's energy in vs energy out, so you kinda need to know both sides of that equation.
Soldato
Mentioned in the cycling thread but have signed up for a fairly difficult long bike ride. It includes a lot of elevation which I’m hoping gives me good motivation to shed weird as hills are massively a weakness for me.
Soldato
That makes a lot of sense and something I've not thought about. I think it's time to look at my diet. My goal is to get under 100kg and see how I look / feel and then make a decision on where to go next.
Soldato
The main thing is I've not found it hard and looking back I'm a bit annoyed I let myself get so big. The real test will be when I get to a weight I'm happy with to maintain it and not slip back
Soldato
Now I'm down to 70kg I've started doing pushups in the morning. Damn I forgot how out of shape i am. 
Soldato
Deja Vu post upcoming!
After a fairly rubbish weekend, today i was 104.3kg. I'm partly blaming my mother in law being here as yesterday we went out for a meal and both her and my wife only ate around 60% of their meal which i then finished
After a fairly rubbish weekend, today i was 104.3kg. I'm partly blaming my mother in law being here as yesterday we went out for a meal and both her and my wife only ate around 60% of their meal which i then finished
i'm still stuck at 224-6lbs... suppose huge pasta bake I made for 6 and eaten by 2 again didnt help...followed by chocolate LOL
but no increase over all so its still there..
last June, when i was channging jobs, new trousers I had to buy for the office were 40..over few monhts swapped them for 36 ...went to the mall on Saturday and tried some Levi's
ended up getting size 33
ok, 512's are bit stretchy, but still are not tight in the waist- or under whrer they rest...
so bought them
size smaller and my legs would not get in LOL
so weight is not all
yes, i want few lbs less still
happy monday all
but no increase over all so its still there..
last June, when i was channging jobs, new trousers I had to buy for the office were 40..over few monhts swapped them for 36 ...went to the mall on Saturday and tried some Levi's
ended up getting size 33
ok, 512's are bit stretchy, but still are not tight in the waist- or under whrer they rest...so bought them
size smaller and my legs would not get in LOL
so weight is not all
yes, i want few lbs less still
happy monday all
Soldato
Yeah, true on weight not being everything. When i was working away from home for around a year, when i first started running and going to the gym as not much else to do, i was around 94kg by the time i came home, but looked much better/slimmer than when i've been 95kg around this time last year.
I'm hoping when i have my house built and have my home gym i can start doing more strength work. I know i could still do more than i do in the current house rather than making excuses though and thinking i'll suddenly be different in another situation.
I'm hoping when i have my house built and have my home gym i can start doing more strength work. I know i could still do more than i do in the current house rather than making excuses though and thinking i'll suddenly be different in another situation.
Caporegime
no change from Friday, but I don’t know why the scales always make a big drop on the weekend, twice in a row now lol.
But at least after going to dim sum, and then had 4 egg tarts not done any harm lol
If you ignore that sudden drop…probably some glitch, then it’s still good.
But at least after going to dim sum, and then had 4 egg tarts not done any harm lol
If you ignore that sudden drop…probably some glitch, then it’s still good.
I use the same scales. Can I recommend to you not to use anything less than quarterly?
As has been said many times in this thread, there's so much fluctuation from day to day it's better to keep an eye on averages/trends.
Caporegime
I use the same scales. Can I recommend to you not to use anything less than quarterly?
As has been said many times in this thread, there's so much fluctuation from day to day it's better to keep an eye on averages/trends.
I only started 3 weeks ago…there’s no quarterly lol
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Soldato
Haha plus I think @Raymond Lin is fairly sensible and not putting much stock in the drop and rise unlike some people who panic it’s jumped suddenly.
I stopped drinking completely at the new year and not had a drop of alcohol (usual pub goer after work), cut down the weekly takeaways (only had 4 in the last 3 months) and was disappointed to see I haven't lost a single pound. Although I haven't done any exercise due to some health issues in the last six weeks
Soldato
That is surprising. Any uptake of other snacking as an alternative to alcohol?
Ha ha, fair. Assuming you don't mean in a literal sense though (it lets you use Quarterly, right?) I would still be looking at that as a minimum. It's not about the period of time it covers, it's about what each point represents. In monthly it shows each individual measure, which we're saying isn't very good to monitor. Switch to quarterly and keep an eye on your weekly average, which you should have 3 or 4 of by now