A splash is my measurement, yep, and no sugar. I can't stand milky tea!
I've had high cholesterol in a blood test a few months ago, so cut out whole milk as much as possible, lowered butter intake, etc, and will see how that affects the next test.
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I've had high cholesterol in a blood test a few months ago, so cut out whole milk as much as possible, lowered butter intake, etc, and will see how that affects the next test.
I did this initially, but you soon get to know. For example, I have one Huel a day and I got to the point where I could pretty much guess the weight of a scoop within a gram. At that point, I stopped weighing them.
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Play a sport like 5 or 8 a side football for an hour and you will lose around 500 calories.Cheers for the input. I've attached a screenshot of what my cals look so far today to the bottom of this post so you can see roughly what I'm constituting as 'salad', and dinner will have things like broccoli, green beans, skin-on new potatoes, etc.
I'm tracking pretty much every calorie I can, even when I know it's a bad day, so I can see how far over I've gone!
So true. It gets easier, but it doesn't really go away. I just seem to live with it a bit more. Weirdly, I've started to feel a bit guilty when I've gone off the plan and eaten a bit too much, and I'm trying to remind myself that I'm still on track, and one big meal isn't going to see me back at square one. I think I'm too invested to throw it all away anyway tbh. My problem comes when I try to maintain the weight I reach. It tends to creep up when I'm not looking.
Do some hiit training for 30mins followed by 10min abs and stretch after and that's another 400 plus calories burned
100% this. While I didn’t go quite as far as measuring milk in my hot drinks (switched from latte to americano which knocked that on the head), I properly weighed out my carbs and over the course of six months completely reset my idea of portion size. As @AndyCr15 has said, you soon get a good eye for it! I worry I’ve had a bit of creep recently.
Logged on Noom for the first time in a while today. Have had a reasonably sensible few weeks and it’s time to get back on it and be really honest with myself. Need to get to 40 in the best shape of my life!
Just played 6-a-side and Strava reckons I covered nearly 8km in the 80 mins, at 695 calories. I’ll take that with a pinch of salt, but Wednesdays are a day where I can guarantee my calorie deficit. It’s just a lot harder to be “good” on the days when I don’t exercise as much.
I weigh in for the first time in 2 weeks on Friday, and I’m hoping to drop below the last weigh in of 13st 9lbs. A good day tomorrow and I’ll hopefully stand a good chance!
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I hate to break it to you, but after 5 years I'm not 'used to it'. I still spend reasonable amounts of the day feeling hungryI'm jealous of those people that somehow don't feel hunger. "Oh no, I forgot to have breakfast!", "F off you b stard!"
"I'm pleased I managed to only have two breakfasts today..."
This is generally me too. Daily calories are fairly consistent, but whether i exercise or not is mainly the driving factor between being under/over. My theory is not focusing on day to day and working it out over the week. As some days i'll be ~1500kcal under my goal, and others 1000kcal over depending on whether i've exercised or not. Being more consistent with food seems to make most sense than having weird spikes.
Be proud. They wouldn't be there if they were in my house!
Down to 101.6kg this morning which is about as low as i've been for a while. Slower than i'd have liked, but as said before there's a level of diet i'm clearly not willing to give up, so i'm happy as long as the general trend is downwards with a few spikes along the way.
Weighed in this morning, and in the last 2 weeks, I have gone from 13st 9lbs 2oz to 13st 9lbs 0oz Weirdly though, even though my weight hasn't gone down much, I've shaved half an inch off my waist measurement and gone down to 36" from 37" ( measuring just above my belly button and breathing out, as they tell me to online 
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I didn't weigh in last Friday because I knew the previous week wasn't going to have been pretty. It wasn't over the top, but I knew I'd eaten too much to lose or maintain whatever weight I'd reached. Out of the previous 14 days, I think I'd have been significantly over my calorie goal (or even maintenance) 7 times.
I was disappointed when I first weighed in, but then I looked back at the last 14 days of food, and saw that I've had roughly 1 good week, and 1 bad week, but they were very much mixed together. I initially felt more hard done by because I've worked particularly hard to get myself back on track this week, and of course you want to see immediate results subconsciously, even though you know it's not practical. I don't weigh in more than once a week on a Friday, because I don't want to hyperfocus on what I'm weighing on a particular moment, and am trying to average food over the 7 days so that I don't feel so bad about eating a nice pizza, or going out for a curry with my mates.
We don't have any big family party buffet meals or restaurant curries with mates planned this weekend, or this week. Next Friday, we head down for a weekend away with my in-laws in Devon, and it's likely to fall apart by then, so I do really need to focus on a good week this week. I think a good weigh-in next week will put me in the right frame of mind to try to protect my goals while I'm down there. I hope!
I FEEL a lot better at this size, and I'm noticing the same benefits as @Raymond Lin in that my Watch is tapping me to tell me that my resting breathing rate and heart rate have been lower since I started losing weight at the beginning of March, but I need to work out some sort of framework for how I make this sustainable long-term, because right now I'm still very much focused at getting down to around 13st 6lbs, and not so much at how I regulate my intake to remain at that weight, despite still loving my food, and working out a technique that lets me cope with / suppress hunger, even at maintenance calories.
Weirdly though, even though my weight hasn't gone down much, I've shaved half an inch off my waist measurement and gone down to 36" from 37" ( measuring just above my belly button and breathing out, as they tell me to online )I didn't weigh in last Friday because I knew the previous week wasn't going to have been pretty. It wasn't over the top, but I knew I'd eaten too much to lose or maintain whatever weight I'd reached. Out of the previous 14 days, I think I'd have been significantly over my calorie goal (or even maintenance) 7 times.
I was disappointed when I first weighed in, but then I looked back at the last 14 days of food, and saw that I've had roughly 1 good week, and 1 bad week, but they were very much mixed together. I initially felt more hard done by because I've worked particularly hard to get myself back on track this week, and of course you want to see immediate results subconsciously, even though you know it's not practical. I don't weigh in more than once a week on a Friday, because I don't want to hyperfocus on what I'm weighing on a particular moment, and am trying to average food over the 7 days so that I don't feel so bad about eating a nice pizza, or going out for a curry with my mates.
We don't have any big family party buffet meals or restaurant curries with mates planned this weekend, or this week. Next Friday, we head down for a weekend away with my in-laws in Devon, and it's likely to fall apart by then, so I do really need to focus on a good week this week. I think a good weigh-in next week will put me in the right frame of mind to try to protect my goals while I'm down there. I hope!
I FEEL a lot better at this size, and I'm noticing the same benefits as @Raymond Lin in that my Watch is tapping me to tell me that my resting breathing rate and heart rate have been lower since I started losing weight at the beginning of March, but I need to work out some sort of framework for how I make this sustainable long-term, because right now I'm still very much focused at getting down to around 13st 6lbs, and not so much at how I regulate my intake to remain at that weight, despite still loving my food, and working out a technique that lets me cope with / suppress hunger, even at maintenance calories.
This is what I'm getting at with myself really, I like a beer with my food, I like a glass of wine now and again, and I love going out for curry with a mate once every few weeks. That sort of thing seems to tip me over maintenance really really easily. The weird thing is, if I just do whatever I like and don't calorie count, don't do anything to monitor what I'm eating / drinking, I hit 14st 7lbs and stay there.
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when i see in vairious places that some people struggle with walking 10k steps its makes my job the only thing im thankfull of from that place, a night in work plus dog walking... already today from mid night untill now from work and 1 dog walk im upto 17k steps, times hes had another 2 walks and nipping to the shops later, itll top 20k, plus what ever cardio i do in the gym
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Yeah that's great. I generally hover around 3k steps a day unless consciously making the effort to go for a walk
That's one walk for me, I'm currently doing three of those a day, on top of my other steps. A while back I did a month of 30k a day, that was time consuming...
I'm probably hitting between 15-20k steps a day, I find it a brilliant, and very easy exercise.
Yeah i think if you have the time it works great. I miss the glory days when this was possible
tricept work out , 45 mins on cross trainer and 7 mins walkin on treadmill will do for today, go back in the morning for some more cardio and a legs session. ive flat lined since xmas till now, im looking at the possative tho that i havnt put any weight back on so in theory ive not taken any steps back which is keeping my spirits up, still happy with the 3 - 4 stone i lost from april last yeat till xmas.
something ive started doing is making my own burgers with 5% fat mince, diced oion , salt , pepper , garlic powder , onion powder. basic but i will make 2 decent sized burgers and have them with some veg and a tin of mixed taco beans in sauce which are only around 300 cals for a full tin
something ive started doing is making my own burgers with 5% fat mince, diced oion , salt , pepper , garlic powder , onion powder. basic but i will make 2 decent sized burgers and have them with some veg and a tin of mixed taco beans in sauce which are only around 300 cals for a full tin
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I hit about 4500 steps by the time I get to the office, I've come back home now after sitting at the desk at work (besides going to the loo and make coffee a couple of times), I am at 9500 steps.
If I drive to work then I would be at like 2-3000 steps per day, these days I would hit 12k everyday if I go out after dinner for a walk.
If I drive to work then I would be at like 2-3000 steps per day, these days I would hit 12k everyday if I go out after dinner for a walk.