*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

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!
 
One of my targets this Christmas, was not to balloon and then spend Jan, Feb and Mar trying to get my weight back down. Well looking at averages, last year Jan was 15st 8.3, this Jan was 15st 4.6. This morning, I stepped off the scales at 15st 1.7. (Last Feb ave was 15st 6.3)

I now need to decide what to do here. Usually, 15st 2 is my target. I think in the past I decided that was a good place to be (for cycling), but I'm kinda tempted to go a bit lower and see how I feel.
 
Bassmansam said:
I just said it doesn't taste that nice to me and that coca cola is my favourite drink.
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I'm with you. I was the odd kid when growing up that when my friends said beer was 'an acquired taste' I asked why I would want to acquire it?! If I want to get drunk, pass the vodka. If I want something that tastes nice, pass a coke. (Vodka tastes terrible too, but is over very quickly.)
 
Weighed in at 14st 12 this morning, despite a largish take out last night. It's been 3 years since I managed this sort of weight, when I lasted about a month in this area. I have about a month until I go cycling in Mallorca and the weight will come back a little, for sure, but maybe I can shave 3 or 4 lbs further before I go to make those climbs a little easier. (Funnily enough that last visit under 15st was on my run up to Mallorca trip at this time of year)

Usually, I would expect it to bounce back up a little by Wednesday as I re-hydrate, but maybe this will stick a little better?
 
I guess it's closer to 3 months and 13kg, which isn't that abnormal. I dropped 35-40kg in 6½ months for example.
iGiDK said:
The huel is a decent recovery drink afterwards.
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I try and plan my day so Huel is after exercise and I honestly really look forward to it as a meal if I've just been sweating for an hour! Thirsty and hungry? Huel hits the spot!
 
Despite a HUGE lunch at work last Thursday, I'm definitely/consistently on the good side of 15 st now (under 95kg) which I've not been for about 4 years. Only 17 days now to my cycling trip, so would love to drop another 3 or 4lbs before that, although usually the week (maybe 3 to 5 days) running into a trip, I intentionally up the calories to ensure I'm ready for the effort needed! So maybe only 10 to 14 days to drop what I can.
 
It looks good, just seems odd I can't put together an order of the flavours I want? I would probably throw away the Peanut Butter box...

That doesn't mean I want 4 boxes, all the same flavour!

**EDIT** I contacted them, it's here if anyone else wants to know. There's also a referral system. Maybe 'chat' me if you want 30% off!
 
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MR_Punk said:
I was more coming from the fact I've managed to lose over 20kg without micro analysing everything I eat.
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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.
 
Raymond Lin said:
If you ignore that sudden drop…probably some glitch, then it’s still good.
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I use the same scales. Can I recommend to you not to use anything less than quarterly?
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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.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I only started 3 weeks ago…there’s no quarterly lol
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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 :cool:
 
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