*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

blairw said:
65g oats with 200ml semi skimmed milk (the ratio I use for breakfast) is 340 calories
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It's been answered, but just to add I used milk a lot. Porridge, 5 or 6 coffees a day and a bowl of cereal before bed. Probably... 500ml a day. All of a sudden that's around a 200 cal saving a day. Then do that across the week and we're over a 1,000 cals saved. As I said, I now do a half and half for a nice taste, but still 700 cals a week saved.
 
After having a couple of naughty days last Tuesday and Wednesday, I've been good, to bring it back down. BH weekend, so 3 rides means a good deficit each of those days. Yesterday was one of my lowest cal days... but this morning I've put an lb back on since Monday. I think it's a hydration thing. Sweat a lot out over an active weekend, then rehydrate the next couple of days. On the plus side, the scales told me 20.2% BF, which is the lowest I've seen it for a couple of years.
 
ChroniC said:
or should I be doing 10k runs in as long as it takes or is swimming or cycling better?
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The longer the better. That's why I would say cycling is the best. Yesterday I cycled for about 6 hours, today for about 4. Whilst running puts my HR about 30 higher, there is no way I could do it for more than maybe an hour.

But... running is much easier to do, whereas cycling has a bit of a barrier to entry.
 
bastic said:
10 days until my trip...might starve myself to speed up the process LOL
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Personally, I up the calories about 4 or 5 days out. I think about my body a bit like a fuel tank of a car. When I'm trying to lose weight, the tank is mainly empty, even when I eat, I'm only putting 5ltrs in at a time, which is how you start burning body fat. When I go on a cycling trip I want to start with a nice full tank!

So, maybe starve yourself for 4 or 5 days, but then make sure you get that tank full!

Martynt74 said:
Also decided that if June is as crap a month for me as other months (aiming sub 100kg by the end of June). In July i'm setting a target and if i don't stick to it (barring any freak out of control events), i'm going to make a bet with myself and give the top 5 posters of this thread £20 as an incentive because i'm a cheapskate so i'll hit myself where it hurts :D
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It's funny. I don't look at thread stats very often and I know I started this thread and all, but it often feels like I read more than I post, so I was a little surprised to see myself sitting in the #1 position :cry: You're only just behind, but then there's quite a gap. (Do you qualify for one of the £20's? :cry: )

As I set off to the Alps tomorrow, I thought for fun I would check what weight I have been when going on cycling trips. I was a little surprised to see that my first Mallorca trip in 2022 is tied with this morning at 15st as my lightest European trip. Most have been around 15st 7 and the New Forrest a few weeks back was the lightest of all at 14st 10, but as I've just said above, I up my cals and volume the week running in to a big trip, so I've put a bit on in the last few days.
 
Martynt74 said:
So when training for things and trying to eat properly for best performance and recovery you end up being close to equal.
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It's certainly a tough balance, but once it becomes routine I don't think I eat that much more. If I ride 50 miles and burn maybe 2,500 cals, often I only eat about 400 cals more than I would on a day I don't ride. Sometimes I do get super hungry and I might have one or two extra protein bars throughout the day, but it's still going to be a 1,200 to 1,600 deficit.

If I just go out for a 20 mile blast, my diet wouldn't change at all, so just burn 800 to 1,000 and not eat anything extra.
 
Well, I was assuming that was a daily target, rather than the total burnt in the two activities. If his BMR said he burns 2,300 a day for example, then I guess 1,200 isn't too crazy over 10k steps and a workout, if they workout includes some cardio too.
 
Martynt74 said:
Interestingly my wife sent me some tiktok around how alcohol stops the bodies ability to burn fat and so possibly my whole "one or two beers" on a regular basis probably isn't very effective. Unsure how much truth there actually is in it.
TikTok - Make Your Day
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I feel like I might have mentioned this before in this thread (but possibly a couple of years ago now) Maybe it was a podcast I heard it on, I think they said it stops your liver helping deal with fat for 24 hours... or something like that?
Raymond Lin said:
Gimme a kiss !
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Martynt74 said:
Erm, i was thinking of just sharing a bottle of water or something....
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Be grateful. It could have been worse... depending exactly what you want to catch...
 
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It's funny how setting MyFP target a little lower means that when you think you've not been good, you're still maintaining and then when you think you're doing normal, you're actually dropping some weight. In other words, I frown a little as I've eaten X amount of cals... but as I think back, X was what I would eat to just maintain in the past. I suppose I don't look at X itself very much, but I look a lot at the over or under of cals against target.

So, I wouldn't have said I've been all that good recently, but things seem to have stabilised around a lower weight than I would have expected. When I can motivate myself to have some good days again, hopefully weight will drop a little more (not that it particularly needs to at this point)
 
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