Thanks, it's never easy is it! My motivation is just 'if you did this 6 months ago you'd have achieved x by now'. Seems to work for me nowadays haha, must be me getting older and realising I'm not getting that time back!
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Thanks, it's never easy is it! My motivation is just 'if you did this 6 months ago you'd have achieved x by now'. Seems to work for me nowadays haha, must be me getting older and realising I'm not getting that time back!
Whoop, i know it's never all that scientific, but since yesterday was 100.2, i'd been hoping that today might've just nudged under 100. Weirdly today i was 97.5!
Pretty glad to have finally broken that barrier, even if it does increase back up again soon.
Pretty glad to have finally broken that barrier, even if it does increase back up again soon.
My fitbit tells me I walk about 8-10 miles / 20000 steps a day at work so I'm sure that's helping in my case.
I'm a desk monkey so it's a much bigger change from my usual baseline for me, it was definitely easier to keep my weight in check when my job involved me being on my feet for 12+hours
I'm getting close to knocking work on the head so will have to be careful and make the effort to get out walking or start using the treadmill again.I'm a desk monkey so it's a much bigger change from my usual baseline for me, it was definitely easier to keep my weight in check when my job involved me being on my feet for 12+hours
I'm a desk monkey so it's a much bigger change from my usual baseline for me, it was definitely easier to keep my weight in check when my job involved me being on my feet for 12+hours
Yeah. I noticed a huge change from when I worked in Manchester and walked to the train station/around town at dinner vs driving to an office. Even worse now working from home!
I find on none exercise days I’m as low as 2k steps.
After 2 weeks all inclusive in Tenerife I'm back on the fat loss train. I do OMAD (one normal meal a day) after 5 days I've lost 10lb (3lb less than I weighed before holiday) so I'm pretty happy with it so far. I have about 5 stone to lose to get to my bmi though so there is plenty of weight still to go.
I started out with a BMI of 25.1 when I was 12.23 stone. I lost 1.67 stone in 10 weeks and have a BMI of around 21.7 and weigh around 10.62 stone.
I may weigh ok on the scales but I’m certainly not fit.
As I've said previously scale weight is not a good indication of health or fitness when used in isolation.
Oh well, I guess it’s better to be normal weight and unfit than overweight and unfit.
It's about 2 years since I started the weight loss. I'm happy with how it's gone. This year I've just maintained - both the same weight and a bit of my beer belly. 
So I decided to see if I can do something about the latter in the run up to Christmas. I've probably gone completely bonkers but ended up buying about £200 worth of Huel. That's all I'm going to live on for six weeks starting November 1st. I have powder shakes for breakfast and dinner, the bars for a snack after I come off my morning run and a selection of savoury meals for tea. Should work out to exactly 1600-1800 kcals each day.
I'm treating it as a kind of experiment more than anything. I shall imagine that I'm on board the International Space Station or that The Walking Dead has come true to life and this is the only food I have available. Can I last 35 days without going round the twist?
So I decided to see if I can do something about the latter in the run up to Christmas. I've probably gone completely bonkers but ended up buying about £200 worth of Huel. That's all I'm going to live on for six weeks starting November 1st. I have powder shakes for breakfast and dinner, the bars for a snack after I come off my morning run and a selection of savoury meals for tea. Should work out to exactly 1600-1800 kcals each day.
I'm treating it as a kind of experiment more than anything. I shall imagine that I'm on board the International Space Station or that The Walking Dead has come true to life and this is the only food I have available. Can I last 35 days without going round the twist?
Well that won’t help.
Was meant to be heading to see some friends. We’d bought 2 of those pick n mix cups from the supermarket for their kids.
He then rang to cancel as he’d tested positive for Covid and needs to isolate.
I’ve just eaten almost a full cup and now feel sick
Was meant to be heading to see some friends. We’d bought 2 of those pick n mix cups from the supermarket for their kids.
He then rang to cancel as he’d tested positive for Covid and needs to isolate.
I’ve just eaten almost a full cup and now feel sick
Feel like i've properly settled under 100kg now. Was 99.7kg on Wednesday. Yesterday i had a work lunch out and chose "Cheese and Onion Pie and Chips" (it was a fancy chippy so no healthier option!), i got 2 cheese and onion pasties and a pile of chips, then they brought out a big slice of cheesecake.
This was at around 2pm, then i got home around 6pm and my wife was suggesting she wasn't bothered about tea either since i'd eaten out, although i could tell she was hungry so at half 7 i ordered us each a kebab and so ordered a chicken kebab on naan and we shared some chips. Today i was expecting a decent increase yet still came in at 99.7.
I think starting to do more regular exercise is definitely helping, i just still need to get that focus on food.
This was at around 2pm, then i got home around 6pm and my wife was suggesting she wasn't bothered about tea either since i'd eaten out, although i could tell she was hungry so at half 7 i ordered us each a kebab and so ordered a chicken kebab on naan and we shared some chips. Today i was expecting a decent increase yet still came in at 99.7.
I think starting to do more regular exercise is definitely helping, i just still need to get that focus on food.
For me, install MyFitnessPal and keep track of every calorie you consume. Set yourself a target (the app can help with this) and stick to it as best you can.
What shape are you in now? What can you do exercise wise? Walk, run, cycle?
What shape are you in now? What can you do exercise wise? Walk, run, cycle?
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Around 9 years ago I was 94 kilos and technically obese. Then I watched a program on the BBC called Eat, Fast and Live Longer, presented by Michael Mosley (still available on iPLayer). Basically he ate around 600 calories for two non concecutive days and week and then ate noramlly for the other five. After 5 or 6 weeks he lost a stone and lowered his cholesterol as well as significantly lowering blood sugar and IGF levels.
So I decided to give it a go.
First off I switched from drinking tea with milk and sugar to drinking tea without milk and then without both. This was simply because |I didn't want to waste fast day calories on drinks and after a while I switched to black coffee instead.
Once I was happy to not be drinking calories I did some research into what kinds of foods or meals I could eat for 600 calories. For me this means I don't eat breakfast, I have two boiled eggs for lunch (approximately 150 calories) and my evening meal will be something like a single serving of pasta with a half a jar of Loyd Grossman tomato & Chargrilled Vegetables sauce. Or I share an Aldi Meal kit with wife and have a single portion of rice. Or a piece of fish with some boiled potatoes and salad.
For the rest of the working week I'll take a 500g pot of Greek Yogurt mixed with 30g of oats, 100g raspberries, a few walnut halves, a tbsp of maple syrup and eat half for breakfast and half for lunch. Plus a boiled egg at breakfast and lunch.
Evening meals will be a variety of home cooked foods but generally they'll be in the 800-1000 calories range.
Weekends I relax and we generally eat have a curry or a steak on Friday, as well as a few beers (3-4) and share a tub of Pringles or something. Saturday's I generally have a late breakfast or early lunch that might be beans on toast or egg on toast or even a bacon and egg sandwich, plus a takeaway in the evening followed by beer and Pringles again. Sunday will be no breakfast but a full traditional Sunday roast and maybe a small pizza in the evening, as well as anything from 4-7 beers over the day and maybe a third tub of Pringles shared.
TLDR;
I went from 94kgs to 80 kgs in 6 weeks on the 5/2 fasting diet, with no exercise.
To get from 80kgs I did restrict my calorie intake further on my normal eating days to around 1600 a day, even on weekends and started to exercise (jogging) as well. This was for around six to eight weeks before I got married in August 2013 with a target of 70kgs. After that I went back to eating normally on my non fast days and did start weight training at the gym instead of jogging. Since then I've maintained my weight of between 72 and 74kgs. The fast days are generally easy to do now without it even bothering me.
The biggest thing I have found with loosing weight and maintaining it is excerise isn't really required, it helps with the change in lifestyle that 5/2 fasting is, but it doesn't do much to loose any additional weight.
To put that into context: For me a 3km walk to the gym from my house at a pace 7.5 km/hr takes around 24 minutes, during which my heart rate averages 135 b/m.
According to my fitness tracker this burns just 240 calories
Or 3 chocolate digestive biscuits.
So for me I'd rather not eat 3 chocolate biscuits than have to spend 24 minutes walking at my maximum walking pace to burn them off.
Or in another context.
For 4 weeks straight after my summer holiday I went to the gym every day and weight trained for 35-45 minutes, walked to and from the gym every day, as well as a morning walk of around 3km at 7.5km/hr.
My eating stayed the same and so did my weight. I didn't loose any weight, nor did I loose or gain any inches.
For the last 4 weeks I've gone back to going to the gym 4 days a week for 40-50 minutes.
My eating stayed the same and so did my weight.
TLDR;
Diet wins over excercise for weight loss by a country mile.
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