*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

AndyCr15 said:
...and that's exactly why I do track it daily :cry: I want to know the trend. A one off weight is pretty useless.
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If you weigh once a week on the same day that is enough, you will see the trend go down each week and you should have lost enough in that week that even the natural fluctuations you will still be down. Your obsessing over normal daily weight fluctuations which is why your probably better off not doing it every day.
 
MikeTheNative said:
If you weigh once a week on the same day that is enough, you will see the trend go down each week
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But the trend will take much longer to show. It will take two or three weeks. Lets just say in someone my size the fluctuation could be as big as 2lbs (that's probably a little high... but...) then I could lose 4lbs in two weeks and if I'm unlucky, I don't see any change in my weighing ins, then the next week I'm 6lb lighter?!

MikeTheNative said:
Your obsessing over normal daily weight fluctuations which is why your probably better off not doing it every day.
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No, I'm trying to remove them by regular weigh ins. That's very different to obsessing about them.

It becomes easier to see the trend in fluctuating data the more data points you have. I'm just getting data points.
 
It's personal preference really and like I said in one of my recent posts you need to be able to not obsess over the daily number or else it becomes dangerous.

If I didn't weigh daily I'd not see any loss for weeks at a time sometimes as I do bounce up and down on the scales a fair bit, but with daily weighing I can see my weekly average and the trend very clearly which helps in motivation.
 
MikeTheNative said:
hmm.. let's wait and see how long till your next post about how you don't understand why your heavier today and then for everyone to tell you that's normal fluctuation. :p
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It's a long thread. Look back and see if I ever post that :) Look just a few post up where I say I don't expect to see results instantly. I'm always about the trend as I know one weigh in on it's own is pretty useless, this is my whole point and my reason for regular weigh ins.
 
MikeTheNative said:
hmm.. let's wait and see how long till your next post about how you don't understand why your heavier today and then for everyone to tell you that's normal fluctuation. :p
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Yeah to be fair to Andy it was me posting. Not because i don't understand, just that it's pretty bizarre and goes to show that high volumes of exercise don't necessarily correlate to weight loss as you might expect.

As Andy says, i like to weigh daily at a constant time because otherwise to get a decent graph plot can take weeks, whereas you can see a much better trending with daily readings, you just need to apply a line of best fit as you would in any graph.
 
I also think the graph in post 1102 shows the benefit of daily weigh ins.

The weight was steady all week, then spiked on the 7th day by 1kg, by weighing daily i knew it was a blip and would likely drop again, whereas a weekly weigh in would've shown the 1kg increase which would've been much more confusing given an ~8000kcal defecit for the week (assuming a 2500kcal intake for a 6'3 male weighing close to 100kg)
 
Standard Friday weight drop for me. I certainly see a spike on Monday/Tuesday presumably from water retention following my long weekend runs, but today showed 96.3 which is the first time i've dropped under 97 for a long long time which was good to see.

That makes it around 3.5kg for January which i'm fairly happy with. Hopefully that can continue in February, especially with ramping up running volume another notch recently.
 
First Monday without an increase. Today put me at 95.8. That puts me down 4.25kg for the month or 9.5lbs for you non metric folk. I'm fairly happy with that considering i've also increased my fitness rather than going all out weight loss.

Hopefully it can continue through February and get me as close to 90 in mid March ready to pull me up some hills :D
 
I had a really good January after. Did loads of exercise , fitness is up, strength is creeping up but managed to lose half stone as well. Down to about 84 kg now, not sure if I want to go too much lower. Might try go down to 13st which is about 82 kg and see how I feel.
 
I had a January of two halves, the start was still lots of events and celebrating, then I hit it hard in the second half. From heaviest, I'm down (1/1 227lbs) 9lbs like @Martynt74. The only 'event' in the next few weeks is the Superbowl, so might over eat a little then, but I'm well ahead of schedule really. Last time, when I did my initial 7 stone weight loss, I stopped at around 14st 10. In some ways I'm finding it easier to eat less this time (mainly cause of WFH) so maybe I'll go all the way down to that again? My cycling trip is end of March and I think with a good Feb I can lose 10 lbs fairly easily... although I guess the rate will start to slow. I also worry a little I've not been to the gym in 2 or 3 weeks, so that could be part of the weight loss, but tbh for cycling up hills, I can stand to lose a little upper body muscle.
 
You guys have inspired me so it's time for me to join this, a good start being the 1st of the month too. I don't really have a goal weight in mind but I know I need to lose some off the stomach as it's where I seem to store all my fat. I want to improve my running as well so cutting the booze down should help with both which I'm going to attempt to do this week as a starting point. Current weight today 13st9 (86.6kg). That's just over a stone heavier from October last year. I rarely weigh myself but I knew it had crept up.

Well done to everyone here so far!
 
Running wise I've hit 20 miles for the past 3 weeks which I'll increase to 25 soon. I probably should follow a more structured plan but I just kind of go with how I'm feeling for now. I'm hoping if I see/feel runs getting easier it'll motivate me more. Eating wise I have no plan, I will look at calculating some macros and take it from there. I don't plan to eat back exercise calories as I'll just adjust it according to the activity level on the macro calculator.
 
Bunko said:
Running wise I've hit 20 miles for the past 3 weeks which I'll increase to 25 soon. I probably should follow a more structured plan but I just kind of go with how I'm feeling for now. I'm hoping if I see/feel runs getting easier it'll motivate me more. Eating wise I have no plan, I will look at calculating some macros and take it from there. I don't plan to eat back exercise calories as I'll just adjust it according to the activity level on the macro calculator.
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Great work on the running, that's a great weekly total for a fairly new runner :)

EDIT - We're having a Grill Up for tea, and it's usually not too unhealthy, just sausage, bacon (done in oven) and then fried egg with some beans.
However the wife has just messaged me suggesting we should get some thick sliced Warburtons and now it's in my head there's no chance i'm not going to eat about half a loaf :D


@AndyCr15 Not sure if you check out HUKD, but Amazon often have some Snickers protein bars. 18 for ~£4.50 which is silly cheap and at 192kcal seem to be a pretty decent snack.
 
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Thank you, I definitely don't want to overdo it so trying to keep the mileage pretty level and up it slightly every month perhaps. This is where I should maybe get some goals set out. I just love being outside on a run (didn't think I'd say that at the beginning) and so far 20 miles seems to be enough to keep me from getting bored but long enough that I have to work to reach the total.

Enjoy haha, I'm thinking I'll just not buy anything at the moment that I'd normally over indulge on until I can get a bit of a habit forming. I'm not a fan of restricting myself but I need to gain some self control back first :D
 
I've also just had a delivery of other cheap stuff from Amazon. I'm not sure if it's their own brand but theres a nutrition brand called Bulk, they seemed to have some cheap Electrloye powder which i jumped on, then i saw that Cacao nibs and Sunflower seeds were cheap so got some as a healthy snack.

My god Cacao nibs are freaking disgusting! Not bad initially but then end up tasting like dirt!
 
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