Weight / Fat loss

Hey Fatties, don't look at this!
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-guide-to-the-sandwich.html

74.1Kg. BMI is now 'normal' first time in my adult life.

The last time my BMI was "normal" was around the time of London-Edinburgh-London in 2009. 15kg went on. Still got another 8kg to go to get back to "normal".

Eating loads whilst long distance cycling (especially multiple consecutive days) is great, the hard part is stopping eating as much when you stop riding.

Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich was my weapon-of-choice when I lived in the US. Nom.

gimme a shout when you get back...

I'm a yoyo..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_3qSG4yEL8

seem to have got back on the band wagon again, booze and cake have been removed from my repertoire (they seem to go hand in hand for me, in that if I booze in the evening, my ability to say no to cake with a hangover is severely diminished) and feeling pretty good, the amount of exercise I do means that as soon as I get the junk calories out of the equation the weight falls off...

heading back to race weight which I should achieve in 2 weeks, and will hopefully remove all traces of my winter love handles - which is a relied as its not a good look in a tri suit.

4kg of weight down should improve my power to weight ratio as well!

The linking of training peaks and my fitness pal is an interesting one, the summary it shows is a bit disconcerting!

Out of interest Ed, what's your height and target race weight?

Anyone hear had any issues with loose skin? Used to be around 100kg (2 years ago) and as I became a man and cycled went down to 80kg I didn't think about changing my eating but just reduced comfort eating as I got older. I wasn't trying to loose weight so wasn't counting but believed this happened over around 6 months. I then stayed on this weight for a while. Moving to uni in September 2014 I lost a further 5kg (without trying). Now I am trying to loose the last of my belly fat and was worried about loose skin, there is still fat beneath the skin (currently at around 73kg) but it is very malleable/wrinkly. I know this isn't the body building thread ha and Im sure its all fine just seeing if any others have dealt with it!

BTW just trying to get to a good weight for cycling not looking good but would like to avoid loose skin

@Pifko I'm 172cm when fresh out of bed and I'm perfectly happy under 72kg, I don't subscribe to the less than 10~% body fat or its not worth racing, as if I watch what I eat too much I get bored/fed up and cranky... and its supposed to be fun!

The digital scales of truth have replaced the shonky mechanical scales of manipulation .

183cm tall, 80cm waist and 75kg. I'd like to get to 72kg but there doesn't appear to be much blubber to play with. Any idea how much has to come off waist to lose 3kg to see if it's realistic.

I've had to start using myfitnesspal because moving to Hong Kong has made me fat.

So far it's pretty good motivation partly because I think 'I'd rather be hungry than have to type shit into my phone'.

Week one has seen 3lbs off combined with hammering the treadmill.

I'll see how I get on in Bangkok for three days next week but imagine I'll take a break. It's not the booze so much as the shit I eat when I'm drunk.

I need to be sub-80kg to ride comfortably over here. It's hilly as fuck.

I've got myself back on chicken and broccoli everyday for the last two weeks,

I've dropped down 4kg in just over a week, mostly water weight i think due to lack of carbs, but still i'm fairly happy with that, no treadmill involved either!

Anyone hear had any issues with loose skin?

Been there, done that. Anything in particular you'd like to know?

Pretty sure Im going to get loose skin, how did you deal with it @Sanddancer ?

Full on abdominoplasty. I went from 142kg to 76kg, mind so quite a change though it didn't really look that bad, just a bit wrinkly. It was pretty obvious to the touch/pull though. And you really wouldn't have wanted to see me do a plank!

Mentioned it off-hand to my GP and he arranged a consulation with someone. I was a little shocked that it'd be something suggested by him and left without really discussing it. Then I got an appointment through the post and thought I'd go along, fully expecting to be told to go away and stop wasting NHS time. But to my surprise, I got there, the guy poked and prodded me for 2 minutes and said "yep, we'll do this, this and this. Expect a letter in the post". A couple of weeks later I got a letter with a time/date for surgery.

By this point, I thought what the hell and just went with it. Mental procedure when you think about it, but I'm glad I had it done and bar a faint scar, you'd not know I'd never been anything other than a Wiggo-esque build.

An interesting thing I noted was that all the way though, virtually everyone I dealt with at the hospital appointments, in the hospital and in aftercare - nurses, doctors, consultants all assumed that my weightloss was the result of a gastric band and seemed to have a bit of a snooty attitude toward me. As soon as we talked and I explained it was purely cycling, their attitudes changed instantly and everyone became much nicer.

Ha amazing. Yea always though those surgerys left you with major scars. (Guess that's only people with loads of loose skin). Cheers actually seeing my gp soon so will mention it.

The scars are big (mine at least) - a central vertical one from nipple height to level with hip bones. There it meets a horizontal one that goes from hip bone to hip bone. And there is a circle around my navel (where it was cut out, put in a kidney bowl and left while they removed the front of my torso, zipped it back up like a jacket and then cut out a new little circle in which to replace the navel...bit weird, that).

The scars are only very thin though and they've faded. That and familiarity means that neither I nor my wife don't really notice they're there any more.

Reckon I can get lipo on NHS? I need about 20kg removed. Probably best to start with the unused fatty deposit between my ears.

142kg to 76kg?! That's some loss. Without wanting to sound patronising, well done.

You must shift a bit quicker on the bike now?

Yeah, that's a huge weight loss, well done. Thought I'd made a big effort to lose 22kg!

I was feeling pretty special about dropping 10Kg since Christmas. Put in my place now.

Nah, people say that, but accepting praise makes me feel like a fraud. When you're that fat (I am 6'6" so even at my heaviest never looked really overweight) weight shifts so quickly and easily. And I discovered a massive love for cycling, something I did for its own sake as much as weightloss. Had I had to summon the will to force myself to sit on a rowing machine in a gym or something I'd feel like I'd 'worked' for it. As it is, I had a ball doing something I loved and the health just came along as part of it.

Cut the booze the rest will follow.

That's not true though. Cutting any random food or drink from your diet might result in weight loss IF it means you're now ingesting less calories than you're using. I could drink beer for 12hrs a day for a week and lose weight.