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great stuff!
The good news is that as training builds the battle tends to become more about getting enough fuel in, and doing it in a healthy way, but a beer every now and then isn't a bad thing, I tended to limit it to the last day of training each week before a rest day, so it felt like a bit of a celebration to have made it through the week!
Really enjoying following what I've taken from "racing weight" it feels like the first time i've restricted calories but don't seem to be suffering too much in training as a lot of the calories are coming from whole grain carbs rather than my usual approach of using a lot of protein and fat and reducing carb intake. Still early days, though.
Interestingly was looking back at my weight log over the last few years, and there has been a strong trend downwards, starting at 85kg in 2011 down to the 72 ish that I am now (and have been for the last 18 months give or take 2kg or so), but never lower than that for any significant period of time, hopefully my current approach is sustainable, to shift me into a 68-70kg range, which I think will be 12-15% body fat which I think is a good, but probably sustainable level for me.
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Annoying, but it's working for me given my slightly more than average beer intake. At least mine is "not pick up as many beers" rather than put them down completely.
I'm a slave to numbers but they're a great motivator. Watching W/kg slowly trend up is lovely, but I treat those numbers as just motivation and not the end goal. My end goal is a target weight (and a BMI just in the "Normal" range, e.g. <25) and I know what is sensible to get me there. Hopefully once I get there I will be able to hold it around there but even that will take some mental fortitude. I can't even imagine going lower than that (or wanting to go lower than that) given my build and attitude to food, beer and not being very competitive.