Weight / Fat loss

But I love me some nuts, life without peanut butter is just not worth living for

Doesn't matter how much you shake and dance, the last drop always runs down your pants.

It's your freaky zombie skin, not mine. Just up in ur forumz passing on da infoz.

life without peanut butter is just not worth living for

You live for life? :)

With my breakfast oats, honey or raisins. Can't seem to decide what's better.

Date Weight
04-Jan 122.8
11-Jan 118.2
18-Jan 116.4
25-Jan 114.6
01-Feb 113.7
08-Feb 111.3

I'd stalled and now I've gone backwards. Willpower? Fucking diets >>>

Well I had a slightly lazy, and slightly greedy recovery weekend.

Put on 1.5kg in 3 days.

WTF?

Basically I was heavier this morning than at my peak post crimbo.

At least I've not gone up to xmas weight. That would be properly backwards.

Since myfatnesspal was bought they've fucked it up so you have to be premium to do stuff like specify macronutrient requirements. Any other solutions out there that do similar thing (I could go back to TrainingPeaks I guess but can't remember how good/bad it was).

Thought I was doing really well. Missus mentioned scales seemed iffy. Bought new scales ... put on 5kg in a day , faaaaaaaak. Start again ...

P.S. Set of flattering scales for sale. Offers?

Your a backwards.

When I say slightly greedy.
I had a big curry for dinner Saturday, Followed by pizza and garlic bread for second dinner, and a familysize bag of christmas marzipan for supper.

Off to Mallorca on Saturday. Good job I'm packing bibs and not my bikini.

lost just under 1kg since cutting out nutella on my porridge, and am on a recovery week this week so can afford to run a bit more of a calorie deficit. currently around the low 73s but would like to be below 72 for the Wokingham half marathon in a couple of weeks, so switched down to blueberries with porridge instead of bananas, having houmous and flatbread for lunches and turkey breast and veg for dinner, plenty of water, and not even any non alcoholic beers...

The last few nutrition papers I read (Your sleeveless you must read nutrition papers. Dem the rules) have mentioned Blueberrys. One was regarding stocking up on anti oxidants pre training, as a way of reducing the Level of damage caused. The other was regarding certian flavonoides that helped prevent weight gain. Maybe its a Nordic thing. But I've been trying to eat a decent amount every day.

The unfermented beer stuff I binge on is pretty calorific. Loads of B-vits. So OK if coming off a big work out. But I cut it out during periods of less Activity.

Also. I was 79.2kg yesterday. Which is the heaviest I've been in fecking ages.

77,8kg this morning.

I can only imagine that the junk Food I smashed over the weekend contained loads of salt and sugar which retained epic amounts of water.

....or male menopause.

not even any non alcoholic beers...

That gives me an idea for a new metric:-

CTL/WAU[1] ~ 1.2

This is one of the many reasons why the weight is not flying off. I need to get it back up to at least 3.

1. Weekly Alcohol Units (rolling 7 day total)
   

anti oxidants

Have a look at the research which shows antioxidants as hampering performance by reducing the body's response to a training load. Basically making recovery easier means body doesn't adapt quite as much to deal with the training load or something like that.

I don't read enough about nutrition, I spend far too much time on here or working to do that...

the blueberries are because they have vitamins and stuff, and we have bags of them in the freezer for smoothies, so it requires no extra shopping, I just bring a mini cliplock pot of them in with another of porridge, bang the porridge in the microwave with some milk and water, once done stir in the blueberries for fun purple porridge...

Theres always someone ready to piss on Your cornflakes.......

Does this mean the way I used to drink a ton a beer, eat a few kebabs, sleep for 3 hours, then play rugby. Was actually giving my body optimal adaptation?

Your a urea.

the way I used to drink a ton a beer, eat a few kebabs, sleep for 3 hours, then play rugby

Without the rugby you just described my life. I did alright.

Waist size is going down but weight is staying the same. I'm not particularly upset about this, but it does suggest that shifting the remaining flubber is going to be tough.

This isn't the study I had in mind but it's another interesting twist on the antiox thing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5lcN0WJR5GL98tT6S0B19p4/are-antioxidant-rich-products-good-for-me

"The antioxidants from the smoothie seemed to be taken into the volunteers’ blood quickly. However, the body has a mechanism to deal with such a sudden rise, and extra antioxidants in the blood are removed quickly from the blood. This is an example of a process called homeostasis, where the body works to return its antioxidant levels to the ideal. The same happened to the sugar from the smoothie – it caused a spike, and then a sudden dip afterwards to below baseline.

So even if the antioxidants we take in our diet do neutralise free radicals, drinking extra can’t be neutralising more, as, for the majority of the time afterwards, there is less antioxidant power in the blood."

"The old ‘free radical theory of aging’ is now thought to be wrong. Instead, it is thought that free radicals are vital signals within our cells to stimulate the body’s own repair and regeneration mechanisms. For example, in one experiment, high doses of antioxidants (in the form of vitamin C) were given to people doing exercise training. Those who were taking the antioxidants failed to get fitter as a result of the training, thought to be because the antioxidants neutralised the free radicals that were signalling that the body respond to the exercise."