Weight / Fat loss

Having upped my calories 600 a day I now crave moar ffs

#burn

My guess is that it is taking your body out from "OMG starving!!!" mode, if that is the case, it will settle again.

Also, food is nice, no?

Been in the 65s this week... today had an unintended refresh. No way that’s going to be the case tomorrow. Ffs.
2steps forward, 7back.

Mainly alcohol ;)
And bacon, and avocados, and spinach

And... so at the end of 13 weeks, really hard, tough weeks.
65.4kg from 72.6kg.
9.2% body fat from 14.6%.
Photo shoot apparently next week... which will be interesting for my body image issues.
Now to change to a muscle build and ftp build.
Pretty fucking pleased.

Nice one! That's great for 13 weeks.

It was actually 14 weeks. Just checked.
15 as of photo shoot.

89.2

So looks like this weekend will need some extra beers to get me back to where I belong...

Hovering around 97kg. Have lost 50 miles a week on the bike since starting to WFH. Have been trying to run but the weight/form gives me sore knees. Going to try to run every other day and pay more attention to trying not to hammer my heels into the ground. And also try not to eat everything, constantly. I'm keeping the beer although reducing mid week drinking for other reasons.

If I WFH I will sometimes get up a turbo a "commute" in and maybe do something at lunchtime.

He's only gone and done it! Can he drop low enough before the weekend to end up below 90kg on Monday?!

That would be basically what I've been aiming for since months ago, but of course not.
Racing on Sunday which means I won't be doing much in the way of long rides which means I'll be stressed then bored then stressed then bored then stressed then racing then relieved then stressed then hungry...

But if you're racing I presume you'll be having maybe one or two beers less than usual in the run-up? Might be enough

That 3hr drive to Wales needs at least 2 per hour to steady the nerves... then there's the drive back when I can let loose a bit.

In all seriousness, yes, you're right the run up will be a bit more sensible. It's the post-race blowout that the 90+ will come from. But the race is on Sunday so there might be hope for me yet..

Hovering around the 90kg mark and have been there for a long time, which on the BMI puts me just into overweight territory.

Have increased the mileage a lot on the bicycle, pretty much commuting everything single day now and any weekend trips I'm using the bicycle now - unless I need to cycle.

Have been eating a mainly plant-based/ vegan diet for the past 8 weeks and I do feel a lot better for doing so.

The only thing I can think it's down to is my beer consumption.

Ah well back to MFP and cutting out mid week drinks...

Anyone on here have any experience achieving ketosis. I am fasting from 9pm until 1pm then I have 3 meals 1 at about 1pm and the second at 3pm and finally about 6pm.

I have noticed I'm losing fat very gradually. Is there anything I can do to improve the process.

There's a fair bit in the thread about people on keto diets, have a read/search.

Fasting isn't as important as the amount of carbs you are ingesting. It depends per person but you need to not exceed 50g of carbs a day (and possible down to 20g a day) to kick of a change to ketosis. You also need to make sure you are eating enough fat to give your body fuel to replace the missing carbs.

I may be missing something but vegetables are carbs, this would make salad carbs?

Some vegetables are high in carbs but you should be ok with most, googling low carb vegetables should give you a list but basically steer clear of potatoes or use sweet potato instead.

I didn't really fast at all to achieve ketosis, but also found it easy to get back if I fell out of it. As disgusting as it sounds I could pretty much tell how good I was doing by how bad my breath was.

my advise would be to avoid all carbs, even trying your hardest to avoid all carbs you will still probably be around 20g, they're in everything.

An average day for me would have been;

Breakfast;
coffee with coconut oil and butter/full fat milk/cream

lunch;
chicken salad
full fat Greek yoghurt with blueberries

Dinner;
Lamb, steak or fish with huge stack of veg (asparagus, green beans, aubergine etc)

For me the hardest thing was not eating bread.

This: "coffee with coconut oil and butter/full fat milk/cream"
Is not: "Breakfast;"

They are as Dry says but also high in nutrition but low calorific value. Stick to salad, veg grown above ground (brocolli, cabbage etc) and reduce root veg as the carb content in that is higher. This book is one of the best I've read.

You can dip bacon in it too if you want to?

You're right, it's more like surprise diarrhoea.

Never trust a fart if you put coconut oil in your coffee.