Weight / Fat loss

71kg today, pretty stoked on that after starting at 82.2 last march.

That’s really nice progress!
I’m about 70kg now, after a high of 76.6kg 2 weeks into lockdown.

smahsing it, i was 76.2 when lockdown begun up from a 73 low last july. im steadily losing .5kg a week without even trying due to lockdown stopping me having binge days, wuite satisfying

Slipped out of the good habits, too much booze (half term and a birthday).

The graph shows March to now. High point was 98kg, the lowest point 91.65kg (hungover and dehydrated) but it's plateaued in the last few weeks and I'm 2kg above my target (the red dots represent 0.5kg/week loss).

I'll be extending my running with intervals in the next few weeks, and I might add in a 4th run each week but mostly I just need to not drink excessively.

(Regularly) under 90kg will be a nice mental boost when I get there.

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Was 89kg at the end of May despite doing loads of exercise and losing about 2 inches off my waist.
I took a realistic look at my snacking and overeating at dinner time. Got some new scales and been tracking properly and I've managed to get down to 86kg so far.
0.5kg a week is the aim, if I got down to 82kg by the end of summer that would be a massive win.

Recorded a low yesterday,83.6kg, however I was dehydrated. Firmly in the 85.5 down to 83.9kg range now. Back at the office so less time for making my meals which has me eating a bit lazier. I have lost my lunchtime run but the commute is adding back just over an hour of cycling a day.

Before lock down my weight loss was much easier to see, I was doing around 8 hours hard exercise a week, plus commute. This meant that with minimal effort in reducing snacking the weight was falling off, lockdown slowed that down. however Im pretty happy with how it has gone once I got used to it. Im looking forward to competitive sport again, as I want that endorphin hit you don't get with solo plodding. It also concentrates the mind into pushing much much harder and using all that extra intensity. It'll help my put some muscle back too.

Lockdown and the total removal of long rides until recently has my weight stabilised just over 90kg (aka 70kg Zwift weight). So basically nothing has changed. Captain Stable.

First check-in on here in a long time.
Lockdown hasn't really be great for my fitness and waistline. Been working flat out and I'm missing my daily visits to the gym. I fell off the MyFitnessPal wagon and since then haven't really watched what I eat. I'm conscious of my snacking not helping (mostly sweet stuff rather than crisps etc.). I was quasi-religiously trying to stick to 1500 cals. It was working in that I wasn't putting on weight.
But these days my weight without ballooning dramatically has gone up by about 2-3kg. I was fitting into Small clothes just 2 years ago. Now I'm pretty much a Medium again in most stuff especially tops (the midrift tyre effect). And that I'm not too happy about. :(
My long-term plan is to drop down towards 72, as I know that the 70kg milestone is pretty much unreachable. Not been cycling enough for too long now. #lardybum

Other than the blessing of having plenty of work, the lack of gym/activities is hard especially when you fall out of routine.
Perhaps for fitness and training, so for something fairly short with low barriers to entry regularly to get back into something regular? I did this with 100 burpees a day and 30 chin-ups, which took no more than 15 minutes daily.

Take the weight milestone out, better to be a lean and strong 72kg than a skinny 70kg?

After what seemed like a 10 day plateau (with a large BBQ in the middle). Down to 69.3kg. Sub 69kg by end of month is in sight.

Been doing doing FTP workouts daily on the bike (avg 1h per day) and now transitioning onto strength gains and short power for next month, going to be doing more plyometrics.
67-68kg is the weight target, especially if lockdown lifts more and I get to go to France for 1m.

I've recently got into a routine and weight is down to 78kg - I was doing well in lockdown as although not gyming I was doing 80-100km runs per week. Halfway through May I suffered and achilles then back injury which saw me quickly stack up to 83kg. My problem has always been weekends, eating and drinking which is controlled by exercise volume and weekday food control. When injured this went out of the window. Back running and exercising in the garden and resisting the weekend Ginger Pig sausage rolls...

I found I put on weight this year (precovid) but aesthetically looked better bc it was muscle and I was losing unsightly muffintop but arms, shoulders increased in size. I miss the gym :(

All of my carefully worked for gainz have gone and Im now weird cyclist shape again.

Need to start doing stuff in the evenings.

We could do lfgss zoom circuits?

Weight has been flying off, 3kg since LD- now 65kg- which is OK, but i still have a belly.

80-100km per week is massive calorie burn that you're not able to offset. About 7k calories a week? About 1kg per week gain on same food intake?

Thanks for the suggestions.
I used to be able to burpees and other hiit/crossfit moves however my concussion is coming back and it's getting to the point that only very light to light exercise is bearable (no head pain).
I did restart cycling last week, and today did 60km this morning (booked day off).
I can feel the weight dropping off but it is such a slow process.
I'd like to avoid keto again.

Perhaps intermittent fasting?
Forgetting all the metabolic advantages, I've found it really good for food intake control, if not portion control.

Lunch, snack (if needed), dinner between 1-9pm is what I've been doing for the past 2 months. You get used to not having breakfast and are suitably hungry for lunch.
Mentally I've found it easier to tell myself not to eat snacks, because its not the right time, rather than just not eat snacks because I'm not supposed to.

Down to 84kg today. Looking back that's 2kg in 3 weeks - but this week the weight has been falling off without any change to my exercise or diet regime.
My aim of 82kg doesn't seem too far away now.

If you have a Switch, Ring Fit Adventure is very silly and quite a lot of fun. Only very childish people would giggle at the unintentional goatse.cx imagery.

I've managed a little milestone this morning, the first time in over 4 years of tracking my weight that the number has started with a 6 rather than a 7. I've had many previous failed attempts (as can be found in thread) so am absolutely over the moon. I think the progress can basically be entirely attributed to running.
Would like to see that kind of number for my 7 day average now.

Any recommendation for a digital scale that can show fat percentage? It would be nice if it has connection with the phone

As an over 50 l don't stay lean like I used to. I did a lot of research about cortisol levels and a lack of freely available testosterone. I'm taking a mix of three natural supplements and so far without changing anything diet wise, I've lost 6lbs in a month. I wouldn't advocate this for everyone but pm me if anyone's curious, for me it works. Picooc are excellent fat scales and comes with a downloadable app. I think it's Bluetooth from memory.

Tanita.

They're kinda the go to brand. But then there's loads of other brands that link to phones and shit.

Don't buy Garmin. Don't even manage to track a trend let alone accurately.

We've been climbing and hiking for the last two weeks. Averaging 12km horizontally and 1km vertically every day. This has been coupled with healthy eating so weight loss was to be expected. My Garmin scales reckon that I have lost about 2.5kg in that time. Not unreasonable considering the amount of water weight I would have lost also due to the diet change.

However, where the Garmin scales are completely wrong, is the fact it reckons I have reduced my body fat percentage by 7% in 14 days :D

Totally useless.

My body fat % will vary 4%-7% during the day. I just put it down to hydration/dehydration.

To even it out you're supposed to drink some amount and then weigh an hour later or something. I haven't got time fort that so I just note the numbers and move on with sinking piss and eating kebabs.