Weight / Fat loss

At the start of lockdown I gave up my rather severe Pepsi Max habit the caffeine withdrawal symptoms had me thinking I had Covid-19. Obviously very irritable, no energy, thick head and wooly thinking. Felt f-ing awful.

too much coffee

Twice in one day?

https://youtu.be/x5A9Aa-WU5E?t=131

I started this plan (3 workouts with a PT/week, ~2,500 calories of mainly protein/fat/veg per day) around the 20th of September, I've had two tests now with the skin callipers of coldness, the last one was a couple of weeks ago - I think I'm due another next week.

I was 77.9kg this morning, so down just over 6kg since I started.

In terms of strength, definitely much better - my legs in particular are making rapid gains.

I can't say the diet is that much fun, and we're aiming to get down to 75kg before increasing the daily calorie allowance - so looking forward to the turning point.

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I just lost 45g of cashews per day, eheu.

Everytbody knows the best way to quantify body weight is skin fold, but not like that.

I just count the folds on the back of my neck.

My preferred method

What type of workouts are you doing?
Weight loss looks good.

Three sessions per week at the gym, each with a PT - which is extremely useful for pushing me forward, and extremely enlightening with regards to form (I've been doing a lot of stuff wrong for years).

Yeah - amazing how much ‘easier’ things can be when form is incorrect.

Nice progress @Dammit

I can’t back from wedding/honeymoon a stone heavier. Have spent 2 of the last 3 weeks self isolating but have managed to get back to pre-wedding weight though I think I’ve likely lost some muscle mass. Really looking forward to getting back training.

Turns out I was not doing the lateral pulldown in a way that used my lats - which was not helpful.

At my strongest (a few years ago) I was doing (IIRC) 80kg on the lat pulldown, today we were doing 90 for repeated sets of 13, plus 4*7 at 90 on the deadlift (I am aware that these figures are small, but for me they are the highest I've ever done).

76.1 this morning, been hovering around this point for some time, I would really like some cake but that’s not going to happen at the moment.

Losing around 1kg per week it appears.

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Very impressive.

It sounds miserable though.

How sustainable do you think it will be?

For context - I'm jealous, 10kg up on June last year, and about to top 90kg for the first time in 15 years.

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George

I’m actually fine with the diet- it’s basically protein heavy meals four times a day and then three 250 calorie snacks.

The meals go 500 breakfast (salmon, eggs, avocado), 500 lunch (four egg omelette, green leaves), 250 dinner 1 (150g meet, fibrous veg), 250 dinner 2 (same), and then for snacks it’s something like 45g of cashews, or 230g of sweet potato.

I’m not finding it hard at all, really- especially as I can have cake if I go cycling.

So I’m taking on ~2,200 calories per day which is approx 1,000 under my metabolic break even, and should hit 74kg by next week(ish), at which point I’ll start adding calories in- 500g of carbs on training days.

How sustainable do you think it will be?

With little carbs, not very, if endurance performance is ever a goal.

Everyone loses weight going low carb which is fine if you're on the couch or just a gym bunny looking to see your abs. Graph power numbers for the same 6 months :)

I can see my abs fine, thanks.

I just use seismofgraph LIDAR.

[Edit] A seismograph just measures my jelly wobbles.

:D

Lardar

Adding in 500 calories of pure carbs per training day from Monday- goal of this period of the diet was to banish the flubber.

Once the fat is gone I’ll be back to 3,200 calories per day of mixed protein, fat and carbs- taking the recipes from the Cycling Chef book, which is very good.

I’m going to race Enduro next year, the times stages are downhill.

Shouldn't you be adding weight then? :)

Strategic ballast, rather than flubber. Or something.

To be honest I just hated the idea of having to buy new jeans because I was over-flowing the waistband of my existing ones, and wanted to get back to being in better shape.

Muffin-tops, just say no.

Do you find the carb suppression results in more fat loss?

Or does a diet with same amount of protein / veg but more relaxed on fat/carb macros work the same for you?

Last time I dieted was higher protein but relaxed about macros with more carbs as lower carbs is very hard going for me.