Weight / Fat loss

Aiming to go from 210lbs to 190lbs this year, just posting it here to make it real and increase the pressure marginally

Terrible timing though as Mrs G has got some part time work and there's a question mark about sending kids to schools and nurseries, so not exactly flush with running/riding/working out time, so it'll have to start with diet. The bar is set low as I eat like shit!

Ha ha. My Garmin scales reckon I've increased my body fat percentage by 6% in the last week.

Go home Garmin, you're drunk!

Anyone tried https://www.noom.com/ ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDNA_qLsxk

After 4 mins and 34 air quotes I gave up

I don't think she is Noom

Once again. 95.95kg now. 90kg by start of April please (and then I'll up the cycling [and hopefully be able to swim again] and progress should be faster.) For now it's portion control and 3 runs a week.

Doing a mostly dry Lent should help.

Seem to have stabilised post-Christmas nom-fest

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During January I have really let myself go.
Partly this was due to rota, partly as I’ve been on antibiotics basically all of the last month, but predominantly laziness and lack of self control.

Back onto the serious diet now, with proper scheduled exercise, not just “I’ll sit on the turbo for an hour to make myself feel ok”.
Currently 69kg and look like at least 20% BF.
Callipers inbound.
Carb and calorie restriction as per @Dammit but with lower BMR.
Will try and update weekly.

Any forum recommendations for calipers?

Currently supplementing with creatine and doing a fair bit of strength training so the scales are going up at the moment. Would be good to reassure myself that the weight gain is of a desirable nature.

I worked as a personal trainer part time for a couple of years nearly 20 years ago and managed to get pretty consistent with calipers. Would be interesting to see if I still have the knack.

I have really let myself go.
Currently 69kg

#doesnotcompute

aintnobodygottimeforthat

I'd get bioimpedence scales. At least they should be consistently wrong with than relying on your measuring mistakes

"Consistently wrong" is correct. Mostly correct: makes a difference if you get on the scales before or after having a shower.

You can eliminate a lot of variability with consistent weighing times and activities, ie. 30min after glass of water and after morning shower or whatever. I would still rather use them than DIY calipering

Race weight is 64kg....
Plus I get fat in one place and one place only and it looks terrible.

I'd get bioimpedence scales. At least they should be consistently wrong with than relying on your measuring mistakes

Yeah, what I remember from calipers is that consistency is the goal.

I've had a really shit time with my Garmin scales...they are good for weight but make up the rest. Not consistently either. If they were consistently wrong I'd be happy with them.

Mate of mine uses it, I heard "1200" calories and thought "ah".

For people that eat out if habit / emotional distress it may be great though as I think it goes into emotional and habit eating too.

Sitting at an unfit 64 kg ATM. Hopefully a fit 64 end of year but not getting too lardy and not counting calories.

Not boozing much or eating crisps / sweets though.

I've never really given a shit about the body fat ratio thing, not even when I was doing serious strength training. Have I been able to squat/deadlift/bench X kg? How do I look? How do I feel? How do I find trousers that won't split when I bend over but still fit me? Should I have cancelled today's gym session given that I got shitfaced at Harry's stag do last night and now, halfway though the squat reps, it feels as if my brain is going to leak out through my ears? Those were the important questions. Even if there were a reliable way to measure it (there isn't), I wouldn't care much about it.

Think the above weight may have been a bit of water retention. Past few days have been around 68kg, which is still 'too' heavy, but better than 69.
So I'll call that the starting weight and see how we go.
Still waiting on the calipers.

I've never really given a shit about the body fat ratio thing,

Each to their own. I've been working hard to lose the 20kg I put on when I stopped riding bikes and have found that the occasional numbers based sanity checks have been really motivating to me. It has been a long slog.

Measure your waist. Much more reliable, pretty good indicator of how fat you are or not. Also one bit of you that doesn't become disproportionately outsized through strength gains.

I've lost 20kg and only lost an inch on my waist. Visceral fat is usually first to go and a waist measurement isn't great for that.

After a terrible last year fitness wise, with my lowest mileage in about 8 years, it turns out riding loads of Audax is 100% linked to my ability to eat and drink without concern.

I started January the heaviest I've been in about 3 years, I tried doing WW with my Wife in November but didn't get on with it at all, so I'm back to what knocked about 15kg off last time I did it, Keto.

This time I have the added complication of being vegetarian so I can't revert to what I did last time. In the first two weeks I've lost 3kg, which is similar to my experience last year round, I hate the turbo, and cant get on with running so I'm planning to get out and ride a couple of hours everyday for exercise, plus a bit further at the weekends.

Hah. I lost 13kg and 3.5” off my trouser band measurement (I’m aware this isn’t my waist, but it’s what I measure as it’s relevant to buying trousers).

Do you have a games console? There are some very good fitness games out there, particularly for the Wii, Wii U or Switch. Quite a range of diverting ways to lose some weight and one of the best options available in lockdown. The Switch and the Wii U have the advantage that you don't need to monopolise the TV.