Weight loss accountability/support 2022 edition

I only really commented because I lost a bunch of weight a decade or so ago (and kept off for a good while) but during that time realised that I had almost never felt hungry for a long while.

If it helps, I seem to have gained a further 1.5kg in 24 hours, if I keep this up it’ll be a two stone weight gain in a week….

85kg here from 90kg
But mostly get some muscle back as my shoulders starting to hurt as I think it was only muscle that held them together after a few bike crashes ..

Just been for a swim.

First time in over two years. Took me a few lengths to get my rhythm back, but it was OK.

Will sleep well tonight.

Been using nutracheck and noom in parallel for the last four days. Nutracheck is far better imo. Better UI, more barcodes in the database, better data display

Current weight - 114kg

'race' ( lol ) weight - 95kg

Height - 201 cm

Age - dangerously close to 48

Looking to get my eating habits back to a healthy state, starting on Monday, and with the aim of getting to about 100kg this year

Diet: pretty much back to normal apart from finishing off a couple of minor Christmas bits.
Booze: 4 days with no alcohol and I feel a lot better already.
Exercise: 10 mile commute by bike today felt way easier than the 16 mile ride to town and back. I reckon that one cleared the bugs out the system because I felt dreadful afterwards. Colleague at work also asked if I fancied starting running again so that was a good excuse to get out at lunchtime. 5k walk-run-walk 1-2 times a week until we're happy to start running the full distance without breaking anything.

Day 1.

Exceeded my calorie goal by ~500kcal.

Brioche buns may have been a mistake, at 750kcal for 2.5 of them.

It's the fats that have done for me though.

Lesson learned!

not quite sure what to put on my nutracheck for eating out tomorrow : /

Take your smart scales and asked the chef to weigh ingredients

Unfortunately I don’t think brioche buns fit in any kind of reduced calorie diet!
Which is a shame as they are delicious.

Reducing fat intake can help, but fat isn’t a bad thing.
For the same calories, I would rather have egg and bacon for breakfast than oats. And the oats would make me hungrier sooner.

If it’s a chain, they have nutritional information on their website.

If not, then do a rough estimate, and assume you’ve exceeded the calories for that day. Not a problem, as long as you get back at it the day after.

yeah - not a chain unfortunately. small platey artisanal local gaff. won't be drinking or caning bread so not too stressed about the calorie impact - would still like to record it though so will figure out a way (see on their FAQs they suggest adding a luxury supermarket readymeal as a proxy.)

Reducing fat intake can help, but fat isn’t a bad thing.

It's a wonderful thing. Just so calorifically dense, unfortunately.

Bit late to the party, but here we are:

Currently 99kg
Goal is to get back down to 92kg ish

Was about my goal weight in March last year, but things have slipped again,
So am back on the exercise and have canned the booze for January to help give this effort a kickstart.

Good Luck everyone,

Back to work today. Let's see how long I can hold off from procrastisnacking.

Have dropped daily calorie target a little too. Definitely over-estimated my "activity level" when I started. Despite riding for more than 3h a week (or whatever was suggested for the "active" band), I realised the pace is so laid back, my heart rate probably decreases.

Other than that, feeling fairly good so far. Starting to feel hungry in the run up to meals, can't remember the last time that happened.

The Nutracheck app feels way off for calorie use during exercise. I dont think any of these things really get it right so I just ignore it.

I did a 3.5 hour gravelly ride and it said I could consume and extra 2500 (total of 4000) and still be on track for a 1000 calorie deficit. I'm not having that.

You can sync it with your garmin, which should be relatively accurate if you use with a hrm

I'm going to dig out the heart rate monitor for the next time I go on a ride. Couple of 3h rides done already this year and haven't tried to top up calories after those as I didn't really feel like I needed to after a normal lunch/snacks.

Will try and put just a little bit more effort in when next out on the bike... maybe...

I'm a Wahoo-er, but I might start wearing my heart rate monitor again and taking the calorie burn from Strava to manually sync it on the Nutracheck app...its not overly important to me but I am enjoying the app.

If you can get a good estimate of calories burnt in exercise I think it is pretty useful.

I've found nutracheck's approximated hour of moderate cycling calorie figure (498) maps quite accurately to what comes out of strava with HRM sessions

Bad day yesterday. Got super hungry after dinner and destroyed a handful of leftover Xmas toffees and salt dry crackers 😞 obviously need to eat more good stuff earlier in the day.

You could also have more dinner?

Did my first Zwift “race” yesterday 🥵. Part of my more riding was buying a second hand Tacx smart trainer and starting a training plan on Zwift. Entered the FFWD race series as an extra training session. Finished 148th of 190 finishers. Rest day today, training tomorow and MTB ride on Saturday. No idea ‘bout weight as I don’t own a scale and can only weigh at my gf.

Big extra motivation; planning a trip to São Miguel (Azores) to go mountainbiking in June