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• #227
1/1/23 - 77.1
16/1/23 - 75I've cut out meat, booze (for the month), snacks and milk in morning coffees. Trying to get 7 hours of walking/ running and cycling in a week. I'm also doing a push up challenge where you start with one on Jan 1st and add one per day. Starting to get difficult for my silly little cyclist arms
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• #228
3/1/23 - 99.1kg
9/1/23 - 98.9kg
16/123 - 97.5kgI think relative fluid retention is affecting the numbers but hey, they’re going down now.
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• #229
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• #230
A few days into the exercise routine (even with easing my way in) and I'm *tired*. At least I knew this was coming and have planned for it, but it's still a huge drag.
Expecting the usual 4 week weight plateau so will be some time before I see some results in that department, but it's usually a week or two before I start to find the exercise getting a bit easier.
(Time for another nap.)
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• #231
What's your protocol for your sleep and calories? Doing that much work you wouldn't want run a deficit at all.
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• #232
9/1 - 87.7kg
16/1 - 86.7kgLots of exercise but a pretty terrible diet in parts definitely holding me back. That’s definitely the thing I need to sort!
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• #233
I generally get about 6-7h sleep a day (midnight to 6.30am) but make up for it a bit at weekends where I don't have to be up to make breakfast for a recalcitrant 13yo. Some evenings I'm just broken and I can be asleep by 10pm, in which case it's a nice ~8.5h until 6.30am.
I'm still aiming to run a ~500kcal/day deficit to keep to 0.5kg/week weight loss but I always find the first 4 weeks are funny, mostly due to:
- body shape changing as I put on muscle but lose fat, so weight stays the same but I look less fat
- the mesocycle and initial ramp up, if I can make it past the medium, medium-hard and hard weeks then I have the reward of the easy/recovery week in the 4th week - get there and I generally stick to the regime for a good 6-8 months
- I don't really calorie count, I just try not to over compensate, much of the gains are made but just cutting out some of the crap I used to eat and eating more of the good/healthy stuff
- body shape changing as I put on muscle but lose fat, so weight stays the same but I look less fat
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• #234
Does anyone else think that the range for recommended BMI seems to be pretty low?
I'm 5'10"and not skinny, skinny but definitely not that well built (37" chest, skinny wrists etc)
At 74kg I'm towards the higher end of my 'healthy range'
If I was 16kg lighter I'd apparently still be in the healthy range but I'm certain I'd be emaciated.
I wonder if this is problematic?Edit: Apologies for the @, that was an accident.
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• #235
It’s a crap but easy measure. Height vs waist size is a better but still easy measure.
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• #236
Thanks for sharing.
To be honest, that seems like it's may be going the other way.
I'm 70" tall
My waist is 31".
My chest is 37"If I had a 35" waist, I would definitely be overweight.
I guess the moral of the story is every body is different and an effective universal rule/metric doesn't really exist.
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• #237
Better but not perfect, as the article says! It seems reasonable to me as a simple rule of thumb.
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• #238
Down 71.4 - 68.4 since Jan 3rd. Have spent most of that time ill and pretty sedentary, so suspect it’s mostly muscle wasting! Just started to exercise again so will see whether I can keep a lid on my appetite when it t starts picking up. After years of heavy training I now equate any exertion with a licence to consume unlimited calories, which is probably why I’m in this thread.
Also +1 on BMI. At my lightest I was still within my healthy weight range while being visibly unhealthily thin. I’ve been hovering around overweight for a while - while still wearing small sizes. I don’t think it can deal with tree trunk legs in its calculation
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• #239
I've always thought the low boundary for BMI was crazy low, but you do see people that are pretty healthy but skinny at the lower end.
Imagine pro cyclist climber but without the big quads.I feel that on the BMI scale being slightly overweight has to be less problematic than being slightly underweight.
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• #240
Yes I agree. I feel like it must be too low. I'm not broad shouldered or big boned and I just can't fathom being almost three stone lighter.
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• #241
9/1 - 91.2kg
16/1 - 88.1kgNothing too rock and roll, eating "better", (almost) no booze, no snacks. Probably these last two making the main difference.
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• #242
As a visual example of what 62kg looks like at 6 foot, Matthew Mcconaughey in Dallas Buyers Club.
These are probably Hollywood numbers but he crash dieted 24kg or so from a pretty lean 87kg or so to 62kg, in order to better suit his role as a patient dying of AIDS...Not really a weight/bmi to aspire to...
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• #243
It's a no from me.
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• #244
Nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels. . .
/s
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• #245
3/1/23 - 84kg
8/1/23 - 83kg
13/1/23 - 82.6kg
15/1/23 - 84.6kg (!)
16/1/23 - 83.2kg
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• #246
Nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels. . .
Objectively bullshit, Kate.
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• #247
What did you eat on 14th January? I hope it was delicious.
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• #248
As someone who has tasted many inconceivably delicious things, and has never even almost been skinny, I can’t really comment.
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• #249
End of a long week of work vs end of a generous weekend of eating I guess. Hoping I don’t have to cut carbs for a bit like last year!
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• #250
You mean when you lived on fry-ups? That didn't look so bad...
Big uptick in weight today, but ate too much on Sunday. Should come off again.