Weight loss accountability/support 2024 edition

I bought a new belt last year, I got the wrong size and it was a bit small, I was using the last hole. Anyway, today I went to tighten my belt and found that I've run out of holes, I need to make a new one. I've dropped four inches on my waistline, crazy.

Weight loss is still plateaued, went down to 94.5kgs and I've been hovering around 95-96kgs for what feels like forever. When will I break through?? Upped my exercise and eating the same stuff, maybe slightly less fat, but no movement.

Hell yeah!

Could be adaptation but also might have just eaten in to some of the calories. If it feels like too long you could just be really strict with calories and making sure you’re not going over. I’d mostly just stay at it and things should keep trending in the right direction

Trying to lose weight again, nothing extreme, yogurt, fruit, salads, lots of protein, 1 year until 40 and would like to get down to 75kg (82kg now).

I've recently started trying to stop eating when I get the full sensation, it feels so unnatural, I would usually clear my plate and enjoy eating until extremely full. I definitely have an unhealthy/ obsessive relationship with food at times.

Yeah, I'm probably going over, will have to be a bit stricter on calories.

I'm the other side of 40 but you have basically written my exact feelings about eating...

I know the feeling, I've given up all my vices so food is all I have left. It's made worse because I'm old (M57) and unable to tolerate a whole range of delicious foodstuffs anymore, it's very unsatisfying.

Today kinda got blown out. I went back through my numbers and I have been overdoing the calories, carbs have been good up to today. Too much cheese!

I started eating low-carb bread a few weeks ago which has been a really refreshing change but it has upped my carb numbers from way below what they should be to my daily limit. It's just so easy to eat bread, had got used to not having it at all.

On the plus side I walked 16.5k steps today, a new record.

1 Attachment

Is that meaning you had one big day or have been going over consistently? What calorie deficit are you generally aiming for?

I went over on carbs today, which is unusual, but I have been going over on calories quite regularly. I haven't paid it a lot of mind, because keto, I normally pay more attention to watching my protein intake but it's clearly making a difference.

I’m a big porridge fan and here’s my current recipe. First things first is in the morning I need simplicity. So once a week I grate a bunch of fruit and veg, add cinnamon, vanilla extract and salt. Add that 3-4 tablespoons to the porridge and freeze the rest in cube trays. My daughter loves these and great for adding to yoghurt, pancakes and porridge. Also frozen red berries and those bananas that go brown freeze them!

General recipe:
100g frozen berries
25-30g of oats
(Today I had half a banana as my daughter at the other half but normally don’t bother)
3-4tablespoons of grated mixture or 2 frozen cubes.
Water
Whack it in the microwave until your desired consistency.
Let it stand for a few minutes - stir it a little to let it cool.
200g skyr
1 scoop protein powder.
You can add some yummy peanut butter (but obvs higher cals)
This bowl was 550 calories. Filling af and tasty.
50g protein, 90g carbs and 4g fat.

I prefer to eat carbs in the morning more than at lunch and then have some again at dinner as I find that gives me the right balance.

1 Attachment

What veg other than carrots??? Looks like coleslaw porridge... Thanks!

Boozy summer. Time to move more and eat less
75.5kg 16/09

Late January 99.1kg at 1,81m. 25ish% BF
Early March 92kgs. 22% BF.
Early May 87.5kgs. 20.5% BF. Plateaued for all April
Mid June 83.8kgs. 18.9% BF. Plateaud for a month
Mid August 79.5kgs. 16.x% BF

Let's see if I can get it down to the 78kgs of 15 years ago

Mid September 77,9kgs. 15.x% BF

Love handles all but disappeared. The v shape downward stairway to heaven popped up.
Dang I think I'm hot again!

Need to get my head round the metric weight as all of my references and milestones (not kilometrestones) are stones.

Anyway, I finally broke through the 15stone barrier last week after being stuck on 15/1 for three weeks. Then quickly dropped to 15/10 (95kg) by last weekend. I misbehaved a little bit over the weekend and had a couple of beers and even a proper roast dinner with potatoes on Sunday. Back on it this week. Glad to see the minor blow-out doesn’t seem to have done much harm. Loving clothes fitting better and feeling trimmer. All in all I’m pretty pleased with progress, all the more so because the last three weeks have featured a nagging cold, a busy and desk-bound period at work and new puppy with all of the sleeplessness that brings. Figure if I can keep the downward trajectory going till I’m well and able to get out and walk the dog we’ll be on the way to a sustainable way of being.

Good work dude! New puppy surely equals lots of steps?

Will wait for the mirror selfies

It will do. naother three week still she can go out on a lead tho. It's all good, I'm tryna get out as much as I can and the eating is starting to feel normal. It's honestly not much of a chore and I kind of enjoy the "having a project" element of it.

Hehe, mirror selfies might be pushing ita bit. I honest;y have been avoiding mirrors for years.

I'll sliiiiiide into your DMs dreamboat.

..with the OF-link. Gotta monetise this hard work somehow

Finally clicked into being motivated to lose weight end of August, had a bit of a wobble end of last week/weekend with a night out and then probably overdoing it on the weekend exercise and food wise. Back on track now, scales have stalled since last week, but the good old chest, waist and thigh measurements all heading in the right direction…

You were right, I've been good with my carbs but haven't been keeping track of my calories. Have come down to 94.3kgs, back on track.

Tho' I was out and about about last night and went 50gms over my allowed carbs (a few bottles of AF beer that were super high in carbs) but bang on with protein/calories. A very rare occurrence, I never go out.

I've stopped snacking on cheese, that's made all the difference. And I'm off the low carb bread and back on salads for lunch.

Nice one dude! And glad it’s made a difference in the right direction.

Down to 94.2kgs today, glacial gains/losses! 🙄🐢

That’s frustrating, are you tracking any body measurements, I find between weight, chest and waist there’s always something making an improvement if I’m doing the right things even if the weight doesn’t move for a bit…

Progress is going better than expected here, my general approach is aim for 10k step a day, high intensity cardio and 3x weights per week, plus a relatively low calorie/carb diet and no drinking at home. Progress since I turned 40 on 16/08:

Weight 87.8kg > 82.4
Chest 106cm > 102
Waist 96cm> 89

Still a long way to go back to where I was in 21/22 but determined to get back to mid 70s, perfectly prepared for this progress to slow, and have the occasional drinking outside of home thing to look forward to!

Chest and waist in cm 🫨