Weight / Fat loss

Right, i've been eating pretty much nothing but chicken, meat, peppers, onions, chilis and tomatoes. Drinking is limited to milk & water with on average 2 pints per week. Fat % isn't dropping and is hovering around almost double the figure I was at some time ago.

Any tips?

Tabata turbo x4 per week, and hours of HR zone 2 rides is working for me. I've been eating cake like its going out of fashion, and still losing weight on it.

Tabata turbo x4 per week

Fuck, you must really hate yourself at the moment ;)

Well I do quite a bit of commuting throughout the week. Recently i've been doing most of it at around 60% HRmax hoping that that will improve my endurance. Is it really just a case of chucking a few 30 second sprint intervals in there?

Tabata turbo x4 per week, and hours of HR zone 2 rides is working for me. I've been eating cake like its going out of fashion, and still losing weight on it.

I've been looking for a great turbo training plan and this looks like it, thanks.

I'm not sure how well tabata will work for other types of cycling, I've been using it as a shortcut to cross racing fitness over the past two months, where it suits because races are short and anaerobic, and tabata replicates that quite well. People looking for winter base fitness will probably get more out of pyramids and much longer turbo sessions I would think? I've no idea though really, I should probably read up on it more.

All I know is that any turbo work is better than no turbo work.

Anyone had any sucess as a new years resolution, I haven't weighed myself but I have been going to the gym everyday. I also quit smoking, so I haven't quite been as strict as I would be with food as I would rather give into the urge and eat something bad rather than smoke.

I put on 3kg over the holidays! 3KG! wtf. Got a muffin top over my shorts and everything. Seems to have subsided now, though.

I was a majorly fat bastard last year. was 19.5 stone in March but my dad had a stroke and it kicked me up the arse and I decided to get into shape.

At the moment I'm still a pot-bellied 14 stone but I plan on getting down to around 12 stone by june if I can.

get in there HatBeard.
I had a similar thing happen, my dad died and I spent most of last year/the one before in a really stressful job where I had to work late, go out to gallery openings every night (so drunk almost every night) and gave me very little time on weekends, so I ballooned.
This year will be different, am now self employed (in charge of my own time) and I'm signed up for lots of two wheeled suffering over the summer so I've got a weight/fitness targets that I cannot miss.

I've been only drinking on the weekends now for about a month (except Christmas) and it seems to be helping, a lot. That, cutting back on pointless carbs, increasing my exercise amount and only eating fruit for breakfast (unless I'm going on a long ride) will hopefully get me there

I've put on 3kg thanks to a committed holiday regime of drinking, eating then drinking some more. 2 weeks to get it on and it'll probably take a month or more to get it off.

I am thinking about starting on the classic and highly effective amphetamine diet...

The old 'take speed and go raving' diet..

Ah, those were the days, we were all so young, fabulous and thin

I'm signed up for lots of two wheeled suffering over the summer so I've got a weight/fitness targets that I cannot miss.

Just signed up for my first sprint distance triathlon in May and I've been a member of a triathlon group in Greenwich so training with them a lot for the past few months so that should be enough to keep me motivated for the next few months.

am also toying with the idea of doing an olympic distance event in late june but I need to assess my swimming performance to see if the training for that is realistic in the time frame (I want to finish in a respectable time not just merely finish).

The old 'take speed and go raving' diet..

Ah, those were the days, we were all so young, fabulous and thin

Now I'm old, my metabolism is fucked and I need a dentist...

fnck

gained a stone in the past 8 months - particularly piled it on over xmas, strangely body fat has only gone from 8% to 11% so possibly some is upper body muscle from mtb and core work.

muffin top etc

so planning on 2 days riding each weekend, giving up snack foods - had been good for a long time and suddenly went into eating shite mode in the past 4 months

so planning on having a supply of fruit on hand for when peckish, drink more fluids etc

after 2 weekends of riding, and gym once a day during the week am starting to recover, not having to breathe so deeply to get into my trousers

hoping metabolic rate will improve as get more active - my tanita scales tend to tell me I have the metabolic rate of a 12 year old kid

No weight gain over holidays. Started dieting with vigour for new year. Caught manflu. Noticeable weight loss already. Have to hope that my manflu induced loss of appetite can be sustained. Have also to hope that I can start to exercise again soon and that I stop feeling crap.

maybe i should go holidaying in india and eat indiscriminately - i had gardia there previously - savage weight loss

also campylobacter was good at rapid weight loss

so planning on 2 days riding each weekend, giving up snack foods - had been good for a long time and suddenly went into eating shite mode in the past 4 months

This was/has been my problem. I'm doing fine now though and slowly increasing my time/distance on the bike again. Cutting out the crap straight away was a problem at first, but doesn't seem so bad now. I also think because of having time off over Christmas It's hard for your body to get back into a routine because when I was on the holidays I would get up at any time. Now I've started getting up at 6/6.30 going to bed around half 10.

I failed badly over xmas... went from 83kg to 88kg over Dec. Scary! Way too much partying and eating anything and everything.

First run yesterday, and back to cycling daily. Drinking water and eating somewhat healthy stuff...

1 day in, and god it's shit boring. Give me a deep fried pizza and a beer any day!

I failed badly over xmas... went from 83kg to 88kg over Dec. Scary! Way too much partying and eating anything and everything.

I love eating and partying over xmas because I know in the new year I will start excersising and eating healthier again. If I didnt though I would be in trouble, I put weight on around my waist very quickly.

Now I'm old, my metabolism is fucked and I need a dentist...

if you were born in '86 then you're two years younger than me, I have very little sympathy. Uncomfortably close to 30 now.

I failed badly over xmas... went from 83kg to 88kg over Dec. Scary! Way too much partying and eating anything and everything.

First run yesterday, and back to cycling daily. Drinking water and eating somewhat healthy stuff...

1 day in, and god it's shit boring. Give me a deep fried pizza and a beer any day!

Gets easier, was hard weening myself off Christmas crap and the booze but once I got over it I found my body was craving soup, water and fish.

Best way to lose weight - buy something that you can't really afford and end up eating rice as a main meal everyday for the next 3 weeks...

When I am training a lot junk food becomes a lot less appealing

Shut living requires shit fuel

Healthy living requires healthy food

Best way to lose weight - buy something that you can't really afford and end up eating rice as a main meal everyday for the next 3 weeks...

Would that really work though Ed? You just be so bloated all the damn time.