Weight / Fat loss

rather strangely I weighed myself this morning and have lost absolutely nothing - slightly confused. Maybe my scales are broken who knows?

How much were you expecting to have lost? Remember that your bodyweight will vary by a couple of pounds, sometimes more, over the course of a day; unless you can guarantee to always way yourself while your bowls are empty and your hydration level is absolutely perfect, you're going to see a variation from day to day. Sometimes that variation will mask your weight loss (e.g. you lost half a pound of bodymass but you ate a curry which really isn't shifting yet).

It was over the course of a week which makes me question it.

Do you have any kitchen scales? If you can use them to weigh a few items (bags of flour, jugs full of water etc) you should be able to compare your kitchen scales and bathroom scales and establish how reliable or variable the scales are.

I had a set of scales which were susceptible to the slope of the floor and would give different results, varying by a couple of pounds, depending on orientation if there were any camber to the floor (which there is, in fact, in my bathroom).

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The problem with once a week is that you need a lot of patience if you're going for a moderate weight loss (one to two pounds a week). No matter how hard you try, you can't cancel out that variation, meaning that you may have to wait two or three weeks to be sure of the trend. If you weigh yourself more frequenty, the trend will be much clearer but you have to disciplined and not let it panic you into reacting immediately to the most recent change. "OMG, I'm nearly two pounds heavier than last time, no more food today!"

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three days into this week and twice already we've had donuts in the office, this time free from krispy kreme marketing dept as we're a large company.

good thing I have an extended commute this eve.

Takes a lot of commute to work off a donut.

Not the way I commute, I'm commited

what about the dukan diet? heard a lot of people benefitted from it...

Takes a lot of commute to work off a donut.

http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/wp-content/themes/thesis/docs/nutritional_info.pdf

one glazed donut

217kcal / 13g total fat / 3g protein / 22g carbs

my commute this eve is 12miles which typically takes about 50 minutes including stopping for traffic lights. I think that covers that pretty well.

@Starfish: People can benefit from almost any kind of diet, while they're on it. If you "go on a diet", you submit yourself to discipline for the period of the regime. Then you come off and you probably just gain weight again.

Diets like Dukan are particularly bad for this because they have to be temporary. You can't eat like that permanently without damaging your health. Ignore fads like Atkins and Dukan; don't go on a diet, change your diet. Realise that if you're overweight, you probably have bad eating habits which require permanent change.

I'm not going to be able to do any really hard exercise for up to 12 weeks, so I need to lose up to 1,000 calories a day.

Fruit & veg are out, it seems, as are pasta, pulses and potatoes.

It will be hard work surviving on nothing but ice cream, but so help me, I'll do it.

your collarbone is only broken on one side, one handed pushups and pullups or gtfo.

Yeah just get one massive arm!

@Starfish: People can benefit from almost any kind of diet, while they're on it. If you "go on a diet", you submit yourself to discipline for the period of the regime. Then you come off and you probably just gain weight again.

Diets like Dukan are particularly bad for this because they have to be temporary. You can't eat like that permanently without damaging your health. Ignore fads like Atkins and Dukan; don't go on a diet, change your diet. Realise that if you're overweight, you probably have bad eating habits which require permanent change.

While Atkins is a bit of a fad, most people could benefit from eating less carbs and more protein/fat. Western diets tend to be carb heavy, which may not be optimal for losing fat.

While Atkins is a bit of a fad, most people could benefit from eating less carbs and more protein/fat. Western diets tend to be carb heavy, which may not be optimal for losing fat.

Most people would benefit from lowering their carbohydrate intake, yes. More protein, maybe, but probably not - a lot of people eat more meat than they need to, so get plenty of protein (and often more fat than they need - surplus all round). Higher fruit and vegetable intake would be a better win, for the average slob, providing fibre and essential nutrients and vitamins of which which they don't currently consume enough.

balls...
Am hungry, but hit the limit of my calorie intake today already.
thinking I'm going to go erg to gain some more calories...
The My Fitness pal is helping me quite a lot.

^ Good isn't it? I'm finding it very useful.

15 mins on the Erg- fuck me I hate it (my mum loves it so she has one).
150 cals.
blisters. balls....
now 15 more...

hmm I've gone over my calories by 15 today I've eaten 1557 pretty happy with that tbh. Then 200 cal of cycling on top of that.

It doesn't have things like press ups and sit ups though which also burn calories.

hmm I've gone over my calories by 15 today I've eaten 1557 pretty happy with that tbh. Then 200 cal of cycling on top of that.

It doesn't have things like press ups and sit ups though which also burn calories.

                if you have a look in faq's it explains that there is a generic strength training that you can use, sorry can't remember the exact term.

But it's no bad thing if your burning more than you log!

@ spenceey
it does- under calisthenics
or just sit ups.

@ kidboy- thats for weights, and is a little different.

I'm sure pressing 16 stone (in my case) should count as weights! - not that i'm doing any yet. Still only just started using it so i'll assume your correct. Finding being forced to paymore attention to portions and the calories they contain the most useful aspect though.