Weight / Fat loss

A boat probably has a bigger bathroom than we have :(

Joined Pure Gym. There's one 0.5 miles from the office. Plan is to fit in 3 or 4 half hour sessions a week at lunchtimes. Or if I'm not cycling, a longer session before or after work.

We'll see how it goes. Work pay for half the membership so went for the multi-access option so I can go to any of the branches.

Date Weight (kg)
04-Jan 122.8
18-Apr 98.8
23-May 95.6
30-May 93.8
06-Jun 93.3

Pretty meh week. Was going well until I went deep into the red on Saturday and decided to eat my way out of it. Ah well, here begins another week.

30kg lost has to be a milestone. Only 1/2kg away!

You have lost more weight than me

I managed to get under 75kg.

Had a decent day riding, then had the kids for Saturday night film night. Ate nachos and chocolate. Woke light.

I'm usually a big lover of high fiber Food. So would generally have a kg of dietry fiber in my gut.

Might switch to Fish and rice for a few days leading up to my mountain race on Saturday.

My bathroom is rather small too, so I store them upright. They seem to work fine and give consistent readings, after having laid on the floor for a few minutes. I don't know if me activating them, and then leaving them for said few minutes makes a difference.

I'm in the middle of a discount version of @I_am_Hingis' weightloss journey. Started out at around 105-108 kg last year and through a great deal of ups and downs, have now reached 94,9 kg as of today. Another 10 to go, which I plan on having sorted before September...

that's the trouble with kg's...doesn't sound much does it 0.5kg?....but that's 1.1 pounds.
If you could lose 1 pound/week.....happy days.
Go oldschool...you know it makes sense :)
I convert my weight to Stones, pound, kg's....you get even more milestones.
Anything to maintain interest and encouragement.
As smallfurry said 30kg's...wow what an achievement...get 30 litres of water in 2 or 3 buckets....feel the weight of that...fully appreciate that you are no longer carrying that weight around...the reduced strain on your back, joints and heart...its just win win win.
Also you are very near to being just 75% of the man you were !!

Have been eating well and doing more for a month.

Have lost 14 pounds. Ace. "Just" another 14 to go.

I'm edging down towards 84kg - my target for July 10 (doing the Etapes). Am I going slow enough to retain what little power I have? Riding a decent amount and eating pretty well.

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What app is that? ^^^ Is it linked to something (scales) or can you just manually add data points?

It's the Withings app. My scales automatically beam data to the cloud and then to the app, and Apple Health can also take it from there. I also have a Withings steps counter disguised as an analogue watch.

I've done a very analogue check...

2014: Averaging 1900 kcals NET, counting cardio cals: Powerlifting 2x, cycling 2x, weights 1x 64KG average.
2015: Averaging 2300 kcals NET, counting cardio cals: Powerlifting 2x, cycling 2x, stopped weights Sunday. Voila up to 67KG.

If it's that simple fixing it will be that simple too ;)

Date Weight (kg)
04-Jan 122.8
18-Apr 98.8
23-May 95.6
30-May 93.8
06-Jun 93.3
13 -Jun 95.4

I was a bad boy this week and got my rightful spanking. No exercise and really bad food. Good to see how it affects you though, before I would have been oblivious.

My healthier diet involves filling myself up on fibre. Which in the short term sits in my stomache and makes me Heavy.

Saturday I had a massive tray of greasey onion rings, Buffalo wings, cheese sticks, etc. Then a Whole tub of ben'n'jerrys. Was 1kg lighter than Friday, when I weighed in on Sunday.

Maybe I've been approaching this all wrong?

More advanced diets often have a period of very strict dieting with lots of protein and then a refeed one day. This is to attempt to stop the body from dialing down hormones to such an extent weight loss becomes hard. [edit: unnecessaril hard it tends to suck unless your body already sees you as overfat]

Some people report they're lighter after the refeed, others hold on to some water and then keep on losing.

If you're quite fat it shouldn't be needed, but if you're already lean they can work and are even mandated. They tend to be high carb low fat for many calories or one junk meal not a lot :P

Sounds about right.

I've only really dropped from 78.5 to 74.5 Kg. But I'd say my fat% have stayed the same. I'm just bulking Down for cycling.

Before Saturdays mountain Climb race. I actually cut fibre and meat for 24 hours. The idea being to hit this periodic low. I just moved to white bread, rice, etc. So pretty high carb.

I did seem to hit a minimal weight, while not depleting carb stores. Thats a test population of 1 though. Might just as well of been blind Luck.

It's a common trick in bodybuilding once the going gets tough during cutting.

But as it's 1 - not a performance sport (as long as you hold on to your muscle mass it's all good) 2 - use of anabolics and substances such as Clenbuterol (works on cows but on use too) are endemic.

I did find though that what works is what works for you. sample of 1, who cares if it works for YOU it's good :)

I don't do well on high carb diets, but after weights I can stuff the carbs in with no ill effects (as proven by SCIENCE muscles uptake with no insulin) but I don't need carbs before weight training which most people do. Which is weird.

I've managed to drop 11kgs since the end of February and got to my (initial) goal weight of 85kg.
I'm now looking at getting down to 80kg to give myself a bit of a buffer.

Tried Keto on and off which really seemed to work but it was such a faff I think it was likely just calorie restriction due to never having anything easy which I could eat/snack on.

Also running more (and running easier and faster with the weight loss)..

So yeah - increase calories out and decrease calories in but all wrapped up in a load of geeky charts, MCT oil and pissing on sticks to keep me interested.

5kg more to go and then i'll stop worrying about my weight and shift my attention to body fat % and building a bit more core strength.

Well, that's it. If you don't track calories strictly Keto may just make you eat less.

I find a diet of pure protein & vegetables & nuts blunts hunger very fast. But if I do it too long I lose the will to live... ;)

5kg more to go and then i'll stop worrying about my weight

If there is one thing you can take from this thread, it's that no matter how much you lose, and how long you've remained at your ideal weight, you never stop worrying about it!

Maybe you can't? You can't fall back in the old habits or the old weight comes back ;)

12 May 96.1 kg
13 May 95.9 kg
09 Jun 94 kg
14 Jun 93.8 kg

15-Feb 215.0 pounds 97.61kg
17-May 198.6 pounds 90.16kg
31-May 194.4 pounds 88.26kg
14-Jun 190.0 pounds 86.26kg

Had a bit of a set back last week involving 1kg of peanuts....but got back on track eventually.