Weight / Fat loss

Went and strained my quad during a spill on Sunday. There does my guaranteed commuting calories allowance.

Interesting new intermittent fasting fad diet: the 16-8. Eat for a given 8 hours of the day, don't eat for the rest.
I don't really see it working to be honest, but am kind of interested to try. A lot of my snacking comes in the evening so this might help to enforce it. I'd be keen to retain my evening meal with gf so would end up having my eating period 11-7, which would mean skipping breakfast, which is generally not recommended.

just get up at 10.30.

Done. #lifeofapostgrad

That's not new. That lean gains guy has been sprouting about that for years.

At least 7, given the date on this: http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

Don't lean.

Fair, new to me anyway.

Don't worry, I'm usually ahead of the curve... or should that be ahead of the bulge?

68.5 in Feb to 65.4 now. -3KG. I'd say it's nearly all fat and not muscle so that's good.

Time for a break, I'm fedup not being able to train as much and the last 6 weeks inches don't really shift anymore on key places, and i feel flat.

Different approach next time but hey 3 cm of hips 6 of waist so I'll take it :)

Back to slowly upping calories to maintenance.

Sooo close to my pre marathon target of sub 70kg (for context I was around 73kg during the summer last year and 76by the start of January) weighing in at 70.1 this morning. have done it by eating a fairly balanced diet, but mostly cutting out alcohol and gluten. I will reintroduce the occasional beer post marathon but I'd like to get down to 68 as I suspect that's when the last little roll of fat will disappear from my stomach!

Just hope the gamble of backing off training a bit and focusing on weight loss pays off to hit my slightly ambitious target of running a sub 3 hour marathon in London on Sunday!

Back on two HUELs a day now. A tad gassy, but feel and sleep great... like Ed I'm off the beer, I had one last night and felt steamed!

I'm now firmly in the 70s after yo-yoing on the borders for the past few weeks. 1.1kgs more and I will be within my prescribed BMI weight range for the first time in my life.

04/01/2016 122.8kg
09/01/2017 96.9kg
20/03/2017 82.3kg
24/04/2017 77.6kg

If there was an app to do this.

Wow, well done!

send me naked pics, I'll judge you.

and first cycle rider of the year (yes really). Lycra telling me I've put a little on.

:)

Again?

baseline and follow up

#science

You're going to need another observer as well I'm guessing.

I know websites for that

talk to me.

Have re-filled my running race schedule for second half of this year and early next year so need to drop as much ballast as I can to ease my transition back into running.

Currently on a 1500-1600kcal a day intake, commuting twice a week on bike (48 milles total), trying to run two to three times a week or go for a super long walk instead to get time on my feet for my first event in 10 weeks.

have been working off of hunger and energy levels to determine if i need to eat anything else on top of my daily meal plan but so far my appetite is pretty even and haven't been going to bed hungry or feeling overly tired/exhausted.

26 apr 17 - 123.8 kg
03 may 17 - 122.5 kg
10 may 17 - 118.8 kg

typical day now comprises of:

breakfast: bagel thin with low fat cream cheese (~230kcal)
lunch: huel shake {3 scoops, mixed with water} (~400kcal)
dinner: batch homemade tomato pasta sauce (with celery, aubergine, courgette, mushroom & peppers blended to hide the veginess), 125g brown rice spaghetti, tin of tuna in spring water, grated parmesan (~970kcal)

How are you finding huel? i hate faffing with lunch at work and end up eating something carblicious just because its the easiest option

Why not replace the breakfast with something slow release like congee or porridge?

Bagel sounds delish tho.

Didn't know brown rice spaghetti was a thing, will give it a go.