Weight / Fat loss

Hah. I lost 13kg and 3.5” off my trouser band measurement (I’m aware this isn’t my waist, but it’s what I measure as it’s relevant to buying trousers).

probably not a shock to many on here that my fat was clearly packed around my brain.

What is your current priority? You can have weight goals or strength goals but it's difficult to combine the two.

Weight loss. Just adding some muscle to help with that.

Things are going pretty well. Was just remarking that it would have been nice to have working body composition scales during my creatine loading phase.

101.9 on Dec 24 - 97 today. The 2020 Covid gains are slowly coming off. Just 10 more kilos to go.

I get the desire for the information. Hippy is right: if you get a good set of scales then the information will be wrong but consistently wrong and you'll at least be able to see if the ratio is going up or down.

I'd take the cycling a bit easier than that. 10-15 hours while also on a keto diet could very easily break you. Unless its super easy miles.

Also be careful with vegetarian keto, are you eating egg/cheese?

I did Keto for the most of the year leading up to LEL in 2017, so Ii know it's manageable for me with riding.

That said I'm obviously taking it way easier than I did then. I'm not doing anything high tempo or strenuous at the moment, just going out for a couple hours a day collecting tiles on Velo Viewer.

Yeah, eggs and cheese were a staple when i wasn't veggie and remain so.

Cheers, I'll take a look at this

Well, ish- you could do a classic 12/4 program of a slight calorie surplus to build ~1kg of muscle per month for three months and then a month of deficit to cut, before going back to build again.

Of course, this program suggests that you’ve cut down to a very low body fat level as a starting position, but during that initial hard cut (I was losing a kilo per week, like clockwork) I was also gaining strength. That was with a deficit of 1,000 calories per day.

I can recommend Renpho scales from Amazon. They show all the body comp stuff and seem stay relatively consistent Bluetooth feeds into my phone without issue. I’ve been doing Keto for last few weeks but I’m carbing up with beer tonight so expecting a major blip on this chart over the weekend.

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https://antropometria.ibv.org/en/publications-3d-body-scanning/#

This is a very interesting study and technology which is now at the stage of being similarly accurate to a Styku camera. You could use this? I’m going to start using it

Back on the wagon, after 3 weeks of Covid and then recovery.
Last week have been back working, which has been stressful, really tiring, and ended up being pretty much a full week of food deliveries.

73.4kg. (though probably 1-1.5kg more than normal due to yesterday's large curry)
Get back to 69kg by end of March, 65/66kg by beginning of May.

Back on intermittent fasting, and starting on 30m of zone 1 turbo a day, and short (10-15m) daily calisthenic workouts.

Yeah, so I've just got fatter since my last post.
Not pleased but I’ve also not been doing anything apart from shift work and shitty eating patterns. So I knew I’d fucked it.

Time to start doing what I said I would.

First day back on 5-2. In the last year I've gone from 80-82ish, to 92kg. Whoops.

Hoping that starting to run again, work picking up, and going on a diet will get me back in the low 80s before baby arrives in June. At which point I'll obviously balloon back up to 90kg.

See there's keto talk going on as well. I'd love to fire back on keto, but it just seems like a recipe for disaster if we're having to cook separate meals (not ideal with a pregnant wife)!

Top one is body weight, bottom one is body fat:

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(Spot Christmas).

What's the body composition stuff based on?

Woo, possibly - it's a Withings scale that checks your bodies resistance to an electrical current whilst you stand on it.

My trouser band measurement was just under 33" at 72.5kg, it's 33.5" now at 77.5kg so that supports the scales assertion that I'm succeeding in building (largely) muscle as I get heavier.

I'm aiming for 78kg at the end of March, then cutting back to (probably) 75kg, then pushing up to 80kg before cutting back to 78ish later in the year.

Ha, holy shit. No idea how accurate that'll be, but it's definitely better than the ones that just guess outright.

Sorry, should have added for context, when I was ~85kg my trouser band was 36.5".

Was coming here to moan about lack of progress but realised I’ve lost about 5kg in 8 weeks by being about 3500 calories net under my calculated base metabolic rate per week... which is actually ahead of where I should be, based on those two numbers, it’s hard to tell exactly as my weight is wildly different day to day, possibly caused by running about 85km per week.

Now that just reads as a boast post but I’ve been working pretty hard, not drinking and running a shit load...

Plan is to keep going till I race a marathon in early April and then reevaluate..

Am I reading the graph right and you got down to 5% body fat?

Mum?

I’ve got you beat.

75kg in November 2019. 93kg Monday.

Lockdown + work + newborn = stress eat.

Going hard Keto from next week (got Gousto meals to finish this week). It got me to 73kg (lightest adult weight I’ve been) in 2018/19 so feeling good about it.