Weight / Fat loss

What is the base weight?

Can I take my 84.9 october weight!

From the day of the spreadsheet starting.... you were 84.9 in October?
Your weight loss is absurd Ed.

I'm 95 kgs at the moment, Im gonna use that............ have got the BWL (before weight loss) piccie sorted will see what happens over the coming months, beer toast biccies custard tarts I'm going to miss you,choke sob, depressed already

Base weight is this weeks weight... I had better get on some scales eh...

Tony, I hear the anguish... Tonight I will say goodbye to my dear friends curry and cheesecake.

meh I lost 5.5st and I never deprived myself of anything.

self-moderation, portion control (weigh everything) and restricting bad stuff to the occassional treat are all ways of losing weight without making your whole life into one long health food binge.

Ok speadsheet is set up.

Should be pretty self explanatory for now. I'll add charts and summaries (things like biggest % of base weight lost) in due course. I wanted to get the sheet out so people can start filling it asap.

Should we use LFGSS names to keep things easier?

It would be ideal to have as many people using this as possible so we can really help each other out.

Also I've done week ending weights as people have different weigh in dates.

Feel free to add comments to each of your weigh in cells if the need arises, right click on cell - add comment.

meh I lost 5.5st and I never deprived myself of anything.

self-moderation, portion control (weigh everything) and restricting bad stuff to the occassional treat are all ways of losing weight without making your whole life into one long health food binge.

This is excellent advice.

Also- yep forum names are ideal.
and I'm on the spreadsheet.

I propose the following as challenge dates:
19th Feb
18th March
22nd April
27th May

think Ive entered, never used a spreadsheet in my life, my bank manager absolutely hates me,lol

Yep your on there Tony!

its so weird watching it be changed by other people in realtime... I just cleaned it up a bit, and moved your comment as well spenceey.

im on. this will be embarassing when i dont lose any at all.

Also i`m the fattest yaya

This is the problem with being on a weight gain, fat % maintainance/loss. Regime.

meh.

Yep beer belly to six pack in six months is going to be the title of my exercise video.

Looking forward to seeing this spreadsheet grow over the next few weeks.

Yep beer belly to six pack in six months is going to be the title of my exercise video.

I'm not sure you'll sell many videos of yourself running millions of km a week. Its supposed to look easy ;)

Fair play to you though. I fecking love running. But it takes a mammoth effort to maintain a regime, aviod injury, and eat sensibly for the work rate.

I'll not join the spreadsheet, as my goals are somewhat different to everyone elses. But wish folk well with it.

I think the best thing that could come out of this thread/ 'competition' is a whole set of shared ideas that worked.
I'm trialling a couple of things right now, that may or may not work, and i'll know in a month, and if they do- they're simple and fast and mostly free.
otherwise I'm all ears- if something works for you- let us know.
Its a team effort to keep adherence, but you're own effort to see what you can manage...

SF- in an ideal world I'd be doing the same thing as you, but I need to drop weight in order to reduce the injuries I get when I run repeatedly.
you may as well join the spreadsheet and put BF% as your marker...purely as it would be interesting to read.

would join the spreadsheet but I don't think I'll be losing much more weight now, going to work on general condition.

Last Jan 108kg
This Morning 95kg

SF- in an ideal world I'd be doing the same thing as you, but I need to drop weight in order to reduce the injuries I get when I run repeatedly.
you may as well join the spreadsheet and put BF% as your marker...purely as it would be interesting to read.

Dont really have a quantative way of measuring that though.

I'm using running as my sanity checker. I know I can run certain routes, in certain times, with certain after effects. The day my weight training effects this, is the day I ease off.

I think there have been loads of interesting points already. Especially relating to body water content. My boss is a tall well built guy. When he recently had a weight loss bet with some friends. He dehydrated himself for 24 hrs before the weigh in to push himself over the winning line. Water is heavy stuff.

I'm up for the spreadsheet too. Not looking to loose any futher weight really, just stabalise it for the first time in my adult life and conditioning.

The Norovirus.
The best way to drop 2kg in a week.

1 mile run, 40 tri dips, 10 mile ride and just about to do one of Lady Liz's jillian michaels dvds. Fucking love days off.
Just got the promax, tastes a little weak and grim but seeing as i've not eaten breakfast for several years it's prob not a bad idea to have something in the morning.

I challenge myself only

Toughest one of all

My goal is 12st5lb->11st7lb and I am now 2lb from that

Now aiming for 11st

I have no target date - I want to lose the weight slow and steady

Initial weight loss is mainly glycogen, with is bound to water. So early weightloss is rapid

Weightloss slows down after that initial burst and you are then trying to shed fat only. Fat is not bound to water molecules and that's why it is slower as you go on

Any rapid loss at this stage will probably be down to an unsustainable diet of some kind

Better to change your lifestyle and accept you may only lose 1/2lb a week. Patience will be rewarded by alonger lasting result

(I had the norovirus this year and lost 8lb in two days. It was all water and returned instantly)

you've made a points I'd like to go over.

Firstly and most importantly, making weight loss a struggle or a chore is counter productive. Well done on your current weight loss, but it would've been easier if you could've enjoyed it. That, and the fact that peer support is always a winner, means that group weight loss challenges remain statistically the best way of getting weight off (according to Trudy et al 2006)

No diet is unsustainable if you want it to work. Currently t2diabetes (obesity onset) is seen to be being reversed by a diet of 600kcals/ day for 8 weeks. (Christou & Efthimiou 2009- showed that a diet of 1200-1500/ day [post bariatric surgery] led to a average 50% excess weight loss in severely obese people over 10 months). The second example lost almost purely fat, at an accelerating rate until the 15th month when a plateau appeared)
Preoperative weight loss (req. before Bariatric surgery) is often brought about by very low energy diets (c 800kcal). In a study done on preoperative pts it was noted that despite this incredibly restrictive diet, weight loss was maintained at a uniform rate with an average loss of 15kg over 12 weeks (Colles et al 2006).

Glycogen is not a resource that sensible (ie dieters who don't drop carbohydrate) dieters deplete fast. Your total body store is 350g dry weight, or (as its roughly 3g water/ g glycogen) 1.2kgs total body weight. This is why the bonk occurs- glycogen represents a tiny amount of useable energy. Or why the theory is that after 30-45 mins of running you start to burn only adipose energy.
It is the body's second energy store after adipose tissue, which represents a whole shit tonne more kcal/ g as well. Effective dieting will aim to reduce your calories to a point where you can keep your glycogen stores, and keep hydrated (especially for dieters who wish to maintain/gain any muscle mass- as hydrated muscles are better), whilst losing fat. This is why diet shakes and protein shakes contain a significant sugar portion.
As a side note- as i read a couple of attached papers on my lecture notes- excercise is thought to be beneficial for maintenance of glycogen whilst dieting. (Garrow 1995)

Whilst, its true that the first few days can be water/ glycogen weight, it is very easy to maintain that.
In our Dietetics lectures, we're told that anything below 1200 kcals Resting input will cause unsustainable weight loss, and that the magic figure is %20 off daily calorie intake.

And it is true, of course, that a poor diet can lead to the massive sudden weight drop of water/glycogen loss- the idea of this thread is not to fall into that category.

Anyways, @ edmundro- your promax stuff can't be as bad as the stuff I'm on... I don't know what it is, it tastes like someone mixed flour with lucosade....

Glycogen is not a resource that sensible (ie dieters who don't drop carbohydrate) dieters deplete fast. Your total body store is 350g dry weight, or (as its roughly 3g water/ g glycogen) 1.2kgs total body weight. This is why the bonk occurs- glycogen represents a tiny amount of useable energy. Or why the theory is that after 30-45 mins of running you start to burn only adipose energy.

Great read thanks.

Does that first bit in my quote mean that unless you drop carbs you can't lose much weight?