Weight / Fat loss

if you're building muscle the weight won't generally go down do you measure your body fat%?

Easy Sandy, no I dot measure body fat % as I haev no reliable way of doing so.

Just filled up.
100g pasta, one bowl of the coleslaw, bout 400cal.
It was really my own fault- I was late to the gym so only had 1 promax today otherwise...
Steak will bring that up to a nice solid 1300.
BUT
5k in under 20 mins this morning, was motoring, and significant improvements in lifts and reps in the gym.
So a good day. Have vowed to have emergency food on me at all times, to stop the proper hypo I was having. Also- Coffee does not = sensible food replacement.

On a side note, those sweeteners are bad news for dieting. They make your taste buds want more sugary things, and so you have to eat more sugar in the future to make them 'happy'. This is why, often, people who swap to diet soda gain weight....

Contador on weight loss:

"In Gran Canaria, I was training for five hours and just eating fruit and the weight was falling off me"

If only I had 5 hours a day and a week to spend in the Canary Islands.

So I'm 72kg fully clothed today.
fingers crossed for a good weekend weigh in Sunday.
Started swimming, which historically has meant that I can't eat enough food to sustain weight.

Was up to 71.8 this morning :s

Hope its just a temp blip, but haven't had the best of weeks, interupted sleep has left me with really low energy levels, and as a result gave in and ate a pizza at lunchtime yesterday to try and power through, and apple crumble with ice cream for dinner probably wasn't the healthiest of options.

Fustrating thing is other than the temporary lift from eating both, I think eating all those carbs just made me feel sluggish, and nearly vomit on my run home!

Not doing too bad this week. Have moved house now have a 1 hour commute (by car!) each way. Managed to run this week and eat quite healthy, had a treat this afternoon, will be good all weekend though.

Nice ride organised tomorrow too.

Hopefully come next week I can really crack on with the diet/ fitness regime again now I'm in the routine of going to bed at 11 waking up at 6.

Once the weather clears up I'm going to start cycling to work, maybe just once a week to start with, but that's better than nothing, right?

Can someone summarise everything that's been said in this thread?

I predict:

Eat less shit

Do more exercise

Scat pr0n thread >>>>>>

I'm feeling bloody lazy at the moment too as I'm not cycling everyday.

I'm used to the 4 miles to the office and back but since we've moved I haven't cycled it once as It's a 40 mile round trip.

How do you guys cope with times like this?

Pizza, well that is what i did today.
Swapping 13 miles each way on the bike to commuting by train has helped me put on at least a stone, maybe a little more.

Gym at lunchtime helps, but since adding myself to that spreadsheet my gym sessions have suffered for all sorts of reasons. Still as i'm ill no diving this weekend = no struggling to get in a wet suit!
Another week of no loss for me, next week needs to be the start of a big push and some extra gym sessions

71 dead this morning, will take that after a pretty up and down week!

11st 5lb - no change this week either way - mind you I didn't do any extra training sessions, just my commute and a long ride Sunday. Happy to be 11st 5lb.

Ate a kilo of chinese takeaway last night. #notevenslightlyguilty

Maxitone Definity:
Per 1 serving 30g (1 scoop)
Energy 120Kcal/497 kJ
Protein 24.3g
Carbohydrate 2.04g
Of which sugars 0.81g
Fats 2.07g
Of which saturates 1.23g
Sodium 0.12g

Maxitone Sculptress Diet:
Per 50g Serving (1 scoop)
Energy 209cal/847 kJ
Protein 16.6g
Carbohydrate 20g
Of which sugars 9.9g
Fats 6.4g
Of which saturates 1.4g
Sodium 0.145g
Green tea 21mg
CLA 1.5g

Which one of these do I want? I'm doing a fairly decent job of eating a sensible calorie deficit diet and weight is coming off at around 1-1.5lbs per week, but now that I'm doing a run, swim or turbo every other night in addition to commuting and weekend road rides I'm getting fcuking ravenous by mid-morning at work and late in the evenings. Which of the above is my best bet for bridging between meals without compromising weight loss?

Pick the one that tastes best!

I've veered away from my standard (which seems to have been adopted by nearly everyone in this thread!) but found I couldn't drink it and gave up!

Sculptress has got 10x the carbs/sugars of definity though, or is 20g too small to worry about?

Don't know, I know nothing about nutrition and just use my fitness pal to try and hit my daily calorie target.

Saw my target weight on the scales for the first time today, unfortunately it was post run and pre rehydration and protein shake, but exciting nonetheless!

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I would go for Definity if it's ot immidiately post excersise, as those carbs are not going to help fat-loss, and the spike of 10g of sugar hitting your blood-stream probably isn't going to help as you'll potentially get a high/crash.

[YMMV, not a PT/Dietitian/H]

Which is cheaper?
Protein/ fat % in the 1st one is better. (slower gastric emptying)
I'm a fan of bar versions of things at the minute for emergency snack attacks.

70.8kg.
That'll do.
(will measure again first thing AM if have time- but that was just after a snack and a shake, so should be accurate(ish)

One thing for sure - I'm not going to lose any weight drinking those shakes from MyProteins (unflavoured Instant Oats mixed with chocolate Impact Whey Protein with skimmed milk - even without a banana).
I went on a spin bike and burned only 370 calories. I can maybe burn another 400 cal if I run, but it's every other day or rather. I can't cycle outside at the moment. I'm about to pull out my rowing machine from behind the sofa as well.

Breakfast

Milk, nonfat, 1 cup 86 12 0 8
Impact Whey Protein, 25 gram 98 2 2 21
Orange Juice, 250 mL 116 26 1 2
Instant Oats, 100 gram 388 71 8 9

BREAKFAST TOTALS: 687 110 11 40
Lunch

Tuna, Canned in Water, 139 grams 161 0 1 35
Dinner Rolls, wheat, 1 roll (1 oz) 77 13 2 2

LUNCH TOTALS: 239 13 3 38

Dinner

Chicken Breast, no skin, fried, 150 grams 281 1 7 50
White Rice, long grain, 1 cup 205 45 0 4
stir fry vegetables, 1.5 serving 35 0 0 0

DINNER TOTALS: 521 45 8 54

Snack

Slim Fast Chocolate Caramel Treat, 1 serving 95 16 3 1
Kellogg's Raisin Bran Cereal, 1 cup (1 serving) 190 45 1 5
Soy Milk, 100 mL 34 5 2 5

SNACK TOTALS: 319 66 6 11

Post Workout Snack

Maximuscle Promax Diet, 60 gram(s) 224 11 4 0
POST WORKOUT SNACK TOTALS: 224 11 4 0

CALORIES    CARBS   FAT PROTEIN  

Totals: 1,990 245 31 142
Your Daily Goal: 1,500 - 1,850 169 - 301 33 - 72 75 - 162
Remaining Today: 0 0 - 56 2 - 41 0 - 20

Porridge for brekkie with jam
40 miles cycling
Protein shake with red milk and some oats
Soup and 2 slices of bread
Putting shed together with dad
2 cup cakes
Chilli for tea.

Damn good day for me protein shake really helped the post rode binge. Will be taking them after every ride from now on, minus the cup cakes today has been great, don't really feel guilty about the cup cakes though.

nice one.

been good so far today with, 2 hours of running burning >2000 calories.

scrambled egg and toast for brekkie
protein shake with green milk
soup and possibly a home made flatbread if it's worked

Jesus Ed. That's too little.
I ate alot today:
1xProtein shake
2 apples
some coleslaw
3 egg white spanish omlette
And bits and pieces that probably added up to a big day of calories. I don't really care though because every once in a while its good to not be totally focused on weight loss.
Also, at the gym for 1.5hrs and a good c 9k of running.
Sprints were due to be the morning for tmw. Not sure what I'm going to do. Will decide in the morning.