Weight / Fat loss

I'd rather be fat.

Raw brocoli is nice but there is something in the taste that's a bit like soimeone elses farts...

70.1kg again this morning.

Come on!

right, trying a completely new diet, eating healthy food only and going to 5 small meals a day, going to try until friday, have the weekend off and resume next week.

Just bought turkey, loads of yoghurt, nuts, eggs, celery and carrots, will continue the protein shake as breakfast but all other meals will consist of these items.

it's more of an experiment than necessity, but i have found myself eating some really unhealthy things over the last few months even on healthy days, in an effort to hit my calorie target.

Here's today for me;

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/spenceeyp

Quite a lot of food considering I'm still at under 1000. Not sure what I'll be eating for dinner tonight, also debating whether to do a turbo session tonight, current standing I've got 630 calories for my evening meal, which is a fair bit so I should be well within today's target of 1600 calories.

oooh never actually logged into the website before, loads of useful extra functions, now have meals set up to match new diet plan.

There was a report recently that said up to you are 40, being fat or thin made no difference to your health... apparently it's after that it goes downhill ...

Massively repped and then information passed on to the missus!

How much protein is too much protein? Some of the bars I'm looking at contain 50% of RDI. I'm already getting in 110-130% of RDI in my normal meals, at what level would you risk ketosis? I'm assuming its probably an infesibly massive amount...

I think I read somewhere that 60g is the RDA for a average man, but that for an athletic man 140g is a more realistic number. I figure I'm on around 200g at the moment, as I'm trying to build muscle. I dont think I'm going to keep that level up into March though.

I will PM you the moment my 366% RDA protein diet kills me.

Just had some chocolate. Turbo session awaits this evening, sufferfest angels!

just had 50g of mixed nuts and 150g of fat free yoghurt with vanilla in it.

was quite nice, but had an impressive calorie count - 413 calories!

its my biggest meal of the day.

have felt surprisingly hungry all day, given that i've eaten more calories and done less exercise than i usually have done at this stage of the day....

isn't it 1g of protein per kg of body weight so 90kg you need 90g of protein although I've read that some trainers recommend upto 2g per kg of body weight

just had 50g of mixed nuts and 150g of fat free yoghurt with vanilla in it.

was quite nice, but had an impressive calorie count - 413 calories!

its my biggest meal of the day.

have felt surprisingly hungry all day, given that i've eaten more calories and done less exercise than i usually have done at this stage of the day....

My chocolate was exactly the same, more calories in than any of my meals so far today! Sufferfest and a small dinner tonight. May even have a protein shake to hold off the hunger after the turbo. Just ate more of the chocolate, which will mean a small meal for me tonight.

hungry again....

not sure this is going to work, diary for today though.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/edmn29

oh well, taking a break at the weekend.

Is the protein shake going down with breakfast too?

I'm finding my key is having a big breakfast, if I have a smaller breakfast I eat all my lunch by lunch time and have nothing to eat in the afternoon, thus turning to snacks, like today when I ate a bag of chocolate, fuck sake.

no protein shake this morning as i'm sitting on my bum all day....

but for me i have protein, milk and l carnitine for brekkie.

in other news i can now see the top two rows of the six pack most days just need to loose the podge at the bottom and i'll be there!

I'm tempted to replace the mid morning snack with a protein shake. Can't be that bad can it? Also I know it'll keep me fill till lunch time.

I work in an office which gets lots of PR gifts, which doesn't make it easy. Someone's just sent us a birthday party in a box: cakes, sandwiches, sausage rolls, sweets, crisps, jelly. Gah.

I'm the same. Work is the hardest time for me, chocolate and sweets everywhere which we don't have to pay for. It's bloody hard weening yourself away from it.

free nice food is almost impossible for me to resist....

feel your pain, have been sitting with a chocolate egg sitting in front of me all day, the only thing holding me back is that it's still wrapped..

It's the fact I don't have to pay. If I had to (such as vending machines) I'd be fine and have been fine all the years I've worked it.

When the free food isn't here I'm fine also, I just need to not eat the free stuff anymore!

I know though once the weather is better I'll be straight out on the bike and hopefully cycling to work some mornings too, this should have me loosing more weight, by Sundays weigh in I've only got 5kg to loose. Hopefully by April too.

I've just signed up for a half marathon so I need to lose some weight, as running is bloody hard for me. Every KG is going to help, right? So that's some motivation for avoiding snacks - avoiding pain later.

yep, I think its something about the decision making process of having to buy food allows the logical bit of your brain to stop the greedy fat person inside making the decision, but when its free the inner tubster has no real opposition!

Yep, your right, my first hurdle is getting over the free sweets at work. I think the protein shake will curb that as they fill me up.

I do think this time of year has a lot to do with it as well, dark mornings and nights. Hard to do anything after work.

Looks like this weekend will be snowing as well so I'll be using the turbo more.

doesn't work but its what i use, decided i'm going to pick up some mixed nuts tomorrow to use to snack between meals, along with carrots.

going to try and replace my lunchtime crisps with something else as well, not sure what though.

lunch time crisps.....

shakes head

Breakfast
Nestle - Shreddies and Semi-Skimmed Milk (125ml), 60 g
Hovis - Brown Toast With Light Butter and Marmite, 1 slice
TRY A BOWL OF PORRIDGE WITH CINNAMON / HONEY / JAM

Lunch
Tesco - Hot Cross Buns, 1 bun
Warburtons - Wholemeal Bread 400g Loaf, 3 slice
Tesco - Spanish Chorizo Sausage, 25 g
Tesco - Brittish Red Apple, 1 apple
**TRY PACK OF TESCO GRILLED CHICKEN with Mixed crunchy salad **

Dinner
Generic - Homemade Chicken Pasta Bake, 2 cup cooked
~~Tesco - Vanilletta Ice Cream, 55 g ~~ Low fat youghurt instead?
Tesco - Freshly Prepared Juicy Pineapple Chunks, 50 g
ADD MORE VEGETABLES, LOSE THE DESSERT!

Snacks
Go Ahead - Crispy Slices Forest Fruit (S), 1 container (3 slices ea.) PROTEIN SHAKE INSTEAD. Preferably CASEIN not Whey
Tesco Light Choices - Veg Cup A Soup, 1 packet TRY TESCO LIGHT CHOICES cottage cheese

That'll be £50 please.

Yours,

Zed
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