Weight / Fat loss

The most effective way is to weigh yourself on dry land and then do it again in a pool, the difference will give you the numbers needed to work it out.

The way most people do it is to get a device that sends an electric signal through the body and measure the resistance. This works if the impulse travels through the whole body, but mostly they only really work in a limb (they are built into scales which will measure legs and those machines in gyms you put your finger into measure arms).

As a cyclist be wary of the scales that do it as they are really only measuring the fat in your legs, which in most cyclists is a lot less than elsewhere.

Obviously like most body measurements numbers work best when compared to your previous numbers rather than some arbitrary ideal.

Also the electic resistance method is effected by how hydrated or dehydrated you are. More water = less resistance
More fat = greater resistance
More water looks like less fat.

Down to 118kg. Get in! (Those trousers that used to be too tight.)

I should have said whats the easiest way to measure bodyfat? i'm not sure how easily I can weigh myself in a pool and the electric device method, sounds like from what you say, could be inaccurate?

The most effective way is to weigh yourself on dry land and then do it again in a pool, the difference will give you the numbers needed to work it out.

The way most people do it is to get a device that sends an electric signal through the body and measure the resistance. This works if the impulse travels through the whole body, but mostly they only really work in a limb (they are built into scales which will measure legs and those machines in gyms you put your finger into measure arms).

As a cyclist be wary of the scales that do it as they are really only measuring the fat in your legs, which in most cyclists is a lot less than elsewhere.

Obviously like most body measurements numbers work best when compared to your previous numbers rather than some arbitrary ideal.

Just about back to where I was pre long weekend.

Doing quite a lot of weight training so presume that some of that fat is burning especially as my clothes are fitting better again.

Hope to avoid booze for the next couple of weeks and shoud be pretty close to 70kg given the amount of exercise I'm doing.

fuxed

I should have said whats the easiest way to measure bodyfat? i'm not sure how easily I can weigh myself in a pool and the electric device method, sounds like from what you say, could be inaccurate?

The electrical way is the easiest, but don't take it as an absolute number.

Ie take it today and aim to loose 5% of it, don't think that if it says 16% your body fat is actually 16%, just aim to get to 15%.

Does that make sense?

How does one measure body fat? i'm interested to find out how much i got.

Either a DEXA scan as pictured, or a full body caliper test.

^Your doctor would have to refer you for that, assuming you wanted the scan for body fat measurement purposes, Mrs Bobbo's place of work is currently in discussions with a large London sports club to provide this service to their athletes twice a season. Apparently it isn't that common and if you have a DEXA machine you will still need special software.

I will do it for £20, email me a picture (no funny stuff).

Whats a good low carb breakfast that would keep you feeling 'full' for a while?

2 gallons of water

^^ havent you covered this before spencey?

Protein shake or cooked breakfast would be my choices

Have been really strict with eating and doing tonnes of exercise (70km running in 7 days) in the last week and so far have put on weight....

Beginning to loose hope, need to remind myself that it's muscle that's going causing the weight gain and maybe get the tape measure out....

Weight gain...

79.5 this morning, after a fairly long ride at the weekend.

Boo.

My scales are broken (may have just ran out of battery) but as I'm having physio for my knee I'm not cycling as much at the moment.

Completely off the sweet stuff - bar natural sugars from fruit.

Was just wondering with regards to high protein breakfasts as I notice if I have carbs early on in the day I tend to be hungry for the rest of the day. This may be common knowledge though.

Will either order some protein power for breakfast or start to have something at work.

For me there is only 1 thing that keeps me full at breakfast time.
Bowl of porridge (about 2x the 40g 'serving' size) and 2 eggs- preferably boiled for simplicity and I love them.
Works out at around 500calories with an apple.
Protein shakes are hit and miss in my opinion. Sure they make you full, but breakfast is my favorite meal of the day, and so its where I like to treat myself a bit.

On a side note- this week I've basically been eating all kinds of unhealthy food, 2 massive roast dinners with all the trimmings, a shit tonne of ice cream, cheesecake, cake, muffins etc. And been a bit lazy with the exercise, but still managed to maintain weight, and not put on any noticeable fat. Makes me quite happy- if I'm honest- as it suggests that I've managed to change my body's metabolism successfully to effect a long term change, and hopefully stay thin from now on.

That plus the 25 challenges in my 25th year (starting mid/late September- as I'm away all summer-and I need to plan it) mean I should stay pretty fit this year.

74.4kg this morning.

Moving back in the right direction and love handles have nearly gone again.

I try to follow the breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dine like a pauper pattern in general although lunch tends to be bigger at the moment as I have a load of pulled pork in the fridge which has made a burrito every day so far this week! Last day tomorrow :(

74 this evening, come on!

67.7kg this morning.
Suspect a bit of an anomaly, but closing in on the 10% start weight lost.

Bloody hell henry, I'm going to have to work my ass off to beat you to 65!

Still 74 this morning feel like I'm making progress, didn't have the energy to do much in the gym this morning hopefully I'll restore some energy throughout today and be able to run home in a decent time tonight, new dab radio should arrive in time which should alleviate the boredom with my own music collection!

I'm never going to get to 65. I don't think that its a realistic goal anymore for me- it would require too much sacrifice of muscle and healthy living*, and I cba!
Basically, New Goals:
Get rid of the last bit of belly fat that's stopping my abs from being seen.
Build up core muscles for climbing.
Develop my arm muscles a bit.
Put a few kgs of muscle on the legs.
(But nothing big- because I prefer to be as lightly built as my body shape allows)

*as in bordering on obsession- which is something I don't want.

Obsessive like weighing yourself every 10 hours?

Ed, you're weighing yourself more than is meaningful. Different levels of hydration could lead to up to 2 kg weight diff...

I stopped weighing myself for a month, checked again and I'm about 2kg lighter.

Piece of piss this..

Obsessive like weighing yourself every 10 hours?

Ed, you're weighing yourself more than is meaningful. Different levels of hydration could lead to up to 2 kg weight diff...

Thanks for this, and generally good advice, I weigh myself a lot to help motivate myself and look at the graph of the weekly weight as a trend rather than really focussing on what an individual days weight is. As with posting in this thread, its more to keep me focussed on what my goal is rather than thinking I'd much rather be having a beer/eating a burger.

Cool, so long as you don't get equally demotivated, which was my problem with weighing myself too much!