Weight / Fat loss

I tried using one of those fancy computerised scales at the doctors. It did one of those impedance bodyfat tests.

It said I was thirty-fucking-percent bodyfat!!!

I am probably 15%

Goes to show how innacurate those things are, even if its professional grade equipment.

I tried using one of those fancy computerised scales at the doctors. It did one of those impedance bodyfat tests.

It said I was thirty-fucking-percent bodyfat!!!

I am probably 15%

Goes to show how innacurate those things are, even if its professional grade equipment.

I find it really upsetting just how much in denial some people are about being fat

Does this look like 30% fat?

I tried using one of those fancy computerised scales at the doctors. It did one of those impedance bodyfat tests.

It said I was thirty-fucking-percent bodyfat!!!

I am probably 15%

Goes to show how innacurate those things are, even if it's professional grade equipment.

it shows none of these things.

your statement shows that you think you are 15% (or wish to be).

you do not qualify whether you have been caliper tested for body fat, therefore the accuracy of the impedence test performed by that scale cannot be judged against that as a scale. you do not qualify if the scale was used correctly. you supply a figure, what you think the figure should be (based on what?) and then rubbish the measuring apparatus.

are you sure you're not wearing a hologram band?

edit: this was all said before the picture was posted.
edit: how do we know that's you.
this is me:

Damo Beckham

Well, I have been weighing myself every day with the Magic Scales of Impedance, and either they are complete tosh, or they only measure visceral/intra-muscular fat.

They assure me that I have stayed on 19% body fat +/- 0.5%.

My weight has stayed constant at approximately 82 kg +/- 1kg.

I've lost two inches from around my waist, and have bulked up chest/back/arms.

I can move more weight with my legs, but they seem to have stayed the same size.

My hugely scientific training regime has comprised of the following:

• Stopping drinking beer
  
• Eating lots of cheese sandwiches
  
• Going to the gym for approx an hour 6 days a week
  
• Going running, injuring myself, waiting a couple of weeks, going running again, inuring myself, etc etc
  
• Cycling to work
  

what the holy fuck are you doing in the gym everyday Neil?

I don't have satellite at home.

I can move more weight with my legs, but they seem to have stayed the same size.

This is exactly what you want. Same old muscle fibres firing efficiently in sync with each other > bulky damaged fluid filled muscles fibre looking all hesh.

6 days a week is a bit mental, unless you're there to cruise.

He could be mental.

'Satellite' is obviously a euphemism.

Why do gyms always appear to have more people in the changing rooms and showers than they do in the actual exercise areas?

More mirrors?

someone in the gym damn well stole my shampoo, conditioner and shower gel.

'Satellite' is obviously a euphemism.

Busted.

someone in the gym damn well stole my shampoo, conditioner and shower gel.

You should be able to track them down by smell.

I love this thread. Skinny people who have never binged nor waddled telling me how to lose weight.

I have lost more weight that BMMF and andyp have ever owned between the two of them. Much as i love you all and wish dearly to be as scrawny as you, I am not sure that you are capable of giving me the advice that I crave. Weight loss is obviously physical. So obvious that the physical nature of it is not an issue. Eat less and exercise more. The psychological aspect is the one that prevents me and those like me from being what we really want to be. I can lose weight and have done spectacularly well but only once I conquer that initial inertia. I can stay thin but only once I manage to maintain momentum. At present I am two and a half stone more than I was this time last year and very unhappy about it.

Perhaps what I need to do it to give you all lessons on how to chubby up.

Stop exaggerating, cliveo. I doubt you've even lost the 75kg that I've been without andyp's help.

Im proud to say, ive never ever had a shower in a gym unless ive been swimming.

Commercial gyms are not really "training centres" if they were, all you see there is rows of barbells, weights, plyo boxes, perhaps gymnastic apparatus and a running track outdoors.

No one except athletes or pseudo-athletes would go to that. Normal people go to the gym for some weird physcological self-punishment thing, or to enjoy a kind of "holistic day out".

Why do gyms always appear to have more people in the changing rooms and showers than they do in the actual exercise areas?

Why exactly are you unhappy with your weight cliveo?

This is a total cliche/rhetoric by now. But arbitary weight loss is kind of meaningless and often unhealthy.

If you want to keep things like your diet the same, you really do have to increase output. Temporary guilt ridden dieting and treadmill binging is no fun and not sustainable.

You need to find long term lifestyle changes which are not only sustainable, but things which will enhance your life by being fun.

In terms of evolutionary biology, we are not physically or mentally "normal" without doing gruelling physical work every day. It keeps us physically & emotionally healthy.

You need to find something to fill this criteria, a personal challenge you can grow & improve at.

I love this thread. Skinny people who have never binged nor waddled telling me how to lose weight.

At present I am two and a half stone more than I was this time last year and very unhappy about it.

Perhaps what I need to do it to give you all lessons on how to chubby up.

Losing weight is hard because being hungry is unpleasant. It seems to me that the deficit between energy consumed and expended inevitably results in hunger; the deficit is hunger.

So you are vain enough to see this unpleasantness as a reasonable cost, or you are not. Either way it's fuck all to be proud of, let's face it.

DFP. I want to lose weight because I am overweight. 17 and a half stone when I would like to be 14 and probably should be less still. If lighter I could climb hills more easily and see my penis more frequently.

I know all about long term life style changes. I know what I need to do. I know that I need a challenge. I have set myself some fairly tough challenges and achieved them. I am overweight. I am a weak and fallible person. I am also not young and do not have the time available during a regular working week to do all that I would love to do.

I decided to lose weight for a hillclimb season one year. I targeted a 10% loss in body mass, starting from 66kg. At the time, I was already the leanest I'd been for years, due to an unemployed winter/spring of long miles.

What I was chasing, was the kind of height/weight ratio often seen in the pro peloton, but as I'd found work at the start of the summer, I didn't have the luxury of long miles as part of my weight loss arsenal.

In 3 months, I got down to 60kg. 'Psychological' might be one way to describe it. 'Mental' might be another. I've never been so hungry for so long.

It turned out to be too much. I started to lose the oomph that's part of being a 'power climber' or 'hill sprinter'. Probably would've roared up Alpine climbs, but things were not going well on the 90 second to 3 minute climbs I favoured. And I couldn't sleep. That was bad.

Putting 2.5kg back on, within the space of a few weeks, was fucking awesome.

I'm heavier than my climbing weight again now. And a bit happier too.

This year's big experiment involved putting on 10% of lean mass in just over 3 months. Eating almost became a chore.

[/life in the Northern Hemisphere is soooooooo complicated]

PS. Hello J - wondered where you'd got to (other than York)

DFP. I want to lose weight because I am overweight. 17 and a half stone when I would like to be 14 and probably should be less still. If lighter I could climb hills more easily and see my penis more frequently.

I know all about long term life style changes. I know what I need to do. I know that I need a challenge. I have set myself some fairly tough challenges and achieved them. I am overweight. I am a weak and fallible person. I am also not young and do not have the time available during a regular working week to do all that I would love to do.

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