Weight / Fat loss

Why use google when the forum answers all questions!?

It tracks all that jazz and has apps for most platforms - even crackberrys....

Yep its what I use and I find lots of the generic uk foods on the db aswell

I'll give that a try, cheers.

75.6 this morning :)

Had to cancel golf and going to a bbq this weekend due to diy commitments, but hopefully there is an upside of eating more healthily and being able to do more exercise!

Also, lost 3cm on my waist, 1cm on my chest but put 3cm on my thighs, suspect the thighs are a combination of swelling due to torm muscles and moar awesome power...

Good stuff Spenceey.
It's a decent workout innit.

If it isn't long enough throw in some
Mountain climbers - if you do these seriously they fuck you up!
90 seconds of this followed by abs makes me go limp.

Sprawls (w/pushup)
Power Sprawls on Vimeo

Round 2 last night upped to 30 secs each exercise with minute break between sets.

Bloody hell, sore today. Will try the same again tonight but given the fact my arms feel about 10x their normal weight I think it'll be a struggle.

Really enjoying it though.

I'm finding the high intensity training that I'm doing at the moment seems to be very effective, doing a mixture of weight, running speed sessions, 10 mile time trials and swimming. , it seems to be changing my body shape on an almost daily basis, which is very motivational...

75.4kg this morning, heading to a fancy dinner tonight but hopefully one bad day in a week shouldn't have too major an effect!

So I was a fairly chubby 86 kg/5'11''/22% body fat about 5 weeks ago. Struggling to get any weight off me I decided to start lifting weights to see if I could affect my BF%. My posture has improved, I'm stronger and getting more flexible. By eye my body fat has stayed about the same (my gf has even suggested that it has fallen a little). All good. To allow my body time to rest I have cut back on my cardio. My weight has shot up to 91kg though.

Now I have definitely put on muscle but 1kg per week seems a lot even for newby gains. Is this possible of am I kidding myself over about body fat staying the same?

If you've not lifted before you will put on impressive mass initially as your body adapts to training stress. Its pretty awesome.

So I was a fairly chubby 86 kg/5'11''/22% body fat about 5 weeks ago. Struggling to get any weight off me I decided to start lifting weights to see if I could affect my BF%. My posture has improved, I'm stronger and getting more flexible. By eye my body fat has stayed about the same (my gf has even suggested that it has fallen a little). All good. To allow my body time to rest I have cut back on my cardio. My weight has shot up to 91kg though.

Now I have definitely put on muscle but 1kg per week seems a lot even for newby gains. Is this possible of am I kidding myself over about body fat staying the same?

Sounds like you're doing the right thing, keep it up. I''d throw a little cardio in there, either on lifting rest days or maybe a 1 or 2 km warm up before lifting.

I have knackered my ankle so my fitness routine has ground to a halt, I am still managing to cycle (just) but that is about all I can manage.

Yet I am craving lasagne and chips for lunch.

I'd highly reccomend taking a set of measurements (calf, thigh, waist, chest and neck for example) and working off those as well as weight, as it gives extra motivational data which can use to calm fears that all the effort you are putting in has no effect on the scales..

Its really helped me over the last few weeks when my exercise regime has completely changed from low intensity cardio to much more high intenstiy stuff.

Times been limited on the lifting session as I do it before I go to work. I tried some running but it really kills the recovery. My body is adapting better now so I was considering some easy 20min swimming a couple of times a week.

At the moment I do Mon, Wed, Fri morning weights and went to yoga on Wednesday which I plan to keep up. Would it be better for recovery to swim on Tuesday and Thursday morning or Monday/Friday evening?

I'd highly reccomend taking a set of measurements (calf, thigh, waist, chest and neck for example) and working off those as well as weight, as it gives extra motivational data which can use to calm fears that all the effort you are putting in has no effect on the scales..

Its really helped me over the last few weeks when my exercise regime has completely changed from low intensity cardio to much more high intenstiy stuff.

Thanks, I will do. May get a BF monitor also. I only use weight as it is an easy measurement to take. I would be happy anywhere between 12 and 15 stone if my BF% was around 15. Which is a long way away.

Devised a great, tasty filling dinner that's mostly diet compliant (not scientific)

Brown rice
Petit pois
White cabbage (chopped)

Mix it all together with some low-fat creme fraiche and some Maggi chilli sauce (extra hot), season, squeeze half a lemon into it, serve with a couple of fillets of a fish of your choice, I've been griddling a couple of fillets of mackerel.

Warm, crunchy, sweet, hot, delish.

I'd highly reccomend taking a set of measurements (calf, thigh, waist, chest and neck for example) and working off those as well as weight, as it gives extra motivational data which can use to calm fears that all the effort you are putting in has no effect on the scales..

Very good idea that. I had a few people at Wests telling me I looked lean (they get automatic ban exceptions, flattery gets you everywhere..) and yet I'm basically the same weight I've always been +/- a couple of kilos depending on hydration, meals on a given day, etc.

You shouldn't lean.

Devised a great, tasty filling dinner that's mostly diet compliant (not scientific)

Brown rice
Petit pois
White cabbage (chopped)

Mix it all together with some low-fat creme fraiche and some Maggi chilli sauce (extra hot), season, squeeze half a lemon into it, serve with a couple of fillets of a fish of your choice, I've been griddling a couple of fillets of mackerel.

Warm, crunchy, sweet, hot, delish.

Try a crunchy noodle salad; cook then chill a handful of noodles, grate carrot and cabbage and throw through with some chopped fresh chillies and spring onion, then toss with sesame seeds, a splash of soy and ginger through and then serve with some grilled chicken or pork.

Had this for lunch today. Massive energy boost for me all afternoon.

75.7kg this morning.

Pretty pleased as the weekend started off with a 5 course dinner with wine and beer! 2 days of shed building seemed to neutralise that, and avoided a beer on both saturday and sunday.

Until I've reached my goal weight I'm trying to avoid alcohol, but realistically there are some situations where that is awkward/i really just want a drink so I've decided on a beer day policy. I'm allowed alcohol once per week, hopefully that'll alleviate both the guilt the next morning and limit it to 1 per week...

Spreadsheet updated, lots of gaps for last week...

66.5kg... I haven't had access to my scales till today.
Pretty bad couple of weeks tbh in terms of diet control/ motivation, so pretty pleased with weight.

I seem to be holding steady rather than going down- 77.6 this morning.

A whole 0.1kg lost this week! Another inch has melted from waistline. I wonder if I've got proper hulk muscles underneath all this fat yet?

I may have accidentally broken the spreadsheet as my phone decided that it didn't like google docs halfway through inputting this week's weight. I don't know why google drive is so sporadic on my phone, sometimes it works, sometimes it has a meltdown.

Can someone check it and make sure I've not done anything terrible?

Seems to be good, although I'm slightly worried looking at your current weight ...

I have no idea what it says, I have given up trying to access it on my phone and it's blocked on my work computer...

6.0 kg !

I'm echoing others in being surprised at where I am, having had a shit week and bouncing around all over the place, plus lots of drink + sweet stuff. No change feels like a win in that context