Weight / Fat loss

So you had a protein shake for breakfast and a steak, surely plenty of room for a healthy dinner?

I'd already a sandwich consisting of 2 slices of brown bread, lettuce and bit of ham, didn't realise I was meeting parents!

Steak also contained some chips, peas, onion rings and mushrooms.

Now I'm left with low calorie dinner. As I said probably another protein shake.

I'd already a sandwich consisting of 2 slices of brown bread, lettuce and bit of ham, didn't realise I was meeting parents!

Steak also contained some chips, peas, onion rings and mushrooms.

Now I'm left with low calorie dinner. As I said probably another protein shake.

What about a chicken breast and some broccoli, carrots, or chicken chopped through some lettuce, and then a shake before bed? You'll do much better long term if you don't drop meals entirely for a shake.

Is it good to drink shakes before bed though? Then have one again for breakfast?

Is it good to drink shakes before bed though? Then have one again for breakfast?

Apparently casein is best before bed, due to the slower digestion rate. I just have my whey. No problem for me.

Yeah good point.

Maybe worth taking measurements then.

On a side note met parents for lunch today, was convinced to have a steak. Means I have to be creative with a 200 cal dinner tonight now after a run, ideas anyone? Might even end up with another protein shake.

2 lunches!

Personally I'd skip dinner.

Either that or have a huuuuuge salad with loads of lettuce - whole massive bag type thing, bit of home made french dressing and fill up with padding, you'll be asleep before you get hungry again..

Ok back after a nice run and some weights/ press ups.

Figured I can have 1 quorn fillet seasoned with chilli powder, load of lettuce and onion and that'll be under my total for the day.

Really not hungry but figure I best eat or ill wake up tomorrow chewing on my arm.

Since I've lowered my calories it's surprised me how fast I've lost my appetite.

so 3 days of ketosis, decided to go to the gym yesterday. fuck I really hurt today. think I'll give it the recommended three weeks and then switch to CKD before going back to the gym

Been on the stomach but diet since Sunday night.... 1.4kg. Whoop :(

so while I am still living the illusion of being rich, I bought a FitBit Aria set of scales. They look awesome, wifi is good. $130 they are not worth, but it's a toy.

Good news, I only weigh 82.3kg not the 86 I thought. Bad news, scales are convinced I'm 39% body fat. Me thinks this is very wrong. I'm 5"10, so that would make me a tub of lard. Ah well, they are known to be inaccurate, and as long as the figures go down I'll live till I get a Dexa done.

71.1 this morning, but I think I'm more dehydrated than usual as I only managed 1 pint of water between getting home and falling asleep last night!

Just managed to drop back below 85kg :) 84.8kg to be exact. I alway see this a my far too tubby benchmark.

At the moment I'm on a sort of crash diet for 2-4 weeks. This is half way through week two.

• breakfast: coffee (sometimes with milk), and if I think I've done/will do enough excercise sometimes a weight loss protein shake, but usually not.
  
• lunch: cucumber, celary, apples, carrots, smoker mackerel/tinned tuna, similar
  
• dinner: something healthy with as few carbs as I can balance with my GF's insanely high carb diet.
  
  

I'm also having shit loads of green tea, snacking on fruit and trying tricks like downing a pint of water before I eat. Usually I eat very healthily overall, I'm just greedy and have way too much.

I didn't weigh mysf for the first week, but since Monday the weight has been coming off.

Anyway, I'm aiming to get to sub 80kg and i'll see where I go from there. 76kg would be nice but I think it will be hard with my bodytype and hard to realistically maintain. So 79kg is my real goal.

sounds good hugo just make sure it's something you can stick too. Quite often if you hit it hard you'll get pissed off with it and give up.

I'm the same I eat healthy just lots of it, but in the short time I've been actively keeping an eye on it (around a month now) I've noticed It's much easier to ignore hunger now and I tend to get full much, much easier.

Oh weighted myself this morning 79.9KG - This is probably down to dehydration from last nights run and high protein dinner followed by not much liquid mind you.

"72.3 this morning, heading in the right direction again!"

"How tall are you?"

"173cm why?"

Just curious to see your weight in some sort of context... while obviously build, mussel mass and fat percentage are far more important measures than weight vs. height in itself.

Also myprotein whey mixes really, really easily. Much easier than the Promax stuff I've had before. Ended up with 1 and a half scoops this morning.

sounds good hugo just make sure it's something you can stick too. Quite often if you hit it hard you'll get pissed off with it and give up.

Cheers, I know what you mean. Sometimes I just need to get a bit militant to get things done. So weirdly the discomfort and hunger helps. My main two things are work diet and exercise. My head can be a bit shit from being slightly underfed, but I'm also not suffering from post lunch lags, so soon I think I'll balance out.

Now my GF and I have moved in together and are settled I'm hoping it will free up some time to exercise more. It should also give me a bit more control over what we eat.

I'm sure not drinking has also helped, but then it's always hard to keep that up when I'm with friends and I'm not actually trying to "not drink".

Weights since Sun:

Sun @ 86.0kg
Mon @ 86.6kg
Tue @ 85.7kg
Wed @ 84.8kg

Last time I found myfitnesspal really good, but I just can't be arsed with the counting.

I like my fitness pal a lot as it helps keep me in check when cakes turn up at the office - no spare calories = no cake.

hmm 80.4 kg this morning, and 19.6% bodyfat. Clearly dehydrated, there's no way I lose 2 kg over night, and 2% bodyfat! Still, at least the scales are reading somewhat more sensible fat measurements (I know it's still wrong though)

I like my fitness pal a lot as it helps keep me in check when cakes turn up at the office - no spare calories = no cake.

This, I pretty much rely on it. Also don't bother entering my exercise calories unless I go over my calorie intake for the day.

Met friends for a pint earlier damn that was good.

Over the inlaws for dinner Friday so that'll be hard to explain I no longer eat like a horse. Then BBQ with a lot of friends Saturday evening with beer pong, rather looking forward to it and that'll be my day off this week.

71.9 this morning, closer to where I think I probably am, and only 2kg left to go!

Although in reality I'll keep going of a bit until my clothes definitely don't fit and then stop.

79.9 again this morning. Same reading 2 days in a row could actually mean that's a true figure and I'm finally sub 80 (albeit only just!).

Funny to think just before Christmas I was over 90kg.

Boom! That's a huge loss, well done!

Are you looking to go lower? 80KG at 188cm sounds pretty trim.

Cheers guys.

I'd like to drop a little more so I'm comfortably in the 70's - and to tone up more, which I guess come hand in hand.

Running tonight followed by press ups, squats and weights.

Have also added sit ups to the daily routine and may start some kind of plank thing before long too.