Weight / Fat loss

Bread!

@spenceey Rest period and a good feed? Works wonders!

Yeah must have done. Although I feel a bit podgy already from the 2 weeks of eating and drinking.

Yeah must have done. Although I feel a bit podgy already from the 2 weeks of eating and drinking.

I was the same after almost 3 weeks off, including a holiday in pizza/pasta heaven, but apparently had managed to lose 2 kg, 1.1 of which was fat and only .9 muscle mass, which was ok. Two sessions back and my strength was the same. Felt good for it.

71.6kg so over a kilo lighter than last week, so pretty pleased, going out for a pub lunch yesterday and having an (addmitedly yummy) halloumi salad and water rather than a full roast and several pints is the level of my commitment at the moment!

Got a few challenging days ahead, I'll hopefully survive unscathed, up my running training and in 27 days arrive at the start line sub 70kg without compromising any strength or speed in the meantime :)

Serious question - but why the need to be a certain weight? Surely so long as your fit enough and have trained and can meet the goals you've set it shouldn't matter?

I am, officially, a fatty. I may have to start taking this more seriously.

79.7kg this morning.

The theory is that 1kg in bodyweight takes an extra 200 calories over a marathon distance so if I'm 6kg lighter than london I'll use 1200 calories less just getting around, which will give me more energy to run faster!

I am, officially, a fatty. I may have to start taking this more seriously.

79.7kg this morning.

12 months ago..
http://www.lfgss.com/thread46283-93.html#post3101011

I'm 4kg heavier since the 24hr and still setting PBs and winning hearts of ladyfolk on A-roads across this little island. #fknsxy

I just want to look better on the beach.

On that note- does 2,500 calories/day sound about right for a 37 year old male to be burning, excluding exercise?

i.e. that's the cost to run my tubby self, so add to that the calories burnt by exercise and then that minus [figure] is what I should be eating?

What do you do during the day?

Why don't you look up a base metabolic rate calculator and put your normal day in there?

Mine is about 1400, because once I strip out commuting and going to gym during lunch and any other exercise in the evening I basically just sit on my arse or walk to different meetings around my office - so basically completely sedentary

^^ I feel bad for posting the beach photos on facebook now.

In other news, one of my housemates got home from holiday the other day and told me that he'd managed to put on 10kg in a week! He also told me that he can eat a tub of Haagen Dazs in under six minutes. He's my new hero.

Hmm, that gives me a figure of 1,789 calories/day.

That doesn't sound like very much icecream at all.

That might explain the unexplaied weight gain...

Interesting, my basic metablolic rate is 1700, but on a training day i should be able to take in 3000+ calories.
Still not sure how i'm 70kg then.

That might explain the unexplaied weight gain...

Now you say that, but I still suspect magnets.

^^ I feel bad for posting the beach photos on facebook now.

In other news, one of my housemates got home from holiday the other day and told me that he'd managed to put on 10kg in a week! He also told me that he can eat a tub of Haagen Dazs in under six minutes. He's my new hero.

10kg in a week? Bullshit.

I could probably do the Hagen Das thing. Depends if it was from frozen solid or softened state.

That might explain the unexplaied weight gain...

What weight gain? He hasn't changed in 12 months.

Body composition has changed Hippy- legs are quite a lot larger, arms and chest a lot smaller, belly a big wobbly sack of horror.

Do you have an archive of fold tests or limb diameters? Pics or it didn't happen*.

*I bet you have pics too

Sadly I've overlooked that- I am going purely on "looks bigger" or "looks more wobbly"

Self-esteem bias ruins this. Go big measuring or go home back to the fridge

I suspect the issue is that I swapped the time I used to spend in the gym with time spent on the bike.

I need to add back in the gym time, whilst not losing any of the bike time- which is problematic as I need to add in running time.

The only way I can see to do this is to be unemployed- unemployed but super buff.

Unemployed people don't go to the gym, they sleep in until Ricky Lake/Jeremy Kyle starts and then eat enough tubs of ice cream to get them through to the time when their mates are at the pub.

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