Weight / Fat loss

BTW I was at the in-laws summer cabin for Autumm hols. First time in bloody years. Found a pair of 10 year old, 30" waist, Levis 501s of mine in a drawer. They bloody fit!

(The 30" inside leg was a touch long. Must of lost too much in the that direction).

The downside of this. Is that there really isnt much room for further loss from my current 79kg, without further cuts in weight training.

That book is a pile of shit.
Very amusing though, and comes with a smattering of OK ideas.
Some terrible ideas.
Some harmful ideas.
Read in a bookshop, laugh, take what you want from it.

HIT is more fun and effective.

@Ed- your weight fluctuates quite a lot. This suggests to me that you are going about it the wrong way/ looking at it the wrong way.

You just ran a half in a good time, with little or no training.
Objectively, look at your fitness and decide where the progress has been made.
I would also veer away from the endurance type events for a bit as they build you up to having a massive and sustainable appetite, which when you stop training continues and you then pile the weight back on.
(at least thats what happens to me).

I would also veer away from the endurance type events for a bit as they build you up to having a massive and sustainable appetite, which when you stop training continues and you then pile the weight back on.
(at least thats what happens to me).

This is exactly what happens to me. In periods when I want to lose weight. I eat high fiber breakfast cereals to fill me up of an evening. When I'm adding weight for rugby, I munch snacks washed down with tons of protein shakes (plus a shake with breakfast). My daytime diet barely changes. Yet I can yoyo between 79 and 85kg using this method.

Currently trying to get below 79kg (hoping for 75). Which is much more of a challenge for me.

That book is a pile of shit.
Very amusing though, and comes with a smattering of OK ideas.
Some terrible ideas.
Some harmful ideas.
Read in a bookshop, laugh, take what you want from it.
HIT is more fun and effective.

Which bits to take from it though?
HIT is fine but what if you aren't exercising?

You just ran a half in a good time, with little or no training.
Objectively, look at your fitness and decide where the progress has been made.
I would also veer away from the endurance type events for a bit as they build you up to having a massive and sustainable appetite, which when you stop training continues and you then pile the weight back on.
(at least thats what happens to me).
My response to that would be - so what? Unless you are an underwear model (and assuming that you are fit, healthy and active), your bodyweight / shape / appearance should lag each and every other objective that you have.

If you're running a half, a full, or whatever distance, and you are training to a sensible target, fuelling sensibly, and having fun, then who cares what your body is doing.

This suggests to me that you are going about it the wrong way/ looking at it the wrong way.
This. A million times. For too many otherwise sensible people on this thread.

This thread seems to foster a distinctly unhealthy view of weight loss and body image.

Fair point, but my training load is similar, I just haven't run for quite a while, I've been cycing, swimming, rowing and weight training in the meantime. All of which I plan to keep up, although its a good point that shorter high intensity stuff does seem to keep me trimmer than slong slow stuff...

My main issue has been drinking 5 nights a week, which is unsurprisingly making me put weight on, and I think everything else is ok in terms of my diet and exercise regimes - with a few tweaks here and there...

I think the desire to stay to a diet comes and goes.

I cba at the moment, and am enjoying cake and a little more belly than I'd like. I'm still pretty fit- nothing compared to summer, though, but I know that I have an unhealthy body image, and I struggle with it/ some obsessional characteristics, but they're not bad enough for me to really worry about.

Finger is currently hovering over entrance into an IM, so may be back on proper training sometime soon.

Otherwise, I've got the plan to chill out a bit this week, nurse some injuries, and enjoy a couple of friends birthdays.
The desire will come back soon enough.

My weight fluctuates with need. I actually have a better body image when I'm heavy TBH.

But at my standard low of 80kg, and me only being 168cm tall short. Theres obviously room to improve my power/kg on the bike. If that happens to be my priority. No point in starving myself. I need the Cals. For me its like weight weenie-ing your bike. Drastic changes usually ruin performance. Its the numerous small clever changes that bring real world benifit.

orders carbon fiber skeleton, kevlar tendons, and teflon arteries

I want to do an IM next year, but sturggling to find one at the right time (end of August) a lot of my clubmates are doing the branded one in Wales, but unfortunately I'm unable to so I'm hoping for one close to them so we can all train together...

There's one called the cotsowld 226 which looks good time wise but I'm not that happy about doing an untested new event of this magnatude where so much could go wrong...

The othere option is going overseas but that starts getting very expensive..

This thread seems to foster a distinctly unhealthy view of weight loss and body image.

^ This. I eat what I want and I enjoy exercising. It's win/win.

doesn't work for everyone.

This thread seems to foster a distinctly unhealthy view of weight loss and body image.

I have to agree with this.

There's one called the cotsowld 226 which looks good time wise but I'm not that happy about doing an untested new event of this magnatude where so much could go wrong...

I marshalled at one of the 113 events this summer, the organisers were really really good. Apparently it'll be a different course but it's all beautiful countryside - and the half distance really was completely flat so I'm sure they'd manage it for full IM distance.

I want to do an IM next year, but sturggling to find one at the right time (end of August) a lot of my clubmates are doing the branded one in Wales, but unfortunately I'm unable to so I'm hoping for one close to them so we can all train together...

There's one called the cotsowld 226 which looks good time wise but I'm not that happy about doing an untested new event of this magnatude where so much could go wrong...

The othere option is going overseas but that starts getting very expensive..

End Middle of August you say?
IM you say.
Come join me:
http://www.fun2tri.co.uk/ultimate/index.htm

Hmmm it does have camping which should mean its cheaps....

Do it.
You know it doesn;t make any sense.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24532996

Just discovered a feature on my forerunner 10 which is great!

When it displays the summary of a run when you've finished it shows all the personal records you've achieved then and there!

it would seem my body has no clue if it wants to lose weight or not.

seems after a couple of days of decreasing in weight by a kilo or so for no reason my body bounces back up 2-3kgs, then over the next couple of days drops back down to slightly under what it was before, then a day or two after it bounces back up.

overall it's trending downwards over time (and at a fairly sensible rate) so I'm not worried and I know weighing yourself daily is a fools errand anyways but it's annoying after working quite hard at eating properly and getting plenty of exercise to see myself go backwards rather than forwards. especially as i seem to always go up on the day of the week i tend to count as my 'official' weigh in for the week.

Do you shit every day? Do you drink the same amount every day?

well I don't weigh my movements like dammit appears to (see few pages back) but I do tend to weigh myself first thing in the morning after I've dropped the kids off at the pool and before I've drank anything.

if it was just a kilo or so I'd be less bothered but 3 kg when there's been literally no difference in food intake/exercise over the past few days seems excessive.

like I said it's more an annoyance than anything, I'm not actively worried about it as it's going down just in a yoyo sort of way.

Weigh yourself every day at the same time/conditions. Write down but ignore the weight. After 2 weeks draw a graph with line of best fit. Don't forget the units or you'll drop easy marks.

I have a fancy pants wi-fi scale so it does that automatically and like i say it's showing a continued downward trend overall. just seems to be jumping up massively twice a week which is a little odd. c'est la vie.

http://my.withings.com/en/utils/graph?userid=1505951&publickey=7cbb5ee4a21d632f&massUnit=kg&forcedisplay=fm

Does it jump up a couple of days after you've been drinking? If so, it's the dips that are artificial - your body just reabsorbed some water after being dehydrated. Even if the boozing isn't at fault, it's likely some variation of that.

Could just be the scale is shit? Or the edge is on a towel or this one time at band camp it was like way hotter in the room and it got a bit muddled or yeah I'm done.

^^nah i drank heavily a few times the first week but other than that there's no correlation with boozing as I've cut right back on it.