Weight / Fat loss

But why? You are either a 28" or a 30" that's just how it works. What's next size 11 dresses?

If size 11 existed all of my problems would be solved.

10 mile commute on an empty stomach.

Is this more helpful for fat burning than having breakfast before?

Opinions differ massively on this. Apparently doing so will lower your glycogen stores which might make you hungrier later in the day.

I personally have breakfast before I ride to work. But I'm always starving when I wake up.

I'm sure I read that Wiggins used to train in the mornings on an empty stomach without breakfast.

But then again he can't even make this year's Tour team. Pffft.

5kg down since Christmas (actually since Easter as I went a bit nuts in March/April and ate everything in sight, putting on everything I'd lost in Jan/Feb). Still feel (/am) extremely flabby but hopefully it'll make the tandem a bit easier to haul over the Pyrenees.

10 mile commute on an empty stomach.

Is this more helpful for fat burning than having breakfast before?

Opinions differ massively on this. Apparently doing so will lower your glycogen stores which might make you hungrier later in the day.

I personally have breakfast before I ride to work. But I'm always starving when I wake up.

The rule is: up to 40 mins of low intensity, fasted exercise in the morning is OK and will aid weight loss - that does mean you will have to keep your dick in you trousers on the commute though.

Anything longer/more intense will eat into glycogen stores and be a hindrance to weight loss rather than a help.

10 mile commute on an empty stomach.
Is this more helpful for fat burning than having breakfast before?

There's arguments for and against. I used to not eat before, but on advice of a nutritionist I now have something small beforehand and a smaller breakfast than I used to after arriving.

That's exactly my story. Minus the nutritionist.

Although saying that, I am much fatter than I used to be. Hmm.

I have seen this guy at various cycling events in London, never realised Tom had 0% body fat.

http://viralious.com/2013/12/29/9-people-you-wont-believe-actually-exist/9/

yeah I've seen him in look mum quite a few times. only 8 people in the world have that condition, that's a little mind-boggling.

I've managed to put on 2kg in a weekend. Good grief.

Today's weight: 15st12lb.

Want to be 13st 7lb by the time i run the Paris marathon next April.

Time to reconsider the slimming properties of biscuit spread :(

Fuckity fuck, I have no will power.

Keep going over my calorie target despite knowing what I'm doing and knowing that I'm 4kg over the weight I should be for racing.

I've managed to cut out alcohol for 3 weeks but if I continue to eat shit at every opportunity then it's pointless....

I seem to have got to a point each week for the last 3 weeks where I can't stop shovelling everything into my face.

Might start wearing a sign around my neck saying please stop me from stuffing my face!

So I've been good all week, I've exercised, eaten healthily, not consumed alcohol, but I'm still the same weight I was on Monday morning.
I better start seeing some results soon or I'm going back to the cookie multipacks...

I feel like we've been here before.
Ultimately pure weight loss is not what we necessarily want, is it?
I know that I need to change my diet to lean up, but am not willing to at the moment.
Weight wise, at 67kgs I'm not unhappy. But I am still fat on my belly, so I need to change that. And in an ideal world pack on some muscle on my back and legs.

I'm sure realistically you're losing fat and gaining muscle.
Just relax. If you begin to hate it you won't manage yourself effectively.

As they sometimes say in the buff-man's world: Weigh yourself with the mirror not the scale.

Or you might have lost a kilo or more during the week, but since your bodyweight varies by that much over the day, as you eat and excrete, that can be hidden by just one comparison of your weight, even if you weigh yourself at exactly the same time on each occasion. Your bowels don't work on an exact and regular 24 hour cycle.

If you weigh yourself once a week, you could switch to weighing every day or every other day. That gives a more accurate and quicker discovery of the actual trend. But it can also be stressful and negative if you aren't disciplined (this way lies constant obsessiveness about weight and, for some people, anorexia - don't make it a permanent thing).

Or you could go for a more aggressive calorie deficit, so that there's less chance of the weekly weigh-in completely hiding your progress. But that can be tiring, depressing and unhealthy.

My choice would be to stick to the current diet/training regime but do a daily weight check for accurate information (for a limited time only) and adjust if that really showed that nothing was changing.

Of course, if you're already weighing yourself daily, I just wasted some of your time.

I know that I need to change my diet to lean up, but am not willing to at the moment.

Might work for eyebrows, Ed, but you said you were having problems with overeating on presumably not the best food. Changing your diet can be a very effective way of improving your progress, whatever your target (weight loss, muscle gain, percentage body fat etc.) Do it right and you can find ways to run an effective calorie loss without feeling hungry or weak. How would you describe your current diet?

My diet is generally healthy, whole grain carbs, meat, fish, vegetables, salad and the like, my problem is that I'm training for ironman so quite often I'll hit a huge calorie deficit, cakes will appear in the office and my weak will power says it's ok 500 calories you can have 3 of those. When 1 would have been ok...

This happens too much and the more crap I eat the worse I get especially as it takes a couple of weeks of that kind of behaviour for anything to show, so I think I must be burning it off until it's too late!

I got sent some pictures of me doing a triathlon from 3 weeks ago and was slightly shocked that rather than the lean athlete I had in my mind I looked like a tubby back marker...

I just need the will power to stay away from the crap, and all will be well, and in fairness judging by the mirror measurement, I'm making good progress, although I'm not quite where I was this time last year in terms of definition in my stomach, and the extra weight from a year ago (c.2 kg) is probably at least a kg of muscle.

Basically I shall continue to be good, and hopefully keep motivated from the fat pictures at Windsor tri, which will keep me away from the cakes at work and beers at home!

Fuckity fuck, I have no will power.

Keep going over my calorie target despite knowing what I'm doing and knowing that I'm 4kg over the weight I should be for racing.

I've managed to cut out alcohol for 3 weeks but if I continue to eat shit at every opportunity then it's pointless....

I seem to have got to a point each week for the last 3 weeks where I can't stop shovelling everything into my face.

Might start wearing a sign around my neck saying please stop me from stuffing my face!

Sounds familiar. I have like a permanent plateau that I hit and then get mad cravings, usually after some stupid ride but lasting days. Fuck it, I'm already fast and beautiful :P

I just worked out my BMI and at just over 90kg I'm only 3kg below the upper 'healthy' limit! I seem to remember reading somewhere that the recommendations may be slightly skewed for taller people (I'm 6' 4") but even so it looks like I could afford to lose a fair bit of weight.

I don't eat meat and have recently (for reasons unrelated to weight) decided to pack booze in for the foreseeable future. I'm also beginning to cut down on sugar/general crap intake. It'll be interesting to see how much difference this makes now I'm an old cunt as I used to weigh less than 12 stone when I was young and very poor.

What a cool story.

Argh the cakes have arrived...

Must resist!

Finally getting some movement, down to 73 (from 74-5 ish) 5 weeks ago, I'm back on measuring myself and taking weekly pictures to try to see the difference, it's thankfully making a noticeable difference so presumably I'm just losing smaller amounts of fat and adding a small amount of muscle.

8.5 weeks till ironman, ideally I'd like to be below 71 kg which is over 2kg of loss, but I feel there is more than enough fat to make that happen, at some points there has to be a bit of a landslide, but relatively happy now that not drinking, and being hyper careful of what I eat is working as it should.

There's arguments for and against. I used to not eat before, but on advice of a nutritionist I now have something small beforehand and a smaller breakfast than I used to after arriving.

Thanks for the advice.

Not really noticed much difference in terms of weight.

I will have try at a banana before and a smaller breakfast after as I do get caught up in promutting now and again.

Going the wrong way.
Just seen some race photos, look like a fat fuck.
Need to lose weight.

5:2 may start again, with meal replacements.
Look at that belly....

(c/o Andrew Clarkson/ PMC)

same, 154 last week, 158 this week.