Weight / Fat loss

Anyone use myfitnesspal? I feel like it's a modern-day weightwatchers but after 2 days I'm enjoying it.
Told me yesterday that if I keep going like that, I'll weigh 8kg more in 5 weeks!

^^My shit once turned black as night. I was convinced it was dried blood and went Googling in a panic. Turns out that's what happens following excessive Oreo consumption.

I often play the panic inducing game of colon cancer or beetroot.

Myfitnesspal is handy if you have it synced to something that logs your exercise, so you can get a decent idea if you're up or down on the day. My colleagues keep wondering why I take photos of the barcodes of what I'm eating though.

I find myfitnesspal works well for me personally. Keeping a really accurate food diary each day keeps me focused on my goal and is very visual when I have too much. Synced with Strava is really useful to track my exercise too.

Using that to track my food and stopping drinking I have dropped 7lbs since 3rd Jan.

I have been hovering round 15st for a few years and after a few months off the bike eating and drinking too much I had hit 15st 7lbs after Christmas.

My aim is to get down to a healthier 14st this year and haven't felt this focused before, always make noises about it but don't make any changes, I have always drank too much beer and curbing that is probably the biggest impact so far.

So far so good for me.

Two weeks of 5:2 plus no beer, sweets, crisps, chocolate etc means i'm down from a post Christmas 86.3 to 85.4 this morning. I'm sure a bit of a sedentary weekend will put me at around 86 for Mondays marker weigh in but that's okay.

Got plenty to do though. With my wedding in July, i'd like to be ~75Kg by the end of May.

Did not know I could link Strava to myfitnesspal, that's awesome. Thanks.
I feel like myfitnesspal was massively overestimating the amount of calories I was using during rides, so this will help a lot.

I'm logging all of my eating, making an effort to get out on the bike more, and weighing myself regularly now, hopefully this can result in a lasting change.

Strava seems to overestimate my calories, surely an hour commute can't average 1000 calories?

I thought i might contribute to this thread as i used to weigh 133Kgs but got down to 86Kg in a year.

For me it was about saving my life - I didnt want to be hanging over the edge of a cliff and unable to pull myself up. I stepped on the scales infront of some mates and the needle maxed out, I was 21 and over 20 stone with long hair - bitch tits, picture comic shop guy guy in the simpsons. i didnt want to be 22 and 22 stone etc.

Society can be really cruel, had loads of people taking the piss..honking, shouting abuse when i cycled. :( but i kind of used that as a 'f*** you' motivation.

Cycling is good cardio but ive never found it burned as many calories as a good weights session,push ups-pull ups-plank-and general insanity esque activity .

Working out was really hard work at first-i couldnt do one proper press-up so i had to use a raised surface but all the extra body weight meant is that it takes a lot of energy to do anything quickly creating a sweat so in fact the change in habits mean the first couple stone came off really fast, Its a lot harder the lower your %s get. I wasnt massively scientific about all this counting calories. There are many things that can affect motivation an apparent energy levels. I dont look at scales now, in general i yoyo by a few Kgs either way but i tend to measure my self more on belt tightness. Its much harder to lose weight now my body is acclimatised to the change. I actually enjoy food more now as a reward post hard effort whereas i didnt even really know what various food stuffs contained before and used to munch all the biscuits etc.

I spent a lot of time living on minimal carbs and consuming vast amounts of chicken/turkey & veg. A good quality protein blend and my carbs tended to be more oat based than wheat based such as instant oats. Also had to force myself to drink at least 2 big bottles of water a day - a thermoblend (raspberry ketones/green tea) can help as it gives a bit of a dry mouth so you tend to want to keep sipping water. Gum can help with digestion as well as keeping any bad breath isssues associated with a body burning fat. Found myself actually feeling true hunger and having to snack on more protein between meals. I went from about a 44 inch waist to nearer to 32 at the same time keeping quite a strong build that had supported the obesity. Isotonics/electrolytes to replace salts can help with exercise but many drinks marketed as energy drinks are just lashings of sugar and caffeine and tend to drop you down after the high.

Fad diets with spurious claims like drink this shit and lose lbs really annoy me..more like lose £s, all the women at my work think it can be done without any effort. Isnt it better to get some fitness out of it too? It takes hard work.

Good for you. And yes, it takes effort. People tend to massively over analyse what they eat, and go for all sorts of fad diet shit. Similar to you, I've lost a shed load of weight, mainly by riding a LOT. I was 96kg at the start of 2013, weighed myself last night, 75kg. I rode > 5000 miles last year, largely off road (so harder work). I eat less sugar, less bread, more oats, less white rice more brown rice, less meat, more greens, no tea, 1 coffee per day max, lots of water, less booze.

That's about as much as I can be bothered to analyse it.

3kg lighter today than I was on the first of this month. That rate is going to tail off even if I don't ease up, from past experience. Still, I think this year I will reach my target weight without spending a week heavily sedated.

The kind of dinner I cut out to lose weight last year. Try it.

Says who? As a recovery drink you're trying to get the most muscle glycogen and muscle repair happening. How do you do that? By carb & protein intake straight after excercise. Choc milk is a fine recovery drink. Fat slows gastric emptying so can be hampering the muscles ability to use the carbs and protein you're putting in, defeating the purpose of the recovery drink.

I stopped using Rego. Because soy.

Very unlikely unless you are heavier than me and moving faster. Both of which I've come to notice on this forum are unlikely to be true ;)

I'm back in London and have put back on the weight but that's to be expected (cake, beer, no exercise). Using MFP for a bit to be more mindful but going to try Racing Weight system again as it's actually about performance and not just 'weight'..
http://www.racingweight.com/dqs/index.html#/

80kg and generally between 30 & 32km/h.

Should be 75kg and between 32 & 34 really.

My point was about his reduced fat/higher sugar version compared to a regular chocolate milk. There's no need for more sugar or less fat than there is in a regular chocolate drink.

In London? You must run way more red lights than me. But the weight bit sticks.

Except you can get more carbs in for less fat intake so, in fact, there could very well be a need. You don't 'need' to take on fat for the purpose of recovery. Sure there are healthy fats you should be getting but not in terms of a post-exercise recovery drink. Low-fat in this case is a good thing.

I'm back in London

I did notice East London experiencing ever such a slight lift.

Nah, i'm in Manchester. Mostly bash down a dual carriageway. have a few "assisted" commutes at 40 km/h+

I'm in EC2 mofo. In your face! :P

Ah, well, yeah if I left home at 4am I'd probably be able to crack the 40 average for my commute too :)

Depends what you're doing. I suppose I mostly think of recovery drinks in terms of post-weights recovery. You want the fat when you're trying to build rather than simply maintain it.