Weight / Fat loss

It's so much nicer not giving a fuck. It's not like I'm the size of a bus or anything. I tend to equalise in the off season to low 90s anyway and then mid to high 80s during summer peak. May as well just accept this and save myself a lot of time and annoyance.

I have a feeling that I wouldn't stabilise for a long time :-) I used to dance around 100KG, which at 5 foot 8 was a bit ridiculous. Currently 78ish and feeling fat and flabby

I've been ~90 for the last 15 years I guess. I've hit 100+ once or twice after month-long gastro trip or illness but that comes off as soon as I start riding again. To get to 84 took a fuck load of riding and calorie counting.

had a really bad day on Monday, finally gave in to the pile of sweets sitting next to my desk, and went out for dinner and had a couple of glasses of wine as well as a shitload of icecream, was about 1,000 calories over what I actually used (between BMR and exercise) and still seeing the effects of this on the scales.

Is pretty demotivating, but trying to be patient, and not repeat the situation, which is easier midweek as I'm burning 1200+ extra calories through exercise....

If a pound is ~3500 calories, 3500 calories is about half a kilo, so you're saying your scales are showing you to be ~130g overweight after your binge? Get a grip man.

I was 70kg for years until University where I replaced lots of cycling, a physical job, and a bit of booze with no cycling, desk work, and lots of booze, curry and smoking.

Since then it's yoyo'd. Most recently:

• 93kg mid-2008 prompted a "shit, need to lose weight for LEL"
  
• 76kg for LEL in July 2009
  
• 86kg for PBP in 2011
  
  

I find running is so much easier (or faster) without the extra weight.

After months of checking calories, carbs etc etc, I think I found something that works :)

I went from about 75kg with visible abs to a fat person that weighed 108.

I already was a vegetarian. I stopped checking my intake and the only thing I changed was going full vegan (so bye bye milk, cheese, eggs etc). Let's see how long I can keep this up. Besides that, after years and years of struggling with intestine issues and lot's of doctor appointments, this also fixed most of that. Still a bit cautious but I think I found the solution my most of my health issues :)

Don't run. Simple. :)

thanks, genuinely, much needed dose of reality.

in reality I suspect some of the weight loss I thought I had made was actually dehydration, and I'm better hydrated this week so rather than being at race weight as I thought I was and making great progress, I've got further to go.

Running when overweight needs to be under consideration in my opinion.

If you're 15kg over ideal. Whatever that is. Depending on form. You could be impacting your joints with effectively 45kg extra.

Running is a injury minefield at the best if times.

I try as hard as I can to push my rugby (so heavy) mates into cycling.

If you're training for marathons and tris. You have to run a bit obviously. But if you're merely trying to lose weight. Jump on a bike.

The mad peak on my weight chart below is after a few rest days and piggy pizza night.

Eating big meals, especially restaurant prepared meals. Means epic salt intake. If you're an athlete you'll likely drink loads to compensate, and the salt will help the body retain it. You can easily have an extra kilo knocking around.

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I can fluctuate massively day to day because of hydration/dehydration status and, I suspect a bit of water retention from salt binge, maybe, that's just a guess. But give it a day or so and it's even stevens again so I don't worry.

I'll continue sitting on my hands again then....!

Just having a long work week, combined with pre race (Ballbuster Duathlon) nerves, and could do with a confidence boost coming from seeing the "right" number on the scales as I need to haul my ass up box hill 5 times early on Saturday morning.

I suppose I need to look at it this way, even at the weight the scales said this morning I'm 3kg lighter than I was last time I raced it, my FTP is 60watts higher, and I've actually prepared physically specifically for the challenge in hand, oh and I'm motivated to race this one, rather than just completing it...

If I don't PB this one, then I will be making myself one of the deep dish cookies that's doing the rounds on the internet at the moment, and eating it all myself, and giving up exercise.

I think someone at work is doing that Ballbuster race. #csb

Beware the expected but failed PB. Even if you are generally faster, something else (conditions, illness, mechanical, etc) can mess it all up. I'm looking at your Newbury 12 and you Mersey Roads...

seem to be back where I was this time last week, happy days, ready for the weekend, and race kit is fitting nicely, more than 4kg lighter than this time last year so the race should be a doddle right?!

Easy peasy lemon squeezy

I started at just over 78kg.
Did a periode of careful eating, while prioritising fueling training and recovery. Assuming I'd still lose weight.
I am now relatively stable 78kg.

Fuck it. Pick'n'mix chocolates for dinner.

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Think I might be able to smash the 110kg ceiling this Winter!

I follow my meters ascended closely.

Reading a review of a nice AM bike this morning. The guy was only concerned with meters descended.

I should stop fighting gravity, and embrace it.

I just measured out the amount of sugar in a typical small fizzy drink. Damn.

I have come off the back of a few weeks away with work and a holiday. Over the three weeks I reckon i must of eaten pretty much every meal at a restaurant. I've also been smashing the beers and cycling as close to zero mile as makes a difference. I'm going to give the booze up for a month and see how it goes.

Due to illness and injury I have been very inactive as of late and have become noticeably wobbly in places. Unfortunately it has been found that my right rhomboid muscles have decided to stop moving with my scapula and have wasted away. I'm having lots of physio and deep tissue massages but really need to get my arse in gear. There's bugger all wrong with my diet so I'm just going to start off walking most of the way home from work and then try to get back on the turbo (hurts to have arms stretched onto the bars). Hopefully after diligently doing the exercises my physio has given me I can start doing more physical exercise.

onto the final hole on my belt this morning, so while the scales aren't making any great waves (but they are showing some progress) I'm clearly making progress, I might even dig out the measurements I was taking my self when training for ironman and see how I stack up...

Since firstborn arrived 10 weeks ago I think I've put on more weight than her. Been binging on homebeers and nightbooze, stodgy food and been too tired to run or ride beyond the quotidian commute. My profile is starting to look like Homer Simpson.

Why is that some people can put on weight evenly and just look a bit more cuddly or even robust with it, whereas I am afflicted with the frame of a thin person (with a thin person's pointy face, thin wrists and skinny hands and arms) who puts on weight like a blubbery rubber ring round my middle. It's honestly just the worst look. Like the rangy east African cab driver who now lives on chicken and chips. A little thin person's pointy face looking out of an unconvincing fat-suit of wobbly flab.

Urgh.

The reason seems to be musculature. Those who aren't cyclist upper body types tend to look alright with a bit of flab, but the super skinny upper body we all so desire for that pro look means any weight is super obvious.
I'm sub 66kg today. I'm hoping the 1kg dip this represents is dehydration talking. But I think the stress level I'm currently at is pushing the weight loss.