Weigh in tommorrow, its not looking good to be honest. Still getting through the cheese mountian left over from Christmas 😕
Im in 🙂
I'm in! Never done this before but fatherhood and nearing 30 has meant that eating whatever I want as long as I ride seems to be a thing of the past. I've hit a ceiling training wise too so I'm looking at that little ring around my waist that has formed over the last year or two.
Started out at 78kg last week. 76.5kg this week. Goal is 69kg by my 30th (end of March in case you're buying :wink:)
Spreadsheet seemed incredibly slow - kept saying the connection had failed yada yada yada.
Half a kilo dropped in a week, that'll more than do. I usually find nothing happens the first couple of week then it falls off quickly for as long as I can manage the regime.
(Yeah the spreadsheet can be loading interminably slowly).
nearing 30 has meant that eating whatever I want as long as I ride seems to be a thing of the past
You'll also notice hangovers last longer and take less to instigate.
The only way is down I'm afraid.
Battery has gone in the scales
Best excuse so far! 😀
You'll also notice hangovers last longer and take less to instigate.
That ship sailed a long time ago!
Doris has bought new batteries for the scales! Unbelievably I was shopping with her and couldn't find any anywhere! Fortunately she did manage after about 3 seconds of looking. 🙂 I will have to weigh myself this evening and update the spreadsheet.
wow that spreadsheet has got a bit bigger since I last looked! 1.7kg down on last week. That's probably just weeing out 1000 litres of xmas beer 😉 Now just need to make lettuce taste like stilton !
I'm in.
Had just started this anyway so helpful to have others to share experience.
2kg in week one. Its going the right way... but its gonna take a while... 😕
This is going to be hardwork... eggs eggs and more eggs followed by sweat sessions in the [s] indoor prison [/s] gym - it's even a workout getting my t-shirt off afterwards.
just under a kilo in first week.
Hoping next week a little more off, as there's some way to go
The spreadsheet's knackered. Can we call it off for another year? 😆
2kg in week one.
Surely that's unhealthily fast?
Aah well, 0.5 kilo the first week, not as good as I'd hope for.
Aiming for an alcohol free weekend this week - last week not good - don't know if anyone else noticed the witch circling Malvern. 👿
If it was the result of losing body tissue, maybe. But seeing as it's his first week it's mainly water weight - which is to be expected if you sort your diet out. I lost double that on my first week of the diet that shall not be named.Surely that's unhealthily fast?
Bugger, slight movement in the woring direction 🙁
2Kg isn't unhealthily fast....
I lost 8 kg in two weeks last year...... OK I admit this was two weeks treking and climbing in the High Atlas so it's not exactly a fair comparison!
High Altitude, 7 to 9 hours hard walking and climbing a day and only as much food as can be carried by our mule is, in some ways, cheating as it takes the will power requirement away from you - rather in the same way that an army drill sergeant makes exercise non-negotiable for recruits - once you're in, you are going to get thinner!
Wish I'd used it to kick start my diet though as I'd be a hell of a lot better off and by now I'd be just getting nicely into shape, but then without my own personal drill sergeant I'm just going to have to drag my own arse out of bed i the mornings to go to the gym! 🙂
Surely that's unhealthily fast?
Arrr your just jealous. 🙂
I think its just the water weight going.
Am eating healthily apart from getting no cake. 🙁
What's "water weight"?
i don't understand the point of the 31st dec 2012 and 1sr jan 2013 weights - as a day apart why are they both listed, and why are they different for quite a few peeps?
7lbs in week one, hoping to maintain that, or slightly less rate of loss. It did involve lots and lots of riding, and no pies 🙁
Had a weigh in, 2.4kg's down which isn't to bad since I havent really quit the chocolates and ice cream.
I tried to enter my data, but something is messed up! Sorry if I broke it 🙁
[url= http://www.bicycling.com/training-nutrition/nutrition-weight-loss/5-cycling-weight-loss-successes?cm_mmc=Twitter-_-Bicycling-_-Content-Story-_-5-weight-loss ]Some motivation from the Yanks[/url]
Good start for me - 3.5kg at the first week.
EDIT: I know most of this is fluid loss, as most of you probably know too, but nice to get good numbers up first time out...
The craving for snacks, chocolate, cake and beer are growing stronger... My will power is going to be tested!
A kilo dropped. That'll do for starters.
94kg, only 0.5 lost this week, can't say I'm not dissaopointed, i was expecting it to pick up a bit now that the hosue is empty of suggary sweets.
Still in the right direction thisisnotaspoon.
3lb here, very pleased. Using myfitnesspal as my main tool, no beer or biscuits with tea are my biggest change.
It doesn't need to be quick as long as it's going in the right direction.
All good here. Hairy Dieters book, no snacks, myfitness pal or as it should have been named 'step AWAY FROM THE PIE, YES THAT'S YOU I'M TALKING TOO' and my wife having joined in and gone a bit mental with what we cook. Kids are whinging tho 😉
83.5 on NYD, 79.8K last night. Happy with that. Plan is to be 75k at BST. Really enjoying what we're cooking actually. Not missing snacks really. Or beer. So far, I think it's probably middle age kicking in 😉
Also doing a lot of the hairy dieters stuff. Very pleased with progress so far, steady and consistent is what I'm aiming for, using MFP to stay below 1660 calories a day which so far has been easy. I've done every diet type you can think of, but this so far has been the most enjoyable and realistic.
I'm also BURSTING with energy, I mean ridiculously so.
3kg in just over a week, quite happy with that considering I had a skinful on Sunday and lunch out. Would like to get to 15st as I will feel a lot better. Best training weight was 14 7 which will be a big ask.
All in all it will save me cash as I will never need to lighten my bike, can buy heavier components and still see an advantage as the best way for me to improve, lighten my ride is to get rid of my fat arse.
You lot must be a load of fat chuffers to be able to lose so much weight so quickly.
Yes we are!
And it is really frustrating when you see some with a start weight of 80kg and a target weight of 78kg!
That's just a good shit!
amen
I have 6kg to lose, but if I lost weight at the rate of some of you lot I'd have disappeared by Easter!
Updated for me / Bump to keep this thread in my history
Another kilo off this week. 😀
Trouble is during this cold snap the pies are getting tempting, epecially working outside. 😕
Well done
I much prefer measuring my weight loss in pounds as you lose more (numerically at least). However which ever way it works out even at my initial desired target weight I will be heavier than I should be but from there will be more motivated and start training properly to tone up for summer.
Well done to everyone who has stuck at it and is losing some beef.
I weighed myself this morning - I seem to have gone back up 1/2 a kg. It must be all that new muscle!
114.5kg. 1kg down for the week. A win's a win...
Another 3.5lbs this week. Nice steady 3/5lb a week. And not doing much cycling at the moment due to shitty weather. 🙂
3lb here & a belt notch 🙂
Over a kilo down this week. Happy.
I've gone up as well! Back to where I started at 94.5kg.
Not happy 🙁
Although looking in the mirror my belly might be receeding back to love handles (i.e. there's now a down bit under my ribs rather than going out imediately!). I'm blaming it on the lack of availability of any healthy 'snacks' meaning the vending machine's been raided a few times. Brought in a can of soup for a mid afternoon snack and my own teabags/milk and I can have tea without having to go down to the cafe (which has cake and chocolate, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm).
Not happy here too, 3 pounds back on. 😥
Fairly happy here. Another 1lb and a bit gone. Definitely noticeable. Another 3ks and I'll be about where i want to be but it's going to be hard. Getting out twice a week on the bike is excellent motivations for beer and chips on Friday 🙂
Buying a breadmaker less so. Ace to have our own bread but HOW MANY CALORIES!
Really not missing the beer/wine in the week. Am missing not toasting some freshly made bread with lashings of butter 😉
Jan is such a hard time to get weight off. Stick with it all!
Going along pretty steadily, trying to cut out a lot of gluten, sugar and dairy. Riding a lot is proving difficult, been hitting the gym a bit and feel as though I've gained some muscle so probably lost some fat.
2kg down now, that's fine. I stopped eating wheat a few days ago while trying to sort out a health issue, that must have helped, and I've cut my alcohol by more than half. No biggie really, hope it's this easy to get rid of the next 4kg to hit mid-range BMI for my height.
[i]been hitting the gym a bit and feel as though I've gained some muscle so probably lost some fat.[/i]
Aye, some of you's might want to bare this in mind. The scales are fine for keeping an eye on progress.
But, if you're doing a bit of training, esp resistance stuff. Then what you might see is not so much a loss of weight on the scales, but body re-composition.
Another couple of pounds gone this week.
Its going good but getting harder to shift teh weight.
...and theres plenty more to come off yet!
Is it too late to join in?
Im not exactly overweight as such, just small for my weight, could do with growing another 2 ft or so.
Dropped 5kg since the New Year but out 2 back on last week. Beer.
Being a geek and somewhat obsessive I've just had the other half measure me (not my under carriage) chest, fatest part of the tummy and my waist to serve as motivation if I don't see my weight dropping I will hopefully see the chest increase (t-shirt training) and the others reduce.
4kg since new year here, have given up meat (but not fish), booze, cigarettes and biscuits (these are the hardest to give up 👿 )
Have been turbo training with sufferfests, a bit of swimming along with weights and Pilates. Aiming for about 13 stone (83 kg) as this about ideal at for racing for my 6.3" height.
Blip! Up 1kg this week to 115.5.
Still down 4ish kg overall though..
Too much booze and steak!
Another 3lb this week, although I know I went over the top last weekend and may have had to work a bit harder this week to loos anything 😯
Another 2.5lbs for me this week. Surprised as had a f&c supper as demanded by my wife after she'd spent 3 hours digging out our drive! And a business lunch where i thought I said 'no, no dessert for me' and ended up with a massive sticky toffee pudding and custard! Week before i was like a monk and lost only 1lb.
That's 11lbs in 4ish weeks. More than happy with that. Now 12st4 in old money. If I could get back under 12 stone, that'd be the first time since I was about 30. And that was a while ago 😉
I'm no diet expert but have always worked on and be told by experts that 2lb or 1kg is a week to be a healthy sustainable amount to loose and helps avoid an inevitable bounce back. Appreciate some big guys loosing big numbers in the 1st week or so but take it steady or you WILL make yourselves ill and start loosing muscle instead of fat.
1800 calories for me at the mo and you can get three good meals out of that. It's just cutting out the booze and snacks that makes the difference. It's amazing how much they add up if you have a beer or a glass of wine most nights and a packet of crisps.
The thing that's changed for me is treats now feel like treats.
Might give this a go, will need to convert pounds to kilos first. Will come back when I've dug out a calculator!
Haven't signed up for this but really should have!
Just a question on coopersport1's post, having lost a stone so far this year I keep getting the comments about 2lbs a week being healthy and am really not sure if I should pay any attention to it?
Diet before the turn of the year was awful and was hardly getting any miles in (would get a chippy on the way back from spinning!). It's now much better but still 3 meals a day, reduced carbs especially on a non-training day. Switching to healthier chocs or sweets (and much reduced) if at all. Plenty of turbo sessions through the week and getting out at the weekend.
Not sure exactly what I should change to slow the weight loss, I'm feeling absolutely great. Did have a seriously dizzy spell after one hard turbo session but I'd forgotten to have carbs at lunchtime or the night before. Hasn't happened again.
With a complete switch of diet and exercise and plenty of available weight to loose I'm hardly surprised the first month has shown this kind of result. My events calendar is filling up nicely including John o'groats to lands end in June so I've got a target to work for (and if I don't break 4 hours for the etape caledonia this year I'm going to go nuts!). With such a busy year I just don't see how I'm going to pile the weight straight back on because I'm loosing it quickly.
Is there any reason I'm doing myself any harm with this kind of diet/eating/training or do I just keep going as I am?
@Stevemtb Just keep going,
I'm at 22.2lb loss this year. I have an awful lot I need to loose and have completely changed my diet and out on the bike as often as possible. I've not signed up to the spreadsheet as its not often I use a computer and i didn't seem to want to work on the iPhone/pad.
I'm using my fitness pal and trying to avoid any snacks, any snacks I do have I try to keep to a healthy option.
I'm expecting the huge losses to tail off and hopefully then just maintain a loss each week.
Yeah that's exactly where I'm at kristoff, using my fitness pal etc. and well done on the loss, that's impressive figures!
I can see why the advice when dieting is against the big losses but I'm not aiming for this to be a diet. This is a complete improvement of my eating habits and getting into training about three months earlier than most years. I'm bound to slip up at times but with the year planned there's no way I'll end up as bad as I have been this year.
Had my first takeaway of the month on Friday (was probably on two a week in December) and felt terrible after. Was very happy that I would have actually enjoyed a steak and stir-fry veg a lot more!
Just wanted to ensure there isn't a medical reason against quick weight loss or that its not going to mean me running out of energy. As long as there's not I'm keeping pushing on.
is the spreadsheet down? cant log in today...........
did anyone try the horizon diet with the fasting? - I am very curious about that at the moment but loosing weight at the moment by no snacking and eating salad sandwiches at lunch time (5kg since the start of the year) - good luck everyone!
Can't see that there would be. As long as you're maintaining a balanced diet.
As you said the one time you forgot the carbs you felt weak. I think providing you avoid pushing yourself like that regularly (as in making yourself feel faint etc) then I can't see a problem.
Just had a quick read of this my fitness pal story that made the press... 10stone loss in 12months! Don't think we've got anything to worry about!
[url= http://www.****/femail/article-2195210/Morbidly-obese-Ryan-Buckman-Essex-loses-weight.html ]Daily mail story[/url]
Another 1/2 kg this week, that'll do.
If you do a search you'll find weeksy's thread on it. He had some success I think.did anyone try the horizon diet with the fasting?
Its been good till now - but going away with work and eating in restaurants / with clients is hell!!!!
Another pound since last Friday. Not done any night riding the last couple of weeks so happy to be losing weight on just one (big) ride per week and myfitnesspal (or - as it should be called - STEP AWAY FROM THE PIE YES YOU...) tracking lack of snackage and zero booze weeks. Going to have to have my trousers taken in!
No progress this week - well a couple of hundred grams but I round to nearest 0.5kg so it doesn't show!
Updated
urrr... the last half stone is proving difficult and the motivation is wavering a little...
another kg down, 3 in total, happy with that.
A kg up since last week according to the bathroom scales, despite riding CYB and Llandegla at the weekend, OK diet and some walking etc too. I feel slimmer too but really doubt I put on a kg of muscle in a week! Go figure.
Going pretty slow for me at the moment, I think I keep getting distracted. Also I seem to put on weight every time I go out for a long ride - which I think is liquid surrounding damaged muscles to aid recovery or something according to the interwebs. Takes a few days for it all to go again!
Still, I did see sub 115kg mid week for the first time in an age, and that would put me pretty close to my best in recent years. Still a ways to go though before I hit the weight I was back in '95 whilst in Amazonia.
Now do I log today's weight or my best from the week today....
Having the lurgy is going to slow progress this week I think too.