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.
This isn't something I've heard about before! Not saying it's not possible though. Another explanation might be if you are using carbohydrate drink/gels or eating jelly babies, etc on your ride as this will also cause your body to store more water. Either way it's probably not a bad sign as it shows you're not getting dehydrated!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!
I've still not lost any frikin weight!
I do look better in the mirror though, still hoping for a sudden collapse and I'll lose everything quickly.
Just a nadge over 12st now. Had a bit of a boozy/treat weekend and put half a pound on. Back on the wagon no! Going to get harder tho...
I seem to have crept back up to where I was when I started.... I'm blaming the weight training. Feeling much stronger on the bike and body fat seems lower so I'm OK with that for the mean time.
Never used energy drinks/gels so it isn't that! I as wondering what was going on and there was an article somewhere talking about muscles absorbing/storing/using water in someway to protect/rebuild.
Could be wrong though, but it is the only explanation I can find to putting on 1kg+ overnight following exercise with no increase in calorific input!
there was an article somewhere talking about muscles absorbing/storing/using water in someway to protect/rebuild.
I've no idea if that's true but it sounds feasible to me. Today my legs are stiff from 3 days riding - in effect I overused them, injured them, now they are being repaired and will hopefully come out stronger.
It seems viable to me that the body would use fluid to protect them, as it does with an injury.
32lb gone so far, reached my target weight but finding the low cal routine easy so might carry on as i think eating more to maintain it would depress me.
Yeah it;s funny that RD, I think 1800 calories is fine. We're cooking good, fresh tasty food and I'm not really going hungry. I never seem to go over 2500 even when I hit the wine/beer on fri and sat. I'll probably relax a bit if we have a summer and I fancy a beer in the week, but right now I'm sticking with it.
Said before, the thing I keep coming back to is treats are treats. You definitely appreciate them more by eatin them less.
I was down to sub-80 kg before I went skiing. A week in the snow plus a whole load of cheese means I'm back up to 84kg.
It's [i]almost certainly[/i] all muscle 😆
Yep Alex, I'm staying under 1620 cals a day, treats are for when I've exercised to cover it, but i know it'd be so easy to lapse into the old routine of eating everything and anything and falling off the wagon, I'm now 13st 6 and never want the moobs of a 15st 10 bloke again!
I was down to sub-80 kg before I went skiing. A week in the snow plus a whole load of cheese means I'm back up to 84kg.
Chapeau. Didn't you even [i]walk[/i] from the ticket office to the lifts? 😉
- lol, yeah. I knew the weight was coming off when my HRM kept slipping down my chest. On the holiday front, I intend to lose 2 more lbs that I want too so I can put them back on on a 5 day riding holiday with 5 other beer monsters...I'm now 13st 6 and never want the moobs of a 15st 10 bloke again!
are we going to trim the speadsheet of the people that done a week or two then gave up! ????
i feel this is helping thats 8.4kg i have lost since we started this 🙂 about 1/3rd of the way there lol
Well it seems the 1.5kg I 'gained' on Monday's weight in has gone, so there may be something in the theory of the body retaining some water or other mass to repair after a big weekend riding.
Almost 2 weeks into keto now and I think I've settled in to not eating many carbs. I just love that bacon fried in butter then eggs scrambled in the bacon fat/butter is considered a healthy meal on this diet. Having my first carb up this weekend is going to be glorious, though.
I put 1/2 a pound on over the weekend but i put that down to booze and chocolate 😉 But after last night's ridge I was down to 167.5 lbs which is about 2lbs off in a DAY. Don't trust it tho, so going to stick with my thurs weigh in. I'm keeping up to date with the spreadsheet.
Weight loss isn't linear though I suspect. On top of this, what time of day, how hydrated you are, etc. would all play a large part in what you would weigh on the scales.
I weigh myself every day, when I wake up after a pee, but don't pay too much attention to daily variations - it's more realistic to look at it on a weekly or average basis.
i weight myself every monday night before dinner that way its constant. also i use my myzone account at my local gym to record my bio-metrics every wed morning after my work out again so its constant
also remember that 1 pint of water is roughly 1pound..... so like 2 weekends ago i worked out i drank approx 20 pints of water over a weekend and wondered why i was like 112kg monday morning and then come weigh time at night i was 109.5..... (pissing like a race horse all day! lol)
A moment of self appreciation... 6.6 kg lost so far (a stone in old money!!)
