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Just been updating myfitnesspal and got an ad for signing up to be a Harvester secret diners!!
Blimey after a relaxing low carb day at home I had a dump and reweighed myself just now... 2lb loss over night!
Trying to stick to ~1800 calories a day so far seems fine. Just back from a 10k circuit in my local forest which almost turned into sprint to find a toilet thankfully back home now.. Sunday breakfast of muesli and a piece of wholemeal toast awaits. Keep the faith!
slow start from me - week one didn't go to plan with regards to meals (can't complain though, 3 free nights out and on one I actually chose a healthy option) but given that I still managed to lose a lb I can't complain.
To be honest I can't recall at what time I weighed myself last time, so this might just be down to having had a dump today 🙂
Have just joined you all 🥳
A bargaintastic price on the Anker Bluetooth scales I've been using, great for keeping track of things.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-Measurements-Composition-Analysis-Tempered/dp/B07GZBXCH6
been pretty good this weekend, 3.5 hours on the bike with a bowl of porridge for breakfast and a tin of veg soup afterwards (OK, and a cake at the coffee stop)
But then we had the family post-christmas get together this evening at an all you can eat pan-Asian..... which with the best intentions always turns into a blowout.
Ah well - 600 cals tomorrow!
Hi Rob, the years in rows 1 and 2 should be 2020 not 2019?
Days look good for every Friday.
Hi Rob, the years in rows 1 and 2 should be 2020 not 2019?
Ooops!
Fixed - cheers for the heads-up.
I keep getting errors trying to open the sheet from the email.
Can't change name on the tracker sheet either.
Started the weekend with the best of intentions, fairly healthy Saturday followed by an 11 mile ride with the boy on Sunday morning. All went wrong when we went to the pub and I had a massive meal and 3 pints. Back on it today though.
13st 7lb
6ft
Muscular build
Two weeks of 16:8 fasting plus restricting to 1700 cals.
Loads of trail running, riding and even some boring zwift sessions
Zero!!! Weight loss in two weeks... why?
Never bothered following structured weight loss plans or calorie counting before... I’d like to get to somewhere around 12-12.5st, which would be fairly skinny for me but at this rate, It may never happen!
Any knowledgable types out there have any theories as to why I’m static?
13st 7lb
6ft
At the start of this year I was just over that weight and am 5’8” and not muscular, so don’t think you’ve got much to worry about!
I still have plenty of belly chub to loose and need to be lighter for cycling, running and climbing. Also the dawning realisation that im now 40, I will only find it harder to stay in shape. Don't want to be back here next year at 14st 7 instead...
Maybe im expecting too much to soon? does this dieting malarkey take some time to kick in (doesn't look like it from the awesome weight loss happening in this thread, well done all)
It's early days hooja - stick with it. If you're doing 1700 on the reg the weight must come down, or the first law of thermodynamics is wrong.
That weight built big you're not that overweight, so it's going to be harder for you. A lot of us here either are very overweight, or are fundamentally skinny folk wearing giant fat suits, so the weight can come off easier.
Any bright ideas for reliably testing scales - two sets in the house, both left behind by past tenants, consistently different by well over a kg.
Obvious answer is to weigh something of a known weight, but have nothing significantly heavy in the house that I know the exact weight of.
Come on, science must have an answer for me?? (other than heading out and buying 84 more bags of sugar...)
A litre of water weighs a kilo...
“A litre of water weighs a kilo…” + the weight of the container.
which you can tare out while empty.
seriously - go to a chemist and weigh yourself on their scales, most have a set in case they need to work out accurate dosages. Compare to yours. Scales work by springs (even electronic ones use youngs modulus of engineered profiled metals) so they will be to all intents and purposes linear. so even if the absolute is out the linear comparison should be the same.
(eg: say you weight yourself at the chemist and it says 90kg, and at home yours say 80kg, you can then multiply yours up by 9/8 in future to get a truenumber - so when yours say 72kg, you'll really be 81kg)
No tare on the scales (from what I can work out anyway) but the larger the receptacle the less of a factor the bucket becomes.
So now all i need is a large liquid container....
As for the chemist scales - they have them, but objected last time i took all my clothes off.
Besides, it's one of those scales where they want you to put money in!
13st 7lb
6ft
Muscular build
Two weeks of 16:8 fasting plus restricting to 1700 cals.
Loads of trail running, riding and even some boring zwift sessionsZero!!! Weight loss in two weeks… why?
Weigh yourself daily, at the same time. I.e. first thing in the morning after going for a pee.
Look at your weekly average and compare those figures.
If you are still not losing weight, then you are over eating. It's easy to consume extra calories without realising it.
you don't need a tare, weigh the bucket empty first and then subtract it.
As above it's a linear scale so in the end you just need the response to the weight which can then be extrapolated.
TOJV's suggestion is far too sensible for Rob - what you need is to employ Archimedes Principle.
Some how.
So really my question about linear scale is...
Is weighing a small weight enough to gauge how accurately a scale will perform under much greater weight.
Eg If 5kg/5 litre is out by 100g, does that mean 50kg would be out by 1000g.
Does the degree of error remain consistently relative or does it change with greater force...being a deformed spring and all that?
...and will I still look fat in this outfit?
This week, I have mostly been using that well known diet plan; Gastroenteritis...
If there isn't a significant change I will be very upset.
Does it really matter if the scales are out by a bit? As long as you use the same set for each weigh in you’re tracking that movement.
broadly yes. Scales should be linear and are likely to be over the bulk of their range but may be a little off at the low end in particular. I wouldn't try calibrate a 100kg scale with a 0.5kg weight, but 5 or 10kg should be beyond this initial inaccuracy.
There's also something known as hysteresis where the effect of adding weight to a spring and the effect of taking weight off back off again result in a different number - but this is relatively small on a well made scale.
The response is dependant on the spring constant (Hookes Law) and also actually temperature but the effect of that at standard bathroom temperature will also be too small to fret about.
(My Dad's been in the weighing industry for 60 years, albeit generally weighing far bigger stuff than even the fattest MTBer)
Another week another 2.5kg gone, only 5kg to go to get back where I was 5 weeks ago sigh. I realised I was getting through about a litre of milk a day purely from coffee and tea consumption so now I'm limiting myself to two coffees, a cup of milky tea then hitting the Chinese tea for the rest of the day.
litre of milk a day purely from coffee and tea
Black coffee FTW!!
My week has been a shocker.
Zero exercise. Way too many sweets.
I can't stand black coffee and I can't drink too much or it buggers up my sleep.
hooja
I still have plenty of belly chub to loose and need to be lighter for cycling, running and climbing. Also the dawning realisation that im now 40, I will only find it harder to stay in shape. Don’t want to be back here next year at 14st 7 instead…
Maybe im expecting too much to soon? does this dieting malarkey take some time to kick in (doesn’t look like it from the awesome weight loss happening in this thread, well done all)
Didn't mean to sound flippant, just trying to highlight some of us have more blub than others so can get early losses more easily. I know from previous Chub Clubs, you get some losses and think that the effort is worth it. Then it plateaus and you wonder why you bother if you're not seeing any benefit. Just have to think longer term rather than looking for immediate triumph.
Think of it this way- you haven't put anything on! maybe you're loosing fat but gaining muscle!
" I can’t stand black coffee ..."
I take it intravenously! Handy when we run out of milk at work- I can keep on drinking.
Everyone prepared for the day of reckoning? Weigh myself everyday so fingers crossed for tomorrow!
Weigh myself everyday
and if Thur is better than Fri, will you still use Friday weight?
Absolutely dems the rulezz.
I played the long game last week. Weighed myself immediately after waking up.
I'm hoping a good purge will keep me going downwards.
Had a very well behaved low carb week with some walking and turbo and expecting good news tomorrow 🤞
Need to shift some last minute weight before tomorrow.
Going through out local paper and there’s a couple of adverts for ‘late night sauna’ that sounds just the ticket 👍
Not had a good week at all this week but we'll see what happens tomorrow. At worst I'm hoping to be the same as last week, but pretty doubtful. Be nice to see some sort of loss though.
Been out for 2 meals so I’m not too confident, tho I did stick to just main course.
Drawback of having a Jan birthday, when you’re trying to do Chub Club
Finished off the last of the Christmas cheese this week. Happy days 🧀