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86.4 so another 0.3kgs off. Tracking perfectly so far. Eating reasonably but still putting some naughty stuff away. Some, but not much exercise. Should have gone for a 7 mile run on my break in Boston on Weds but it was raining so put my feet up and ate biscuits instead... Still, feeling a little trimmer, a little firmer and considering doing a parkrun with the wee man tomorrow. Cycle there, push him round in the chariot then cycle back. We'll see.
Only 0.2kg off this week which is hardly surprising after the waterloss first week. I've also been tempted by biscuits and crisps a few time
Bit behind plan this week but still tracking down.
I'm also doing the "MTB Fitness" 12 week plan at the same time so I reckon I'm turning some fat into muscle too.
My biggest concern is the fact I haven't actually been riding this week as I have an impacted wisdom tooth, which is potentially the most painful thing that has ever happened to any human, ever 😢 I'm sure!
Not a good week, put a pound back on. Bad Pondo. 🙁
What's this RED I keep seeing in here?
Keeping steady, which is good seeing as I came off the commuter last Thursday and have been nursing ribs ever since. Will be a little while before I'm riding again I think.
lost a little but its slow going atm and im bloody starving!
lost a little but its slow going atm and im bloody starving!
Keep eating, but snack on veg as opposed to fruit or anything else.
I'm eating more eggs than I ever have before, eating lots of veg and homemade stews and soups. BBQ butternut squash is a great 'filler' veg in salads and soups and essentially free for me.
I was 106kg late last year. I'm 101 now and still eating quite a lot of food!
There's quite a few gaps to fill, hopefully bumping this will serve as a reminder. It's worth the effort folks (coming from someone who has always been 'heavy').
Improved my parkrun time this week, in part due to lugging less weight round with me!
flu this week has kicked me in the head. feeling rubbish combined with left over christmas biscuits and a family birthday meal means i'\m heavier than when i started. On it now though. prepped meals for the week and am moving around less with work.
Bump for the Monday morning crowd, any stragglers ready to input some stats?
Bump for the Monday morning crowd, any stragglers ready to input some stats?
YAAAAAYY!! Someone's doing my job for me 🤗🤗
Good job too cos I can't be bothered 😁
Guess I'd better go and input my weight... 😳😳
Can't leave you to do all the running around Rob, plus when I have time I'll try and nudge people as it's a community system 😉
11 pounds in two weeks so happy even if most will be water weight.
Have been using MFP and trying to stick to the 1540 calories target it gave me. I managed a 200km audax on 12/01 (where I ate a lot more calories) plus a hilly 50km yesterday. Also doing 10,000 steps per day and 20 minutes bike commuting.
I have a couple of social events that I cannot dodge this week so will be happy just to lose a pound over the week.
11 pounds in two weeks so happy even if most will be water weight.
That's good going, I feel the need to ask as I've seen it mentioned a couple of times, what is 'water weight'. Are you de-hydrating yourself or do you loose retained water quickest first when you reduce food intake?
loose retained water quickest first when you reduce food intake?
Seems to be this - something of a false positive. For the first week or so it can be easy to drop a significant amount of weight, stop dieting and it quickly reappears.
Also, if your food intake is down/you're starving yourself then the amount of food in your digestive tract will be lower = you appear lighter
For the first week or so it can be easy to drop a significant amount of weight
Would probably help explain my initial quick progress, as for the eating less, I'm eating just as much, but decidedly different foods, so that shouldn't have as much of an impact.
Fingers crossed the initial good progress continues.
starving atm
not loosing much. its gutting
Stats in. Is 0.3kg weekly weight loss a little too "conservative"? I dunno. I don't have time to exercise like I did (none this week due to night shifts and family time), eating, even if eating well is all over the shop due to said shifts, plus advancing age (43 means it drops off slower than it once did?)... I guess 0.3 is a reasonable target?
On a different note, did the parkrun with the lad in the chariot on Saturday and he enjoyed it. Even beat me, the little sod. Might try the one by me but it is very hilly (but less muddy!)...
I guess 0.3 is a reasonable target?
Always an option to see how realistic it is for a month or so and adjust if you want to. It's probably better to set out with realistic (or even modest) goals then beat them than to set out with crazy goals and miss them. I'd find that more demotivating than anything.
Also did parkrun again this weekend, about 2 minutes quicker than last week too which was nice.
starving atm
not loosing much. its gutting
Are you actually eating enough, to massively cut your calorie intake I can imagine the body going into preservation mode and storing up what it can?
I'm still eating quite a bit, but using the weight watchers approach limiting carbs and focusing on better quality carbs rather than just biscuits, I could live on biscuits!
Currently working may way though my afternoon snack, celery, carrot, cucumber and red peppers. It's not as good as junk food but it fills me up and helps me with the ride home.
Not much weight loss but I, the wife and others have noticed my face has thinned a bit which is encouraging. I'm now at the same weight as I was in March 2018.
Shame I was fat in March 2018 ;-(
Eating less, eating better. Muesli and fruit for breakfast etc, turbo training, out on the cross bike and I've taken up bouldering once a week to mix it up a bit.
Was away at the weekend and swapped baked potato for chips at dinner and Muesli for a cooked breakfast.
It's horrible being the only one not having a lovely cooked breakast. Thinner but miserable.
Eggs, Bacon (medallions), tomatoes, mushrooms (obviously best cooked in butter, but it's only once a week). Sausages might be best skipped, but you can have a pretty decent cooked breakfast for no real downside on WW. Depends on what you are using as a guide though I guess.
One of our work 'snacks' has been changed to chocolate covered peanuts, ginger and cashews and raisins. I've been really good recently, but today I've been weak as, sad times. Still 35 minute commute home will balance things out a bit.
today I’ve been weak as, sad times
In the same way as you can't 'win' at your diet in a day, you can't 'lose' at it either. It's only a day, and if the 3000-3500 calories deficit to lose a lb is right, it works in the opposite direction too. That's a lot of calories.
You only lose if you then go '**** it', write off the week as a bad job and then you CAN eat that sort of surplus. So don't. It's only a few chotty covered nuts, not a week of eating badly.
Cheers Jon, rest of th day has been fine and luckily everyone else in the office has eaten the rest of them 🙂
-1.8 / -8.2 lbs
Diet was okay this week but the exercise has fallen off. I need to get back onto moving more!
Lost a few this, solely on the back of one (sullen) C25K run, a bit of dancing and eating better. This *may indicate how unhealthily I've been living over Christmas.
* Definitely.
Edit -
"slowpuncheur
Here you go:
RED January"
Cheers, forgot I asked! Don't have the mojo right now but good to have a motivating aim. I need me one of them. 🙂
flat this week - I'm Ok with that, still -5lbs vs the start.
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you started"
Also back on my 50 press up regime; split into 30s periods - start the timer and do a set in 30s, using any spare to rest. I started in 5's, which is barely more than 5-10s of work and then 20s rest, repeat 10x - total time therefore about 4:40. I'm now up to 8's (and then 2 more as soon as poss after the last set) and in a few days that'll go up to 10's, and then 12's
12's is kind of the target because that'll then be 50 in 4 sets, ie 2 mins which is the military fitness standard. I figure if at 50 and overweight I can do the same as is needed to pass recruit fitness that won't be bad.
Pondo - no reason why you can't try RED Feb or March (although Feb is shorter!). I didn't really intend to do it, just started before New Year to clear the cobwebs and thought I should see how long I can go.
Obviously everything is easier when you lose a couple of pounds. It just never occurred to me that things like press-ups and the plank would be as well. It must be a a luxury to be properly lean.
Illness over the last couple of weeks has seen my initial 2 lb loss go back on and put me back at my starting weight for the year. Nevermind, should be back on it next week.
Started at 177 lbs, went up to 180 week 1, 178 week 2 , and now 174. Been a bit slack on filling the spreadsheet but up to date now.
Personally, I think I probably vary by about 4 or 5 pounds on a daily basis depending on a few factors like hydration and routine.
So I might be going on the right direction, but it'll need to be a trend over 2 or 3 weeks to show that.
Weirdly, exercise is down this week. Started on RED January and was going well until Friday 18th, but since then I've missed 19th, 22nd and 24th. Life gets in the way.
Bit gutted not to see the month out, but it was still my longest running streak I've done at 19 days so something to build on.
Signed up for a half marathon in march so I'll be needing to do some longer runs with rest days in between so it looks like April before I have another crack at RED.
-0.4kg this week so bang on target. I haven't pooed for 36hrs so have a head start for next week ;0)
I'm struggling to get started. Been trying to cut down on my consumption which has led to a few issues with my diabetes control recently and quite a few emergency, middle of the night sugar hits. Then I went to see my doctor on Wednesday about the tendonitis I thought I was suffering from. He pointed and went "Oooh, look at that!", even before I'd got me sock and shoe off. Apparently I've been hobbling around on a partially torn achilles tendon for some time now. I thought it was just 'late-forties-itis'. Plan to go out on my bike tomorrow, wearing everything I own so that I sweat like a pig, then come home and do a huge jobbie before weighing myself. Then I'll probably drink a load of beer to cheer myself up. 🙁
Another kilo or so gone just from eating healthily and watching portion sizes.
Gone up a bit.
All part of the plan.
Didn't lose anything last week, can't weigh myself this week as I'm in a hotel, but I doubt two weeks of Premier Inn breakfasts have helped!
Trying to go running more often, and bought one of those over the door suspension trainers but the bathroom door opens the wrong way so I'm reluctant to trust it pulling the door open!
Think I may have weighed in in the morning last week as opposed to the evening. Heading out for a week of skiing tomorrow, so will be late weighing myself and the week will be a fight between beers and tartiflette versus days out on the mountain. I'm hoping for at least staying static if not a small drop 🙂
Good work everyone, nice to see stats rolling in and remember it's a long game not a quick fix so don't sweat the small gains.
Weighed myself post dump yesterday, 86.4 so no loss. Weighed myself today, having not had a dump, 86.0. So 0.4kg loss is what I'm going to go for, even if I'm starting to not trust the scales. Saying that though, clothes are hanging nicer and I'm not about to (literally) pop any buttons off unlike this time a month ago. No exercise at all this week, night shifts and young ones have seen to that. Next week should see a couple of runs at least.
-1.2 / -9.4 lb
Started with an awful weekend which led to some IF trialling for the test of the eeek to bring it back. Not sure if IF is for me though.
Lost 2 lb this week but spreadsheet doesn't work on work computers so will have to update this evening
Signed up for this and then went on holiday to Asia for 3 weeks so filled in the sheet and guessed at 2lb gain per week. Got on the scales today for the first official weigh in and I'm 3lb down since the first weigh in. Probably didn't eat that much on holiday, fruit, yoghurt and an omlette for breakfast. Skipped lunch a few days and just had a banana nicked from the breakfast buffet. No snacks during the day and did plenty of walking, but had a few beers and a curry most nights.
I forgot to weigh myself.
Just to get my excuses in early though...
... New scales are definitely correct if i i go down and the old ones are definitely faulty if i go up.
Agreed?
^ ha ha
When i had my moment of truth five years ago I went through that.
Actually there were two.....
First was I bought some new work trousers in the same size I always wore. I put them on and my kids were just slack jawed - you're not going out of the house like that! I then asked my wife and she confirmed my arse had got so big that they were tight enough across the waist and front to confirm that i haven't been circumcised.
So I went up a size and said i was going to lose weight as I was over 15.5st. At which point the wife put the boot in properly and said that if i was reading that off the bathroom scales, then they were ****ed by comparison to the ones she was using at Slimming World. So we bought new scales, and i gained another 6 pounds (lb) at the exact same moment as I handed over 20 pounds (£). Not the happiest net 14 pound transaction ever.
14st 3 today..... happy with that, another bridge crossed as my weight in lbs doesn't start with a 2.
Next target is under 90kg (198lbs) and then 14st (196). Bit by bit.
Hmmm, back up almost 1/2 kilo, despite Zwifting most nights for the last week (or maybe because of it!). I blame my body for laying down a layer of blubber in anticipation of this cold snap we are now having. 🙂
Well, I have no idea how I lost 2 pounds this week, but it puts me bang on target and makes me a happy Rob