[Closed] I'm fat, and I'm going to be honest about it

It's all a mystery to me but thanks to Gary M for that app. Enlightening! I think my brie and bacon lunchtime baguette upset it tho 🙂

Ride loads, eat less. Walk lots with mutt. Core strength and press ups make riding easier (not at the same time obviously), smaller food portions, no beer in the week mostly as it just makes me feel rubbish the next day at work, beer and cake on Fridays like Scud!

5ft11.77k. Happy 🙂

Scud, that the issue i have, years of Rugby and weight training builds big upper body thats a lot of useless weight if you are trying to haul it up a mountain.

You have to really make a drastice reduction in your calorie intake and your body will adjust. You will never be a racing snake clearly you just dont have the body type, but getting inot the 14 stone range will be easily possible.

Thanks Steve, resigned myself to never being a racing snake, but i find i am fine on the flat and downhill, but get dropped on the uphills, i'm getting better, but that is when you really notice hauling my bulk around.

It seems odd to want to lose muscle, but it will be a lot easier buying cycling clothes, recently bought a Howies XL cycling top, i'm not sure what there idea of XL is, but it looks tighter that being wrapped in cling film!

Hey Fat Fans.

I know everyone is on the edge of their seats wanting to know the update.....

95.0kg (down from 97.3kg last week)

I've stuck more or less to my diet, and been out for a couple of runs, it seems to be working.

I'm a little cynical that I have actually lost that much weight so going to introduce stricter weighing discipline. Weigh in will now be first thing Sunday morning, before breakfast, every week. Same scales, weighed three times.

Celebrated today by going to Browns for lunch. Three courses, including a steak and chips and cheesecake 😀

"Celebrated today by going to Browns for lunch. Three courses, including a steak and chips and cheesecake"

So you're not that bothered about losing weight?

It was a special occasion. I am serious about losing weight but I'm not going to become too harsh about it. I'm not daft, I know that having a huge lunch today was not helpful

So you're not that bothered about losing weight?

Dont forget that home made cake has NO calories. FACT!

Dont forget that home made cake has NO calories. FACT!

even better, get a home made cake from someone with very visible and flakey eczema..........that'll ensure that only in the direst of cravings would you think about it

[i]"Celebrated today by going to Browns for lunch. Three courses, including a steak and chips and cheesecake"

[b]So you're not that bothered about losing weight?[/b]
[/i]

There !, consider yourself admonished in person, by the iGod !.

I missed your initial post.
A combination of being banned and having a whole lot of other shit going on in my personal life right now.

Anyway, ref the above comment, consider yourself [i]told[/i]

Going out to celebrate weight loss, by eating stuff that makes you, err, heavier.
Possibly aint the way [i]forward[/i]

[i]I know that having a huge lunch today was not helpful[/i]

Yeah, right. So how come you did that then ?.
Especially when... You could have had a great, [i]Blow out[/i] lunch on food that wouldn't register on the scales.
😉

Can't you see ?, if you get your food choices [i]right[/i]
You can have a great meal, AND avoid weight gain.

In the last 3 months, I've had more Indian restaurant meals than in the preceeding year.
In addition to this, because of injury, I've not been able to get to the gym.
Yet, upon recent weigh-in, I weighed 79Kg.
Just 1Kg above my most recent lowest weight.
So, how is this possible ?.
I chose wisely, when dinning out ! and when eating generally.

Dude. Its a change in your lifestyle, that will bring about a leaner, fitter you.

Standing on some scales, seeing a weight loss.
Then going out to [i]celebrate[/i].
Aint, imo, the [i]future[/i] for Mr Sinatra.

Still, its a funny ole thing.
You know ?, you could pay [b]someone[/b] money for advise.
But, you don't actually get what you paid for, infact you get NOTHING !.
Still, perhaps [b]not getting the service I paid for[/b], [b][u]IS[/u][/b] the lesson.

FS.
Consider yourself lucky that there is now soooo much advise and info on this ere forum for you to succeed in your goal.
So really ?, it should be just a matter of time AND [b]discipline[/b].

Get with it, and you will [i]WIN[/i]

even better, get a home made cake from someone with very visible and flakey eczema..........that'll ensure that only in the direst of cravings would you think about it

Make it yourself 🙂

I feel like I did when I used to get sent to the headmasters office at primary school.

Sorry.

The cheesecake wasn't even that nice.

Will do better this week!

[i]I feel like I did when I used to get sent to the headmasters office at primary school.

Sorry.

The cheesecake wasn't even that nice.

Will do better this week!
[/i]

Allright. Don't worry.
Its not the end of the world.
But, I would suggest that you need to get your head in the right place.

Food is great, food is lovely.
And d'ya know what ?, we need to eat to survive.

How lucky can you get ?.

Just eat the [i]right[/i] stuff and then it all falls into place.
AND, the lard falls off.

Again, how lucky can you be ?.

Come on FS, I believe you can do this and all the STW lurkers are now looking to you also.

Just get into different foods.
That, given time, you WILL ENJOY just as much.

This is Doable !.

😉

before i went out for a ride today i had spaghetti and sausages, then when i got home i had two ham sandwiches and a packet of hula hoops, then the wife said i had sunday lunch waiting for me at the in laws so i went down and demolished a roast ham and chicken roast dinner with all the trimmings. Thinking about tea now. I am 15 and a half stone and 6ft 3 and you know what i dont care, i had run on my ride and you only live once..let the good times role

Thanks for the App advice Gary_M, just started using it and it's really enlightening! Really simple to use too so keeping an eye on the calories is easy.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. Just been pointed in the direction of this thread by my SO. Last June I was about 87kg, 5'11", but in September I started a PGCE which has taken up most of my free time so I rarely get out on the bike or go to the gym, I weighed in at 92kg in the gym in January! 😯
I find I'm feeling a lot more tired so tend to snack more, also find on my school placements that lunch is usually around 1.30pm which seems late to me so I feel hungry by the time I get to eat, lots of late nights and stress doesn't help either. I'm trying to make time for the bike and gym but sometimes just don't feel like I have the energy. I can't wait til the end of May when my course is over and I feel that I'll be able to get back into the swing of a 'normal' life ... for a while.
That Myfitnesspal looks good, think I'll give that a go to keep an eye on things.

You don't see any fat runners. I wonder why.....

Run Forest run.

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94.4 this week, down from 95kg last week. Not as much as I would have like but going in the right direction

[i]94.4 this week, down from 95kg last week. Not as much as I would have like but going in the right direction [/i]

Keep at it, hopefully you'll get to where you want to be.
😉

franksinatra - Member
94.4 this week, down from 95kg last week. Not as much as I would have like but going in the right direction

1.3 lbs/week would be a decent result, I reckon.

I think this is some of the problem with losing weight. People get a couple of good results early on and think that all the weight will fall off like that.
Then when it slows down, they get disheartened or think it isn't worth the effort....1lb/week is over 3.5 stone in a year......sounds OK to me.

73.5kg for me... lightest I've been for ever.

I like the old saying - no one lays on their death bed thinking "oh god if only I was thinner"

I bet that some say..

'oh god, if only I had been thinner, if only I had been fitter'

they may think that ^^^ if obesity was contributing to an early death

'morbidly obese' - the clue is in the name

I was about to say the same thing iDave 🙂

I use the livestrong website and app to monitor my calorie intake.

Dropped a stone in the last few months (from 13 to 12 stone)

Worked for me

Frank, over 1lb a week is actually good! That's the thing with kilo's, the drop doesn't sound like much so you don't feel as good as you should - well done!!

I started at 79.5 kg back in Jan but I'm only 5'6" on a good day 😉

I'm now down to 72kg and that looks to be all fat loss.

My excercise in the same time I have been "Dieting" is far less than it was pre diet, and I have lost far more weight.

I am following iDave - 4hr Body, and it is very sustainable for me
the weight loss has backed off a bit the last couple of weeks but then so has my good carb intake.
I need to get a little stricter again I think. but it still doesnt feel like a diet, just a different way of eating.
I dont miss the hunger mid afternoon, the blood sugar level fluctuations, the additional mucous.....all of which have disappeared since changing the food I eat.

I did a 50 mile club road ride the other weekend and felt a lot better than the last time I was out, the 17lbs less I am carting about helps everywhere !!
want to get back into my 10 mile commute soon as well which should help bring the fitness back up again too.

You should worry. Fat is what I am - 6ft tall 115kg maybe more! Was down to around 93kg last september but have balloned in the last six months. I'm still riding but it's a chore not a pleasure largely because it's hard bloody work. Back to the gym daily at the moment and very angry with myself.

gym isn't the way to go about it JB - IMO

Last lot of loss was a combination of healthy eating and an hour in the gym five days plus 3 long rides a week and it worked, without making excuses I come from a family of fatties and I kept it off for years but in the last two I've just balloned, I'm open to suggestions idave I have your diet sheet at home.

(without wishing to make it a tummy wagging contest)
Dude, you are not fat. I am fat.

I am 6ft tall and I was 25.5st Jan 2011 (yes - you did read that correctly). I Started riding and I am now (just) under 19st - (quite a few more st to go though!).

I did about 3500 miles in 2011 and aim to do 5k miles this year.

Trying to work on the n plus one at present, will see how that goes.

Main (simple) things that I think have made it happen :
* Hills...
* Eat less (and/or eat less crap - bin biccies and crisps and use grapes/apples. Eat more fish and chicken and less burgers - porridge for breakfast before 10am, soups for lunch.. etc, etc.)
* Hills...
* Do more physical exercise (not just cycling, run up stairs, etc)
* Hills...
* Don't drink alcohol through the week (I have a bottle of wine friday nights now)
* Hills... (Yes, I live in the pennines - everywhere is a ~1300ft hill)

Oh, and just to complete the mental image for you... yes I wear lycra 🙂

gym isn't the way to go about it JB - IMO

80-90% diet, or there about.

....it's why i'm a fat knacker despite clocking up 200 running miles in Feb.

*reaches for creme egg*

gym isn't the way to go about it JB - IMO

Really? Way more fun though...

*reaches for another creme egg*

I love the only way is iDave stuff here. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

*reaches for another creme egg*

😐

throw one here yeti

*reaches for skinned cat*

legspin - catch... nobody really does the iDiet.

Throw one here James.

You can imagine them at work..."oh yeah I'm on the iDave diet, no you wont of heard of it, it is really specialist I eat all sorts of food you have never heard of. It makes me really special and better than you.

[i]I love the only way is iDave stuff here. There is more than one way to skin a cat.[/i]

What ?, by reducing the amount of fat your body produces and stores ?.
[b]No, any weight loss has got to rely on that strategy.[/b]
🙄

And as for skinning cats and hills.
You'll be skinning just as many cats and doing just as many hills when you're 50, 60, as you are now, right ?.
Pah !, yeeaaaah, right !.

did I mention hills?

You'll be skinning just as many cats and doing just as many hills when you're 50, 60, as you are now, right ?.

Solo - why not?

My Dad is in his 60's. He still has a 32" waist, at the moment he's trainig to climb Kilamanjaro (sp) so alongside the gym and some casual riding he goes and does hill reps up the highest hill in the South every weekend.

up the highest hill in the South

😀 Cleve Hill is all we've got in a 50 mile radius. It's why he has to do reps!!

I think you mean Cleeve Hill 😉

Aye, my spelling has gone to pot this afternoon. Seems I struggle with working and foruming.

it is really specialist I eat all sorts of food you have never heard of

such as?

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

True. Very true. Some are quicker and less effort than others though and some remove a little bit at a time, some a lot at a time. With some, the fur grows back.....

I'm not knocking iDave, it works there is no doubt.
It the people who get almost evangelistic about it.
If it works for you go for it. At this moment in time it's not for me.

I can recommend using a withings scale or similar. Having a running log of your weight really helps with motivation I find

what's the 'specialist food' though legspin?

Specialist food = Kebab pie with puff pastry and a side order of chips and garlic mayo..

Those poncey flour bread things people make to replace bread then have to flavour the hell out of them cus they taste crap.

Right off home now rice, chicken and veg for tea then a couple of hours playing on the bike (looking forward to my post ride biscuits):D toodlepip

Ah, the gram flour that's also used in onion bhajis?

Was that it?

TSY.
🙄

You're always trying to provide the exception which, to amuse your tiny mind, disproves the rule.
I just can't be assed to reply to your drivel anymore.
**Yawns**

As for the Trolls.

iDave does a better job than me of pointing out that switching to lower GI foods, in order to reduce the amount of fat the body produces and stores.
[b]Is an easy, convenient and sustainable way to control your body weight.[/b]
[u]Obviously it isn't the only way[/u], but why make any task harder than it needs to be ?.
Lots of people have found iDiet easy and sustainable.
Therefore, in my book, such evidence tells even a dim-wit such as myself that idiet is effective and sustainable.

iDiet, don't iDiet.
Either you do it or you don't, or you find another way.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head.
Find some other thread to mess about on.
**Trolls, who'd have'em**
🙄

Solo - don't be daft. I can provide an immediate example close to me. There are plenty of other guys that are 60+ that still exercise and don't get all freaky about food.

Each to their own, but just because something has worked for you doesn't mean that you need to be so blinkered to anything else.

hehehe @ Troll

such as?

beans. i mean have you heard of beans? nah not baked beans other ones 🙄

I'm not knocking iDave, it works there is no doubt.
It the people who get almost evangelistic about it.
If it works for you go for it. At this moment in time it's not for me.

How you getting on FrankS.

Still keeping the faith?

94.0kg this week, down from 94.4 kg last week. Getting there, just.

Just checked back - that's almost a pound FrankS, that's good going in a week.

Those poncey flour bread things people make to replace bread then have to flavour the hell out of them cus they taste crap

Those are just a bread substitute. You don't need them, just cook things that don't need bread in the first place.

COME ON FRANK !.

SUB 94 KG this week.
GO FOR IT !.

🙂

92.8kg this week.

Good for you. Thats you lighter than me and i have been trying for a year.

To be fair i have lost 20lbs in that year.

Keep it up.

Well done Frank, bet you're even more motivated now you're seeing results!