[Closed] Lose 10kg of lard before Spring.

Drink a pint of water before every meal - seriously!

It helps you feel fuller sooner (thus stopping you going back for seconds) and you hydrate at the same time

Everyone's a winner 😛

[i]I already do quite a bit of fasted riding including the commute to work and usually a weekend ride which is rarely under 50 miles and often nearer 100 so dont get me wrong Im not massively overweight I lost 15kg last year pretty much just by cutting down on sugar but putting a bit back on over Christmas leaves me @ 95kg/182cm. The reason to lose more is improve cycling performance. [/i]

Sorry, but at +100kg (last year) and only 182cm I'd suggest you were 'massively' overweight - in fact BMI suggests you were 'obese'.

Eat less (rubbish) is always easier than exercise more.

I use MFP on my fasting days on the 5/2 diet. I lost a stone last year.

This year, with a cocker spaniel to walk, 3 fitness events per week, and the 5/2 I'm looking to lose another.

Thanks for encouragement br , I'm happy to take a little bit of tough love but using my weight last year to contradict a statement I clearly made about my present self is a little harsh!

I know the target weight range for me is under 82kg so setting myself a target of 85kg is a bit soft but I spent much of last year around 90kg so it'll be an improvement on that. I'm also pushing 50 and at the risk of starting another discusion doesn't age allow you a couple of extra inches around the waist?

Btw my best time last year for 100 mile was 5h27mins that was at 92kg so not too bad for an obese old bloke?

Blimey there's some judgemental nonsense on this thread. I used MFP extensively. It's an app that's easy to hate 😉 I'd had a massively busy year and not ridden as much as I normally do (2/3 times a week). Jan 1,2013 I was 83kg. March 30, I was 72kg so that's close to what you are asking for. To do this, we (my wife somewhat grudgingly joined in even tho she doesn't drink and didn't need to lose hardly any weight!)

- used MFP every day for three months It's a bit time consuming but, as said on this thread, if you make some assumptions and are honest, it's a proper eye-opener. When you know a Roses Chocolate has the calorific equivalence to half of a 20 min dog walk, you just put it back!

- Started cooking better food. We bought the Hairy Dieters book(s) and we found those meals tasty/easy to cook. Kids didn't always go for it, but hey we were broadening their pallets!

- Gave up Cake, Cheese, Booze, Crisps, Sweets etc in the week. Except for ride night when I'd have one pint.

- Rode loads, walked loads, ran up lots of stairs (now I go to Spin twice a week which works well), etc

Then mostly stuck with that. I had one 'bad' day a week where I'd crack open a bottle of wine and chug down some stilton. I used to so look forward to that day 😉 But what really helped was not thinking of it as a diet, more of a lifestyle thing. I've not put the weight back on, mainly because I've kind of turned all the nice/unhealthy stuff into treats and cooked better/healthier food the rest of the time.

I was running to 1800 calories (+ whatever I made up in exercise using a proper HRM not Endomondo's amusingly creative numbers) and was hungry quite often, esp at the start. Now I have a mental limit of about 2200 which means I don't put any weight on.

As someone said, it's more mental than anything else, and just being honest about how much you're eating.

Best of luck!

Fired up MFP yesterday for another look, came in under target just, but those 8 savoury crackers I snacked on from the Christmas selection box whilst my dinner was cooking were nearly 300 calories, almost an extra meal! My entire breakfast was 380 and dinner only hit 430!

Good post alex .. I am currently trying to run at 1800 with 2200 as the steady state too

I did find 1800 hard, especially at the start. Even stuff that you think is 'healthy' like fruit has loads of calories in it. It's not an exact science, I'd rather have fruit than something processed even if it has more calories tho.

My one bad day a week, I definitely blew the budget. But I recorded it properly. Amazing what a few beers/glasses of wine + some unpasteurised cheese will do to the numbers. It made me realise - or at least accept, as I think I already knew - that Alcohol especially has many 'stealth' calories, and really should be included in the 'treats' bucket!

I'm making a big effort to lose weight over the next few months - a bit more than the OP. It's scary how much I've put on since I stopped racing and somethings got to change as riding/running are no fun any more and I make effort noises when I get off the sofa. I'm using mfp and the very act of 'having' to log everything I eat drink has me thinking twice before I absentmindedly nosh on something.

I'm also having a crack at the 5:2 bobbins and did my first fast day yesterday. It was very revealing how much eating has become my default boredom activity, constantly giving myself a mental slap as I subconsciously opened the fridge and having to make myself do something else to break the habit. I can't deny I was flipping hungry most of the day and I'm not sure I could ride on a fast day which could ultimately make it rather counter productive but it was also strangely empowering in a masochistic kind of way - it's been years (since my racing days trying to lose a few more lbs before the season with a single figure body fat percentage) that I have actually felt hungry and not done anything about it.

I started on the 1st November lost 2 kg by Christmas but then slacked off and put 3kg on over the festive period (despite doing the festive 500 so getting alot of exercise in) so need to get back on it. Going to do the 5:2 as that was what was working before Christmas but also cut some of the crap out i eat on non fast days.

I havent found riding on a fast day a problem (under a couple of hours anyway) it is more of an issue the day after.

Downloaded MFP last night it gave me 2400 calorie daily allowance, adding yesterdays intake came to 2200 and that was consumed before I knew I was recordiing it.

This mornings weigh in was 95.6kg so still going the wrong way atm. I'm going to add Alex's one bad day to the plan which seems sensible and try a bit harder on the remaining days. Good luck all.

I havent found riding on a fast day a problem (under a couple of hours anyway) it is more of an issue the day after.

Interesting - what did you have in your bottle/camelbak - I'm guessing just water.

Interesting - what did you have in your bottle/camelbak - I'm guessing just water.

Yeah just water. In some respects i find exercising makes the fasting easier as it takes my mind off feeling hungry!

Downloaded MFP last night it gave me 2400 calorie daily allowance, adding yesterdays intake came to 2200 and that was consumed before I knew I was recordiing it.

How did it give you that many calories? I'm only a little bit shorter than you (180cm) and I got an allowance of 1530 (not counting exercise), for a 0.5kg/wk loss.

Stayed below 1800 (MFP) but added 2lbs last night. The difference? At work, no execise, late meal. Hmmm,

Hopefully a late run.swim tonight and no carbs - currently 70% carb today, ouch!

How are you all getting ~2k daily calories on mfp? I've just restarted mine and it's giving me 1500 calories a day (75kg to 65kg, losing 0.75kg/week).

With so many people using MFP, has anyone considered setting up a STW group on it?

My target is 2220, at 5'11" starting at 76kg aiming for 66kg at -0.5kg per week. However my activity level is active as I am on my feet all day at work. Thats before any exercise allowances.

My target is 2220, at 5'11" starting at 76kg aiming for 66kg at -0.5kg per week. However my activity level is active as I am on my feet all day at work. Thats before any exercise allowances.

Ah, that would explain it - my job is 100% sitting in front of a computer screen.

Just downloaded MFP - the scanning thing is brilliant. But who the hell ever input all that information ?

1780 and starving!!!!! Can I resist anything now?

It asked me if I was active, I didn't read the descriptions of the options but picked fairly active based on commuting by bike, walking about quite a lot and frequent long bike rides.

My job is sedentary but I try not to spend too much time on that!

2000 again today without any effort.

Edit: changed from active to lightly active and the allowance has dropped from 2420 to 2050.

97 down to 90kg goal. Target of 1880 cals per day and I've managed 1200 for each of the first 2 days. I'm sat at a computer all day and mostly work from home so sedantry.
Fighting the evening hunger whilst my stomach shrinks is not easy.
I know I can lose the weight not reverting to the midweek drinking and junk snacks Will be the challenge.

@everyone, it might not seem it, but trying to lose 1.5lbs per week is pretty sharp

It's amazing how good you feel when you start to loose weight and it has so many advantages including,better performance on the bike,you generally feel happier,I've started controlling what I eat as from the start of this week,I like a challenge so I see how much I can lose every week but no fasting or cutting out anything I like,I just make sure I have 3 meals a day and smaller portion sizes,everyone is different however,hope you do well OP,good luck.

@soobalias yea I think that 0.5kg would be a more sensible target. I'm interested to see how well I do though because I know I often eat and drink too much.

Fighting the evening hunger whilst my stomach shrinks is not easy.

Eating low GI *really* helps this.

I put myself down as mildly active on MFP, because I'm on my feet at work, but I can't commit to any proper exercise. 76kgs, 5ft 10in, 48yo. I want to get to 70/72kgs by Spring. I'm working on a target of 1750 kals per day for losing 0.5kgs per week, but assume I can do the odd 2500kals days and not gain weight. I intend to get out jogging/walking a few times a week with the odd mtb on a Sunday. I'd be up for joining a STW group on MFP.

There has been an STW group on MFP for years

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/8827-stw-myfitnesspal

The activity level is your background activity. Any proper exercise can be input on the diary and it will account for it that day. I think it links with strava too

I think it links with strava too

It does, my run yesterday was automatically uploaded.

Just downloaded MFP - the scanning thing is brilliant. But who the hell ever input all that information ?

I added a bunch of meals to the app as we eat those regularly. Most of the rest I tend to find in the database (although sometimes the values are a bit dodgy) especially if made from popular cook books.

[url= http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141216161443.htm ]Low Gi interesting study.[/url]

[url= http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120626163801.htm ]and another one about calories not being equal..[/url]

It asked me if I was active, I didn't read the descriptions of the options but picked fairly active based on commuting by bike, walking about quite a lot and frequent long bike rides.

My job is sedentary but I try not to spend too much time on that!

2000 again today without any effort.

Edit: changed from active to lightly active and the allowance has dropped from 2420 to 2050.

Surely if you describe your job as sedentary you need to change this setting to sedentary and suck up the extra 200 calorie a day loss. I'd like to say my job is Lightly active and some days it can be but mostly it's sat at a desk.

I used MFP a couple of years back, but found it quite time consuming as cooking mainly from scratch it meant a lot of weighing and measuring and constructing meals from scratch. But it did give me a good view on what foods are calorie rich and which are not, which stood me in good stead as i moved onto 5:2 (with great results). i might try again and see if it's improved in 2 years.

My obs from that time would be that you need to put your lifestyle as it is and then log all your exercise, rather than suggest you have an active lifestyle because you commute by bike. Doing exercise gives you a calorie balance back related to the exercise done rather than a mild rinse over. It means you start from lower* but i found it worked better for me to do it that way.

(* of course if you genuinely have an active job, then put active. But then you wouldn't be on here in the daytime anyway)

And aim realistic. Better to do 1lb a week as a target for 14 weeks and stick to it, rather than aiming for 2lb and giving up after 3 weeks because you can't hack it.

Lastly - i found 5:2 worked better for me because 1/ it fitted lifestyle / work travel better; 2/ I found it psychologically easier to be proper hungry** two days a week than constantly hungry for 7, plus if I had a meal out with work and fancied a beer or a wine I didn't feel like i'd failed for doing it.

** and you can cope with this too, you're supposed to be hungry so suck it up. Go and find something interesting to do so you aren't sat thinking about it. Make your pre-fasting day meals high in protein which makes you feel fuller for longer and when hunger strikes drink hot water / with a half oxo cube for flavour if needs be, the hot water triggers a full reflex. And if all else fails, bin it and do it another day.

This could be massively patronising, or somewhat helpful, you can decide. 😆

I'm 69kg and have been for ages, I notice things about my eating habits that differs from folk wanting to loose weight.

1. I'm a veggie.
2. I don't eat pasta, fresh or dried, or rice, or spuds or routinely; bread (if I want bread I make it myself)
3. I don't eat cereal for breakfast (eggs most days or nothing) I don't drink juice.
4. I don't keep crap food in the house (sweets, crisps, biscuits, cake etc) and I don't buy it either. my luxuries are red wine, and dark choc for something sweet to have, I do have cake, but I make it myself and not often.
5. I make massive portions of veg to eat daily as an evening meal, I really make sure I'm full.
6. I weigh myself routinely
7. I do about 4 to 5 hours of exersize a week running and cycling mainly.

Nothing surprising at all when one writes it all down.

Just to stick this somewhere public for accountability. I've started a 16:8 intermittent fast diet with regular rides (at least 3/week). My end goal is to get below 70kg for the first time in years and a final target weight of 65kg.

Just started on MFP, I've always eaten as much as I wanted, often 6 full meals a day and a LOT of beer over the weekends, and never put any weight on. However over the last year and a half it has started catching up so am aiming at getting back to 72kg from my current 84.

My target is 2200 for a 0.75kg a week loss, but the most interesting info I have got so far is that I only get 10% of my iron and calcium GDAs a day according to MFP.

Would like to keep off the carbs and on the protein but being a veggie with a busy lifestyle for me means lots of bread, lots of pasta and lots of potatoes.. Anyone have any easy substitutes for such things? Bought some massive mushrooms to use as rolls for todays lunch but that looks like it might get expensive!

Would like to keep off the carbs and on the protein but being a veggie with a busy lifestyle for me means lots of bread, lots of pasta and lots of potatoes.. Anyone have any easy substitutes for such things? Bought some massive mushrooms to use as rolls for todays lunch but that looks like it might get expensive!

Do you have a microwave at work? Tupperware + curry/dal would seem to be an obvious choice. You don't have to have rice/naan with your curry!

I generally make 3kg of chilli or curry and freeze it but when I haven't had the time to make either I just make sandwiches or rice with tomato, which isn't ideal for weight loss..

My target is 2200 for a 0.75kg a week loss, but the most interesting info I have got so far is that I only get 10% of my iron and calcium GDAs a day according to MFP.

Just checked out the reports, and I'd take that information with a grain of salt... apparently I had almost 0% of my iron intake yesterday, despite having steak for lunch. Checking up the database whoever had entered the food details just left the vitamins, calcium and iron data empty.

There seems to be a huge variation in what works (no surprise there!)

For example, looking at nickc's post above, I do pretty well the opposite
Not a veggie, I eat lots of bread, spuds and rich. there's lots of crisps, biscuits and chocolate in the house which I eat. Every day I have breakfast, consisting of cereal, toast and orange juice. Apart from spuds I rarely eat vegs.
I've been 72kg for the last 30 years.

Who can say what works?

Checking up the database whoever had entered the food details just left the vitamins, calcium and iron data empty.

I haven't played with it enough to work it out but I'm guessing some/all users get to add food to the database, with varying levels of reliability. I've found multiple versions of the same food stuff (down to multiple versions sold by the same store). Annoyingly some versions have very limited quantity options (like only being able to add mushrooms by the cup not by weight) so you seem to have to hunt around a bit to find the version that looks accurate and uses units of measurement that are useful to you.

We cook 95% plus of all our food from scratch but have a limited number of meals we cook often (a two week menu rota) so I'm going through the painful process of using the recipe maker function to make every evening meal and then hopefully it will be fast to use after that. I don't think I'll bother weighing everything more than the first time but trust myself to make the meal to similar quantities by eye each time.

Check out the recipe function where you paste in the webpage and it 'finds' the recipe on the page and pastes in the details, pretty accurately back into mfp. It's like voodoo magic! Granted a little bit of adjusting is required but it is never far off the mark.

There seems to be a huge variation in what works (no surprise there!)

For example, looking at nickc's post above, I do pretty well the opposite

Agreed - but I sure as hell know what I've been doing for the last few years hasn't. Got to about 36, had stopped racing and doing daft miles and it all went horribly wrong!

But in contrast to nickc's post above I know a few folk who have had a lot of success with weigh****chers where pasta and rice are 'syn free' (i.e. you can eat as much as you like). I think the WW seems to work for some as it gives control back to folk who have lost it and gets you thinking about what you eat - I think that is half the battle for most (for 35 years I scoffed at this as a permanent skinny git - now the boot is on the other foot) and what your calories are actually made of is less important.Veggies for the most part care about what they eat so by default are less likely to stray.

Cauliflower rice/couscous is a brilliant alternative to rice. It gives the appearance of carbs on the plate which is something many people struggle to get past. I tend to quickly stir-fry mine in a little chilli oil to give it a little "bite".

Would like to keep off the carbs and on the protein but being a veggie with a busy lifestyle for me means lots of bread, lots of pasta and lots of potatoes.

Replacements:

Sweet potatoes. I eat loads of these, sometimes have a baked one on the side of a chili/curry in place of rice. I make mashed potatoes with half sweet potatoes half parsnip (prefer this to "proper" mash now). They are also really good roasted or cubed and shallow fried.

Veg. Eat as much of this as you can, especially dark veg like brocolli/spinach/sprouts. Being generous with butter and/or salt makes them genuinely very tasty. Salad veg is good too.

Lentils, chickpeas, beans, etc are very versatile (especially red lentils which will mush down so are great for bulking out/thickening sauces). You can also mash or fry them if you want to get fancy (so proper onion bhajis cooked in good oil are actually a health food!!)

Pseudo-grains like quinoa and to a lesser extent buckwheat or amaranth. I use these although not regularly. Personally I would not use couscous.

The cauliflower rice is a good shout. I fry mine with caraway seeds. I don't eat it often though as personally I don't really bother with lookalike foods as they are never [i]quite[/i] as satisfying - I prefer to eat the real thing, whatever it is, as a treat (ideally after a hard workout).

Cauliflower rice is great with curry or chilli, where you need something to carry the sauce without particularly adding anything flavour.

Curry without 'rice' (or bread, but that's also off) is just wrong to me.

Would like to keep off the carbs and on the protein but being a veggie with a busy lifestyle for me means lots of bread, lots of pasta and lots of potatoes.. Anyone have any easy substitutes for such things? Bought some massive mushrooms to use as rolls for todays lunch but that looks like it might get expensive!

I'd just go for something better rather than drop them completely. Brown rice, wholewheat pasta, quinoa, wholewheat pitta, bulgar wheat. Go easy on spuds, I don't really like sweet potatoes but will tolerate them and they seem to be the fave substitute. Celeriac chips (olive oil smear and pop in the oven)aren't too bad, though I'm not convinced they are much better for you.

I'm veggie, don't really drink (once a month if that), as reasonably active but still weigh too much. Bread and too much tea with sugar are my problems, tackling the bread issue with home made or Vogel and restricting intake to 2 slices a day (boiled eggs NEED toast), sugar .. hmm proving harder than nicotine that.

Well after doing in two Jammy Rings(77k each!) in a moment of weakness, I now have 1000k left for the day or 700 if I succumb to the pressure of describing my lifestyle as sedentary.

I'm not convinced on that yet, I walk to the park n ride or cycle to work each day when in the office, both take about 60 mins return and that doesn't get logged as exercise, so may lift me from sedentary to lightly active?

Either way on c.2000 calories I'm feeling empty and a little hungry on an evening which suggests I'm reducing intake, the next few days weigh ins will show if thats less than I'm burning.

I like some of the suggestions above, the problem for me and probably lots of other people is I share a fridge with a family who aren't quite so obsessed with weight loss, so on days like today when I'm working from home temptation is everywhere!

Curry without 'rice' (or bread, but that's also off) is just wrong to me.

I used to think that, but then I realised it's basically an Indian stew, and I wouldn't have any particular problem eating a bowl of stew without anything accompanying it. (Although I agree both stew and curry are better with something else, crusty bread or naan or whatever...)

Vegetarian curries are usually best for this, though, as they generally have more ingredients. Or at least the ones I cook do 🙂

Im not convinced on that yet, I walk to the park n ride or cycle to work each day when in the office, both take about 60 mins return and that doesn't get logged as exercise, so may lift me from sedentary to lightly active?

I think the idea is that you'd log these accurately as "Exercise" using a HRM + Strava or whatever, and log your life as sedentary. Might be worth seeing just how many calories you actually burn on your commute, see if it's more or less than the difference between "Active" and "Sedentary" on MFP.

Cauliflower rice/couscous is a brilliant alternative to rice. It gives the appearance of carbs on the plate

Couscous is pasta, so there's a reason it gives the 'appearance' of carbs on the plate... 🙂

1. I'm a veggie.
3. breakfast (eggs most days or nothing)

what do you have just scrambled eggs? i have bacon eggs most days but would like to cut back on bacon?

Would like to keep off the carbs and on the protein but being a veggie with a busy lifestyle for me means lots of bread, lots of pasta and lots of potatoes.. Anyone have any easy substitutes for such things?

Personally i think substitutes can be the wrong way to think - it always feels like missing out. Eat a salad for lunch, instead of a sandwhich, and make it a good one.

Spaghetti can be substituted for courgette noodles - i think i actually prefer them.

Spaghetti can be substituted for courgette noodles - i think i actually prefer them.

We also fry (you might be able to do them in the oven but I haven't tried yet) courgette fries which are AWESOME. Admittedly it is much more of a ball ache than just opening a bag of oven chips, but then you would expect that!

Yes, just scrambled eggs. If I'm on the bike for a long-ish ride I'll have porridge

I'm not a fan of substituting foods either. I like courgette spirals in a salad of red cabbage, toasted fennel seeds, courgette spirals and red wine vinegar.

My ride this morning was horrible, I felt weak as a kitten which I assume was due to my body not being used to having less carbs. Am I right in thinking that my body will adjust in to running on fat (with some carbs).

My ride this morning was horrible, I felt weak as a kitten which I assume was due to my body not being used to having less carbs. Am I right in thinking that my body will adjust in to running on fat (with some carbs).

This could be an issue with low-carb options. If you're doing any high intensity cardio you're always going to need glycogen from a carbohydrate source. You can train your body to burn more fat, but this only occurs beyond a certain exercise duration threshold.

Having carbs (within reason) before and after (with protein) cardio exercise will actually help you lose weight and recover better.

Tip for all dieters: cut out sugars of all forms (inc white carbs, in alcohol, in sweets, etc), exercise frequently, avoid hunger and overeating, and you will lose weight.

Tip for all dieters: cut out sugars of all forms (inc white carbs, in alcohol, in sweets, etc), exercise frequently, avoid hunger and overeating, and you will lose weight.

But it's still possible to lose weight and eat some sugars, drink alcohol and eat 'sweets'. I eat brown bread, drink the odd glass of port and can seriously tuck away a pud of an evening - I'm still losing weight. The main difference is reduction in portion size and an increase in exercise. I also think you have to expect to be hungry for a short time while the stomach shrinks, especially if you've been used to mountains of pasta and the like.

Yes, those tips work as general guidelines to live by, but as you can see with my comment about fueling exercise, there's a time and a place for everything, including the occasional indulgence.

Definitely. I'm a huge fan of hedonism, though paraphrasing someone on this very forum...

[i]We still treat ourselves on special occasions. The weekend is not a special occasion.[/i]

Power is nothing without control...or something like that.

well i m 110kg and 53 nextweek.. for my 5/10 height my bmi says i should be 11 stone.. now i weighed half a stone more than that when i was seriously racing and my parents sent me to the doctor as they said i looked like i was dead.

so i ve started and stuck to since xmas day.. eat a lot less and dont eat between meals or after 8 at night.

breakfast is berries 2 satsumas and half a banana, lunch i had the otherhalf of banana and a pint of home made veg broth and for tea i had a slice of roast pork with a dollop of cauliflower and another of peas and cabbage..

not exciting but as i ve often read on here the best way to lose weight is stop eating so much..

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Cauliflower rice/couscous is a brilliant alternative to rice. It gives the appearance of carbs on the plate

This is going to sound daft but how do I get my rides from strava to show up on MFP? I've connected the 2 accounts but it doesn't seem to do it automatically like I expected it to.

This is going to sound daft but how do I get my rides from strava to show up on MFP? I've connected the 2 accounts but it doesn't seem to do it automatically like I expected it to.

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Might be linked to an issue they also seem to have with Garmin at the moment.

Cheers all for the substitution suggestions there, I think I need to get busy tomorrow trying it all out!

Once linked up Strava and MFP take a while to communicate but it does work.

Just made a sweet potato, broccoli and chick pea curry with cauliflower rice, ruddy nice it is too!

Installed MFP 3 days before my birthday - tonight is going to blow my stats for the week I suspect. But it'll also probably encourage me to do something extra this weekend to use up the additional calories.

Last 2 days have been about 300kcals under the target based on my 'vigorous' commute and lunchtime gym trips so it's not all bad news.

My love of fruit and the sugars within does seem to be a problem though.

Also, the brownies I baked for the office last night were pretty much sugar and fat, but boy did they taste good.

Installed MFP 3 days before my birthday - tonight is going to blow my stats for the week I suspect. But it'll also probably encourage me to do something extra this weekend to use up the additional calories.

Birthday calories don't count, 'tis the law.

Steak and eggs for me tonight

Just made a sweet potato, broccoli and chick pea curry with cauliflower rice, ruddy nice it is too!

I'm sure it's passable, in an austere dietary sense but 'ruddy nice' is reserved for proper food 🙂

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Ah - perhaps you misunderstood me. Some folk call it cauliflower rice, some call it cauliflower couscous.

That makes more sense 🙂

Here we are then day three, 5pm not all that hungry but with 1500k left to "spend". I may blow it on a bottle of red and some somerset brie. 🙂

well i m 110kg and 53 nextweek.. for my 5/10 height my bmi says i should be 11 stone.. now i weighed half a stone more than that when i was seriously racing and my parents sent me to the doctor as they said i looked like i was dead.

You could be up to 12.5 stone and still be within the correct range on BMI.

OP I went from 110kg (and 5ft 11") to 100kg between Jan13 and Apr13, then down to 89kg by Aug13 and then from there to 81kg around July last year where I've pretty much stayed give or take a few kg.

Week Two update:

Well I was weighing c.high 95kg and I'm now c high 94kg over the last few days so I'm claiming a 1kg loss over two weeks which is on plan.

I did have to reduce the calories allowance on MFP down to 1770(as per molgrips) by applying the sedentary lifestyle setting. Strava linked well with the one or two rides i have recorded and bumps up the allowance considerably.

Sticking to 1770 is usually pretty easy and once your into the groove feels normal. I'm also doing the late breakfast thing which helps by avoiding using your quota early in the day, so porridge around 10.30 lunch of some soup or something light around 14.00 and an evening meal of anything I like but not too big a portion. at around 18.00.

Couple of weekend blow outs on booze (as evidenced by my contribution to other threads!) sent me over allowance on those days but not so far as to put the week average out.

So far so good!

Well I have now broken the 70kg barrier - 69.8kg after my 1 hour spinning on Saturday.

Whoo

I managed a weigh in of 73.9kg a few days ago, realistically I'm 75kg ish. So roughly 2kgs lost in 2 months, definitely a smaller belly.

Started this around 3 weeks ago at 87kg, just weighed myself at 80, result!

Complete diet change and lots of riding!