Nothing lost this week but expected after 5lb in week 1 and having my wife’s birthday (Chinese and wine 😩). Hoping for a better week this week starting with a 10k run this morning.

106kg on New Years Eve, down to around 103 now, exercised 9 days out of 15 so fairly happy with the start. Long way to go yet, need to address the quality of food as well as quantity.

Had a blow-out at the weekend but happy to say I am back on track so far this week. It is so hard though, Mrs D likes to keep a stash of chocolate in the fridge and I have such a sweet tooth. That said, after a good exercise session (ie a proper workout and not just a traipse round the block with the dogs) I treat myself to a snack sized Snickers and it tastes sooooooo good. Definitely get more enjoyment out of a treat than just eating them as and when I please.

Will be interesting to see what the weight is this week. I am already the lightest I’ve been since last October and heading down below my absolute danger weight of 17st (ie if I go above 17st ever I know I really need to sit up and take notice).

Another 1kg down. 3kg total. Very pleased with that. Have started to feel it in clothes now.

Just 100g this week. I feel better though and I actually did some exercise for the first time this year

I’ve lost 5.4 Kg since the start, none of it off my muffin tops or jowls though, so 🙂 & 🙁

Fell off the wagon earlier in the week and snarfed a tub of those mini Tunnocks biscuits, I felt like a guilty dog who got caught stealing food.

1.9kg down this week 😱 was expecting just over 1kg, but that is massive. Some busy days though and Wednesday was a long one on the hill for work.

Down 4kg from the start and about 1kg this week, easier to keep motivation when it’s like this, it becomes hard in late Feb / March when the reductions are less. I try not to diet as such, e.g. had an Indian take away last night, but only ate bought two thirds, the rest is in the fridge for lunch. It’s all about the exercise with me which ironically I find easier when it’s dark and the weather is pants.

Slightly short of the weekly target but overall well on track and still lost nearly a kilo this week and 3.5kg since the start so got to be happy. Have slightly overdone the treats Weds/Thurs though so just need to make sure I don’t let the chocolate intake slowly creep up too much.

Exercise levels remain steady though and I’m started to feel a little stronger and fitter without having blown already. Little and often is key for me at the moment here still but building up some more strenuous routines as well.

Minimal change of +0.1kg this week. Would probably have been a negative but the wife talked me into a Dominos last night. If I was still on the beer it would be much worse.

Only a 0.1kg decrease this week but I was down to 78.6kg on Thursday morning. Two days of looking after my parents and eating the cake mum cooked for me plus a takeaway last night bumped me back up. Lots of training planned for the next few weeks though so should get that extra burned off in no time.

Stayed the same. But the main thing is all the Christmas junk food is finished. So as someone said before. If you don’t have it, you can’t eat it.

Hopefully more riding from now on will help as well.

Is anyone using My Fitness Pal or similar to track food/drink intake?

I tried it for a short period of time last year but got fed up of the invasive adverts and didn’t want to pay for a subscription as I was just curious (I’m not serious enough to justify a monthly subscription).

Anyway, I liked that you could scan barcodes and I’m just wondering whether there’s anything similar out there I could use instead. MFP don’t state what the subscription cost is, so that automatically makes my suspicious that it’s not cheap!
Ideally, Id like something that links to Garmin Connect. Don’t mind paying a nominal one off or small recurring fees…

I used to use MFP but had to pay to adjust the macros to suit a Keto diet so I now use Carb Manager (which can also be set for more “normal” dietary requirements) and is free with only the occasional nudge to buy the premium version for better macro tracking.

I have free MFP and you can adjust your macros in ‘nutrition goals’ , it’s not locked.

Go to Goals… Nutrition goals… calorie, carbs, protein and fat goals. Click and change them to what you want.

@longdog, I needed use a free premium trial to do it last time I tried.

OK, but it’s worked like that on mine for free for years. I’m on android, not sure if that makes a difference?

Bugger. I think this week has seen the arrival of the plateau 🙁

Markie, won’t the spreadsheet let you just join in now?

0.9KG down this week, the diet continues apace.

Hopefully my dumbbells and TRS straps will turn up soon so I can get back to exercising indoors as well.

Only 0.5kg this week despite similar food and exercise, but still happy as last week’s was unexpectedly large.
I’m a little ‘backed up’ so that could change rapidly.

Daft question, but how much does realistically inflammation affect scale weight? I suffer a fair bit after training particularly with my (not insubstantial) thighs getting very sore and feeling and looking swollen.

Anyway good luck to youse all 👍