STW Chub Club 2017

I’m down 9lb in two weeks, 11Ib since New Years Day despite been on hols for the first week of Jan. I’ve been pretty strict cut out carbs except before and after serious training runs and keeping the calories per day pretty low 1300-1500ish except on tough days. I’m still 7lb heavier than when I pulled my back on the 1st November, I’m now aiming to be there or thereabouts by end of Jan. I’m training pretty hard as I’m planning to do the three peaks fell race in April and the Ironman in July, I want to lose the weight now as I find it gets harder as the long runs and rides really kick in.

Weight on the New Years day 14st 4lb weight today 13st 7lb.

Training week 1 – 4 runs all in the hills 26 miles + 2 hour bike ride

Training weeks 2 – 4 runs 33 miles, 1 ½ spinning, 1 ½ freestyle swimming + 30 minutes pilates

Jesus. I’m eating quinoa for lunch now. This thread is responsible for crimes against (my) humanity.

Biking wise I went out for 2 hours on the road bike in the pouring rain – without this club for motivation I would have bailed given the conditions.

Chapeau 🙂

Still getting my head around the idea of a lunch involving no bread. Presently eating…

… and I’m not even ill. Monday Night Pub Ride later, so 15-20 miles off-road

I do my soup in one of these. Then drink it.

Also do porridge in it 😀

For porridge that’s not a bad call… although if I’m feeling lazy I tend to do it overnight in the fridge (google overnight oatmeal).

What do people do for lo-carb Lunch?

I am really lazy the night before work and just normally make a sandwich…

Suppose some kind of salad would be the obvious choice with some chicken or something.

Can’t do soup with no bread, it’s just not right.

Pre-made frittata? Add in some chicken/salmon/mackerel along with peppers/spinach/mushrooms.

What do people do for lo-carb Lunch?

I am really lazy the night before work and just normally make a sandwich…

Just have a sandwich. Sandwiches aren’t bad. Carbs aren’t bad. Too many sandwiches/carbs are bad.

FWIW, I’m losing weight and I have a sandwich (brown bread, healthy-ish filling) and apple for my lunch. I buy the sandwich, cos

I am really lazy the night before work

and I definitely can’t be ar$sed with fannying about with

Pre-made frittata? Add in some chicken/salmon/mackerel along with peppers/spinach/mushrooms.

There’s a huge temptation to overcomplicate all this. If you want it to stick, apply the KISS principle

Keep
It
Simple
Stupid

Salad. Load of tomato, shredded cabbage, spinach. Then top with some egg, some feta and the smallest amount of dressing you can live with. I also like a bit of meat with it for some extra protein (last week it was smoked chicken for example). As I said though, my low-carb eating seems to cause me issues with hard riding over a short period (Sufferfest for example, on the turbo).

More generally a good breakfast is helping a lot. Last week and over the weekend I’ve been having two-egg omelettes with avocado and that seems to get me to lunch fine. Weetabix (my all-time favourite cereal), not so much. Maybe I need to eat 3 shredded wheat.

Just have a sandwich.

Remember. We’re not here to judge what paths people are taking.

Well….unless it’s really stupid 😀

Tinned soup is generally gross, but I cannot believe how good this stuff is!!

Healthysome & diety too 🙂

Remember. We’re not here to judge what paths people are taking.

True, fair enough.

(but there’s nothing wrong with sandwiches)

We’ve switched from our usual Warbies to these…

Very low calorie, and rather nice

Just taken a mate out for lunch to get him out the house after a knee operation.

I had a big pile of salad with my panini 🙁

And a very artfully presented strawberry with my slab of lemon cheesecake 😈

Very low calorie, and rather nice

Even nicer buttered and filled with chips 🙂

I had a big pile of salad with my panini 🙁

<pedant mode>There’s where you’re going wrong. Eating more than one panino at lunch is a route to being a fatty, not a diet</pedant mode>

If you slice a panino in half, does it not become two panini?

And, to be fair, given the lemon cheesecake, the number of panino/panini is pretty irrelevant…

If you slice a panino in half, does it not become two panini?

Paninetto, Shirley?

A group have us have thrown a tenner into a pot and we each have to do 1 activity every day (1 mile run / 2 mile walk / 5 mile ride). Fail to do an activity and your out. Last man standing is the winner and takes the pot.

Like! 😀

Lunch was peas, sweetcorn, dwarf beans, cold boiled rice, 30g chedder chopped into cubes, mushrooms, cashew nuts (qt 14, as per Slimming World’s Healthy B 🙂 ), lettuce and two hard boiled eggs all sliced up and mixed in. No dressing, and really tasty. 🙂

If you slice a panino in half, does it not become two panini?

I think it becomes two half panino. An orange doesn’t become two oranges or two half oranges (that’s confusing grammar) when sliced in half after all, does it?

It doesn’t become ‘two half orange’ either, so, ‘two halves of a panino’ must be the correct answer.

STW, answering life’s fundamental questions.

What about if you take a large Cappuccino and split it into two cups?

well that’s a different question. I suppose, given the nature and non specific completeness of a cappuccino other than the fullness of the cup, you could easily argue that a cappuccino poured into two cups is two cappuccini. Except at this time of day when clearly no discerning STWian would be drinking a cappuccino.

Surely, if you split a cappuccino into two cups, you’ve got two lattes (latti?)

😯 That is all.

Half a cappuccino is a Babyccino, shirley?

Half a cappuccino is a Babyccino, shirley?

Get in the sea! 👿

Half a cappuccino is what Starbucks think a macchiato is. They’re wrong of course, but still.

😆

Very low calorie, and rather nice

To be fair, they’ve achieved that by cutting a small slice of bread lengthways.

I know this Jamie, but i WANT to believe. I really do. 😥

Oh it works as a mental trick. My usual bread used to be that Warburton’s seeded stuff. Now I get the smaller 400g loaf. My brain knows it’s smaller, and you can fit less in there, but it’s still 1 sandwich.

Bloody hell, there must be a lot of Kcal in hot air!!!

Forgive me Chub Club, for I have sinned.

A friend came round for dinner last night, and I had quite a few pre-dinner crispey nibbles, my wife’s delicious homemade lasagne and garlic bread (and salad 🙂 ), followed by quite a large slice of raspberry pavlova. And the best part of a bottle of wine (this morning’s consequence of which is that I skipped the intended session on the rollers).

I’m a bad man 😥

You had salad. And fruit. And a bottle of grape juice. Basically it was a healthy meal.

agreed, health in a bottle.

I don’t feel very healthy 🙁

Today is an upside down day – salmon/veg frittata for brunch, and porridge for tea! I’m riding tonight, so with all the kids clubs it’s quick and easy pre-ride. Still on wagon, weight still dropping.