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Only 1lb here but this is the first week I've been defaulting to the 4th hole on my belt- I was on the 2nd when I started in October. Really pleased with it, my face is starting to look thinner too.
I'm not sure if my wife is taking the piss 🙂 She is finding increasingly bizarre ways to replace the bread in my diet. This morning's breakfast offering was scrabbled eggs with lardons and beans.... on cabbage!!! Was actually very nice.
I was a bit apprehensive today as I had been on a road trip yesterday and lunch consisted mainly of a large Melto Mowbray pork pie (1000 calories on its' own!). Seems the beasting I gave myself on Zwift last night did the trick though.
Still going the right way. Keep at it everyone.
1.2kg lost for this week, 46% of my target achieved is still heading in the right direction
Dropped enough to get back into my 32" waist trousers!
Almost 3kg's gone so far.
I've contacted Myfitness pal to add an exercise called " fitting bastard tight tubeless tyres" to their options for training and exercises.
1000 calories per minute by my estimate. Should see me right for tomorrow
....aaaand we’ve hit the first plateaux.
No change this week. Although, the last 5-10lbs are supposed to be the hardest.
After a plateau last week another 1kg off this week
Stone and a half gone so far this year 🙂
I've come off the wagon a bit this week, what with the 6 nations kicking off and reigniting my love for beer and a few working lunches in 'meeting room 3*'
I am completely astounded how immediately and directly the input/output is applied to my weight though. if i go crazy with the food then beast myself on the turbo i'm breaking even every time. Whilst it's good for rewards it has me realising that I probably need to make some long term lifestyle changes (tweaks?), rather than just shock myself down to my target weight and then start creeping back up again, albeit slowly.
*the pub
I've reached my target of 72kg and I'm well pleased. I've lost 8.2kg from when I started with you lot before Christmas. I'm going to keep going until Valentines day when I'm going to have white rice and a glass of beer for the first time in a long long time. lucky girl my wife is... 🙂
Then I'm going to the football on Thursday, so will have a pie and a pint (well the Swedish equivalent, some sort of oily fish and hard liquor)
Learnt a lot but thing i'll take most is portion size, and basically I'm never going to eat sausages again.
Down 1kg this morning.... not sure how real todays (or last weeks) measurements are but they're on the same scales at the same time of day so I'm taking it!!
Won't quite make it to my target but I'll continue on the next edition and I may even do some exercise!!
900g this week, that's 2lb. Loss is slower now that I've started weight training, but adding some HIIT next week should help keep up the momentum. Still not been out on the bike... that would probably help. Had steak for breakfast this morning. Long may this continue 😋🥩
First week that I feel like I've really tried this year, and dropped a kg. Happy with that! Last week was a bit of a cheeky dehydrated weigh in, so it's been better than the spread sheet shows.
Hopefully can get near or past my goal if I continue what I've done this week.
1lb off this week. Happy enough.
I've gained a bit of weight this week but I put that down to the fact that I've started adding salt to my food again after a long time off - I understand that excess salt increases water retention. Although it's never great seeing the scales go up other signs are good - I went to do up my belt today and found that I'd run out of holes. Will moderate my salt consumption this week and see if that makes a difference next week.
yes chips and pork pies do indeed have a lot of salt 🙂
It's been a disaster for me this week, I've been taking antibiotics for a chest infection and this has given me a voracious appetite and I've put on 2kg.
Will have to try harder to stop the slide, but feeling more energetic as the chest infection seems to have been cleared.
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Nice one! Less impressed that you used a comma instead of a full stop in one of your measurements & partially nobbled the dashboard 😛
I, myself, in order to be as Jamie as possible have also lost no weight this week - indeed in order to be more Jamie than the plateauing Jamie I've gone and put weight on!!! ****! I let the diet slip a bit and see what happens??!?! Back to starvation for me...
Starting tomorrow :).
Worst forum ever :/
I think the forum is great.
The aim is to put people of posting right?
Apologies Rob, standard Swedish keyboard uses , instead of . for decimal !
I am at target, do i get a sticker?
I gained slightly this week 🙁
Had tonsillitis and hardly been able to eat so not sure how but oh well
Slight increase here, too. But having said that, I usually check before breakfast, and the increase was about the weight of the breakfast that I'd just eaten, so I'm sanguine about it - especially as I've had a week of poor self-control. :-/
1kg up but given I've been really battling the depression the last couple of weeks coupled with the stress of a dying Mil and the anniversaries of both my mum's and my dad's deaths and given that I've coped by eating and drinking I'm pretty pleased with that to be honest.
Now I'm getting into Zwift I'm hoping to get back on track.
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Even better than that - you get a cat meme
This ****ing forum! AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's good to vent :).Anyway...
docgeoffyjones not only hit target, but is also the top of the top 10 losers this week. Previously that chart was fed from the most recent data input, so wasn't actually "this weeks" figures if people hadn't updated this week. It's a bit of a roundabout calculation, but I think it's accurate - time will tell...
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Am now thinking of hiving off anyone >100% into a skinny-winners enclosure so they can have their own little club and be all self-congratulatory with each other. I think this might give others a bit of encouragement as they can now get on the leaderboard, until they too achieve immortality and go to carousel.
Don't the people who finish early have to go back to the beginning and start again?
Surely the answer is Lipo-giving 😳
Back to where I started. Ho hum. Tbf, I hadn't lost very much, so it wasn't that hard, but still.
I'm using the following excuses:
1. 60 hour week at work.
2. Morbid fear of cycling on ice after faling off 3 years ago.
3. Recent lack of cycle commuting (see above)
So I've been avoiding this thread, and thus updating the spreadsheet, as I have had a couple of bad weeks with work stress, home stress, a 2 year old and generally feeling like crap. This has resulted in eating more and eating the wrong stuff.
However, I have made a conscious effort this past week and now feel better. I've started running again which is helping ease the stress and I'm starting to see the results on the scales.
So I'm officially starting again and determined to lose the excess, did well last year as was marathon training, so maybe that's the answer...
I found my old figures from last year in my locker, my goal was 14.7 to an unthinkable at the time 12.7 but now I'm at 11.6 and very pleased 🙂
I find working longer hours makes it easier tbh. no food at work, takes my mind off things. its Saturday at home with the kids where the danger is!
I agree with the Swedish Meatball. If I am busy I don't think about food. Slow Saturday, and...well....it's been carnage.
Jamie I think that's the nicest thing you've ever called me 🌈🤗🌈
Well, don't have a slow Saturday, then :). I've been in the gym for 3.5 hours and now I'll be building up a bike in preparation for riding tomorrow.
Over exercising & starvation FTW!!
I’ve been in the gym for 3.5 hours
They got a cafe? 🤔
...but seriously, what on earth would one do in a gym for 3.5hrs?
They ain't even got running water 😁
Or heating!!
It's actually a martial arts school and there's *plenty* to work on and keep one entertained. I would have done more, but I've got a touch of the man-flu, so didn't want to push myself too hard.
<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 12px; background-color: #eeeeee;">…but seriously, what on earth would one do in a gym for 3.5hrs?</span>
oggle?
oggle?
Not in this place - it's a total sausage-fest :/
seems like discrimination - be an equal opportunity oggler
Saturday is rest day, hence slow. Gym three times this week including breaking both my squat and ogling record (Wednesday was a real highlight 😲), xc skiing three times (and another tomorrow) plus cycle commuting 4 days a week. I had a protein bar instead of a a cinnamon bun with my afternoon coffee (with no milk) . . Christ did I want an extra piece of toast though.
Not that kind!!
But I do - I *really* do!! When Vebruray is done with I'm gonna nom some snossages like I haven't eaten mammal-flesh for 2 months.
This is a safe space for husky gents, Rob.
No judgement here.
It’s that time again 🐖
I've managed a drop of .6kg this week which is amazing considering that last Friday night i was out on a big one and then at Twickenham on Saturday with associated big meal and wine/beer.
Hopefully next week will be easier but I suspect I'll not drop much at all.
Still no exercise due to work though so hopefully when I start running again the drop will resume.
I'm hoping I can hit my end of march target (85kg, so another 1.6kg to go) and am thinking ahead to maybe a figure of 82 by June. I've not been that weight in 30 years!
Still doing this by just cutting out bread, pasta, rice and potatoes.
I lost a lb, so back heading in the right direction. I mentioned it before but despite being the lightest I’ve ever been, still got a gut. Assume it’s because I have no leg muscles (quads/flutes) anymore.
*shakes fist at catalogue of left leg injuries*
in case anyone needed it confirming; a birthday, only a short ride before mech-snap brought it to an end as exercise for the week and half term spent in Belgium (fries, mayo, beer, waffles etc) does not make for weight loss
Another pants week! Down 0.3 kg, which considering I've worked hard to not have a sweet binge at all, and hit or exceeded my calorie targets all week, is disappointing.
Hopefully If I keep it up through the weekend and next week, I'll start seeing some proper weight loss again.
I think it's fair to say that my efforts have been inconsistent, not helped by illness and awful weather preventing much exercise. Must do better.
1lb off here, happy enough, especially as the tale of the tape is telling a different story; another hole in on the belt, my 34" trousers are now comfortably loose, and I can actually see a bit of definition on my quads, as opposed to them just being big. If only the belly and moobs weren't last to go......
Was also at bootcamp last night, been doing that for around 6mo now and the progression is amazing. I still compare myself to the 20-somethings and wonder why I can't do what they do but from my Wiggins/Biggins hybrid physique of last year, I'm very pleased. Genuinely I couldn't do a burpee when i started - strength and flexibility so bad.... last night I did 100 (not in one go, I add) and I'm still walking this morning.
Genuinely I couldn’t do a burpee when i started – strength and flexibility so bad…. last night I did 100 (not in one go, I add) and I’m still walking this morning.
Excellent stuff JV!
Somehow I put on a pound last week and lost 3 this week - I reckon my scales are having a laugh with me... Who put them up to it?? I bet it was that no-good Jamie character - apparently he selects his left-leg injuries from a catalogue??? Muy bizarro!
I've plateaued for the first time this week.
Not had a huge amount of exercise this week and have also been pretty close to my calorie intake most days so not entirely unexpected (not sure the valentines curry & beers helped lol).
Still ahead of where I want to be for this stretch though so hopefully be bit more disciplined next week and shift a bit more.
🙁
However, more than 50% to target so tracking well and feeling better.....c',mon!
I'll try to maintain eye-contact at all times.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">And keep my hands where you can see them :).</span>
Red letter day today. I was below my initial target weight for the first time in 4 years. (however, I had already revised my target to another 3 kilos lower so not really there yet). Plus, and this is the biggy...... I did up my belt after a ride today and could have done with a new notch. If I keep going like this I think I am going to need a new set of clothes!
Two belt notches down from where I started in October, three in my chinos. Really pleased with myself but there's still some belly fat to go.
I've decided to have a week off the diet this week and just go for moderate consumption as I'm working away, living with my mum and dad half the week and at a stag do at the weekend. Provided I stay the same weight that I came in at last Friday I'll be happy. And it'll show I can maintain the weight loss.
My knee is currently knackered (from Yoga no less) and I'm unable to walk, run or ride comfortably. Oh well weight gain this and next week then!
Right, I've come out of retirement. I had 6 days off for valentines, big football match , birthday weekend etc. I felt rough last night from all the eating and drinking so I am returning to the fatty/ non fatty brotherhood.
I'm interested in what peoples plans are when they finish? I have really noticed the tiredness and general sluggishness from eating too much this past week, and I have had a slight hangover for the first time since January, which I hated. However it was nice to not be snappy and irritable from being hungry....!
Probably best to look at it as never finishing...
We went out on Friday for our anniversary, we drank and ate way too much, and there was a noisy wedding on at the hotel so we didn't get much sleep at all. Altogether it made me feel crap and tired all weekend - spent it all sat playing video games or sleeping instead of riding!
ok, perhaps to rephrase it, what changes will you make? For me:
I for one will limit drinking to special occasions. Christmas, birthdays etc. Having a couple of beers on a Friday night at home doesn't do anything for me anymore.
Eat smaller portions. It has amazed me what constitutes a decent portion of say brown rice, that doesn't contain loads of calories and actually does fill you up. I used to eat twice as much, for no reason other than that what I thought was 'required'
sugar makes me feel rough
ditto red meat.
its ok to be hungry, you don't need to be 'not hungry' all the time. in fact it makes eating meals more satisfying.
perhaps a little early for a summary but it's good to motivate myself again!
Full on 3 week plateau at moment
4 weeks of rapid loss
3 weeks of nothing
Change your diet, change your exercise routine; shock your body a bit to re-kickstart things.
This works for me
Horrible plateau here as well, i'm going in the wrong direction every weekend then clawing it back just in time for a 200-300g difference on a Friday morning.
It's really frustrating but i know at the end of the day it's all my fault, couple of takeaways and my first hangover of 2018 in one weekend alone 😐
On the positive side I saw my first FTP increase this year on Zwift. Part of the problem is trying to balance zwift racing with calorie deficit, I'd like to 'diet' today but there's a 10pm CVR race that i'm planning on winning so need to fuel up 😉
Is it too late to join the corpulent clan?
Never! Just pop me an email
I don't do scales - muscle weighs more than fat etc, and I prefer just to go on my tone/trim, how I feel etc.
What I can say is that for first time in about 7 years my jeans are loose on me this week. 8)
Maybe you bought the worng size? 😁 😁
I bought a nutribullet last week, and honestly it's fantastic. Drinking most my veg now 🤓
Chewing burns calories!
Been tempted to make a meatshake yet?
Maybe you bought the wrong size?
Damn right - they were 34" when I bought them last year, I am heading back to 32". 8)
Been tempted to make a meatshake yet?
Not yet....I was experimenting last night. I wouldn't recommend the brown one.
Now who's discriminating!!??
Did you drink them all? You could give some sound advice on the squiffy-bum vegan thread :).
Were you the guy thrown off the plane for the putrid farts...? If not, I do not suggest a flight any time soon... *parp*
one of those is just a jar of Branston pickle , admit it
one of those is just a jar of Branston pickle , admit it
No, but one may have cheese in.
Anyone find they're loosing weight in odd places?
Definitely lost from my waist as dropped a trouser size, but more noticeable from my face, wrists/arms & legs.
Would be nice if it all came off the belly!!
Belly last place to go it seems. I’m in this odd position of looking slim-ish when standing up, but flabby when sitting down.
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