[Closed] How much weight can I lose in 3 weeks?

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I'll be like emsz in a few days time!

A phaal a day from the worst curry house you can find should see you motoring down the pounds. the spasms/cramps should help with ab definition too.

Re the jeans, get the ones with elasticated waists and then you're covered.

If you're going for a few weeks to the states I'd probably just worry about the waistline after you get back. Pancakes, maple syrup, fried chicken, T-bones, cobbler, ribs etc and that's just breakfast.

Answer the question Molls. Have you started your other essential preparations for your hollybobs? Its all very well shedding your muffin top for your new skinny jeans (to be worn with deck shoes, I presume). But not if you're still milk bottle white....

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Binners, I have a decent cyclists tan now after the weekend of roadie activities. That's all the tan I need 🙂

Pancakes, maple syrup, fried chicken, T-bones, cobbler, ribs etc and that's just breakfast.

Whereas that used to be an issue, I've now been so many times that the novelty has worn off and I generally don't pig out any more.

you have already given up, thats why you are heading to the states to buy your jeans.

particularly lovin the 'fact' that you have too much fast twitch muscle fibre so you have to eat junk.

total lack of self control. fact.

particularly lovin the 'fact' that you have too much fast twitch muscle fibre so you have to eat junk

Refute it then, if you can - I'm listening.

Give in to it Molls 😉

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and to complement.....

http://localmobility.co.uk/footwear/slippers/mens-slippers-range.html

Binners: two words Boy Shorts

I can rock the whole 70's look (au natrel) and not have to worry about it*

* apart from, well obvs I [i]have[/i] to worry about it, but not for that reason.... 🙄

Question is, why do I like cake so much?

emsz - I take it you're referring to the more hirsute style favoured by the ladies in fondly remembered adolescent discoveries of vintage-era hedge porn?

Question is... will Molls look good in them. I'm concerned about his tan lines/white bits when he gets back. I suspect he's the other extreme and favours a Copacabana beach style thong. He's a right exhibitionist!

This is why most people lose weight so easily while a few unusual individuals don't.

Sarcasm aside, you'll appreciate that some people lose weight more easily than others, yes?

clearly without subjecting you to tests molgrips im not going to be in a position to properly refute your (spurious) claims

similarly without trawling the diet threads of the last four years, i cannot provide the weight of evidence to show that, as i asert, you have no will power.

so lets stick to the facts shall we, where were you (on the scales) then and where are you now?

everyone accepts that easy or hard changing your body requires will power.

What jeans are you buying, and in what size? Can you get some nice selvedge ones in a 30" waist please, then sell them to me in September?

What jeans are you buying, and in what size? Can you get some nice selvedge ones in a 30" waist please, then sell them to me in September?

Not sure I'd want an old pair of Molgrip's strides.

Pockets would be full of biscuit crumbs and old sweet wrappers.

Yeah, and I throw them out when my fat thighs wear out the crotch.

clearly without subjecting you to tests molgrips im not going to be in a position to properly refute your (spurious) claims

If it's definitely bollocks, you wouldn't need to test me to be confident.

If you to subject me to tests, then it may not be bollocks.

i cannot provide the weight of evidence to show that, as i asert, you have no will power.

I'll freely admit that. However, it's not just me being weak - there's also a physiological aspect to it. This is unequivocal.

Molly returning from America, Sporting his new jeans, having spent a couple of weeks at Hanks All You Can Eat Burger Shack

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Emsz, if you're rocking the 70s look, do you know anyone who wants a pair of genuine baby-blue 1978 Australian Stubbies shorts, 30" waist, that have been cluttering my bottom drawer for many many years. Labels attached! I was skinny then.

Moses errr no.... 😕

10/10 for creativity. "Fast twitch muscle" 😀

[i]total lack of self control. fact[/i]
[b]This pretty much sums it up[/b] For who else, on God's green, green earth would think coke and cheese cake was the food of champions. Just enjoy it and be the shape nature intends you to be.

[i]Question is, why do I like cake so much?[/i]
As above, immaterial, the only difference being, the self control, or not.

Take Binners fashion advice. It's dungarees time.
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or, the STW version...

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Time for a self help book ?

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[i]Only cake could make him happy[/i].

10/10 for creativity. "Fast twitch muscle"

Is that wrong?

For who else, on God's green, green earth would think coke and cheese cake was the food of champions.

Not me, for sure 🙂

Question is, why do I like cake so much?
As above, immaterial

Certainly is not. It's a clue as to what's actually going on inside my body. You know as well as I do that's pretty complicated.

What you don't know is how I actually feel in any given situation. You (along with the rest of STW) have decided that I'm an idiot and just fancy a cake, and am making excuses for it. That has been true at certain times during my life, that's for sure.

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[i]What you don't know is how I actually feel in any given situation. You (along with the rest of STW) have decided that I'm an idiot and just fancy a cake, and am making excuses for it. That has been true at certain times during my life, that's for sure[/i]
Whoa, whoa. Whoa there. Wind your neck in sunshine. This is your thread and you, as well as most, know the script, off by heart.
Now, you know I do not think you're an idiot. If you're interested, my opinion is you lack the self control. This is probably compounded ( conjecture, I know ) by having "naughty" food, easy to hand.

And yes, after around four years research and reading, I probably do have some vague notion of whats going on, physiologically and phsycologically.
But that doesn't matter. What matters is that [b]You[/b] know how it all works, for you and so I'd have hoped that you would have devised a strategy to succeed, by now. Just my opinion.

Is that wrong?

It sounds more like an excuse than anything based in science.

@cpsilver

Gastroenteritis for the last week has helped me [b]shi[/b](f)[b]t[/b] some weight, not recommended.

FTFY

It sounds more like an excuse than anything based in science.

And that sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about, but don't let that stop you making judgements 🙂

Don't ever change, you are amazing 😀

I know.

Wait.. does 'change' include changing weight?

Don't ever change, you are amazing

+1 I don't even need to read the thread. I knows what [s]being denied[/s] happening

No you don't.

[i]and so I'd have hoped that you would have devised a strategy to succeed, [b]by now.[/b] Just my opinion. [/i]

emphasis mine

he makes a good point Molly, you've done a lot of reading about this stuff, probably a lot more than most, and yet.... So how come you [i]haven't[/i] devised a plan that works? For you

So how come you haven't devised a plan that works?

We've been over this. He is a unique snowflake that was always too beautiful for this cruel world.

...and cake is nice.

So how come you haven't devised a plan that works? For you

Problem is consistency. Cos I work all over the place, as soon as I get on a good run it all changes. Plus the usual kids/work/housework etc pressures, which are made a bit worse by being away.

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mleh excuses.

You know your lifestyle, it's one of the things you'll need to mitigate for , but we're all of us busy. same question: knowing your own lifestyle (that of itinerant worker away from base a lot) why haven't you devised a plan?

c'mon, you're free with the analysis of other folk... 😀

[i]the glorious chicken of life, as it soars, untamed and beautiful towards the golden [s]wonder[/s] sun[/i] where it gets roasted alive, plummets to earth and is then hastily consumed. Yum.

[i]Problem is consistency. Cos I work all over the place, as soon as I get on a good run it all changes. Plus the usual kids/work/housework etc pressures, which are made a bit worse by being away.[/i]
Sooo, you're really hoping to discover a method which provides unlimited and indiscriminate fat loss. But doesn't require [i]consistency[/i].

Of course, you being a member, by birth, of the elite group of gifted athletes of this world. You will possess comprehensive knowledge of the focus, determination and sacrifice. Such athletes still have to find, so as to achieve their goals.

This thread has the word "how" in the title. I'm not sure that anyone but you can provide the acceptable answer. Infact, you already have. Consistency !
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RULES OF THUMB AND BUM: Learn to control insulin spikes. causing an insulin spike inhibits fat metabolism for a couple of hours. Avoid sugars and trans-fats.
Dont eat fat and carbs together. Eat good fats. Coconut oil for frying eggs and in coffee mmmm . Body will not be tricked into hording fat, and we need it far more than diet industry would have us know. Bite bullet and get protein shakes for lunch and immediatly either side of training. They feel like you ate carbs. I'm a massive foody but protein shakes good cheap tool (compared to steak or chicken breast).

build muscle. You'll be heavy but still climb and sprint if you do, and sets the stage for displacing fat long term.

For me: 13 Kg 5 weeks (with lapses) and still going.

Hhmmm. Just as I had thought. It's, it's.... yes, the ever so slight, yet unmistakable whiff of Ban-Hammer and not necessarily on this page.

ah, memories.
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mleh excuses

I admitted to not having willpower, how's that an excuse?

Of course, you being a member, by birth, of the elite group of gifted athletes of this world.

Now so far this thread has been a bit of a laugh, but that's nudging me towards annoyed. So let's clear something up. I've NEVER claimed to be any kind of gifted elite athlete. What I do claim to be is a sprinter. Not any kind of great or brilliant sprinter, just a sprinter. This means that I tend towards type 2 muscle fibres, that's all. Lots of other people have the same tendency, and lots of people tend towards type 1. Pretty straightforward.

but that's nudging me towards annoyed

The most British comment of the year 🙂

I admitted to not having willpower, how's that an excuse?

You're doing this on purpose, you naughty man.

ah, well if totally unsubstantiated claims is the order of the day

i dont think you are a sprinter, blessed with fast twitch muscles, i think you have very little endurance and therefore conclude you must be a sprinter.

i thought it was only modern yoof who think that by admitting a failing it ceases to be cause/reason/excuse.

care to share your diet/exercise regime since the thread started, or have you just sat there stewing all day?

quitting now before it becomes bullying.

😆 at Jamie

Not even close to a big poo!

Not even a 1/2 pounder. Anything less than 226.8gm is merely pebbledash.

[i]I admitted to not having willpower, how's that an excuse?[/i]

back up there you suggested it was a lack of consistency...you work all over the place and when you get on a good run, it all changes. You didn't mention lack of will power..

so, that's;

1. lack of consistency in your week by week working pattern which means presumably you can't train how you'd like to...so you need a training plan that you can do ad hoc. that's pretty simple to work out really, it might not be ideal, but it'll be better than nothing.

2. lack of willpower, which is less straightforward, but in all the things I've ever wanted to change about myself (smoking, weight loss) it comes down to which do I want more... the cake and fags or the ability to middle ring a climb. Once you make that decision (properly) ever new day towards that goal is a win rather than a struggle to some unachievable never point. Don't take this the wrong way, but setting yourself unobtainable goals if a form of excusing yourself. ask yourself if that's what you seem to be doing to yourself.

I'm oot now as well, this will only end one way.

I've a certain amount of sympathy, cos I am (was) a sprinter of sorts, playing on the wing at rugby and doing about an 11& 1/2 second-ish 100m. Now that I'm past 50 I'm no longer a sprinter. The fact remains that I can lose weight by eating less, and if I'm not disciplined about what I eat I put on weight. It comes down to willpower. Simples

i dont think you are a sprinter, blessed with fast twitch muscles, i think you have very little endurance and therefore conclude you must be a sprinter.

Next you'll be suggesting that STW isn't blessed with an excess of natural enduro riders.

i dont think you are a sprinter, blessed with fast twitch muscles, i think you have very little endurance and therefore conclude you must be a sprinter.

What on earth makes you think that? Surely the fastest kid in the school would be considered a sprinter?

What on earth makes you think that? Surely the fastest kid in the school would be considered a sprinter?

Bet there was cake on offer at the finish line 🙂

I started this thread for a bit of a laugh, and a bit of visibility to help keep me on target. I've really no idea why people are so keen to judge people they don't know and have never even seen let alone ridden with.

People must get some kind of smug high from denigrating others, so they come up with the worst interpretation of what's written, and think they are all superior because they're so clever and have understood the real meaning of people's posts.

It's really unpleasant, just to let you know. If you're happy being unpleasant, then fine, please don't post on my threads!

Just have another bit of cake fatty.

I suspect it's just mostly ribbing (it's good for morale you know) rather than being intentionally unpleasant.

I'm neither a sprinter or an endurance rider.

Surfing the internet was what I was born to do. I have the perfect spinal slouch.

Ribbing is ok 🙂

90.1kg

I haven't had any alcohol for a week and seem to have lost a little under 1kg.

Its probably as much the absence of recovery food as much as the alcohol itself.

Ribbing is ok

90.1kg

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Surely the fastest kid in the school would be considered a sprinter?

Yeah, that too 🙂

89.9kg

Another big poo?

89.9kg

See? I knew you could do it!! 😕

You've lost 3 pounds in a week, that's not bad going.

89.4 after my ride.

3lbs in 4 days actually, and I reckon I'll drop 1-2 more by Saturday morning.

Please... Don't weigh yourself as often as you are doing; it's pointless, even if you do it at the same time of day etc etc.

It's really rewarding to see fruits of your efforts, I get that, and good on you, but no point in weighing yourself any more frequently than weekly for anyone other than a jockey!

Eat sensibly and exercise moderately and you will drop some weight and become fitter. To drop more weight, either eat less or move more.

I tried that, spot of muesli for breakfast, fruit for lunch, salad for tea with some chicken thrown in, drank only coffee or water. 2 weeks later I hadn't lost an ounce!

Then started eating "normal" food for tea but not much of it. As I was living away I was basically getting my tea from Wetherspoons so had a pint while I decided to have a double chicken burger, then a free pint with my double chicken burger, at half the chile and both chicken breasts, part of the bun. Just trying to stop eating when I'm full and eating the better things first. (Nuns drilled and beat it into me to eat everything on my plate or starving children in Africa wouldn't be pleased)

1 week later I'd lost 2Kg.

Been on the Wetherspoons diet for a number of weeks now and have lost 2 stone

Have been doing turbo for perhaps an hour and a half a week and the Insanity DVD course but only lightly as I had a broken rib.

I suspect there are other reasons for rapid weight loss and eating at Weatherspoons.

Please... Don't weigh yourself as often as you are doing; it's pointless, even if you do it at the same time of day etc etc.

It's really rewarding to see fruits of your efforts, I get that, and good on you, but no point in weighing yourself any more frequently than weekly for anyone other than a jockey!

Plus1 it's long term trends that count.

I'm not exactly new to this game! They say not to weigh yourself often so you don't get demoralised. However having graphed weight v time through weeks and even through the day I find it rather interesting to see what happens and to see how things affect the trend.

89.8 this morning, I found that toast in the evening has a negative effect in the morning weigh in, but I felt I needed some more carbs after my ride yesterday, I was properly knackered. However I predict it will be beneficial since I feel fine this morning, I predict more loss today.

Plenty of flaming material there, dig in.

69.1kg this morning, after burger, chips and a pint for tea at a pub last night.

flaming material there

Did you burn your toast?

70kg yesterday I had a maccyD mocha milkshake and a twix, and breakfast and lunch and soup with bread for my supper And a piece of fudge, and a bit of cake ( although that was a properly teeny )

Right fattie 🙂

[i]but I felt I needed some more carbs after my ride yesterday, I was properly knackered. However I predict it will be beneficial since I feel fine this morning, I predict more loss today.[/i]

How do you know you wouldn't have felt fine without the toast?

Still no answer to what type of jeans this weight loss is in aid of 🙁

This thread is hilarious for many different reasons.

Which way did you cut the toast?

How do you know you wouldn't have felt fine without the toast?

I don't, for sure, but experience suggested it would be beneficial. I may do another ride today.