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you blokes eating cereals.........DONT!!
3 egg omlette with 2 sausages chopped up and mixed into it.
3 egg omelette with chorizo and onion - nom, but the scrambled eggs and smoked salmon sounds good as well 🙂
Biscuits are my nemesis.
I too is trying to shed me winter coat by making a more concerted effort to put the fork down. It'll be a lot easier once I'm back on two wheels again...[shakes [url= http://dawonderful.blogspot.co.uk/ ]hurty wrist[/url] at the sky while gritting teeth]
Holidays are over, back to work today ... weighing in at 13-10. I'd like to get down to 11-0 but 11-7 more realistic. I'm 5'9".
Only one more terry’s chocolate orange to eat then I’m in the clear.
Birky – that is some serious weight loss. I’m starting at the same 13.10 (89kg) but am realistically looking to get under 13. Good luck.
Cheers. After New Year 2010 I dieted and did the C25K running thing and went from 14-0 to 12-4 in under 3 months so 11-7 is do-able.
Righto. I'm in. Currently 117kg, I'm aiming for 95kg. That should be quite lean for me.
Riding to Paris in June, and a sportif or two in between, so looking to up my cycling to levels not seen since my kids arrived 7 years ago...
Wish me luck...
Well I broke quickly enough. Just had crisps and carrot cake.
My excuse is that I'm stuck in Dublin on a Friday night and Starbucks is healthier than booze.
Right fatties - how are we all doing?
No booze. 1 slice of cake, 1 bag of crisps, a few short rides and....1kg gone.
And I feel.....
Crap.
Last week i only did Weds as a 'fasting' day... This week i'm starting as usual with a Mon and Wed day of fasting... The plan now is to ensure the non-fasting days are not just complete pig outs so the weight continues to drop over the coming months.
you blokes eating cereals.........DONT!!3 egg omlette with 2 sausages chopped up and mixed into it.
This! Most cereals masquerading as "healthy" have next to no nutrition, often high in sugar (think granola/muesli) have the bollox refined out of them (and so they have to add vitamins and minerals back in to compensate) and will keep you going for all of 5 minutes.
Switching to a protein based breakfast with some fat (think eggs and salmon, bacon and eggs etc) keeps you satisfied longer, curbs snacking and overeating at the next meal.
you blokes eating cereals.........DONT!!
Does that include porridge? Or more accurately OatsSoSimple?
Cos I like them. Slow burn and pretty low calorie.
(one sachet with 180ml semi-skimmed milk is just 183kcals).
Does that include porridge? Or more accurately OatsSoSimple?
yes.
6'1" and 16.5st currently. My goal is 15st by may.
I reckon porridge is a better choice than sugary cereal, but you need to add protein to increase the GI/satiety factor.
Still not ideal though - grains are a filler food, not optimal nutrition. JMPO (Just My Paleo Opinion!)
I tried the whole protein for breakfast thing. It never had the magic effect of keeping me fuller for longer. Seemed to have the same end result as a bowl of porridge.
YMMV.
3 egg omlette this morning, with a tin of tuna mixed in.
3lb weight loss this week.
My scales aren't working this morning. They seem to persevere if I only put one leg on, but as soon as I lift my other leg off the floor they just turn off.
So I will err on the side of caution and assume 'no change' and update the chart accordingly.
3lb weight loss this week.
If the continued weight loss you report is accurate, Ton, you should be about minus 3 stone by now.
Can I join please? Or is it too late?
Height: 172cm
Current weight: 71.4kg
Target weight: 63.5kg
Using myfitnesspal and withings scale to help monitor things, cycling, walking, running, eating less rubbish to help me get there.
Do we update weight once a week?
Jamie - Member3lb weight loss this week.
If the continued weight loss you report is accurate, Ton, you should be about minus 3 stone by now.
Jamie.....i keep thinking i am getting nowhere too.
but some weeks i dont lose any remember.
either 4 or 6lbs since 2nd jan depending on how much water i was holding in my system at my first weight in post christmas.
feeling pretty down at the moment and the comfort eating is through the roof. ate a 5 pack of those tescos giant chocolate cookies in the car before work this morning 🙁
feeling pretty down at the moment and the comfort eating is through the roof. ate a 5 pack of those tescos giant chocolate cookies in the car before work this morning
Good going... but not that difficult... won't get you on Man v Food
I reckon porridge is a better choice than sugary cereal, but you need to add protein to increase the GI/satiety factor.
Don't fancy mixing tuna into my porridge 😉
feeling pretty down at the moment and the comfort eating is through the roof. ate a 5 pack of those tescos giant chocolate cookies in the car before work this morning
🙁
...email/twitter me if you need to talk, big dog.
When i started to diet (im not following any plan just cutting down on some of the crap i was eating) i didnt have an initial weigh in to see where i was starting from. So since then i've been trying to use a few more superficial goals for weightloss
1. Fit into my favourite jeans without it being uncomfortable (achieved!)
2. Wear my endura humvees without the popper popping open
3. Also i have couple of race fit cycle tops i want to be able to wear without feeling too self concious.
4. Be able to zip up my gore gilet that i havent been able to close for about 2 years.
Maybe daft goals to have but i'm finding it a bit easier to do it this way rather than think about it in terms of actual weight
[i]Maybe daft goals[/i]
Not really. So long as you get to where you wanna be.
🙂
Hmm. New scales arrived over the weekend. It's worse than I thought. 119kg. Have updated spreadsheet accordingly...
B*gger, forgot to weigh myself this morning - would've been bad anyway, In-Laws fortieth anniversary party at weekend, had to have a drink to be able to face it. 😳
One week in using My Fitness Pal.
Daily calorie allowance: 1660
Relax the rules one day per week
6lb loss
Reduction in hip and back pain.
Feeling fresh & motivated.
MFP is definitely working. So far it seems like a sustainable solution.
A bit late to the party but my plan only started yesterday.
Currently 6'3'' and 93kg
12 week plan to get to 80kg.
Its a massive undertaking but whats the worst that can happen.
hoping to achieve by being more active & eating less crap.
Simples.
Oh and lots of coffee .....
Greetings.
170cm
78kgs
Target 68kgs
Trying to stick to a low carb diet, however, I'm wondering how healthy this is with all the meats and eggs being suggested?
Trying to stick to a low carb diet, however, I'm wondering how healthy this is with all the meats and eggs being suggested?
Everything in moderation. The only meal I've changed is breakfast from cereal or toast to eggs or fish.
BHF recently repealed it's advice about eggs as there was no link between eggs and heart disease.
Lunch, whatever takes your fancy, usualy leftovers or meat/fish/egg sallad.
Evening meals, the only thing you really need to change is swapping potatoes/pasta/bread/rice for beans like chickpeas or butter/kidney/black eye/etc beans and lentils. And eat more veg instead of fruit to cut out the sugar.
Just replace rice/pasta/potatoes with roast veg.
Bolognese on a beg of roasted veg, chicken curry now has no rice just a load more peppers/onions/chickpeas
Good advice, cheers
Interesting to see how this all pans out. Lots of people cutting carbs out. I appear to be going carb-tastic but getting rid of simple carbs like sugar & alcohol.
Either way, I'm sodding hungry.
I'm in!
180cm
111.1kg today though started weighing myself last week and was 112.4
long term goal 82.5 kg.
20 week goal 95kg for my wedding
A branch of The Gym opened up where I live in Chelmsford £10.99/month bargaintastic! I'm using an app on WP8 called "Zombies, Run!" to get me on the cross trainer more often.
When the weather gets better it'll be out on the bike more often using Sports Tracker.
Weighed myself this morning (which I thought might be a bad idea being first thing) and I got 85.9! My starting weight was 88.9 and the goal is 80, that is to good to be true. That one won’t go on the spreadsheet as I will have to do it again after tea tonight.
On a positive note I do have a very good vibe about this attempt to lose weight, none of the other’s have really been that serious but this time feels different. I did a bit of the fasting / Horizon initiative last year and whilst it was very hard to stick with it did change my approach to food. Starving yourself on a regular basis gives you a different perspective on being hungry. I would recommend giving it a go to anyone trying here.
Keep up the good work.
I'm using an app on WP8 called "[u]Zombies, Run[/u]!" to get me on the cross trainer more often.
Is that some kind of augmented reality game that has you surrounded by zombies and makes you run like Mr Gump?
[i]Weighed myself this morning (which I thought might be a bad idea being first thing)[/i]
The best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning, post wake-up wee, before eating and drinking anything, because
a) it will more comparable to previous weigh-ins, as it will be less affected by variations in what you've eaten and (more importantly) drunk in the hours prior to weighing.
b) you'll be slightly dehydrated, so will weigh a bit less, which will make you feel better when you see the result 🙂
Anyway, as this is supposed to be about sharing tips too, this is what I'm doing:
Mon, Weds, Fri - breakfast (muesli) when I get to work, about two hours after I wake up. Sandwich and piece of fruit for lunch, whatever for dinner, no snacks, no booze (except Friday)
Tues, Thurs - three quarters of an hour on bike straight out of bed. No breakfast. Otherwise as above.
Weekend - Ideally a proper ride, or a walk or something, no snacks but booze in the evenings if I want (try to have one of Fri/Sat/Sun booze free).
That lost me a stone in about seven weeks before Christmas. Stayed just about constant over Christmas (gained about a pound), now trying to knock another half stone off.
Just weighed myself, I'm 13 stone, when during last summer i was just under 12st. Shocked to say the least! I'm in! Plan for now, eat less crap, ride more. Finished the christmas beer last night, so no temptations now at least.
The best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning, post wake-up wee, before eating and drinking anything, becausea) it will more comparable to previous weigh-ins, as it will be less affected by variations in what you've eaten and (more importantly) drunk in the hours prior to weighing.
b) you'll be slightly dehydrated, so will weigh a bit less, which will make you feel better when you see the result
I'd add to that list: weigh yourself on Tuesday (or Wednesday/Thursday/Friday), to avoid any possible weekend excesses leading to weird results. Assuming the previous night is usually a quiet night, with a normal meal of course.
Good point. Tuesday's my weigh in day.
Conversely I deliberately have weigh day on the Monday to discourage 'weekend excess'.
If you're shifting your weigh day to accommodate favourable conditions to improve weigh-in results, then your mindset is all wrong. Doomed to fail in my experience.
Personally I've found I've less appetite for excess anyway once diet is sorted out, it's certainly not something I feel I have to build in to my diet plan.
110.0 Kg, down 2.4 since I started sometime after new years!
3.5kg lost since 27th December, 1.3kg this week - lots of cycling (160 miles last week), cut out fatty stuff, biscuits, etc couple of runs. My target is 0.5kg a week so I'm happy so far but I know the first few weeks are the easiest.
I use myfitnesspal and I'm pretty strict with adding things during the week but don't bother with it much at the weekend.
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4lbs loss this week. now only 5lbs from my target weight.
I am down by 1.3kg from new years day.
15% of my target achieved but I realise the fist 1.3kg is the easiest and is probably just the holiday excess. Still, going well and heading in the right direction.
Went on a stag do at the weekend in Lisbon...
Put on 8lbs, which is hopefully just water retention. If your on the lash for 48 hours with only 4 hours of sleep, does that count as binge drinking, or just a sustained assault on your liver?
I helped my flatmate last year when he wanted to get in the first team in his rugby club stuff that we found helped him
1. Pinned a first team shirt on the wall of the kitchen, everytime he went to the fridge, there it was!
2. Make sandwiches don't buy them, you can weigh the ingredients. And also don't take money in with you for when the snack van comes
3. NO fizzy drinks. NO alcohol ( it's hard but it makes a massive difference)
4. It's just hunger, get over it.
5. Make you dinner from scratch
6. Don't have snacks. Have meals
7. Get a really annoying flatmate who doesn't take no for an answer!!
Aah, another 2 pounds off. 😀
2 lbs heavier, that'll be the 30th birthday weekend of carnage then...
On my current motivation list is a really nice fitted shirt that looks ok when I suck my belly in but horrendous if I don’t. I have also committed to a charity road ride with work this year that will mean team lycra not only in public but with work colleagues and in the presence of photographers. The stakes are high!
[i]NO fizzy drinks. NO alcohol ( it's hard but it makes a massive difference)[/i]
Glass of wine doesn't add many calories, but I guess the first team rugby types wouldn't opt for that 😉
i still have a good drink on a weekend.......i just make sure i compensate for it in the week by eating very strictly.
Glass of wine doesn't add many calories
It's not just about calories...
It's not [s]just[/s] about calories...
😀
It's [s]not[/s] just about calories...
8)
😆
4pounds down since new year. Good start but long way to go yet. Doesn't help that I scraped and bruised my shin over weekend, off the bike for at least a week or two.
Down to 85.9 this morning (starting at 88.8kg on New Years Day) and that was after the Doritos incident of Thursday night.
Back on the snackerjacks with my lunch today, hmmm flavoured cardboard.
How are we all doing?
One of my mates has just been on the [url= http://www.slimmingworld.com/healthy-eating/non-vegetarian-menu.aspx ]Slimming World[/url] diet for a week. He's already lost 7lb (15 stone down to 14.5)! I just can't figure out how it works given the recipes I've seen so far; potatoes, fruit, cream, rice, pasta, bread ...
Has anyone dabbled with this?
i put 3lbs on this week. dont know how.
someone told me it is because i am not eating enough, which maybe true, i dont know.
did not eat a lot last week, ans also stopped having my day off the primal.
need to get back to having a carb blowout day i reckon.
ton - I can sympathise.
I've been doing the 4HB diet for a few weeks now and have managed to gain a couple of pounds over the last week somehow.
I swim twice a week, Body Pump class twice a week and cycle as much as possible. Been very strict with the carb intake but confess I do not eat the beans (don't fancy all that lectin).
I was very half hearted on my cheat day last week (seems like a nonsense to me) and the diet stopped working. So, I had a massive carby pig out yesterday in the hopes it kicks back in over this week.
couple of pounds lost this week, which is fine. I wouldn't worry about putting on a few pounds in a week, I know it can be a bit of a downer but you mind find that if you weigh yourself mid week you'll have lost a few pounds.
@ton: I'm right in thinking that a couple of weeks ago you said you were feeling rubbish mainly because of your (i)diet? Which was a bit odd because a few weeks before that you said you'd never felt so good. Just wondering if you can elaborate on that - mainly because I've done the idiet/paleo thing on and off for nearly 2 years now.
spacemonkey......i thought it was the diet, lack of vits and minerals maybe.
but then i came down with a bad pnuemonia, which must have been the reason i felt bad.
i try to cover all the bases with the diet. plenty of protein for brekkie, eggs, tuna, bacon some days.
dinner is fish/meat with some veg/salad
repeat for evening meal.
eat loads of fresh veg and salad, beans/chickpeas 3 times a week. snack on a few nuts or a bit of liquorice.
maybe i just had a bad week, gonna try and eat a bit more this week and up my water intake.
Lost 1.2kg this week so things are still going well. Combination of myfitnesspal, cycling, walking and running plus cut out butter, cream, snacks in general is keeping me on the right direction. Trying to get some exercise every day and last week was:
Monday - 2*20 mile bike commute
Tuesday - 3*2 mile fast walks
Wednesday - 3*2 mile fast walks
Thursday - 2*20 mile bike commute
Friday - 3*2 mile fast walks
Saturday - 1*20 mile cycle
Sunday - 5 mile run
pnuemonia
That's a pretty valid enough reason methinks. Just wondered if you were getting a bad reaction to the diet.
Like you I try to cover all bases but IMO that means breaking away from the more hardcore elements of the idiet. I reckon all in all it's generally pretty sound though.
Not a great week weight has been up and down, same as I was last week. Not going to be great the next two weeks either as I am working away.
Have to stay motivated but on the plus side I am not missing the comfort foods, bacon butties, biscuits etc an I am eating more sensibly.
Just have to play the long game.
Seeing as I've just spent 2 weeks in meetings in a hotel where they drip fed us cake all day, I think putting on a pound is a bit of a result!
Using the Myfintnesspal App, I have got down from 14st 13lb to 14st 5lb, in 3 weeks.
The App has helped me control what I ingest (both portion size and alcohol) and if I am going out for a boozy meal then I offset this by doing a bit more biking/running/kayaking/hiking. My diet wasn't particulaly bad previously but I was taking on too many calories (that seems obvious now I know what's in the food I eat). It really was/is an eye opener for someone who has never really read the side of a packet or worked out how many calories were contained in a piled high Sunday roast + bottle of wine.
I like the fact that you can offset what you take in with more exercise. Whilst I realise that is a dumb statement (before you take the piste), actually quantifying things has helped me.
Good stuff Sparky. I have found that just weighing myself a lot and switching to metric has helped the focus. Quantifying things must have an impact. My diet was not overly bad it was just the crap alongside the food and little extras that were doing it. I have cut out all snacking in the day and most in the evening and I am genuinely surprised by the way my weight is dropping.
I have managed 9 lbs since the 1st.
if i don't excercise, i literally can eat nothing all week otherwise i either remain static or gain a little.
that said, 99% and because i miss it less and less (not to mention the £hundereds i save every month) soon to be 100% off the booze. that was always my biggest downfall, and having stopped all but weekends 6 weeks before xmas, since xmas just a couple of small nips on a saturday night, i'm down to 13st which for me this time of year is very light.
is there a myfitnesspal group kicking about?
Had a bit of a yo-yo this week, 2 pounds off after putting it on last week. 😕
i put 2lbs on again.
5lbs gain in 2 week. 😕
is there a myfitnesspal group kicking about?
Here you go[url] http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/members/8827-stw-myfitnesspal [/url]