Back up to 94.6 couldn't resist the call of the chippa at work last night

03/01 75.8 (167.1)
05/01 76.0 (167.4)
12/01 75.6 (166.6)
19/01 74.7 (164.6)
26/01 75.6 (166.6)
02/02 75.3 (166.0)
09/02 74.7 (164.6)
16/02 75.3 (166.0)

Another bad week with too many snacks at odd hours. I did get out for a 20k ride though so it wasn't a total loss.

05/01/18 100kg (220.4lb)
12/01/18 99.6kg (219.6lb)
19/01/18 98.5kg (217.2lb)
26/01/18 99.3kg (218.9lb)
02/02/18 98.5kg (217.2lb)
09/02/18 98.8kg (217.8lb)
16/02/18 97.7kg (215.4lb)

01/01 73.6kg (162.3lb)
05/01 72.4kg (159.6lb)
12/01 71.6kg (157.9lb)
19/01 72.4kg (159.6lb) been snowed in :(
26/01 71.8kg (158.3lb)
02/02 70.6kg (155.6lb)
09/02 71.0kg (156.5lb) :(
16/02 71.3kg (157.2lb) :(

110 Kg, wheels fell off this week, back on it Monday. Honest.

I've eaten everything in site the last few days. It's a side affect of new medication, increased appetite.
Weighed myself after a 50 mile ride and I'm showing up as 17st 7lb, a loss of 1lb from last week.
I'm still riding every day so I really need to eat less or eat better this week.

Cheers guys, got them

Naffa wrote:I've eaten everything in site the last few days. It's a side affect of new medication, increased appetite.
Weighed myself after a 50 mile ride and I'm showing up as 17st 7lb, a loss of 1lb from last week.
I'm still riding every day so I really need to eat less or eat better this week.

Medication apart, riding every day is going to make you hungry. You're doing great

What sort of intensity are you riding? You'll be hungrier from pushing it than going at a more relaxed Z2/MAF pace.

I don't know your diet, but is there the opportunity to up the fats and protein in preference to eating more carbs to feel more satiated with denser nutrition ?

Moder-dye wrote:

Naffa wrote:I've eaten everything in site the last few days. It's a side affect of new medication, increased appetite.
Weighed myself after a 50 mile ride and I'm showing up as 17st 7lb, a loss of 1lb from last week.
I'm still riding every day so I really need to eat less or eat better this week.

Medication apart, riding every day is going to make you hungry. You're doing great

What sort of intensity are you riding? You'll be hungrier from pushing it than going at a more relaxed Z2/MAF pace.

I don't know your diet, but is there the opportunity to up the fats and protein in preference to eating more carbs to feel more satiated with denser nutrition ?

Not really dieting as such but I'm making an effort to avoid snacking unhealthily, cut down on portion sizes, eat a balanced diet and exercise more.
To put things in perspective I dieted down from 20st 10lb to 16st 10lb about 5 years ago.
Generally my weight fluctuates between 17st 7lb and 18st 7lb, but this year with added riding I should be able to get down to around 16st which I'd be happy with. I'm not worried about losing weight quickly cause even 1lb a week is nearly 4st over a year isn't it.
I guess I just need to get into and stay in a good eating lifestyle.
This might help, Ive been offered a job 20 miles from home in a bike shop. If I take it I'll have to commute by bike.

Congratulation on the job and your progress so far

40miles a day eh?! You'll definetly be hungry after that every day Not sure I could hack it.

1/1/18 79.4 kg
12/1/18 77.6 kg
19/1/18 76.6 kg
26/1/18 75.8 kg
2/2/18 75.3 kg
9/2/18 74.7 kg
17/2/18 74.8 kg

Had 4 days away and indulged in some nice pub grub, abd not quite enough dog walking, so I'm ok with the .1kg gain. But more importantly I returned and got back into the routine of eating less and better. Nice to know I can do it...

Keep at it all.

06/01/2018 - 67.6kg
13/01/2018 - 67.3kg (-0.3kg)
20/01/2018 - 67.0kg (-0.3kg)
27/01/2018 - 66.8kg (-0.2kg)
10/02/2018 - 67.3kg (+0.5kg) - Given I came back from Barcelona 3kg heavier, this isn't as bad as it looks!
17/02/2018 - 67.0kg (-0.3kg) - This was actually looking better than this, but I had a celebratory Chinese meal yesterday...

Target 1, 15/03/2018: 64kg.

Will be dropping the calories next week as I'm clearly at maintenance level right now.

Moder-dye wrote:Congratulation on the job and your progress so far

40miles a day eh?! You'll definetly be hungry after that every day Not sure I could hack it.

Still trying to work out I'd I could hack it too. Haven't said yes yet there's quite a bit to think about.

I'm not sure of the source of this text, but its an interesting history of 'The Banting Diet' the first 'low carb diet' back in the 1800s.

WILLIAM BANTING WAS A FAT MAN. In 1862, at age sixty-six, the five-foot-five Banting, or “Mr. Banting of corpulence notoriety,” as the British Medical Journal would later call him, weighed in at over two hundred pounds. “Although no very great size or weight,” Banting wrote, “still I could not stoop to tie my shoe, so to speak, nor attend to the little offices humanity requires without considerable pain and difficulty, which only the corpulent can understand.”

Banting was recently retired from his job as an upscale London undertaker; he had no family history of obesity, nor did he consider himself either lazy, inactive, or given to excessive indulgence at the table. Nonetheless, corpulence had crept up on him in his thirties, as with many of us today, despite his best efforts. He took up daily rowing and gained muscular vigor, a prodigious appetite, and yet more weight. He cut back on calories, which failed to induce weight loss but did leave him exhausted and beset by boils. He tried walking, riding horseback, and manual labor. His weight increased. He consulted the best doctors of his day. He tried purgatives and diuretics. His weight increased.

Luckily for Banting, he eventually consulted an aural surgeon named William Harvey, who had recently been to Paris, where he had heard the great physiologist Claude Bernard lecture on diabetes. The liver secretes glucose, the substance of both sugar and starch, Bernard had reported, and it was this glucose that accumulates excessively in the bloodstream of diabetics. Harvey then formulated a dietary regimen based on Bernard’s revelations. It was well known, Harvey later explained, that a diet of only meat and dairy would check the secretion of sugar in the urine of a diabetic. This in turn suggested that complete abstinence from sugars and starches might do the same. “Knowing too that a saccharine and farinaceous diet is used to fatten certain animals,” Harvey wrote, “and that in diabetes the whole of the fat of the body rapidly disappears, it occurred to me that excessive obesity might be allied to diabetes as to its cause, although widely diverse in its development; and that if a purely animal diet were useful in the latter disease, a combination of animal food with such vegetable diet as contained neither sugar nor starch, might serve to arrest the undue formation of fat.”

Harvey prescribed the regimen to Banting, who began dieting in August 1862. He ate three meals a day of meat, fish, or game, usually five or six ounces at a meal, with an ounce or two of stale toast or cooked fruit on the side. He had his evening tea with a few more ounces of fruit or toast. He scrupulously avoided any other food that might contain either sugar or starch, in particular bread, milk, beer, sweets, and potatoes. Despite a considerable allowance of alcohol in Banting’s regimen —four or five glasses of wine each day, a cordial every morning, and an evening tumbler of gin, whisky, or brandy—Banting dropped thirty-five pounds by the following May and fifty pounds by early 1864. “I have not felt better in health than now for the last twenty-six years,” he wrote. “My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.”

We know this because Banting published a sixteen-page pamphlet describing his dietary experience in 1863—Letter on Corpulence, Addressed to the Public—promptly launching the first popular diet craze, known farther and wider than Banting could have imagined as Bantingism. His Letter on Corpulence was widely translated and sold particularly well in the United States, Germany, Austria, and France, where according to the British Medical Journal, “the emperor of the French is trying the Banting system and is said to have already profited greatly thereby.” Within a year, “Banting” had entered the English language as a verb meaning “to diet.” “If he is gouty, obese, and nervous, we strongly recommend him to ‘bant,’” suggested the Pall Mall Gazette in June 1865.

Apologies for missing weigh in last Friday and yesterday. Few things going on just now. I'll be back on board next Friday.

No worries, just post when you can

Apologies for a late one here too....230 lbs though so 4 off at last

99percentchimp wrote:Aim to be back under 100kg and into low 90s by year end - same as last year but the wheels really fell off for lots of reasons for the last 6 months.

5.1.18 - 111.5kg
12.1.18 - 109.6kg - I'd like to say I'm down a cup size on the moobs but I haven't measured (or cupped them)
19.1.18 - 108.7kg - slow progress but still progress - first main goal just another ~8 weeks away ;-)
26.1.18 - 108.3kg - need to get back on the wagon
2.2.18 - 107.4kg
09.2.18 - 107.4kg - weight loss does not continue..... must try harder to stick to plan!

16.2.18 - 107.7kg - too much birthday cake

Hi Groovers,
Sorry been away - will post on Friday. Think I need to ride to Bengal to lose any weight this week - blooming birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and valentines days, and one cake won't hurt!!

206.5
201.1
199.6
203.6 29/1/18
206.7 05/01/18
205.1 12/2/18
204 19/02

A good week, didnt even feel like I was trying toloose weight. eat plenty and kept a sensible eye on my eating. I like weeks like this :)

87kg.
I think it's the same since my last weigh in.

This week is going to be a complete and utter disaster for me. This house crap has broken me. :(

Richard G wrote:This week is going to be a complete and utter disaster for me. This house crap has broken me. :(

It'll be worth it Richard

Moderdye, I'll be putting in some numbers this Friday, generally though it's been a very poor few weeks for one reason or another, after a cold that morphed into a chesty hacking cough, a couple of funerals, one at the other end of the country, I got a nice easy bike ride in last Saturday and a nice walk on the Sunday only to spend yesterday sprawled on the couch (eating chocolate and crisps) with a serious cold and a nose whose output resembles that of Eas Mor. Guess it's that time of year again. Ce la vie!

Cheers Peter