weight loss

Eric_Pisch

trigirl1979 wrote: »

. I have been good had sensible low fat food. However had 2 full meals on fri and sat as was riding the 100 miles on Sunday. Finding the balance of endurance sport and meals is not easy. If anyone has any advice, please shout.

I will wait another few days before i truly become depressed about it tho. It may be as I exercised later last night and took on a lot of water. But unlikely. So annoying as I have been good!

Maybe should do more bonkercise!!!!!:rotfl:

low fat is not sensible, natural or healthy for you

all i can suggest is keeping a food diary to see what you are putting in and taking out

i would not be surprised if you are not eating enough working at that rate

I know I have shut myself down so have upped my cals by 500 a day for a week

Eric_Pisch

Matryoshka wrote: »

I thought you got that from lacking something in the body. Isn't it dangerous? Don't know much about ketosis but there was a huge argument on one site I frequented about it.



Should burn some calories. :rotfl:

no its perfectly natural, it happens when the body has switched from carbs as the primary fuel source to fats (which is what you want when loosing fat)

we all go into ketosis at night when we sleep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

ketoacidosis is a condition that diabetics can get and it is dangerous

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001363/

Eric_Pisch

Gra76 wrote: »

I'm quite pleased with my weight loss this year although I'm the least active person most of you will ever come across so I'm slightly concerned as to how I've done it.

I'm male, 5ft 11" and 35yrs old. I'm a total and utter couch potato. I literally couldn't be any less active if I tried. I consider walking up the stairs a good workout these days! In my younger years I was very active but since getting married it's gone rapidly downhill.

I'd slowly been piling on the weight since I got married 8 years ago. I was just under 11st when I got married and it didn't take too long before I was putting on a couple of pounds a month. Before I know it I was 13st and I hovered around that for a few years before heading on to 14st last year.

At the turn of the year I was bang on 14st and had been hovering around that for about 6-8 months. I'd tried to lose weight before but I usually failed miserably.

Nothing changed until maybe February time when I started to notice I was hitching my trousers up fairly regularly. Jumped on the scales and noticed I'd lost a few pounds. I was pretty happy about that but a bit confused as to how it'd happened. Not to worry though, maybe I'd just been eatting a bit less and the Xmas over-indulgence was working itself off.

Fast forward to last Saturday (I now weigh myself every Saturday morning) and I'm currently 12st 7lbs so I've somehow dropped 21lbs in just over 6 months.

As exercise goes I've done zero. I've not changed my eatting habits much, although I now don't snack on stuff during the evenings, I still drink more than the recommended alcohol allowance per week (As I understand things the government recommend less than 21 units a week for a man, I reckon I get through roughly 30 units most weeks).

As for possible reasons, the only reasons I've been able to come up with is that stress might have played a part in it. I think not snacking much anymore through the evening has certainly helped. The other reason I can think of is that My father-in-law died in March and we were very close. I noticed a reasonably large drop in the couple of months after he passed away but that was after I started noticing the weight loss so I don't know how relevant that is anyway.

My wife is nagging me to go and see my GP as she's worried about how much I've lost in a relatively short space of time, but I feel fine in myself and the last thing I want to do is waste my GP's time and he's not the nicest of GP's when I've been to see him before so I'm a little reluctant.

I said I'd go see him if I hit 12st, which the way I'm going is likely to be in about 4-5 weeks time.

Would any of you be worried if you'd lost the weight as I've done? I'm not so sure it's worth bothering anyone about but my wife thinks differently.

26lbs in 6 months is not a lot, i lost 33lbs in 3 weeks :rotfl:ok a different kettle of fish but still

that works out as a 1 lb a week or just 500 cals a day which would be a couple of choccy bars, 1 tolbelerone or a couple of cans of sugary drink and a bag of crisps, not much really

don't worry about the units of alcohol consumed like BMI there completely made up and have no scientific basis what so ever, just as long as you have some rest days between drinking you should be fine

if you are worried go see a GP

Eric_Pisch

world_of_tights wrote: »

I just lost my entire post. Kind of feel like punching :cool:

It is a disappointing 1.8lbs for me this week. When I saw that on the scale yesterday I thought I'd try to cheat and weigh in again this morning, but the same number popped up.

It's annoying, I thought I'd been really good this week but I guess not. I think I need to try something different, change things up a bit...

I am going to try to reduce my carbs this week. I have [STRIKE]copied Eric[/STRIKE] taken Eric's advice and I'm having Greek yogurt for lunch today (although I have to add honey to mine), and I have a bag of veggies to be done in the microwave too. I also have roasted beans with me for a snack.

Unfortunately I am going to a pub for dinner tonight, so fear I may be in some trouble there.

Every morning I'm at work I have instant porridge for breakfast - comes in a tub, you add water and eat out of tub. I need to find something different to have, I think. While porridge is good for you, the instant stuff is rubbish.

I think I need to change up my exercise too. All I really do at the moment is my exercise bike 4-5 hours a week, and not only is it boring I reckon my body is getting pretty used to it, thus making it less effective. I would love to run, but I hate the feeling of everything jiggling... I'm really not sure what exercise to try

Welcome to all the new people!

1.8lbs in a week is good, the body is not a machine and it will not loose consistently you get good weeks and bad weeks and no matter what you do you can not change this

Matryoshka

You tell em, Eric

trigirl1979

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

low fat is not sensible, natural or healthy for you

all i can suggest is keeping a food diary to see what you are putting in and taking out

i would not be surprised if you are not eating enough working at that rate

I know I have shut myself down so have upped my cals by 500 a day for a week

Yes it is a balancing act. I have lost 6 stone in the past with Rc but was not training so hard at the time. I will give the diet another 2 weeks and if no results will try a new approach. Since I stated (before joining) I lost 8lb, maybe I shouldn't be too disheartened.

Just got back from 2 hours cycling today. Feeling stronger and burned 1045 cals. 30 miles covered and averaged over 15mph.

Matryoshka

What do you think about chocolate milk? Thinking of getting some but not if it undoes all my work :eek:

DRINK CHOCOLATE MILK TO STAY FIT

Forget water — two new studies have suggested that a chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout recovery drink.
Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin found that athletes had significantly more power when they consumed low-fat chocolate milk, rather than a carbohydrate sports drink or a calorie-free drink.
Ron Maughan, a professor of sport and exercise nutrition at Loughborough University, says: ‘The science behind this is sound. There are two key things you are trying to do after exercise — recover and encourage the muscles you have worked to respond to how they have worked and become stronger.
‘A bit of protein provides the most effective way of doing this.
‘If you drink milk, you are getting a reliable, consistent source of protein, along with water and electrolytes. The chocolate component provides some added carbohydrate, which is useful.
‘Even the relatively high sugar content is acceptable in the context, as a means of restoring lost energy.
‘After all, why drink a foul-tasting protein shake when you could have something enjoyable with exactly the same benefits?’

world_of_tights

Matryoshka wrote: »

What do you think about chocolate milk? Thinking of getting some but not if it undoes all my work :eek:

DRINK CHOCOLATE MILK TO STAY FIT

Forget water — two new studies have suggested that a chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout recovery drink.
Researchers from the University of Texas in Austin found that athletes had significantly more power when they consumed low-fat chocolate milk, rather than a carbohydrate sports drink or a calorie-free drink.
Ron Maughan, a professor of sport and exercise nutrition at Loughborough University, says: ‘The science behind this is sound. There are two key things you are trying to do after exercise — recover and encourage the muscles you have worked to respond to how they have worked and become stronger.
‘A bit of protein provides the most effective way of doing this.
‘If you drink milk, you are getting a reliable, consistent source of protein, along with water and electrolytes. The chocolate component provides some added carbohydrate, which is useful.
‘Even the relatively high sugar content is acceptable in the context, as a means of restoring lost energy.
‘After all, why drink a foul-tasting protein shake when you could have something enjoyable with exactly the same benefits?’

My boyfriend was telling me about this the other day. Sounds great, ha!

Matryoshka

world_of_tights wrote: »

My boyfriend was telling me about this the other day. Sounds great, ha!

It sure does :rotfl:I think I'm g'wan buy me some low-fat chocolate milk :rotfl:

Eric_Pisch

Matryoshka wrote: »

‘After all, why drink a foul-tasting protein shake when you could have something enjoyable with exactly the same benefits?’

vanilla myprotein tastes lusch

i do put some dextrose in mine post resistance training

fingers crossed after 7 months i think my rotor cuff is ok, gonna try it next week :T