2020++ - smiling and waving and looking so fine

mark55man

yes - the food is lovely, and its amazing how much I don't miss pasta, bread, potatoes

there are three cookbooks in the fast 800 range - all about a £10 from Amazon.  The challenge with the diet is portions are small to meet the v.low calorie - its only for 12 weeks then as SH says you move to 5:2 or 4:3.  People typically lose between 20 and 40 lbs over that period - although the fast800 FB group does have quite a reasonable blow out rate - but even then people are still losing a stone 

Last time I did it the first week is a lot of water loss, then you burn fat so weeks 2-3 are good, then you plateau for a bit (frustrating), then it resumes at 2-3 lbs off a week for as long as you can sustain - but 12 week limit

mark55man

Thanks @alt80 - I love scrambled eggs and smoked salmon - so easy to cook, and feels indulgent yet a pack of trimmings (enough for 3 or 4) is only £2.99.  Plus reminds me of my gran who used to do this when we came visiting as she only had a small kitchen, and it only needed one pot, one pan, one plate and one cutlery!!  I also love chilli - but that's just me

ohdearhowdidthathappen

I'm always impressed when you do this diet... I'd really struggle. 
I calorie count to lose weight and currently have 1500kcal a day and despite doing dry january, I'm having to think about it to maximise them as I'm a greedy moo I'm finding lots of protein is helping.
Having said that, I'll only lose 1lb a week on this, so I can see the appeal of faster results

alt80

@mark55man we eat smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast quite regularly. Chilli is either really nice or awful imo.

@ohdearhowdidthathappen 1500kcals with a heavy protein intake will definitely help you to lose weight and is more sustainable - my wife used to recommend this approach when she did PT. You will lose weight slowly but combine it with a decent strength training schedule you'll start to build muscle or at least maintain which burns calories at a greater rate than fat. I don't believe the 800kcal 5:2 is particularly sustainable, it more gets you started with a deficit.

mark55man

Left over Chilli for Brunch and Hunter's chicken for supper with green beans and microwave steamed veg

Made 10K steps today so streak=1.  Walked to see a friend and then did some leaflet deliveries so was a bit wet and bedraggled by the end of it.  And as ever after leafletting my respect for the British postie is enormously enhanced 

mark55man

More admin frogs consumed today - if they had calories I would be right off my diet !!

About half way to my steps total but will walk to local express and back the long way round, and that will get me above daily target but short of 10K,  I think the 10k streak is going to be a bit on and off until later in the year.

Lunch today was bacon and egg, and supper will be keema mince with cauli rice and mange-tout (I'm sure everyone knows this but it took me a while to realise that if you translate mange-tout it means eat-the-lots  

mark55man

Breakfast today was porridge with berries, then a small cheese salad (by which I mean a bite size chunk of cheese and a handful of tomatoes).  Supper will be Fish and Vegetable Curry (Korma type).  yum

Did a 5K at the Gym. I only set the speed 0.1 km/h faster, but I was at my peak recommended heart rate by 75% through and needed to cool it down a bit.  Still over 50 minutes for a 5k - its disheartening  when even run of the mill (ha) club runners can do twice as far in the same time.  But it is what it is.

But all this chat is delaying the Monday report (using the template from 1/1/23 (Page 137 - wow!). Here are my numbers

• Steps:  Max 10K Streak 8  - 78K/2.5million steps this year - 2 days ahead of target 
• Weight - 6lbs lost this week so 6/24 for target 1 (Under 17st) - That 6 is - 3lbs water and 3lbs proper (I'm guessing) 
• Exercise - 5km in 51'02" on treadmill  - 2km in 9'54 on the C2 Rowing Machine
• Savings - £650 / £10,800
• Retirement-Day - 267 AWDs (Actual Working Days to go)

 

savingholmes

Great weightloss and other achievements!

Mange tout - I always thought it meant eat it all

FootyFanDan

Great work with the weight loss. I wouldn't be too disheartened with the 5k time, the fact your doing it at all is an achievement in itself Mark, which is more than most (me included)

mark55man

Thanks SH and Dan

Eat it all - eat the lots - c'est la même chose

At 5.9km/h - I exhausted myself running at what is less than walking pace for many.  That said I was never great at running even when otherwise I was a highly toned athlete