Overweight to Raceweight goal

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My kids were on a 24 hr fast (with the church choir) on Sunday so my wife and I decided to do it as well. So slap-up meal to be finished by 6pm on Saturday. Two hr run on Sunday morning followed by 1.5 hrs playing footie with my 8 year old son in the park (I lost 15-8) followed by an hour of Badminton in the afternoon. Then gorging my self for an hr at 1 second after 6pm on Sunday.
Monday morning weight check 70.5 Kg. :thumbup:

I had a beer or two yesterday when I got back from the fell race :o

I too must confess, I have sinned this last weekend.
Back on the straight and narrow again now.

Oh, Doc I'm on the 5:2 fasting diet and its working a treat for me and my lifestyle.

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Originally Posted by Stagger

Oh, Doc I'm on the 5:2 fasting diet and its working a treat for me and my lifestyle.

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What do you mean? do you only focus on calorie control Monday to Friday. If so I am similar definitely eat more on the weekend so I need to run to counteract it!

2 days I fast, well I am allowed 600 cals in the day.
5 days just eat sensible but choc and beer is ok in small portions.

This week I will fast Monday & Thursday.

Weight has dropped off at around one pound per week and just keeps going down.

If I go crackers like Christmas I put 4lb on but dropped it off again in 4 weeks so life is good.

This morning I did a 5 mile recovery run. Tuna in un butter white bread for dinner and Heinz Big soup for the tea. Only water for the fluids.

If you want more info just ask.

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Originally Posted by Tahr

I have been flirting with the Paleo diet, high protein, high good fats, low carb, loads of fruit and veg’. I found my energy lacking for runs although they tell you that you need to stick with it for a few weeks and your body will adapt.

I am trying to easy myself into this, not sure I will go the full hog with it, maybe just change the way I eat to higher protein less carbs but not the full Paleo.


ATB

Tahr

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Stick with it Tahr, the sluggish feeling you are experiencing is your body adapting to using fat as its main fuel source. This adaption phase can last from 1 to 3 weeks but will pass as long as your carb intake is low and your insulin levels are stable. Once complete your body can tap into the massive natural energy reserve, this is known as being in the ketogenic state. You will then find massive gains in endurance and negate the need for that constant on the move re-fuelling.
Mart

Great joy, I know its not weigh in week but I have lost weight and am really chuffed now 64.50kg not a great deal but its a start.

83.0 kg Not surprised it's gone up as I've been over-indulging for the last couple of weeks. I am surprised that my body fat % has dropped and my hydration % has increased. :)

163.2lb up by 0.8lb but I know I have also over-indulged with my birthday and half term last week.
On wards and back to framing now.

If anyone has some spare pies they need, erm, dealing with in order to resist temptation, then please send them my way :closed:

171lbs, back to the start point but a 3lb drop since the last weigh in.

The anti beer stance may finally be paying dividends.

Hi all, hope your all keeping good, fit and injury free..

Another non event fortnight for me in that I dropped a whopping 0.5kg to bring me to 77.5kg.

I thought about that for a while and realized that's 3.1kg (approx a half stone) I dropped since starting this weight monitoring cycle just eight weeks ago. I got to be and am very pleased with that.

Name	Start Weight	Target Weight	Current Weight	Remaining
Alf	167 lbs	157 lbs	162.2	5.2 lbs
Dave314	69 Kg	63 kg	68kg	5 Kg
Derby Tup	163 lbs	154 lbs	161 lbs	7 lbs
Devil's Own	81.7 kg	70 kg	81.7 kg	11.7 Kg
Donkarlo	95 kg	76 kg	94 kg	18 kg
emmilou	64 Kg	54 kg	58kg	3 Kg
Finbarr	80.80 kg	75 kg	77.5 kg	2.5 Kg
flopsy	65 kg	60 kg	64 kg	4 Kg
freckle	66 kg	60 kg	65.7	5.7 Kg
Georgerunner	11 st 7 lbs	10st 10 lbs	11 st 7 lbs	11 lbs
Hanneke	64 kg	58 Kg	62 kg	4 Kg
Livi	153 lbs	140 lbs	145 lb	4.5 lbs
Hes	139 lbs	134 lbs	137.8	3.8 lbs
Noel	65.4 kg	59.7 kg	65.4 kg	5.7 kg
Old Whippet	11st 8lbs.	10st 12 lbs	11st 4lb	6.0 lbs
Pat Barry	74 Kg	70 Kg	71.5 Kg	1.5 Kg
Pilgrim	85.3 kg	77kg	83.0 kg	6.0 Kg
RaceTheSweeper	139 lbs	129 lbs	138 lbs	9.0 lbs
RachFR	66.7 kg	63.5 kg	60.3 kg	-3.2 Kg
redeaston	11 st 2 lbs	10 st 7 lbs	10st 13.5lbs	6.5 lbs
RichardAThackeray	9 st 12 lbs	9st	10st 1lbs	15 lbs
shaunaneto	171 lbs	164 lbs	171lbs	7.0 lbs
Splatcher	71.5 kg	65 kg	69.0 kg	4.0 kg
SCharm	65 kg	62 kg	64.5kgs	2.5 kg
Stagger	170 lbs	158 lbs	163.2 lbs	5.2 lbs
Stolly	166 lbs	158 lbs	164 lbs	6.0 lbs
that_fjell_guy	12 st 7lb	12 st	12 st 2lbs	2.0 lbs
Tahr	11 st 7 lbs	11 st	11 st 3 lbs	3.0 lbs

Next Weight in Wed 28th of Feb.
Finbarr is now Dr Pat's Nurse (P-Z Only)

138 :thunbdown: I'm off to sit in the naughty corner with no pudding!!

Still 69kg. I'll have to give up lettuce as well.

No loss for me (probably a small gain in fact, but the numbers on the scales are so small I have to approximate) - probably mostly due to an excess of wine at the weekend and the pies that were required to counter the effects! :rolleyes:

Becomming a creature of habit, another 1/2 kg so down to 71 kg now.

I have to sit in the naughty corner too. I'm back up to 138.2.
I deserve to be heavier than that after the blow out I had last night for my friend's sixtieth and the excess of food I consumed over the weekend! Let's hope the High Peak Marathon puts me back on the straight and narrow.

I am suprised by the amount of people using pounds only as opposed to stones and pounds. I had assumed that using lbs only was an Amercian thing.

In my case, its purely due to the fact that my scales readout is in lbs not stones and lbs.

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Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry

I am suprised by the amount of people using pounds only as opposed to stones and pounds. I had assumed that using lbs only was an Amercian thing.

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Sorry I am not going to be able to weigh myself till Friday, I can't get to the gym today or tomorrow to where the scales are located. Work getting in the way of training schedule again, it just won't do. :thunbdown:

61 kilo's this morning :)

That is another kilo down, so still more or less loosing half a kilo a week, which means I should be down to race weight come my first race of the season :)

No change here. Sadly still comforting eating in anticpation of my op (which unfortunately they have postponed by another week) :o

You have an excuse Flopsy! :)

Hope your op comes through soon... I can recommend being nil by mouth for 24 for hours waiting for an operation ;)

Well yes I do have an excuse Hanneke...trouble is I don't usually do excuses! I'm very hard on myself.

Operation is now in two weeks time insteads of next week. Due to the type of surgery and how badly I cope with GA's I will proably not eat for a day or so aftrewards either :thumbup:........but will then pig out for two weeks while I'm on recovery and not allowed to exercise for 4-6 weeks DOH!!!

Managed to get to gym and scales - waste of time as no change at all. Hey ho have to keep at it.

Pleasingly down to 66.5 kg (tho' forgotten what a breakfast tastes like....)

Put me down for 11st 3lb. Right direction. Now that's the easy pounds ditched.....

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Originally Posted by Old Whippet

Put me down for 11st 3lb. Right direction. Now that's the easy pounds ditched.....

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I am 11st 3lb also, was down to 11.2 at the weekend but pigged out on Sunday.

ATB

Tahr

I sympathise Flopsy, I am like that too... I was off the bike for 6 weeks after my op and was climbing the walls and now having to join into this weightloss thing... I didn't even eat that much while convalescing :( It is just that I do such an awful lot of cycling when I am well... :)

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Originally Posted by Flopsy

Well yes I do have an excuse Hanneke...trouble is I don't usually do excuses! I'm very hard on myself.

Operation is now in two weeks time insteads of next week. Due to the type of surgery and how badly I cope with GA's I will proably not eat for a day or so aftrewards either :thumbup:........but will then pig out for two weeks while I'm on recovery and not allowed to exercise for 4-6 weeks DOH!!!

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Originally Posted by martmason

Stick with it Tahr, the sluggish feeling you are experiencing is your body adapting to using fat as its main fuel source. This adaption phase can last from 1 to 3 weeks but will pass as long as your carb intake is low and your insulin levels are stable. Once complete your body can tap into the massive natural energy reserve, this is known as being in the ketogenic state. You will then find massive gains in endurance and negate the need for that constant on the move re-fuelling.
Mart

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Hi Mart

How long have you been on this diet? I am trying to phase in more protein on most days, but going high carb' before big days and races.

ATB

Tahr

160lb. Was a pound or two lighter but been a bit lazy /greedy last week or so :closed:

Drifted up to 65 kg at one stage - too many cakes at The Rattle Gill Cafe - back down to 61.3 today.

Name	Start Weight	Target Weight	Current Weight	Remaining
Alf	167 lbs	157 lbs	162.2	5.2 lbs
Dave314	69 Kg	63 kg	66.5 Kg	3.5 Kg
Derby Tup	163 lbs	154 lbs	160lb	6 lbs
Devil's Own	81.7 kg	70 kg	81.7 kg	11.7 Kg
Donkarlo	95 kg	76 kg	94 kg	18 kg
emmilou	64 Kg	54 kg	58kg	3 Kg
Finbarr	80.80 kg	75 kg	77.5 kg	2.5 Kg
flopsy	65 kg	60 kg	64 kg	4 Kg
freckle	66 kg	60 kg	65.7	5.7 Kg
Georgerunner	11 st 7 lbs	10st 10 lbs	11 st 7 lbs	11 lbs
Hanneke	64 kg	58 Kg	61 kg	3 Kg
Livi	153 lbs	140 lbs	145 lb	4.5 lbs
Hes	139 lbs	134 lbs	138.2	4.2 lbs
Noel	65.4 kg	59.7 kg	65.4 kg	5.7 kg
Old Whippet	11st 8lbs.	10st 12 lbs	11st 3lb	5.0 lbs
Pat Barry	74 Kg	70 Kg	71 Kg	1 Kg
Pilgrim	85.3 kg	77kg	83.0 kg	6.0 Kg
RaceTheSweeper	139 lbs	129 lbs	138 lbs	9.0 lbs
RachFR	66.7 kg	63.5 kg	60.3 kg	-3.2 Kg
redeaston	11 st 2 lbs	10 st 7 lbs	10st 13.5lbs	6.5 lbs
RichardAThackeray	9 st 12 lbs	9st	10st 1lbs	15 lbs
shaunaneto	171 lbs	164 lbs	171lbs	7.0 lbs
Splatcher	71.5 kg	65 kg	69.0 kg	4.0 kg
SCharm	65 kg	62 kg	64.5kgs	2.5 kg
Stagger	170 lbs	158 lbs	163.2 lbs	5.2 lbs
Stolly	166 lbs	158 lbs	164 lbs	6.0 lbs
that_fjell_guy	12 st 7lb	12 st	12 st 2lbs	2.0 lbs
Tahr	11 st 7 lbs	11 st	11 st 3 lbs	3.0 lbs

Next Weight in Wed 14th of March.
Finbarr is now Dr Pat's Nurse (P-Z Only)

I realise I am halfway :D

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Originally Posted by Hanneke

I realise I am halfway :D

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3/4 for me, but it has been very slow, pretty much 1/2 Kg a forthnight. I have not been that good with the eating, just getting out running more.

It has been slow for me too, and like you, I have just been able to up the training again after 6 weeks off after the operation :) Slow loss is better though, less likely to yoyo back on!

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Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry

3/4 for me, but it has been very slow, pretty much 1/2 Kg a forthnight. I have not been that good with the eating, just getting out running more.

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Early for Wednesday I know but I only weigh myself on Mondays mornings. I have finally managed to increase my running output over my cake input and, this morning, I'm 163 pounds. A minus one pound please Bob :)

Unless I can do wonders in the next two days I am going to have a fail this forthnight, with being stuck on 71 Kg. I am getting into the region of "why are you/are you mad trying to loose weight". My lack of displine with eating can not be counteracted by running 5 to 6 times a week.

I have no idea how I have done yet until I weigh myself Wednesday, but I have been eating too much cake, toffees, marzipan, God knows what... as if I am full on racing, which I am not! I have barely managed to get out on the bike once a week... I fear the worst :rolleyes: :o