Health & Family PropertyChat "Biggest Loser" Challenge

Thankyou for being judgemental!

As I said, it isn't the way I normally eat, but while in another country, in a tour group, you don't get choices on where or what there is to eat. Breakfast was the only meal with a lot of choices.....most of which were horrid, so eating what wasn't horrid was the only option.

I could, of course have eaten dried turnips, eggs in tea, noodles with chilies or some of the other more strange offerings that I can't even remember what they were called. I remember picking up some raisin bread, only to find that it was red beans instead of raisins. Yuck!

This thread is supposed to be to motivate those that are trying to do something about their weight, not to criticise them..

Why are you even in this thread?

 

It's Motivation Monday! (yes it's a thing)



If Ben can do it so can you

 

88.6kg but at least a loss was recorded.

Socialising hindered a better result.

 

Well, I weighed in and measured up this morning and the news is not good I know I have been going over my energy requirements for the day, without calorie counting, but I tried to compensate by walking more... up to an hour a day. I didn't need to count calories to know that I was going over. All I needed to do was look at what I was eating. Time to stop being so slack and not over consuming calories

 

@wylie my body does not listen to the normal. I track calories and could do the same as you and not lose weight. I know some of the causes for me and some of the answers. My causes are hormone imbalance, insulin resistance, age and mucked up metabolism from eating too low calories for too long. Some of the answers are exercise (a lot more), Metformin (my insulin sensitizing medication and helps my hormones) and a high protein low carb diet.

 

107.3kg
I'm pretty happy with it, but as I said earlier, I did my initial weigh in at night and this one in the morning, so it's not really a 4kg loss.
@pinkboy, if you want to adjust my starting weight down, that's fine.

 

The weigh-ins are on the new thread e veryone. Maybe we should have a two-way link?

 

I have similar issues.

 

Anybody deliberately cycling calorie intake?

Here's a good intro - Calorie Cycling 101: A Beginner's Guide
Research suggests the benefits of calorie cycling include greater weight loss, improved ability to stick to a diet, less hunger and a reduction in the negative hormonal and metabolic adaptations of a normal weight loss diet.

I've been feeling flat lately on a very consistent daily deficit.
So now I'm thinking of doing a substantial calorie surplus on my 2 toughest workout days and staying on a deficit the other 5 days of the week. This should give a good energy boost and reset lepton levels.

As humans, I don't believe we were meant to consume such a consistent daily intake, but rather something more inconsistent and unplanned. However, provided the caloric intake total at the end of the week is less than expenditure, you should be good, discounting any extremes.
Eating should be more enjoyable this way too, as you can plan for some junky meals once in a while on the high calorie days.

 

I have done in the past. It worked well for me.

I agree. I try to not to always have the same amount each day, sometimes leave a long time between eating and sometimes deliberately eat very small meals. Something I find interesting is that if I don't eat for 12 to 14 hours, it doesn't make me feel hungrier. Just the normal amount of hungry.

 

I'm going on a binge today and will probably double my normal daily intake.
Hopefully this will re-energise me, got deadlifts tonight, double training session and can't operate at peak performance when at a caloric deficit day after day, slowly wasting away.

 

Pretty much the basis of the 5 2 diet I posted about earlier where you are severely restricted for two days (500 calories). The research showed it had positive effects on hormone regulation nd didn't negatively impact on base metabolism.

Five days seems like a lot and is more likely to be a) unsustainable and b) lead to muscle wastage and decreased metabolism.

 

Enjoy yourself but bingeing and motivation are mutually exclusive. You've got to work out what's right for you though and you're obviously going well.

 

Well it won't really be a massive binge, just not restricted and eating comfortably.
I've always has trouble eating enough in the days where I was trying to gain muscle mass, it quite hard work.
I think it takes time to adapt to going from eating a little to eating a lot.
I get full pretty quick on not much these days.

 

Lucky you!