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Update.
Week later, 20 stone 2 pounds.
Only a pound lost, but I've had a cold all week. Less miles, (52) and too much comfort eating, (Poorly Biscuits.)
Better next week.
Andy0 -
BubblinSergeant wrote:Woa, 1000 calories is probably too little to survive on in a day, and doing that will probably make you binge eat once you have finished your diet, not to mention the lack of vitamins/minerals (check with your doctor before doing anything that drastic)
tk.
yes 1000 calories a day is not suficient for most folk but I have a unique set of problems that require a unique solution.
I have a suspected prolapsed L5/S1 disc with a umbilical hernia as well. I also have an underactive thyroid and deficient liver apparently which is the organ that controls your fat intake and uptake etc.
I cannot exercise at all. I cannot walk most days more than 50-100 yards . I sit all day long so burn nothing.
If I eat 1000 calories per day I may just start to get some of this weight off and help with the acute pain in my spine and I have in fact lost 2lbs this week the first loss in 16 weeks !
drastic situations call for drastic measures.
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Peanut, can I ask is your current state to do with an accident or is it an illness?
Gats0 -
Hmm, if you're 6'0 and 11.5st, you're definitely not fat. I'm the same height and vary between 11 and 11.5st, depending on the time of season and I know I'm not fat. In fact, I climb better now at 11st than I did when I was 10st - which is what I thought my true racing weight was for several years.TheGreatGatsby wrote:I'm still a fat loser
When I stopped racing at the end of the last millenium, I put on nearly 2st in a year. For me it was a bit of a shock and I couldn't come to terms with it. But when I started training again, I found I was stronger, which was nice. I gradually lost about a stone and am now perfectly happy with that as a racing weight. I definitely don't starve myself either.
Some words of good advice that I've adopted: oncentrate on your fitness and your weight will sort itself out.Jeff Jones
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Bingo!Jeff Jones wrote:Some words of good advice that I've adopted: oncentrate on your fitness and your weight will sort itself out.
(but it does help to cut out junk from the diet)
That's what I'm counting on when I get back on the bike, 'cause at the mo' I really am getting too big
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I found that cutting out the five full fat latte's a day I was drinking kind of helped!
who'd have thought.
Now as lean and trim as I was 12 years ago! woo!0 -
I always find it alarming how many calories drinks contain thats why if its tea its either Red bush caffeine free with a tiny bit of skimmed milk or Ginger and if its coffee its almost black or a skinny cappucino - all chased by a pint of water!
I have cut down my intake to 5 pieces of fruit, three rice cakes with marmite during the day and an evening meal. Commute is 15 miles each way each day - done averaging about 18-21mph - and a ride of between 50 and 100 miles on sunday. Lets see if this fat gets the message.
Gats0 -
Sounds like a plan. Make sure you get enough energy for a ride like that though with a good drink.
The couple of times I was in a rush and forgot to take a drink on my 23 mile commute I had a really bad "energy crash" shortly after.
Whereabouts is your commute?0 -
I dont take a drink with me on my commute as for 15 miles its over pretty quickly so I don't bother. 50-70 I'll take a drink and then 70+ its drink and a banana. And I dont eat before hand - escept on sunday club rides cos they last all day!
Commute is in cambridge - somersham to Ely but shortly to be somersham to cottenham by way of boxworth/elsworth and cambridge
Gats0 -
ahh nice flat cambridge. :PTheGreatGatsby wrote:Commute is in cambridge - somersham to Ely but shortly to be somersham to cottenham by way of boxworth/elsworth and cambridge
ooh that gives me an idea.. a thread of elevation profiles for peoples commutes....0 -
TheGreatGatsby wrote:Peanut, can I ask is your current state to do with an accident or is it an illness?
Gats
both actually.
Broke my back 3x years ago so cannot walk very well or do any exercise. 3 x years of no exercise and weight has piled on and everything is packing up.
thyroid, liver, kidneys,hernia immune system shot to hell so lots of infections ,chest, teeth,
christ I've known more healthy dead people lol....
Just weighed at Dr's again this morning and still 17stone 6lbs clothed so lost nothing again this week on 1000 kcals a day :roll: Going to try to get an exercise bike this w/e I'll see if I can chop it up so I can use it more comfortably from a chair.0 -
Something like this:peanut wrote:Going to try to get an exercise bike this w/e I'll see if I can chop it up so I can use it more comfortably from a chair.
http://www.dinosaurdeals.com.au/lightbo ... timageid=10 -
192 lbs this morning. 1lb since last week. Total 3 lbs in 3 weeks. 0
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got my weigh in tomorrow morning - fingers crossed for a loss otherwise its cutting time.
Gats0 -
Alex_Simmons/RST wrote:
Something like this:peanut wrote:Going to try to get an exercise bike this w/e I'll see if I can chop it up so I can use it more comfortably from a chair.
http://www.dinosaurdeals.com.au/lightbo ... timageid=1
yes thats the sort of thing although I'm not sure if my back would take it
can't afford it at the moment anyway.
I was thinking of getting hold of a bootsale jobbie and chopping that so I can sit in my normal chair and exercise whilst surfin and watching tv ! :roll:
Hey well done Mike the pounds are coming off. I have just scoffed chicken and chips so I've blown it for this week :oops: :oops:0 -
thats it. still 11.5. I've had enough. new regime goes into place until I start seeing results
Breakfast: Banana
Lunch: Apple
Dinner: proper meal but small portions.
I'm sick to death of not losing weight :evil: how can everyone else lose and I cant?
Gats0 -
Gats - please don't go there again.
11.5 stone isn't overweight, it's a normal healthy weight for a male adult of your age. If you are getting obsessive again then please seek professional help.0 -
TheGreatGatsby wrote:thats it. still 11.5. I've had enough. new regime goes into place until I start seeing results
Breakfast: Banana
Lunch: Apple
Dinner: proper meal but small portions.
I'm sick to death of not losing weight :evil: how can everyone else lose and I cant?
Gats
Gats, 11.5st for your height is not fat - I'm 6ft1in and 11.5st and I get a constant round of people telling me I'm too skinny. (part of that is that they saw me when I was 14.5st last year)
I think you need to ease off on yourself. Why not just hold it steady until the spring and see if you can bring it down naturally a fraction with training as the nights draw out and the good weather kicks in?
I've backed off from trying to lose any more as I'm looking a touch gaunt as it is and I have also found that I can't do the more intense intervals I'll be doing as the TT season approaches unless I am well fueled up.
Neil--
"Because the cycling is pain. The cycling is soul crushing pain."0 -
Yup 12.1 stone here, 6'2" and happy with that. Was 14.5 last year too!
11.5 sounds light.0 -
the difference is you guys have done an awsome job of dropping your weight to what you are now where as I am gaining which is just not good. If I had been 12.5stone and lost to 11.5 then fair enough but I'm coming from under 11 where people were saying I was thin to now where all I can see is weight gain.
I'm not gonna obsess about it though. I'm just gonna get on with it and do it right. I have no intention of being ill but all the intention of losing weight.
Gats0 -
TheGreatGatsby wrote:I'm not gonna obsess about it though.
No, not at all! :roll:
Here, have a virtual kick up the arse... and throw away your scales!I have pain!0 -
soon as I drop 5lb they're gone.
Anyone wanna buy a custom specialized Tarmac?
Gats0 -
Think i need to join this club. Last May i was 14 stone 7lb and very unfit so started cycling. BTW am 5'9" and 51. My cycling has improved from averaging12mph on short runs, 4 or 5 miles, to 16mph on 15 miles plus. Can also easily do 30miles or a ten in about 32 minutes (if not too windy). I lost about 10 lbs in the first couple of months and at same time gave up drinking beer in the house. Trouser waist size has just about dropped from a 36" to a 34" but no more weight loss . I am massively fitter but my BMI still puts me firmly in the overweight bracket plus a tape measure around my tummy still goes over 40" which is a risk sign as far as heart attacks goes.
Blood pressure is also not good at around 135 : 65 . I seriously want to do something about this so any suggestions gratefully received.We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.0 -
Perpetual motion even in humans defies the laws of physics - for weight loss calories in (food & drink) should be (slightly) less than calories out - livin. 3500 calories = 1 pound of lard = around 5 - 6 hours of moderate cycling.
Horrible thing is the lighter and fitter you are the less calories you need to live! And then theres age, the older you are the less your BMR.
Sod it I'm havin another glass of wine.0
