PH Losers 2019 - Anyone want to join me?

PH Losers 2019 - Anyone want to join me?

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MB140

4,026 posts

102 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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gregs656 said:
MB140 said:
That’s why I am going to work in pounds. I know it’s a mental think but I figure seeing a bigger number loss will inspire/motivate me to keep on track diet wise and do more phys.
Maybe extrapolating any loss over 4 or 8 weeks would be useful.

If you loose 1kg (2lbs) a week that a stone every 7 weeks etc

It's playing the long game that will make the difference. Starving your self for 2 months to get the numbers to drop isn't going to work long term.
I’m using the MyFitnessPal app. With a 500 cal deficit a day 1820cal per day allowance for a 1.5-2lb a week loss. I’m not looking for massive numbers each week. I did that in the past (many years ago) when I did a pretty much zero carb diet. Weight plummeted off but it wasn’t sustainable. This time I am aiming for a general healthy eating diet. Moderate exercise and slow mothodical weight lose.

I figure working in pounds with a small considered approach lbs is best for me.

MB140

4,026 posts

102 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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Bungleaio said:
Can anyone help with my fitness pal please?

I've downloaded the app today and accurately inputted what I've eaten. It says I've eaten 1'618 calories and my goal is 1'650 per day. It's linked to my garmin app so it knows I've been exercising and has given me another 1'050 calories. This has given me a remaining calories count for the day of 1,082.

I've never done calorie counting before so I'm not sure if I should be eating more or not. I'm thinking that I might sack it off and just carry on as I am.
I personally ignore any calories burnt doing exercise I just use the allowance as what I can eat and anything burnt through exercise is a bonus weight loss.

I should point out I only do light/moderate exercise and don’t claim to be an expert. If you were pounding the phys then it may be different but I’m not the guy to advise you if that’s the case. I just do what seems to be working for me.

kiethton

13,883 posts

179 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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So as a follow-up went with:

Prawn puri starter (no bread)
Lamb dansak
Sag paneer
Mushroom bajhi

Not too bad (I hope) and I’m now stuffed, definitely are too much!


emicen

8,558 posts

217 months

Thursday 17th January 2019
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Steve91 said:
emicen said:
I’ve been using:
1 banana
55ish grams oats
1 egg
1/4tsp baking powder
1/4tsp cinamon

Makes about 3 pancakes of about 6-8in diameter depending on how good you are at spreading the mix out in the frying pan.

They’re nice.
Dumb question, I take it you blitz the ingredients together?
Yup, fire them all in a blender and blitz it. The recipe I follow says 50-75g of oats. I’ve found anything more than 55 and it’s way too hard to spread the mix out in the pan.

emicen

8,558 posts

217 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Another 1.5lb down since weigh in, challenge will be keeping it going over the weekend with both days at events where food choices are not brilliant.

Imagine how lovely it was being in my house last night with the sight and smell of this lot being rustled up:

STO

772 posts

155 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Just updated my entry on the wiki, down 1.3kg in total think i need to up my game. I have been on leave this week so using that as an excuse smile

Euan94MX5

67 posts

108 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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A small shock this morning to remind me I need to plan better, I have run out of my normal cans of soup that I have for lunch, so ran into Sainsbury's on the way to work to grab something. Grabbed a sub roll as something a bit different on a Friday, now I'm at work I've realised its got 588 calories in it! Maybe i'm just naive but that seems an awful lot when I can have a filling can of soup for 200 calories.
So note to self, buy soup for every day of the week! Should still be looking at a decent loss this week but I'm still dropping the christmas weight, should be clear of that this week so the real work can start, fingers crossed

MB140

4,026 posts

102 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Well that’s me done my weigh in this morning.

05/01/19 = 245
12/01/19 = 241
18/01/19 = 239

So that’s another 2lb down. I will update the wiki when I get home from work.

That’s okay with me I am aiming for 2lb a week so achieved my goal.

Robmarriott

2,633 posts

157 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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I’ve finally stopped coughing after 14 days so I’ll be back out ‘running’ every evening regardless of the weather. I don’t think I will have lost anything this week, if I have it’ll be very marginal and I’m trying to keep ahead of my goal, as soon as I fall behind I’ll struggle to keep motivated!

HTP99

22,441 posts

139 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Weigh myself every morning and it is going down daily, will update on official weigh in day; Monday.

TheK1981

191 posts

74 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Just updated the table, ive put on 100g this week, not entirely unexpected as i have had a 30th birthday and my mums 65th, so lots of food and booze.

Next week I shall be doing 4 days at the gym, and eating healthy all week, aiming for a 2kg loss.

J4CKO

41,273 posts

199 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Hovering at 16.8, noticed the muscle percentage edge up a bit since the start of the year and fat down a bit, once percent or so added to muscle and one percent less fat.

So, lose a bit of fat, gain a bit of muscle potentially ?

Guessing here but may have lost three/four and a bit pounds but gained say half a pound of muscle, is that possible in two/three weeks,maybe seven hours in the gym ?


emicen

8,558 posts

217 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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J4CKO said:
Hovering at 16.8, noticed the muscle percentage edge up a bit since the start of the year and fat down a bit, once percent or so added to muscle and one percent less fat.

So, lose a bit of fat, gain a bit of muscle potentially ?

Guessing here but may have lost three/four and a bit pounds but gained say half a pound of muscle, is that possible in two/three weeks,maybe seven hours in the gym ?
Entirely possible.

As of this morning’s weight in:
Weight -3.8kg
Bodyfat percentage -1.6%
Muscle percentage +0.7%

Total time in the gym to this point is 4 hours.

As covered elsewhere in the thread, the percentages are indicative and not absolute, but a useful guide. Although home scales mostly measure waist down, as they don’t have hand sensors then extrapolate for the rest of the body, you can’t spot train fat like you can muscle.

rigga

8,727 posts

200 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Second week weigh in, dropped another 1.1kg after previous weeks 4kg, expected it to be less this time, kept the exercise going, and healthy eating, just on way to Cornwall for long weekend away, can't say ill not indulge a bit, but back on the regime Tuesday.

Smitters

3,995 posts

156 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Bungleaio said:
Can anyone help with my fitness pal please?

I've downloaded the app today and accurately inputted what I've eaten. It says I've eaten 1'618 calories and my goal is 1'650 per day. It's linked to my garmin app so it knows I've been exercising and has given me another 1'050 calories. This has given me a remaining calories count for the day of 1,082.

I've never done calorie counting before so I'm not sure if I should be eating more or not. I'm thinking that I might sack it off and just carry on as I am.
Sure - put simply, if you've eaten about 1,600 cals and burnt about 1,000, then you're fuelling the remaining 23 or so hours of your day, and the recovery from what sounds like quite significant exercise, on 600 cals. By MFP taking that exercise into account, it grants you back the 1,000 calories, so your net calorie intake is the same each day, irrespective of the amount of exercise you do and the weight loss and fuel going in remains consistent.

If you don't eat, I have found I get hungry and grab something calorie dense in the evening, like biscuits, when I run out of energy. At it's worst, you get the shakes as your blood sugar plummets and then you have to stick a spoon of honey in your mouth or something. That's not ideal at all.


TLDR - eat more. It's good for recovery and balanced energy levels.

22

2,268 posts

136 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Not had a chance to go through the thread, but the table showing some good losses. Myself included now.

I'm 5.7kg down overall and was 7 and a half pounds down after my first week at Slimming World. Round of chubby applause was appreciated biggrin

I had it to lose. I've always been a big guy and a big eater, but more sedentary daytimes coincided with a rapid deterioration in diet and I must have piled on 2 stone in the last 4 months of the year. Glad it seems to be coming off sensibly. Not really studying the diet, just eating better, snacking healthily and plan to exercise more when get round to it. I'll probably monitor the diet more when trying to squeeze a few kg off me, rather than when it seems happy to fall off. My moobs are the first to see benefit - happy days!

Peanut Gallery

2,416 posts

109 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Peanut Gallery making a shameful check in..

Current weight about 97 kg, so a loss of minus 2 kg. (double negatives can be useful sometimes!)

Have reduced portion sizes, but feeling queezy with travel sickness when I get home makes me reach for the crisps / biscuits etc.

My worst measurement around the middle is 42.75 inches, I want to get this down to 40 inches.

More work needed!

Lemming Train

5,567 posts

71 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Peanut Gallery said:
Peanut Gallery making a shameful check in..

Current weight about 97 kg, so a loss of minus 2 kg. (double negatives can be useful sometimes!)

Have reduced portion sizes, but feeling queezy with travel sickness when I get home makes me reach for the crisps / biscuits etc.

My worst measurement around the middle is 42.75 inches, I want to get this down to 40 inches.

More work needed!
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Peanut Gallery

2,416 posts

109 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Lemming Train said:
Peanut Gallery said:
Peanut Gallery making a shameful check in..

Current weight about 97 kg, so a loss of minus 2 kg. (double negatives can be useful sometimes!)

Have reduced portion sizes, but feeling queezy with travel sickness when I get home makes me reach for the crisps / biscuits etc.

My worst measurement around the middle is 42.75 inches, I want to get this down to 40 inches.

More work needed!
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
You trust me to update that without breaking it?? - You brave brave person!
(working on it)

Lemming Train

5,567 posts

71 months

Friday 18th January 2019
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Peanut Gallery said:
You trust me to update that without breaking it?? - You brave brave person!
(working on it)
smile
Just copy the format of the line above or below. All you need is 2 pipe symbols between the blurb to act as the column separator. Click 'preview' when done editing to make sure it's all still in line and then 'submit'. Done! spin