PH Losers 2019 - Anyone want to join me?

[kiethton]

No worries, would ideally use chicken/turkey thighs/breast but find it easier to control portions (and cost!!!) with mince

[snoopy25]

Of to Yo! Sushi tonight I have no idea weather to classify this as healthy or not lol

[emicen]

Up, exercise and out this morning so the routine continues. Nowhere near my steps target but a nice calorie deficit regardless.

Breakfast: egg & ham quinoa cups
Snack: Lidl veggy protein power pack
Lunch: wholemeal wrap with applewood smoked ham, mustard and salad
Snacks: pack of lentil curls, pack of lightly salted popcorn
Dinner: one pot chorizo & pepper pasta

Including some calories from the semi-skimmed milk in my coffee; 1,275 calories vs. 1,500 target

[EarlOfHazard]

02/01/2019: 15 stone
14/01/2019: 14.7.
Weighed myself last week and nothing much. This morning and I'm half a stone down! My stomach does feel a lot flatter, which is nice.

Have another HIIT class in the morning, and yoga tomorrow evening

[Steve91]

Breakfast - Porridge with 2tsb honey - 266Cal
Snack - Apple snack pack, Alpen Light Jaffa Cake - 114Cal
Lunch - Fridge Raiders 3 x 22.5g - 129Cal
- Chow Mein Mug Shot - 277 Cal
Snack - Muller Light Carrot Cake - 81 Cal
Dinner - Sainsburys Vegetable Pie - 325 Cal
- Swede and Carrot - Around 200 Cal

So that's 1,392 calories for the day, and according to my Garmin app I burned 650 on the turbo tonight. Definitely getting used to eating less, and mercifully, MFP has a load of chicken recipes on their blog which look pretty good, so will give those a go!

[Bungleaio]

I weigh myself every day and it's interesting to see how things go up and down. I have a set of Garmin smart scales so it saves the numbers to my Garmin connect account without me having to do anything. I've done it almost every day for a couple of years now.

Anyway, I went to see a mate yesterday afternoon, ended up having 3 beers, several large glasses of whisky, a couple of handfuls of Cadburys chocolate eclairs and to top it off a tandoori chicken kebab and some chips. I had a great time.

On the scales this morning and they said I've gained 0.1lb compared to yesterday. What tomorrows results are who knows but I had a good afternoon yesterday.

I was back to clean living today and have been to the gym again.

[Smitters]

Good day all in yesterday.

Good food, gym and also some rehab at home for my shinsplints. One issue I had (and have had before) was not eating enough! I got to bed time and was starving hungry, so made myself some toast.

I check the MFP today and it turns out that I was 1000kcal under my goal before the toast. Need to pay more attention when doing exercise and controlling calories. That's what turns into a binge on cake and ice cream!

[Lemming Train]

Smitters said:

Good day all in yesterday.

Good food, gym and also some rehab at home for my shinsplints. One issue I had (and have had before) was not eating enough! I got to bed time and was starving hungry, so made myself some toast.

I check the MFP today and it turns out that I was 1000kcal under my goal before the toast. Need to pay more attention when doing exercise and controlling calories. That's what turns into a binge on cake and ice cream!

There was someone earlier in the thread that had this exact same issue and didn't lose any weight because of it. They binned the MFP. Just eat sensibly and you'll lose weight. Eating deliberately because some silly app tells you that you've only eaten half of what a normal male should have eaten is a recipe for disaster.

[snoopy25]

snoopy25 said:

Of to Yo! Sushi tonight I have no idea weather to classify this as healthy or not lol

Didn't do to bad and stuck mainly to actual Sushi, but ended up having a bowl of cheesy chips as well that i shared with the other half

Weighed myself yesterday and i had lost 1lb. Currently walk to work both ways thats 4 miles a day plus trying to go running in the evenings every other day plus running/walking in the mornings at the weekend.

Think biggest issue for me is portion size and my ability to stick to a normal portion size of food and not "snoopy25's" portion of food size lol

[LL1993]

So - a long week and weighed in this morning, dropped 1.3kg.

Have been Eating as best as I can for a week so to be totally honest I did expect more, but a loss is a loss!

Onto the next

[emicen]

Lemming Train said:

Smitters said:

Good day all in yesterday.

Good food, gym and also some rehab at home for my shinsplints. One issue I had (and have had before) was not eating enough! I got to bed time and was starving hungry, so made myself some toast.

I check the MFP today and it turns out that I was 1000kcal under my goal before the toast. Need to pay more attention when doing exercise and controlling calories. That's what turns into a binge on cake and ice cream!

There was someone earlier in the thread that had this exact same issue and didn't lose any weight because of it. They binned the MFP. Just eat sensibly and you'll lose weight. Eating deliberately because some silly app tells you that you've only eaten half of what a normal male should have eaten is a recipe for disaster.

Don’t ever let reading what’s actually been written, or understanding the subject at hand, get in the way of posting your view of the world.

The “silly app” uses a variety of factors including plenty of research from respected institutes to set a net calories target for safe weight loss.

He didn’t eat because the app told him to, he ate because he found himself feeling very hungry. The app simply told him he had eaten very little which explained the hunger.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 09:45

[Lemming Train]

emicen said:

Don’t ever let reading what’s actually been written, or understanding the subject at hand, get in the way of posting your view of the world.

The “silly app” uses a variety of factors including plenty of research from respected institutes to set a net calories target for safe weight loss.

He didn’t eat because the app told him to, he ate because he found himself feeling very hungry. The app simply told him he had eaten very little which explained the hunger.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 09:45

Which people translate as "I have 1500 spare calories available to stuff my face with pizza, cakes and ice-cream".

[rsbmw]

LL1993 said:

So - a long week and weighed in this morning, dropped 1.3kg.

Have been Eating as best as I can for a week so to be totally honest I did expect more, but a loss is a loss!

Onto the next

3lbs in a week is a good rate of loss

[geeks]

Lemming Train said:

emicen said:

Don’t ever let reading what’s actually been written, or understanding the subject at hand, get in the way of posting your view of the world.

The “silly app” uses a variety of factors including plenty of research from respected institutes to set a net calories target for safe weight loss.

He didn’t eat because the app told him to, he ate because he found himself feeling very hungry. The app simply told him he had eaten very little which explained the hunger.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 09:45

Which people translate as "I have 1500 spare calories available to stuff my face with pizza, cakes and ice-cream".

It needs to be a combo of both in reality. I don't use a calorie tracker (I did used to use Lifesum) mainly because its a ballache and telling me stuff that I already know.

[Electronicpants]

Lemming Train said:

emicen said:

Don’t ever let reading what’s actually been written, or understanding the subject at hand, get in the way of posting your view of the world.

The “silly app” uses a variety of factors including plenty of research from respected institutes to set a net calories target for safe weight loss.

He didn’t eat because the app told him to, he ate because he found himself feeling very hungry. The app simply told him he had eaten very little which explained the hunger.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 09:45

Which people translate as "I have 1500 spare calories available to stuff my face with pizza, cakes and ice-cream".

That's where the micros come in, try to balance these to 20/30/50 or 30/30/40 protein/fats/carbs with say 600-700g of vegetables and fruit a day and a binge of pizza and cake isn't possible.

[MYOB]

LL1993 said:

So - a long week and weighed in this morning, dropped 1.3kg.

Have been Eating as best as I can for a week so to be totally honest I did expect more, but a loss is a loss!

Onto the next

That's the same as my loss. That's 3lbs and is very good. Slow and steady is the best approach.

[emicen]

Electronicpants said:

Lemming Train said:

emicen said:

Don’t ever let reading what’s actually been written, or understanding the subject at hand, get in the way of posting your view of the world.

The “silly app” uses a variety of factors including plenty of research from respected institutes to set a net calories target for safe weight loss.

He didn’t eat because the app told him to, he ate because he found himself feeling very hungry. The app simply told him he had eaten very little which explained the hunger.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 09:45

Which people translate as "I have 1500 spare calories available to stuff my face with pizza, cakes and ice-cream".

That's where the micros come in, try to balance these to 20/30/50 or 30/30/40 protein/fats/carbs with say 600-700g of vegetables and fruit a day and a binge of pizza and cake isn't possible.

Exactly.

There’s no way a lot of people could be bothered tracking macros if it wasn’t made easy by the “silly app.”

It also doesn’t allow net calories to be set lower than what is considered to be healthy by the National Institutes of Health [1,500/day men, 1,200/day women], nor does it propose daily deficits in excess of -1,000 calories which aligns with -2lb/wk weightloss.

So to have a 1,500 calorie budget for cake and ice cream would be some effort.

Edited by emicen on Tuesday 15th January 10:32

[Lemming Train]

Lemming Train said:

Tuesday check-in day!

Tuesday check-in day again!



Another 2.1 kg gone (4.6 lbs). Down from 112 kg.

Table updated : https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Edited by Lemming Train on Tuesday 15th January 11:28

[spence1886]

I'm managing to stick to low carbs really religiously and am not finding myself hungry at all.

I am also back cycling to and from work this week - so have added an hour of exercise and 600 calories burnt to the equation. It also means I am sleeping better, and get an extra 30 minutes in bed!

Another discovery this week was broccoli "rice" bung half a head in the food processor and then pan fry what comes out in a hot pan for 4 minutes - really tasty and goes well with the M&S curries that have less than 20g carbs in them (Prawn Makhani and Chicken Saag). It means if I am late home I can have a relatively quick ready meal without screwing up low carb.

I also did a pee test for ketosis last night and am happily confirmed to be in it.

Weighed in this morning at 94.6Kg so down 4.4kg in two weeks (well 13 days).

[Mr Obertshaw]

Weighed in yesterday. Up 0.4kg... I did do weights for the first time in years so i've obviously piled on some muscle which as we all know weighs more than fat!