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Sick of being fat

Deise boii

Hello

I'm nearly 36 just under 6ft and in and around 15st 8lbs. I am fed up of being on the big side.

I used to play gaa and would go for a run once a week. I know I need to increase that. I can go for 10k in under an hour which I know would be quite slow but suppose it's a start.

Basically I'm here looking for advice about ways to get down to under 15st maybe closer to 14. I want to change my diet as sometimes it can be good but when work is busy and working long hours I notice it goes to pot

I had ideas that other people would join in here and we support eachother to try and loose a bit or just for encouragement.

Any takers?

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[Deleted User]

Padraig Mor wrote: »

............. you could be looking at 3000+ calories there alone!

But sure a few 96 hour fasts afterwards and it'll be grand :pac:

Minime2.5

Padraig Mor wrote: »

While 15k may be an exaggeration, it's surprisingly easy to fire in 5/6000 calories, even if just starting in the evening! Lash of drink, big meal / takeaway, snacking on high fat / carb snacks into the early hours.....easily done! Hell, choose the wrong takeaway and you could be looking at 3000+ calories there alone!

My favourite cheat meal is a rossitare roast chicken , some fresh rolls with butter and a bottle of red wine and a magnum ice cream for dessert . That's not too crazy I don't think

iamtony

Minime2.5 wrote: »

My favourite cheat meal is a rossitare roast chicken , some fresh rolls with butter and a bottle of red wine and a magnum ice cream for dessert . That's not too crazy I don't think

nope that's almost health food:D a full chicken is about 1000 calories. Rolls vary but a deli style French baguette is about 400. Magnum about 2-300? Bottle of red a few hundred more. Its nothing compared to a wagon wheel pizza and an 8 pack of cans.

Minime2.5

Week 1
Day 1
Weight-300lbs
Waist around Navel in relaxed state -52 inches

I've got work to do

Padraig Mor

Augeo wrote: »

But sure a few 96 hour fasts afterwards and it'll be grand :pac:

As I'm sure you'd say yourself Augeo, it's a lot bloody easier to not eat the ****ing thing in the first place (i.e. have a healthier option)! Still, temptation.......

Minime2.5

Minime2.5 wrote: »

Week 1
Day 1
Weight-300lbs
Waist around Navel in relaxed state -52 inches

I've got work to do

Day 2 - 297.4lbs

Padraig Mor

Minime2.5

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Week 0: 301.6.
Week 1: 290.6 lbs (-11).
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I have to reiterate how impressive this is . Most people that have 100lbs to lose will never do it. Can I ask was this your first go at Weight loss? If not what was different this time that helped you succeed . Also what challenges did you have to overcome ?

hots

hots wrote: »

oh yeah I was just using 15k as a nice round and stupidly big number, but I'd still try and track it if you can. A Domino's meal deal which I could (and have) put away is 7/8k by a rough count. If your daily maintenance is 2.5k you'd need to be under 1.5k for your other 6 days to be losing weight.

Appropriately I'm having a heavy day Sunday so thought I'd write up my week.

Mon 660
Tues 1328
Wed 995
Thur 733
Fri 1057
Sat 1000 (approx. TBC)
Sun 4950

Bottle of Whiskey 1519
Dominos Pepperoni Passion This and Crispy Large 1881
Chicken Kickers Combo 750
Cinni Dippers 800

An average per day this week of 1530. A hard enough way to get to 1500 imo, and would be a much bigger impact without the Sunday blowout (or a less blowy one at least).

Hodors Appletart

I'm a large bloke (just under 140kg) and wouldn't be able to eat all that Dominos if I tried!

Padraig Mor

Minime2.5 wrote: »

I have to reiterate how impressive this is . Most people that have 100lbs to lose will never do it. Can I ask was this your first go at Weight loss? If not what was different this time that helped you succeed . Also what challenges did you have to overcome ?

Cheers. No, have had a few varying goes over the years - dropped from 18.75 stone to 16 in....2007 or so (standard dieting plus exercise). 2017 went from 270 lbs to <240 (calorie counting using MFP, plus exercise).....and put it all - and more - back on eventually. Difference this time has to be the intermittent fasting - it's just worked well for me and I've generally not found it difficult. Am also doing a lot of exercise now, but that's only been ramping up since I lost 40/50 lbs.

Challenges? Too much ****e at the weekend leaving me chasing my tail during the week - a challenge I haven't overcome yet! No doubt in my mind that I could have lost the 100 2 - 3 months ago if I'd been more disciplined - but hey, ya gotta live too.

supue

That's incredible work, you should be under the 200lb mark very soon too. Congrats on keeping the momentum going for so long.

farmerval

June 5th 20 st 10 lbs
Oct 3rd 18 st 4lbs (-34 lbs)
Oct 10th 18 st 2 lbs (-36 lbs)
Oct 17th 18 st 0 lbs (- 38 lbs)
Oct 24th 18 st 3lbs (-35 lbs) Am so cross this morning. Dietitian convinced me to go back to three square meals a day. Complicated week, was on a new medication and fully expected to be down 2-3 lbs this morning. Shocking disappointed. Back to IF for me.

Bassfish

1st September 103.3kg
24th October 97.3kg

Still tracking most days on MFP. Got a handle on meal planning and shopping accordingly. Enjoying the healthy stews. Got back in to running. Up to 8k runs (slowly). Pants are all looser but it doesn't feel like much is coming off the mid section. Feeling so much better, way more energy, sleeping better, mind clearer.
I've set a goal of being down to 93kg by the end of lockdown and running 10k will reasonable ease.

Minime2.5

Day 2-296lbs

[Deleted User]

Bassfish wrote: »

......
I've set a goal of being down to 93kg by the end of lockdown and running 10k will reasonable ease.

I found weight loss brought linear improvement in running.

30 mins 5ks at 105kg
22 mins 5ks at 80kg

Was less wrecked after the 22 mins ones though.... Best of luck

Bassfish

Augeo wrote: »

I found weight loss brought linear improvement in running.

30 mins 5ks at 105kg
22 mins 5ks at 80kg

Was less wrecked after the 22 mins ones though.... Best of luck

Makes sense, the difference between your 22 minute run and the 30 minute one is like running with half a bag of coal on your back

Hodors Appletart

Week 0 : 145kg
Week 1: 143kg (-2kg)
Week 2 : 141.3kg (-3.7kg)
Week 3 : 142.7kg (-2.3kg)
Week 4 :139.8kg (-5.2kg)
Week 5 : 140.3kg (-4.7kg)
Week 6 : 138.2kg (-6.8kg)

So 6 weeks in and I'm a stone down, feels like another milestone worth pointing out

very noticable difference in clothes, some of the larger t-shirts I bought in lockdown are swimming on me

gyms closing will be difficult, but I'm being very good at not having any junk food at all and sticking to my regime about 80% of the time.

I'm happy with my progress.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Week 1 Aug 20th 2020 : 246lbs
Week 2 Aug 27th 2020 : 242lbs -4
Week 3 Sept 4th 2020 : 236lbs -10
Week 4 Sept 11th 2020 : 233lbs -13
Week 5 Sept 21st 2020 : 229lbs - 17
Week 6 Sept 28th 2020 : 231lbs -15
Week 7 Oct 5th 2020 : 227lbs -19
Week 8 Oct 12th 2020 : 225lbs -21
Week 9 Oct 19th 2020 : 223lbs -23
Week 10 Oct 26th 2020 : 222lbs -24

Another pound this week, slightly surprising as it hasnt been the best week in terms of diet, we've been moving house all week with no access to an oven and no time really to cook much, so there has been 3 or 4 take-aways and a few ready meals thrown in there.
A great week outside of that thou, buying a house is a big milestone for us.

Onwards and upwards now, diet should be better again from here out.

GoldFour4

Week 1: 21/10/2020 - 102kg
Week 2: 28/10/2020 - 100kg (-2kg)

A good start. I generally eat healthy dinners and don’t do anything too mad with my other meals (although i had a couple of fry’s for the bank holiday weekend. I finished couch to 5k during the first lockdown so am building on that at the moment working up to longer distances.

My real problem is with snacking though. I find it very hard to say no to a sharing bag of chocolate when I head into Tesco for milk and other necessities that can’t just be picked up during the weekend big shop. If I could cut that back I could make serious progress over the next few weeks.

Bassfish

malistheman wrote: »

My real problem is with snacking though. I find it very hard to say no to a sharing bag of chocolate when I head into Tesco for milk and other necessities that can’t just be picked up during the weekend big shop. If I could cut that back I could make serious progress over the next few weeks.

I'm desperate for snacking too. I find myself drinking a lot of liquids in the evening like sugar free cordial and decaf coffee just to appease the habit of consuming in the evening. I end up having to get up to pee in the early hours then

I'm definitely finding that planning the foods you want to eat and shopping accordingly is the only way I can sustain healthy habits. Today I had:
-soda bread, avocado and egg for breakfast
-falafel and feta salad for lunch with an apple after
-Having chicken Korma with cauliflower rice and Spinach for dinner.
-Maybe a square of dark chocolate later.
Full all day, eating like a king, plenty of veg and protein and still well under my calorie goal for the day.
Talk to me Saturday night when the rugby is on and it might be a different story

Hodors Appletart

yeah, I find that if I'm having to think of things then I'll revert to eating badly, so I have the same breakfast and lunch every day. Eggs, tomatoes and protein for breakfast (could be an omlette, could be poached eggs etc), protein and loads of veg for lunch with a spice mix for flavour and then a proper planned family dinner (stew tonight oh yes!) and then I don't eat at all after that.

I don't buy snacky food any more either, I was a bollix for dry roasted peanuts and bags of jellies in the car - all cut out.

I've also completely stopped all alcohol Sun-Thurs and often friday too.

[Deleted User]

When I was in a calorie deficit I followed the 80/20 thing........... so when eating 2200/2300 calories a day up to 400 calories of that was so called junk food. Iirc I used to have a magnum most evenings and a few squares of dark chocolate over the course of the day.
I didn't always hit 20% junk but it was an option I allowed myself.

Hodors Appletart

I actually weighed a sharing bag of peanut m&ms and worked out how many calories of them I'd allow myself each day (100 ish) and that's how many I eat after lunch.

only mon-fri when I'm in the home office

you need to be disciplined though, and if I'm feeling a pang I head to the fridge for a carrot to munch if I don't think I'll make it between meals

Padraig Mor

Week 0: 301.6.
Week 1: 290.6 lbs (-11).
Week 2: 282.8 lbs (-18.8).
Week 3: 279.9 lbs (-21.7).
Week 4: 276.3 lbs (-25.3).
Week 5: 269.8 lbs (-31.8).
Week 6: 265.3 lbs (-36.3).
Week 7: 262.2 lbs (-39.4).
Week 8: 257.6 lbs (-44).
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Week 34: 217.7 lbs (-83.9).
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Week 40: 203.2 lbs (-98.4)
Week 41: 201.2 lbs (-100.4)
Week 42: 198.2 lbs (-103.4).

Well.....there it is! My main goal, under 200 pounds. "Onederland". If you'd told me when I started on January 10th that I'd actually get under 200lbs I really wouldn't have believed you. And, while I suppose I can't say it was 'easy' per se, frankly it wasn't that hard either using intermittent fasting. Hell, I've had way too much crap the majority of weekends - if I'd been strict you could have knocked off a few months I reckon.

Gonna keep pushing and try for 185 before Christmas (although easing off the gas a tad) and we'll see after that.

Biggest regret? Not taking 'before' photographs. It's something I've seen a huge number of people say over on the Reddit IF sub - they (like me) weren't exactly fans of taking full length pictures of themselves (few obese people are) and regret not having a starting point pic. So, if you're serious about losing major weight - get the camera out.

Reckon I'll be having a few drinks tonight anyway!

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Hodors Appletart

Padraig Mor wrote: »

Reckon I'll be having a few drinks tonight anyway!

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and why not!

amazing achievement and one I hope to get to too.

100kg is my goal I suppose.

Bassfish

Well done fella!

Me:
01/09/20- 103.3kg
30/10/20- 95.8kg

Hodors Appletart

7.5kg in 2 months is good going!

Bassfish

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

7.5kg in 2 months is good going!

Cheers, the first couple of kilos always fall off me with little effort, water weight! Now it gets tough

farmerval

Padraig Mór

"Reckon I'll be having a few drinks tonight anyway!"

Incredible achievement.

I remember years ago watching Americas greatest loser and when you saw the physical difference in someone that had lost that amount of weight it was really amazing.

Congratulations. One third of your bodyweight gone. Stupendous achievement.