From a Christmas Pudding to a Christmas Cracker - Weight Loss Motivation

Great loss Loughc! DvB start weighing you food and do your macros to make sure you're in a deficit.

Had a shake for breakfast and a salad for lunch, then undid it all with a rake load of pints and a takeaway.

Normally I'd agree with that, but am only using the weights 6 weeks now so doubt It'll have made that much impact in such a short amount of time. Guess it just has to be the diet. Previously I wouldn't have to be so fanatical in monitoring what I'm eating when trying to lose weight, but this time it simply isn't working so may have to go down the route as suggested by Jude. Raging... this getting older lark is not all its cracked up to be!!!

Gym good, food bad, weight up again 😬 The brother gave me a bag of whey protein. I think I’ll use it to try and knock the post gym treats on the head. It’s actually really tasty. I’m thinking of buying some protein bars for the pre gym hunger pangs. I’m not a huge fan but they have to be better than whatever I’ve been pulling out of the presses lately

24 Weeks: -7.6lbs

Week 25: +1.2lbs

There’s not much more than 100cals in a scoop of whey going by the pack the brother gave me. That’s not gonna cover any meal for me to be honest 😳😆

With the protein bars I reckon I’d cut them in half because they’re quite big or even a quarter before and after the gym in the hope that they’d replace all snacks. Once I get going on snacks there’s no limit really but I’m hoping with something I know I don’t really like that I can set limits from the outset

Maybe I’m kidding myself but I’ll give it a go for a week or 2 and see how it goes

Are there more flavours than this?

Cool. They still have new written on their packaging. I’m sure they’ll add more if they’re popular enough. If you had mentioned protein bars to me last week I would have scoffed. I’m fickle like that 🙈😆

What’s a good nights sleep round here 🤔 I’d be doing very well to get 6 hours in my house

That’s why I’m retaining weight so 😆 With 2 small kids and an earlyish shift in work 7 hours is uncommon

Back to the protein bars if I may. I bought 10/12 of them this evening and chopped the first into 8 pieces. I had one piece with a cup of coffee after work and I’ll scoff another before I head to the gym. All going great…until the wife walks in the door with a bloody apple crumble 😩 I haven’t gone near it yet. Praying for strength 🙏

Just back from the gym, limited my post workout dining to 2 soft boiled eggs chopped up and spread over 2 slices of wholemeal toast. Cup of tea later and that'll be that until brekkie at 6am.

Normally it's my breakfast of a weekend... v.tasty!!

Had my weigh in this morning, down again, by the sum total of half a pound... this is killing me... 2 gym sessions now over the weekend and a stricter diet underway so hopefully a better next week.

I'm at 12st 1lb at the moment, was aiming for 11 st 10lbs as that was my prime 'running' weight as I called it... truth be told I'm not really that overweight, fitness is generally more important to me, but I'm noticing the love handles around the middle and really want to lose them whilst keeping my aerobic fitness up and increasing my core strength. From talking to the PT and from personal experience I know you can't really target an area specifically so need to lose general body fat to trim them down, hence monitoring the weight atm. I'm meeting the PT later today so will chat to.him about it at some stage.

Yeah, not a fan of burpees either. Not with my knees.