100% this. My wife keeps the house pretty cool anyway, but when I’m running a 500cal daily deficit I’m cold all day. Keep hoodies all over the house.
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Reduced TEF maybe
and once you starting losing body fat less insulation obviously.
Oh and yes, specially when in was 30+ degrees last week and on’y 12 - 15 this week 
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@Justafatguy Thanks for the spreadsheet. Hope you or anyone else doesn’t mind but I inserted a ‘Starting weight’ Column (Column B) as I a few few others have jumped on a week or few weeks later. Might make it easier to see and calculate progress.
@Thomas_slater Thanks for starting the thread, I track elsewhere but it is easy to ignore or not track for a period without any accountability. Gained 9.5kgs during lock-down, baking every day, doh! or is it dough!
I track as much when at goal weight, probably more than when over, as in the summer I am normally doing bigger miles / volume and it is easy to under eat unless careful. I can’t say that this year though.
Thanks again both.
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Thanks for this!
So my weight’s headed in the wrong direction now over the past few months (up 4kg / 8-9 lbs.), and I honestly just don’t feel that motivated to do much about it. I know I should, but I’m finding it hard to make weight management any sort of priority.
I can’t really train much right now due to long-running covid symptoms and fatigue. Training-wise I am probably burning 20-25% of the calories that I did before which is frankly a great accomplishment for how I feel. I can’t possibly lift that any because I’m struggling to handle the little exercise that I’m doing. Many days this past month or two I have no energy to do anything after dinner besides walk to the couch and go to sleep. There was a stretch there where I slept probably 12 hours a night for nearly a week. It’s hard to describe this sort of fatigue, because I’ve never experienced anything like it before. The first few weeks of being sick I seemed to still have decent energy. Not now. But some days I still have energy in the evening and I will do some stuff or maybe take a walk. Those are good days.
Food-wise before shelter at home I had things more dialed in. I had a good eating routine, and better calorie control. Still, my breakfast is good – non-sweetened cereal with non-fat milk and fresh berries and coffee w/ nonfat milk. When I snack in the morning, I start with a banana, an apple, then some mix of pretzels and trail mix. I used to be limited on portions for those last two because I would take only a little of each to work, but now I have the full bag of each by me so I’m sure I take in more calories there than I used to. So there’s an opportunity to cut there. Lunch I’ve no doubt added some calories because I usually eat leftovers now and maybe some chips of some sort, whereas I used to eat oatmeal with fruit most work days. Snacks, when I get hungry during the mid/late afternoon, are probably more than before. Dinner about the same but dessert more often. I find now that if I try to eat something healthful for dessert, I still end up eating dessert as a chaser. Not good, but there it is. I’m generally not drinking sugary drinks, and I’m completely avoiding any alcohol since a single drink plays heck with my body since getting sick.
Appreciate any ideas. If I could lose half of what I’ve gained and hold that until the day that my health returns, it would feel like a victory.
And another good week, finally with a race after a long covid break. I stopped counting days with calorie deficit but it is a lot in a row now 
And I can’t type “no sweets at all” anymore as there was a chocolate bar in a package with my starting number. First chocolate bar for a month or so. Nothing special, not worth calories 
Now there comes a recovery week so I expect to maintain my last week’s weight or even gain some, even on a deficit. It would be temporary anyway and not fat, just water and the like
But for now, watts still ok, weight down every week. Still 1,5kg to beat last year’s record and then… keep burning fat, I know I can do better We’ll see…
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Down .7kg this week. Rate of loss slowing way down which is fine. I’ve been noticing my hunger a lot though. Think I’m going to be aiming for 63.5 kg so looks like 3.5kg to go til I hit my goal.
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A week with some bad news and poor choices has set me back a little bit. Happy to say this week has started well so far. Looking forward to being in the Green again next week.
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I am finding such a hard balance between calories in / out and training, and a few hard days mentally.
If I DON’T count calories I lose count and then get tied up in how many cals have i had, I’m a fat bas&%rd and it goes round and round. Finally a race this weekend. That will pick me up a fair bit.
Wast Week
Total Cals Burnt 8058
Total Cals in 12600
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I would only suggest that you check in with your doctor and make sure that is the only thing going on. What you are describing is not consistent with other people I know who caught it.
As a random internet guy, my medical advice is limited to this: In general don’t worry about training when you are sick, just make sure you get outside for some vitamin D and eat right for the other stuff.
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That is a good idea.
^ THIS ^ 
Good week for me and last week was an adaptation / recovery week (well 1st 5 days anyway)
Lost 1.1 kgs last week.
Total loss 2.4kg over two weeks, ~23% of the way to my goal weight.
Heavy two - three weeks of training now so it will be hard to get the fueling right, but have been okay at this in the past.
Losing the ‘CV-19 lockdown’ 1.9 stone is as important to me as increasing fitness. If I can maintain fitness and get back to post lock down weight I’ll be more than happy.
Didn’t realised that the ‘19’ in CV-19 stood for a 1.9 st gain, lol.
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Good week for me! I managed to eat enough to be satisfied, without going overboard - which I am prone to do - and the big week of training (around 850tss) took care of the rest: result, 0.5 kg shifted, in what feels like a sustainable way.
Have to be good before I go back home in Italy and end up re-gaining all this weight ahahah
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Down to 84.1 from 84.7 this week.
Weight loss slowed this week which is not ideal. My hunch this has to do with returning back into into cycling after a week and a half lay off. I find that I usually have a higher weight on weeks where I come back to cycling as my body retains water and I get DOMS. The following week is usually a flush of water as my body gets used to things. We’ll see.
As for performance this week, I’ve tested stronger. I did a ramp test and a power profile test. The former went well (now FTP of 241 meaning I’m back to my previous baseline from 2 years ago), the latter was hamstrung by the fact I set the resistance level on my tacx neo too low so I topped out in power way too early. Hit a PR in 1 min power but my 5 minute and 15 second power was a wash. For both tests, I was able to hit max heart rate in both which suggested that my 1.5 week recovery was successful in shedding fatigue I had accumulated in my previous block. I’m debating adding in sprint sessions for one of my high intensity sessions during the block as I want to improve that clear weakness.
Diet wise, I’m completely dialed in. Able to hit 1000 calorie deficit days no problem. Found out the hack that gluten free bread has about 100 calories less than regular so I’ve been able to eat turkey and chicken sandwiches more which has been nice.
Good luck to the rest of you this week.
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Work kicked my arse this week and my weight bounced back from the progress I made last week. I have a relatively high stress job at the best of times, but this last week has been another level and I found refuge in junk food whilst doing absolutely no exercise at all.
I have a less stressful week this coming week, but do have a few social engagements (wife’s birthday) that are not going to be diet-friendly. I’m going to try and ramp up time on the bike and hope the upward trend on the scale relents, even if that is flatline rather than going down again.
Hope everyone has better ways of handling stress than me and are staying on track!
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Still in the green, but I can’t say it’s because of good nutritional choices. Had a family health scare over the past couple of weeks that resulted in a couple of nights with no sleep and lots of additional stress. Didn’t have much of an appetite for last week so that’s probably why I still lost some. The two big meals I ate were a taco binge and a whole large pizza. 
Really feeling the mental stress/lack of proper fueling on my workouts. Trying to get back on track this week now that things have settled and do one last big training block before a vacation next week. Week of the bike and some relaxing will hopefully get my mind right. 
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Playing the yoyo, massively.
I was down 1.5kg by Friday, and i put everything back and change over the WE.
Well, that is to be expected if you binge on biscuits and chocolate.
First time such a massive fall from the wagon happens in 6 months, so I’ll let it slide
A very strong start to my last week was backed up by a bit of a binge on bad food and some beers.
Was down a tad for the week but could have been better. But still good to see some green in my row.
Was interesting to note others say that one low calorie days they feel colder, I’ve noticed the exact same thing.
On we go.
Thanks for the feedback (you and others). I think I’ll focus on cutting the dessert by adopting a rule of only water after dinner and see if I can make it work. Past experience with the sweet tooth is once I can interrupt the habit for 2-3 days it becomes much easier. So that would be something constructive at least, maybe I can merely stop adding weight.
I’m getting there with the ftp reduction. I dropped my ftp 21 watts yesterday and will probably drop another 15 or so in a week or two which will put me back to May 2019. That’s fine. It’s a training number, and right now I couldn’t do any program at any number, so whatever number I choose to set it to is pretty much irrelevant to my condition at this point. I’m not attempting any difficult training right now – short endurance rides and a couple of different 30-35 minute sprint workouts with a few short efforts and the rest of the time at low intensity. I found that the one full hour tempo ride I did combined with a couple of half hour ez runs that week really drained me, so nothing that heavy again until I start feeling more like my old self. At one point fighting this thing, I took close to six weeks off of training, but it didn’t really seem to help me at all.
If anybody is interested, I posted this link on the Avoiding the Virus thread (Covid ME/CFS). This seems to be the path I’m on, and I’m working on nutrition to see if I can get myself better. Lots of people have it much worse than me with this thing. It’s not an issue that’s getting any real coverage, so no surprise if you haven’t heard of it.
For a couple months there my health provider pretty much went into hiding with phone appts only and not much care of any sort available unless you needed to go die from covid at the hospital. But they’re back now, and I am working with my doctor. Two weeks ago I had more blood drawn than I’ve had in the previous five years. I haven’t had a follow up on that yet to get the official interpretation, as I’m still getting some other testing, but the one thing I could see from the results that I could act on was low D, so I’m already working on that.
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