Purposefully holding steady last week after an at home “training camp” which involved 540km so about twice my usual volume. I followed the podcast advice to try and not lose weight during a training camp.
This week is a recovery week so hopefully I can get back on track with food and start working towards losing the last couple of kgs.
Here is my graph so far. I joined this thread right after the highest point at almost 70kg. The biggest weight loss was the three weeks after that where I was tracking my calories but probably wasn’t sustainable. Happy with the general trend though.
Not necessarily a specific weight loss bit, but anyone have any tips for eating less in the evening? I have found that I have a tendency to eat random things at night after being pretty strict all day, and I think it’s a combo of habit and “stress relief”.
I’m down .9 kg from last week, now sitting at 92.8, 21% of the way to my goal.
This week was certainly harder. I’m dealing with a ton of work stress, which tends to trigger some bad habits like evening beers and takeout food. I had a few more beers than I would have liked, and ate takeout a few times, so I’m happy to be in the green at all.
I need to watch the old habits this week to make sure they don’t creep back in. As always, thanks for the accountability.
Man, I do the same thing. No real tip to eat less, but what i’ve tried to do is ensure that anything that I could possibly graze on after dinner is very low-calorie or healthy, like fruit, air-popped popcorn, etc. It’s a struggle, not going to lie.
Did this for awhile and was trying to do a 1000 kcal deficit a day but wow that binned my legs good. Thinking 500-750 might be a more realistic approach…
1000 sounds to much in the long run. If you stick to your plan, a zero deficit combined with excercise would probable result ni a healthier weight loss…
I struggle with this too. I’ve found for me it’s often a boredom/fidgeting situation, for instance I can’t just sit still and watch TV so the default option is to snack…
Things that help me is to have something else in my hands like a herbal tea, or even work on a jigsaw if I’m just passively watching TV or listening to podcasts (which sounds really lame but it doubles as being really relaxing as well as distracting - don’t knock it til you’ve tried it ).
Another thing I do if I am craving a snack is to remove myself from the house and take my dog out for a walk, and by the time I get back I’ve usually forgotten all about the snack since I wasn’t really hungry in the first place!
Factor your evening snack into the rest of the days calories, that way you can look forward to them.
I like to have peanut butter on wholemeal toast if I’m hungry late on. Grapes also fill you up quite a bit.
Or buy a box of decent protein cookies.
Its silly, I am less inclined to eat something after I brush my teeth. It kind of signals that I am done eating for the day. So, I brush my teeth earlier in the evening and not right before bed.
Back in the UK after 1 month and 1 week at home in Italy, being fed insane amounts of food by my parents and relatives. Weighed myself this morning, I’m 2kg up from when I left. Time to get back on track!
there was still a lot of cycling involved, which helped…
Another question I pose to you: weighed myself before leaving IT, was at 73kg. Weighed myself the next morning (i.e. yesterday), in the UK, same conditions (time of day, no food, empty bladder), different scale, still 73kg.
Spent a normal day working from home, did a 2h endurance turbo session. Had light lunch and light dinner, but no crazy restrictions (even included an apple w/peanut butter at dinner). Weighed myself this morning, same conditions, and the scale read 71.3kg.
Now, I know that daily fluctuations are normal, but this seems quite substantial!
I’ve had a similar experience.
Weighed in at 90.5 before holiday.
Weighed in at 92.1 on my return (returned Sunday night, weighed in on Tuesday morning because I was scared to do so on Monday!)
2 normal eating days with 1hr bike sessions each day and I was 90.9 this morning, fully hydrated.
Maybe the beer sugar has worked its way out?
I’ve no idea really but the fact I’ve not drank since Sunday may have something to do with it, even though the calories have been standard.
My daily history over the last couple months has shown that I can swing as much as 1-2kg from day to day although I’d say most of the time it’s not quite that extreme. I try to focus on week-over-week improvements (or 7 day avg weight).
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