Seems like a lot of us lost a little momentum. I still want to reach my goal so I am going to refocus.
I am back to logging food. I also shifted to morning rides to try to ensure a little more consistent days on bike. I have noticed my focus in the morning at work is much better when I do. Fridge has been stocked with more of the right stuff.
You expect this after 10+ weeks of dieting. You just get tired of doing it 
Iām the same. Minimum 1 hour rides daily (trying for 2 but schedule etc) and tracking what Iām eating are the keys to success for me. Just doing them again after having done it for so long is a bitā¦hard
Ugh. Just like that, after a very successful month of tracking everything and being very consistent with my diet, yesterday I had a pretty shitty day. A sausage roll after lunch was followed by pastries (that I had originally bought as a gift for the flatmates and guest we had, but most of which were still there when I came home from work) and finished with bread and chocolate (I was preparing a cake, and there was SO MUCH LEFT).
I understand it was just triggered by having all this stuff around: Iām usually quite good at not buying ātrigger foodsā and staying away from temptations, but yesterday I properly crashed and ended up having probably more than 5000kcal on a rest day.
Just a small hurdle in the process, but oh my god itās so frustrating!!
Carb loading in preparation for a race on Sunday. Had a massive jump in weight as a result, and a massive drop today after the race.
Result, week on week, -0.1. Boom. 
80kg today as well. Nothing moving forward but not moving backwards either.
Hitting the 2nd week of cycling so hopefully Iāll start seeing myself shed some water weight and get back into the process of losing weight. Diet is now back to full on as it should be again now that Iām in the right space to do that
Good luck this week all
Weight still coming down, but very slowly. Day to day it fluctuates as much as a kg, but if I focus on a 7 day average I have been losing 0.2 kg per week for the last 8 weeks or so. Iām happy with this rate of loss since Iām able to eat mostly as I like without restricting myself too much.
My gym re-opened today for the first time in 6 months so I was finally able to re-test my FTP. I have finally made it to 3.5 W/kg for the first time 
Itās also my highest FTP so good to know the weight loss hasnāt affected raw Watts either. Feeling really motivated now but a little nervous about how difficult the workouts will be!!
Iāve joined the sheet, yesterday I had an Inbody 720 scan, there are papers showing 98% accuracy to DEXA standard.
88.7kg
22.7kg fat mass
11kg fat mass to lose
Visceral fat level off the scale
Skeletal muscle mass 37.5kg, slightly above average
54 year old male heading for trouble if I donāt change things.
good luck, you need a good plan, you can try fitnesspal as a little helper, started to reuse it since a week, so i have more control what i eat.
At the beginning itās a little bit of work, you have to create your recipes and i think so you have -10% to +10% of your real Calories of your meat, or you eat good convenience foods, often you only have to scan the barcode at the packaging and you have the calories in fitnesspal
One Tip, it worked for me totally good, go walking, every day, the best would be a small mountain, i have done this years ago and lost arround 10kg in a year, combined with Paleo Food and the good thing, i hold this weigth afterwards, now i have my second step, want to loose weight ~6-7kg to get a better W/kg
Thanks, I have a plan and it definitely will not include weighing food and micro managing food, been there and itās thoroughly miserable. I wouldnāt care if my body mass overall doesnāt decrease by much, the goal is visceral fat reduction.
So alcohol is gone for one, yes I will watch what I eat but I will not be ādietingā.
Iāve 100% fallen off the wagon with this, couldnāt tell you how many weeks (months) I last logged my weight.
Started tracking my weight yesterday morning, I like to average across 7 days so will update Monday next week with this current weeks 7 day avg.
I know Iāve put a few kiloās back on - time to buckle up and get back on it.
i havenāt made i diet too, only eating good things and of course no alcohol!
Speak of the devil for me this weekā¦
Woke up today and the scale read 79.7. First real water weight flush in 2 weeks. Body is pretty much adjusted at this point.
I wonāt update my numbers as it is not yet time to. However, for those that are starting out or have been on a plan and havenāt seen anything move, remember to give your body time to adjust. Iāve found 3-4 weeks is around the right amount of time before your body starts shedding weight as you hope.
Good luck for the rest of you this week!
Someone seems to have created some split screens, if I remove them do they get removed for everyone? Theyāre very annoying 
Wondering if anyone here can help with a question regarding Garmin calorie adjustments and their accuracy. For reference I am 32y male 82kg, goal is 75-76kg.
I have been using MyFitnessPal to track calories with my Garmin watch tracking movement. I have BMR set at 1660. Garmin will usually add around 2000 to this each day based on tracking my steps(not including exercise activities) for around 10,000-12,000 steps. Sometimes it can be as much as 3000 extra cals.
Is this accurate in anyone elseās experience?
I feel like itās a lot to eat and only trying to shoot for a deficit of 400-500 but often it ends up being closer to 1000 and it looks like weight loss is plateauing.
Any help is appreciated!
I took a nice 29% reduction of my goal in first week. Not calorie counting, just no alcohol, limited carbs from veg and 5 days of fasted endurance rides.
That is incorrect. Should be about 480 - 490 calories for 10000 steps for a male 82kg. Have you checked all your settings. A 30 minute brisk walk is often quoted as having a calorie burn of approx 250 Cals (not sure of age and weight for that claim though)
For me the most difficult thing in not just lose weight but to keep afterwards. I understand that the key is to change my food habits forever (and be able to always find enough time for cycling and other exercises), but this is a disaster how hard it is.
There are some researches that people do gain weight back most of the times because they return to their old habits after they loose the amount of weight they wanted to. My weight just goes as sinewave.
Related to weight. I found out one of my medications (anti-depressant) that Iāve been on for years causes gainā¦THANKS DOCTOR FOR TELLING MEā¦not!
It didnāt seem to matter how much I worked out or how little I ate. It was so demoralizing as my set point weight was so stupidly high and didnāt want to budge. It didnāt matter if it was salad or Haagan Dazs (of course the decision was easy then.
This week I stepped on the scale, that previously seemed permanently stuck for months and months (with maybe a 0.5 lb move once in while if I did EPIC things with diet or exercise)ā¦low and beholdā¦2 lbs.. I havenāt seen a 2 lb change for YEARS ā¦hopefully this is a sign of things to come! It has given me major motivation towards watching my diet again.
I post this not for my benefit, but for others. Reminder to check your medication lists ladies and gents!
Thanks! Confirmed my suspicions. Any idea what settings I would need to change?
Another week, another 0.1 kg down. All in the right direction, so happy me.