Fatbusting: Kirwan's log
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Well I have cheat day once a week which is usually a takeaway for dinner, I'm pretty sensible during the day for it. I've cut out booze, chocolate, fizzy drink, the obvious bad stuff.<br />
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I've cut down on bread, have cornflakes + fruit for breakfast. Museli bar mid morning, sandwich for lunch, up + go mid afternoon and various dinners (all pretty good). Drink lots of water too, and some of the dinners are with the rugrats around 6pm.<br />
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Not a huge amount of veges in the diet, would be one criticism, and it's not a super strict diet. The aim is to find a balance I can stick too, as opposed to a diet. So far eating like that above has been easy. -
I reckon you're almost not eating enough - breakfast I now can't go without at least a cup of whole grain rolled oats + scoop of protein powder and either Kiwifruiit or Banana chopped into it. Mid-morning maybe you need a bit of fruit too perhaps? <br />
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otherwise shouldn't kill you! sometimes when you start cutting out all those processed sugars you do feel shit for a while as your body detoxes!!<br />
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Vege - I eat a ton a day - probably 2 cups with lunch and same again at dinner. -
Remember I'm not six foot, so don't need to eat like I am <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> I think your detox comment was spot on, I think it just took a while for my body to adjust to holiday splurge. Feeling heaps better today and weight loss is on the move again, and it's run day today and I usually lose around 0.5kg from those.<br />
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Weight is 81.5kg, 5.5kg lost in total so far. -
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Well and truly stuck in the 81.5-82kg range. The first 5kg came off pretty easy, but have now hit the wall weight loss wise.<br />
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The exercise is going very well, no injuries and doing a 5km run a couple times a week and getting quick around that route. Have upped the cardios this week and the intensity to try and shock the body a bit, and will be adding some new exercises next week.<br />
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Have upped the snack sizes and am looking hard at the carbs, cutting those back (or at least having them early in the day). I'll see where I'm at mid-Feb and if if there is still no progress I'll shake the diet up completely. My aim was to keep it somewhat normal so i could maintain it for good, but I might need an interim step to decrease. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Well and truly stuck in the 81.5-82kg range. The first 5kg came off pretty easy, but have now hit the wall weight loss wise.<br />
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The exercise is going very well, no injuries and doing a 5km run a couple times a week and getting quick around that route. Have upped the cardios this week and the intensity to try and shock the body a bit, and will be adding some new exercises next week.<br />
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Have upped the snack sizes and am looking hard at the carbs, cutting those back (or at least having them early in the day). I'll see where I'm at mid-Feb and if if there is still no progress I'll shake the diet up completely. My aim was to keep it somewhat normal so i could maintain it for good, but I might need an interim step to decrease.[/QUOTE]<br />
I just checked back at the start of the thread to see what you're optimum weight was and it was 2006 - I wasn't even around here then (hmmm, I was probably lurking and thinking what a pack on knobs TBF).<br />
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What is your ideal weight? If you're stuck around that weight maybe that is actually where you should be?<br />
When I exercise (as in not now) I try to get down under 90kg, and while I can get from about 100kg down to 93 - 91kg pretty easy I really struggle to go under 90kg. In fact the only times I've been under 90 were before I hit 90 in about 1993 and when I 'artificially' took the weight off in London.<br />
So I'm pretty resigned to roughly 90kgs and as long s my puku isn't big then I'm not too worried.<br />
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Yeah, I know what you mean but I can see areas to trim up still. My optimum is going to be around 75kg. I was 73kg when I went to the UK in 2000, and I had put on weight to get to that. I certainly should have an 8 in front of anything I weigh. Wife assures me I have lost weight, and I am fitting t-shirts that I couldn't before.<br />
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I did notice that my legs have gotten much larger, so I'm hoping that the runs have given me some muscle here and that's why the weight has plateaued. Have only been able to run like this the last three weeks. -
[quote name='Kirwan']Yeah, I know what you mean but I can see areas to trim up still. My optimum is going to be around 75kg. I was 73kg when I went to the UK in 2000, and I had put on weight to get to that. I certainly should have an 8 in front of anything I weigh. Wife assures me I have lost weight, and I am fitting t-shirts that I couldn't before.<br />
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[B]I did notice that my legs have gotten much larger[/B], so I'm hoping that the runs have given me some muscle here and that's why the weight has plateaued. Have only been able to run like this the last three weeks.[/QUOTE]<br />
No matter how much weight I'm carrying I always have skinny legs. When I do walking/weights etc I just have more toned skinny legs. It's frustrating, a skinny legged Māori. Stupid skinny Portuguese ancestors. -
Had a great exercise day yesterday, pulled out a 10km Row where I was just coasting through (was aiming for a 65-75% intensity workout for fat burning) and ended up 40 seconds off my best ever time. If I had known that I would have gone harder! So fitness is coming up.<br />
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Second half of the day I went for a 40min cycle with the family (wife on her bike, and each of us with a rugrat in a seat behind us). We ended up doing just over 11kms, and got a good sweat up.<br />
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Meant I start the week at my lowest weight yet of 81.3kg, finally a smidge under that damn 81.5-82kg range I was stuck in for the best part of three weeks.<br />
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300grams off halfway.... -
Calf was good enough for a bike, so did a 45min ride over a nice nature track. No great pace, but steady work.<br />
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Much better diet this week, and lots of exercise means the weight is coming off, almost a kg so far this week. That puts me at 80.9 today, past my half way goal and getting close to second significant goal of getting under 80kgs. (First was losing five kgs).<br />
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Back on track! Gotta get to 78kgs as fast as possible before the 5th of March, as I'm off for a work trip for two weeks, and I want to stay under 80kgs after it! -
Probably the time you start to see tangible gains in fitness and in appearance - sounds like a really varied cardio plan with biking, running, rowing etc - all helps to keep the motivation going. Particulary as you can row (inside!) over winter when the other options aren't so attractive!<br />
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Great work on being so close to your target too, that sense of satisfaction will surely help you kick on.
