low cal through the week, high cal weekends

Springfield1970

When you get a few pounds/ few body fat percentages from your goal, you're going to wish you had learned to be more accurate all along.

What used to take me 15 minutes now takes me 5, I know my list and eats so well, and it's very varied too. I'm so glad I persevered and learned how to log mega quickly and accurately. It's taken my fitness to incredible levels. And yes, I'm busy as hell, full time director of a business, single mum and triathlon competitor.

It's worth it. You can go and do all the fun shizzle after you've lost most of the weight. I promise. Just keep it in control.

perhaps, im a numbers guy though so i dont imagine it will take me long to get used to using a scale, i caught on to calorie counting within a day or two. ive been frequenting threads on how to use them to their full extent and whatnot whenever they come up

i just want to try and do this without a scale for as long as possible, im not sure exactly why, maybe getting a scale in my mind makes me one of the health nuts that ive been trying not to become (although im not sure why i dont want that either). i guess it seems more sustainable to me if i dont think about having to weigh out meals beforehand for the rest of my life

If you're interested in athletic and muscle gains it's a bad idea. You need a steady steam of amino acids to repair muscles, and enough carbs to fuel workouts.

What's all this cray cray talk about 1000 cals a day??

Just learn to moderate, and cut a few empty carbs on the Saturday to get wasted on vodka.

not interested in muscle gains atm since im cutting fat, im not currently in athletics either so thats not an issue. the 1000 cal talk was just an exaggeration for the sake of the discussion, but ive decided not to go that route anyway for the time being and just fast on mornings of or after drinking

im pretty good at moderation with everything except alcohol, as soon as i get a couple into me i just drink without thinking about it. this is one aspect of my life i dont want to cut out at all though, im not going to get into shape at the cost of not having fun or losing any of my social life. i know this doesnt mean i have to drink but meh, its one of my vices

I hear you! Still have fun, it's very important! Even though it gets in the way of my fitness, I still make room for a couple of total blow outs a month. I cut down in between though, it has more of an impact!

Could you perhaps have a break though? Just for a month? While you get yourself together weight wise, and do some fitness or strength work. You may not feel the need to binge drink so much, and just have a few with your mates, and still have a brilliant night out.

BigT555

I hear you! Still have fun, it's very important! Even though it gets in the way of my fitness, I still make room for a couple of total blow outs a month. I cut down in between though, it has more of an impact!

Could you perhaps have a break though? Just for a month? While you get yourself together weight wise, and do some fitness or strength work. You may not feel the need to binge drink so much, and just have a few with your mates, and still have a brilliant night out.

ive thought about taking a break before, but i just feel it wont do much unless it is a decently long break. i figure ive got a good 6 months at the very least before im done with the cut.
i get what your saying though, i do need to eventually cut down on my drinking if i want to get down to 185, its just tough to accept lol

Springfield1970

I hear you! Still have fun, it's very important! Even though it gets in the way of my fitness, I still make room for a couple of total blow outs a month. I cut down in between though, it has more of an impact!

Could you perhaps have a break though? Just for a month? While you get yourself together weight wise, and do some fitness or strength work. You may not feel the need to binge drink so much, and just have a few with your mates, and still have a brilliant night out.

ive thought about taking a break before, but i just feel it wont do much unless it is a decently long break. i figure ive got a good 6 months at the very least before im done with the cut.
i get what your saying though, i do need to eventually cut down on my drinking if i want to get down to 185, its just tough to accept lol

Try two months, it's very doable. You'll lose fat easier, gain/keep muscle, feel clear in your head, and reset your liver so you can get bombed on less (therefore saving dollars) when you go back to drinking. You'll have broken any habits too, maybe met different people.

Here's another thing, I don't go near guys I meet in bars anymore, it's the ones I'm training triathlon/gym with that I'm interested in nowadays. Yes, I'm long in the tooth, but I know lots of women of all ages that dig the sporty guys. They're fit, and usually focused career wise and emotionally too. It demonstrates strong self discipline and will, all this fitness stuff. Makes you feel better than booze ever will.

Good luck!

MsPudding

It's pretty great. Go under the nutrition tab, and then at the bottom there's a daily and weekly button. To change the setting (it defaults to a revolving previous 7 days), go under settings to "weekly nutrition settings".

For me, my daily goal is 1760. I have 6233 left for the week, but I haven't logged my dinner yet for today, so I'd subtract what I have left for the day (795) from that, for 5438. Divide by the three days left for the week, gives me 1812 per day. That doesn't account for the exercise I'll do over the next three days either, nor for the extra calories I'll probably leave off today.

I'm a numbers nerd, so this appeals to me.

Oh you beauty! I didn't know you could do that and I also work on weekly calories with my week starting on a Monday.

Alatariel75

I do exactly this and it's worked for these 8kg and has previously worked for 30+kg loss (the relapse was due to eating/drinking like it was a weekend every day of the week) but yup. 1100 - 1300 weekdays, minimum 1800ish + whatever alcohol calories on weekends (I don't track the booze cals). It keeps me sane. I'm perfectly capable and satisfied being very low cal on week days, so it is the perfect plan for me. My daily average (as near as I can tell) is about 1600-1700.