Lose 15kg by Christmas Day
distortedvision78
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I weigh 160kg and my objective is to lose 15kg by Christmas Day.
My target mass is 90kg.
I was 175kg at the start of the year.
Please add me as a friend if you are on a weight loss journey too.
Let's support each other.
Thanks!
My target mass is 90kg.
I was 175kg at the start of the year.
Please add me as a friend if you are on a weight loss journey too.
Let's support each other.
Thanks!
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I weigh a little less than this but my end goal is the same - I'm up for the challenge of 15kg down by Christmas!1
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Just added you!
We have the same target mass!
I only just started my journey 3 weeks ago, would love to join you on your journey!1 -
Can someone help me add? I don't know how to add members 😢1
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could someone add me please1
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I am definitely up for this challenge. Add me so we can keep each other motivated!1
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Friday is my weigh day. I recorded 159.5kg. I'm far off my target. I'm unable to go to the gym because of the second UK lockdown.
I've started cycling in the morning before work at 5am for 2 hours.2 -
Are you weighing and tracking all your food? That's likely to be far more important than exercise.1
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Yes - see my food diary. I cycled 18 miles today. I'm planning on doing this every weekday. I've not lost any weight this week - I don't know why.Redordeadhead wrote: »Are you weighing and tracking all your food? That's likely to be far more important than exercise.
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I am currently 160kg so I need to up my game for more aggressive weight loss to meet my Christmas goal.0
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distortedvision78 wrote: »Yes - see my food diary. I cycled 18 miles today. I'm planning on doing this every weekday. I've not lost any weight this week - I don't know why.Redordeadhead wrote: »Are you weighing and tracking all your food? That's likely to be far more important than exercise.
In your diary, I see lots of entries like "1 container " or "2 slices", and entries in grams where the weight of the item is exactly the same on multiple days (e.g. chicken, salmon, broccoli). Do you weigh these things? The homemade chilli con carne recipe, was it yours or did you select a "homemade" entry from the database? Are you tracking all of your drinks as well?
You do look like you're under your calorie goal many days, but I would try to make your logging as accurate as possible by weighing food and make sure you are not over estimating exercise calories.5 -
Weight loss is about diet. Exercise is about health. Biking is great for your health, but pushing yourself to exercise more for weight loss is not sustainable or wise.
You aren’t going to hit your target by Christmas. It can’t be done in any sort of healthy way. Work on tightening up your logging and don’t overestimate your calories burned. Sustainable weight loss is about life style changes and it is SLOW.5 -
No weight loss in 3 weeks. I've increased my exercise this week. I'm cycling 18miles every weekday morning. I noticed that my Total Body Water has increased significantly this week.
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No amount of exercise makes up for a poor diet. Are you weighing and tracking calories?4
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True. 18miles is not that much on a bike, and it's not too difficult to overeat on the earned calories.2
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Dogmom1978 wrote: »No amount of exercise makes up for a poor diet. Are you weighing and tracking calories?
Yes and my diet is no longer poor.1 -
CICO is all that matters for weight loss though, not whether or not you eat well. I still eat like a 5 year old and lose 1 lb a week.
I would double check those entries to make sure you are choosing correct ones. Maybe verify that your food scale is still working accurately. Reevaluate what you enter the exercise as also because it’s possible that your over estimating your calories burned and that could impact your expected deficit.1 -
I have just gone nearly 2 weeks hardly losing but today had a big drop - that is how it works with me and I think with lots of others too.
That is why, with respect to the OP, "I want to lose 15kg by Christmas" is in my view a really bad idea and instead "I want to lose 15kg" is the better way to go.
That way you do not get disheartened and that can lead to being too restrictive which leads to binging, rinse and repeat.
Weight lose by counting calories works so just take it week by week, hitting your goal when you do.
And personally, I like to set mini-goals too, my current one being to get out of 12 stone zone into the 11 stone zone and I focus on that rather than my over all target.
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FYI - if you are cycling on an exercise bike/stationary bike you can't use outdoor speed related categories from the database here.
No gradients/gravity, acceleration, wind or rolling resistance make the "speed/distance" recorded indoors very exaggerated.
(Oh how I wish I could bomb along at a consistent 24mph......)
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Another point that may have been made already.
Sometimes the scales take time to catch up to us. I stayed at 176 for 2 weeks (set to lose 1 lb per week). My weigh in day was this morning and I’m down to 172.8. Every now and then I get a little whoosh of weight loss. The same thing could happen to you.
Just make sure you’re being accurate with both calories in and calories OUT (your exercise)1 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »distortedvision78 wrote: »Yes - see my food diary. I cycled 18 miles today. I'm planning on doing this every weekday. I've not lost any weight this week - I don't know why.Redordeadhead wrote: »Are you weighing and tracking all your food? That's likely to be far more important than exercise.
In your diary, I see lots of entries like "1 container " or "2 slices", and entries in grams where the weight of the item is exactly the same on multiple days (e.g. chicken, salmon, broccoli). Do you weigh these things? The homemade chilli con carne recipe, was it yours or did you select a "homemade" entry from the database? Are you tracking all of your drinks as well?
You do look like you're under your calorie goal many days, but I would try to make your logging as accurate as possible by weighing food and make sure you are not over estimating exercise calories.
I'm just going to repeat these questions, because I think they are still relevant points for you to consider OP.2 -
I assume the body comp numbers are from a BIA scale, so potentially quite inaccurate, but . . .
You're going for a pretty aggressive weight loss rate (high deficit). One of the things that can happen, after being at a high deficit for a while, is a gradual stress-related increase in water weight. If something like that were occurring, I'd take it as a warning sign, personally.5
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