dave_in_ni Member

Yes this is me.

The point I am getting though is eating that brownie sets me off on a binge. Take last night. My son's birthday so we had a Domino's. I ate that didn't satisfy me. I was stuck in ben and Jerry's then cookies and then 4/5 bud light. I eat junk until I sicken myself then the binge ends.

Great post. Yep I think its up to me to figure this out for myself as there is no one size fits all with this kind of stuff. I know what isn't working with me at the moment, I am going to try cutting it out altogether, if that falls apart I'll up daily calories and allow for it and see if that works.

Yes its 1500, Its roughly around 400 each for breakfast lunch and dinner, the remainder goes into 2 protein shakes and some greek yoghurt

Sure I do but they are all higher in calories. Take my dinner tomorrow is a chilli that comes to 300 calories. Most of my meals fall between 300-400 calories.

Haha I do that myself but I eat way over what I've allowed for.

If I did that I'd be eating Dominos and McDonalds every night. There isn't much I don't eat bar Seafood as I'm allergic but whether or not I enjoy it is a different story. And anything I do enjoy is unhealthy.

Right OK.

Yeah I'm not that keen lol

Yep I seem to be the same.

I want to focus on BF% rather than weight on a scale though.

So basically we can say either A - These online calculators are crap or B - I fall through the cracks due to where my fat is stored? I think you can see that in the photos, look at my traps collar bone biceps and then look at my pecs, I am not disagreeing with either of you, I agree. I was just confused as these…

Yes so do I. I think its because all my weight is in the one area and the areas measured have no fat, I even tried calculators that measure wrists biceps etc and they said the same in or around 11-13, its really hard to gain proportion from photos but for example my 10 year old daughter, who is not overweight has bigger…

Believe it or not this comes in at 13% bf

My weight still hasn't really dropped, still 79.6kg, I was 77.4kg before Xmas, and that with being very strict in what I eat. 1500 cals per day and everything strictly tracked, its like my body is fighting hard. I really don't think it was water weight I gained over Xmas as this point, it was pure fat.

I already work out 4 mornings per week and have done for a couple of years now. I know I'll snap out of this in a few weeks its just getting January over, I know its no different really to December or November the difference being in October/November/December we have Halloween, Thanks Giving for you in the US and Christmas…

I'm still stuck. 77.4kg before the holidays, 79.6kg on 2nd Jan, I started severely restricting on 2nd to get things moving eating 1500 cals max and basically doing enough steps and exercise to cancel out the cals I'm eating and then on Sunday my weight goes up again 80.4kg. Now this morning its started to drop 80.1kg so I…

Only taking 5 grams. I am thinking I perhaps shouldn't have started creatine again until I got rid of the post Christmas water weight.

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I'm up 5lbs from 22nd December to 2nd Jan, Started logging and counting again still no sign of it shifting yet.

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Its not that either I feel. Its more like regret, I regret the time wasted. I mean that's almost 2 years I might as well not have bothered. I don't know if any of you have done Bigger Leaner Stronger, its fairly idiot proof, everything is laid out, you just follow the instructions, its not over complicated or taxing. I…

Kinda hard to get going again, discipline is what gets you going, results are what keep you going and motivated, I've run out of discipline at the moment

Followed BLS religiously, yes after that f'ed around abit. During that year it wasn;t that I could eat more at the weekend, I factored in a big cheat meal on Sat nights, it probably average out at me eating 18-1900 cals over a week. Never changed the avatar, I was always the goat lol

I did bigger leaner stronger for 1 year. 4 days per week. I admit this year I did nothing but skip around.

Good point

I've got stuck in a cycle I guess, I binge at weekend so I counteract this by eating very little during the week which then makes me binge at the weekends again. What I have identified is that I can't do moderation. I can't have 1 piece of chocolate or even 1 bar, I have to eat until I sicken myself. I think whats really…

That's certainly not me. I actually can't wait to get back into it.

Yeah sod it, i'll weigh myself next weekend after a week back on track. I'll only depress myself doing it now.

Worth it? Not sure fun yes. I had 2 BK King whoppers in 1 go, I dread to think the calories in them