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I'm Back
So I was here for the first time a year ago. At 220lbs, I decided to ditch faddy diets and overly restrictive diets that never worked and just go with a simple CICO approach. The aim was to lose 2lbs a week. I did really well for the first three months, and lost 25lbs by April. But (you guessed it) I stopped tracking and…
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Lockdown Weight Gone
I'm not actually sure what my weight was in lockdown. I weighed myself in early January 2020 and was 200lbs. By March, that may have crept up by a pound or two. It certainly won't have crept down. So I know that by the time we entered lockdown, I weighed at least 200lbs, maybe a lb or two more. Over the next nine months, I…
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Water Weight and Body Fat
Hi folks - I have a question about the body fat and water weight percentages on my scale. They vary wildly from time to time. From 39% Fat/43% Water to 26% Fat/56% Water. Fat and water together always make up about 82% with muscle, bone making up the other 18% with a fairly consistent split between them. I know that…
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A bad weekend and I'm not even sorry
Posting this more to keep myself accountable than anything. I had a total cheats weekend. I always allow myself a bit more freedom at the weekend - I don't see it as cheating. But this weekend was Valentines, and I've not been to the cinema in nearly a year. So I brought the cinema home. I had butter popcorn, pick'n'mix…
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Tracking While Eating Out
Hi guys - been measuring and tracking everything I've eaten for the past two and a half weeks, and it's going really well. Really managed to curb my cravings, and seeing everything tracked and recorded has been really very helpful. But on Saturday we're going for dinner and games at a friend's house. I'm not too worried…
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Slower Loss than Expected
Hi folks - I've just completed week two of a moderately low calorie diet with an effort to lose weight, but loss over the past week has been slower than I expected. I started at 220lbs 4th Jan, down to 213.4lbs 11th Jan (I know most of that loss will have been water weight). My goal is to lose 2lbs a week in the early…
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Does this sound right?
Hi guys - new here and looking to lose weight. I've previously been close to 300lbs but had weight loss surgery in 2015 which helped me get down to 177 by December 2015. I started to regain and was up to 200lbs last January, and then put on another 20lbs over the past year (largely driven by bad habits during lockdown). So…
