The 2016 Way Less Objectivity thread

Ancalagon said:
Congratulations! Awesome story!

9kg is a huge amount of weight to lose - you must be a lot thinner around the middle.

Regarding the nurse... I've realized that most people don't have the time or patience to get to grips with how things really work. They go on what they have always been told, and they don't want to question things too much. They were told about low fat diets their whole lives, and then when they did their training, they were further indoctrinated in low fat. And most of them don't have the time, patience or curiosity to research the truth.

So not surprised she thought you would be killing yourself.
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Thank you
 
106.5kg this morning.

When I started running I did 5km jog/walk/jog in 48mins. Last night I ran my first sub 30min 5km.
 
Been eating badly for two weeks. Lots of stress, and also been on training and the food they provided wasn't great.

Back on track now, will weigh in *gulp* this weekend.
 
I don't know how you guys do it. I've got a serious binge-eating problem, I have to conclude. For days I'll have like zero appetite, eat hardly anything and only because I know I must/should eat something. Then... comes the food storm. So many calories, it's grotesque. If it's a small storm, 2-3 days of insane calories. If it's a big storm, could be all week :( I don't know how to stop this. So disgusted with myself, how can I be so weak. And so fat. And so helpless.

See a nutritionist, I hear you crying. And then? They will prescribe me some regular-frequency meals of regular portion size, for which I'll have no appetite. They can only tell me how I should be eating, and that won't be news to me. How do I force a meal down when I can barely swallow a bite? How do I not eat crazy amounts when I'm starving hungry?

Anyway I hope this thread can help me find some motivation or balance or something. Well done to you all for your achievements so far, very inspiring.
 
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but can anyone recommend a past-workout recovery meal/supplement I can take whilst intermittently fasting?

I break my 16 hour fast around 22:00 each night, which is usually a bit after my workout, be it just cardio or Krav or whatever.

I'm by no means hungry after this, and usually hit the hay around 23:00, so looking for something to help fuel/recover muscle rather than just fill me up until 05:00 the next morning, when I usually have a hearty breakfast before starting my fast.
 
Gave up on finding the effing scale. Bought another one. That's four in the house now. Fml.

Weighed when I got home. 91.17kg
 
akescpt said:
Gave up on finding the effing scale. Bought another one. That's four in the house now. Fml.

Weighed when I got home. 91.17kg
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Like socks and Tupperware bowls... Scales run away
 
fussydassie said:
I don't know how you guys do it. I've got a serious binge-eating problem, I have to conclude. For days I'll have like zero appetite, eat hardly anything and only because I know I must/should eat something. Then... comes the food storm. So many calories, it's grotesque. If it's a small storm, 2-3 days of insane calories. If it's a big storm, could be all week :( I don't know how to stop this. So disgusted with myself, how can I be so weak. And so fat. And so helpless.

See a nutritionist, I hear you crying. And then? They will prescribe me some regular-frequency meals of regular portion size, for which I'll have no appetite. They can only tell me how I should be eating, and that won't be news to me. How do I force a meal down when I can barely swallow a bite? How do I not eat crazy amounts when I'm starving hungry?

Anyway I hope this thread can help me find some motivation or balance or something. Well done to you all for your achievements so far, very inspiring.
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I think you might have a deeper psychological issue that is causing this, but it isn't the only thing.

So I have two general things that I think you need to take the time to understand.

The first is that it isn't your fault.

The second is that you are the only one that you can do anything about it.

It isn't your fault because, while we like to think that we are beings of pure spirit and thought, the reality is that we are still largely animals, and controlled by hormones in our body more than we think. That signal you get to eat? It is a hormone, called leptin. There is another hunger hormone, called ghrelin. Guess what? Your adipose tissue - your fat - manufactures those hormones. In other words, your fat wants you to stay fat. It sends those signals.

Don't see your episodes as a personal failure of willpower. They are simply a sign of how strong hormonal hunger signals can be. Personally I don't think most people who are currently skinny, have ever experienced hunger that.

But anyway. Something else to think about, is that while we are still animals, we don't really know what to eat. If you had to ask 100 nutritionists and doctors around the world what the optimal diet is for a human being, you would probably get 100 different answers. The truth is, there are a lot of things they probably agree on, such as reducing sugar, and a lot of things that they won't agree on, such as saturated fat and whole grains.

My point is, we are put into this world with an endless abundance of food and we don't really know what is right for us. Put a steak and ice cream in front of a wolf, and it will probably sniff the ice cream, pee on it, and then eat the steak.

We humans aren't so lucky. We have to figure it out for ourselves.

What I'd recommend to you, is stop putting so much pressure on yourself. It sounds like you feel like a personal failure when you can't live up to someone else's idea of what healthy is.

My advice is - if fasting and then binging is how you eat, stick with it. Actually fasting is pretty good for you - I fast daily. But, what you should do is, A) stop feeling guilty about it, B) start eating healthier. Make sure that, when you do binge, you binge on meat, veggies, fruit, nuts, cheese and yogurt. In that order. Heck you can have dark chocolate if you want, just don't overdo it.
 
akescpt said:
I'll update after recommended poop in the morning
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I normally weigh in after my morning dump but today just for control I decided to do one before and another after. Burgh times the scale read 65.0 so I'm thinking unless you take really huge dumps it doesn't make much difference.
 
Why not publish the spreadsheet on Google docs and make it read only to the world.

Then just link it in the first post?
 
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