Weight Loss/ Gain thread Dec 2014 - 2015

Lino said:
So I've been losing mostly centermetes and not much weight. This week fell off the bus and had a few beers. Tonight had chips and I feel truly I'll.

You guys have really motivated me, tomorrow will start keeping a diary and cut out all alcohol. As well as go to gym again. Bye bye piggy Lino
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Good for you!
 
I looked for a long time to find a DEXA operation in Cape Town that can do a body composition scan and report accurate fat and lean muscle percentage. The DEXA machines at the various hospitals only do bone density.

Eventually found a practice in Durbanville, had it done (13% body fat) and immediately went to Virgin to compare (19%) and then home to check my bioimpedance scale (23%).

You can find them @ http://www.dexacpt.com/
 
Felt terrible yesterday. Had pizza and a high sugar drink, was chai tea and it already came with sugar. Went home and died. I crashed and slept for an hour or 2. Funnily enough, didnt feel hungry the rest of the day with only a snack at night.
 
xcaliber said:
Felt terrible yesterday. Had pizza and a high sugar drink, was chai tea and it already came with sugar. Went home and died. I crashed and slept for an hour or 2. Funnily enough, didnt feel hungry the rest of the day with only a snack at night.
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Shame on you! Shame! :D

That'll teach you.
 
faniedry said:
Shame on you! Shame! :D

That'll teach you.
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:) . Im not very strict. I follow the more lenient approach :) I do MFMCMP.

But yesterday was the first day in a month that I had a sugary drink.... and **** it killed me.
 
Funnily enough, I was thinking about sugary drinks over the weekend. My problem is that I love sugary, fizzy drinks - especially Coke.

So, for the past few months, I've been drinking Coke Zero instead of Coke. Some users say that Coke Zero is also causes weight gain, so I did a bit of investigation.

There is lots of research on the subject, but it doesn't look like any of it is conclusive. As far as I can tell, artificial sweeteners do not cause insulin spikes, but they are still correlated with weight gain, obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc. So, I've decided to even quit that.

What I am going to do is make my own soda, using soda water and natural ingredients. I thought about getting a Soda Stream machine, but then I thought, it is probably cheaper just to buy a 2L Soda water when I need to. If I make my own drinks, then I control exactly how much sugar is in them, if any. I won't use any artificial sweeteners at all, not even stevia. And only on the weekends, not during the week.

I'm going away next weekend, so I plan to have my first test of this in 2 weeks time. Planning to make homemade lemonade and raspberry-vanilla soda. I see some sites suggest making a French soda, which is where you add a little bit of cream to it. So I'll try that out too.

So, this weekend was GREAT exercise wise, but not great diet wise. I had a pizza and a slab of Cadbury's to myself on Friday night, then on Saturday I had a few Cokes and Coke Zeros, and on Sunday, more Coke and Coke Zeros. I had to finish them by the end of Sunday, because I don't drink carbonated soft drinks during the week. It made sense at the time.

EDIT: Not sure of the accuracy of my scale, but when I weighed yesterday, it said 87kg.
 
In other good news, I have FINALLY got my Discovery HealthyGear card, which means I can go buy more exercise kit. Specifically, I need 2 x 15kg dumbells, one 16kg kettlebell and 1 set of interlocking rubber mats.
 
Managed to hit my goal weight of 94.0kg this morning, now to keep it below 94kg...

 
Here I was feeling rather happy with my 1.5kg loss hahaha, but then again i've probably got 5kg to lose at most!

Well done!
 
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