Weight loss

I jogged and walked a lot this weekend.

Had to work off the chocolate cake :whistle:
 
Will sent proof of recorded stats (dietician) - if the prize is awesome (otherwise donate a Milky Lane voucher to the runner up):

Starting Weight: 98.5kg (5th May '13)
Height: 178cm
Goal: skinny b*tches in the house (<80kg)

Result (2nd August '13)
Weight: 81kg (now floating around 80.5-81kg)
BF: 17% (measured via scale - I guess was around 27% when started)

Achieved via:
- Control carbs (keep your body in ketosis as much as possible) - the first 3 weeks carb intake was <10g/day
- Lots of liquid - carb free choices (other than boring water) are Tab, Sprite Zero (also don't drink anything with caffeine)
- Food choices (thank god I am not vegetarian): mostly chicken, tuna, red meat (again - avoid carbs). No fruit/hardly any veg
- Getting up at 5am every day - 5min on spinning cycle for warmup and 30min of treadmill (speed 8.5 - 10 km/h)

Best discovery:
- On Protein Whey (instantly disolves in water - I like it with milk and a 30g scoop in a 200ml glass of milk for breakfast has 24g protein and 7g of carb) - you get it from Dischem (Choc Mint / Cookie flavour are awesome)
- Food becomes boring - only carb-less condiments are Dijoen mustard (believe it or not - is awesome when grilling meat as a flavourant) and some asian sauces. (Woolies curry pastes are great)

Now I am using On Protein Whey as a 200ml breakfast-shake (after the run with either Creatine or Glutamine mixed in). Love chocolate and throw Maxilean (also Dischem) in. As supplements On-vitamins.

Dropping almost 20k in 3 months was easy - about 1,5k per week - toughest part was the avoidance of carb, but after a few weeks you become very aware of it.
 
Everyone's taller than me. For some reason that doesn't seem fair :(
I managed to complete 15 push ups last night. An improvement compared to the measly 3 I started with.
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Will sent proof of recorded stats (dietician) - if the prize is awesome (otherwise donate a Milky Lane voucher to the runner up):

Starting Weight: 98.5kg (5th May '13)
Height: 178cm
Goal: skinny b*tches in the house (<80kg)

Result (2nd August '13)
Weight: 81kg (now floating around 80.5-81kg)
BF: 17% (measured via scale - I guess was around 27% when started)

Achieved via:
- Control carbs (keep your body in ketosis as much as possible) - the first 3 weeks carb intake was <10g/day
- Lots of liquid - carb free choices (other than boring water) are Tab, Sprite Zero (also don't drink anything with caffeine)
- Food choices (thank god I am not vegetarian): mostly chicken, tuna, red meat (again - avoid carbs). No fruit/hardly any veg
- Getting up at 5am every day - 5min on spinning cycle for warmup and 30min of treadmill (speed 8.5 - 10 km/h)

Best discovery:
- On Protein Whey (instantly disolves in water - I like it with milk and a 30g scoop in a 200ml glass of milk for breakfast has 24g protein and 7g of carb) - you get it from Dischem (Choc Mint / Cookie flavour are awesome)
- Food becomes boring - only carb-less condiments are Dijoen mustard (believe it or not - is awesome when grilling meat as a flavourant) and some asian sauces. (Woolies curry pastes are great)

Now I am using On Protein Whey as a 200ml breakfast-shake (after the run with either Creatine or Glutamine mixed in). Love chocolate and throw Maxilean (also Dischem) in. As supplements On-vitamins.

Dropping almost 20k in 3 months was easy - about 1,5k per week - toughest part was the avoidance of carb, but after a few weeks you become very aware of it.
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Wow good preogress - but this is a current competition ^_^ - not what you've done in the past
 
OK I will bite. Stats suck though :o

Weight - 54kg's. Yeah I know wtf am I doing here.
BF% - 24%. Used the weight/waist method so nfi how accurate it is. Now you know wtf I am doing here :D
Goal - 45kg's. Doubt my abs will ever show but I should have a lower bf% in any event.
Height - 1.65. Drew you say anything I will send my SO to beat you up! :p
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Will sent proof of recorded stats (dietician) - if the prize is awesome (otherwise donate a Milky Lane voucher to the runner up):

Starting Weight: 98.5kg (5th May '13)
Height: 178cm
Goal: skinny b*tches in the house (<80kg)

Result (2nd August '13)
Weight: 81kg (now floating around 80.5-81kg)
BF: 17% (measured via scale - I guess was around 27% when started)

Achieved via:
- Control carbs (keep your body in ketosis as much as possible) - the first 3 weeks carb intake was <10g/day
- Lots of liquid - carb free choices (other than boring water) are Tab, Sprite Zero (also don't drink anything with caffeine)
- Food choices (thank god I am not vegetarian): mostly chicken, tuna, red meat (again - avoid carbs). No fruit/hardly any veg
- Getting up at 5am every day - 5min on spinning cycle for warmup and 30min of treadmill (speed 8.5 - 10 km/h)

Best discovery:
- On Protein Whey (instantly disolves in water - I like it with milk and a 30g scoop in a 200ml glass of milk for breakfast has 24g protein and 7g of carb) - you get it from Dischem (Choc Mint / Cookie flavour are awesome)
- Food becomes boring - only carb-less condiments are Dijoen mustard (believe it or not - is awesome when grilling meat as a flavourant) and some asian sauces. (Woolies curry pastes are great)

Now I am using On Protein Whey as a 200ml breakfast-shake (after the run with either Creatine or Glutamine mixed in). Love chocolate and throw Maxilean (also Dischem) in. As supplements On-vitamins.

Dropping almost 20k in 3 months was easy - about 1,5k per week - toughest part was the avoidance of carb, but after a few weeks you become very aware of it.
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Yohhhh! Congrats! Im in the same boat, was also around 93/94, now sitting on 84, trying to get around the 80kg mark.
Carbs are extremely minimal, but maybe i should drop it to get into the routine.

Currently doing around 30/40min strength training a day 4 days a week, with 10-20 min cardio.
 
D3nz said:
Everyone's taller than me. For some reason that doesn't seem fair :(
I managed to complete 15 push ups last night. An improvement compared to the measly 3 I started with.
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Game on. I'm gonna start alternative100pushups.com today.
 
Mailed in my stats - whats the latest one can send in a pic though (obviously I'm aiming to win this thing!)
 
ShaunSA said:
OK I will bite. Stats suck though :o

Weight - 54kg's. Yeah I know wtf am I doing here.
BF% - 24%. Used the weight/waist method so nfi how accurate it is. Now you know wtf I am doing here :D
Goal - 45kg's. Doubt my abs will ever show but I should have a lower bf% in any event.
Height - 1.65. Drew you say anything I will send my SO to beat you up! :p
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Is that even healthy?
 
ShaunSA said:
Atm I am unhealthy because of my boep which comprises the majority of my bodyfat. At 45kg's my body will still look the same minus the excess fat around my waist.
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Ok I am a girl so I guess its different but according to Weigh less my ideal weight is 65kg and I'm 1.67m tall.
I do also have a wideish frame (swimmer shoulders and child-bearing hips and African bee-hind and all :D)
But 45 sounds way too little....
 
googoodoll said:
Ok I am a girl so I guess its different but according to Weigh less my ideal weight is 65kg and I'm 1.67m tall.
I do also have a wideish frame (swimmer shoulders and child-bearing hips and African bee-hind and all :D)
But 45 sounds way too little....
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I agree, 45 sounds way to little.
 
DrewChan said:
Wow good preogress - but this is a current competition ^_^ - not what you've done in the past
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:-( not cool - I doubt that with my new starting weight of 81kg I will be able to do much against all you chunkies - lol.

No, seriously, I have deep respect for anyone making a dramatic health change (be it weight loss, taking up exercise or otherwise - and I am not talking about the odd kg here or there). It takes a serious amount of commitment and dedication to follow through on it.

I guess most of us are office workers, with limited physical movement during the day, so burning of kJ is minimal. Someone else on the thread mentioned to reduce kJ intake and this really worked for me - i.e. burning more than you take in. With my starting weight of 98.5kg I decided to not go over 3800kj per day which then works out to 1200kj per meal (and I was frigging starving all the time). I targeted around 700kj for bfast / lunch and 1200kj for supper.

Weight loss as a non-vegetarian/-vegan is "easier" - you have at least choices such as eggs, bacon, chicken, mushrooms (had tons of those), cheese, tomatoes. Get ketosis strips and measure it yourself weekly - especially the first 6 weeks are crucial. Your weight will fluctuate and I found that ensuring that I was in ketosis was the most reliable measure.

Most important part is to chart out your progress daily. I climbed on the scale in the morning before breakfast and in the evening before supper. Your weight will fluctuate insanely and without scientific sense (one day I weighed 87kg in the morning, took in less then 2kg of liquids/food and by the evening I was 90kg - never figured out how that works)

I am also super chuffed, that I dropped from a chunky pant-size 42 to a 36 (which are too big - I think 34 will fit relaxed now), waist dropped by close to 20cm. So get someone to measure your chest, waist, thighs - you will see progress within 10 days once you start.

Oh - and get some good cause to motivate yourself - something longer-lasting than this thread (think of that your change in lifestyle will prevent you from suffering from a heart-attack or that you will be able to be at your sons/daughters wedding in a decade or two or just the simple consideration of not crushing your wife/girlfriend during sex - lol)
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
Weight loss as a non-vegetarian/-vegan is "easier" - you have at least choices such as eggs, bacon, chicken, mushrooms (had tons of those), cheese, tomatoes.
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And this is why I struggle to lose weight. It's damn hard when you're a vegetarian.
 
D3nz said:
And this is why I struggle to lose weight. It's damn hard when you're a vegetarian.
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Don't see how mushrooms and tomatoes are non-vegetarian :D but I agree and I'm not even a veggie - I just don't eat a lot of meat. The dietician told me to eat more chicken and I had to really force myself to do it and it wasn't very pleasant :(
 
ShaunSA said:
Atm I am unhealthy because of my boep which comprises the majority of my bodyfat. At 45kg's my body will still look the same minus the excess fat around my waist.
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What's your ideal weight? Not your magic number but that calculation using height,etc. 45kgs seems a bit low.
 
googoodoll said:
Don't see how mushrooms and tomatoes are non-vegetarian :D but I agree and I'm not even a veggie - I just don't eat a lot of meat. The dietician told me to eat more chicken and I had to really force myself to do it and it wasn't very pleasant :(
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My wife is vegetarian and she followed a similar approach (i.e. watch carbs - she dropped from a 70kg to 60kg in about the same period) - but yes, while she had grilled halumi/tofu/mushrooms I could have 2 chicken-breasts (BTW: although expensive, Woolies pre-cooked chicken breasts taste good and have good count for carb/kJ).

True vegetarian weight loss looks super tough (I am not talking about those "I only eat white meat vegetarians") if you have to drop weight. In those cases look at a product like Optimal Nutrition (around R450/container at Dischem - has high protein cound and tastes great).

@googoodoll - not sure if you can see yourself chomping tomatoes and mushrooms every day ;-)
 
googoodoll said:
Ok I am a girl so I guess its different but according to Weigh less my ideal weight is 65kg and I'm 1.67m tall.
I do also have a wideish frame (swimmer shoulders and child-bearing hips and African bee-hind and all :D)
But 45 sounds way too little....
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Your black?
 
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