Bubbs Fat to Fit 2019

[Lord Percy]

[grr666]

[thx1138]

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[Bubbs]

**Update**
Weight: 217lbs (up from 210)
Fat: 39.9%
Consecutive Pull Ups: 5
Press Ups: 40

I completely fell off the wagon all of last week. I seem to have an addiction to food. I cheated once at the start of last week and then the fucking willpower dissapeared. I was still trying to count calories but fear maybe my guestimating is off somewhat. I did have a few cheat days where I went to fast food joints but I was completely shocked when I got on the scale. I'm suprised how efficient my body is at chucking the fat straight back onto my body once I have a few days off.

I wasn't going to write anything here as I am feeling pretty embarrassed but fuck it, it's part of the journey. I am walking 3 to 4miles every lunchtime, and i'm doing press ups and pull ups which are improving so they must be doing something. But to see an increase in bodyfat and weight was a huge surprise. (I did weigh myself after a 3 course meal but it wouldn't have been 7lbs of food)

Food is clearly my downfall. I'm doing an intermittent fasting programme starting today and keeping away from fast food. How the fuck do you build your will power up to tackle this shit. I used to smoke and have managed to quit, i've quit alcohol, i've quit weed.. why the fuck is food so hard.

When I smoked, I remember the voice in my head leading me to the newsagents to get fags when I was quitting. I'd convince myself I was going to get food but the little monster was really in control. When I got there I would always end up buying Golden Virgina and papers. That voice has been silenced with smoking, but it's moved onto fast food. I'm at the bottom of this huge hill again and it's really difficult to silence it. I pass so many fast food places on the way home it's ridiculous. A cheeky double cheeseburger doesn't even register as a meal in my head, i think of it as a light snack. That fucker is nearly 500cals and I have 2, standard!!!

So intermittent fasting it is. I'm skipping breakfast and trying my damndest to avoid fast food. I find making my food the night before is useful and stops me bingeing. As soon as I forget to do that it all falls down. Bad habbits have been ingrained for many years.. they are a right cunt to break.

Got to keep going....
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[thx1138]

if you can do 5 proper pull ups with that %age of body fat, you must be pretty strong, when you get to the weight you want you'll be able to do loads

[chickenstrip]

If it's any consolation Bubbs, I'm now trying to get serious about improving my cardio-vascular performance, but I still smoke I don't know if it's even possible to improve this as a smoker. It's the one thing I can't seem to quit. Diet is pretty good, rarely touch alcohol, never eat fast food, I now work out loads, no other vices - just this bloody smoking!

I still think you shouldn't try to take on everything at once. Perhaps start by smaller improvements in each area - less fast food, a little more exercise, until you become more accustomed to it - in other words, why not cut back on things rather than try to quit them all cold from the outset?
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[Bubbs]

[grr666]

Have you tried fasting Bubbs? Just one or perhaps two days a week. I'm mid fast again at the moment, I plan to eat my next
food tomorrow evening. The last I ate was a Sunday roast at 1pm Sunday. So it will be for 3 and a bit days this week.
I would go through to Thursday evening tbh, but the food tomorrow night is a social thing that kind of means I'll have to
eat since it's going for a meal out. I'm in charge of this ship, not my stomach. I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to quit
the fags Chickenstrip, I never had to worry about my weight like I have to now I'm 6 years off the tobacco. I piled on the pounds
when I jacked in the fags though. +2 stone in the first 3 months. I'll get one more 4-dayer in before I go to Thailand (the reason
for stripping some fat in the first place).

The reason getting eating under control is hard is because we will HAVE to do it sooner or later, or die. You can't just
draw a line under it like you can with other addictions. Happy to answer any "Is this normal" questions as you give
it a whirl, the watery poo typically on day 2 is quite a surprise. I made a right mess of our downstairs crapper this morning.
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[chickenstrip]

[P.]

I'm aiming to start a diet end of the month till mid-May and expect I'll lose a stone with pretty much 500 calories a day. Some people say its bad, but my main source of food is a single meal a day thats processed, which is far worse.

My body drops weight more than it puts it on so its not all bad.

I'd suggest cutting down overall intake, even if its only a few days a week. I can get a whole day on a cucumber (water basically) carrot (water with taste) and potato. I could jazz that potato with really lean/quorn mince. Isn't all that bad. On that for the weeks and a bit more relaxed at weekends but not going over 1000 calories and no junk, I drop weight. People differ though and if people think this is dangerous, you ride bikes..

[bhinso]

500 calories a day does not sound much to me. When i tried that on a 5-2 diet my GP warned me my brain wouldn't function properly.
Of course many would argue it doesn't anyway...

[P.]

[Lord Percy]

[bhinso]

[G]

[chickenstrip]

[thx1138]

Went running tonight, first time for ages. Will sign up for the local 10ks and half marathons tonight, and start training for them.

[chickenstrip]

[pepperami]

I had real difficulty dieting, so I’m trying a new approach.
I’ve told my missus not to buy any biscuits I like when she does the shopping.
That’s the first step, cutting out so many biscuits.
Step two will be reducing the number of packets of crisps we have in the house.

My missus thinks I like dinners the size of Mont-Blanc , so step three will be getting her not to serve up such huge dinners.
This is proving harder than you think.
She is convinced that as I am a big man, I need a good sized dinner.
Bless her heart but she just can’t get her head round smaller dinners.

I’m NEVER going to starve myself, but I will try and be a bit more moderate.
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[G]

On that actually - one of the massive things for me is removing temptation.
I never keep any biscuits etc around.

I've been trying doing pretty well replacing the temptation for a chocolate bar with the aforementioned caramel flavoured apple porridge (with added sugarly sweetener which is calorie free.) About the same calories as one chocolate bar, but a good lot more weight/volume and hopefully should be better sating too. (150ml skimmed milk, 1/2 gala apple, 5ml of salted caramel flavour, 30g oats; 3 mins in microwave, then sprinkle sweetener on top.

[Bubbs]

[grr666]

[thx1138]

I just eat, and eat, and eat, and eat.

and cycle, and cycle, and cylce

and repeat

I really need to work out some sort of diet plan to get into good shape for the summer, but after a day in the saddle I just can't focus, I hoover up the quickest easiest food in the house.

whole box of cheerios the other night

[bhinso]

I feel really sorry for all those super fit people.

At the end of their lives, lying in hospital dying of nothing...

[G]