Help losing 20 lbs

[AntLockyer]

186.5 and 29.8%

170.5 and 12.5% today.

[EricKeller]

170.5 and 12.5% today.

that's nice. I decided I had to start weighing myself or my weight will continue to bounce all over the place. 186 today

[AntLockyer]

170.5 and 12.5% today.

168.7 and 11.7% today

I never thought I'd be able to get under 170. Good luck Eric.

[defspace]

I'm curious - what are you guys using to measure body fat. I assume you're using bathroom scales? My girlfriend's scale tells me 16-17%, my parent's scale tells me 8-10%. I have to assume that the truth lies somewhere in between.

I'm interested in picking one up (and sticking with the numbers from that unit). Whaddya guys suggest?

[zank]

Time to attempt to lose the baby weight and get fit enough to have some fun on the bike next year. Since there isn't a Help losing 40 lbs thread, I'll be doing this thread twice.

9/16/13 - 183#

[Jonathan]

I've been going the wrong way. 171. The heaviest I've been in 6-7 years. I've drawn a line in the sand.

[AntLockyer]

168.7 and 11.7% today.

166.3 and 11% today

[boxerboxer]

Last two days 186.7, 188.1. Have been eating like shit, but am working it out.

Back on the horse. 185.0. Diet is good, exercise is good, feeling is good.

[BryanF]

Public flogging needed. Zank, my baby fat it still on me eight years later.

175. No idea if I can pinch and inch.

[zank]

182. I'm expecting this week to be a good one though. The wife and kids all had a stomach bug yesterday. This could be the jump start I need. Rebecca lost 3# in a day.

[ron l edmiston]

[QUOTE=zank;543972]182. I'm expecting this week to be a good one though. The wife and kids all had a stomach bug yesterday. This could be the jump start I need. Rebecca lost 3# in a day.

let's do this together my brother..
we gota look good on/off the bike..

ronnie a push'n the wheat thins away

[Jonathan]

I'm out for a few weeks. The pulmonologist has me on another cycle of prednisone. That's another 5lbs right there.

[boxerboxer]

Back on the horse. 185.0. Diet is good, exercise is good, feeling is good.

I still need to get back on the bike before it gets all Western MN winter up in this motherfucker, but strength training and diet are on track and I hit 182.8.

[zank]

176. Yeah, that was a little rough.

[boxerboxer]

176. Yeah, that was a little rough.

Holy nuts, sounds like you lost 6 lbs the "fun" way :(

[wasfast]

I'm curious - what are you guys using to measure body fat. I assume you're using bathroom scales? My girlfriend's scale tells me 16-17%, my parent's scale tells me 8-10%. I have to assume that the truth lies somewhere in between.

I'm interested in picking one up (and sticking with the numbers from that unit). Whaddya guys suggest?

To have the % body fat be useful at all, make sure you measure at the same time of day with a similar level of hydration on the same scale with the same settings. Hydration has a big influence on the reading. I started out using my Tanika on "athletic" mode. Gave a 12% reading. Switch to "non-athletic" and got something in the low 20's which matched the BodPod and caliper method. While I really like the low reading, it's just fooling myself.

The % body fat reading is useful for monitoring where any weight loss came from. Lower weight with a higher body fat reading=water loss. Higher weight with a lower body fat reading=water gain. Lower weight with a lower body fat reading= actual body weight loss (muscle or fat).

[boxerboxer]

I still need to get back on the bike before it gets all Western MN winter up in this motherfucker, but strength training and diet are on track and I hit 182.8.

181 lbs.

[Z3c]

Jumping in with some info on something that is working for me: Intermittent Fasting. I have been watching my weight since I was 14 and have never found anything that seems to work as well as this, at least for me. I found it as a result of the research backed health benefits this also offers, look into it and see what you think. Essentially, you fast 1 or 2 days/week; on those days you are restricted to 600 calories. Other days you eat normally. I find it much easier to eat less for a given time period than all the time. The fast days have resulted in my eating less on other days because I realize how much less I can be happy/satisfied with. I typically fast on Tues and Thurs though I often only do 1 day/week. I don't recommend fasting the day before a long ride though; for me that yielded a wife rescue call.. I have lost about 12 lbs since starting this in late July; ~183 then, ~171 now.. Hoping to see 165 which is a weight I have not seen in a long time.
The wife and I are both doing this; funny thing is that after a weekend we both find ourselves craving a fast day. It sounds so strange but it happens to both of us..

[dgaddis]

I've been slowly putting on weight over the last 6-7yrs. Never much at a time, a pound or two a year. But it's added up. I've seen too many of my family members have health problems that are 99% due to being overweight. Time to fix it.

I'm using the My Fitness Pal app as a food diary. Enter all your info such as current weight, target weight, age, sex, height, lifestyle, and weight loss goal per week (up to 2lbs/week). Then it tells you how many calories you're allowed in a day. The food diary is extensive and easy to use. You can enter excercise also, and get credit back for those calories burned. The numbers it gives for excercise seem to be high though (it doesn't use much info the arrive at the number, for a bike ride or run you choose a speed/pace range and enter how long you did it), so I use the numbers Strava provides instead, and don't necessarily try and eat all of those calories. For my commute to work yesterday I got a credit of almost 900 calories....that still seems hard to believe.

I started at 180lbs. The goal is to get rid of extra tummy fat I've put on, so set a goal weight of 165lbs in the app. Once I get there I may go lighter. I'm supposed to eat 1,250 calories a day.

Been doing it since Sunday and already lost a good bit, but I'm sure it's just water weight. But I am lighter!

10/24/13: 173.25lbs

Confession: before starting this I ate a lot of crappy junk food. It's a wonder I wasn't heavier. I'm 5'10"

[dgaddis]

10/24/13: 173.25lbs

10/30/13: 171.5lbs