BNA Losers Club 2016

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby tcdev » Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:07 am

I'll "weigh in" again this year. Last year was a lost cause, and I gave up posting in the early months. With the birth of my son in February, exercise and diet went out the window. No time for riding (my goal was 3,500km, I did ~1,800km) and my weight training was also non-existent. My wife and I were (still are) always tired, and the home cooking suffered in favour of sticking something quick in the oven. To top it all off, I had to close my office after 15 years and started working from home, which meant no commute, my garage gym is all-but-inaccessible under mountains of boxes, and with no-one else to carry the can it's harder to justify shooting off for a ride during the day whenever I feel like it.

In summary, started this journey in July 2014 at 114kg when I got my bike. I started 2015 at 106kg after 1,500km. Despite another 1,800km under my belt I'm starting 2016 at the same weight. Worse yet, there's loss of muscle mass in that mix.

Goals for this year are 3,000km and 90kg, though I'll be happy with 95kg if that includes a year (well, 11 months now) of weight training.

Went for my maiden ride of the year just yesterday, and it was slow (though not as slow as I feared) and it hurt (mainly my seat). My son starts day care in 2 weeks and I'm trying to convince my wife to join me in the hope that she'll get bitten by the bug as well. We (now) both work from home so even if we could do one ride per week together it'd be awesome. Not that she needs to lose any weight (she's under 60kg and lighter than she was in her early 20's as it is) but not surprisingly she hasn't done much in the way of exercise since falling pregnant 20 months ago. I'm looking forward to sharing my newfound love of cycling with her though, and it will be fun to explore the city and also get off-road on a bike with her. Fortunately we have a friend of similar stature who owns a bike that is, let's just say, not often ridden. The plan is to borrow that for a few weeks and see how she likes it. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

I'll update my stats monthly.
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Tue Jan 26, 2016 8:51 am

63.7kg or BMI 21.3 this morning. At least 0.5kg lighter due to dehydration from ride yesterday afternoon.
WC 74.5 or WHtR 0.431

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Aussiebullet » Tue Jan 26, 2016 1:31 pm

What would happen if you rode every afternoon for 5 days would you be 2.5kgs lighter by the end?

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Lizzy » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:01 pm

72 this morning. Right direction at least.

Main strategies are staying away from the snack machines at work*, keeping the pantry stuffed with vegetables and legumes, freezing batches of creations made therefrom.

*Will confess to struggling a bit with this one
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Tue Jan 26, 2016 3:21 pm

Aussiebullet wrote:What would happen if you rode every afternoon for 5 days would you be 2.5kgs lighter by the end?
When I was heavier and riding for more than 2 hours, I could be over 1kg lighter after a single ride. That was after consuming two 700ml water bottles as well. So yes, I could be if I didn't start forcing the water down. My thirst response isn't the best. According to at least one study, this is more likely to happen as you get older.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Aussiebullet » Wed Jan 27, 2016 7:46 am

I read your thirst drops as you age too but not your need for fluids, is good your aware of this :wink:
Hydration takes preference over calories for me so I stick by the rule drink 1.5 X what ever weight I lost on the ride regardless of how much I drank during it, so long as I'm peeing clear in the 1 - 2hrs after and for the rest of the day I'm happy enough,my body has enough to do and recover from with out adding dehydration to the list.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:16 am

WC 74.0 WHtR 0.428

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:02 pm

WC 74.5 WHtR 0.431

There seems to be a pattern emerging of 74 to 74.5 for WC so I'm going to keep measuring, but not reporting for future reference unless outside of that range.

Weigh in tomorrow and the next day. I'm expecting not much change.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:30 am

64.2kg this morning or 0.2 kg increase for year.

Happy to be between 64 and 65kg so far.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:02 am

63.9kg this morning. 0.1 down from year start. BMI 21.4

From yesterday I'd say probably just 0.3kg dehydration.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby ironhanglider » Thu Feb 04, 2016 5:24 pm

Tasmania is a wicked place full of Devils, temptation and evil spirits...

It seems that I am pretty poor with a tape measure. A couple of weeks ago I measured my circumference at 92cm, two days later the doctor measured it at 84cm. :shock:

Fortunately I can still read a digital scale.

Wenesday Weight 89.8kg = +1.3 for the year

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Thu Feb 04, 2016 10:05 pm

ironhanglider wrote:It seems that I am pretty poor with a tape measure. A couple of weeks ago I measured my circumference at 92cm, two days later the doctor measured it at 84cm. :shock:
Maybe you were measuring it too low. It's supposed to be about an inch above your belly button. Maybe he pulled the tape too. Also you're supposed to do it first thing in the morning before other factors interfere. Mine can go up 2cm+ from first thing in the morning.

I find it interesting that your doctor actually did the measurement to find WC. Most GPs are still living in the past and use only BMI.

If he is correct, that makes a WHtR of 0.449, which is pretty good already.
ironhanglider wrote:Fortunately I can still read a digital scale.

Wenesday Weight 89.8kg = +1.3 for the year
That isn't much considering. In loser mode you could probably lose it again in a week or so.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Fri Feb 05, 2016 8:58 am

WC 73.5cm, WHtR 0.425

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby skull » Sun Feb 07, 2016 9:50 am

No change in weight Now adding weight to height measurements.

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      Jan    Feb    Mar    Apr    May    Jun    Aug    Sep    Oct    Nov    Dec
2015  105.7  102.9  99.6   99.1   100.3  100.6  99.5   100.2  100    101.3  101
2016  103    103
WTH   0.61   0.58

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Baalzamon » Sun Feb 07, 2016 3:37 pm

Today weight 102.69kg. Steadily dropping and consuming 2300 calories, 200g minimum fats. Where does my eaten fat gone to? Ketones body which brain loves. Extra fat goes out.
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:19 pm

Baalzamon wrote:Today weight 102.69kg. Steadily dropping and consuming 2300 calories, 200g minimum fats. Where does my eaten fat gone to? Ketones body which brain loves. Extra fat goes out.
Since you're calorie restricting, you are probably burning it.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Baalzamon » Mon Feb 08, 2016 12:39 am

Nobody wrote:
Baalzamon wrote:Today weight 102.69kg. Steadily dropping and consuming 2300 calories, 200g minimum fats. Where does my eaten fat gone to? Ketones body which brain loves. Extra fat goes out.
Since you're calorie restricting, you are probably burning it.
Sometimes I eat 3000+ calories mainly from fats.
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Mon Feb 08, 2016 10:14 am

skull wrote:Now adding weight to height measurements.
Is that meant to be "waist to height"? The numbers look like it.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:20 am

63.3kg, BMI 21.2

WC 74.25, WHtR 0.429

Bought a new Soehnle digital personal scale. I need to take it to work to compare it to the one there. Neither will be conclusive since the one at work is higher range (300kg) so in theory less accurate at lower weight measurements, quite old and has never been calibrated since new. From what I've seen from other scales, I suspect the work one may display a bit too heavy.

From the FAQ of the Soehnle site, my one has 0.5% basic accuracy, or plus or minus 0.3kg. Which does work out to be approx +/- 0.5% at my weight. So like most scales, the heavier you are, the more accurate they get.
Soehnle wrote:Like any measuring instrument, scales can have tolerances. The tolerance is not more than 3 increments of the actual weight value. The smaller the increments, the lower the possible deviation. In other words, the accuracy variation, in the case of personal scales with a 100 g incremental display, is less than 0.5% in the average body weight range.
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby skull » Tue Feb 09, 2016 7:40 am

Nobody wrote:
skull wrote:Now adding weight to height measurements.
Is that meant to be "waist to height"? The numbers look like it.
Yes, thanks for the correction. I'm not too bright but I can lift heavy things.
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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:20 am

Nobody wrote:Bought a new Soehnle digital personal scale. I need to take it to work to compare it to the one there. Neither will be conclusive since the one at work is higher range (300kg) so in theory less accurate at lower weight measurements, quite old and has never been calibrated since new. From what I've seen from other scales, I suspect the work one may display a bit too heavy.
Yep, took my scale to work to find the work scale indicates 1.0kg heavier.

So everything I've said about weight on here I need to take a kg off.

63.4kg this morning or 0.4 gain for the year. BMI 21.2

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby rapunzel » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:22 am

For about the past month now I have been back to around the weight I was at in Oct 2014 when I got pregnant; that includes the (roughly) kilo I had allowed myself to gain in the lead up to it. Things like BMI (about 21), WHtR (about 0.42) are back to pretty much where they were. But my body is different and my fitness is definitely different. My scales are terrible at accurate % of body fat readings, so I don't really count that, but I know I must have shifted my muscle to fat ratio to weigh the same and yet be so unfit (compared to where I was before - not compared to what I would guess is the fitness of the general population). Perfectly normal BP, haven't checked cholesterol in ages.

So, at the moment I am interested in different numbers, if you like - kms, hours and minutes, etc. :D

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:44 am

63.0 or BMI 21.1

Same as year start.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Nobody » Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:51 am

63.1kg, BMI 21.1. WC 74.5cm, WHtR 0.431

These measurements have been the same for a couple of days.

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Re: BNA Losers Club 2016

Postby Baalzamon » Sun Feb 28, 2016 2:52 pm

Baalzamon wrote:Today weight 102.69kg. Steadily dropping and consuming 2300 calories, 200g minimum fats. Where does my eaten fat gone to? Ketones body which brain loves. Extra fat goes out.
99.2kg now, that is now a 5.7kg drop from the start of the year. I plateaued for 2 weeks and did a 36hr fast and then started to consume 2300 calories daily and I lost weight. Something doesn't add up
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