My weight loss accountability blog

[djcj]

I am wanting to create this for my own log/record of what I've done each week with regards to my calorie intake/expenditure, exercise and hopefully weight loss.

I'm 44, 5'11", and as of 5 minutes ago weigh 117.1kg, with a BMI of 36.1.

I am aiming to limit my calorie intake to 1,500 per day with daily walking (either outdoors or on a little exercise stepper machine I have) plus dust off my concept2 bikeerg and get back into Zwift for 30 to 60 minutes three days a week.

I intend to post back here with an update every Sunday evening!

 

[Martynt74]

Best of luck fella.

Join in the weight loss thread too if you haven’t already.

 

[Chuk_Chuk]

I'm 44, 5'11", and as of 5 minutes ago weigh 117.1kg, with a BMI of 36.1.

I am aiming to limit my calorie intake to 1,500 per day

I plugged your stats into a TDEE calculator and even with the quite a pessimistic estimate (40% body fat) it calculates your cutting calories at 1800.

If you haven’t already I would recommend taking a look at a TDEE calculator. Being to extreme with your calorie restriction can have negative side affects such as muscle wastage.

The one I used

TDEE Calculator: Learn Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure

Use the TDEE calculator to learn your Total Daily Energy Expenditure, a measure of how many calories you burn per day. This calculator displays MUCH more!

tdeecalculator.net

Good luck on your journey mate.

 

[Sheff]

Good luck! I definitely agree with Chuk_Chuk on having a slightly larger allowance, if only so that you've got a bit of headroom; I use TDEE which gives 1700 for a 2 pound weekly loss but I know that if I average around 2200 a day that's still a 1 pound loss.

On some gym days I seem to really need that extra and rather than try to estimate calories burned I'll use the higher threshold.

 

[tom_nieto]

Good luck! Don’t cut too aggressively, in fact the first step I would say is to log exactly what you’re eating and be brutally honest with yourself. Get the kitchen scales out to weigh everything.

 

[djcj]

Right OK, one week on..... and things haven't quite gone to plan.

I have had a hell of a week with a number of different life events going on, not least of which I've had food poisoning over the last 2 days! Due to various reasons I have therefore done absolutely zero exercise what so ever, and haven't counted my calories at all.

I have however not eaten any junk food at all, tried to eat healthy and have reduced portion sizes.

With all that being said I have weighed in today at 113.9 kg and 35.2 BMI. So I have lost 3.2kg in week one (approx 7lb or half a stone).

Obviously this has been a one off freak event with the food poisoning, which caused me to literally empty the entire contents of my body! Things seem to have settled down now though and I WILL count my calories and get at least some exercise in this week!

 

[blairw]

Best of luck mate -I was in a very similar position to you (I'm 5'10" and started again at 119KG) - I am currently down to 96.5KG over the last 16 months... progress isn't a straight line, there's been the odd month of stagnation etc but all trending in the right direction. I would say 1500 is too low and going to make you miserable before long... I have been around the 2100 mark as my daily with obvious exceptions for special events etc and that's felt largely maintainable.

 

[djcj]

I've been slacking with the updates on my own thread, and hadn't weighed myself since last time!

I haven't managed to get much in the way of exercise done, but have been continuing to keep in a calorie deficit.

I've just weighed in this evening at 114.4kg, so I am 0.5kg heavier than the last weigh in, but still 2.7kg less than when I started.

I am kinda fine with that as i knew the initial loss was a bit of an anomaly due to the food poisoning. It works out at an average loss of about 1 pound per week, which is nice and steady. Hopefully next week's update will have me back down to 113kg or less!

 

[AndyCr15]

Join in the weight loss thread too if you haven’t already.

Come join us all here. You might get better engagement?

 

[djcj]

Come join us all here. You might get better engagement?

I will do cheers, although this thread is really just for me to post progress for myself, I'm not too fussed about any engagement for now

 

[mrthingyx]

I've been slacking with the updates on my own thread, and hadn't weighed myself since last time!

I haven't managed to get much in the way of exercise done, but have been continuing to keep in a calorie deficit.

I've just weighed in this evening at 114.4kg, so I am 0.5kg heavier than the last weigh in, but still 2.7kg less than when I started.

I am kinda fine with that as i knew the initial loss was a bit of an anomaly due to the food poisoning. It works out at an average loss of about 1 pound per week, which is nice and steady. Hopefully next week's update will have me back down to 113kg or less!

Just keep going in the right direction: this is all about long term change, so just keep plugging away.

 

[djcj]

Just a quick update for my own reference:

Over the last seven days I have consumed a total of 10,961 calories, which divided by seven is an average of 1,565 per day.

I have just weighed in at 113.3kg, so I've lost a further 1.1kg over the past week.

 

[tom_nieto]

Very impressed at the overall deficit. Not something I could keep up for sure. Just be careful that you’re getting enough in! Great progress so far!