Starting weight - January 9th: 21st 5lbs
January 22nd: 20st 8lbs
January 27th: 20st 3lbs
February 3rd: 20st 1lbs
February 10th: 19st 13lbs
February 17th: 19st 9lbs
Loss of 4 lbs this week.
24 lbs gone total.
Around 42 lbs more to go.
These numbers are really good, and obviously the result of a lot of hard work and dedication. Keep it up!
Been hitting the weights this week sporadically. Need to do more running. Definitely see the difference on me now, but clearly still about 3 stones worth of fat to shift. I think I am not too keen on running because of my size, might wait until another stone falls off before i try properly again.
Maybe you've heard of EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), informally referred to as "afterburn." The concept is simply this: by keeping the intensity of your workouts high, you elevate your base metabolic rate, and you continue to burn calories long after you've finished exercising (around the 48 hour mark.) What this means is that, while running is great for overall health and it will burn fat
while you're doing it, strength training and high intensity interval training are not only more fun but they will also allow your body to
continue burning fat even while you're sat at work the next day. Here's a link to a
more detailed article on Bodybuilding.com, which includes some really good exercise suggestions as well.
Remained vegan too and feel great for it. No urges to eat any meat or dairy and eating so healthily and a lot less has opened my eyes to the fact i overate as a comfort thing before.
Put up my likelihood of remaining vegan lifetime to 20% from 15%, as the way in which i can eat as much as i want of veggies and fruit along with potatoes and rice feels really nonrestrictive and the feeling of not having to calorie count or starve myself is great. I am probably missing a nice natural sauce to put on my food that isn't oily and makes me feel a little ill. Sticking to Dolmio sauce on Pasta as my only real adding of sauce, and know that isn't the best for me. Will just need to get less lazy and try a recipe for a nice natural sauce, because these dishes can be a little bland, but the added energy and boosted mood from eating them makes up for it.
If you're super strict about being vegan, then yes your dishes run the risk of being a little bland. Here's a couple of links I grabbed quickly, one specifically for
vegan sauces and dips and one for
Vegangela.com, where you'll find a bunch of great looking recipes. What I will invite you to explore is the allowance of eggs and perhaps milk into your diet. Obviously if you're incredibly strict with this vegan route then that's not an option, but it seems you're doing it for wellbeing reasons - which in itself is a great reason to re-include eggs. From a sanity perspective (ie "I really want sauce on my food") it seems beneficial to include eggs and whole milk as well. I very rarely put together a sauce because I just crack an egg or stir in a small amount of mozzarella or goat's cheese into my cooked rice or pasta. Just something to think about.
Becoming impatient if anything for the lot of the fat to be off of me as I don't feel fat anymore, it is just there on the end of me. It needs to go!
We all feel like this at some point. My goals at the minute are quite the opposite of yours, I'm looking to gain weight in the form of muscle, and if I could make weight gain progress like you are making weight loss progress then I'd have hit my targets months ago! You're doing really well mate, don't lose heart.
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