I’m 86.2 this morning. Which I’m surprised at because whilst I’ve not done any exercise, I’ve hardly eaten anything.
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I thought I was doing well on My Fitness Pal today, then realised it double counts multisport activities (3 separate entries and an hour’s overall activity)
Put down the pie Jase 
Ps. And I’ll have review the last few Mondays
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Hmmmmm, 69.6 weekly average, but a bit of an unplanned week so I’m ok with that.
Aim for 69 this time next week.
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73.0
That’s 1kg down in January
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98.8kg, exactly the same as last week.
Been under My Fitness Pal calories every day but only slightly, whereas previous weeks I tried to be a good 500 under to allow a margin of error.
Lost 5kg since 1st Jan, most the first week, so not claiming it as true weight loss but a lot closer to my 90kg target, need to knuckle down as it gets harder the closer you get.
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87.6kg
And I’ve lost 1” off my waist in a fortnight.
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85.9, no change but given I’ve not exercised in 11 days and had a weekend at Mum’s, I’m taking that as a win. 
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Back up to 72kg, which is a more appropriate fighting (read training, running) weight for me. Keeping it at 72-73 is the aim.
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Height = 5’ 7” / 1.7m
Personal Worst:
01/01/19 – 14st 8.6lbs / 92.8kg – BF 34.2%
01/01/22 – 13st 7.8lbs / 86.1kg – BF 29.9%
(From New Year’s Eve, as I couldn’t face scales on 1st Jan, so it was definitely higher. 
)
01/02/22 – 13st 2.0lbs / 83.5 Kg – BF 28.4%
Lost = 5.8lbs / 2.6kg 
2022 Targets:
Wedding in early June – 12st 7.9lbs / 79.8 kg (just below the lowest point I reached in 2021)
End of year – 11st 13.9lbs / 76.2kg (but will settle for a higher weight/much lower body fat %)
Overall:
See ‘Dry January’ thread for major cut back on the amount of junk I was eating & drinking.
Now I need to carefully manage the transition from ‘Dry January’ to ‘Moderation February’.
Plus I had a decent (for me recently) month of training that I hope to build on.
Good luck everyone, Paul. 
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Controversial maybe, worth bearing in mind? Probably:
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I was going to put that up on the ST thread. Loses any credibility when ST’s EIC (Ryan Rheisler) dismisses (and bans) anyone that challenges it.
He’s one of the moderators that is like an alcoholic running a pub.
His wife authored the study, it’s commissioned by a private company and apparently that is ‘common knowledge’, which absolutely nobody knew about. He gets bent out of shape when being challenged on anything and asks people not to behave like dicks, which is fucking ironic!
Read the report but keep in mind the above. It adds significant context as to why he’s pushing that barrow.
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Agree with you 100% on this FP. Think TIT has been reinstated now though.
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I’m not surprised, the tone and the links did not inspire confidence in me, but there are some valid points I think;
Assuming chubsters are newbies
Equating fitness with health
Assuming that becoming an Ironman means becoming thin and healthy
But there are some other points that raise my eyebrow;
Dieting doesn’t improve health - obviously sometimes it does
Many people have no control - linked report doesn’t actually say that
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Weekly averages: 70.5, 69.8, 69.6, 69.8 and now on the piss for 2 days yikes.
OK, next week I will aim for 69, c’mon, too much Boris hot air, walk the walk!
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Absolutely no change for me, 85.9
Here’s what I don’t understand about that kind of thinking. How do you know it’s a privilege?
Why do we celebrate somebody’s ’ weight loss journey’ but we don’t celebrate somebody else’s lifetime of weight management? (not me, I’m a hopeless cause).
Our definition of ‘normal weight’ has become so fucked up that somehow now, it’s a ‘privilege’ to be a normal weight in a lifestyle that by it’s very definition, has an advantage in being a normal weight.
I love seeing people in sport of all weights/size and ability, it’s one of the things I like about tri and even more so in trail running. There are lots of reasons people are bigger and it can be complicated but it the same time, it can be bloody complicated and a struggle for some to be a normal weight but that never gets celebrated. Somehow, those people are just ‘lucky and privileged’?
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Almost every sentence needs a lot of unpacking to understand what is being communicated. I don’t know if that’s the culture over there going berserk or if there’s a legitimate message hidden within.
There is recent (as unbiased as is feasible) research showing that there are genetic differences that mean some people store fat differently, net effect in todays society being that two people with the same lifestyle will have dramatically different body compositions.
Maybe they are converting that into a position of privilege? 
But if the articles position is - “people don’t understand why there are fat athletes” then that’s what they should have said. It’s true - I don’t really/truly understand either, otherwise I wouldn’t be so overweight I guess!
I think everyone here knows;
- Being fat or thin isn’t as simple as being fast or slow, and that there are huge psychological/social influences on these things.
- Being fat or thin doesn’t make you a good or bad person.
- Being fat or thin doesn’t make you healthy. And
- There is a point at which performance, health and body fat are friends.
I’m using the word ‘fat’ because I’m not offended by it, and the morbidly obese people I know aren’t either.
What people here and in general do disagree on is how simple or easy (or desirable) it is to lose body fat.
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Well that’s a different discussion entirely. My issue with this whole article is that his wife wrote it and he didn’t declare. He loudly proclaimed that it was ‘common knowledge’ that his wife wrote and last night had to eat crow and admit he ‘just assumed’ that.
It’s a privately funded study written in a way that aims to shift a product and there is no other possible way that could happen. He’s done some very very selective pruning of the salient points others were making.
The most level headed content in that whole thread is by Alex Harrison IMO.
However, the whole front loading of the article with the word ‘privilege’ will never garner a debate that’s objective.
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Agreed.
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Anyway I checked my records and when the world ended and lockdown/covid began on 21 March 2020 I weighed a fairly trim 70.5kg, and was on track for race weight by the time season began. I was highly motivated at the time, expecting to head to Kona in Oct 2020.
Today I am 71.8kg - just been a bit sloppy and a few bad habits have crept in and become established. Training hard, but not supporting it with good eating habits.
So…
…The plan is to get back to 70.5kg by 21 March 2022. I don;t think I’ll need to diet as such, just replace most of the naughty stuff with better choices and it should take care of itself.
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