Out. Out now.
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Thousands of non-triathletes would believe this statement.
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Have not been too keen on stepping on the scales in the past month or so. Eating healthy 3 times a day, but snacking like a gannet the rest of the time. Hopefully I’m not too close to 90Kg!!!
Had a little increase of 1-2kg due to lack of enthusiasm for eating healthy but with a short period of getting back on it i’m back down to 83.46kg and once again within my healthy range according to BMI! 
69.8…
Just eating healthy I guess.
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First time on the scales this morning for a long time. 13 stone 1. That explains all the slow running I’ve been doing!!
Yeeeehaaaaaa!
Just weighed in at under 90kg for the first time in about 18 months, particularly impressed that I lost my 16 day holiday gain in 6 days.
Current weight 89.5kg.
On May 1st I hit 99kg and had a CTL of 12 after a less than optimal 2019 and start to this year!!
9.5kg off, 9.5kg to go.
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Great work…
Keep going …
beer, wine, crisps and chocolate are over rated !
August is cake season for me, with my three kids birthdays happening. I used up the first cake on a four hour turbo session. The second cake is about a quarter through (half marathon done today).
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Right. I need to make myself accountable here. Sept 2018 at IM Wales I was 78kgs and my weight has been creeping up since. I usually hold steady at between 84-85 but this morning I’m 88.1.
My training hours have definitely dropped and when I did all that Zwifting June, I was high 84kgs but I haven’t seen sub 80kg for over 18mths now and I’m heading towards 90!
My engine still seems pretty good but I’m simply carrying too much weight. I know where the problem is, or at least the majority of of for me, biscuits and chips (crisps) and too much temptation at home.
I have Fan Dance and AoA coming up so need to send this in the other direction. I can feel it in my waistband and for me, I know the tipping point has come when I lie on my side in bed and can feel my gut resting the mattress.
For shame 
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We don’t have biscuits in the house. They are convenient, but they are just fat and carb bombs of flour, sugar and vegetable oil. Obv if you don’t buy them, you tend not to eat them.
Instead for carby snacks we have loads of bananas, grapes, raisins, or sometimes 50:50 toast or breakfast cereal. Analysing it, I prefer eating these things and don’t really enjoy biscuits anyway.
Don’t like fried food, crisps or wine much either.
Beer however is a different matter. It’s not yet 9am and I could totally sink an IPA. Clearly not going to or the day will spiral hopelessly out of control. Oh, and cheese. Mmm cheese 
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Just discussing this with Mrs FP. I have tried the ‘nothing in the house’ before and always think about the empty shelf. Our shelves are stocked too much though.
I remember my Dad saying when he gave up smoking decades ago, it was better when he had an unopened packet upstairs rather than none in the house. He found his willpower to ignore the unopened packet was stronger than when he had none. Although, he gave up smoking cold turkey.
Our main meals are healthy, sometimes we’ll have a pizza for convenience from the freezer if we’ve been out all day but mostly we are a household of good meals. (maybe a few too many noodle dishes).
My problem is snacking on top of that an if I’m honest, I don’t even know why. We never have takeaway (there are none in our village), have the occasional pub meal.
We don’t drink but do have zero alcohol beer and despite giving it up for months, I’ve started drinking Coke Zero again. These things aren’t high in calories but at the same time, pretty pointless. Mrs FP likes the zero beer. My go to drink was a fizzy water with a little Roses Lime in it but I dropped that lately.
But 90% of my issue is biscuits and chips. I need to reinstate my running program properly and keep vigilant because the added stress of the new job stress and WFH is a dietary disaster waiting to happen, or in my case, already happening.
In for a penny: I should add that I’m an emotional eater as well, when things go tits up, I tend to stress eat, then stress about what I’ve eaten and say I won’t do that again, is that common?
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It definitely has been for me. I started WFH in Jan 2018 and in spite of my intention to use the time saved by not commuting it actually developed into quite the Deliveroo and snacking habit meaning I blossomed in mass.
Thing that’s helped the most is tracking everything I eat, just keeps me conscious of what I’m eating.
I do this too. And find that if I’ve slipped up I’ll say “ah well, might as well eat or drink whatever more”
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Fatpom I got 99 problems but weight ain’t one. Pretty much where I want it to be for health and for sport.
Accept it’s partly hardwired in as a gene thing, although I don’t think it’s just that. I weighed more in my early 20s. Back then my diet was pretty shocking though. Chips (fries) chocolate biscuits cake and lager probably accounted for >50% of calories.
Looking back it wasn’t because I was particularly drawn to those foods. But because they were convenient, and deliver a quick sugar hit when needed.
Killed my teeth. Mainly because of dental implications, but also beacuse of sport and overall health, I decided to clean things up. Started eating a decent breakfast every day. Choosing vegetables as a side at canteen at lunch. Cooked meal in the evenings.
Realised I never really like biscuits, so just switched them off. A good phrase I read was “avoid recreational sugar”. Now I’m not even tempted if some are lying around at work. Chocolate and cakes I still eat, but consciously and deliberately rather than randomly or recreationally. Fried foods, maybe once per month for novelty. Lots of cereal, rice, pasta, fruit, fish.
Beer is my emotional prop. Especially after a hard day at work, and I’m aware that this is not the best thing & am chipping away at that too. Guess if I liked biscuits and crisps, this would be the time they got wolfed. But I do restrict how much beer the Tesco man brings, and generally do spin it out until the next delivery. So I guess the same would probably work with crisps and biscuits or whatever?
I completely accept that it’s complicated and what works for one person might not work for someone else. Not trying to claim to know the answers or anything.
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Ps often thought we should have a “show me your fridge thread” 
similar to “critique my bike setup”
Not offering to start it though…
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Can we agree on 1 thing?
That chips are chips and crisps are crisps. You should have to explain what you mean.
Maybe if you are on TrainerRiad sure or Slowtwitch, but not here.
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73.3kg. Heading in the wrong direction.
Mine is full of frickin courgettes and bloody runner beans. Tonnes of the stuff. Not much room for much else and they’re wearing quite thin right now! 
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Chips are Crisps, and pommie chips are 'hot chips. Next you’ll be telling me a station wagon is an estate car. 
In the interests of cultural assimilation, i will adjust. 
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You are fine Pommers, there is just no need for us real Poms to explain 
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