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Today I feel like I a new man, I am getting back to the fitness levels I had last year and this week I upped the intensity of my training. I am now swimming 50 lengths of the pool and I started running again in the gym. This week I trained 6 days out of 7, ate no rubbish and consumed no alcohol so I am pretty sure I had a large calorie deficit. However, on the weighing scales I came in at just under 80kg which is a very small change. At the same time my tight fitting trousers are getting a lot more comfortable around the waist so I think my stable weight is not reflecting fat loss.
My diet bible is a book called the Gut Buster Waist Loss Guide and that book actually emphasizes that the important measurement for a man is waist size and not weight. What's happening to me now is illustrative of that because not losing weight does not mean that you are not improving your body shape.
Next week I am off to Lisbon for a conference that includes a dinner at some castle. I am staying at a hotel with good sports facilities but I always find it so hard to be bothered when on business trips. My sister and her family live in Lisbon so I will catch up with them while I am there. The best I can hope for in the next week is to maintain the status quo as regards my get healthy program but hey Lisbon should be fun.
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I'm sticking to the cycling to/from work myself. Though some sit-ups are needed to prevent back trouble. We don't have a scales at home, but in a friends gaff I checked in at 13 stone, not good. Less crap food required. Still, a daily round trip of 16 miles on the bike should help.
That is some amount of cycling. If you get a chance to read Gutbuster some time there are loads of practical tips on how to stay full without eating unhealthily. Mind you I am sure you know yourslf what the danger items are.
In Holland we have a thing called the voedingscentrum which is the national nutrition cetre. They send anybody who asks a measuring tape to measure your waist just below the navel. Whatever your height your waist measurement is the big indicator of health.
< 79cm is unhealthy
<94 cm is fine
94-102 cm is in the danger zone
102 cm and higher is where you really need to do something.
I must start measuring again, the lst time I did I was 96cm.
Interesting. I take a 34 inch waist, or 85cm. But that isn't anything like as accurate as measuring, particularly given the sweat shops turn out inconsistant products anyway (and no-one get's their clothes made anywhere else). As to the weight thing, the fact is muscle weighs more, so if you loose some fat and gain some muscle due to working out your weight may not change much at all. I have a bad habit of getting a yen on me for a chinese take out or a chicken nugget kebab from the chipper down the road.
Yikes, at least the cycling is burning that off. We never eat take away.
If you measure below your navel you will probably get more than 85cm unless that 13 stone is just bone and muscle ;-)
well done! don't worry about the weight really, it's the clothes that tell you really how your weight is shifting, and you've made progress.
i realised today i'm out of control again as i just filled another coffee shop loyalty card... time to give up the morning treats again!!
and to thrift, sit ups aren't really the best thing to strengthen the abs to protect the back. you need to work on your core muscles, and sit ups don't do it. pilates or yoga are the thing for it!
Not a fan of Yoga, used to do shotokan karate which did a good job too, but the dojo wound up and I didn't like the other clubs I tried. Last time I had back trouble I did a course of sit ups in a class, not your bog standard sit ups, a wide variety of different ones targeting different muscles. Worked a treat.
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