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I droped almost 3kg in the past 5 weeks. I do not see any reduction in my KB abilities, in fact, my DoubleKB work is getting easier at the number of reps per set that I started with (1 rep of 16kg double: clean, jerk, squat, jerk, once or twice I do a second squat)..my technical skill definitely got better so this makes it easier, but I dont' believe that I lost much muscle. My BMI is in range (24.8) for the first time in MANY years. I am going to start a thread now about BMI and muscle, so don't flood this thread about the stupid/great BMI information
I mentioned my slow weight lost in my original post (june 6) and we had a huge discussion on and off-topic since then. I was very happy with my training approach and my final belief (well current belief) is that we need to be very active everyday in order to lose weight, forget about aerobics vs weights, just be active in any and every weigh (way).
As already known, the context of diet is the major impact. I started with a dietician on August 7 because my medical aid was really upset with my stomach diameter and offered a discount on the dietician services. interesting that I picked up this issue of stomach diameter in April (hence I bought the digital scale, and eventually started this thread) and the med-aid eventually agreed with me by the end of July
I found body improvements on the new diet within days:
- my persistent acid reflux disapeared. there are recurrences when I behave badly
- after <10 days my diabetes tablet induced nightly-pissing dropped from 4-6 pisses to 1or2 per night
- my stomach maybe slightly smaller, but not really noticeable.
- loss of >500g (1pound) per week.
what's the difference in my diet? I always thgouht that I ate well, and this diet generally reaffirmed it, but:
- LOTS of VARIOUS vegetables...which I always did, so no real change here. funny that I had to reduc the amount of fruit. I didn't expect this.
- ZERO Bread, almost zero Pasta, very little brown rice, some wraps (roti in my case), some rye bread, very little potatoe. this has been the first big change! cutting out bread was difficult in the first days...most of my meals include curries so this was a tough switch (curry with no roti/bread/rice goes against my culture!)
- MUCH more meat and fish and eggs then I was eating. This is the other big change. ok, I was on a drive to reduce meat over the past years. so i ate huge meat meals 3or5 times per month. now I have 150g of meat almost every day. 2or3 eggs almost every day, and 150g fish 3 per week. I ate a fair amount of meat almost everyday for most of my adult life...quite a lot actualy
-"150g of meat almost every day. 2or3 eggs almost every day, and 150g fish 3 per week"...honestly, I don't get to eat so much according to the plan everyday! I'm ok with it because I do balance off with the friday drinks/dinner with my friends or huge saturday lunch with my parents
- there is no menu for Sundays...lol, my wife says I shouldn't eat on sundays, I say I can eat what I want on sundays
so Sundays is now my only take-out day...well, there are those days when I'm in the office and someone buys dinner when we are there till late
I ate most of a medium pizza the other day and really struggled with bloating and acid reflux, we suspect it was the dough in the thick base. my dietician says to make pizzas at home, using the roti's as a base.
Hope this helps some else too. I really benefited from the discussion here, and the dietician is taking me to the next level.
