Fight Your Fat: 2015 Edition

The time has come for us to treat ourselves to a new weight loss and fitness thread - the previous thread has grown outdated.

For my part, my goals are to get down from my current 186lb to 165lb before I run the Croydon half marathon in March. Further to that, I aim to run a sub four hour marathon in Bournemouth in October.

So, gentlemen, what are your goals for weight loss and fitness for 2015?

90kg is my goal, last year I got down to 107kg but then put a bit back on, so 90kg is my goal.

Are you making a focused effort, DragonSVD, or are you just generally cutting back etc?

As for me, I have started the new year on a positive note. My first 10k since September; http://www.strava.com/activities/235204832

Haven't weighed myself this morning but will go out for a run later today.

I just signed up for a half marathon at the end of March.

Yes MG, that's what I'm talking about!

Apparently I have "87 Days to next race on Sunday March 29th 2015".

Same day as my half marathon.

Are you aiming for a sub 2 hour this time? I still dream of getting around the half in under 2 hours... it's going to require a lot of hard work.

I can aim for it but getting it is a different matter altogether, not sure what the route is like and with only 3 months to train..

I am starting off this month on a protein sparing modified fast, which I have done before with great results:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Sparing_Modified_Fast

The particular one I use is here:

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/the-rapid-fat-loss-handbook/

you can "find" the book here

https://www.google.com/search?q=rap...5.5170j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8

I usually do about 800 calories a day mostly all protein with some greens and cucumber (everything coated in hot sauce which is calorie free) I plan to go for 8-12 weeks. I add walking and light circuit training to it, but have to be careful as I don't have a lot of extra calories and from experience if i go to hard I get sick.

sounds like a great goal you already did well losing the weight so far so these should be obtainable with your dedication mate!

I think I've seen the rapid fat loss handbook before, but I didn't come across it until after I lost the majority of the 165lb I needed to shed. 800 calories a day sounds like an ordeal to stick to for longer than a couple of days though; when I was over 300lb I ate around 1000 calories a day for a few months and that required a huge amount of willpower to stick to. I suppose it'll be okay as long as you're not exercising too heavily.

Its very difficult the first 5 days then it gets easier. In fact the biggest problem I had last time I did 12 weeks was remembering to eat. my appetite completely disappeared. There were busy days where I would realize at 7pm that I was still 300=400 calories down from the 800. Hard to believe but it happened. Helps that I have a lot of fat to burn

and well on my way for 2017...-35kg to date...

-37 today....

-39kg , and this will probably be my baseline going into 2018. Lost the most in a year this year and have managed to keep it off. Next year will be trying for -21kg. My health limited me quite a bit but hopefully I have that better managed. I did this year all on reduced calories dieting. Next year I hope I will be able to add exercise.

Good effort, DragonSVD. Hope you're able to maintain that loss, and keep up the good work!

well in almost 6 months, i only dropped 4kg, so i call that at least maintaining,,,,

Yeah, but as we both know, it's one thing to maintain it for six months, and another thing entirely to maintain it for six years... I was 84.5kg when I posted this thread, I am now 97kg and I was 103kg about six months ago!

and you have to start somewhere, 6 months is a good start regardless.