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Inbetweenies - not skinny, not fat, need to lose around a stone ...

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Hanneke Mar 2021 9:09am, 9 Mar 2021 71,105 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke Sweet liquorice Totri. And cheese and butter is another thing: i come home, start cooking, while chomping on a lump of really mature Gouda. Must stop doing that! Did all right yesterday though: breakfast was coffee with oat milk and a banana, lunch a closed sandwich with butter and cheese, on the go as I was busy, and supper a courgette rosti. I did have a slice of ontbijtkoek mid afternoon as lunch was meagre... Now sat in my running gear for my second run/walk in 12 years... I should also weigh myself. I drink 2-3 litres of water a day, so prefer to weigh myself after morning ablutions. I can easily be a kilo heavier because of fluid intake...
Totriornottotri Mar 2021 10:32am, 9 Mar 2021 1,521 posts	Quote Pin Totriornottotri I have improved a lot by logging everything and weighing things that will make a difference- tomatoes don’t but, yes, I weighed my roast meat on Sunday because I could eat the lot! Beware the sneaky calories - we cook with olive oil but probably put 100 cal into a pan!
Hanneke Mar 2021 10:45am, 9 Mar 2021 71,108 posts	Quote 1 pin Hanneke I use an enormous amount of olive oil or coconut oil. I can easily halve that! Great tip! Just been for my 2nd run/walk... Already 4 minutes faster on my 3.8 km hilly off road... That should help too... Once I am down to half an hour for that route, I can start adding distance... When speed goes up, calories used go up too...
Rosehip Mar 2021 12:55pm, 9 Mar 2021 20,041 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip An article just dropped in my inbox with food for thought about trying to lose weight when training... trainright.com
Welshpoppy Mar 2021 1:02pm, 9 Mar 2021 658 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy A very interesting article RH thanks .
Rosehip Mar 2021 1:16pm, 9 Mar 2021 20,042 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip it's a good reason to make sure we fuel long and hard runs properly and also azx's regular time trial might not be a bad idea
Welshpoppy Mar 2021 1:26pm, 9 Mar 2021 659 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy I have already pencilled in the 10k TT as a weekly event,It does show exactly that about the long runs.I signed up to get the email as very informative.
azx Mar 2021 1:52pm, 9 Mar 2021 92 posts	Quote Pin azx Funnily enough I did my 10k TT today. If I take the ratio of my weight today to last week and multiply that by last week's time, I got a prediction of 54:33 (down from 54:55). I actually took 54:34! I wasn't aiming for a specific time nor did I know exactly how I was doing, just going out hard. Read that article RH, very interesting.
lammo Mar 2021 1:57pm, 9 Mar 2021 10,454 posts	Quote Pin lammo I've read the article too, and I can imagine if you are racing regularly and really care about the positional results then it holds true, at my level of recreational training my performance isn't that important in the scheme of things, and would like to think i'm not reducing my calories too significantly anyway. I did think 3 weeks at a time was short, it takes 2 weeks to get the scales moving here, and 10lbs over 28 weeks felt like a long time, probably sustainable though
Totriornottotri Mar 2021 2:37pm, 9 Mar 2021 1,522 posts	Quote Pin Totriornottotri A few healthy olives and a bit of cheese. How many calories? The entire tub is 200g.