It's been slow progress recently as my weight has pretty much stagnated, however my waist measurement (and to a much smaller extent chest and hip dims) has continued to fall so I'm guessing I'm still gaining lower-body muscle while losing some fat.
The drive to remove gluten from my diet has finally killed off the last carb-heavy food in the house; these being the Ryvita and Water Biscuits I just cant leave alone in the evenings
As such I'm not carb-free, but I'd guess consuming less than 50g per day. Last of the biscuits went around three days ago and mass has dropped pretty convincingly since - a lot of this is probably transient water loss but it still feels like progress and should be a sign that I've "opened the door" to low carb again which should accelerate future losses as long as I can maintain my diet.
Figures now stand at the following:
Since the start of the year I'm down 9.7kg (12.5%), 5.0cm (5.0%) on the chest, 10.7cm (11.1%) on the waist and 5.8cm (6.0%) on the hips.
Since the start of lockdown I'm down 3.8kg (5.3%), 2.5cm (2.5%) on the chest, 5.25cm (5.8%) on the waist and 2.2cm (2.4%) on the hips.
This morning was the first time my 5-day mean weight has fallen below 68kg while I also recorded my lowest waist measurement at 85cm; a big drop from the previous 86cm and again suggesting water loss but I'll take it!
I'm averaging about 0.5kg lost per week which suggests a weekly energy deficit of around 3600kcal or two days worth / 14% of my BMR.
According to my spreadsheet I need to lose another 3.5kg to reach my target of just over 64kg; this is where my waist should measure 0.9 times my hips (the WHO's threshold for "abdominal obesity") although since my hip measurement is still shrinking too to an extent I'll probably have to lose a bit more to hit the target. If you wish to pay it any credibility, my BMI is currently right in the middle of the "healthy" range at 21.65kg/m^2.
FWIW I'm cycling on average about 120 miles per week with the less active weeks often being supplemented by walking. I'm a simple creature with limited ability and interest when it comes to cooking and allergies to seemingly everything, so diet is fairly basic. Typically I eat two soft-boiled eggs on toasted seed loaf for breakfast, with lunch and dinner usually consisting of meat (chicken kiev, fish fingers or occasionally home made burgers or steak) or quiche with dressed salad or steamed greens and broccoli, cheese and greek yoghurt. Snacks are limited to strawberry yoghurt, 70% dark cooking chocolate (half the sugar of milk), cheese and pickled onions, green grapes, occasionally low calorie ice cream..
It's funny reading that back and remembering how my diet used to be; massively carb-heavy with lots of bread, potatos, crisps, chocolate... I don't plan to necessarily cut all of these out forever, but certainly have no desire to return to the days of compulsively eating large quantities daily like a helpless sugar-craving fiend!
Anyway, there we go.. I appreciate the opportunity to summarise my progress in this thread and hope everyone else is making some headway too
