Probably less fitness but started Slimming World 2 weeks ago and down 10 1/2 lbs already. I’d say that’s a win in my book! (even if the main change was cutting out beer…)
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Don’t suppose we’ve got any Ultra Runners in here?
I’ve been considering signing up to one for a while and am looking for a “beginner” one. I’ve got 50 miles ish as a distance in my head I’d like to do, but get put off some by the cutoff times.
Any suggestions?
If you’re new to ultras, start at 50km rather than 50 miles. It’ll just let you get into the swing of how an ultra works at a distance that’s not too far over a marathon.
A popular starting point is the Thames Path Challenge. It’s pretty flat with good aid stations, fizz at the end, and generous cut-off times - but as a caveat I haven’t completed it myself yet. It takes place each September, so this year’s has already been. The 50km route (longer options are available too) starts at Runneymede and ends in Henley. If you fancy the 100km route, it starts at Putney Bridge.
Counterintuitively, ultras are actually easier than marathons owing to the breaks in the course for aid stations.
But… that’s uphill!!! Surely, if you’re going to run a river, you would run it downhill… or that only paddlesportist types???
True, makes sense.
I’ve seen a few people doing the Thames Path one on YouTube, looks good. I’d be looking for one a bit further north though.
Yeah I’d heard/read that too, makes sense when there isn’t as much focus on the time too.
In going back tonight. Lost 6 stone to date. But lost motivation over the last year. Think ive put 10lbs on but wait and see
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I’m about to start my weight loss phase (you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to lose weight whilst training for running events).
I’ve previously managed to drop 22lbs in 2 months through a combination Keto and intermittent fasting, but since struggled to get back into after accidentally falling out of ketosis.
Do you (or @SecretSquirrel) find Slimming World works well for you?
Literally life changing…
Requires prep and planning but when you get into the swing of things, its easy.
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The missus did slimming world as well. ~5st down.
We both found it really easy to stick to. No counting calories or points really.
Set amount of “syns” that you can’t exceed a day, but there is so much you can eat without adding to that total.
Definitely recommend.
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Update it was 12…oppps
Keeping meaning to get back on couch to 5k
This is the only real diet I’ve ever tried (other than giving up alcohol, red meat, etc, for Lent) and it seems to work quite well, even before I started exercising again.
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I had surgery earlier in the year on the foot and have only recently been able to walk around properly again. Didn’t adjust my eating to compensate for being completely sedentary and piled it on… whoops.
Started doing weekly 72hr fasts and Keto on other days a month ago, down a little over a stone already.
It sounds drastic, but once Keto adapted it’s a doddle. After all my body is now geared towards getting it’s energy from fat and I have a stored abundance of it.
At current rate will be back to where I should be by Christmas and somewhere between now and then will get back to running, physio allowing.
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Amazing how quickly it piles on, isn’t it?
Your story is similar to mine; plantar fascitis through running the London Marathon stopped me running for an age, but I kept eating as though nothing had changed. Took me a while to notice though, so I gained around 4 stone at my peak.
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I absolutely feel this! A few of weeks not walking at all and then a couple of months off less-than-normal activity and i don’t need the scales to see the effect… 
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I had the opposite…
The missus was keeping in with her slimming world stuff so I didn’t put much on, weight stayed consistent, but I lost a lot of muscle mass.
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I just consumed far far too much sugar/carbs whilst sofa-bound. Had nothing else to do, other than eat! I’m a boredom eater at the best of times. But when I literally couldn’t go anywhere, it got pretty bad!
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Yeah, I understand that.
Just fortunate the slimming world cult is still loosely followed here or it would have been worse.
Trimmed the fat down now and bulked again, so weight still hasn’t changed 
Keto?
Very low carb, high fat, protein, veg.
Makes the body change the metabolic pathway it uses for energy from glucose from the carbs, to ketone bodies from the fats.
Eat at a calorie deficit in that state and the body grabs what it needs from stored fat. Of course the body will do the same eating at any calorie deficit, but the crucial difference is by already having the metabolic pathway up and running you don’t get the hunger pangs and cravings that come from dieting normally.
Add fasting into it as well and it speeds things along, no hunger at all as so long as you have stored fat the body just makes use of it for energy as with any animal. I do all the cooking in my house and even in a fasted state I don’t suffer with any feelings of hunger. If anything I actually feel sharper and more alert on fasted days - the body is a wonderous thing.
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@Mr_OZ - just to add to @Virgil comments…
Keto was initially designed as a diet in the late 1800s/early 1900s to tackle epilepsy. I initially started following a Keto diet to tackle frequent migraines; and it worked with good success with the migraines staying off even after I had stopped following a Ketogenic diet.
The weight loss element, and the fact that you feel absolutely no hunger at all, were just bonuses.
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