Lose a few kilos, the last few years I've been around 95kg but this year I'm 87kg. It's knocked a good knot or 2 off what I need to get going. Barely 10knots today, not a single white cap but I was flying around on the ultrasonic and 9.4.

Well done

I've been lean, got the dad bod, lost weight through reducing portion size, eating better, less beer and exercise but lately a few injuries ??

What did you do to lose the weight?

Totally agree. I lost 9kg and planing was a breeze. Best bit of kit ever. Then just recently, went on 8-week holiday and porked on 7kg. I know what I gots to do. One beer, not six

I'm with 515. How'd you approach it. I've been eating soups for lunch. Calling it the 95! Trying to get 95kg again

A morning man shake keeps me stuffed until lunch. Dinner early , one beer. Weight was dropping off.

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Imax1 said..
A morning man shake keeps me stuffed until lunch. Dinner early , one beer. Weight was dropping off.

Been looking at the man shakes.

They taste good too , so it's painless.

So no beefy's

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Gestalt said..
So no beefy's

Only after a big days sailing.

Nah this way below - I lost heaps, and all credit to Rupert who put me onto it.

The key is if you like hummus. That really helps....
But - 90mins on Sunday arvo:
Cook up as many veggies as you can. Root veg roasted in little cubes, roast capsicum, roast onions.
Microwave greens like asparagus, chinese stuff, broccoli stems. All up I do about 15 different veg
Chuck in some canned beans, lentils whatever.
Everything is barely cooked, not slop, so you can eat it all as a salad..... or warm it for dinners too. All in a bucket in the fridge.
Now you have a weeks worth of food in there and its easier to get a bowl of that, than it is to make something.

Now the trick - serve it up cold and with a couple of dollops of hummus stirred thru. Its like eating the dip stuff at a party. It tastes gooood!
Honestly the first day I looked at it at thought FML, not doing this..... then it was so good I wanted more. Truly

I only replaced lunch with that veg and stopped the grog, lost weight easily...... a bit more than 1kg a week for 3 mths. I was always full and didn't do any hard stuff like exercise more.... AND the food bill dropped heaps not like the rip off shakes and stuff that they sell ya.

The other advantage is if others around you are not doing it, you can still have the healthy bit of the family meal and with your veggies. Fish n chips night I still had the big deep fried fish and a ton of those veg. Asian - just had terikayi chicken and that veg with the soy-sesame dressing and it was da bomb.

So in short
Cheaper than all the crap they reckon you need for meal replacement. Cheaper than your normal food.
No starving
No rigid rules
Can eat it as salad or hot, many varied flavours with your little dressing.
Have it with a steak.


If somebody told me honestly just how good my sh!ts would be I'd have done it years ago.

Im trying a supplement, Burn of the gods & Night Shred. I've trimmed down but not lost muxh weight. I eat well and don't drink much. Exercise a lot, farm work squash ride and sailing 1-5times weekly over summer and 1-2over winter (no after work seshes)
bottom line is you gotta try stuff to see what works ( give it time too) and real food is better for you than powders but you have to try and work out your own ****. Mark I think that you're onto something. And to add hummus is great. I'm gonna give it a go.

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515 said..
Well done

I've been lean, got the dad bod, lost weight through reducing portion size, eating better, less beer and exercise but lately a few injuries ??

What did you do to lose the weight?

Ride a bike.
in more detail, I used to be a pro road cyclist, back then my racing weight was 85kg. When I stopped racing it went up to 90kg which is where it stayed until I took up windsurfing again, the extra upper body muscle mass and lack of longer rides took me to 95kg. Then in November I started doing more cycling again and hey presto back to 87kg.
now I'm fast on the bike again, fast on the board in light winds, haven't had a really windy day yet this year to see how that goes but I think I'll be needed a smaller sail

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Ben1973 said..
Lose a few kilos, the last few years I've been around 95kg but this year I'm 87kg. It's knocked a good knot or 2 off what I need to get going. Barely 10knots today, not a single white cap but I was flying around on the ultrasonic and 9.4.

Not to mention flotation ... try to ride a 95L at 95 vs 87 Kg.

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duzzi said..

Ben1973 said..
Lose a few kilos, the last few years I've been around 95kg but this year I'm 87kg. It's knocked a good knot or 2 off what I need to get going. Barely 10knots today, not a single white cap but I was flying around on the ultrasonic and 9.4.

Not to mention flotation ... try to ride a 95L at 95 vs 87 Kg.

I was thinking my balance must have drastically improved as I was walking around on the ultrasonic no problems at all (-;
heavy maybe fast but if I can't get out a lot more being light I'll sacrifice a bit of top end speed

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Ben1973 said..

515 said..
Well done

I've been lean, got the dad bod, lost weight through reducing portion size, eating better, less beer and exercise but lately a few injuries ??

What did you do to lose the weight?

Ride a bike.
in more detail, I used to be a pro road cyclist, back then my racing weight was 85kg. When I stopped racing it went up to 90kg which is where it stayed until I took up windsurfing again, the extra upper body muscle mass and lack of longer rides took me to 95kg. Then in November I started doing more cycling again and hey presto back to 87kg.
now I'm fast on the bike again, fast on the board in light winds, haven't had a really windy day yet this year to see how that goes but I think I'll be needed a smaller sail

Wear a 3l hydration pack for the windy days. Neutral buoyancy too so very easy to live with. Camelbak Unbottle is the one

I got a thermomix, it's a hardcore blender which munches whole food into food.

Food in packets has sugar and other nasty things, no good for light wind.

Ice cream for example, for me now is a frozen banana with peanut butter smashed for 5 seconds, and it's better than the shop stuff. Often served with brownies made from oats, black beans, cacao and dark chocolate. Cheaper, so i can buy more big sails and fins in the long run, and way fat stripping.
I'll be in trouble at my weight now if the wind ever comes back, because i plane in a whale fart.

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MobZ said..
I got a thermomix, it's a hardcore blender which munches whole food into food.

Food in packets has sugar and other nasty things, no good for light wind.

Ice cream for example, for me now is a frozen banana with peanut butter smashed for 5 seconds, and it's better than the shop stuff. Often served with brownies made from oats, black beans, cacao and dark chocolate. Cheaper, so i can buy more big sails and fins in the long run, and way fat stripping.
I'll be in trouble at my weight now if the wind ever comes back, because i plane in a whale fart.

What kind of brownies are we talking about ?

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Ben1973 said..

Ride a bike.

^^^^ this.
I can't claim to have been a pro cyclist like Ben, just a mere hack. But since i took it up, it's definitely a good way to shed kgs and it's not bad fun, nothing like windsurfing of course. it's also another potential gear arms race... but you don't need the beez neez to get some kms under your belt. Also, its complementary to windsurfing cos its best when theres no wind, which is most of the time where i live (see the "why are conditions in SE qld crap?" thread)

Well 8kg lighter sucks when the wind get up, 16knots with 9.4 and ultrasonic used to be challenging but fun, now it's terrifying even with 2litres of water on my back. My 8.6 and fox are going to be getting more use as well it seems.
I might have overdone it for the 3rd sail of the season, 3.5hours in survival mode has left me feeling very sore

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Imax1 said..
What kind of brownies are we talking about ?

I allready said man, oat, black bean, cacao. Plus more actually, raspberries, walnuts, carob. Peanut butter and coconut yogurt icing.
Highly nutritional power brownies!

I barter my way into good parking spots while on windsurfari with them.
I feed them to experts and get them to spill the beans on what is the best fin to use, enough downhaul etc.

I took a massive batch to SA but drove through a heat wave and they fermented. At the lake I had to cut off the mould to keep sailing but all was good.

Everyone seems to think my brownies are laced with wacky weed. Especially the surfers since my affair with wind started.

You mean weed brownies? Well that's probably another good light wind trick there I'd say.
A nibble on some wacky weed oil for pain relief post sail is not going to sit on the gut like five beers.
And if you've eaten enough, 10kts blue sky on a warm day might still be a damn good sailing day.

Drugs are bad. But some drugs are less bad than others. Booze is real bad. Sugar too.
Windsurfing is the heaviest of all.

Massive price change just happened at the servo I work at. The more sugar that's in a product, price went down. Anything with less sugar, it went up.
Why? I think they want us working on light wind days and not sailing.

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Imax1 said..
Totally agree. I lost 9kg and planing was a breeze. Best bit of kit ever. Then just recently, went on 8-week holiday and porked on 7kg. I know what I gots to do. One beer, not six

I used to be 61 - 63kgs and got going in a sparrows fart. I was injured and on and off the water for 2 years and got up to 71kgs.
I found it easier to get better speeds and the boards sat down in the chop more rather than bounce everywhere.
I used to be able to uphaul the 7m on 90ltres board and 85ltre waveboard. When I was heavier the waveboard was too small, and because I couldn't trust to be able to uphaul, I couldn't use it. Our winds are very patchy and can drop out so I wasn't game to risk it.
Back sailing now and probably 64 - 65kgs so I can get going in a consistent 10kts but the waveboard still doesn't get as much use.
I bushwalk, gravelbike and am generally very active but if I can sail a few times a week the weight just drops off.

Hydro medicinal floating brownie,? , sounds great .without the mould of course ,

light winds ..140 Patrik free race 46,5 Z fin and a 8,5 or 9,5 Ezzy lion .its as good as going to the gym using a 9,5 .and i pray the wind
doesn't come in too strong ,

Sigh...I think I found what you all collectively lost...
the only thing that helps me lose weight is a strong SW.

Lost a few kgs learning to wingfoil. A lot more energy intensive constantly pulling yourself out of the water and pumping to get on foil.

Yesterday at Melville in 12 to 20 knots i was on a 61cm wide Rocket and 5.4 slalom sail with a 35 Leading Edge fin.

Planing only 30 percent of the time despite being less than 70 kgs.

Rather than pack up i derigged and put up my Maui 6.3 2017 model slalom sail. Same 430 mast, boom and fin but different board.

Used a smaller but wider 100 litre Tabou Speedster 65 wide.

Never off the plane in over an hour despite there being large lulls. Was planing in 13 to 14 knots whilst with the 5.4 was needing 16 to 17 knots.

Very surprised. Adding another 20 percent sail area can make a massive difference.

The next size up for me is 7.0m then a 7.8 but honestly using a 7m compared to a 6.3 takes the fun away from it for me and not used anything bigger than 6.3 for years.

A 7m feels huge for me and the top end in 20 knot gusts is much less.

I might try a 120 litre one day on my 6.3 rigged really full with a 44cm carbon fin i have if i want to get going in 12 knots.