Weight Loss Discussion Thread

[Regulator]

2½lbs on this week... 

I'd not been to a weigh in for a fortnight and had been eating too much crap.  Back on the straight and narrow ('cept next Wednesday I shall be in Stoke).

[border-rider]

Back on the straight and narrow ('cept next Wednesday I shall be in Stoke).

That usually acts as a pretty good emetic

As part of a holiday job I once spent a morning delivering Vimto to corner shops in Stoke.  In the rain.

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[Wowbagger]

Back on the straight and narrow ('cept next Wednesday I shall be in Stoke).

That usually acts as a pretty good emetic

As part of a holiday job I once spent a morning delivering Vimto to corner shops in Stoke.  In the rain.

Did you choke on your own Vimto?

[Gandalf]

Blimey, this thread has died a death, is everyone resigned to bloaterhood?

[Regulator]

I've not been for a weigh in for two weeks becuase I've been away with work.  I shall be going next week (and getting the bad news I think)... 

[Gandalf]

I'll let you off then.

[Sergeant Pluck]

Blimey, this thread has died a death, is everyone resigned to bloaterhood?

I've been eating too much and not doing enough cycling. I think it's to do with the shorter daylight - I'm preparing for a hibernation that will never happen.

And so my weight is up but I just don't want to put it down in black and white  until I have picked up the mileage and so forth.

[Greenbank]

I've put on half a stone but then I only did 276km during the last two months.

Back to normal cycling in October and drastically cut down booze intake.

Should be at target 12st by January.

[Regulator]

I am very ashamed.  I've put on 8lbs.. 

Back on the straight and narrow again.

[Gandalf]

My scales have packed up, so until I go to weigh in tonight I'm none the wiser.  I maintained last week for only the second time since June so I hope this isn't the start of a negative trend.  I'm now wondering if my target weight of 1st 3 lbs is way too optimistic.

I have hardly been on the bike either, what with the monsoon season and the short days its proving difficult.  I'm actually starting to envy people who are able to commute.

Time to get meself a turbo training methinks.

[tiermat]

I am currently down to 93Kg!!!

Fantastic I have lost 5Kg since mid-august, just need to lose that other Kg now and I'll be on target.

My Next jeans now fit, when I lose the other Kg I am hoping my cerruti jeans (which I bought to go on honeymoon with, 5 years ago) will fit.

[Chris S]

I am now on week 5 of a rather more structured (serious?) programme of exercise and food/booze control.

Currently down 3Kg (back to the weight I was when I buggered my knee) - but more importantly, much better muscle tone underneath the lard.

[Gandalf]

Maintained again.  I'm going to have to do some serious plateau busting aren't!?  Apart from a couple of beers at the weekend I can't really see how I can cut down any more.  I don't eat cakes crisps or biscuits and my normal diet is low fat already.

Bugger.

[gordon taylor]

I've put on six pounds in a week. That is awful. I've had a debilitationg cold and we've had lots of cakes at work. I feel miserable and have no willpower when it comes to food.

Gah. I'll start my food diary again today... 

[Sergeant Pluck]

87.0 kg.

Work needs to be done 

[Deano]

I still need to buy scales

[Regulator]

3lb off this week!  Still some way to go to get back to a few weeks ago...

[Gandalf]

Nicely done Reg.  What did you do differently this week to lose 3lbs?

[Manotea]

Right, I'm back on the Path of Righteousness and approx 4kg down from Terminal Weight, i.e., the weight at which I figure I'll die if I don't Do Something.

Next stops are to drop 8kg by 1st Jan, another 4kg for the Marlborough Connection and then 4kg in time for The Dean. Thats less than 1kg a week. Watch this space

[Gandalf]

I'm in a world of shit.  Gained 1.5 lbs and I haven't eaten anything I shouldn't have,  I even skipped lunch Saturday and Sunday.  I wouldn't mind if I'd fallen off the wagon, as it were.  At least then I could understand why.

[Chris S]

Week 7. Weight finally creeps under 88Kg, but I have put on a load of new muscle, so I must have shed quite a lot of lard. Some parts of my stomach are almost convex - first time since I was twenty-something  .

Time to introduce some cross training to the mix - so may go swimming a couple of times a week. Other than that:

Mon, Wed, Fri - Gym days.
Tue, Thu - Intervals (Hill repeats or 2x20s  )
Weekend - Occasional audax, or rest.

Aiming for a 500g a week loss rate - and I'm spot on that so far.

Problems: I'm hungry a lot  .

[Gandalf]

Lost 6lb this week, which I'm quite pleased with.

[gordon taylor]

In desperation, I've just paid to use Weightwatchers' online tracking system. (£38 for three months) I'm using Bikejournal well and thought that the same kind of daily log might work. It is pathetic but I'm a food addict and breaking the habit is just so hard.

I log everything I eat and all my exercise online. Much of it is drag and drop and the calculations are automatic. I know that I have six "points" remaining tonight. Just a 10% weight loss will mean I am lighter than I've been in my whole adult life. A further 10% will get me close to an acceptable (normal human) weight.

All the rest of my family have fabulous figures. We have a family wedding next Easter. I just cannot be the embarassing barrage balloon in the photos.

[Sergeant Pluck]

I need to buck my ideas up here.

[Gandalf]

I suppose that now I've lost three and a half stone I should post some before and after photos......... not bloody likely!