Weight Loss Discussion Thread

[hellymedic]

Celery has some sweetness!?!? and other flavours. I appreciate many people detest the stuff.

[Kim]

Celery is best put in the mouth of a guinea pig, who will cheerfully omnomnom its way to the end in a manner akin to a well-serviced dot-matrix printer and then whistle its out-of-celery alarm.  This is by far the most entertaining thing you can do with celery, and if you absolutely insist on obtaining nutritional value from the stuff, there's always the far more efficient option of eating the guinea pig.  (Though I wouldn't recommend it.  They eat their own poo.  Possibly to take away the taste of the celery.)

[peliroja]

POTY 

[Manotea]

I put a head of celery into my chilli pot. Best not tell anybody from Texas...

[woollypigs]

Under 94kg for the first time in many moons. Now if I could just stay there that would be good

[chrisbainbridge]

I put the celery in the smoothie for volume and fibre along with general green goodness. You simply cannot taste the celery but it adds volume.

[hellymedic]

The noisy flat line continues with a possible overall minimal loss.

For those who wish to enter a weight this coming Wednesday 30 November, I see that date is not on the table and you'll have to put it in yourself.

[DrMekon]

Noisy flat line is as good as it gets, isn't it?

Been on the Zwift pretty much reclusively / exclusively since being knocked off (consultant Occupational Health Physician attached to uni has recommended i be referred to CBT for trauma, but that's for another thread). Goal has been to keep the weight above my respiratory consultant's recommended floor of BMI 20, whilst building myself up for a crack at hyper randonneur plus LEL, after what's been my shittest year ever health wise.

Been trying to keep my protein intake up, eat interesting, enjoyable things, and limit myself to actual recovery sessions on rest days. When my three month chart looks that flat I'll be pleased, but that depends on steering clear of exacerbations and not training too hard.

[Samuel D]

Goal has been to keep the weight above my respiratory consultant's recommended floor of BMI 20

Do you know why your consultant wants to keep your BMI up? Wondering if my low BMI has something to do with my relatively frequent chest infections.

Good luck with your recovery and fitness goals.

[DrMekon]

Yes - I got diagnosed with bronchiectasis / alpha 1 anti trypisin deficiency after 6 chest infections in a year resulted in my old boss getting me CT scanned via the back door. Online bronchiectasis pais with much higher severity scores typically struggle to get up to bmi 18.5. If I get an infection, I can easily drop 2kg in a week. I'm lucky - my severity score is zero, and my  FEV1 is 5.76 - I seem to have been caught before my lung function is too screwed, albeit I've got mild cylindrical scarring throughout both lungs. A huge stash of Froome pills and antibiotics gets me out of jail when things get a bit "upper respiratory". Am slinging a Romandie dose down me at the mo' in an effort to keep things at bay.

[woollypigs]

When I arrived on this island and heard about stones. I learned that I was 15 and bit of these rocky bits.

I just got of the scales and I'm under that for the first time since 1994.

206.4 lbs, 14 stones and 7 pebbles (isn't that how it works), 93.6 Kg.

Oh and the mutt is at a steady 16.5 Kg

[hellymedic]

Well done Woolly!

I still find stones useful as mental comparison tool;

BIG MAN = 20 stone
Large Man 15 stone
Slip of a lass - 8 stone

I don't think in kg even though I can convert easily.

[peliroja]

And with all this Pilates malarkey he's even got the start of a six pack. I can't say I mind, but he says he prefers a keg.

[Wowbagger]

Yes - I got diagnosed with bronchiectasis / alpha 1 anti trypisin deficiency after 6 chest infections in a year resulted in my old boss getting me CT scanned via the back door. Online bronchiectasis pais with much higher severity scores typically struggle to get up to bmi 18.5. If I get an infection, I can easily drop 2kg in a week. I'm lucky - my severity score is zero, and my  FEV1 is 5.76 - I seem to have been caught before my lung function is too screwed, albeit I've got mild cylindrical scarring throughout both lungs. A huge stash of Froome pills and antibiotics gets me out of jail when things get a bit "upper respiratory". Am slinging a Romandie dose down me at the mo' in an effort to keep things at bay.

I didn't know that was physically possible.

[woollypigs]

Same as last week weigh in, even after a deposit ...

[hellymedic]

Deposits are trivial. Leaks are heavier.
I was 0.7kg lighter on Saturday than Wednesday, but it's all noise.

[woollypigs]

To be honest there was leaking too      

[woollypigs]

.3kg down, definitely the lowest I have been in my adult life. I feel skinny now at 93.3kg, wonder if 90kg is too far. Not that it is a target or that I'm trying* but to say that I'm under 200 lbs sound like a nice thing to say.

*Have cut away sugar and sticking to health eating.

[hellymedic]

You're doing very well, woolly!
For myself, it's the party season. I'll indulge and restart weighing at some point, but I don't know when.

[Jakob W]

A chest cough and the attendant fortnight off the bike, plus eating too much CAEK, have meant I've been bumping around just over/under 100kg. Still, must be the lightest I've been in 5 or 6 years - immediate goal is to stay more or less static over the festive season.

[Chris S]

A chest cough and the attendant fortnight off the bike, plus eating too much CAEK, have meant I've been bumping around just over/under 100kg. Still, must be the lightest I've been in 5 or 6 years - immediate goal is to stay more or less static over the festive season.

It's all about the damage limitation! If the mild-yet-dry weather holds, Rapha Festive 500 might help  .

[SteveC]

No entry from me this week. I don't believe the figures from this morning so need to change the battery in the scales (which involves finding them first!)

[hellymedic]

You're doing very well, woolly!
For myself, it's the party season. I'll indulge and restart weighing at some point, but I don't know when.

Or when I'll reveal my weight to yacf if I do step on the scales.

This looks like I might not end the year lighter than I started it.

Too bad!

[Dibdib]

Just stepped on the scales for the first time since I-don't-even-remember. I wish I hadn't done that 

Having really battled with the black dog for the last six months or so, I knew I'd put on quite a bit but I didn't realise how much. Seventeen and a half stone. No wonder cycling (and therefore motivation for cycling) has been a struggle lately. And depression being the Utter Git that it is, seeing the damage I'm doing to myself is probably not going to help.

[hellymedic]

Sympathies!
Comfort eating is understandable and possibly one of the less harmful black dog coping strategies.
The good news is that the really worst weight is easiest to lose.

Trying to lose weight before and during Christmas is probably unrealistic.

Try to keep your weight steady and tackle it with a vengeance in the New Year.

Good Luck! we're here to listen and help!