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With Christmas out of the way and the New Year fast approaching it's that's time of year again...

If we can get a few contributors involved we can help each other be healthier and fitter in 2022. 

Having targets and a weekly weigh in will help support and encourage each other to achieve those goals along the way.

It would be great to see as many involved as possible.
 

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I am 6'3" and currently weigh 132kg and not happy at all. I want to lose 40kg. I'm currently totally addicted to sugar I know I just need to stop that. I also, over the past few years have increased my use of delivery food to it being beyond a joke. I order so much food it's crazy. I am a couch potato, lazy as hell. I do work sometimes, not at home. I haven't ever really got the "buzz" from exercising.



I have to buy most clothes online as I don't fit into what they have in shops. I think this has been a strong reality check of where I am and where I want to be.



The last time I went about losing weight I put the mindset of avoiding carbs. I was eating lots of meat/fish and veg and let myself be hungry. I was working a job that with the journey and some extra effort I was generally doing 10,000 steps a day.



It was working. I can't find the figures but I feel like I lost 15kg. I was still not close to a healthy weight (but much better than I am now.) This was over a 3 month period. I think what the demise of that period was I was counting calories and started eating things that kept me within my 1800 a day (or whatever I was aiming for) but started the sugar again, perhaps a small packet of sweets or a chocolate, or a frozen pizza "hey its only 900 calories I can eat less _________"



These small packets increased in size and the frequency of carb foods also, and at some point I was off the wagon.


I need to start again. I don't know where to. I'm depressed in general and eating rubbish is comforting. I don't like feeling hungry. Carbs are quick, easy, cheap, filling. I like carbs.


It all feels so daunting to give up the food I have become accustomed to ordering via an app and having it within 30 minutes; turkish, greek, indian, pizza, mcdonalds... The list goes on. I know the amount of money I spend is also crazy but I don't think about it.

First weigh in for me tomorrow to get the New Year started and set a target.

I'll do a proper write up early next week too.

i will happily track weight loss here. Will weigh in tomorrow, then will post weight every Monday

Good luck guys, you know it makes sense.

Jan 1s6  -  16st 0lb

what happened to the 'blonde will make you slim' thread?  that rolled on for years.  I couldn't find it looking back.

This one Argue?

blonde will make thin


http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=56169.0

That's the one didn't realise it was that long since it was lasted used!  Five years.  I didn't search that far back.

ive dropped 18 kg's in last 15 months and currently at 123kg and doing dry January again this year so will post weekly weight targets in here.   Aim is to drop another 18kg in 2022 and be 105kg by start of 2023.  My advanced weigh in at the gym also includes body fat %, body fat mass in total and muscle mass so i will post them as well as im not just looking to lose weight but fat mainly.   16kg of the 18kg i have lost has been fat whilst pretty much maintaining lean muscle mass levels.

Jan 1 - 123kg (19 stone 5lbs)  body fat % 32.5% fat mass 39.8kg muscle mass 78.7 kg bmi 36.6

Sat January 1st: Starting Weight 14:3:2

Friday would be the best day for updates, just in time for the weekend!

Target weight: 12:6

Goals for January;

Plenty of exercise, 3 runs a week / walk instead of taking car if possible

No junk and very restricted takeaways, no more than 2 in the month.

Little or no alcohol.

Fist update will be this Friday.

Good luck all in a healthy start to 22.

 

I did all my weigh-ins on Monday, it made me behave myself over the weekend.

Weighed in at 14 5 4 this morning which is actually lighter than I expected.

My weight really moves a lot depending on how much I watch what I eat.

Record high is about 19st when I was 19.

Until 2019 it probably hovered around 15st.

In both 2019 and 2021 managed to get just under 13st.

Target as per those two years for me is 12st 7lb.

Will break it down into monthly targets though so 31st of Jan is to see a 13 back on the scales..... at the start.

Will be weighing in daily as before, recording on a graph with a 7 day average and will share on here weekly.

All about watching the calories for me, as I wont be introducing much if any exercise.

Lets go!

Soup and whiskey diet again?

It all kind of migrated to the Blonde will make strong thread which was just general fitness.

That one's gone very stale now as well with only a few very rare posts. Shame really, I always enjoy the updates there.

Pretty deep stuff and well done for sharing. It'll be really tough for you as you are physically addicted to food by the sound of it. Might sound OTT but you potentially need some serious help such as weight loss counselling if you're going to be able to succeed long term.

I'm pretty good at this weight loss stuff but in your case it doesn't sound as simple as just saying "well stop eating then".......

Very best of luck with this. You've done the first bit by opening up, now for the hard bit......

If it works again my DVD will be out for Xmas 2022

I tried this. I didn't lose any weight but I didn't give a fuck.

Didn't realise just how many posters/posts were in that thread as well.
I do remember the first one I lost loads quickly, then let it slip. Think I ended up losing most the weight in the last few weeks. Things you do to avoid losing a bet..lol

Well have done a week now and lost 2kg trying to stick to 2000cal a day. Was asleep all NYD so didn't eat at all really :P

Went over one day with two big bowls of cereal which was super lazy but delicious. Think I ate 2500 that day. The only other sugary foods I've eaten in a week are 3 nutty-chocolatey type bars 135kcal each and one magnum ice cream around 250. Pretty happy with that side of things as i could easily eat 1k cal of sugary shit in a day before for the past couple of years.

Am aiming for 0 deliveries until the end of the month. The only thing I had delivered was a peri peri chicken wrap when my housemate ordered chicken... Not that bad guessing 400-500 cal but not that worth it.

When it comes to real food definitely need to branch out. I've found myself this time not avoiding certain carbs as much; I haven't had any bread, pasta or rice but I have had things like lentils and chickpeas. I'm pretty sure these are "better" carbs than you find in the former... I think I will probably add in some potatoes either baked or boiled for satiety. I will likely have rice somtimes going forwards.

Definitely need to find some more things to eat though. Some examples of what I've been eating:

A good filling meal for 500cal had fried onion/garlic/5%fat mince (half a packet -300 cal)/1tbsp oil then added tinned tomatoes and ate with a shit load of veg. This was a lot of food physically!

Have had a couple of 300cal pre-prepared lentils u stick in microwave either on their own or with tuna.

Have had chicken breast, marinated and then roasted with veg.

Had a ready meal which was 350cal plus some petit pois.

A lot of these meals are a LOT less food than I was eating so it's been tough, hence looking to eat some potato potentially as it's very filling.

Today at 10.30 I fried some garlic and a tin of chickpeas, added seasoning and chili powder and smoked paprika. Around 400cal. I was still hungry. Had two boiled eggs and much better though was still panging for a while. I plan to eat a lot of eggs as they helped me last time a lot!

The 2kg figure means nothing as at the beginnign there's lots of changes in water weight, so I expect the first few weeks weight to mostly drop off before it starts to get tougher. The question is can I make and eat foods I like enough sustainably? To some people 2000 calories sounds like a lot but when you're a human vacuum cleaner it's not always that much. Have to watch things like oils, sauces etc as this is where things can add up quickly!

Having 5% mince then adding a table spoon of oil seems a little strange...... You should do your very best to avoid oil as it's one of the most calorie dense (kcals per gram) foods you'll find.

This girl is worth a watch if you want some ideas on what actually works in the real world:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrA-KN5yQzL1DkcUg9QN4Qw

She used the Greg Doucette (an IFBB pro body builder) cookbook to help her and has links to it in some of her videos.

I've read a lot of reviews about the cookbook and it focusses on low calorie dense foods meaning you get to eat a lot of volume for not many calories. Some of the foods looks really nice such as the anabolic french toast that he always talks about.

The cookbook itself is expensive (very expensive) but you sound like someone who may well benefit from it.

Spend a few hours watching Louises Journey and also Greg Doucette and it may give you a few ideas where to start.

Few swap outs you could make here:

Fry light spray instead of oil. Hopefully you did this anyway as no diet on the planet should include oil.

Get rid of the yolks from the eggs. 1 whole large egg is around 85 calories with the yolk being 63 of those despite only accounting for 1/3 of the overall volume.

You can have 2 whole eggs at 170 calories for 130g of food or 6 egg whites at 154 calories for 270g of food.

Twice as filling and fewer calories.

Interesting this discussion. Im much better at reducing total intake than i am at removing the good bits. Cant imagine life without olive oil and egg yolks and a zillion other tasty treats but when im of a mind to can quite easily eat smaller meals

Lol. I couldn't bring myself to discard 6 egg yolks, my mam would turn in her grave.

Dakky you won't get better advice anywhere than from Evilpie diet wise.   He really is a relative guru on this stuff.   I know it all as well i just can't usually help myself and definitely have food addiction issues myself to a certain level.   I was 140kg and 6'1'' at my peak weight so we are on a similar page size wise.   I am now 123kg after 15 months since my peak.   If i could diet like Evil Pie i would be a beast but i can't but trying my best the last year or so.

I didn't add oil, of course. That was what it was cooked in.

I've actually just been shopping and bought some spray rapeseed.

I know that there are more calories in yolks, but it's also where the majority of taste and the nutrients are... Also I was reasonably good to go until dinner after having those chickpeas then 2 eggs and 1 more a bit later so for 225 cal {i make it around 75 per egg) that's pretty good.

I'll definitely have a look at that YouTube channel/s thanks. Seen some "anabolic" recipes on reddit when I was perusing earlier. Cheers!

It's not good, it's shit.

You've got 225 calories for a snack that weighs in at about 180g.

If it's nutrients and flavour you want in a snack that fills you up how about 700g of strawberries for the same calorie intake? I doubt you'd be able to eat half of them if you tried.

You need low calorie dense food otherwise you're always going to be hungry hence the reason you needed one extra egg after the first two......

How did you come up with your calories figure?

You've probably got 500 just in the mince and oil. Nobody does an actual tbsp, you hold a tbsp over the pan then drizzle oil over it and call it a tbsp. Unless you actually weigh it I can guarantee you've got closer to 2 tbsp than 1 and at 120 calories each it really mounts up.

You're probably more like 700 calories than 500. Everybody underestimates and there really is no way of knowing unless you get a set of scales and weigh it.

How big was this tin of chickpeas? According to Google they're 467 calories for a 285g tin? (Equivalent of 1.4kg of strawberries......)

Did you check the label?

Slight edit: Eggs are actually amazing, I eat 4 whole eggs every day with 4 slices of toast and really enjoy it.

When I said they're shit I meant as a snack. For a meal in a salad for example they'd be great, for a snack between meals there are far better alternatives.

Fight through the first week Dakky and take on board all the little leaks Matt has suggested as they soon add up over a week or a month.

Well the mince was definitely just over 300cal (from the packet, and google telling me it's 137cal per 100g). Ok maybe a little more than a tablespoon of oil but still.

FWIW I had 2eggs around 11.30am and one at 4pm before I went out

Yes I took the calories of the chickpeas off the can (I'm aware they aren't a great food - I never ate them last time I did something like this but I'm looking for/trying new things that might be filling and reasonable calories). It was around 350 plus a LITTLE oil. Nothing else (ok some garlic)

If you think eggs are a bad "snack" aside from strawberries what would you suggest as "better"? :)

Fruit doesn't really fill me up plus I avoid it due to the amount of sugar...

NO. NOT 'but still'......

If you're serious about this you need to cut out the oil altogether. 1 tbsp of oil contains 120 calories. If you have one of those every day it equates to somewhere in the region of 12lbs of body weight in a year.

From your brief overview I'd guess you're currently consuming more than 1tbsp on average per day. How many bottles do you get through in a year? One 1L bottle contains about 9000 calories, it's pure fuel, you can run some cars on it ffs!!

Try cooking your mince in water. Once you've added all your spices and sauce you'll barely notice the difference in taste and you'll have dropped your calories by 250+

Have you been reading some of those dumbass keto books?

At what point in history did the sugar in fruit become a problem? People will happily drink a can of coke but won't go near a banana because it's full of sugar.

Ffs if you don't like fruit don't eat it but don't avoid it because of the sugar.

Try this for starters. Not just snacks. Eggs get a mention......

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFH6R1E364w

Here's another one:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q8T9gjICAc

The guy makes loads of videos including loads on nutrition. He's a marmite character so you not be able to tolerate watching him but it's a small sacrifice for the level of information he gives out.

For the mince either fry light or just cook it in its own juice. Put the pan on low heat to start and then use the fat from the mince to brown it off, before draining the excess fat.

I'm with Matt on the sugar in fruit thing. Totally unrefined in fruit, plus you get a ton of micro nutrients and fibre, which will make you feel fuller.

Yeah that sounds like it would work. I fry mince quite hot and like to be able to leave it for a minute so the water just saves any accidents.... It soon boils off as well so doesn't affect the finished article.

I use frozen veg a lot as well so the water also helps with that.

200g 5% mince
200g mixed mexican veg
125g mexican rice (half a packet)
170g tomato and chilli sauce

650 calories total, very filling and very healthy.

If I'm trying to gain weight I add 20g of oil and a couple of nan breads which takes it up to just over 1200 calories

If I'm trying to cut I have 150g mince, 200g veg, 125g rice and 200g tinned tomatoes instead of the sauce. That drops it to 560 calories.

Little tweaks can make big differences that all add up over the course of a few months.

No I haven't read any dumbass books. I'm just really physically addicted to sugar so been trying to cut it out including trying to minimise carbs also...

cheers

Apologies, I'm not a huge fan of keto.

Cutting it out completely seems a bit extreme unless a doctor has told you to. Fruit contains sugar but also has so many benefits.

I've just done a brief check on sugar addiction and quite a few sources recommend eating a piece of fruit to help curb cravings. Couldn't that be useful instead of going cold turkey? You could perhaps mix a few blackberries, blueberries and strawberries with low fat Greek yoghurt or cottage cheese to slow the sugar release?

Everything I've seen recommends snacking on healthy options rather than avoiding altogether. Obviously in your case you'd need to lean towards the lower calorie options as well wherever possible.

This looks a decent list:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods-that-fight-sugar-cravings

Eggs and chickpeas make the list before you dismiss it by the way ;)

El Hefe!

I can't believe no one has mentioned cod loins.

I watched that video Evil linked about "eat as much of these as you like" and the two takeaways for me were  that mushrooms (which I like but have only just bought some yesterday since starting this 10 days agoi) have
a good amount of protein in and I need to eat more white fish

So I think everyone was suggesting Friday updates....

Not a bad week, cut out a lot compared to the last 6 months but not quite as much as I need to.

Standard day is;

Cereal & Coffee
Banana
Soup or Salad
Apple
Normal meal with the family but smaller portion

Start weight 14st 5lb
7th Jan 14st 2lb
Loss/Gain -3lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

Graph below, 7 day averages will start to appear from tomorrow

(https://i.ibb.co/z7wKCbz/Capture.jpg)

I'll take the overs on that 12 7

Well done to everyone doing this!

There is so much advice and (mis)information about so try not to be overwhelmed - there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

If you can analyse what you "want" long-term and try to make sustainable changes then success will be easier to achieve.

What eventually worked for me was realising that I have a huge appetite and will never be able to do what Stuart says above and have smaller portions at dinner - I tried this for ages and made myself miserable depriving myself. I switched to eating low-calorie filling foods like raw fruit and veg and led to sustainable weight loss and changes for me. It wasn't as nice as pasta or chips but I felt full and could stay under calorie goals.

Wouldn't you put more of a curve in that chart too?  Easier to lose a few pounds at the start than in April?

Haven't got any working scales, so can't join in right now, but think I have lost quite a bit through just running and following my normal diet.  Could definitely make more effort on the food I eat though.

Not a curve, just make it horizontal.

He likes his junk food and his beers does our Stu.

On

£1 or £2

I will let you choose the stakes

Woah

The target line is fine, not saying it will go down like that but just got to stay below it

I take offence at that, I don't really like junk food.

I just love lots and lots and lots of really good food, and beers, and wines and whisky!

Born to be fat

Do any of you use scales that do body fat and link to the samsung health app (or any app that works on android)?  Just went down a rabbit hole looking for some new scales.  I might just get the bog standard ones, as many of the fancy scales aren't compatible and am a bit dubious on the accuracy of the other stuff.  Just wanted to know if anyone does this and finds it worthwhile.

Bog standard digital scales and see what hole my belt is on to measure body fat changes.

Body fat measurement with scales will be incredibly inaccurate and also inconsistent.

I've got these one at £17

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Salter-Digital-Bathroom-Scales-Toughened/dp/B007QM6O5A/ref=sxin_13_pa_sp_search_thematic_sspa?crid=O4EF1IV9LCTM&cv_ct_cx=bathroom+scales&keywords=bathroom+scales&pd_rd_i=B007QM6O5A&pd_rd_r=ddb55ed9-dbad-4d48-b940-4449859caee7&pd_rd_w=W31Ec&pd_rd_wg=hJXPi&pf_rd_p=ab821e58-ba6a-4eef-9efe-53415a3700a2&pf_rd_r=WY9YYXGY5GGXXVY3C44X&qid=1641559935&sprefix=bathroom+scales%2Caps%2C62&sr=1-2-8e68915f-140a-472d-a4a3-a7db7efc16f0-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzRklMWVBMSE1NNklaJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUExMDAxOTI0Mlk4OVBWTkdUTzZYUCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwMTU4NTU2UjhBU0hEU1RPN1JQJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3Bfc2VhcmNoX3RoZW1hdGljJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

Served me very well for 5+ years

We've got those exact same ones, they've been good as gold.

They even know if I've got my thick socks on.

Cheers, will just go for them.   I have been using the belt/waste size thing to judge weight loss too over the last few years. 

Those fat measuring scales are all rubbish, they just make a programmed guess.
I just go for same scales and weigh at the same time each week

I've got a bunch of Coach Greg e-books, if anyone wants them.

Including a couple cookbooks, so you can eat more than last time :)

Great to see so many involved.

Week 1 Friday 7th Jan-  13:11:8

Been a good week, plenty of exercise  and mostly healthy eating/ no junk food.

Always find motivation easier the first few weeks, gets a bit harder feb onwards!

Looking to do 10k steps a day the forthcoming week/  drink more water and less sugar free drinks.

Ha, was heavier than I expected.  Weighed in at 95kg, 15 stone.   I am pretty sure I was a lot lighter than this when running more regularly 3 months ago.  I had got down from 38 inch waste to 34, but no idea how much I weighed then, but 36 is still fine.

Going to aim to run more regularly amd get down to 14 stone over the next couple of months, and aim to do a 35 minute 5k. I got down to 36 before, but couldn't even beat 40 first run back.   I think this was just lack of fitness as I just blew up in the last 2k, and was doing near 7 minute splits at the start, and basically had to walk the last 2km.

How tall are you Doobs?


GL with this BTW

Half an inch off 6 foot.   Am kind of happy with 14 stone and fit, as it feels sustainable.

I wouldn't mind being 14st and 6ft.

Oh and if I could be 35 too that would be nice.

I can't do anything for height, maybe you could hang round with my daughter, she has a bad dose of "height" right now, and it might be contagious? I could do with some meds to sort her out.  It was amusing when she went past my wife, but not so amusing now she is catching me up.   I am hoping my youngest keeps a more respectful distance away from me in the future!

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb

It’s amazing how quickly you  get into the swing of things. It will be no time at all till you are back to your previous times and levels of fitness.

Great to see you on board and with all that running you will soon be at your target weight.

I also have these; they must have sold millions!

Moving weigh in to Mondays

Date     Weight   Weekly loss   Cum Loss
28/12/21   132.1      
04/01/22   130              2.1                   2.1
10/01/22   129.2      0.8                   2.9


I didn't go over 2k calories ever this week

I caved on no deliveries- ordered twice (hard to cook when grinding) but one was a naked burrito 700cal. Found myself leaving out the sour cream. And discovered the bag of tortilla and guac I normally ordered (from Tortilla) was like another 700cal. Pretty mad. Other one was also around 800cal.

Ate out once with people at a Turkish. Impossible to tell the calories but had grilled fish with rice and veg.

Ate pure sugar only twice - one ice cream I had left in the freezer; 250cal and half a baclava and teaspoon of icecream at the restaurant - probably 200-250cal. This is honestly massive for me where I was easily waxing off 1k cal a day in pure shite; probably where loads of my gain in past 3 years has been from.

Have found 2k cal more food this week. Think I will go down to 1800 daily target soon (my BMR/TDEE is allegedly around 2350). Still have plenty of periods of hunger.

Have discovered tinned soups are pretty good for 130-210cal a tin. Decent and easy.

I just polished off;
small baked potato - 150cal
5 grilled chicken chipolatas - 190cal
Bisto gravy - 60cal
Brocolli, Cauliflower, Beans - Didn't weigh guessing around 100cal

Pretty decent dinner for 500ish cal though if I make it again I would have more potato as still a bit peckish

This week I'm on location filming during the days so having food not from home. Went for health and happiness from Itsu 544cal plus miso 36 cal. Breakfast was 3 eggs plain. I also had a 83 calorie bar from "fiber one" which has some sugar in. And an apple. So today I'm at around 1500cal.

Well, I suppose that’s one way to lose weight - find an exercise you enjoy doing and all that.

Nice work Andrew  :D

Sounds like its going well Dakky. Well done.

I swear by soup when trying to lose weight.

Try the tubs of fresh soup in the chilled area.
Less sugar and preservatives and quite a few are chunkier so a bit more filling.

About the same kcals as you quote for half a tub, so not a disaster if you're hungry and eat the whole thing.

Don't know wher you shop but Covent Garden ones are 90p in Tesco atm

I'll do everyone else's share of eating for the first few months of 2022, and then I'll be back in the gym next month ;D

Another good week here, I have had to try extra hard as been at home all week due to us all having the rona. Normally that would be an excuse to drink and snack all day long.

I don't expect to carry on at this rate as when we are all back to normal and allowed out there will be family meals out etc

The illness in the house also meant no curry night with Matthew this week or last week, recommencing next week and I am pretty sure there are a few more cals in 5 pints and a curry, than a small home cooked meal!

Be nice to get a head start on the Feb target though....

Start weight 14st 5lb
14th Jan 13st 13lb
Loss/Gain -6lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

Graph below

(https://i.ibb.co/Q8WgD85/Capture.jpg)

Great stuff Stuart smashing the January goal.

 Friday 14 Jan - 13:8:2

Good week overall, did a whole lot of exercise, averaged about 10.5k steps.

Food was mostly good with a sprinkling of not so good. Not so good = some chocolate orange + a take away lunch whilst pressed for time mid week. The temptation was a bit to much for a chicken burger and chips😁

F**k that. We can all smash goals when we set the bar like we're going for a world record limbo.

Does that even make sense?

Haha, not to me. I gave up trying to work it out after about 20 minutes.
Was he drunk?

Makes perfect sense.

Limbo bars are low, rather like the IQ's of those who were unable to make the connection.

2 stone is low?  Confused as well.  Done one kilo so far, so still in the realms of randomness.

2 stone is low to me - I've just lost 3 stone. "Thin" in both senses, huh?

Don't you start! Poor Dakky hasn't been seen since Evilpie battered him with his friendly advice.

Sure, you  are already at your personal goal for the month with two weeks to spare.

Mostly was a compliment to a fine effort  given you were isolating.  

I guess I'd better join in this party mainly for bants.

I'm currently 11st 9lbs from my "PB" of 13st 3lbs a couple of years ago.

Happy not to have gained too much so far during the winter months and aiming to hit the magic 11st target by the end of summer.

I lolled so much.

3 stone here BTW

Lol. Not true though; I posted on Monday...

This week has been up and down as have been on location working. Half the week I was good and half the week not so good (Thursday was a particular lowpoint calorie wise as had probably 1k+ calories for lunch and 1.2ish k for dinner). Lunch we all ordered caribbean and I had large curry goat and rice. After a train to Dudley I went and had 4 thighs(550 cal) chips (450 cal) rainbow slaw (100cal) plus some sauce at Nandos with a colleague. Friday lunch I had a lot of Greggs :/

I'm back in Birmingham from tomorrow night until Friday so going to be tough.

One positive is that yesterday I almost gave up and ordered whatever the fk I wanted and got close to gorging on sugar but I stopped myself and ordered Pho for a few hundred calories. I think it was a "this week aint been amazing, why am I even doing this, might as well let go" but something in me stopped myself. I did have two 93cal Fibre One slice things but think I was at 1800cal in the end for yesterday.

It's not like all the week was "bad" just half of it not great. Don't think I went over 2.5k cal on the two "bad" days so can't have been a disaster. Def easy to mug it off though!

I was referring to Evilpies limbo comment?

As I think he was trying to say my target was easy, but surely the world record limbo bar would not be easy to get under at all?

Just this.

End of Jan target was the low bar easy one.

End of April is the one he'll fail. 2st is actually quite tricky whereas you could drop 5lb with a half decent turd.

 :)up

You may have noticed I'm not a "you go girl, you got this" kind of motivator.

I just tell it like it like it is. Losing weight is easy, just consume fewer calories than you expend.

How you go about doing that without going stir crazy is the tricky bit.

You could, because you're full of it.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb

Date     Weight   Weekly loss   Cum Loss
28/12/21   132.1     
04/01/22   130          2.1                  2.1
10/01/22   129.2      0.8                   2.9
17/01/22   129.0.     0.2.                  3.1

Staying in s hotel all week and long hours. Going to be tough for calorie control!

I'm trying to find some words of encouragement. Bear with me please.

Have you actually been dieting or just weighing yourself whilst not really changing anything?

Genuine question by the way, not mocking.....

If you've been putting some effort in but seeing your weight increase it could be very discouraging. If you're in a calorie deficit you WILL lose weight but if the scales don't show it in the first few weeks you could easily quit thinking it isn't working.

The way around this is to weigh yourself daily, not weekly. Weigh in every morning at the same time then take the median from the last 7 days as your actual weight.

You could change from a 4000 calorie 100% fat based diet to a 2000 calorie protein/carb diet and actually gain weight in the short term just through water and the actual mass of the food. Every 1g of carbs you consume absorbs 3g of water like a sponge so you gain weight even though you're in a calorie deficit. You'll be losing fat from your body but gaining a bit of water. After a short while the fat overtakes the water and you'd see a consistent loss.

Not saying this is what's happening, it's just an example of how the scales can mislead.

What a fantastic excuse Matt has given all failed dieters already struggling

Have you tried getting taller instead?

 ;D ;D ;D
Was waiting for the Evilpie roast.
Simple answer more cals in than out
Period of illness at start of the month and arm is still fucked so can't lift.
Lots of walking which is great for the mrs but just not intensive enough for me

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i'll keep posting so everyone can see it doesn't always go to plan

Consistent 😛😀

In a few weeks when everyone else is struggling the lbs will be falling off you😁

Thought I was quite gentle to be honest.....

I will roast you about the walking comment though. In what world isn't walking intensive enough? At your weight you'll be burning about 150 calories per mile which is more than you'd do in any weights session.

Lifting weights will make you look better and give you a few muscles here and there but walking is significantly more productive if weight loss is your goal.

The way you defended fruit I thought some of the essay battles of the past about whole foods plant based, no oil, salt and processed sugar, we had were getting through to you, ha. That's a goad. I know you never doubted fruit.

Oh God no!!! Plant man's back!!  :D

Hope you're doing well mate, assume you're still doing the same diet and going well on it?

Whole foods, plant based would 100% work for anyone on here but I doubt any would be able to stick to it. It's the same with any diet that cuts out particular food groups, they work by restricting calories but very few enjoy them and can stick to them.

You're very lucky that you don't see your diet as 'restrictive'. In your eyes you can eat as much as you want but that's because everything you want is on the list.

I can't imagine anyone active on this thread could stick to a diet that contained no oil, salt or processed sugar? Oh..... and meat.....

If they could they wouldn't be over weight and on this thread, they'd be super lean somewhere chewing on a bamboo stick.

I weighed in at 11st 7lbs this morning having shed a couple.

Friday 21 Jan - 13:7:2

Really happy with small loss this week.

Exercise very similar  to last week, food was mostly good too.

Between now and the end of feb would be great to get below the 13 stone mark.

Another pretty good week, but the reintroduction of Wednesday night with Mr Pie is clearly visible on the graph!

Not too worried as had a 13 11 8 on Wednesday morning so as long as the coming Wednesday is below that then we are still heading in the right direction.

Would make Feb a lot easier if we could get a little head start.....

Start weight 14st 5lb
21st Jan 14st 0lb
Loss/Gain -6lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

Graph below

(https://i.ibb.co/MZpkXYm/Capture.jpg)

The really good thing about this is you now get to smash your end of January goal twice in one month.

Not the only thing I smash twice a month....

23/10/22   128.2   0.8                3.9

Checking in a day early this week as have an early start tomorrow. Pretty happy with how this went this considering I ate all food from restaurants this week due to being on location filming. Plus I went out for a big meal last night.

Tomorrow I'm flying to Iceland for work for three weeks. Doubt I will have scales there. No idea what I will be eating! Staying in some kind of apartment so should be able to "cook". Imagine I will let myself enjoy myself however. If I come back and have stayed at 129kg or below will be a good result

From memory, food in Iceland is horrendously expensive, even fish and they catch loads of it.  I think you'll be fine unless someone else is footing the bill.

Just checked and the currency has weakened a bit recently, so it will likely still be pricey, just not horrendously so. 

I was there for just over a day in September helping lug a load of kit and got £40 a day per diems... Yes it's expensive as hell!

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb

On strength news i ez bar curled 60kg (including the bar) for 5 reps for the first time this century today!   Bicep power is nearly at 1998-9 peaks at 47 years old!  Felt good today doing that.      Had a few watching pretending they werent in the gym as you do!!!!!

This should be on the strong thread..... These guys don't care about your bulging biceps, get back where you belong.

Sorry my bad!

Weighed in at 11st 6lbs this morning - shed another one lb this week.

28 Jan 13:5:6

I wish you would post your previous weights so that I don't have to scroll back to track your progress.

Rock on.

Well I made the Jan target but it feels like a fail.

Not sure if I got there too easily, or if I'm just not fully committed but I've pissed away that good start.

Instead of being at 13 10 with just 3 pounds to lose this month, I'm as close to 14 as possible so need to lose 7lb.

Been doing the hard work around meals etc but then letting myself down on the snacks, especially in the evening when watching TV.

Feb is going to be 50/50 between straight down to 13 7 no problem, and this coming to an abrupt end. (Not really a 50/50 shot  ;) )

Got 3 curry nights, and 3 other social nights to contend with too.

Anyone else still here?

Start weight 14st 5lb
31st Jan 13st 13lb
Loss/Gain -6lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

Graph below;

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Haha, good luck mate!

I'm here, but not doing anything yet.

Just about to start trialling my new meds, and will probably chill out until after Cheltenham.

Other than a few trips to the gym, anyway.

Am still here.

It all went a bit wrong, and am sure we have another thread for some of this.  The youngest got Covid two and a half weeks ago and then my missus got Covid too.  I started coughing not long after, and was assuming I had Covid too so kept my head down and didn't do much running.  Dunno if it was just a cold or the vax just kept it mild enough for the LFT to not pick it up, but am fine now.

The end result is I have done no parkruns at all, so nowhere nearer beating 35 mins.  I have lost 2.5 kgs, not sure how much of that is Covid/Cough and how much is good diet.  So roughly half way to target

FWIW, was way worse than a bad cold for the youngest.  The madness of just letting them all get infected rather than vaccinated meant most of the class has missed a couple of weeks and because of the timing of infections, the whole half term has been badly disrupted.  Worse than lockdowns were for us, but we aren't poor and have computers. Usforus and their wanky mates in positions of power can do one anyway. 

I'm still here but have not joined yet. I'd just finished a monster diet when this thread started, & I'm now on "maintenance".

Soon as I start putting the weight back on I'll join, though I've been stable now for two months & am hoping to stay that way.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb

I'm still here for the larks. Just like to see Hopkin do really well then have a massive f**k off curry and pile it all back on.

My current weight is 16st 1lb for what it's worth

Similar to Tikay I've found a balance point where it becomes no effort at all to just maintain.

Not one curry consumed in January.....

Poor form.

Pretty much all of that is water, not muscle. You didn't lose 2kg of muscle in between the 13th and 26th and you didn't put it back on a week later.

That 80.3kg figure is lean mass which includes bones, connective tissue, skin, your pants and of course water.

Don't think it's physically possible to gain 2kg of muscle in a month even with PEDs. Maybe an untrained 17 year old hitting the gym very hard whilst going through puberty could do it for a month or two but that's about it.

Whatever it is though as long as it's lean mass it's not a worry. Just need to see that fat mass figure slowly creep downwards and you're all good.

Slight regression this week but only a single lb.

Starting weight this year 11st 9lbs, then 11st 7lbs, followed by 11st 6lbs.

This morning 11st 7lbs.

4 feb 2022

Same as last week 13:5:6.

Really happy with this was expecting to be a positive number this week.

The football on Wednesday night and ensuing celebrations didn’t help!

Goal by end of feb is 13 stone or lower.

For the next couple of weeks going to increase exercise slightly / have a couple of days in the week with fewer calories.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb

Another week and another new low for this year of 13 10

Good week but then not the greatest weekend as it was Sophie's birthday

Got additional nights out on the 12th and 19th too so getting to 13 7 in the next 3 weeks will be a challenge

Red line on the graph isn't looking promising!

Start weight 14st 5lb
8th Feb 13st 11lb
Loss/Gain -8lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

(https://i.ibb.co/vh0kB7W/Capture.jpg)

Shed that pesky lb that I gained last week at this morning's weigh-in.

11st 6lbs.

11 feb = 13 4 2

Is for sure a lot more difficult now compared to the start.

Exercise is all getting a bit samey, will look at mixing it up next week.

Good work though, impressive loss for 5 weeks

Went out with Mr Russell on Wednesday and we just drank and didn't eat.
Seemed to proof again that a liquid diet is the key to success!

Really good week but then a bit of a blow up at the weekend!

New low on Friday of 13 8 6 ....

Should have updated then!

Start weight 14st 5lb
14th Feb 13st 13lb
Loss/Gain -6lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

(https://i.ibb.co/Zg940ZZ/Capture.jpg)

Are you trying to make the blue line into a sheepshank?



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Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb

No news is good news right?

11st 6lbs.

Thanks buddy.

Friday 18th feb

13:3:8

The ups and downs continue

New low on Saturday of 13 7 8, so close to the Feb target

But then had 8 pints and all the sushi on Saturday night


Start weight 14st 5lb
21st Feb 13st 10lb
Loss/Gain -9lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

(https://i.ibb.co/TYvsDRR/Capture.jpg) (https://ibb.co/mbD3rtt)

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb

As blatch would say 'solid'

Yo-yo-ing

11st 7lbs.

25th feb 13:1:6

Just over a stone lost so far.

So, this month is a fail! Not quite got there, but I feel positive for tomorrow so I can accept being a day late.

Going to push on to the next target of 13st by the end of March.

I think it is going to be harder from here on as we have lost the easy bit.

Only got one big day out planned this month..... GOLD CUP DAY!

Start weight 14st 5lb
28th Feb 13st 8lb
Loss/Gain -11lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb WIN
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb FAIL
31st March Target 13st 0lb
30th April Target 12st 7lb

(https://i.ibb.co/MDLS4DB/Capture.jpg)

That's still a good graph Stu. Kick on.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb

11st 5lbs.

You're wasting away man.

Well done Karabiner, seems like you are at a really healthy weight.

Scales teasing me this morning.

4th March 13:0:4

I think the weight I lost this week was mostly snot - had a really heavy cold/man-flu.

Excuse me, there is no / in man-flu. You either have it or you have some other piffling thing that women get.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb

Man-flu is good for diets.

11st 3lbs.

Good work Ralph

I have officially plateaued, completely missed Mondays update so I will save the straight line for this coming Monday Cheltenham Eve.

A plateau suggests you can't go any higher. I'm fairly confident you get back up to 14st with a bit of effort on GC day.

:D

11 March - 12:13:8

Small loss this week,  great to be below 13:00 stone.

Made the mistake this week of buying crisps / biscuits for first time since challenge began. Discipline was not good!

As a result , ended up doing more exercise to compensate so small loss this week is big win and lesson learned.

True dat.
Our cupboards are not allowed to contain anything nice.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb

11st 4lbs

Been eating this week.

18 March - 12:12:8

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb

11st 5lbs

Eating and back to full fitness - played 18-holes since this morning's weigh-in.

25 March 12 12 8

Fallen off the wagon!

Will weigh in and make a return on Monday ready for the run up to a holiday on the 9th.

Graph please.

FYP

Excellent work

So here we are after 2 weeks of the wagon...

Not really sure why this went to bits, think Fat Stu was trying to ensure survival

Always hard to get back on it again after that first initial blast but I will try and see where we it gets me.

Holiday on the 9th April so that may be an issue ;-)

Start weight 14st 5lb
28th Mar 13st 13lb
Loss/Gain -6lb

31st Jan Target 13st 13lb WIN
28th Feb Target 13st 7lb FAIL
31st March Target 13st 0lb MASSIVE FAIL
30th April Target 12st 7lb CANCELLED

New Targets
30th April Target 13st 7lb
31st May Target 13st 0lb

Giraffe Graph for the fans

(https://i.ibb.co/5vwtgnJ/Capture.jpg)

Did we ever finalise this? Think it was £2 wasn't it?

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb
Mar 28th -  15st 3lb

kicking on now Vegas, stick to it.

Why I've not even bothered doing mine, until I know I'm going to stick with it.

About to get back training, so will do a weigh in the day I start back tracking/training and set a target from there.

Can't see anywhere that you booked this ?

Nice one

FFS

Not sure which of this or Stu's graph is more amusing. Either way, enjoying the laughs

So many things whoosh me....

Did you miss giraffe gate?

Are we saying graffe or giraffe?

11st 6lbs

15:8:7 😀

1 April 13:0:4

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb
Mar 28th -  15st 3lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb

No loss this week which was expected as i've upped my protein/calories due to running out of energy towards the end of workout sessions.
Training gone well this week, numbers increasing for both resistance and cardio

11st 4lbs

Back on track

8th April: 12:12:0

Feels so much tougher now to shift weight🙂

Last weeks weight gain was due to eating junky foods in the few days before.

Will decide next week what direction to go in, whether to keep going a bit more or stick at just below 13 stone.

Coming along nicely, won’t  be long till you’ve broke 1stone barrier.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb
Mar 28th -  15st 3lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
Apr 11th  -  15st 4lb

Was away with family last week so cooked breakfast and meals out every day. Back on it this week.

11st 5lbs

Seem to have found my level - not sure if plateau is permitted  ::)

15 April 12 12 8

Am going to continue for a while yet.

What was working initially is not having the same impact  now.

Exercise levels are really good it’s the junk on a Friday / Saturday that are holding things up.

For the time being really going to try and limit chocolate, crisps and takeaways to very little or preferable none.

Where as at the moment there really is no filter on these things at weekend.

Also, will post less frequently; monthly or maybe every couple of weeks.

The thread so far has worked a treat; it’s just now going that slight bit further.   

an 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb
Mar 28th -  15st 3lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
Apr 11th  -  15st 4lb
Apr 18th  -  15st 1lb

Smashing the cardio atm, saved the easter eggs for today, give me a week to burn em off..lol

11st 4lbs

Shed last week's pesky 1lb

an 1st  -  16st 0lb
Jan 10th -  16st 2lb
Jan 17th - 16st 3lb
Jan 24th -  16st 1lb
Jan 31st - 16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Feb 14th - 15st 13lb
Feb 21st - 15st 13lb
Feb 28th - 15st 11lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Mar 14th - 15st 8lb
Mar 21st -  15st 6lb
Mar 28th -  15st 3lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
Apr 11th  -  15st 4lb
Apr 18th  -  15st 1lb
Apr 25th  -  15st 0lb

Good work vegaslover!

11st 3lbs

Getting closer to my target now

Thin.

-ish :)

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb

Finally broke into the 14s.  Weekly list was getting too long, so using first weigh of each month, then will keep the current month weekly.

Most impressive.

Just the precis from here on in as those quotes were even getting annoying for me.

January: 11st 9lbs

Last week: 11st 3lbs

This week 11st 4lbs

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 9th  -  14st 10lb

When the dust settled, you turned out to be the man Mr V.

Whoda thunk?

And don't talk to me about StuartHopkin.


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Ha

There aren't any twists and turns in the current graph, just going up up and away to fatty happiness!

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Livin' your best life, as Lil Duval said ;D

11st 4lbs

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 9th  -  14st 10lb
May 16th  -  14st 8lb

11st 2lbs*

*New low

Congrats on breaking the plateau

Congrats Ralph.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 9th  -  14st 10lb
May 16th  -  14st 8lb
May 23rd  -  14st 6lb

You've got to be chuffed to bits with that. Feeling any benefits yet? Tight clothes not so tight is one of the best. Keep it going. 

Clothes too big now, going to the USA on Sunday, so will be buying smaller whilst there.
Obv a lot fitter, have been doing a lot of cardio and some gym work.

11st 2lbs

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 9th  -  14st 10lb
May 16th  -  14st 8lb
May 23rd  -  14st 6lb
May 29th  -  14st 4lb

Weigh in day early this week as off on holiday today.

At the start I thought you were going to crash and burn but these are incred results.

Incredible stuff VL you win the thread😀

Recently back holidays;

Mon 30th may: 13:9:6

It is so much easier putting on the weight🤨

I much preferred the crash and burn. It was far more entertaining for the fans.

I think Stu nailed that role.

11st 1lb

Getting very close now.

Amazing stuff, well done Ralph.

6 6 22: 13:6:6

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 29th  -  14st 4lb

8th June  - Return from holiday weight : 14st 8lb

Only gained 4lb overall, but certainly lost muscle as not trained whilst away.
Sleep was poor whilst away, some of which is deffo poor diet whilst away, felt rough the last couple of days.
Did a test today and clear positive for the Rona.
Gonna spend the time catching up with Netflix/Youtube
Didn't watch tv once whilst away.
Back training tomorrow

11st 1lb

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 29th  - 14st 4lb
8th June  - 14st 8lb
13th June - 14st 10lb

Back to regular Monday weigh in. Have had COVID since return, so no training. Have also had way too many simple carbs.
Feeling much better now so will back into training this week.
Have several social things/days out/breaks over the next couple of months. Will socialise and eat out as normal during these, so will likely be a slower descent back towards 14st.

11st 1lb

I thought that after playing warm-weather golf yesterday I might have shed that final pesky 1lb but alas no.

The post-game fish&chips accompanied by a pint or two must have offset any gains/losses

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 29th  - 14st 4lb
8th June  - 14st 8lb
13th June - 14st 10lb
20th June - 14st 10lb

Not trained since I have been back, work absolutely fked me. Affects of 'rona is that I have been feeling very tired and sleeping at different times of the day.

You are doing great VL, having lost well over a stone so far.

When i started back in Jan, weight was 14:3, a couple of days ago was 13:5, at the lowest point was a tad under 13 stone.

Seems to have levelled out at the current level.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
May 29th  - 14st 4lb
8th June  - 14st 8lb
13th June - 14st 10lb
20th June - 14st 10lb
27th June - 14st 10lb
July 4th  -   14st 12lb
July 11th  -  14st 10lb

After effects of COVID have dragged on longer than expected. They have also got rid of the treadmill in the gym at work, so no runs in my breaks anymore.
Couple of training sessions last week, but heat/humidity is ridic atm.

Jan 1st  -  16st 0lb
Feb 7th  -  16st 0lb
Mar 7th  -  15st 10lb
Apr 4th   - 15st 3lb
May 2nd  - 14st 11lb
8th June  - 14st 8lb
July 4th  -   14st 12lb
July 11th  -  14st 10lb
July 18th -  14st 10lb
July 25th  -  14st 10lb

Found a steady point while not particularly working on the  diet side atm. Got to the USA in a month, so aim is to get down to 14st by then. Have several social events and a few days away next week, so will see how it goes.

Haven't posted for a while as was getting a bit fed up with being 11st 1/2lb for weeks on end.

No I haven't fallen off the wagon in case my reader was wondering but I do bear good news..

This morning I hit the bathroom-scales and saw the magic 11st 0lbs - what joy!

Target finally achieved  ;letsparty;

Awesome dietage, well done Ralph.

WP Ralph.

Well done Ralph. We're probably due a curry night to celebrate. Been way too long.

Great stuff Ralph.

Inspired by young Tikay’s efforts at losing and keeping the weight off; some progress to report.

5th august 12:13.

Well done Ralph

This all fell apart quite quickly as my daughter started doing something at parkrun time and I lost the incentive after that and have been too busy at work to fit much in.

That has changed a bit as one of the things she is now doing is going to the gym, and we both joined at the same time.  It makes sense, as there is little point in me just sitting outside.  I can also use another close to where she does netball training. 

I get an official weigh in and body fat count on Wednesday apparently, but am still about 15st, 95kg.  I lost about half a stone with covid, and was thinking about doing a declaration, but I think I put that back on in about a week.  Might update some other stats when I start properly, as only did an intro so far.   I think 1km might be a struggle right now, but one of my aims was a 35 minute parkrun. 

I like the "young" but not so sure about keeping the weight off. In the last year I've been up to 15 stone, down to 11st 12lbs (helped no end by COVID), back up to 13st, & currently well on the way back down to 12st.  I am the Yoyo of dieting.

I'm not sure what I can be called if that's the case!

Been everywhere from 275-195 over the last 7 years :D

The machine was busted when I went back.  I eventually had my go on the body fat machine yesterday.

I have been going to the gym a couple of times a week and the highlights of the results are as follows.

Weight 95.7kg.
Body Fat 30.5%.
Metabolic Age 70 years.

No idea what the bottom two were a month ago. Glad the intervening pain was all worth it. 

FML on the metabolic age, might take that with me to the Super Seniors?  Struggling to believe that the 70 years is accurate.  My dad was massive and never did any exercise.  Think he must have died at a metabolic age of 120 if this is accurate.  RIP big man.

Will hopefully get this down to 65 on my next update.

FWIW muscle mass was good and visceral fat was only amber.

This is the first time I've heard of metabolic age. What is it anyway?

You burn calories by doing nothing - that is your metabolic rate

In general you burn less calories doing nothing the older you get

So if your chronological age is 45 but your metaoblic rate is what most 70 year olds have then your metabolic age is 70

However - it's the fluffiest of sports science fluff

It's a measurement to compare but it doesn't really mean very much

This is a good summary of what I worked out.  I don't think it means much, but I still don't want to be 70.

In other fitness news.  I have improved to 1,900m in 10 minutes on a rowing machine which I was quite chuffed with.  I found a website last night which detailed how fast beginners and experts could do 2,000 metres.  It informed me that I was beating 0% of my peers with that timing.   The worst thing was that it condidently told me I wasn't even at "beginner" level for my metabolic age.   Some serious trolling going on there.   

Have you used the machine before and got the technique right?

Generally people, especially guys with strong upper bodies, tend to use their arms too much. Really the final arm pull is about 10% of the power and it should mostly be the big initial leg drive.

It also helps to be tall to post good rowing times.

Less than 2 months until I can impress Red with some squiggly graphs again!

 ::)

I've started early, piled on 10kg since the start of summer

Missed this at the time.

Don't think it is the technique, just poor fitness level.  I am now up to 2,000m in 10 minutes, so will be troubling the bottom percentile soon. I don't think I have lost a pound of weight all year, but strength is improving even if the aerobic stuff is a struggle. 

 ;sleep;

Dear Mr Dog

Many apologies for the delay in sharing.

Please fill your boots....

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Start 03/01 = 14st 11lb
Now 25/01 = 14st 6lb

Loss = 5lb

Target 1 = 13st 13lb by 15/03
To go = 7lb

Target 2 = 12st 13lb by 08/06
To go = 21lb


Plan is to try and get below 14st for when I head to Benelmadena for Cheltenham week, then under 13st for when I head to Vegas in June.

Not really started as strong as I normally would so not sure where this is going to go.

So food intake isn't as strict but added in a little more exercise than previous years.

Also heading on George's school ski trip with him to Pila next week, so not sure how the pizza and pasta will be offset by the most active week of my life!

I will keep you posted.....

I love these graphs, they're just like the Big Dipper but without, (Hopefully) an upside down section.

Hope you make it safely to the bottom.

 This thread never took off this year, shame really. Just reread it just to see Mr Pie roasting everyone..lol

Hoppkin innit.