PH Losers 2019 - Anyone want to join me?
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dirtbiker said:
Having a bit of a struggle here - had a wisdom tooth removed last Wednesday which has curtailed any exercise and put me on the sofa for the last few days near the snack cupboard - not a good place! Hoping to get back to cycling the long way to work later this week (got a bike fit tomorrow which will hopefully be a good psychological boost) and limit any weight gain.
First child is due in five weeks or so too which is not going to make life easier I suspect - any tips from the Dads out there on keeping in vaguely good shape? I'm currently cycling around 100km a week by extending my commute and doing the occasional run but can't help thinking that I'll feel guilty taking time away from the little one and Mum doing that? On the flip side I suppose my wife will be wanting to lose the baby weight so we can try to eat healthily as much as possible! On that topic, any good recipes for batch cooking for the freezer?
Good to see a few folk moving back into the active table - keep it up!
Post baby is definitely a time that its easier to put weight on that losing it. For starters, you'll be having to work around the baby (especially as its your first!) - and so making time to eat together at a table, and eat healthily is tricky (e.g its a lot easier to chuck a pizza in the oven in the 1 hour you get to yourself in the evening than it is to eat a balanced meal and go to the gym!). And the one staying at home on maternity/paternity leave in the longer term will be going to coffee mornings etc and eating cake after cake! First child is due in five weeks or so too which is not going to make life easier I suspect - any tips from the Dads out there on keeping in vaguely good shape? I'm currently cycling around 100km a week by extending my commute and doing the occasional run but can't help thinking that I'll feel guilty taking time away from the little one and Mum doing that? On the flip side I suppose my wife will be wanting to lose the baby weight so we can try to eat healthily as much as possible! On that topic, any good recipes for batch cooking for the freezer?
Good to see a few folk moving back into the active table - keep it up!
Good effort Jacko!
Just a small one for me this week as expected. 86.6 > 86.4. My target this week was 85.5 so need to pull 2.4 kg out of my arse this week to get back on target next week.
I discovered an old - but brand new - pair of 34L straight cut jeans in the bottom of a drawer. They must be the best part of a decade old and I vaguely remember buying them but when I tried them on at home I couldn't get them up past my arse. Not sure why I kept them rather than return them but for a laugh I decided to be a bit ambitious and tried them on again, fully expecting them still not to fit. I couldn't believe it when they sailed straight past my arse and fitted pretty much perfectly! And these are straight cut too rather than the more baggy 'regular' fit.
Just a small one for me this week as expected. 86.6 > 86.4. My target this week was 85.5 so need to pull 2.4 kg out of my arse this week to get back on target next week.
I discovered an old - but brand new - pair of 34L straight cut jeans in the bottom of a drawer. They must be the best part of a decade old and I vaguely remember buying them but when I tried them on at home I couldn't get them up past my arse. Not sure why I kept them rather than return them but for a laugh I decided to be a bit ambitious and tried them on again, fully expecting them still not to fit. I couldn't believe it when they sailed straight past my arse and fitted pretty much perfectly! And these are straight cut too rather than the more baggy 'regular' fit.
Edited by Lemming Train on Tuesday 7th May 21:18
Is it too late to join the thread? I've only just found it to be honest...
Back story. I'm 51 years old, just over 6'4" tall but 22st 6lbs (142.7kg). That sounds horrendous but I have been as high as 23st 3lbs last year. I've been overweight since my early twenties when I had a job selling sweets for a living and used to munch on them as I drove round in a company car.....
I work from home as a part time courier / part time football analyst so pretty sedentary really. I live on the outskirts of Bristol in semi-urban bliss and have lots of good country walks that I can do. Past success has been based on joining a gym but time is scarce these days although my circumstances will change in September. I'm a single dad of four, though only the youngest two live at home. They leave for Uni in September so I'll be on my own then as I'm not seeing anyone.
In 2015, I lost six stone in ten months purely by eating well and going to the gym for a 45 minute workout four times a week. That got me down from 22 st 10lbs to 16st 10lbs but all of it and more went back on in the space of three years.
I have a picture on my desk of me being best man at a wedding in 1999 and I was 15st 6lbs in the photo so I think I'd like to get down to somewhere around that. Initially, I'd like to lose 3-4 stone by just exercising a little more + eating a bit more healthily. My diet is so poor that even improving it by half will see the weight drop off.
I started this challenge last Wednesday (1st May) on my birthday and intend to weigh myself in Boots every Wednesday. This morning, I kicked off week one with a 4lb weight loss. Come September, when the boys leave for Uni, I'm considering getting a job locally as a milkman; it's good money, fits in with my existing lifestyle and the physical activity will help me shed weight more quickly.
Back story. I'm 51 years old, just over 6'4" tall but 22st 6lbs (142.7kg). That sounds horrendous but I have been as high as 23st 3lbs last year. I've been overweight since my early twenties when I had a job selling sweets for a living and used to munch on them as I drove round in a company car.....
I work from home as a part time courier / part time football analyst so pretty sedentary really. I live on the outskirts of Bristol in semi-urban bliss and have lots of good country walks that I can do. Past success has been based on joining a gym but time is scarce these days although my circumstances will change in September. I'm a single dad of four, though only the youngest two live at home. They leave for Uni in September so I'll be on my own then as I'm not seeing anyone.
In 2015, I lost six stone in ten months purely by eating well and going to the gym for a 45 minute workout four times a week. That got me down from 22 st 10lbs to 16st 10lbs but all of it and more went back on in the space of three years.
I have a picture on my desk of me being best man at a wedding in 1999 and I was 15st 6lbs in the photo so I think I'd like to get down to somewhere around that. Initially, I'd like to lose 3-4 stone by just exercising a little more + eating a bit more healthily. My diet is so poor that even improving it by half will see the weight drop off.
I started this challenge last Wednesday (1st May) on my birthday and intend to weigh myself in Boots every Wednesday. This morning, I kicked off week one with a 4lb weight loss. Come September, when the boys leave for Uni, I'm considering getting a job locally as a milkman; it's good money, fits in with my existing lifestyle and the physical activity will help me shed weight more quickly.
GloverMart said:
Is it too late to join the thread? I've only just found it to be honest...
No permission needed.GloverMart said:
In 2015, I lost six stone in ten months purely by eating well and going to the gym for a 45 minute workout four times a week. That got me down from 22 st 10lbs to 16st 10lbs but all of it and more went back on in the space of three years.
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My diet is so poor.......
You know what the problem is and you know what to do to fix it! Just got to muster up the willpower to stay true to it and resist the temptation of pie and cake 'cheat' days which immediately undo all your previous weeks' hard work.[...]
My diet is so poor.......
I've just stumbled across this thread after a Keto google.
I've been doing Atkins or my interpretation from what I remember 10 years ago. Been having 20g carb per day. As much meat and fat as I need. And doing 350 calories cardio at gym everyday since Friday (row, run, cycle, xtrain) and any weights I can manage. I'm only walking about 4-5k steps per day which is poor. Lost 4lbs since Friday last week.
It is killing me though, the fridge is full of chocolate and it's hard to see past it.
I'm aiming to go from 13st to 12 stone by June 16th. I may well just switch to low calorie, sensible carb diet if I get to 12.5 stone by Next Friday. A slice of pizza would be heaven right now.
I've been doing Atkins or my interpretation from what I remember 10 years ago. Been having 20g carb per day. As much meat and fat as I need. And doing 350 calories cardio at gym everyday since Friday (row, run, cycle, xtrain) and any weights I can manage. I'm only walking about 4-5k steps per day which is poor. Lost 4lbs since Friday last week.
It is killing me though, the fridge is full of chocolate and it's hard to see past it.
I'm aiming to go from 13st to 12 stone by June 16th. I may well just switch to low calorie, sensible carb diet if I get to 12.5 stone by Next Friday. A slice of pizza would be heaven right now.
I'm finding my weight goes up 4/5lbs over a weekend, come Friday I'm back to what I was the previous Friday. Then bad food and beer sees me up again on Monday, obviously. So clearly need to sort the weekends out, it'd be great if I could keep it level over a weekend then lose lbs a few each week.
Also, I've (and the OH) have noticed my belly getting smaller, but I've not 'lost' weight (going on the above) for a month. With the gym and eating healthily, is this normal? Is the gym working muscles and I'm putting on weight that way, but losing fat weight, hence the 'slimming'? I can't imagine 3x 40 minute workouts is gaining that much muscle (lbs of the stuff!)
Also, I've (and the OH) have noticed my belly getting smaller, but I've not 'lost' weight (going on the above) for a month. With the gym and eating healthily, is this normal? Is the gym working muscles and I'm putting on weight that way, but losing fat weight, hence the 'slimming'? I can't imagine 3x 40 minute workouts is gaining that much muscle (lbs of the stuff!)
vindaloo79 said:
illmonkey said:
I'm finding my weight goes up 4/5lbs over a weekend
I haven't really observed my own weight so closely until now. I didn't realise fluctuations could be so broad in a short period of time. So I could be back where I started within two days of partying haha.
Not really, I've been more consistent with running and I've started eating salad again for lunch (not a chore, I like a good salad). I've also been doing exercise on the days I'm not running like crappy youtube aerobics with the curtains shut seems to be working as I'm burning some calories on the down days now as well.
My running needs some improvement still, I need to push to do more distance if I want to be able to do 5k by September without stopping, I've got a long way to go with that still.
I've lost weight every week since the start of the year but I still get to Thursday or Friday every week and worry that I haven't lost any, not sure how to get over that really.
seems to be working as I'm burning some calories on the down days now as well.My running needs some improvement still, I need to push to do more distance if I want to be able to do 5k by September without stopping, I've got a long way to go with that still.
I've lost weight every week since the start of the year but I still get to Thursday or Friday every week and worry that I haven't lost any, not sure how to get over that really.
Lemming Train said:
Just a small one for me this week as expected. 86.6 > 86.4. My target this week was 85.5 so need to pull 2.4 kg out of my arse this week to get back on target next week.
Bringing my total loss to 28.9 kg now. I've lost all the fat from the sides of my belly/waist (the 'wings') but still have quite a lot to shift from the front so I'll need to press on past my original 78 kg target to get rid of that. I'm also back on the rower again a few times a week to keep my muscles working so that my body doesn't try to start eating those instead of my fat ! I've had to make yet another new hole in my belt which can only be a good sign.
Keep chipping away at it folks.
Hi,
Just a tip for anyone weighing. Once a week might be a bit misleading. Weight can really fluctuate during the week if you're stressed, how hydrated you are, how much you've eaten, if you've had a dump as well as more.
Could be worth weighing every day, just don't get addicted to the number going down as mentally it's probably not that healthy!
Weighing 3 days a week and taking an average is also a good way of doing it.
Progress pics once or twice a month is good too.
Just a tip for anyone weighing. Once a week might be a bit misleading. Weight can really fluctuate during the week if you're stressed, how hydrated you are, how much you've eaten, if you've had a dump as well as more.
Could be worth weighing every day, just don't get addicted to the number going down as mentally it's probably not that healthy!
Weighing 3 days a week and taking an average is also a good way of doing it.
Progress pics once or twice a month is good too.
Yeah, there is your actual weight, the amount of muscle, fat bone whatever but there is a confusing ebb and low going over the top that skews the results.
This is the glycogen in your muscles and liver, your level of hydration and food "in transit", salt and various foodstuff can massively affect it, I find alcohol can trigger a weight loss, its quite a complicated system, even having a cold can affect it I find.
Its easy to get disheartened, you work hard at the gym, eat well and go up a pound or two but we need to look past that ebb and flow and accept it happens, if you are truly in a calorific deficit, for most people you will drop weight.
Need to look at the background trend over time of your weight, I have some Bluetooth scales and I am weighting myself daily, you can see the peaks and troughs but the overall line is pointing down, then there is your body composition changing, sometimes you can add muscle, work hard lifting with the right nutrition and it is apparently possible to add half a pound of muscle in a week.
If you are honest with yourself about what you are eating/drinking and consistent then it will come off, and then it pays not to get pissed off if it doesnt and cocky if it does. How your clothes fit and how you feel are better indicators, I have felt great some days and then got despondent at the scale weight.
A kilo either way when you are over 100 kilos like me is under one percent, so not a huge fluctuation really.
down to 16 st 5 today
Keep mixing units, apologies
This is the glycogen in your muscles and liver, your level of hydration and food "in transit", salt and various foodstuff can massively affect it, I find alcohol can trigger a weight loss, its quite a complicated system, even having a cold can affect it I find.
Its easy to get disheartened, you work hard at the gym, eat well and go up a pound or two but we need to look past that ebb and flow and accept it happens, if you are truly in a calorific deficit, for most people you will drop weight.
Need to look at the background trend over time of your weight, I have some Bluetooth scales and I am weighting myself daily, you can see the peaks and troughs but the overall line is pointing down, then there is your body composition changing, sometimes you can add muscle, work hard lifting with the right nutrition and it is apparently possible to add half a pound of muscle in a week.
If you are honest with yourself about what you are eating/drinking and consistent then it will come off, and then it pays not to get pissed off if it doesnt and cocky if it does. How your clothes fit and how you feel are better indicators, I have felt great some days and then got despondent at the scale weight.
A kilo either way when you are over 100 kilos like me is under one percent, so not a huge fluctuation really.
down to 16 st 5 today
Keep mixing units, apologies
As I alluded to in my last post something has cropped up that really has diverted my attention away from weight loss. Since my last entry I haven't gained weight nor last any. My exercise regime remains the same.
I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
caiss4 said:
As I alluded to in my last post something has cropped up that really has diverted my attention away from weight loss. Since my last entry I haven't gained weight nor last any. My exercise regime remains the same.
I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
I just mentiioned what derailed me on another thread and can totally see how it can happen but hopefully you can sort your other problem out and try to do a bit of damage limitation in the meantime, I put two stone back on in a year and a bit and its hard work to shift it again.I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
J4CKO said:
caiss4 said:
As I alluded to in my last post something has cropped up that really has diverted my attention away from weight loss. Since my last entry I haven't gained weight nor last any. My exercise regime remains the same.
I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
I just mentiioned what derailed me on another thread and can totally see how it can happen but hopefully you can sort your other problem out and try to do a bit of damage limitation in the meantime, I put two stone back on in a year and a bit and its hard work to shift it again.I'm going to drop out of the list for the time-being. I hope I will have cause to rejoin later but even my goal of cycling Majorca in October is in doubt right now. Sorry to be cryptic but it's an issue that means I may be contributing to another long-running thread on PH.
Good luck to you all. I hope you achieve your goals and I will still drop in occasionally to see how things are going.
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