2022 - Back in shape - Accountability and Rollicking thread
Discussion
Please can you add me to the list Mr Spoon? A lot of what you and others have written totally resonates with me. I was around 90kg for years but since COVID I’ve put on weight and am now at 99.2kg:
I have an identical twin brother who eats very healthily and runs in the week and does long mountain bike rides at the weekends. He weighs 75kg. So the target I’m setting myself is 80kg.
Good luck to everybody. I know the camaraderie on this thread will really help my motivation.
I have an identical twin brother who eats very healthily and runs in the week and does long mountain bike rides at the weekends. He weighs 75kg. So the target I’m setting myself is 80kg.
Good luck to everybody. I know the camaraderie on this thread will really help my motivation.
Right chaps, all good we're motivated etc, but can we be careful about posting targets hit and risk looking smug?
Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
bristolbaron said:
S100HP said:
Either that includes the weight of the bowl, or it’s a very large bowl?!What made a big difference for me last year for breakfast.
Make overnight oats, put oats, milk yoghurt and a handful of frozen or chopped berries into a bowl and leave in the fridge overnight.
Don't eat when you first get up. I went from having breakfast at 6am and then driving to work to making the oats in a tupperware pot and eating it at work at 8:30. I then didn't get hungry mid morning so stopped snacking.
Make overnight oats, put oats, milk yoghurt and a handful of frozen or chopped berries into a bowl and leave in the fridge overnight.
Don't eat when you first get up. I went from having breakfast at 6am and then driving to work to making the oats in a tupperware pot and eating it at work at 8:30. I then didn't get hungry mid morning so stopped snacking.
I'm in. I'm now at the heaviest I've ever been and am utterly ashamed! I've never been the slimmest of Jims but at a underwhelming 5'10" and a staggering 18st 12lb this is f
king ridiculous!
I signed up to WW yesterday and will start couch to 5k once my new gym/running clothes arrive later in the week - even my exercise clobber doesn't fit any more. In the meantime I will go out on the bike (dragging my 3 year old behind me with a Tow Buddy) for at least 30 minutes a day.
Aiming for an ambitious 14st.
king ridiculous!I signed up to WW yesterday and will start couch to 5k once my new gym/running clothes arrive later in the week - even my exercise clobber doesn't fit any more. In the meantime I will go out on the bike (dragging my 3 year old behind me with a Tow Buddy) for at least 30 minutes a day.
Aiming for an ambitious 14st.
Tyre Smoke said:
Right chaps, all good we're motivated etc, but can we be careful about posting targets hit and risk looking smug?
Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
use that stick sir. Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
Been out for a walk this morning, for an hour. According to Strava/Fitbit covered just over 3.5 miles (7,900 steps) and burnt 812cal.
Just had 2 toast with a smearing of peanut butter 30 minutes ago and now having a large cup of black coffee.
Meant to be going out shopping with the family at some point today, but no idea if that is happening or not as everyone is still in bed lol
So far so good at the moment, might have something else to eat at about 2:30 as I didn't manage any breakfast this morning, which I really should be getting into as I am a nightmare for missing out on breakfast most days. (Read that as I don't have breakfast at all on any day lol)
Just had 2 toast with a smearing of peanut butter 30 minutes ago and now having a large cup of black coffee.
Meant to be going out shopping with the family at some point today, but no idea if that is happening or not as everyone is still in bed lol
So far so good at the moment, might have something else to eat at about 2:30 as I didn't manage any breakfast this morning, which I really should be getting into as I am a nightmare for missing out on breakfast most days. (Read that as I don't have breakfast at all on any day lol)
snoopy25 said:
So far so good at the moment, might have something else to eat at about 2:30 as I didn't manage any breakfast this morning, which I really should be getting into as I am a nightmare for missing out on breakfast most days. (Read that as I don't have breakfast at all on any day lol)
Don't worry, they've invented a trendy new term for that; intermittent fasting 
If you don't eat breakfast (I don't either) try to limit your eating to between 12 and 8pm to avoid SpeckledJim's eating like an Emperor (also something I'm very good at!).
Gym for me this morning. Pull session so 14,282kg shifted. Day 1 is easy. Ask me in three weeks time!
Tyre Smoke said:
Right chaps, all good we're motivated etc, but can we be careful about posting targets hit and risk looking smug?
Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
Isn’t that what drives encouragement both internally and externally? It certainly is for me!Last thing I want to do is wee on anyone's chips, but some of us are going to find this more difficult than others. Especially us old gits. So let's encourage and share success as we rightly should, but not everyone is going to walk 18k steps a day or be able to go to the gym four times a week.
Right after my big night out weighed myself and put in 2kg!
Back still hurts but going to try 20 mins on the rower with a fairly low resistance so i don't crip myself too much!
Couldn’t get out of bed this morning due to back but loosened up now. Might even go on top later tonight to burn off a few more!
Back still hurts but going to try 20 mins on the rower with a fairly low resistance so i don't crip myself too much!
Couldn’t get out of bed this morning due to back but loosened up now. Might even go on top later tonight to burn off a few more!
Can I join in as well?
Starting weight 21st 11lb - not quite my heaviest ever but almost! Tried last year but it all went to st with a bit of a health scare that I've now had the all clear from.
My daughter is getting married in August and I'd like to just be overweight by then (rather than morbidly obese) so that means a loss of 6.5 stone in 7.5 months. I'm 54, have worked permanently from home for the last 14 years, do like to walk but appreciate I'll need to up the exercise massively (and cut the food obviously) if I'm going to get anywhere near that. I'll then continue onwards and hopefully be sub 14 stone by this time next year.
If I can't do it this year (when the photographic evidence will be imortalised in perpetuity) I'm not sure I ever will.
Starting weight 21st 11lb - not quite my heaviest ever but almost! Tried last year but it all went to s
t with a bit of a health scare that I've now had the all clear from.My daughter is getting married in August and I'd like to just be overweight by then (rather than morbidly obese) so that means a loss of 6.5 stone in 7.5 months. I'm 54, have worked permanently from home for the last 14 years, do like to walk but appreciate I'll need to up the exercise massively (and cut the food obviously) if I'm going to get anywhere near that. I'll then continue onwards and hopefully be sub 14 stone by this time next year.
If I can't do it this year (when the photographic evidence will be imortalised in perpetuity) I'm not sure I ever will.
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