The 2024 Weight Loss Thread

[jdw100]

Interested why people on this thread are talking about losing 0.2kg or gaining 0.3?

Surely you can’t measure body weight with that kind of accuracy as it varies over the day.

To say I lost 0.5kg this week, might just depend on when I last ate or had a cup of tea.

I just put away a litre of water - if I weighed myself now I wouldn’t be concerned re a weight gain.

Don’t you have to look at a trend over time?I can’t see how anyone could know if they’d lost a couple of hundred grammes in a week. Unless I’m missing something really obvious and am about to look stupid!

[Mannginger]

jdw100 said:

Interested why people on this thread are talking about losing 0.2kg or gaining 0.3?

Surely you can’t measure body weight with that kind of accuracy as it varies over the day.

To say I lost 0.5kg this week, might just depend on when I last ate or had a cup of tea.

I just put away a litre of water - if I weighed myself now I wouldn’t be concerned re a weight gain.

Don’t you have to look at a trend over time?I can’t see how anyone could know if they’d lost a couple of hundred grammes in a week. Unless I’m missing something really obvious and am about to look stupid!

I guess that's why the Wiki has "from start" and "weekly" loss columns

[22]

I weigh when I wake up, so the same time of day, usually once a week, or more often if I'm being really good (and I'm not there at the moment).

I also try and go to slimming world groups - usually after 2 cups of tea and a flask of coffee. Again at the same time every week, and the weight is a reasonable reflection of what's going on.

[lizardbrain]

It’s not hard to weigh yourself after waking and if you want to be thorough , a SSS.

I find the variability very low.

[fiatpower]

I weigh myself daily when I wake up and after i've been the toilet. So my readings are fairly comparable within reason.

Having a bit of an experiment over the next month or so. I think my daily schedule is holding me back on the weight loss front. I usually have some sandwiches and fruit for lunch and then a full meal for tea with no breakfast. Due to work and having to walk my dog after work the earliest I get to eat is 6:30. However I usually end up eating around 8:30/9pm as I go to an exercise class or running club 4 evenings a week. Obviously can’t eat before otherwise I’d bring it back up so have to eat afterwards. I feel this is too late and it prevents me losing weight (I’m great at maintaining a weight…).

My plan is for 2/3 days I’ll switch the meals around and have my tea for lunch and vice versa. I’ve done it a couple of days this week and have lost 1kg so seems to help in the short term. Will report back on how it goes.

How do others have a proper evening meal as well as fitting in some exercise?

Edited by fiatpower on Tuesday 12th March 17:18

[Mr.Chips]

I started going to Slimming World in November 2022. Today, I got my 5 stone loss certificate. Only 3 stones left to go! It has been hard work, but very worthwhile. I’m fitter, much healthier and a good deal smaller. Also, a little poorer, as it’s costing me a small fortune on new clothes!
Keep up the hard work guys!

[thepritch]

fiatpower said:

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How do others have a proper evening meal as well as fitting in some exercise?

Edited by fiatpower on Tuesday 12th March 17:18

Yes, I’ve always struggled with this, so we tend to eat late which is less than ideal. The big lunch small dinner worked well when I could. and I’d try really hard to do morning or lunch exercise sessions - but found mornings incredibly difficult to do anything with intensity (threshold / VO2 max zones). I also tried taking dinner in to work and having it around 3.30, and taking lunch early. But it entirely depends on your workplace / job.

Really interested I how others fit a athletic life in with their work/hole life.

[TameRacingDriver]

Mr.Chips said:

I started going to Slimming World in November 2022. Today, I got my 5 stone loss certificate. Only 3 stones left to go! It has been hard work, but very worthwhile. I’m fitter, much healthier and a good deal smaller. Also, a little poorer, as it’s costing me a small fortune on new clothes!
Keep up the hard work guys!

Well done username clearly no longer checks out

thepritch said:

Yes, I’ve always struggled with this, so we tend to eat late which is less than ideal. The big lunch small dinner worked well when I could. and I’d try really hard to do morning or lunch exercise sessions - but found mornings incredibly difficult to do anything with intensity (threshold / VO2 max zones). I also tried taking dinner in to work and having it around 3.30, and taking lunch early. But it entirely depends on your workplace / job.

Really interested I how others fit a athletic life in with their work/hole life.

I do it by not trying to be an athlete

Seriously though it's easier working from home. Breakfasts are just a Huel shake typically, it's just easy and I don't have to think too much, nor am I usually very hungry on a morning. Lunch is usually a salad with chicken breast, a sandwich, or jacket potato with beans or tuna, that sort of thing. Then evening meals I just eat more or less whatever I fancy, with one eye on the calories.

And exercise is just walking and doing a few weights. I have no interest in running a marathon or pulling a truck across a car park single handedly

Basically, I'm a fairly simple person and what works for me is keeping things as simple as possible; I've been really guilty of overthinking everything in the past, but I seem to have cured myself of that.

Good luck, sounds like you just have to have a really good think about what will work for you, how you can fit it into your lifestyle, and be prepared to be fairly repetitive ultimately, as that's what it seems to take.

[TameRacingDriver]

Pretty crap week for me with a near 1kg gain which is, I hope, just water retention, I'm basically in the hangover stage after my dead m dad's death but everything goes back to normal next week so I'm hoping to make progress again. Bugger!

[tim jb]

Maintaining ~13.7 stone now from around 15.10 at my heavist early last year. Current weight puts me in the 25 BMI bracket though still overweight.

Trying to knock another stone off but it's bleddy hard going

[Steve91]

Not the best week so far, but trying to keep going. I'm planning on introducing some running again to get fitness levels up.

Expecting a gain over the last 2 weeks on Friday (weigh day) but moving house hasn't helped much

[Gordon Hill]

For rapid weight loss I recommend the norovirus that I've had, lost a stone in a week, looking forward to putting it all back on just as quickly.

[jdw100]

Mannginger said:

jdw100 said:

Interested why people on this thread are talking about losing 0.2kg or gaining 0.3?

Surely you can’t measure body weight with that kind of accuracy as it varies over the day.

To say I lost 0.5kg this week, might just depend on when I last ate or had a cup of tea.

I just put away a litre of water - if I weighed myself now I wouldn’t be concerned re a weight gain.

Don’t you have to look at a trend over time?I can’t see how anyone could know if they’d lost a couple of hundred grammes in a week. Unless I’m missing something really obvious and am about to look stupid!

I guess that's why the Wiki has "from start" and "weekly" loss columns

A what now?

[jdw100]

lizardbrain said:

It’s not hard to weigh yourself after waking and if you want to be thorough , a SSS.

I find the variability very low.

Oh okay. I really thought you’d get a Kg or more variation easily.

There you go….I guess not.

Personally I have used a complex mathematical algorithm for the last 25 years.

I’ll try to explain in layman’s terms, without use of a blackboard, here goes:

If my trousers start to feel a bit tight then I probably should watch what I’m eating a bit better.

Worked since I was 30. Same waist size. Maybe I should publish a book!

[22]

0.7kg down for me this week. I'm pleasantly surprised as Friday treat day overlapped into the weekend. I have been good this week and no sweet tooth/booze makes it quite easy to eat 'well' when I'm on it. Portions have been bonkers, but things 'allowed' on slimming world.

I miss my rowing machine and just how alive/energised it makes me feel (shoulder injury and unrelated surgery in the same area).

Mr.Chips said:

I started going to Slimming World in November 2022. Today, I got my 5 stone loss certificate. Only 3 stones left to go! It has been hard work, but very worthwhile. I’m fitter, much healthier and a good deal smaller. Also, a little poorer, as it’s costing me a small fortune on new clothes!
Keep up the hard work guys!

That is awesome. Well done. I also go to the 'club', but forcing myself to find time, seems to help with the overall commitment. I don't stay for the groups/chats/tasters.

[Mannginger]

Into the 70s! \o/

First time since I started wearing a smart watch in 2017!

[Steve91]

Steve91 said:

Not the best week so far, but trying to keep going. I'm planning on introducing some running again to get fitness levels up.

Expecting a gain over the last 2 weeks on Friday (weigh day) but moving house hasn't helped much

Actually stayed the same over 2 weeks, which is staggering considering the 4 times we've had just eat delivered!

[TikTak]

Steve91 said:

Steve91 said:

Not the best week so far, but trying to keep going. I'm planning on introducing some running again to get fitness levels up.

Expecting a gain over the last 2 weeks on Friday (weigh day) but moving house hasn't helped much

Actually stayed the same over 2 weeks, which is staggering considering the 4 times we've had just eat delivered!

Know the feeling, had friends over from NZ this week so staggered to have gone down (albeit 300 grams )

[Smitters]

Ten days of holiday, half board and I have lost 2kg. I love being able to get a great mix of salad and veg and lean protein and not have to prep it or wash up! Just need to keep the momentum up.

[caiss4]

A bit of a disappointing week....same weight as last Friday . On reflection though it is probably a 'result' as last weekend was a bit of a binge and I could feel it in my waistband on Monday. Decided not to weigh myself and just knuckle down and sort it out to get back to last Friday's weight which i have managed.

No excuses next week, relatively quiet weekend ahead so would be good to lose 1-2kgs.