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After a torrid few weeks where I frankly wasn't too good after my dad's death, I'm back on track again with a 0.55kg loss from a fortnight ago.
Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
TameRacingDriver said:
After a torrid few weeks where I frankly wasn't too good after my dad's death, I'm back on track again with a 0.55kg loss from a fortnight ago.
Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
You can eat whatever you want when going through something like that.Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
asfault said:
You can eat whatever you want when going through something like that.
Yep, and I did although I did still eat mindfully where possible.Back on it now though! It would be nice to lose at least another 4 or maybe even 5 kg before my holiday at the back end of May, we shall see. Although looking in the mirror, while improved, I'm still a long way off where I want to be. However I'm still aiming to match or beat my target by Xmas.
TameRacingDriver said:
After a torrid few weeks where I frankly wasn't too good after my dad's death, I'm back on track again with a 0.55kg loss from a fortnight ago.
Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
Sounds like you’ve done exceptionally well. Very tough times for you. Even a regular stressy day sends me to the box of biscuits! Heartening to know that I can still occasionally go off the rails and still lose a little weight as long as I'm good whenever I can be good.
In that time I've drank most days and had many takeaways and meals out, but I've always eaten healthily as much as possible in between.
Compared with the same time last week I've gone down 3kg which must have been mostly water retention.
Very happy as I thought last week it was going to take a month to reverse the actions of the last fortnight.
thepritch said:
Absolutely. I'm +0.2kg this week, which isn't much but, if I'm going to put on 0.2kg, probably best to do it from a (slow) downward trend. I need to get my weekends back in check before I can expect anything different really. 
Mannginger said:
I've realised my weight loss is now almost certainly down to flipping from hypo to hyperthyroidism,. Meeting an endocrinologist in the next couple of weeks to confirm but still, it means when I sort that out I've got a solid -5.5kgs under my belt to start "really" losing weight!
I sympathise as my thyroid flips between hypo and hyper. It was only diagnosed as it went hyper after I lost the extra 30 kg I'd been carrying for years and suddenly became very noticeable. Everyone kept asking if I was ok because I was too thin (interesting fact, your arm pits become sunken in when you lose too much weight and it's just weird!) Plus I bought a volvo because normal car seats hurt for any length of journey and it was the most comfortable car I could find in my budget. What finally convinced me that there was something wrong was my Garmin registering the steady rise in resting heart rate so it was off to the docs with my rather nice graph which had them acting very quickly to work out what was wrong 
I suspect that over the years when I've found it easy to lose weight, it's been a consequence of hyperthyroidism but not noticed because a) I wasn't routinely wearing a device that monitored my heart rate and b) it never lasts and the consequent weight gain was just put down to bad diet and getting lazy with exercise again. Natural state appears to be hypo so I'm on levothryoxine for the rest of my life which is fine because it keeps it under control. Weight gain is back to bad diet only and I can't blame my thyroid.
Anyway, this week saw a good loss of 0.8kg and I'm now ~75% towards my target.
Good info thanks. Yeah I think mine may have been triggered by Covid as my HR went up 10BPM after it (and still slowly climbing)
I was getting tested for all sorts on heart and lungs but think it must all be down to the flip. Local GP has been truly awful however so thankfully starting to use my private health to hopefully get a quicker outcome
I was getting tested for all sorts on heart and lungs but think it must all be down to the flip. Local GP has been truly awful however so thankfully starting to use my private health to hopefully get a quicker outcome
Mannginger said:
Good info thanks. Yeah I think mine may have been triggered by Covid as my HR went up 10BPM after it (and still slowly climbing)
I was getting tested for all sorts on heart and lungs but think it must all be down to the flip. Local GP has been truly awful however so thankfully starting to use my private health to hopefully get a quicker outcome
That's dreadful and hope you get it sorted soon but in the meantime, as you say, it's kickstarting your weight loss. I could eat anything I wanted when my thyroid went hyper and not put on any weight. Downside was my gym performance suffered and it was bloody expensive trying to eat enough to stop my weight from going too low. It dropped to 57 kg at one point and that was close to my BMI going below 20I was getting tested for all sorts on heart and lungs but think it must all be down to the flip. Local GP has been truly awful however so thankfully starting to use my private health to hopefully get a quicker outcome
I've given up on scales and bioimpedence sensors. Ended up doing a random shopping trip yesterday and found some 30inch trousers unsale, I've NEVER contempt 30inch trousers before, at some point 36 was a tight fit....But I now own 4 pairs of 30inch trousers/jeans. Better no eat too many cakes!!!
I think the 2021 weigh loss thread was the first one I looked at on here. Will keep on following this thread, regardless of what the scales say.
I think the 2021 weigh loss thread was the first one I looked at on here. Will keep on following this thread, regardless of what the scales say
.Since my first child was born at the end of January I’ve understandably been a bit distracted so the rapid progress I made in January was reversed a bit. Fortunately it didn’t go that much in the wrong direction so I hovered around the 101-102kg mark for much of the past 2 months.
I’ve been trying to kick start my weight loss again now that things at home are settling down a bit but was struggling to do so. About 10 days ago I started having 2 x “sandwich days” a week (had 3 so far) where I have a proper meal for my lunch and then have a sandwich for dinner. I aim to do these on days where my exercise class/running group finish late so I’d be eating late which whilst it didn’t cause me to gain weight it seemed to hinder weight loss.
This seems to have helped kickstart the weight loss again and even with a couple of family meals thrown in I’ve lost 0.7kg in the last week. I’ll be continuing with this approach and see how it pans out over the long term. Aim is still to get to 90kg by September when I have a 100km to run.
The picture below is a screen shot of the app I use to track weight loss vs my goals. It's called "Happy scale". The blue line is a trend line rather than actual weight readings.
I’ve been trying to kick start my weight loss again now that things at home are settling down a bit but was struggling to do so. About 10 days ago I started having 2 x “sandwich days” a week (had 3 so far) where I have a proper meal for my lunch and then have a sandwich for dinner. I aim to do these on days where my exercise class/running group finish late so I’d be eating late which whilst it didn’t cause me to gain weight it seemed to hinder weight loss.
This seems to have helped kickstart the weight loss again and even with a couple of family meals thrown in I’ve lost 0.7kg in the last week. I’ll be continuing with this approach and see how it pans out over the long term. Aim is still to get to 90kg by September when I have a 100km to run.
The picture below is a screen shot of the app I use to track weight loss vs my goals. It's called "Happy scale". The blue line is a trend line rather than actual weight readings.
Edited by fiatpower on Monday 25th March 08:45
gangzoom said:
I've given up on scales and bioimpedence sensors.
I must admit there's a part of me that thinks ignoring scales would at least be less stressful, and just go by how I feel and how clothes fit. I do think there's a tendency to get a little obsessed by the numbers.That said I can't exactly contribute to this thread otherwise so I'll have to continue!
Since my poor health/health issues last year with a few operations, a week in hospital via A&E and then a final op in Jan just gone, I've gone from 140kg down to 122kg and still losing weight, slowly, which is great
My aim is to get to 115kg, which is the weight I started competing in powerlifting at back in 2000!
I'm 45, 6ft 4 and it's not doing me any harm at all getting the weight down now...
I was 130kg when I got married in 2010; so I'm lighter now that I have been in a long time! It feels great; apart from having to fork out god knows how much to replace jeans & trousers that are just far too big now, shirts too
I'm still wide; but without as much padding as I was used to
I'm not doing anything specific really; just sticking to the smaller portions I had to get used to when I was in hospital with cholecystitis etc & after having an op to resolve that; lower fat intake etc
Training is lighter weights & higher reps now for me too; with plenty of walking in there as well. Gardening is great cardio too
My aim is to get to 115kg, which is the weight I started competing in powerlifting at back in 2000!
I'm 45, 6ft 4 and it's not doing me any harm at all getting the weight down now...
I was 130kg when I got married in 2010; so I'm lighter now that I have been in a long time! It feels great; apart from having to fork out god knows how much to replace jeans & trousers that are just far too big now, shirts too
I'm still wide; but without as much padding as I was used to
I'm not doing anything specific really; just sticking to the smaller portions I had to get used to when I was in hospital with cholecystitis etc & after having an op to resolve that; lower fat intake etc
Training is lighter weights & higher reps now for me too; with plenty of walking in there as well. Gardening is great cardio too
As someone else has said, I'm going to ignore the scales for a bit. My trousers are loser, my belt is between holes currently (really annoying...) but weight has stayed around the same since I started at the gym about two months ago.
141kg today after the gym (which included a load of water). I was around 145kg at the end of January.
But, I can see a change in my body. Arms are bigger. Chest is less flabby.
I'm going in early on Thursday to use their scales at the gym which do water/muscle etc and to get my blood pressure checked as that was high when I started.
Strangely I'm enjoying the gym though!
141kg today after the gym (which included a load of water). I was around 145kg at the end of January.
But, I can see a change in my body. Arms are bigger. Chest is less flabby.
I'm going in early on Thursday to use their scales at the gym which do water/muscle etc and to get my blood pressure checked as that was high when I started.
Strangely I'm enjoying the gym though!
Blood pressure is still a little high but coming down to what it was.
Weight is the same as what it was when I first got weighed there.
141kg. Before I was 141.1kg.
But, fat is down 2.6kg and muscle is up 2.5kg. I'm actually very pleased with that. It's not been a massive life style change and it's something I'm still enjoying two months on. It's been the longest I've gone to the gym regularly since 2010.
Weight is the same as what it was when I first got weighed there.
141kg. Before I was 141.1kg.
But, fat is down 2.6kg and muscle is up 2.5kg. I'm actually very pleased with that. It's not been a massive life style change and it's something I'm still enjoying two months on. It's been the longest I've gone to the gym regularly since 2010.
Have proved to myself I can maintain a 'steady' weight for a month but while I have really cut back on beer/wine, chocolate and cheese remain my nemesis.
My head is really not in the right place currently, a lot going on... and I just eat too much and don't do enough walking, ... or maybe I am big boned and have dodgy glands!
I think it is 'A". Small pasty and a bar of dairy milk today for lunch. Fat b
d said it very well - I am unhappy cos I eat, I eat cos I am unhappy.
A couple weeks away with work, little opportunity for the extracurricular eating, and a chance to get focussed properly, to attack it through end of April, May and June.
My head is really not in the right place currently, a lot going on... and I just eat too much and don't do enough walking, ... or maybe I am big boned and have dodgy glands!
I think it is 'A". Small pasty and a bar of dairy milk today for lunch. Fat b
d said it very well - I am unhappy cos I eat, I eat cos I am unhappy. A couple weeks away with work, little opportunity for the extracurricular eating, and a chance to get focussed properly, to attack it through end of April, May and June.
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