The 2025 Weight Loss Thread
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Dwindling thread participants is not a new thing and I'm usually gone by now so I guess I should be pleased I've hung on this long.
I fully expect my weight to creep over 100kg over Christmas, but at the end of October? +2.6kg over a couple of weeks taking me to 99.6kg
Self-destruct is my superpower.
I know if I get my diet back in check I'll be rewarded with a quick dip in that number, but not sure I'm quite there at the mo.
Was a bit nervous getting on the scales today so it shows I still care. Writing it down rather than quietly disappearing off the thread. Maybe it'll stick. I'll see you next week or the 1st Jan
I've done this.I fully expect my weight to creep over 100kg over Christmas, but at the end of October? +2.6kg over a couple of weeks taking me to 99.6kg
Self-destruct is my superpower.
I know if I get my diet back in check I'll be rewarded with a quick dip in that number, but not sure I'm quite there at the mo.
Was a bit nervous getting on the scales today so it shows I still care. Writing it down rather than quietly disappearing off the thread. Maybe it'll stick. I'll see you next week or the 1st Jan
2kg up on holiday in a week, according to the scales in their gym. Not drinking much, but man, desserts.
Iwever, loads of fresh fish and good protein and vegetables. And I have been been strength training almost every day so am stronger than I was, having the luxury of daily gym time, so sessions for alternate muscles, taking my time. Normally I train at home in a spare room, surrounded by stuff, so having proper space and equipment is nice as opposed to my simple set of adjustable dumb bells.
Shall have a de-load, cardio, eating less week or two when I get back.
I sort of don't mind a bit of weight gain in the context of good eating and strength training, really. It's feels less like damage, and more like enjoying myself in a controlled way.
Look forward to the freak out when my home scales tell me it's 5kg, not 2 kg...
This morning I hit my goal of 190lb weighing in at a rude 189.3lb. Total loss to date is now 80lb.
The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
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k it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.
So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
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k it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
Mr Roper said:
This morning I hit my goal of 190lb weighing in at a rude 189.3lb. Total loss to date is now 80lb.
The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
fk it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.
So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
That is just amazing. Well done!The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
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k it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
Mr Roper said:
This morning I hit my goal of 190lb weighing in at a rude 189.3lb. Total loss to date is now 80lb.
The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
fk it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.
So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
Well done Mr. R, an inspiration!! The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
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k it.....I've come this far, I'm leaner than I ever thought possible, I love training and nutrition so it would be nuts to not push a little further. No more weight goals, no more timescales...Just keep chipping away until it happens.So, yeah..On to the next challenge, but for right now, a well earned night out with my wife is long over due.
Good luck all.
Mr Roper said:
The new goal ..(drum roll)...is abs. And not the anti locking kind.
This is far harder to maintain that weight!! You need to hit sub 15% body fat, which for me takes a huge amount of will power, and wasn't sustainable for me.The only time I managed it was when I physically ill and couldn't eat properly, weight dropped to below 70kgs, abs were far more visible but I felt physically awful.
I've lost track of weight recently and more focused on strength/rowing etc. My weight appears to have gone up above my target of 75kg, but according to the bio-impedance numbers (?lies) it's all muscle and not fat, for my mental health I'll pretend the numbers are real
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Really needing to knuckle down, been bouncing around between 18st 4 and 18st 8 for last two weeks so further calorie cut and gonna concentrate on getting my steps up this week. Would like into the 17s sometime in November. I am now fitting into clothes that have not fitted for years which is nice as it makes me realise what I have lost, because I always feel that we dont notice ourself, or certainly not as much as we should.
Gym done today 5am, protein and wholemeal bread done, off to work soon...
Gym done today 5am, protein and wholemeal bread done, off to work soon...
gangzoom said:
This is far harder to maintain that weight!! You need to hit sub 15% body fat, which for me takes a huge amount of will power, and wasn't sustainable for me.
The only time I managed it was when I physically ill and couldn't eat properly, weight dropped to below 70kgs, abs were far more visible but I felt physically awful.
I'm not that far off 15%....maybe even a smidge under. Feel good, lots of energy and still very motivated so I'll carry on. The only time I managed it was when I physically ill and couldn't eat properly, weight dropped to below 70kgs, abs were far more visible but I felt physically awful.
I feel like I'm weeks away rather than months before I get to where I want and then start the slow reverse.
carlove said:
So, in terms of body fat, mine works out at 22%, doesn t seem a million miles away from the 15% mentioned above, but I m not sure if 22% is a good figure? Google reckons its average, which I ll happily accept.
I can only go by my relatively inexpensive Salter body analysis scale.It is a bit weird, because it has different settings for "normal" folk and 'Athlete'. It defines the 'Athlete' setting as being for folk who train more than a certain number of hours per week.
I've got two presets on the go. One of each. And the daft/weird bit is that you can get on the scale seconds apart and it'll give you a significantly different set of numbers. 'Athlete' setting yields lower BMI, lower body fat, greater muscle mass and greater skeletal mass.
I guess the data returned by the sensor pads gets treated differently during analysis, and therefore presents the user with different values.
I know I likely fit the definition of 'Athlete' for the purposes of using this scale, but I always use the "normal" setting, which returns lower muscle mass and higher body fat.
Fat was 19.3% for me this morning, and muscle mass was 35.3%. But I don't really trust those numbers in absolute terms because when you add in water % and skeletal mass the total is well over 100%. I just keep an eye on general trends up or down. Also (TMI?) I can bring my fat % down about half a %, and my muscle % up, just by going for a poo. Bowel content clearly has an instant effect on the %ages.
Again, I'm no expert, and I haven't had any professional/medical measurements done to know how accurate the scale's figures are, so it is just an idea of which direction things are going in, rather than accurate absolute data.
Edited by yellowjack on Monday 27th October 20:05
yellowjack said:
I can only go by my relatively inexpensive Salter body analysis scale.
It is a bit weird, because it has different settings for "normal" folk and 'Athlete'. It defines the 'Athlete' setting as being for folk who train more than a certain number of hours per week.
I've got two presets on the go. One of each. And the daft/weird bit is that you can get on the scale seconds apart and it'll give you a significantly different set of numbers. 'Athlete' setting yields lower BMI, lower body fat, greater muscle mass and greater skeletal mass.
I guess the data returned by the sensor pads gets treated differently during analysis, and therefore presents the user with different values.
I know I likely fit the definition of 'Athlete' for the purposes of using this scale, but I always use the "normal" setting, which returns lower muscle mass and higher body fat.
Fat was 19.3% for me this morning, and muscle mass was 35.3%. But I don't really trust those numbers in absolute terms because when you add in water % and skeletal mass the total is well over 100%. I just keep an eye on general trends up or down. Also (TMI?) I can bring my fat % down about half a %, and my muscle % up, just by going for a poo. Bowel content clearly has an instant effect on the %ages.
Again, I'm no expert, and I haven't had any professional/medical measurements done to know how accurate the scale's figures are, so it is just an idea of which direction things are going in, rather than accurate absolute data.
Thank you, I’ve got a set of Salter scales and had a play this morning and it does some of the above, gives body fat, water % and a BMI reading (24.7, which I like).It is a bit weird, because it has different settings for "normal" folk and 'Athlete'. It defines the 'Athlete' setting as being for folk who train more than a certain number of hours per week.
I've got two presets on the go. One of each. And the daft/weird bit is that you can get on the scale seconds apart and it'll give you a significantly different set of numbers. 'Athlete' setting yields lower BMI, lower body fat, greater muscle mass and greater skeletal mass.
I guess the data returned by the sensor pads gets treated differently during analysis, and therefore presents the user with different values.
I know I likely fit the definition of 'Athlete' for the purposes of using this scale, but I always use the "normal" setting, which returns lower muscle mass and higher body fat.
Fat was 19.3% for me this morning, and muscle mass was 35.3%. But I don't really trust those numbers in absolute terms because when you add in water % and skeletal mass the total is well over 100%. I just keep an eye on general trends up or down. Also (TMI?) I can bring my fat % down about half a %, and my muscle % up, just by going for a poo. Bowel content clearly has an instant effect on the %ages.
Again, I'm no expert, and I haven't had any professional/medical measurements done to know how accurate the scale's figures are, so it is just an idea of which direction things are going in, rather than accurate absolute data.
Edited by yellowjack on Monday 27th October 20:05
That gave me an early morning, pre breakfast 20.3% body fat, which seems ok. Not sure how accurate it is, or if measuring my belly and hips and an online calculator is better.
Was a pound up though, but not a weight in day, just a play with scales day, so not going to worry about it.
Just came across this thread and I have to say it s really inspiring reading everyone's weight loss stories and seeing all the encouragement being shared here.
I wanted to add an update on my own journey. I started back in May this year at around 117kg, which was the heaviest I've ever been. By the end of July, I was also going through a breakup, and that was the point where I realised I needed to focus on myself and my health. With my 40th birthday coming up next year, I knew that the longer I stayed at that weight, the harder it would be to make a change.
I started Mounjaro in mid-August at 112kg, and as of my last weigh-in on Saturday, I m down to 100kg. That s an average loss of about 1.2kg per week, and I'm still only on the 2.5mg dose, which is working really well for me. Alongside taking Mounjaro, I've completely changed my eating habits with a strict but balanced diet, and I'm walking around 17,000 steps six days a week.
I have noticed a bit of muscle loss, so I went to the gym for an assessment with a PT. Based on my measurements, he thinks my ideal weight with muscle would be around 85 to 90kg, so I'm not too far off. I've now booked four months of weekly PT sessions to focus on building muscle while losing the last 15kg. I'm feeling really motivated to reach my goal weight , the last time I was anywhere near that was about 12 years ago, and I remember being in a much happier, healthier place then.
On a side note, I had to clear out about 80% of my wardrobe recently because most of my clothes no longer fit. That's when it really hit me how much progress I've made so far, and it's only pushed me to keep going.
Thanks for reading!
I wanted to add an update on my own journey. I started back in May this year at around 117kg, which was the heaviest I've ever been. By the end of July, I was also going through a breakup, and that was the point where I realised I needed to focus on myself and my health. With my 40th birthday coming up next year, I knew that the longer I stayed at that weight, the harder it would be to make a change.
I started Mounjaro in mid-August at 112kg, and as of my last weigh-in on Saturday, I m down to 100kg. That s an average loss of about 1.2kg per week, and I'm still only on the 2.5mg dose, which is working really well for me. Alongside taking Mounjaro, I've completely changed my eating habits with a strict but balanced diet, and I'm walking around 17,000 steps six days a week.
I have noticed a bit of muscle loss, so I went to the gym for an assessment with a PT. Based on my measurements, he thinks my ideal weight with muscle would be around 85 to 90kg, so I'm not too far off. I've now booked four months of weekly PT sessions to focus on building muscle while losing the last 15kg. I'm feeling really motivated to reach my goal weight , the last time I was anywhere near that was about 12 years ago, and I remember being in a much happier, healthier place then.
On a side note, I had to clear out about 80% of my wardrobe recently because most of my clothes no longer fit. That's when it really hit me how much progress I've made so far, and it's only pushed me to keep going.
Thanks for reading!
Edited by maniac886 on Tuesday 28th October 08:03
Harry Flashman said:
gangzoom said:
^That's impressive work!!
Truly it is. Inspiring, in fact.Keep it up Maniac...Great forward planning getting a PT on board. It's best advise I would offer if asked. If you both connect and stay consistent you'll soon reap the rewards.
I've had multiple new wardrobes..It does sometimes suck when buy something really nice with a great fit to soon looking like a you're wearing Homers fat frock. But it's a nice problem to have. Good luck.
carlove said:
So, in terms of body fat, mine works out at 22%, doesn t seem a million miles away from the 15% mentioned above, but I m not sure if 22% is a good figure? Google reckons its average, which I ll happily accept.
There is a MASSIVE difference between 22% body fat and 15%. If you can drop 7% body fat with ease then you have a physiology the rest of us would dream about!! At 75kg I need to drop about 5kg of overall body weight (6%) to drop my body fat by 1-2% and get anywhere close to 15% (currently 17%ish). Edited by gangzoom on Tuesday 28th October 10:25
gangzoom said:
carlove said:
So, in terms of body fat, mine works out at 22%, doesn t seem a million miles away from the 15% mentioned above, but I m not sure if 22% is a good figure? Google reckons its average, which I ll happily accept.
There is a MASSIVE difference between 22% body fat and 15%. If you can drop 7% body fat with ease then you have a physiology the rest of us would dream about!! At 75kg I need to drop about 5kg of overall body weight (6%) to drop my body fat by 1-2% and get anywhere close to 15% (currently 17%ish). Edited by gangzoom on Tuesday 28th October 10:25
To drop that % I lost an estimated 4kg of bodyfat, that was c60% of my bodyfat (5.7kg to 1.8kg) and took 9 months. At the same time my overall weight went from 64.1kg to 58.9kg.
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