The 2025 Weight Loss Thread
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Back to 86kg. A benefit of being ill I guess. Picked up a chest infection which is just about easing. Tendonitis in big toe is nearly gone after a month. Do want at least one more mountain before the year is out, then be quite aggressive is bagging them the start of next year. Have a number in my head I'd like to get to as we're on 80 already. Don't think we'll finish it for another year or so yet as they are all in North Wales so its 3-4hrs drive from Swansea to get there.. Will do holidays but airbnbs would get expensive if I did them all the time.
Just had a shufti through wardrobes, brought down 5 pairs of jeans and five waistcoats that I can now wear for work, some are brand new still got tags on. Last fitted me 6 years ago. Been 17 stone on the button last three mornings. Lightest I've been since I was 18 years old. 56 now...
I love an old piece of valued clothing, kept for sentimental reasons, that now fits again and gives you information.
I have this very dark brown velvet jacket that was tailored for me when I was very fit about 15 years ago. It was an expensive piece, and doesnt stretch to fit, at all. It is genuinely the sort of thing you want to hand down to someone. Never got rid of it, and in more recent years have kept as one of our daughters may want it, one day, re-tailored for them.
Well, sorry, girls. I wore it out tonight
. It isn't as loose around the middle as it was then, but the single button does fasten happily around my midriff.
Interestingly, my weight has hovered around 85kgs for the last six weeks. But it didn't fit me a couple of months back, when i was down at 83kgs. So my body is reshaping itself, but weight isn't dropping. In fact, it is tighter around the shoulders and upper arms than it used to be. No bad thing.
Clothes tell you things that the scales do not. Now to keep this up!
I have this very dark brown velvet jacket that was tailored for me when I was very fit about 15 years ago. It was an expensive piece, and doesnt stretch to fit, at all. It is genuinely the sort of thing you want to hand down to someone. Never got rid of it, and in more recent years have kept as one of our daughters may want it, one day, re-tailored for them.
Well, sorry, girls. I wore it out tonight
. It isn't as loose around the middle as it was then, but the single button does fasten happily around my midriff.Interestingly, my weight has hovered around 85kgs for the last six weeks. But it didn't fit me a couple of months back, when i was down at 83kgs. So my body is reshaping itself, but weight isn't dropping. In fact, it is tighter around the shoulders and upper arms than it used to be. No bad thing.
Clothes tell you things that the scales do not. Now to keep this up!
Merry Christmas everyone. This is why I set off on my journey over 12 months ago now. I woke up on Boxing Day with a stinking hangover having due to the tradition of my Dad bringing a bottle of single malt and not letting me go to bed until it had gone. This was after about 6 different nights out and meals over December. My body was a mess, 18 stone there or thereabouts. I spent the rest of 2024 sweating it out of myself and feeling sorry for myself, knocked drinking on the head, joined the gym and started eating properly.
I didn't want to be fat and unfit and then throw 40 years old into the mix.
So I'm 40 now, nearly 7 stone down and haven't felt this healthy in as long as I can remember. Time has flown, I've cycled 10 miles a day for the past 3 months for charity, energy levels are through the roof, my badminton is back where it used to be i.e. county level and I've taken up padel and hit a good standard very quickly. I can lift twice as much as I could this time last year and I don't get out of breath/sweaty at the thought of exercise anymore.
Life is so much better. So to everyone closer to the beginning of the journey, keep going, it's all worth it. I'm allowing myself a couple of these brownies/blondies my wife baked and I'm going to enjoy them.
All the best!
AB said:
Merry Christmas everyone. This is why I set off on my journey over 12 months ago now. I woke up on Boxing Day with a stinking hangover having due to the tradition of my Dad bringing a bottle of single malt and not letting me go to bed until it had gone. This was after about 6 different nights out and meals over December. My body was a mess, 18 stone there or thereabouts. I spent the rest of 2024 sweating it out of myself and feeling sorry for myself, knocked drinking on the head, joined the gym and started eating properly.
I didn't want to be fat and unfit and then throw 40 years old into the mix.
So I'm 40 now, nearly 7 stone down and haven't felt this healthy in as long as I can remember. Time has flown, I've cycled 10 miles a day for the past 3 months for charity, energy levels are through the roof, my badminton is back where it used to be i.e. county level and I've taken up padel and hit a good standard very quickly. I can lift twice as much as I could this time last year and I don't get out of breath/sweaty at the thought of exercise anymore.
Life is so much better. So to everyone closer to the beginning of the journey, keep going, it's all worth it. I'm allowing myself a couple of these brownies/blondies my wife baked and I'm going to enjoy them.
All the best!
biggbn said:
AB said:
Merry Christmas everyone. This is why I set off on my journey over 12 months ago now. I woke up on Boxing Day with a stinking hangover having due to the tradition of my Dad bringing a bottle of single malt and not letting me go to bed until it had gone. This was after about 6 different nights out and meals over December. My body was a mess, 18 stone there or thereabouts. I spent the rest of 2024 sweating it out of myself and feeling sorry for myself, knocked drinking on the head, joined the gym and started eating properly.
I didn't want to be fat and unfit and then throw 40 years old into the mix.
So I'm 40 now, nearly 7 stone down and haven't felt this healthy in as long as I can remember. Time has flown, I've cycled 10 miles a day for the past 3 months for charity, energy levels are through the roof, my badminton is back where it used to be i.e. county level and I've taken up padel and hit a good standard very quickly. I can lift twice as much as I could this time last year and I don't get out of breath/sweaty at the thought of exercise anymore.
Life is so much better. So to everyone closer to the beginning of the journey, keep going, it's all worth it. I'm allowing myself a couple of these brownies/blondies my wife baked and I'm going to enjoy them.
All the best!
k it, it's Christmas!'
Christmas is a tough time isn't it, I can definitely see and feel some podge round my stomach making an appearance but to be honest I did say to myself that I wasn't going to even worry about it until the New Year and I have been eating very little for a long time that it's bound to happen.
But I am looking forward to getting back from holiday and getting straight back into the gym.
But I am looking forward to getting back from holiday and getting straight back into the gym.
AB said:
Christmas is a tough time isn't it, I can definitely see and feel some podge round my stomach making an appearance but to be honest I did say to myself that I wasn't going to even worry about it until the New Year and I have been eating very little for a long time that it's bound to happen.
But I am looking forward to getting back from holiday and getting straight back into the gym.
Thats me done with treats. I said I'd have some crisps, nuts and sweets 25th and 26th then back on it. Going to have a fast day today to reset the balance. Looking in mirror I'd say I'm 2lb over 24th weight. Off out for a decent cycle and walk today before gym this afternoon. But I am looking forward to getting back from holiday and getting straight back into the gym.
I go away for a week on Monday, back on 6th so I'm not stressing until then. My biggest indicator would be the new 30" jeans I've bought getting tight as they were OK when I bought them and so far that hasn't happened. It's probably down to not having been to the gym for a week and I've also completed my cycling challenge which was 900 miles in 3 months so I'm used to 10 miles a day on the bike which tbh I didn't enjoy so won't be carrying on with cycling like I was.
I don't know if this is allowed and it may get moved but if anyone is interested and feeling generous, I'll drop the link...
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/alexbergh
(I don't know how successful I'll be but I'm having a party for my 40th tomorrow so I've laminated a QR code and asked that nobody buy me a drink, just drop a few quid in here, don't ask don't get and all of that)
I don't know if this is allowed and it may get moved but if anyone is interested and feeling generous, I'll drop the link...
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/alexbergh
(I don't know how successful I'll be but I'm having a party for my 40th tomorrow so I've laminated a QR code and asked that nobody buy me a drink, just drop a few quid in here, don't ask don't get and all of that)
Was properly ill on boxing day morning about 3am. On the positive side it meant everything I ate during the day came back out.
Spent the day in bed yesterday, and today I'm at my lightest of the year. 91.4kg, down from 107.2kg at the start of the year. Target one was 100, then 95 and now its 90.7kg, so I'll take that.
Well done to all you losers.
89.6 today (Sunday). Can't quite believe it. Surpassed the stretch stretch target.
Spent the day in bed yesterday, and today I'm at my lightest of the year. 91.4kg, down from 107.2kg at the start of the year. Target one was 100, then 95 and now its 90.7kg, so I'll take that.
Well done to all you losers.
89.6 today (Sunday). Can't quite believe it. Surpassed the stretch stretch target.
Edited by S100HP on Sunday 28th December 12:31
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