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Thanks Rob for all you cajoling and amusing messages (and effort in keeping us ticking along).
Well **** me! I've just done my update for the 1st time in 5 weeks and I'm below target - it's almost like not obsessing about it works out for me 🙂
The way I've set things up the next quarter begins on the day the previous finishes.
So, Q3 begins next week: 26/06/2020 A.D. (AKA The Year of the Tiger)
3 months(ish) it shall be; ending 29th September.
I've been sworn in and deputised with The Chub club Promise
I promise that I will do my best to do my duty to email every Friday
and to the weigh in,
to help other people, not to eat cake (everyday at least)
and to keep the Chub Club going.
I can't promise the wit but I'll do my best...
still above target, in fact my weight is 1kg up for the whole quarter. May as well blow out the next week a really go for it in Q3....
Bravo Rob and Tiger - count me in. Fitter but somehow heavier.
I've sent a private message with my email address. Thanks again. Should help me stay focused on flab free third quarter. May the flab not be with us! (Sorry)
Another slow week for me with only a 600g loss over last week. It's been a bit of a struggle for me lately with stuff going on at home that I have no control over and I feel the need to snack. Chocolate is calling me and while I've resisted so far it's getting harder every day.
Huge thanks to Rob for the wit and the reminders. Both have helped. And thanks to Tiger for picking up the mantle.
Sadly I have flat lined over recent weeks and am 2lbs short of my target. Lots going on over here, so exercise has been limited and the diet has not been at its peak - I think it is fair to say.
Here's to Q3!!😊
First weight added. It's 1.7 more than it was 2 weeks ago 😲
Hello all! I'd like to join for Q3 please. I've just rejoined the forum, clicked on Rob's profile to send a pm but nothing seems to be happening..... Some things change in this world but I always seem to get heavier and the forum still remains clunky! Can I join in??
So is this week the start of Q3 Chub Club ? The excel file has the first weigh in as Friday 3rd July. Can the excel file be updated please 🙂
Maaaaybe (:
@chrispoffer
Have massaged you - if no worky we will find another weigh.
Coming in hot...well, more lukewarm really.
Completely bailed on Q1/2, but in for Q3.
Need to shift the quarantine lbs....and what a quarantine it's been.
Welcome back our Jamie!
I can assure you, you weren't missed :p
El spreadsheet has been updated, so Q3 is now officially GO!
The currency for this season, in resepct of how excited I am about the pubs re-opening* is Mr Porky Pork Scratchings. Quite fitting for this club, I feel.
No! Not because of the name - they contain very nearly no carbs!!!!
But shiteloads of fat...
*Mind you I've decided to knnock drinking on the head for a couple of months
I'm in and updated my target, bravo Rob. I need this. 0.5lb a week is target.
Mind you I’ve decided to knock drinking on the head
Quite right, you spill most of it when you're upside down.
I was a bit miffed I went up a bit in the last 2 weeks- still gives a bit of padding for Q3!
I'm in!...... and have updated the sheet with this week's weight.
It's the first time I've really tracked my weight - and as I'm a reet heifer AND the wrong side of 50 it's definitely not before time. I started upping my dog walking (from a quick round the block to 2.5-3 miles a day) when I was on furlough and have been quite pleased that I've kept it up even though I've been back at work (from home) since the 14th May. I started on the 22nd April and have managed 182 miles since then.
I've managed to drop a steady 1lb or so a week since April, I'm hoping that the 'public' weigh in on a Friday will give me a bit of incentive to keep it going.
2KG off this week. Makes up for last week's frankly pathetic 300g...
Email sent, wrote it before the Pork Scratching decision, so erm... 'scratch that'
Hopefully it worked, hopefully I'll remember every Friday.... reminder set!
Good luck all...
(If I totally messed up the email, sorry, go easy it's my first time)
Nowt wrong with pork scratchings. I have some every day for breakfast.
Nowt wrong with pork scratchings. I have some every day for breakfast.
But do you have them in your ice cream? Breakfast of champignons, that is.
wrote it before the Pork Scratching decision, so erm… ‘scratch that’
Funnily enough, I read the email and updated the currency before I saw that^ 🙂
Plateauing a bit but filling in the new spreadsheet felt oddly inspiring. Will have to be brave and "maybe-later" the OH's offers of some generously spread newly baked bread/fresh home made icecream etc etc.
It's not so bad - it could be much worse!
Anecdote time....
I remember driving my Mum's partner home from hospital after he'd had a heart attack & had a stent put in. A little voice from the back confessed that she was going to have to think of something else for dinner.
"What were you going to have, Mum?"
"Tartiflette"
I had no idea what this was but in their kitchen I found a hand written recipe which went something like:
Lard
Cheese
Bacon
Butter
Ham
...
I may have said, "Jesus, no wonder he just had a heart attack!"
She was a fantastic cook (and to be fair it could as easily have been grilled fish and fresh veg) but you never walked away thinner!
Tartiflette = lardy deliciousness.
Oh mah gahd fellow chubbsters, it's Friday again already! Step on the scales please, one at a time...
Hmm 0.4kg loss this week. I'll take that given the aquisition of a pizza oven last week, a few beers and the kids baking brownies and flapjacks. Sun's coming out after a dismal week, so I expect the oven will be fired up again!
still no loss despite having my hair cut yesterday
0.7KG for me, which I'm OK with.
I'm also OK with having to take a load of new clothes back to Tesco because I've dropped another size since buying them at the end of May! That and the fact they're not all the same bloody size in the first place, despite what the labels say...
Despite me saying I will be all over this, unfortunately I just don't do it. 🙁
However, this week has been different. After reaching my highest weight ever (in 48 years), last Sunday I decided to pay for MyFitnessPal and start again using the 5:2 eating habit.
Refuse to call it a diet as it is a change of life style for me - not something to endure to lose weight.
600 calorie days are Monday and Thursday and managed it surprisingly easy.
Rest of the time, everything is calorie counted to 2200 a day.
Now getting into it and feel better already.
And lost 3lb this week.
Onwards and downwards (into more sensibly sized clothes)
Huge thanks to Rob for sticking with this and keeping the digs of motivation through emails.
Down .7kg this week for me which I'm very happy with. I'm sticking to my exercise and calorie deficit approach. Mostly sticking to below 1900 per day and exercising quite hard 3 days burning a total of ~2100 per week so the combined approach seems to work. Down a total now of about 9.5kg which is great and I'm sticking to it.
A little gain for me but then I've not exercised at all for the last 4 days as my hip and glutes have been too sore. Must do better!
Plateau smashed, 0.5kg down w00t. Down to a last minute flurry of exercise at the end of the week. I was surprised TBH as the OH has worked out how to make peanut butter ice-cream...
Small loss, but a loss is better than a gain 🙂
Chub Club...we have a problem! Most of us (myself included) seem to be going up in weight, judging by todays weigh in results. Must be all the muscle mass were putting on 🙂
+1 to that- I blame the new pizza oven.
Dammit! I'm back to where I started - will have to take it serioulsy this week.
And stop eating crisps 🙂
Stop buying them, that helps restrict consumption!
My second week of doing something about my life has resulted in sub 260lb for the first time in months 🙂
Still embarrassingly mahoosive but, going the right way.
I've lost 1.4kg this week but not sure how permanent it is as the last time I dipped below 75kg it was only for 2 days and then went back up to 76kg. A weight my body seems to like being at.
Ridden quite a bit this week, the crippling hip and glutes pain has subsided but I'm still a little sore and stuff after the last few days of riding. I've increased my stretching regime after each ride and hopefully I'll get less sore from now on.
I've also been told that I have a place (1 of 12) at this years Cairngorm 300km loop ride in September. All depending on COVID-19 of course. Rode 92km on Thursday night and felt stronger towards the end than the start, I need to get at least 1 longer ride in per week from now on, wish me luck 🤞
Keep it up Twonks!
I think the "don't buy it and then you won't eat it!" Is the way to go. I'm terrible for biscuits but if there is any in the house then there is zero chance of me - accidentally - eating a whole packet of chocolate hobnobs 😏
Another reason why I make sure I have no coins on me so I can't be tempted by the vending machine at work.
To all the members of chub-club, you can do it! Just keep chipping away at it and every little bit counts whether it's refusing a dessert when out for a meal or the walk to the shop instead of taking the car, they all count!
I think the “don’t buy it and then you won’t eat it!” Is the way to go.
Rob concurs! Zero crips purchased this week = zero crips eaten = zero gain.
Now I just need to learn to apply the same to beer and I'm away! 🙂
I swear by having shedloads of *nice* fruit (grapes, easy peelers, bananas, good apples) and tasty pickles about, and as a backup will try raiding the home knitted muesli for nuts and raisins before heading for THE TOAST.
Mainly though it seems to be a frantic end-of-week flurry of exercise that shifts stuff each week.
I’m glad I enjoyed my holiday, it’s be really annoying to put on 7KG in week if I hadn’t had a good time...
doomanic,
I'm no expert but I think it's almost impossible to put 7kg of fat on in a week (that would mean you've eaten an additional 52500 calories over the week based on 1kg of body fat containing 7500 calories). Maybe you've been eating more salty food, if so, a lot of that 7kg will be water which you'll lose pretty quick if you adjust your diet to more plain whole foods for a week or two.
🤞
Yeah, I know, it just amused me that’s all. I did feel “fat” by the end of the holiday though...
I’m back on the Keto bus now so I should see a return to normality pretty quickly.