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PM sent here too, thanks for doing this. Very timely.
PM sent - need to get my arse in gear this year, the timber has gone on over the last 12m 🙁
PM sent. Thanks Rob.
I'm going into the new year weighing several Ks less than last year. I shall not be participating... 😁
Email sent. Hope I will stay in for this one.
My mum got my other half a hot men with baby animals calendar.
For twelve months I'm going to be the lesser of two naked torsos she will see so will have to up my game... Or buy a puppy.
Sent a PM, so I'm in again.
Going well this year, until my wife had serious car crash. All my focus was taken up with things other than food and I had no time to exercise at all. As a result nearly all my good work was undone, especially when you factor in a 'sod it, i'll lose it in the new year Christmas'!
Matt
Sending PM now, thanks. Hope my heads in the right place for it this year, I really do. Could do with losing a fair bit with the amount I've piled on, especially over the past 18 months.
im in, need to shift some weight. lets see!!!
I’m in. Managed to shift a good bit about 1.5 years ago but work changes etc mean it’s crept back on.
#crispsforbreakfast
Have we started?
Is it too late to join? If not, how do I do it again?
Pm Rob Hilton your user name & an email addy for him to send reminders and a link to the spreadsheet of shame. First weigh in tomorrow. There’ll be a collective groan from the scales and fatties alike.
Done; only a few kg I want to shift but motivation has been sadly lacking.
Target is weight loss and improved muscle tone.
Emailing you now Rob Hilton. I was conspicuous by my absence last year (too much stress to even think about dieting!), but this year I’m back on it for sure... Did well in 2018, aiming to replicate that or better. Was the heaviest I’ve ever been when I weighed myself 5 days ago at 14st7, already lost 5lb in 5 days so...
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Possible suggestion, is there a way you could do the data collection via a survey (survey monkey etc), (same two questions every week, username, weight) get the output of that as an .xls file, then a simple bit of VBA, or just use vlookup to transfer, would save you having to type out everyones data every week.I wrested this task from TOJV’s sweaty grasp when I realised he was doing it in a very manual way. Google sheets it shall be again. I’d rather Excel, as I can develop it waaay faster, but anonymous access is a problem.
A Tableau dashboard would be ideal too, but liveupdates are an issue.
Errrrrr you lost me there👽
Please explain in layman’s/pc illiterate speak😜
Tempted to join if it’s not too difficult
Errrr
mboy
I wish I could be 14st again!!!!
Probably 20yrs or more since I registered anywhere near that.
Way back in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s I was a 10st weakling, now rocking almost 16st @65😏👍🏻💡
So, here we go again.....
95.4kg, aiming for 90 by end of March and then 86ish by summer.
86.1kg- at 5'8" that puts my BMI close to obese. Would have to get down to just under 75kg to be at the top of the "normal" range. Looks like it's the Marjorie Dawes Dust Diet for me!
If we're doing BMI, I'm in the 29's but I don't subscribe to that......at my recent lightest I was 13st and didn't feel good with it, and that still had me in the overweight category. To be mid healthy range I'd a further 1.5st down from that which I just can't see.
Elsewhere, it's been written that the BMI is flawed not only because it doesn't take build/athleticism into account but because it's only 2D, and we are 3D objects; ie as we get taller we get broader and deeper.
https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi.html
(not making excuses, I'm still a fatty in need of the Dust diet, but I need a realistic expectation)
Tiger6791
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Have we started?
Sort of. Well, I've weighed myself 🙂
Due to the number of late entries and a little procrastination on my part the email & link will be a day late.
So, weigh yourselves today, hope your starved brains will have the capacity to renember what it was and you'll have something to record it in tomorrow.
Chub Club is (almost) go!!
*Rob is so excited! 🤗 🤗
I think I’m in. Emailed Rob again as hadn’t heard anything (posted before I saw Rob’s post)
I started keeping a food diary with myfitnesspal a couple of days ago as I’ve stopped eating meat a few months back and was mildly concerned that I wasn’t getting enough protein as I seem to take a few days after a ride before my legs stop aching. Turns out I’m consuming less than half of what it’s telling me I should be having and that’s with making an effort to eat more protein. Will need to be more like Mr. Strong and have eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The other depressing thing it tells me is that the snickers duo that I had yesterday has more calories than my main meal did! I’m going to miss those delicious nutty chocolate treats.
have a bigger main meal and the balance will be restored. Sorted!!
have a bigger main meal and the balance will be restored. Sorted!!
You don’t get a body like this by accident 😀
Dagnamit! Forgot it was today (I blame the lack of email 😉) so have already drank a gallon of tea 😤 Will weigh tomorrow!
BMI... I don’t subscribe to that……at my recent lightest I was 13st and didn’t feel good with it, and that still had me in the overweight category. To be mid healthy range I’d a further 1.5st down from that which I just can’t see.
I do tend to agree- I know I'm not a brickouthose rugby player getting a high BMI- more of a Daddy Pig, I just find it a simple tool to try and come up with a target. Think when I started riding loads in late 2014 to do the Pru 100 in 2015 I was around 89kg and dropped to c75kg by the time of the ride.
Just found my data for the original Chub Club from 2017 (who's idea was that then?). I started at 85.6kg, was 75.4kg at the end of March and 69.5kg by the end of Jun. The April - June I remember was tough going. and even at the low 70kgs I still had a bit of flab but struggled to shift it.
depressing thing ..is the snickers duo that I had yesterday has more calories than my main meal
Snickers is my kryptonite too! So far since being back at work this year I've a 100% success rate at avoiding the vending machine. About 1hr to go before the munchies kick in and the desire to go walkies starts....
mboy
I wish I could be 14st again!!!!
Yeah but I might only be 4ft tall! 😉
86.1kg- at 5’8″ that puts my BMI close to obese.
BMI is highly misleading indeed. I’m only 2 inches taller but last weigh in the other day was 6kg heavier so even closer to the “obese” tag line...
So how did you manage to drop 5lb in as many days? Are we going to see the imboy diet for sale?
I can't fathom how the bmi reckons a healthy weight for my height is 55-74kg. At 55kg that'd be almost emaciated.
concerned that I wasn’t getting enough protein as I seem to take a few days after a ride before my legs stop aching.
I wouldnt be unduly concerned about aching legs after cycling. Most people (including vegetarians) get enough protein, once you work out where to get it from (veg obvs, and the great thing is you can rarely eat too much) I'd be more concerned about diettry fibre.
I also don't rate BMI. It's a population sized model rather than for individuals, although it's clearly a good enough proxy
GOOD LUCK 🤞
Thanks Rob.
Weighed in this morning and recorded it.
Do we have a standard group weigh in plan. I always go for first thing in the morning before breakfast as my starting point. Guess it doesn’t matter as long as you always do the same thing each weigh in.
I wouldnt be unduly concerned about aching legs after cycling. Most people (including vegetarians) get enough protein, once you work out where to get it from (veg obvs, and the great thing is you can rarely eat too much) I’d be more concerned about diettry fibre.
I Wasn’t overly concerned but they did seem to be aching longer than usual, I just thought that it might be a reason hence logging it all on mfp. I will definitely be upping my intake and will look at the fibre too.
Managing to resist the lure of the snickers, but I finish work in 1.5hrs and there's the temptation of the cheeses left from Christmas...
Emailed again as I think I've missed out 🙁
I'll join in, I'll PM you Rob. I was going to last year but I'm now the wrong side of 16 stone and I can't remember the last time I rode a bike that wasn't just a trundle round the park with the kids.
I can't see week 1 going well as I've got a LOT of cheese left.
I can’t see week 1 going well as I’ve got a LOT of cheese left.
I know the feeling, this weekend will be finishing things off time. Get on it properly after the weekend.
I'm in. Sorry for the late entry, Rob. Never managed much last year what with kids, work and constant allergies. On weapons grade anti histamines which are helping greatly, trying to be more assertive re my need for exercise, trying to not shovel shameful amounts of crap into my body (it's a wonder I'm not much bigger than I am). Started out around 87 kilos last year, today's weigh in has me pleasantly surprised at 83.5. I was actually down to 80.something after dropping out of the chub club but then tiredness got the better of me as the eldest decided that sleep wasn't really his thing and the old cycle of no exercise and crap food came round again. Seems like so many of us are caught in these cycles. On a brighter note for me, three cycle commutes to work (only 4 miles each way but you should see the bike, looks like I'm going bikepacking 🙄) and a run on Tuesday on my break at work and one pencilled in for tonight as well. Exercise is key for me, it helps me cope with life, if I can exercise then everything else should follow and as I keep saying to the gaffer it'll make me a better dad and partner. Anyway, thanks for listening to my drivel and good luck fellow chubblers. 👍
Oh go on then .....
Sorry for the late entry, have emailed you.
Thanks a milion for the efforts, now I can blame you if it doesn't work.
🙂
You should have yourself an email.
Avec une linky
If noty then sendy me an messagey
Anyone else who wants in: you're always welcome, we don't discriminate!
Except, maybe, against those who aren't big boned...
My scales just said weight difference too great, please confirm user, somehow I've put on 11kg since the end of November ffs, I thought I was having trouble tieing my shoe laces.
I've gone for a wildly ambitious 0.5kg per week weight loss. I think if I'm brutally honest I've only re-joined because Rob's emails crack me up.
Thanks Rob, all filled in..... time to start the 8/16 on Monday 🙂 I've gone for 0.5kgs per week too.
Cheers got the email 👍 Moment of truth/dread in the morning 😱
Viva la Macsween Vegetarian Haggis, bravo
The Mash nails it again....