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File Transfer Protocol? Nope, uploads are as good as ever (though I fail to see the relevance - unless you thought my chair was on the network cable?)
Sorry, I've no idea what my FTP is or how I'd know. Am I riding faster, yeah. Less weight to carry up hills I reckon and I've been riding more than usual too - partially in an effort to help the weight loss - so generally feeling fitter than I have for a couple of years.
Don't worry Rob, I'm sure anyone interested in this is looking for long term benefits, not short term anyway.
I seem to have managed to just about make target over the 3 months, I'm fairly active but always ate and drank what I wanted. I've really tried to cut back on beer and cake recently and seen the benefits this year, starting out at near 17 stone and now just being in the high 14s.
I'm not going to lie it's been hard work, but my face and body look really different and that has kept me going with the healthier food choices. I do have a beer as I'm typing this, but no one's perfect and it's free from work, so what's a guy to do?
Good luck for the next 3 months guys, stay strong in the face of the enemy (cake in my case!)
Well I started off really well but plateaued over the last couple of months. Lost 6kg since Christmas but only 2kg of that over the past 2 months. Now at 76kg. I must say my resolve for avoiding beer and biscuits has not as strong lately albeit, I'm keeping the exercise up. I guess this time of year is when most struggle after the initial enthusiasm. Anyone got any tips for motivation to keep going?
Finally done my updates. Kinda given up on it all. Shifts and kids mean I have no time for exercise. The only exercise I'd get is if I had a decent enough break at work and I've not had many. Last time I did though it was a bloody awful run and wondered what the point of one run every few weeks was. Been caning the junk as well so feeling quite wobbly around my middle. Got a bloody gym set up in the garage and I'm either time short or too knackered to do anything. The hot weather today has at least meant I've not wanted to put biscuits, pastry, cake and crisps away like a man on death row having his last meal. Just wish I could find the inspiration for exercise rather than finding excuses.
@jonny.
I'm lucky in that I have a bike commute to work and a handy gym near the office. But what I've found is that the old statement 'you can't outrun a bad diet' is so true. I've eaten really differently this year and dropped 12kg, I'm sure the exercise helps but I did that before and just maintained.
I guess with kids and shifts it's hard to find time, is there any room for preparing food in the week? I tend to do a big batch and just live off that for a while. Something easy to chick in the oven or slow cooker and not too high in fat!
I'd like to ride to work myself but I need to cart around a fair bit of kit, plus with the best will in the world riding 12 miles across town to start at 1am and finish after midday (for example) is never gonna happen.
Food wise though, yes, I do make time to take decent stuff to work (generally speaking). It's all the other crap I take along with it. Some days I feel constantly full because, well, I'm constantly shoving it into me.
Had real impetus today. Had a decent shift, home for 4, got a few small jobs done before dinner and told my partner I'd be hitting the gym after the kids had gone to bed. The pair of them have have nightmare put downs and it's just sapped the will to do anything else. As I said up there ^ I just don't see the point. I enjoy exercise, it's a release but to do it so infrequently just reminds me of what I'm missing out on. Might be a strange outlook to some but I'd rather regularly do something I enjoy and be half decent at it than get the chance once in a blue moon and it be more of a chore than enjoyment. However, one thing I do enjoy is eating...
my old man has started gaining weight pretty fast.
He is only 62, and a youthful 62 at that. Up until recently he has played squash to a very high standard but bad knees have forced his retirement…
He still trains in the gym 4 nights a week, and is a keen roady lycra bandit type. Also plays golf too.
I don’t think he eats that much either, he likes his buttered toast & jam in a morning, but dinner is always salad or soup and tea is usually a decent, homemade affair. Snack wise its chocolate hobnobs, but only 1 or 2 in the evening with a brew. Drinking only happens at weekend which is exclusively red wine…
He’s at a loss on what to change to start shedding some timber – any ideas?
im also worried this is what lies in store for me in a few years too!? I have a similar, if not slightly worse diet, and i probably exercise less frequently than him, although usually at a higher intensity…
Any more of us who are still in this need a reminder to update? There's about 4 entries in now. I'm pretty close to my original goal, no idea if I should keep losing or just looking to stabilise and add muscle now. Life doesn't come with handy instructions!
i still weigh in but don't remember to do the sheet until I see this thread or an email.
Got half a stone to target, but moving in the right direction
I have a weekly weigh in, so I usually bump the thread when I can as a reminder 🙂
A good update from me (a late entry to this thread). Friday morning weigh in saw me with a sub-25 BMI for the first time in years. That means I've met my original target for 2019 by losing a bit over 12kg (1 stone) to 72kg. That's despite a week of no exercise. I now have to decide whether to push on and try for another 2kg loss, though I'm sort of hoping that some improved weather and longer daylight will have me riding and running more anyway so it might fall off without much encouragement.
12kg is closer to 2st
I am an idiot. Can someone send me the link to the spreadsheet please? adamckendall [at] hotmail.com
Ta
Cheers Rob 👍
Good lord there's not been much activity of late... I, myself, have just updated for the 1st time in, I dunno? 4 weeks??
This is not the the path to size zero.
I shall weight myself in the morning.
Then shame myself on here.
Think i dropped from an A to an AA though.
I shall weight myself in the morning.
Then shame myself on here.
There'll be none of that shame park here mate! People weigh what they weigh, some people eat what they like and don't get heavier others do.
Have to admit I've got bored with tracking what I eat every day, but I am way more conscious of how much crap I used to eat, and more able to avoid at least some of that. My beer consumption has ramped back up a bit in the last couple of weeks and my weight loss has stalled though, weird that!
Poached eggs at the mid ride cafe stop yesterday instead of a sausage sandwich, felt very smug with myself. Till I realised eggs aren't as low fat as I thought 😀
Sun is shining where I am today, so going to get another cheeky ride in.
First entry on this thread... I am the heaviest I've ever been. Probably three stone overweight now.
Awaiting knee surgery, but in the interim I'm in too much pain to do anything physical. Now walking around with a stick and getting the bus with the old grannies. I've gone from a fit mountain biker to an old man in the space of five years.
To compound things I've been using beer to self-medicate the pain when I have to walk somewhere, as well as just to get a break from the nagging aches.
Anyway, enough feeling sorry for myself!
Any diets that have worked for you guys - please let me know.
I have to give up beer, that much I know.
Well, this died a death...
The Worng Troosers got in touch yesterday to plead with me to re-start this charade as he woke up and suddenly realised he's become a portly-pumpkin.
I think this isn't a bad idea - mostly cos I too have fallen pretty hard from the chubbly wagon and am now doing a pretty good impression of a fat bastard.
I'll send an email to anyone who was in this year inviting you to join in the misery of self-reflection and celery-munching; any one who doesn't get one and wants in - send me an email and I'll send you a link to where the thingy lives and, if you're really lucky, some instructions.
HERE'S TO OUR FUTURE SELVES!!
Back on it like Barry White on a dented car bonnet
The Tiger of luuurve!
ahhh bollocks. since it dies a death ive got fat (+5kg now) and slower on the bike.
Im in.
[puts down biscuit tin and gets an apple instead]
I've missed skimming past Robs e-mails and thinking "I'll try harder next week".
I'm in*! 🙂
* ish. Silverstone this weekend, Sardinia for a fortnight the week after, Wales the weekend after that... Need to shift some pounds - committed to riding up Ventoux in September, I think it'll be more push than pedal. 🙁
Really got to fit in my new suit for sons wedding in 4wks time, so I'm in 😃
I need email addresses for:
Jamesy01
Snotrag
Toby 1
Brainflex
cubist
Which I do have, but I can't link them to their usernames 🙂
Otherwise, a good start - only these miscreants haven't filed out their starting weights:
The Wrong Trousers
Muggomagic
They shall be hearing from me...
my and all my chins are in
I'm going on me hols on Friday so not great timing but I'm in.
Hello team
Things are going good for me.
Ended up getting a trainer at the gym, do sessions 3 times a month. He helped me do various free weights and things I didn't know about and also to work round injuries (rotator cuff tear in shoulder and severe chronic ligament damage in my knee)
Have lost weight and am lifting more weights than before, so I guess I'm getting more muscly. I didn't do before pics or anything and kind of hard to tell. I feel like I look more trim and my clothes are definitely looser!
Interestingly, I have not had to take my painkillers for my knee for the last 6 weeks or so. I guess the weight loss and the strengthening exercises have helped.
So that is excellent - had been on them for > 10 years!
Was feeling a bit shitty - sick and depressed.... couldn't work it out until I released I had stopped taking opiates after 10 solid years. Yeah, that'll mess with your chemistry!
Only issue now is that as I've focused on gym work my endurance and cardio is down. Need to get back to doing classes and more bike rides!
Email sent now Rob 🙂
For motivation not bragging ...
I'm 16kg down this year, I'm shopping in large and medium sized clothes as opposed to XL. I've been setting better and better Parkrun times all year, I'm flying on my bike commute. I still love cake and beer but I try to eat a bit less of it these days. I've dropped a bit on my deadlift but improved my form, so while I may be a bit weaker I'm still lifting plenty.
Nice work YGH & toby1
Email sent - get yo updates in.
The scores on doors aint scores on the doors when there aint no scores.
i need to get back involved in this. only down strength stuff recently and got big but a power belly has appeared (did get to 145kg on the bench and 240kg on the squat though)
email send and looking forward to getting back on it, if only so my road bike wheels don't cry when i ride it!
did get to 145kg on the bench and 240kg on the squat though
Wow, that's pretty heavy, what was your bodyweight (should really just check on spreadsheet)?
Wow, that’s pretty heavy, what was your bodyweight (should really just check on spreadsheet)?
You could, if only he'd input it 🙂
Caught up.... holds head in fatty shame 🙁
caught up, apologies
no weight lost 🙁
Uuuuuuuuuupppppppddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattteeessssssssss....
I lost 0.4lb this week - go me!!
Curry tonight to celebrate 🤗🤗