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Sorry, been a shitty day here will try and email before midnight!
no worries, just reminding.
Jamie - Memberbefore and after pics sometimes help to gauge progress rather than just scales.
Photoshop doesn't count in this instance.
I'm in. Will email tomorrow
Photoshop doesn't count in this instance
That's where I have been going wrong then.
Will email you in a bit, Jon.
Once this gets going it would be helpful to hear what seems to be working for people.
As chakaping mentioned above, I'm also planning to take the "slow but steady route". Never been good at cold turkey - no will power! But slowly cutting down on intake and increasing output will hopefully work for me.
I agree, I'm just collating numbers - this is your / our thread to use as self-motivation, to help each other and to share what's working and what isn't.
For me, Jan is about booze and snack removal. That'll help me a lot I think.
I'm in.
Embarrassing the state I've let my self get in to.
Will weigh in & email you in the morning.
Oh lordy 100kg, that's a work from home desk job for the last year and a half. Aiming to get down to 85kg by summer, would be better to lose a chunk of weight if I have to have an op later in the year anyway.
Ouch! 16st on the nose. But then the excesses of xmas and the last few months have stopped today as planned, as has the booze... just need to start excersizing again now.... but that is one major obstacle. Some of you may know that I suffer from severe bi polar (manic depressive knife maker... what could possibly go wrong?!) and also have bouts of agoraphobia which makes getting out of the house tricky. So this may be the kick up the arris I need... here's hoping! Sorry for the ramble....
Well...I guess I'll email in tomorrow. On mobile, and can't be asked to parse Jon's non-clickable email 😉
Funny isn't it, I'm a 34" waist at nearly 15st 5lb but I'm 6ft and well built. Seems funny that someone 2 stone lighter has the same waist size.
Yup quite agree. Thing is I'm a slim build, not much to me really. Got a huge paunch right now though. People say "oh poor you" sarcastically when I tell them I'm 85kg and seriously overweight, but they don't understand that I should be well under 70kg for my build! When I left uni at 23 I was only about 65kg and plenty strong enough.
Thing is though, even when I was thinner, I had to buy 34" waist jeans cos I couldn't get anything smaller over my thighs (buying jeans as a cyclist ain't easy) or my arse! Always needed a belt to keep them up. Right now I'm muffin topping 34's though which isn't good...
Email sent.
Need to lose some weight net but increase (recover) muscle, don't weigh that much more than 5 years ago but it's flab vs muscle. Ageing and slowing metabolism is a bitch.
Well the last self-help thread on here was the packing in smoking one. And I've not had a fag for over 18 months now. Which is why I need to get involved with this one. Piled the weight on since giving up the cigs.
Hopefully this goes as well 🙂
spaces saved for all of you!
Pls remember to send me your end Jan, end Mar and end Jun target weights as well as your current. And if not obvious, what your stw name is.
And second, I said kg or lbs but most people have sent in lbs or st so if we can standardise future weights to lbs then avoids me having to recalc.
75kg
Goal 70kg.
Yep - I'm in!
I managed to fix my dodgy scales and it added a stone...
Will send my new weight over in the morning will do in kilos to make it easier
Lbs better please!
I'll get in on this, genuinely scared to step on the scales.
I'm just picking this up now. Count me in; I'll send you an email tomorrow morning (Monday), as I'm lying in bed at the moment.
In early July, I was around 75 kgs and due to injury and gluttony, have managed to get up to about 82 kgs. It is time to get back in the ring...
Email sent.Currently 13st 7lbs,up to my early 30s I weighed around 9st 12,I'd like to get into the low 10st's,so at least 45 lbs to go.I suppose at 5' 7",I'm a bit under height for my weight.
Aiming for 97kg by Jan 31st, 90 in 3 months and 85 by the time the National Champs rolls around in June
Good luck, I have just sold my boat and decided to take a break from competitive sailing for a few years now. Mtb has taken over my life. I have to say I am not missing the cold of the winter handicap events, but I am missing the events themselves.
Just sent you a mail to join up. I've been putting it off for far too long.
My numbers 80.3kg (177 lbs) now target 77 (169) but with much better muscle tone so assuming I need to lose 5kg (10.4) of flab. Increase due to a year of riding once every 6 weeks and nothing more than 20km.
New email sent, Weighing in at an embarrasing 17st when I'm only 5'8" 😳
Waiting for the mrs to wake up to look after the kids (she was working last night) so I can get the bike out and a go for a trial run of my new commute for my job starting tomorrow so I know how long it will take.
New job has changing/shower facilities and even a washing machine and dryer for dirty kit (perks of working in the bike industry) so no excuses not to ride!
2/2/17 194lbs 88kg or 13St 11 3/4lb fatty bumbum
I'm in
Weighed in on 1st January 2017 - an eye watering 15 stone 8lbs (for me)
Target by year end 14st 8lbs
Oh turd.... 🙁 yup email sent and would like to join you guys on the quest to less chubbieness.
13 stone 9 lbs pre poo this morning.
Last time I weighed myself a year ago I was 12 stone 4 lbs. Christmas booze and chocolate accounts for a bit of that.
5 foot 10 so definately on chubby side of normal. Can feel it too round my neck and belly 🙁
So...... Would like to get back to around 12 stone.
Good luck all chubby lovers!
jesmond dingo; no email received
woody21 and firestarter - what's your targets for 1 month, 3 months and 6 months, that's the game we're all playing.
Email sent
Well I've Just tipped the scales at a super-chunky 16st 2lb - the heaviest I've ever been. My love of the pie is well documented. Since packing in smoking if I have only 2 packs of Seabrook a day it's officially a Slow Crisp Day
As I've never done an actual weight loss program before I have no idea on timescales for targets that are achievable. What does everyone reckon?
I want to shift 2 stone to be roundabout 14. I'm 5'11" and I believe the technical term is a 'big unit' anyway.
Right.... I'm off out for a ride
Woooft 83kg which is a number I've never seen before. I feel a bit fat so knew but this is a shock. Normal operating temp is around 76kg which is where I was in August !! Too much work, crap diet and booze.
Email coming now !
As I've never done an actual weight loss program before I have no idea on timescales for targets that are achievable. What does everyone reckon?
1kg/2lb a week is the classic 'lose it and keep it off' loss rate.
1kg/2lb a week is the classic 'lose it and keep it off' loss rate.
Have emailed a couple of you separately on this so I'll post it up here. I agree with the above, in fact I'd aim for less. Maybe 1.5lbs per week to start with and then 1lb / wk after. Slow and steady! That's why i recommend weighing max weekly, and I'm going to collect data fortnightly, to allow for off days and bad weeks and for differences to be noticeable.
I lost 43 lbs in 36 weeks in 2013 at about this rate. There are 26 weeks between now and mid Jun, so losses of between 26 and say 45lbs are very doable. 2lbs a week for 26 weeks is close on 4 stone, which is also doable if you have a huge amount to shift - but looking at the people signed up the most anyone's aiming for is 3st / 42lbs, and most people seem to be aiming for around 20-25lbs, which sounds a [u]very[/u] doable and healthy rate.
Has anyone tried the "meal prep" method?
It makes a fair bit of sense, prepare a load of healthy meals on Sunday for the week ahead, and then you should always have a healthy meal easily ready and available when required.
I tried it for a few weeks last year, and it worked out quite well, but I got bored of the options available, wonder how people manage to spice up the options and keep it interesting, or if it just takes the mental discipline of eating food as fuel, which never works for me.
There's plenty of meals you can prepare in advance; chilli, loads of pasta sauces, loads of different curries, all of which will be delicious and no way just 'fuel'.
I don't think people need to fixate on food necessarily having to be 'healthy', cos that makes people think boiled chicken and kale; it just needs to be fresh, I.e. cooked from fresh ingredients.
Would love to join if not too late, email sent.
Have just eaten the last of the Christmas chocolate and weigh 13 stone 5 this morning! Would like to get down to 11 stone.
I used to be 17 stone so know I can do it with a bit of motivation and being 'checked on' always works wells for me
Just emailed, thanks.
Current 88kg @ 5' 9"
Month 1 target: 85kg
Month 3 target: 82kg
Month 6 target: anywhere below 80kg
Still awaiting some emails, if you have sent can you check address is right
takisawa2
jamie
woody21
blitz
NZCol
No probs with anyone else still joining but please can you make sure you email me details, in lbs and with your 1,3 and 6 mo targets. There's nearly 40 of us now and I can't chase you all.
Sorry,Jon,Mail says it wwas unable to deliver,I'll try again,
Had a typo in the address. Just resent.
I'll join in if i can.
Email sent.
Cheers...
Hope I'm not too late to the party,
I've brought celery sticks and a 6pack of water
Current 107kg at 5ft 10
Is 80kg in 6 months realistic?
I'll send you an email now
I was 85.4kg (13st 6) yesterday, for 175cm (5'9) height. I reckon I can get to 81kg in a month, 75kg in 3 months and 72kg in 6 months.
So my goal is to weigh 72kg for Race to the Sun on 17th June.
Can I share some experiences I've had with losing flab? I know what works for me won't work for everyone, so YMMV, but...
1. You are probably overweight because you eat too many carbs, not too much fat. So don't worry about dietary fat, but do cut out sweets, cakes, pastry, sugary drinks and fruit, and exercise serious control over your intake of bread, rice, spuds and pasta. Get your carbs from leafy veg.
2. Each day, eat about a gram for protein for every kilo of body weight.
3. As soon as you start controlling your macros like this, you will probably lose a few kilos very quickly. Which is nice!
4. Exercise every day for half and hour or so. Vary it. Run, ride, or do half an hour of calisthenics in your pants in front of the telly. Just do something to f*ck some major muscle groups and give your metabolism something to think about while you sleep 😉
5. I find that the more I exercise in the day, the more weight I lose overnight.
6. I find that if I snack in the evening, my overnight weight loss is slowed. So I have a "no food after dinner" rule.
7. Log your weight daily, and your exercise, and everything you eat, on MyFitnessPal. This way, you will learn very quickly the actions that cause you to lose weight and the actions that cause you to NOT lose weight. And you get a nice graph of your progress 🙂