Nearly to target, I Kg down but my god the last few weeks have been hard.

Heavier than my starting weight, 2kg heavier than than my lowest weight in this period.

84.6kg this week, just putting on weight thanks to meds and other stuff decimating my free time. This week has been particularly tough with long days in work and really long commutes home so have had no time to cook at home, ate a lot of crap and still been hungry!

Week off work next week but got lots of family stuff to take care of so no time to relax, definitely won’t help with reversing the trend upwards.

Damn it.

Last seen to have bounced close to where I was 2 months ago!

On Friday we had a go live of a 2 year project which has meant long days and I tend to eat crap when stressed. No time to train Loki’s stress is a bad combination for me! On top of that, last ash day I had a 100k ride which all went pretty well. At the end I had a snack and was planning on eating a proper meal at home. Walked in the door and daughter had done her ankle in on the trampoline so spent the next 4 hours in a and e with no food or water.

When I don’t eat properly after a big ride I am hungry for days and so I basically ate all the food I got my hands on.

Was out last night for wedding anniversary dinner.

Hopefully a a lot of it is water etc and will come down after a bit of discipline for a couple of weeks!

3 weeks of stagnation is a bit disappointing but my fitness is continuing to improve. I’ve had a few big rides and felt really good. Also ran a 5 mile loop in 8:50/mile pace that I was running at 10:00/mile at the start of this. I think I have taken my foot off the gas a bit with my diet. Need to be more strict with myself. I’m not going to make target which was a 10kg loss, but I’m still happy with progress.

Crept back up to 82.4 which is disappointing, but understandable after three weeks of eating badly due to no kitchen and no exercise due to renovating said kitchen. Along with my running I’m giving myself an extra three weeks into April to reach my targets, and hopefully continue the mindset way into the year.

As Wally said, good luck all

0.5kg off target, but lost 7.5kg overall. Hopefully got in to better food habits (less snacking) to help get to target and a bit lower in coming months, then maintaining.

Missed my target but down 4 kg so happy with that. Seem to have plateaued last few weeks so will need to change something. Other than eat less cake any suggestions?

Oh well, that’s that then. Looking back i’d given myself a completely unrealistic target weight to begin with – what i’d like to be instead of what i could realistically lose. I’ll be 56 in April and to be honest i’ve found it hard to shift weight the last few years, but i’ve nearly a stone down since the start and still losing every week, so i’m still quite chuffed. Hopefully i can push on now and lose the rest.
Well done everyone.

I’ll be 56 in April

Old git! I’m a sprightly (gammy knee notwithstanding) 55 & have lost 10kg since middle of December so it’s do-able.

8kg lost since Xmas and 6kg off since the start of this. That’s despite not losing much at all in the last 4 weeks. So overall really pleased.

I think by far the biggest factor to be honest has been massively reducing my alcohol intake. Had got into the habit of drinking wine at home far too regularly really. Did dry Jan and the weight started coming off steadily. Started drinking again in Feb and found my weight loss plateaued and didn’t really enjoy it as much as before. So basically since then I’ve largely abstained other than a couple of occasions when I’ve been out, which is probably much more how I need to be I think.

My diet has improved too, but not as much as it could’ve. Cutting out the booze has been far easier than treats, but I have tried. Just not done as well with that. Things are going in the right direction though and I’m pretty sure I’m the fittest I’ve ever been at this stage of the year so a nice platform to build on. My Strava fitness score is the same now as it was at the end of last summer.

Missed my target by 1kg but still down an massively fitter. Managed 250 miles of riding so on target for 1000 miles this year which I’ve never achieved, should get easier to rack up the miles as the weather gets better and the days are longer although I did get out this morning despite the rain and a 20mph head wind so proud of myself for that.

I’m keeping going but under no illusion I need to start reducing calorie intake, exercise and no snacking is going to ct it going forward.

I only managed to drop 3kg but at 42 am the lightest and close to the fittest I have probably even been. The best thing I find about this process is finding what works and what’s sustainable.

A beer staying as a beers not 6 or 7 and impacting my diet and motivation was the biggest improvement I have made and probably dropped 8-10kg off my weight a few years back.I think this round of chub club the idea of intermittent fasting is going to help me long term. It’s common sense but cutting out late evening snacking means I am hungry at breakfast. If I am not hungry because of a late or big meal, I have been skipping breakfast.

Going to have to go back to my fitness pal to track!

Well done all

& thanks to coconut for setting this up.

I definitely am whether on here or not. We can expand the spreadsheet easily enough.

expand the spreadsheet easily enough

With all the conditional formatting? I anticipated you would have formatted it to come up with a message criticising us when the end weight was > target😀

I am keen to carry on.

Knowing the weigh in is coming keeps me honest!

I’ve updated the spreadsheet to include another 8 weeks or so, still running off the same weekly target reduction as originally committed to. Worryingly not one of us who kept at it actually hit our goal weight.

Summers coming, nights are longer, time to get out and ride the flab off.

Daft question – can I see (well I can’t, that’s why I ask, but that could easily be me being blind) what I put in as target in the first instance?

EDIT: Ahhhh, formatting thing on sheets on my phone, I can’t tell the are hidden columns, nor indeed can I unhide them.

I’ll tweak it further so we can add a new 12 week target.