[Closed] Christmas Chub Club! 2021

I’m in.  Have turned into a fat mess this year and need the motivation

I'm in. The last 8 weeks of house moving etc. has undone all the progress made this year.

I’m in- new job last year has put me back to where I was at the start of Chub club 2020.

Less Xmas turkey, more Xmas pudding!

I'm in again. I've not lost much across the last too chub clubs, but hope springs eternal

Cheers for making the effort.
I'm in again too.

Absolutely must make some losses this time. Aiming for 10KG ish, depending on start weight tomorrow.

Weighing in 63kgs should be able to put on a few kgs by Crimbo with a bit of effort.
Thinking about it I've pretty much failed every year for the past 40 years; no this time I'm gonna do it honest.

It all starts tomorrow morning!

I'm in. Thanks for doing this again.

I'm in - I seem to have put a bucket load of weight back on over the last 6 months through injury and lazyness.......

90.5kg today... might as well start high 🙂 good luck all.

I've slowly crept back up to 92kg from 87.8kg so need to get some focus before the christmas feed.

Yes please!

I'm planning on building my weight up a bit over the next 3 weeks (holidays), but will then make a spectacular comeback and hit my 73Kg goal by Christmas... probably.

Can't get Google sheets to work on the phone, but weighed in at 82.4kg this morning.

All you skinny’s 🤣

121kg for me this morning.

Never want to see that number again on my scales.

Thanks for this. I have to step up to the (smaller) plate as well behind target.

This means existing 2lbs p/w leisurely loss has now drifted into an angry 3lb p/w battle. It will be done.

In.

Surely the brexit food shortages will make it easy this year?

Yay! Bravo for organising this.

FFS, I'm not a luddite but it appears I am! Never used Google sheets and ffs had difficulty 'dragging column D'. Anyway, mucked up the one above me (sorry Hexhamstu, and God knows what I did with mine, eventually I think I have got the formulas in, but the format is a bit out - can someone with a bit better excel experience than me (ie everyone) sort it please, and I promise not to mess with it, other than entering my weight) again.

🙁

I’m in - will update sheet when on my PC.

Summer chub club 2021 was my first and really good for me. The pressure of getting weighed each week was enough to see me drop from 82kg to 77-point-something kg. I didn’t have - let alone implement - any kind of strategy or diet.

I’m looking to get to 73kg this time. I’m heading into summer here (Aus) so should be able to focus on riding more than I have recently. Beer in the sun will temper that somewhat though!

Hmmm... static this week, not an ideal start. Not too late to join folks, just add your details at the bottom of the spreadsheet.

Well I joined another fitness group thread on Monday. Went to the pool, then a nice bike ride.
Tuesday - went to the pub and drank half my bodyweight in beer.
Now my hangover has finally cleared, I really need to take this fitness stuff more seriously.
So I am In.

Dialled it back to 2lb target loss per week after a short talk with self. In saying that, first weigh seems I only lost 1.5 and ai don’t want to get it into only weighing after dropping the kids off…so bah. Chips and beer did it. Now there’s a wedding this weekend. A BBQ also 😭

Surely the brexit food shortages will make it easy this year?

You think we’ll run out of taters and oil? Nooooooo…

100g down - and we're off to a slow start!

Ĺost 200g this week. Below target but frankly I'm amazed as it's been a mental week work wise, way too much snacking, and both planned evening rides cut short with tubeless issues.

100 Days till Christmas starts next week for a bit of added motivation. At least that's 30 minutes a day I won't be snacking.

I’m in, injury after injury and finally back probs for the last 4 months have meant no exercise and the weight has just steadily crept up.

Chub Club's back! Hooray. I missed it last week - was away at Lindisfarne festival so I weighed in anyway at 14 stone 1 which was uber impressive as the pal I was meeting there who I hadn't seen for well over a year weighed 14 stone 1 and a half..... And I've always been the fatty. Great to be the 'skinny' one for a change 🙂

Obviously the downside of festivals is that there was plenty of drinking and eating so weighing in this morning was always going to be a "one on the scale at a time please chubster" kind of experience - 3lb on since last week which I was quite pleased with on balance. We've got another weekend drinking / music session on the 18th, then I'm away on holiday from the 1st Oct. Think it's going to be a bumpy ride but I'm hopeful that I can keep moving in the right direction overall.

Well I did the first weeks weight in......

Bad news - haven't lost anything
Good news - not gained anything!

Thanks for this Coconut. I lost over 4kg in the previous Chub Club, mainly from cutting out alcohol and biscuits as well as an increase in weekly riding mileage. Just back from a week's cycle touring in Ireland which took me down to 90KG. I'll be mentioning belts in my letter to Santa 'cos my trousers are already hanging halfway down my arse.

Half a kilo down for me, that'll do, it's a start.
Lost 17 kilos on the last one, so just another half stone to go to my target of 11 stone.

Thanks for the motivation everyone

Back from holiday and have put weight on and the photos... well things have been heading south. The target may be slightly optimistic but if I can lose a lb or two each week... it's not infeasible.

Hmm, up for me. Thought I had quite a good week ish, definitely less alcohol. Need to realise other thigs need to change as well I suppose - bit of an eye opener as thought just cutting the booze would be the miracle cure.

I'm back in, will fill in the spreadsheet later. Lost 10kg in the first 2 clubs, put a couple back on in the summer, lost them again but still a long way to where I'd like. It's definitely calorie reduction for me, kept the exercise up this year so it's not that causing that slow weight loss, so easy to think a bit of junk food is Ok because I've exercised.

This links in well with the other thread "100 days of exercise to Chrisamas". You do a minimum of 30 mins exercise every day till Christmas.

100 days of exercise sounds hard personally I'm aiming for 1000 bike miles, just hit 600 (exercise bike until April), need to do about 26 per week to hit that, just need to get more done now before the nights draw in. I did my lights out this week and found my 10 year old Hope light still had charge and worked.

Thanks!

Have made a good start, feeling determined. Hope I can keep it up until Xmas.

81.8 this morning. Very slow progress but it is at least progress.

long time lurker on here; have signed up for this as well my Strava name is Johnny Applesead.

^^ wrong thread, i have been away a while!!

89.4 this morning so the downward trend continues. Almost down to the scale reading at which I though I was overweight at before lockdown 🙂 Next weigh-in for me will (probably) be early October as I'm off on a road trip (avoiding any fast food outlets en-route!)

Holding stable on the weekly figures so a a better start than the last few chub clubs! Weight was dropping both times midweek but late finishes at work on the Thursdays have meant fast food has been needed so that's kept me level. Hardly ridden for the last two months so no exercise to burn calories either, will recify that this weekend and will need to force myself to jump on Zwift a few nights a week too, gentle spins should kick the scales going in the right direction.

A solid 1kg dropped this week, down to 84.8! Really happy with that.

@reluctantjumper that’s good news, hold that feeling!

I made a great start last week with 1.5kg loss. Almost too good to be true. So then I immediately ‘celebrated’ with choc bars, and then a big takeout later the week. Broken. Therein lies the problem. Eat when up. Eat when down.

The news just in:

“Today, our soaraway scales reveal that fat man undid good work”
Chubby Chase, 54 yrs revealed to our source to be (in his own words): ‘Devastated. My life feels like ‘50 First Dates’ or ‘Groundhog Day’, only not with Drew Barrymore and Hope Springs, but with fried potatoes and self-loathing. Ye gods there are no words for this feeling. Go away, vultures’

So. Data in. Way behind target/schedule. Next ‘win’ shall preserve by celebrating only with dust and shavings the feeling/a walk/a ride/some new undercrackers, ie anything other than food.

Finally some progress for me.

Bit of a long story but might help others struggling.

I got fed up with weight and my atrocious ability to control what I ate, so last weekend I tried to remember what had worked in the past and to try that again.

The most successful approach I had since being 35+ was a 5:2 fast approach, so full of will power I set about it on Monday this week.

Last meal Sunday night at 7PM, next intended meal 7PM Monday. Wasn't going to bother with the 600 calories during the fast day as that was where I failed before - couldn't stick to it and eating something made me more hungry.

Soooo, it gets to 1PM Monday and I'm grumpy, have a slight headache and feel generally pants. Now I remembered the main reason the 5:2 was given up last time - it is just too damn uncomfortable - and why I crashed in the end previous.

Stick with it everybody says - it will get better. Well it probably will but doing that twice a week is just not going to happen - it just isn't.

More research and I have ended up at an 18:6 approach but everyday not just twice a week.
Nothing to eat until 1PM, then all the calories between 1 and 8 PM, whilst sticking to daily intake and recording in the calorie counter app.

So far this week it is working. I don't really miss breakfast and drink water throughout the morning.

1.3Kg loss this week as a result. Probably water loss but a loss is a loss and I will keep going.

Slightly up this week - but a couple of nights away with food and booze so I'm ok with that

@twonks that’s what’s working for me me too. Although I’m 4:3. So I 600cal on Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Eat “properly” Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday and then have Saturday off

Seems to be 2/3 lb a week mark which is good for me. Have got used to the fast days now as well. Just can’t do any exercise on those days

Twonks - that's interesting - daily restriction is more of an option for me than weekly cycle

0.5kg off (after forcing myself out for the world's most reluctant run and a second visit to the bog!).
Need to spend more time active though!

👍chipping away.

I’ve only just updated the sheet. Slightly behind target but heading downwards.

Nights are getting lighter where I am so hopefully can get more active over the coming months