STW Chub Club 2017

Im down a little, which isnt bad considdering I was actually up last weekend. This week I also demolished a kilogram tub of jelly babies.

The Missus isn’t helping by replenishing the cupboard with sweet stuff from the sale isle quicker than I eat it!

Psa: 9p for 6 mince pies in morrisons.

Next fortnight will be better, Im planning to actually going to the gym.

Reading these forums, I am convinced you lot are all married to feeders whose dream man is a chubby cyclist 8)

@linge – hangover ? Booze esp beer is the worst for weight gain. Save money and weight, drink a bit less. Feel better all round.

Mrs Binners has bought married a Fitbit

🙂

Not optimistic, went up 1lb, then down 2lb. I cannot claim any muscle mass increase. Glad I picked a modest first month target 😳

Glad I picked a modest first month target

Unless your numbers have been inputted wrong, after the first target date, you’re looking at losing roughly 0.25lbs a week till the final weigh in date.

Seems doable 😀

those were the numbers

Current 80.3kg
> 1 month 79.5
> 3 month 78
> 6 month 77
>
> Possibly modest numbers but real goal is increased muscle mass/fitness

(yes, they were in kg)

You didn’t want them in KG?

😉

I’m away in the US away from scales, so I weighed Thursday. 217lbs – 10lb loss so far. Apparently severe calorie restriction putting your body into survival mode is another diet myth

Sent the email. Finding eating lower calories a bit easier now… first couple of weeks not bad, down to 82.8 from 87. Even had a couple of beers last night and managed to stay under the daily total.

Down from 118.6 to 115.1 kg. That’s 261 to 254lbs in chub club money.

Happy with 7lbs loss in two weeks, and think my diet is easily sustainable and not at all extreme.

Roll on 100kg (and under!) 🙂

I’m down from 89.6 to 87.1 kgs or 196 to 192lbs in old money. Cutting out the carbs using bean and pulses instead of rice and pasta, also I have been dry since the New Year apart from a sly gin and tonic at the Boat Show last week.

Just weighed, 15st 1lb / 96kg.

4lb / 1.6kg off. Happy with that considering last week I lay on the sofa for best part of 3 days due to flu, and might have finished the xmas cheese off…… Only had 2 pints so far this year though, and been out on the bike 3 times.

Down to 250 from the official start of 256. I found out when I plugged the USB in the fancy scales this morning that I actually weighed 260 on 2nd Jan :oops:. Probably couldn’t see it properly as my 24 pack was obscuring the view. Don’t really care though as I’m very pleased to be sub 252 for the 1st time in a long while.

Only changed a couple of things in terms of diet (plenty of work still to do there). Not snacking at night and making sure I have breakfast before I leave for work and also taking a lunch in, so I’m not buying bacon rolls for breakfast and raiding the vending machine.

I’m down 4lbs which I’m ok with. Have the stinking lurgy this week so haven’t been able to get out and run. Happy with 2lb a week, nice steady loss which will hopefully mean it will stay off.

Big congrats to those with big loss, Chub Club weigh in has stopped me reaching for the biscuits on more than one occasion

171.0-162.9 – but auto unzip belly is still a feature of cycle thermals. Entering the hard to lose phase.

10lbs loss here as well using the starvation myth diet 😀

215 > 205

Happy with that as a kickstart, next goal is sub 90kg

88.3kg (194lb) down to 86.2kg (190lb). Pleased with that as could certainly have been better. Wasn’t able to exercise in the first week due to injury and had my wife’s birthday meal last night which I didn’t throttle back on, including wine. On track for my 187lb 1 month goal.

Well done those who’ve had big losses. Some impressive numbers already.

Think I might try and total the amount of money it has saved me too. I generally would get through a fair bit of cash during the week with buying breakfast and lunch at work. Then pop in the shop on the way home and grab a couple of bottles of beer, some crisps and chocolate too.

Maybe then I can use that to justify a purchase of a new bike or something 🙂

hangover ? Booze esp beer is the worst for weight gain. Save money and weight, drink a bit less. Feel better all round.

I am well aware of that.
But when you get offered a boozy lunch with the MD you don’t turn it down.
Plus, I like booze, so as I intend to keep any weight I lose off then I need a plan that can deal with a few beers and the odd hangover. No point in having a plan that works for 4 weeks then as soon as the real world bites you’re fat again, it’s got to be maintainable.

Only 5lb off but 18lb of cheese consumed that I couldn’t bring myself to throw out, comfort eating through a 7 day data migration, and four work nights out. Not a single pedal either 🙁

Surprised I lost anything at all, but I’ve cut down all portion sizes and cut out most unnecessary eating/snacking. Want to start properly from today to catch up (I’m 2lb behind schedule for month one).

Thanks again for doing this Jon.

7lbs loss here, I think the majority is attributable to a change of habits post Christmas, much less booze and food. I think the real test for me starts here, with business travel ramping up and the first few kg slipping off relatively easily.

2.5-3kgs down here so 214.5lbs and I’ve hit my 1 month target already despite not really doing much other than stop forcing mince pies down my throat.

New job means I now have to walk or ride a couple of miles a day to the office rather than roll across the landing to the spare room and it removes the temptation to just raid the cupboards and boredom eat. Hopefully the arrival of my wheels to finish the new bike will provide some motivation to get out and do a proper ride.

Consumed 18lb of cheese ? Is that actually possible !

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Consumed 18lb of cheese ? Is that actually possible !

Artistic licence. I’d give it a bloody go go though…

…18lb of cheese consumed…

Definitely lost weight, but I won’t find out how much until tonight: I’m on nights so it’s technically still Thursday for me.
Been doing 10 mile a day on the turbo, Ice Cream Fitness via the Jefit app, and eating ~1900 calories with very little white carbs at all, so there would have to be something wrong to not lose weight.

Down 7lbs to 171. Achieved using MFP and calorie counting, using a deficit to loose a pound a week. What I found, however, is that it focuses the mind and I was eating less crap (note, not ‘No’ crap, just a lot less), and with the better half being on slimming world our evening meal was much more healthy. I’m also on dry January so that’s a bunch of calories not consumed. Have only managed one lot of exercising due to illness, am hoping to ramp that up next week.

Happy so far! Racing weight here I come.

*looks at all the 4+lbs loses…is afraid to get on scales*

Mixed bag for me.

Initially weighed myself a couple of weeks back on the old scales that have been sat , dismal and unused in a corner of the bathroom for 20 odd years. Initial Chub Club weight of 201 lbs
Weighing yourself has never been a thing in our house.
Weighed myself a few days later and P’TWANNNGG they broke so I trotted off and bought fancy new digital scales.
Opened the box, read the manual and weighed myself – 210 lbs.

Weighed myself last night again on the new scales – 204 lbs so a 6 lb loss in reality but a 3 lb gain on the spreadsheet.
Bah!

Also, Jon, we’re all friends here, but some may not want their email address being broadcast to everyone else in the group.

11lbs Loss!

298 to 287. Closer to 12 actually as it was 298.4 to 286.7 but I’m rounding and doubt my scales are that accurate. I’m weighing myself 4 times and taking an average. Doubt I’ll keep up this kind of loss but I’m not finding it difficult in the slightest.

2 hrs in the gym last night was a bit tough though. Night off tonight!

7lbs loss here, I think the majority is attributable to a change of habits post Christmas, much less booze and food.

I’m down 4 lb’s. Its really helped that the better half is on board with this. She’s lost 5 lb too.

She’s far more disciplined than me. So no pastry products, or crisps or general temptation in the house. And while we’ve not stopped drinking completely (its cold, wet, dark and horrible out there – theres only so much misery I can take) we’ve cut right down

Some impressive results so far. Well done you lot!

If anyone has a problem let me know – but I did it in batches because the email i sent to people as BCC last time didn’t get to quite a few, and then when i tried it again today i got a large number of bounces.

from my side – 3lbs off, 5:2 but had a work lunch yesterday and a beer so prob caught me at the wrong ‘time of the week’ iykwim

87.9kg / 194 lbs last week
86.6kg / 191 lbs this week

That’ll do.

10lbs gone… and that’s just from cutting out bread, beer and going for a run or 2… happy with that!

Well done on all the losses, some big ones!

I’m -3lbs this morning, which I’m well chuffed with.

This week I kept a food diary (the link is below if you want a read). My approach to this was to simply eat less than I normally would and to add a bit of strength/stretching into my week. Next week will have a pile of commuting miles, so it will be interesting to see if I can control my post commute binges…

STW CC Week 1 Food diary

177 to 175lbs for me. I’m very happy with that – if I can continue to lose weight slowly with throttling back a bit, rather than fundamental changes, that’ll be great.

Start = 173lbs
Now = 167lbs

That’s much more than I expected TBH, considering illness-related comfort eating and lack of exercise compared to normal.

I’ve stuck to my half-arsed plan of just cutting snack consumption in half (I literally just ate half a piece of tiffin) and having less booze.

Looking forward to getting out on a bike again at the weekend, hopefully for the 100km-a-month challenge.

3lbs off for me – can’t be bad. Achieved by pretty much eating not much more than veg – raw or stir fried and the occasional vegetarian haggis

Glad to say I’m not missing haribo – that had become a bad habit.

Was three pounds up after the first week whilst Christmas pudding and cheese was going cheap.
It’s all run out now and that’s left me wasting away with a two pounds loss