Weight update

Not that anyone will remember my past questions and comments about weight loss, but I stood on the scales this morning, and registered 80.5 kgs (12.65 stone or 177.1 lbs) for the third day in a row.

This means I can officially boast having lost 15 kgs (2.35 stone or 32.9 lbs) since July.

With only 4kgs left to go, I am getting very close to the weight I was when I left high school 25 years ago, and riding, swimming, playing football, and ice hockey regularly.

Feels good.

well done OP!!

Thumbs up 🙂

Oooooooo get you, Kate Moss 😉

Fantastic news – well done and good job!

You bugger.

I assume that Saxon is relieved too, well done!

Good work! I’ve lost a similar amount of weight over the past year (whilst getting a hell of a lot stronger at the same time) – it’s a slightly surreal feeling, just occasionally I don’t really recognise myself in photos or reflections.

It’s bloody annoying that none of my clothes fit though.

Ey, thats great that.

15kg’s!

Blinkin ek.

Since July too ….

It’s bloody annoying that none of my clothes fit though.

I have the same issue from weight lifting, out growing my clothes…..

it’s a slightly surreal feeling, just occasionally I don’t really recognise myself in photos or reflections.

This. I know it sounds vain, but I now get dressed in the morning, and have to draw my belt to the tightest notch just so that my trousers don’t fall down. I then look in the mirror to see a guy I hardly recognise.

And the fact that my t-shirts don’t curve outwards is incredible.

My intention is to start building a new, smaller, wardrobe over the next few months.

It’s bloody annoying that none of my clothes fit though.

I have the same issue from weight lifting, out growing my clothes…..

Perhaps you two could arrange to swap wardrobes? 😈

Is there a thread of what you’ve done to achieve this?

Perhaps you two could arrange to swap wardrobes?

Someone fetch the duvet cover!

Is there a thread of what you’ve done to achieve this?

In my case cycling a bit less and climbing 4-5 days a week plus eating a lot more veggy food.

Is there a thread of what you’ve done to achieve this?

No, but I’ll sell you my advice for the low price of a new bike.

More seriously though, I will write out what I did, and if it seems coherent enough, I will post it on here.

I figure, for all the advice and entertainment I have derived from this place, it’s the least I can do. 😉

Definitely post up your story. And well done.

well done that man… from april to september this year i went from 96 kilos to 80… and have stayed at 80k since then… and i realise i’m posting a picture of me in my pants but, i’m quite pleased at the outcome in fairness… do you have a before and after picture OP?

i’d like to get to 78k, but i think i’ve just kinda settled at this weight. as lemonysam says gets expensive mind, when none of the XL stuff fits you & you have to buy all new medium stuff 8)… totally worth it though

also, my strava times have dropped to unbelievable lows (& that’s me competing against me, not trying to be a stravasshole)

I only have a before picture…

i’d like to get to 78k, but i think i’ve just kinda settled at this weight.

Don’t despair. When I got stuck at about 83 kgs, I stopped eating the stuff I was eating, and started eating broiled white fish, and fruits and vegetables almost (though not completely) exclusively.

That seemed to help me past the hump, and after a couple of weeks in a holding pattern, I started to lose weight again.

Is impressed. It’s easy enough to get started on your way but keeping it going is really tough.

pat on the back for SaxonRider.

now tell us how, so we can all argue about the anecdotal evidence and eventually explain that you are most incredibly wrong.

I’ve gone the other way!
63kgs in Jan – 79kgs now. Did hit 83kgs in sept but I was in the spinal ward for a while.
Apparently I’m overweight on the BMI chart and 33% body fat. Calipers say 20-22%
Belt notch hasn’t moved but I can’t get tshirts on without looking like I’m showing off, Fleeces are “snug” and I’ve had to buy a new winter jacket as the ones I have – the insulation can’t expand because they’re too tight on me 😯
Plus side is the Doc is very happy, bloods are perfect (in a text book way), need a new bag as I’ve broke the centre of my old one and I’m almost back the grades I was climbing at 15yrs ago when I was doing it for a living!

Good on all of you that have managed to do it, it’s very encouraging.
I’ve just had a ‘wake up’ call at a health screening at work this week, so I need to make some life style changes and loosing some weight is one of them.
I’m off to see the Doctor on Friday about it as there are some medical issues, but I know a lot of what I need to do.

Good work fella! I have lost almost 14kg since September, solely through changing eating habits. Don’t eat any processed food or sugar, plus cut back massively on meat, fish, dairy and wheat intake.

Feel so much better than I used to, even on minimal exercise compared to the 50-100 miles/wk cycling from a few years back. Now in a position to get back on the bike so have a similar amount left to shed before I would declare myself healthy. Like other comments, a friend dying of a heart attack at 45 was a wake up call.

Downside is I appear to have a shed full of bikes with obsolete wheels 🙁

650b+ over already, gutted

My story, in brief, is this:

I wear a number of different professional and domestic hats, so have had a hard time trying to commit to eating right and doing more. I also comfort eat. I am conscious that I see food as a psychological massage whenever it is present, and will take far more than my fair share of what is available, simply because it is… well… available.

In this respect, I didn’t fancy giving anything in particular up, so began simply by eating less of what I normally eat.

Using MFP, I just started by entering my calories, which was a challenge in itself. But once I started, it was like I was competing against myself each day to get my calorie count lower and lower.

Then, once I started that, and I began to feel less bloated, I began to take encouragement from my daily commute. I ride my bike anyway, but whereas I always saw it as a bit of a chore, I started to increase my speeed and put a bit more effort in.

And then I bought a road bike at some point around the start of the TdF, and as often happens with those kinds of inspiring events, I couldn’t just watch without actually doing it myself, so I started to ride every day.

My momentum was broken when I went on a 3 week holiday, but when I returned to discover that I had managed to maintain my initial small gains, I felt encouraged, and started monitoring my calories and riding regularly with even more zeal.

Frustratingly, I hit a few ‘speedbumps’ on the way, when I didn’t seem to make any weight gains, but I learnt then to take a few days off, eat more, then start cutting back again after a weekend.

In the process, I varied my exercise to include running (on top of the daily commute, which really isn’t very long at 8 miles total round-trip), and making sure I got in a couple proper rides each weekend.

Eventually, I hit a plateau at about 85 kgs, and that’s when I started to eat differently. Having not made any dietary changes at all in the beginning other than to cut back, I finally decided that, to get over the hump, I would increase my meat intake (in the form of fish, chicken, and more recently, pork chops!), and decrease my bread, pasta, rice, and potato intake. No science behind it; just instinct.

In any case, it seemed to work, and I started losing again.

So that is how I have got to where I am, and I am hoping that I should ultimately get down to 77 kgs and stay there. Once I do that, then I will allow myself approximately 2500 kcals/day again, but only in combination with activity.

Basically, I figure that, if I make some of the same sort of assumptions I made when I was a kid – such as my bike is my main form of transport, and you only use a car if absolutely necessary and, when I have no other cause to go out, it is worth making the effort to go play some football with my kids in the local park (for example) – then I should get the right balance between the calories I take in and those I burn.

I am trying to chart something more specific, but that is my experience so far.

decrease my bread, pasta, rice, and potato intake. No science behind it; just instinct.

That sounds like something that begins with i 🙂

Great stuff. I lost 2 and 1/2 stone this year, currently retraining my habits in weight maintenance mode. Feels so much better and really bizarre when you try on your fat trousers and they just fall down, really eye opening how fat I was getting and didn’t realise.

That sounds like something that begins with i

I hadn’t thought of that, although the idea had probably seeped into my mind from past discussions on here.

Having said that, I need to stress that it is only a temporary measure, insofar as now that I am over the ‘hump’, I have relented a bit with the full intention of returning to my normal diet in a couple of weeks.

But once I started, it was like I was competing against myself each day to get my calorie count lower and lower.

Like any other story of people changing their lifestyles. It turned into something you wanted to do, the rest of your post is just comment, at this point you were going to loose weight regardless of your regime.

I’ve put on 6 kg in the last ten weeks. Mind you, I lost 7kg in the 4 weeks before that following major cancer surgery.

I first I was a bit gutted as I was hoping I’d be a climbing god (I was below 65 KG at 179cm), but I was so weak I could barely turn the pedals. The fancy scales at work (which I know are a bit crap, despite costing three grand) reckon I’ve put on 5.5 Kg of fat free mass and about a pound of lard and am now about 70KG. There is a long way to go fitness wise but feeling much better – although I hope the weight gain stops about now…

I hadn’t thought of that, although the idea had probably seeped into my mind from past discussions on here.

The ideas crop up all over the place, and they were (and are) entirely sound.

I hit a plateau when I was losing weight in Germany, the way I got over it was introducing a bit more sugary carby food timed for the riding. Ate more Twixes, lost more weight. Great.

One of our reps has taken up running and watching what he eats.
He is now really gaunt and looks like shit. What is he doing wrong?
He actually acts as an incentive not to lose weight!

robgclarkson – That’s impressive shifting of fat, there. Nice one!

Having lost most of the fat I built up over the last three or four years by cutting the amount I eat and being repaired/healed enough to be able to actually ride/lift/run with gusto I’m starting to notice, like Footflaps, that my clothes are getting tighter again. Where the waist was tight and the chest loose I’m now finding the opposite. Sadly, some of my favourite cycling tops for this time of year are getting very stretched and as they’re not a raglan cut they’re starting to look a little weird.

Didn’t think I’d be this strong at 47 but it’s happened with focus and a modicum of dedication. Diet has been variable and I can still eat pretty much whatever I want. Wouldn’t go back to being a bloated warthog if you offered me a million pizzas pounds…

Nice one op, that’s a hell of a lot of weight in such a short space of time, well done!

Robgclarkson:

Can you tell us a bit about any exercise routines you were doing to help achieve your ‘transformation’? You look like you’ve gained some muscle since the ‘before’ picture?

Thanks.

I’m just wondering, was nursing a semi part of the weight loss plan robgclarkson?

But seriously, well done.

After Xmas I’m back to MFP to trim up for the MTB race season from March onwards, I have a bout 4lbs to lose that I’ve gained since August.

After Xmas I’m back to MFP to trim up for the MTB race season from March onwards, I have a bout 4lbs to lose that I’ve gained since August.

What is it with winter weight creep. Been a bit better this year thanks to doing a bit of racing over winter. Only about a kilo so far instead of the usual 4 or 5 😳 I just seem to eat constantly when it’s dark and dreary outside.

Congrats to all the big losers though 🙂