2011 Weight Loss Thread!

Some nice results in this thread.

University living hasn't been kind to me, especially exam time, I really need to do something about it over summer! Some nice inspiration here.
 
Well I got from 17st down to 16.6. (Although once upon a time I was 21st)

Alas a poor weekend with a friend drove me to 16.12 as of this morning :(

Back to the gym all this week and fingers crossed it will fall off again. Got a target of 15.10 by 15th July for my holiday!

- Pea0n
 
i have been dieting since march last year,i weighed about 22st 4 i got down to 17st 2 thats the most ive been down to,but since march this year i have went on abit of a downward spiral and now weight around 18st 2 ,i seem to totaly lost track.I seriously need to get my butt in gear and push on
 
193.4 lbs today, going hardcore in the whole of June, not drinking and cutting out treats

3 weekends of heavy drinking has seen my put 2 lbs on
 
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Metalface Mark said:
you did, you weighed yourself last night and weighed yourself again this morning. :confused:
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What I said earlier though was,

I'm down to 20st 6.25lbs tonight, which means I should wake up at 20st 4.
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All I did was confirm that this morning by checking on the scales, I only weigh myself once a week otherwise. I needed it confirmed as I have goal set which I need to reach in 1 week today.

You saying "stop weighing yourself all the time" was an instruction to me, rather than trying to give me advice, I know not to weigh myself daily as there can be massive fluctuations day to day.
 
ONESHOTKILL said:
i have been dieting since march last year,i weighed about 22st 4 i got down to 17st 2 thats the most ive been down to,but since march this year i have went on abit of a downward spiral and now weight around 18st 2 ,i seem to totaly lost track.I seriously need to get my butt in gear and push on
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I do m,t,w,th,f (but only until friday evening) diet and eat what ever I want sat / sun...

if I break the diet during the week I do not allow myself to drink / eat anythign nice friday evening or saturday until sat evening...

during the week i do a sort of low carb with strictly no pata / rice / choclate / bread / pizza (anything high carb)

knowing I can eat anythign I want at the weekend in an insentive not to pig out in the week... dropped 24kg last year and still about the same weight..
 
For some reason I feel like I have totally lost my self control ,like I eat things now without thinking and sounds wierd but eat things and dont realise I am eating , I just sort of switch off
 
ONESHOTKILL said:
For some reason I feel like I have totally lost my self control ,like I eat things now without thinking and sounds wierd but eat things and dont realise I am eating , I just sort of switch off
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Many times have I found myself doing this.

Since dieting I have caught myself half way down the stairs on the way to the kitchen, I think it's like an auto pilot when I'm bored/nothing to do I sub consciously want to eat even though I'm not hungry.
 
I was like that but once I went to the biscuit tin or crisp cupboard I would stop myself and think, "this is tasty but its not filling and full of crap, just put it back and jog on" it works and once you have got the mindset after a week you don't even bother opening the crisp cupboard

I dont buy chocolate bars anymore, I might have the 1 rich tea with a brew once a week, i prefer to eat almonds/walnuts as a snack, its good fats
 
192lbs this morning, I have lost 1lb 4 ounces since Wednesday not bad considering i drank 12 pints on the weekend and had a bbq and went to an Italian and had a 3 course meal on Friday. Lager alone I consumed 2000 calories FFS

Been to the gym twice since Wednesday and cycled 45 miles
 
I've lost 3 kilos so far through calorie watching and actually getting off my rear end and doing some exercise. Another 12 to go... My tastebuds seem to have got over the shock of not having chocolate anymore. I don't feel any urges when I'm near the vending machiens at work.

Still drinking beer, just ensuring that it doesn't take me over my daily limit.
 
Aim 6"2 and weigh 21 stone. It has snuck up on me quickly due to medication and I share your concerns that's why I now go to the gym least four times a week, eat better and am going to see my gp to see about an appetite suppression or such to assist.

RTJ
 
Weekly weigh-in day today, and am now down to 20st 2, not the less than 20st I wanted but at the same time I didn't deserve to lose the 4lb to get me there.

Had a bad week, didn't cycle in to work at all and on Saturday I had 6 cans of beer during a day long fishing trip followed by another 10+ pints, jager bombs etc etc, after the drinking I had a large pizza and chips and cheese. The next day while nursing a pretty decent hangover I had a chinese for tea.

I didn't deserve to lose the 4lb but am happy with the 2lb loss given the above.
 
Guess now is as good a time as any to join the bandwagon, every bit of motivation helps.

Some background first. Have always been relatively active, mainly through either playing football or training. Unfortunately I've also always been quite a big eater (I'm unwilling to blame my metabolism, I fully accept it's greed :p). The end result of this being my weight is never stable, I have always been either slowly putting weight on or knocking it off. Over the past 3 or 4 years the time I've been putting into exercise has been dropping, and over the past 12-15 months has come to a complete stop. The subsequent fall in fitness level and rise in trouser size will shock nobody. I can use the 'family commitments' excuse that I'm sure many of us can, but ultimately it comes down to being motivated enough to find the time. Recently that time has been handed to me on a plate, and I intend to make the most of it :D.

I first recorded my weight on the 25th of April, and was shocked to find I was 14st 9lb. Not shocked because I thought I'd be less, I fully expected more. But that weigh in followed a good 3 weeks of eating very little due to stress, so I would most certainly have been 15st+ at the very start.

As of this monday I weighed in at 12st 10.5lb, which at 5"11 brings me out of the overweight BMI category by the narrowist of margins. I keep my routine as simple as I can, first the easy part - the diet. While it's true I'm a bit of a monster once I get going, I've also never had a problem cutting all the junk out when needed (as long as I cut it all out). So it's one protein shake in the morning, one afternoon meal (usually chickin + veg, pasta or beans) and one protein shake in the evening. Will often have an apple late afternoon also. I actually began with simply the one meal per day, but hit a wall after 2 or 3 weeks, presumably due to taking in way too few calories. Since adding the shakes everything has got back on track.

Exercise, for the time being I'm focusing entirely on cardio, so it's out for a jog every morning. Typically I will do around 5-6k, although for the last week I've had to miss most days due to a pretty awful chest/cough. The couple times I did try to go out I did about half of what I would normally, the second time I decided not to bother until I could do a full run (which hopefully will be tomorrow). Having always done a fairly even split between weights/cardio I'll be looking at doing the same again at some point, for the time being I'll stick to cardio at least until I'm somewhere in the 11st bracket.

And that's it so far, I should still be on course for 12st 9lb on my weigh in come monday, although it remains to be seen what effect no exercise will have had. That will be 2st loss in 7 weeks should I manage it, not the most efficient weight loss of course but I prefer the quicker approach and don't mind dealing with any extra muscle loss somewhere down the line.

Still a long way to go and tbh I don't actually know what my 'ideal' weight is, I'm sure I'll know it when i get there :cool:.
 
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