*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

bastic said:
0.85£ with nectar is really good...so morrisons and sainsbury visit tonight haha

i could live off protein bars, but so not cost effective...
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I tend to find the protein bars give me a bad gut, unless I really chew them a lot… I tend not to have them but when I do, no more than one a day for me.
 
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SixTwoSix said:
Another two weeks later, down to 78.7kg across last few days - slower loss than before but had a few weekends of drinking to it's progress i'll happily take.
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Nice, scales this morning showing 78.3kg, 0.4kg drop in the last 6 days. However I did get to walk more this last week due to the weather improving on break times at work and I had a few days of late Hunt Showdown gaming which meant I wasn't sat in front of the TV snacking. I also didn't touch any alcohol over the weekend for the first time in a few weeks.
 
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@Nitefly - at 85p you can’t go wrong! The Danone ones aren’t quite as good nutritionally.

If you’re below your calories or want to pimp your protein yoghurt, I’d suggest squirty cream and a square of dark chocolate on the Banoffee Kvarg. Makes for a really decent pudding. Probably shouldn’t be sharing that habit on a weight loss thread… we’ve had to stop buying squirty cream :cry:
 
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I've have been on a bit of a journey myself since the end of April. I went to the doctors for a blood test - nothing special or wrong with me and he said jump on the scales. Now I know I'm a bigger lad (6ft3) but when he said 125kgs I thought ouch that's a bit high and did a bit of mental maths to convert it to stones. That was the kick up the arse I needed as I was touching 20 stones. I have a very sedatary job but I've always like to walk. Getting in 10k steps a day was always achieved on average over a week due to playing football and golf.

Now what I have done is consistently make the effort to get more and more steps in. I set the alarm each weekday and I do a 3 mile walk before taking the little lad to school. I'm averaging over 20k a day now. What is hard especially as its getting darker and wetter outside is getting those steps in. So I decided I'd by a spin bike. A decent heavy duty one to substitute the walking through the winter and so far that's been working well.

I have been Monday to Friday fasting and consuming all my food between 1200 and 2000 which hasn't really been a problem as I've never been a massive breakfast fan but when on the road for work it does stop me eating rubbish.

As of this morning I am at 107kg and apart from 2 holidays where I have gained a little weight but dropped straight after, I have shown a steady consistent weight loss. I don't really have a final target but getting into double KG digits will feel good which hopefully I'll get to by Christmas with a bit of extra effort. I've dropped 2 waist sizes and definitely feel more confident and a lot fitter.
 
Just getting started on finally trying to get my weight, eating habits and exercise on an even keel. Trigger for this is hitting the big 40 and realised I’ve been consistently over 100kg and unfit for too long having left uni more like 85 kg. I’m 105 kg and 188cm now and starting to fear what long term damage I’m doing to my health (work medical said marginally high cholesterol) with two young kids and a stressful job. Having seen my dad’s health get worse from being consistently over weight I want to avoid that. I’d like to get down to 90 kg but more importantly stick at a weight around that number. I’ve tried exercise and diets (fasting and huel) in the past and usually manage 3 months max and then it all goes horribly wrong usually starting with off the diet with a bad week at work and then the exercise slips.

Self assessing:

Diet - I over eat and snack particularly late at night and during the work day. I’ve a terrible sweet tooth for snacks (prets chocolate bars etc) at work particularly when days are stressful (too often). I also travel a lot with work so eat out a lot. Diets been the thing I’ve never really tackled as I like food too much and stress eat. This time I’m going to tackle the diet as I think that’s been the real issue previously as I could only ever tolerate doing huel during the day. I think I need to finally have a go at proper calorie counting so looking at that now to make it easy. I’m tempted to try one of these meal prep services (Lionprep maybe) to make calorie counting easier and also control portions generally kick start things.

Drinking - I’m basically tee total so no quick wins here :( don’t drink sugary soft drinks either.

Exercise - Used to swim a lot and enjoyed that but struggle to fit it in around kids and work now. Have a peloton and peloton guide which my wife’s addicted to but I have struggled to get addicted to but when I get going I can get into good habits for a few months and find it helps with stress at work as well. I’m less worried about getting consistent on exercise. I’m going to potentially find some sports to do for the social aspect more than anything And maybe over time look at cycling to work or the station.

Anyway. Really here to give myself some accountability by starting to check in regularly with my progress (all my mates are fitness addicts so don’t get my struggle) and making some sustained changes this time.

105kg. 0kg lost.
 
Alex_L said:
Just getting started on finally trying to get my weight, eating habits and exercise on an even keel. Trigger for this is hitting the big 40 and realised I’ve been consistently over 100kg and unfit for too long having left uni more like 85 kg. I’m 105 kg and 188cm now and starting to fear what long term damage I’m doing to my health (work medical said marginally high cholesterol) with two young kids and a stressful job. Having seen my dad’s health get worse from being consistently over weight I want to avoid that. I’d like to get down to 90 kg but more importantly stick at a weight around that number. I’ve tried exercise and diets (fasting and huel) in the past and usually manage 3 months max and then it all goes horribly wrong usually starting with off the diet with a bad week at work and then the exercise slips.

Self assessing:

Diet - I over eat and snack particularly late at night and during the work day. I’ve a terrible sweet tooth for snacks (prets chocolate bars etc) at work particularly when days are stressful (too often). I also travel a lot with work so eat out a lot. Diets been the thing I’ve never really tackled as I like food too much and stress eat. This time I’m going to tackle the diet as I think that’s been the real issue previously as I could only ever tolerate doing huel during the day. I think I need to finally have a go at proper calorie counting so looking at that now to make it easy. I’m tempted to try one of these meal prep services (Lionprep maybe) to make calorie counting easier and also control portions generally kick start things.

Drinking - I’m basically tee total so no quick wins here :( don’t drink sugary soft drinks either.

Exercise - Used to swim a lot and enjoyed that but struggle to fit it in around kids and work now. Have a peloton and peloton guide which my wife’s addicted to but I have struggled to get addicted to but when I get going I can get into good habits for a few months and find it helps with stress at work as well. I’m less worried about getting consistent on exercise. I’m going to potentially find some sports to do for the social aspect more than anything And maybe over time look at cycling to work or the station.

Anyway. Really here to give myself some accountability by starting to check in regularly with my progress (all my mates are fitness addicts so don’t get my struggle) and making some sustained changes this time.

105kg. 0kg lost.
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diet and snacks are the most difficult part..

I swapped for protein bars as a snack biut as mentioned earlier, not really cost effective...

now trying to eat protein youghurts as a snack if in need, or row or 2 of 85% chocolate.

coke 0 helps although fizzy drinks do not help all together...

I will have a biscuit or 4 at work when having a cofffee ;)

and mainly watch amount if any of carbs

and drink as much water as possible.

Good Luck!
you will smash it
 
Good luck @Alex_L! The first step is to be accountable and take control. Count calories and be honest. Don't really start cutting anything out before you really understand what you're eating now. You'll probably be really shocked and then motivated to change. Weigh out portions, be accurate!
 
Mr Jack said:
Yeah, it's really satisfying. Not as satisfying as throwing out a pair of jeans 'cos you've gone down a waist size though.
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Funny you say this as today i've noticed my main pair of Jeans is hanging a little lower, not like a gangsta' low but enough for me to think i'm doing something right :D
 
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protein loading at work ;)
my lunch
morrison protein yoghurt was actually tasty. £0.95 per pot.
will defo go back for more

this morning scale was at 220.2lbs...so i will take it as i can no set 215 as next target ;)
 
It’s great to see all these weight loss posts. And then here I come to buck the trend.

I’ve had an absolutely crap year. My eating has been out of control, my exercise practically non-existent due to all sorts of leg issues.

The result being that as of this morning I’m about 23kg heavier than this time last year. Yes, 23kg. It’s a massive wake up call. I’m almost back into triple digits (currently 97kg).

So it’s time to do something about it. Got a fridge full of decent food and a new app on my watch called Runna which will get me back to running 5K in six weeks and doing some strength work every other day.
 
ic1male said:
It’s great to see all these weight loss posts. And then here I come to buck the trend.

I’ve had an absolutely crap year. My eating has been out of control, my exercise practically non-existent due to all sorts of leg issues.

The result being that as of this morning I’m about 23kg heavier than this time last year. Yes, 23kg. It’s a massive wake up call. I’m almost back into triple digits (currently 97kg).

So it’s time to do something about it. Got a fridge full of decent food and a new app on my watch called Runna which will get me back to running 5K in six weeks and doing some strength work every other day.
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Clichéd but you're taking the first step which is accountability, can only improve from here.
 
ic1male said:
I’ve had an absolutely crap year. My eating has been out of control, my exercise practically non-existent due to all sorts of leg issues.

The result being that as of this morning I’m about 23kg heavier than this time last year. Yes, 23kg. It’s a massive wake up call. I’m almost back into triple digits (currently 97kg).
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That sucks, mate, but it's easy to let things go when you have health issues. I think the main thing is not to beat yourself up too much and be sensible about getting back on things. Push yourself too hard in an effort to quickly right those wrongs and you're setting yourself up for failure.

Good luck!
 
ic1male said:
It’s great to see all these weight loss posts. And then here I come to buck the trend.

I’ve had an absolutely crap year. My eating has been out of control, my exercise practically non-existent due to all sorts of leg issues.

The result being that as of this morning I’m about 23kg heavier than this time last year. Yes, 23kg. It’s a massive wake up call. I’m almost back into triple digits (currently 97kg).

So it’s time to do something about it. Got a fridge full of decent food and a new app on my watch called Runna which will get me back to running 5K in six weeks and doing some strength work every other day.
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You're in a similar boat as me i think, although my weight gain has been more minimal. I did just touch on triple digits last week though (and still again today)

I've set myself what i think is a reasonably achievable goal of 95kg by Christmas. Just in time to over indluge and pile it all on again :D
 
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I've set myself what i think is a reasonably achievable goal of 95kg by Christmas. Just in time to over indluge and pile it all on again :D
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I would love to get to 89.9kg for the weigh-in on 1st January, then I can be rid of the pesky 90s for 2024. But yes, Christmas gets in the way. But I've been eating like Christmas all year so maybe that week I should actually behave for once. :D
 
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ic1male said:
I would love to get to 89.9kg for the weigh-in on 1st January, then I can be rid of the pesky 90s for 2024. But yes, Christmas gets in the way. But I've been eating like Christmas all year so maybe that week I should actually behave for once. :D
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Haha i think it should be slightly achievable if you get overly strict, could probably drop 3-4kg quite quick and then you're only on 1kg a week. I hope your "this is the start" mentality is better than mine as i said all this last week and haven't been great again. Although i blame my wife for buying me snacks!

This rental has a chalk board in the kitchen by the front door, i might put current weight and trending on that so it's in my face!
 
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First weigh in this morning since getting back Monday night from my long weekend away and I'm up 4.6lbs, which is about what I might expect. I think that will come down again over the next couple of days. I had thought to get back on the low cal count straight away, but I was far too hungry on day 1 back. Having cycled 220 miles and about 16k ft elevation, the body is needing food at the moment.
 
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