*** Big Fat Weight Loss Thread ***

Martynt74 said:
That's awesome.

I hearby state that as of this morning i weighed 100.7kg. I shall promise you all that on Monday this will be lower (except in the event of freak scales readings) and Mondays post will at least we a positive one rather than a general cry about how useless i am!
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Nope. 101.3kg

On the plus side this post can be (mostly) positive, on account of having done a bike ride Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Alcohol intake was reduced (1 beer Friday, 1 bottle of wine Saturday and 1 mulled wine at a market yesterday). Eating probably wasn't the healthiest with being out and about Friday (quick McDonalds around 10pm!), then Saturday was testing a new pizza oven, and yesterday the Christmas Market had bratwurst and then my wife wanted some English stuff for tea as there was a stall with amazing looking sausage rolls and pies.

Still, it's the excess booze and lack of exercise which is the main issue with my diet recently, so at least those were tackled :)
 
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You can make McDonalds better if you have to dive in. If it's for dinner then i'll get a pair of the wraps of the day and a low sugar drink and no chips.
 
Meaker said:
You can make McDonalds better if you have to dive in. If it's for dinner then i'll get a pair of the wraps of the day and a low sugar drink and no chips.
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This is Spain, you get beer :D

Although not sure my burger choice was sensible...
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There’s nothing quite as rewarding as demonstrable, factual gains…

In April, after losing a fair bit of weight, I decided to up my swimming game by buying some proper swim suit trunks (replacing the baggy holiday swim shorts).

I bought them with a 36” waist, which turned out to be rather optimistic as I was muffin-ing out of them :o

Fast forward to recent times and I’ve found the same trunks sliding off me whilst swimming, even tying them up as tightly as possible. So I bought a new pair, two sizes down with a 32” waist.

These new swim shorts fit far better, and with less muffin-ing, than the 36” did when I got them.

That’s progress :cool:
 
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I started cutting back on all the snacks a couple of months ago when i weighed myself at 96kg. I got down to 86kg last week which is the lowest I've weighed in over 10 years, no doubt I'll put it all back on over Christmas though!
 
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i think over christmas , if you can manage to say level with your weight you are winning, most people put weight on. ill aim for neither loss nor a gain, then in jan carry on with weight loss. still lifting weights so i guess im still making progress in one way.
 
Personally I'm fine putting on a bit of weight over Christmas. I'll try not to go completely bananas, but I don't think a bit of excess at a special time of year with your friends and family is a bad thing. Factor it into your plans, I say.
 
My Christmas eatings have started - had three work dos last week and have relaxed meals a bit more at home. It was probably booze more than anything that was the killer last week. Bit more focus this week (although unprompted takeaway this evening didn’t help). Multiple on calls mean that I can’t really get into the festive booze, especially the weekend before Christmas, that might be the saving grace this year. If I manage a single gym session this week I might be on for a weight hold. Just reminds me that if I want to keep my current weight stable I do have to be quite cautious with intake.

I hope everyone has the chance to enjoy some fantastic food and drink over the festive season. Turkey is the leanest of meats after all :D
 
I've decided I'm on holiday from tomorrow, and thus set my weight loss target for today before the Christmas debauchery begins. I'd set myself a target of getting down to 82kg, which I didn't hit, but at 85.7kg I'm 5.5kg down from when I started, 8.3kg down from my heaviest point at the start of last year, and 1.5kg down on the same day last year. So, overall, I'm reasonably happy.

Not going to worry too much about weight over the next few weeks with Christmas/New Year/my birthday, and then try and correct and lose a little more in January.
 
Nitefly said:
As for my own progress, I finally made it into the ‘healthy’ zone on BMI, having been ‘obese’ earlier in the year (13 stone 7 lbs)

So that’s a 3 stone drop \o/

Going to try and drop another 2/3 to drop my body fat % before building on the lean muscle (target end weight 12 stone).
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Just over a month later… now at 13 stone*, 0 lbs - hurrrgn!

*Not sure about everyone else but I just take my ‘lowest’ weigh-ins as my weight for consistency purposes. My weight bounces around all over the place by 2-4 lbs daily, so unless you monitor your lowest or highest weights, you’ll never really get a grip on how you’re doing. So I guess that means that I’m still above 13 on a daily average basis but it doesn’t really matter - the progress of a 1/2 stone drop is legit :)
 
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I now quite like how my app shows averages. Depending on what view I'm in, will show a different average (year view = monthly ave, quarterly view = weekly average).

This morning might be my last weigh-in of this year so -

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It's almost scarey how easily you can put weight on (end of June, trip to Girona) and then how hard it is to bring it back off., I think in 2024 (starting with Xmas) that's what I'll try and avoid.
 
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AndyCr15 said:
It's almost scarey how easily you can put weight on (end of June, trip to Girona) and then how hard it is to bring it back off., I think in 2024 (starting with Xmas) that's what I'll try and avoid.
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That's definitely what i've found since i've been here. What's been frustrating is i'd hoped to hit sub 100kg by Christmas, and i've had a few weigh-ins where i've been 100.3kg and thought "this is it, another day or so and i'll sneak under", then the next day i'm back at 101.5kg or something.

I've decided to just accept it for this year and then try and really kick on in January. The kids are over for Christmas which will involve a lot of eating out which is never low in calories as lots of stuff is fried in tons of oil/bytter! I'll have cleared out most of the booze by then too.

Hopefully i can keep a couple of active days/week without the distraction of work and that'll help keep things under control.
 
I've bumped up about 5lbs since the start of my mince pie diet in December :o
Doesn't help that I've had a bit of a dodgy knee from Krav maga meaning I've been missing my cardio sessions/walking and the little one hasn't been well so it's been a case of my wife is up most of the night then as soon as I finish work we've been swapping.

Almost all of that 5lbs feels like water weight though as my calves have been playing up again when I have managed to get out for a walk and the sock imprints on my ankles after a day sitting in in the office are impressive!
 
Yeah I’m not going to deprive myself of Christmas dinner or anything, but I don’t think there’s any need to totally ‘let it go’ over Christmas. A mince pie here and a mulled wine there why not, especially at social events, but there’s no need for a daily baileys / throw in the oven Christmas snacks on top of the usual routine.

Also there is a lot of ‘overbuying’ - Christmas is like 3 days (eve, day, boxing) no need to go turbo with abnormal consumption beyond that.

Just don’t buy it then if its not in the cupboard, it’s not a problem.
 
Eat as much as you like, not eat as much as you can!

Had a hungry couple of days and expect to be up by new year, but festive food is amazing and to be enjoyed! I don’t think going back to being very strict will be too hard come January / February, but I echo @AndyCr15 ’s sentiments that it’s fast on, slow off.

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Year progress. There’ll be a slight uptick which I’ll acknowledge in a couple of weeks with more strict logging. Can’t complain though! Fitter, happier, more productive!
 
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Yeah I’m not going to deprive myself of Christmas dinner or anything, but I don’t think there’s any need to totally ‘let it go’ over Christmas. A mince pie here and a mulled wine there why not, especially at social events, but there’s no need for a daily baileys / throw in the oven Christmas snacks on top of the usual routine.

Also there is a lot of ‘overbuying’ - Christmas is like 3 days (eve, day, boxing) no need to go turbo with abnormal consumption beyond that.

Just don’t buy it then if its not in the cupboard, it’s not a problem.
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After this post…

On Thursday we had pizzas.

On Friday I went to a friends for drinks and had more pizza supplemented with garlic bread and chocolates.

On Saturday I have a super rich meal out and drinks.

… didn’t really work out so well did it :D
 
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One More Solo said:
My weight has crept up this year for various reasons. Currently at 71kg post holiday which may not seem a lot but is high for me. Some of that will be water but I’ve set myself a target of 66kg to get down to over the next few weeks and months. I want to add in some weight training so that might mean losing more than 5kg of fat. I’m going to use MFP for a bit to get back on top of my eating as I know that’s where the issue is. Too many biscuits/sweets/sugary snacks, not eating enough at main meals and eating things out of habit rather than need.
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Pre-Christmas check in and I’ve made it to 65.5kg, so really happy with that. About 1.5kg of the post holiday weight was water so have lost 4kg or so whilst gaining strength and keeping up my bike fitness.

Things that have made a difference:

-No refined carbs outside of bike rides (pre/during). Probably the biggest one for me. I reckon I was easily putting 3-400 cals away each day mindlessly grabbing Haribo/biscuits etc.
-Doing easy rides (Z2 up to 1hr) fasted. I actually used a continuous glucose monitor for some of this period and found my blood sugar was more stable doing this than having a snack before, and I felt no different on the bike. I found them easiest to do in the morning after a coffee.
-Better snacks. Usually a small handful of nuts and a piece of fruit rather than a really processed energy/protein bar.
-More sleep. My cravings are so much worse when I’m tired.
-More beans/pulses. Really filling, satisfying and low calorie compared to rice etc.

I still have a beer or two on the weekend and dessert etc but I’m a lot more mindful about it. I’ll be a bit more relaxed over Christmas but we don’t tend to go crazy. My wife has stocked up on biscuits etc but I’m just not eating them, I’ve realised I can’t eat them in moderation so not putting myself through it.
 
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