Weight Watcher's Thread

[ColinJ]

Colun are you doing the 5:2 fasting?

Yes, and today is one of the fasting days. I haven't eaten yet but am starting to feel peckish so I am shortly going to have a banana, a few strawberries and some natural yoghurt.

The troublesome bike ride was not on a fasting day!

 

[The Jogger]

I am fasting today as well, still haven't eaten but fish and veg for tea. You are doing brilliant with the weight loss.

 

[ColinJ]

You are doing brilliant with the weight loss.

Kind of, but the bulk of it came off last summer when I was too ill to eat and stopped drinking alcohol! Having said that, I did put about 9 pounds back on after coming out of hospital and I've lost that since, plus another 7 pounds or so.

Funnily enough, I'm having fish and veg this evening too - tuna, and steamed broccoli, cabbage and carrots. Talking about which is making me feel hungry, but I want to watch the Channel 4 news while eating so I'll leave it another 25 minutes before heading for the kitchen!

 

[ColinJ]

Ha ha - I knew that certain combinations of words involving the room that food is prepared in are now filtered due to forum spam, but I didn't realise that the word 'k-itchen' alone is!

I wonder what Lord Kitchener would have made of that ...?

 

[ColinJ]

Hmm ... Kitchener is okay!

 

[The Jogger]

Just finished day two tgis week, fasted for 21 hrs then had pan fried chicken breast in a tablespoon of olive oil with broccoli and tinned toms. Four rich tea and a liw cal drink and still under 600 cals.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm going to try making some veggie soup tomorrow. I haven't decided exactly what to put in it, but it will be based on some combination of green pepper, ginger, chillis, garlic, carrots, leek, parsnip, mushrooms and courgette! I might chuck in a tin of tomatoes, and will definitely be adding herbs and spices. Green lentils would be good for some protein ...

Yikes - 45 g of lentils would be about 150 cals - I think I'll save them for a non-fasting day!

 

[GaryA]

A sure fire way of losing weight..even if you have no excess to lose;

Go through a traumatic divorce involving a 4 year old child...move out of the family home..then a year later discover via a collapse you have a serious heart condition...which is under long running investigation.

Guaranteed stone and a half off

 

[ColinJ]

A sure fire way of losing weight..even if you have no excess to lose;

Go through a traumatic divorce involving a 4 year old child...move out of the family home..then a year later discover via a collapse you have a serious heart condition...which is under long running investigation.

Guaranteed stone and a half off

Yes, that would definitely help! I hope that, somehow, things improve for you in the future.

I lost nearly 3 stone over the winter when I went through my big bust-up back in 2000. At least I was really fit the following year though!

 

[RWright]

After week 23:

from 217 to 214.
Better fresh veggies and fruits, more sweat, less appetite. I love summer. Other good news is that I started feeling bad and had to schedule an appointment with my cardiologist. They found I have lowered my blood pressure enough that I am now off alpha blockers and beta blockers, my heart rate was getting low. Although my visit was only yesterday so we are still in the closer monitoring stages of it, I am watching my Garmin heart rate monitor pretty closely for the next week or two. I am hoping things go well with the change. Getting off blood pressure medication and regaining my health was my ultimate goal and so far so good. Just a calcium channel blocker, a diuretic and baby aspirin to go now...I might want to stay with the baby aspirin from now on though, they taste pretty good. I am going to go even healthier with my food selection now too. I hope everyone is having good luck with their diets and health.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Got down to 15 stone 11 but back upto 16 1/2 stone. Due to not being able to ride, not too worried as it stable and I know once I start riding again it'll be easy to get back on target.

 

[RWright]

After week 25:

from 214 to 210.

Summer is helping. I could shed pounds faster if I wanted to, but going to hold the course. Dr. just told me I can stop or halve the small amount of diuretic I am still on. I am going to stop it. I am hoping stopping the diuretic doesn't have any impact on my weight loss. I have a feeling it won't. I can go back to it if there are any problems but that is not something I want to do. Down to a calcium channel blocker and baby aspirin now.

I am going to start looking into training programs now for riding and to increase my overall fitness. Nothing like someone wanting to go into racing, just a program to take things up a notch or two.

 

[RWright]

After week 27:

from 210 to 208.8

I backed off on the riding a little but have been sweating a lot...and eating quite a bit. I ate more goodies during the past vacation week and I am sure that did not help. I am a little disappointed but it will make me try a little harder to watch what I eat. I may crank up the riding mileage until the end of the month, weather permitting that is. I would like to get under 200 by early August.

I did drag out the weights and weight bench yesterday. I am going to do a little light weight training along with the riding. I have also been walking some and have noticed it is a little rougher on my knees than the riding is. I will still do a little walking but not as much as I had planned. I would rather ride anyway.

 

[ColinJ]

I had a pleasant, but embarrassing surprise last night! It was a fine warm evening so I decided to go for a stroll and call in at the shops on the way back. I was wearing my baggy MTB shorts which have elasticated velcro adjustment straps on the waist. I used to need the straps loosened as much as possible but now I need them done up to the max. In fact, I have just about run off the end of the velcro strips so there isn't much velcro holding the straps on. As I walked into the shop, both straps came loose and the shorts started heading south. I managed to pull them back up before the people in the queue discovered that I was wearing nothing underneath!

It's a nice problem to have. When I got home, I tried on lots of clothes that I haven't been able to get into for over 5 years. Some of them now fit. Some are still a bit too tight, but at least I can get them on now!

My waist is still too big but I must have lost close to 10 inches from it. I reckon I have another 7 or 8 inches to go. I'd like to get down to the 32 inch waist that I had as a young man, but anything under 34 inches would be great.

 

[Biscuit]

86.2kg this morning. After a couple of weeks riding around the Netherlands and fine weather for the commute now I'm back. Feeling good. That's 3kg lost in last month.