Weight Watcher's Thread

[ColinJ]

Crash diets often fail as people just revert to old eating habits.

That is why I used the word 'another'!

PS I mean that in the sense of an extra explanation rather than a different one. I'm damn sure that crash diets don't work, because people are just counting down the days until they can start eating junk food again!

 

[gam001]

One of the reasons I took up biking a few weeks ago, was because I seemed to have gained a tyre around my waist. 6 ten mile rides later, the tyre is still sitting there, thighs and backside are much firmer but how long before (If ever) the gut starts to vanish?

A rule of thumb is that you burn around 40kcals per mile (flattish route).
10 miles is 400kcals. 6 lots of that is 2,400kcals.
You need to burn around 3,500kcals to burn off 1 lb of fat, so if all else is equal, you should have lost around 0.7 lb. Bottom line is that you need to do a lot of cycling every week if you want to lose weight consistently.
The bit I find hard is not eating lots of food after my rides as this is when my appetite is at its highest
Keep going though...

 

[david k]

I'm 244 lbs, need to lose some weight, posting it here may help my motivation

 

[Justiffa]

Sad to say, getting sick has always been a sure fire way to lose weight. came down with fever & flu christmas day and now still racked with a wet, agonizing cough.

But what i hv not been able to do on my own, hv been achieved thru the virus attack…i am now greeting the new year @ 50kg. Now what i need to do next is get better, tone up & start rebuilding my stamina.

So 1st day of 2014:
53 yo
157cm
50kg

 

[ColinJ]

Sad to say, getting sick has always been a sure fire way to lose weight.

It worked for me - by the time I came out of hospital last year, I had lost about 2 stone (12.5 kg). The trouble is - it seemed like about 50% of it was muscle loss!

 

[Justiffa]

It worked for me - by the time I came out of hospital last year, I had lost about 2 stone (12.5 kg). The trouble is - it seemed like about 50% of it was muscle loss!

yeah i tend to agree, it usually involves loss of muscle &/or muscle tone. 12.5kg? thts a lot of weight lost

 

[ColinJ]

yeah i tend to agree, it usually involves loss of muscle &/or muscle tone. 12.5kg? thts a lot of weight lost

I have lost another 10 kg since then and started to build my leg muscles back up!

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Well I may as well join in again.

18 stones pretty much on the dot.

Want to be 15 stones by the end of the year.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am in.

WEEK 1......looking to lose 5 kg.



My tip.

Do not eat anything after 7pm and drink only water after that time.

Don't expect it to happen if you don't exercise.

Give up 1 thing....in my case biscuits.

Steve

 

[ColinJ]

I just gave way to temptation and hopped on the scales so I can track my weight from the start of 2014. This time in 2012, I was 16 st 9 lbs; in 2013 I was 15 st 1 lb; I am now ...









13 st 0 lb - yay! That is a great start to the year and gives me hope that I will be my perfect size by the summer, as long as my health continues to improve.

Good luck to those of you who still have a lot of weight to lose!

 

[K9 Block]

Hello,
I'm new here but I joined Weight Watchers 5 years ago and have shed 90lbs which is 41kgs or 6.5 stones and I reduced my dress size from a UK 20 to an 8-10.
I am 158cms short and currently weigh around 60kgs post Christmas and New Year. I'd like to be around 57kgs to give myself some wriggle room.

 

[ColinJ]

I had forgotten the OJ-ometer on my old blog, which was something that I invented to represent the weight I was trying to lose. At the time, my weight-loss target was equivalent to 21 litres of OJ. Unfortunately, I gave up and ended up heavier than when I started so my target became bigger than that - 27-28 litres of OJ! I don't intend to go out and buy 28 litres of OJ, so I will show you where I am using 2 OJ-ometers ...

Target loss:

Loss so far:

The remaining 5 or 6 litres of OJ-worth of flab should be gone by the summer, all being well!

 

[screenman]

I used to go into the supermarket and pick up the weight I had lost in bags of sugar, I found this made me realise how much energy I had and was wasting carrying it around all day. When I had lost the same as a 5 gallon container of water I realised why I used to struggle up hills at times.

I did at the beginning of my diet try picking up the 5 gallon container of water and seeing how far I could carry it, as this was my target to lose, I did not get 30 yards. Yet stupid me was making myself do it all day every day, that was 4 years ago and I am not going back there.

 

[The Jogger]

I watched it on iPlayer last night. I thought it was interesting and the idea of building up tissue in times of plenty, and repairing them in times of scarcity makes sense. I might have a go at the 2 reduced calorie days a week. I eat loads of fruit and veg so on those 'fasting' days it would just be a case of skipping the accompanying baked potatoes, pitta breads (whatever).

Well done for sticking at it, the 5:2 really does work as a few of us can justify.

 

[HeroesFitness]

Fat loss should be slow and gradual as to much weight loss will be water, muscle and bone density if your calorie intake is to low, train hard, eat healthily as a lifestyle do not yo yo diet as this will cause a reduction in metabolic rate and eventually lead to more increases in bodyfat.