Weight Watcher's Thread

[Saluki]

Excellent progress - keep it up!

I struggled back from a shopping trip last week wearing a 35 litre rucksack filled with heavy shopping, and carrying 3 carrier bags full of lighter stuff. It was a bit of a shock to realise that the whole lot weighed less than 1/2 of the weight that I have lost over the past 3 years!

I remember, after my accident, I went up to nearly 15 stone (was in a wheelchair) and, after I got back on my feet and then lost the weight and got back to a nice sensible 10 stone 2lbs, I tried to pick up 5 stone and I couldn't.
It's amazing to think that weight that is difficult to lift and carry was once actually a part of our bodies. I lifted 11lbs today. It was heavy

 

[Pumpkin the robot]

I lifted 11lbs today. It was heavy

A cat and a guinea pig?

 

[Saluki]

A cat and a guinea pig?

No. I filled a bucket with 9 pints of water, removed 4fl oz, then lifted it. A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.

A cat and a guinea pig won't last long enough to lift in our house

 

[ColinJ]

No. I filled a bucket with 9 pints of water, removed 4fl oz, then lifted it. A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter.

5 litres of water = 5 kg = 5 x 2.2 lb = 11 lb!

 

[Saluki]

5 litres of water = 5 kg = 5 x 2.2 lb = 11 lb!

Oh you metric type person you
I still measure height in hands. The cm are the little one's on the ruler right.

 

[suzeworld]

Hi
How y'all doin?
I just started using MyFitnessPal app again. Worked last year. It is like a spy in the cab to me, makes me be more honest with myself, which helps my motivation.

I Want to lose at least a stone. Two stone would be better. Got my eye on being in the Alps again this summer. So much easier without this extra padding.

Starting weight
March 1st 13st 4lb.

 

[Bodhbh]

I have never put on weight due to swimming @Bodhbh not unless I weighed while wearing a damp towel. Try changing your food intake, add a couple of hundred calories a day for a week and then go back to how you have been eating. Sounds mad but I know that it works as it did for me. Standard Weight Watchers advice for breaking a plateau.

Well, I've had to add some cals onto my diet for the last week or so whether I like it or not - dinners at the in-laws. So I'll see if this works! I'm fairly easy about it tbh, I'm not eating enough to maintain my weight so it'll drop.

 

[Saluki]

Hi
How y'all doin?
I just started using MyFitnessPal app again. Worked last year. It is like a spy in the cab to me, makes me be more honest with myself, which helps my motivation.

I Want to lose at least a stone. Two stone would be better. Got my eye on being in the Alps again this summer. So much easier without this extra padding.

Starting weight
March 1st 13st 4lb.

Hiya.
How tall are you? You sound as if you are starting off from just under my starting point 3 and a bit weeks ago.

 

[suzeworld]

Hiya.
How tall are you? You sound as if you are starting off from just under my starting point 3 and a bit weeks ago.

Hi
Have you lost much --- in search of your inner parsnip!

I bottled out of my planned ride yesterday, driving winds n rain, I know, wimpy. So my calorie intake too high yesterday .. but otherwise doing OK.

Will get to a spin class today. And try to avoid the biscuits which always tempt me in the coffee break at my French class. If I stick with theses resolutions I will be fine!

 

[Saluki]

Hi
Have you lost much --- in search of your inner parsnip!

I bottled out of my planned ride yesterday, driving winds n rain, I know, wimpy. So my calorie intake too high yesterday .. but otherwise doing OK.

Will get to a spin class today. And try to avoid the biscuits which always tempt me in the coffee break at my French class. If I stick with theses resolutions I will be fine!

I started out at 14 stone 2lbs. I have been hovering around the 13 - 13 stone 7 mark since about October last year and then did 5:2 through December and half of January. Then my depression bit me up the bum but I kept cycling even though my eating was pants.
I've recently (16th Feb) been following the Exante diet and am down to 176lbs (12 stone 8), possibly another 1lb down so far this week but couldn't swear to it. Weigh day is not until Monday but having calculated the calories, I should be. Unless I am sticking on some muscle which would be fair enough.

Inner parsnip will be released, hopefully around the end of May. I am really determined this year. I'm 51, I work for a really cool company, surrounded by young and beautiful people and I feel like an old hag. I am the oldest by 10 years and they are all so lovely and supportive there. They don't stuff chocolate or crisps in front of me (unlike hubster from time to time - will you unwrap me a creme egg please )
This year I am having my body back. Enough is enough. I'm in charge, not the junk food.

Oh, I'm 5'7" so another stone will see me at the top end of my BMI (which is total crap but the NHS seem to like it)

 

[uclown2002]

Oh, I'm 5'7" so another stone will see me at the top end of my BMI (which is total crap but the NHS seem to like it)

Try your waist to height ratio. Should be less than 0.5. Measure thinnest part of midriff typically 1 inch above belly button.

 

[Saluki]

Try your waist to height ratio. Should be less than 0.5. Measure thinnest part of midriff typically 1 inch above belly button.

I do measure but not quite at that ratio yet.

 

[uclown2002]

I do measure but not quite at that ratio yet.

It seems to be a far better measurement than BMI.

 

[suzeworld]

I am a bit older than you ... not looked at the BMI thing but know I need to lose a couple of stone.

No longer at work and my wife is very supportive, but tends a bit to the "food police"
----- so they cant win, can they?



PS what is the Exante diet?

I am doing calorie counting with Fitness pal, but the basic food plan is anti-cancer, so quite vegan, ie very little dairy/meat. Occasional fish, masses of fresh fruit n veg, especially stuff with anti-cancer properties like citrus, berries, brassicas, curry spices .... Whole meal carbs, nothing white!
I can lose weight on this pretty easy when I watch my fat intake. And do not eat out too often, who knows what calories you get in restaurant food. I ordered some side veg last week that came with about 3oz of oil on them!!

 

[Saluki]

I weighed today. It was supposed to be yesterday but I couldn't find my seeing specs and by the time I had found them I had already had a coffee and my breakfast shake as I was hungry. Plus a large glass of water. I thought that I would leave it until today when Hubster can read the little lines on the scales, which I am sure are getting smaller as I get a little older.

I lost 2kg last week so now bob on 78kg. My inner parsnip is definitely coming out to see the world this year.

The funny thing is that my palette is changing. 4 weeks ago I liked the hazlenut flavour shake and now I think it tastes like the bottom of an ashtray. I made up a spoonful of Beanies Ameretto coffee with a little hot water (espresso sized cup) and added it to the shake, and some additional ice and whizzed it up in my Breville Active blender thing and it's now gorgeous. Ameretto coffee and hazlenut thick shake for breakfast with a bit of added

This ketosis malarkey is a funny thing. I feel cold a lot. A jumper and a cup of ginger/mint/licorice tea (not at the same time) generally sorts it out. On the upside, my hot flushes are as rare as hen's teeth now, which is pretty darned awesome, let me tell you. The Exante diet is very restrictive being food packs - rather space age really, plus a up to 200 calorie meal of protein and no more than 5g of carbs (watercress is wonderful, as is peeled cucumber) but it's really working well for me and I've settled in to the food routine. I have lots of choice within the restrictions, so not bored with the food at all. I'm not missing bread now, nor chocolate, or crisps.

I am considering buying some size 12 jeans and seeing how long it takes to slim into them. Actually I think that will be my 7lb non food treat this time. Or I might go and buy another Eric Johnson CD. Decisions decisions.