potsy
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Great start to the year Baggy, are you going for the 10 miles a day target again?
Weight Watcher's Thread
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Baggy
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Yup, 10 miles a day as the minimum this year, hopefully will manage 4000 this year.
4F, that's a pretty impressive achievement, presumably you're planning to go a lot further. Good luck and I look forward to you overtaking me (I'm about the same height, 1.73m) in time, weight-loss wise! Don't be tempted into a 'crash diet', from what I've heard they never work out. Take it a bit at a time.
I'm hoping to post up some progress on my next weekly report (Monday). I'm at 92.8 this morning, which is well down on the starting point of 95.5. But the more you achieve the harder it gets.
I'm hoping to post up some progress on my next weekly report (Monday). I'm at 92.8 this morning, which is well down on the starting point of 95.5. But the more you achieve the harder it gets.
ColinJ
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True, but the closer you get to your target, the less the remaining flab matters. 2 pounds lost out of a target of 20 - super! 0.5 pounds lost out of a target of 5 - that is still 10%. Just think of it as gliding in towards your target. If you hurtled down to it, you'd almost certainly overshoot and end up underweight!... the more you achieve the harder it gets.
At one time, I managed to get down to a 34 inch waist but I still wanted my old 32 inch waistline back. The trouble was, I was losing so much fat elsewhere that those bits were looking over-skinny! The flesh on the back of my hands got so thin that I was starting to see the gubbins under the skin! In the end, I decided not to bother about that inch or two and the last few pounds that those waistline inches represented.
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I have been bullied encouraged by Potsy to join this thread. 
Last November I started to carefully consider what I was eating and drinking, and between then and the New Year, I cut out a lot of the junky food like crisps, biscuits and pastries. Very slowly losing weight in the process.
My weight now is 13 st 4lb approx. I say "approximately" because the scales waver by about seven pounds, so I have taken the mid-point. My target weight would be about 11 stone, I think. The BMI charts say I should be 9st 7lb, but if I lost that much, I think I would look unwell.
I have also been attending Weight Watchers [sup]tm[/sup]. It seems a very sensible way of eating, with plenty of fruit and vegetables.
Last November I started to carefully consider what I was eating and drinking, and between then and the New Year, I cut out a lot of the junky food like crisps, biscuits and pastries. Very slowly losing weight in the process.
My weight now is 13 st 4lb approx. I say "approximately" because the scales waver by about seven pounds, so I have taken the mid-point. My target weight would be about 11 stone, I think. The BMI charts say I should be 9st 7lb, but if I lost that much, I think I would look unwell.
I have also been attending Weight Watchers [sup]tm[/sup]. It seems a very sensible way of eating, with plenty of fruit and vegetables.
Nice one Speicher. My alleged target BMI says I should be 11 stone 9 but I am taking that with a pinch of salt as my aim is to look right (probably betwen 12 - 13 stone) rather than being pre occupied by getting to a certain figure because that is what a list says it should be.
Keep up the good work
Keep up the good work
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Thank you 4F. As the warmer weather is with us, I hope to get more exercise. I should admit 
that I am not really a cyclist. I joined this site because I like watching the Tours and one day classics, and stayed. 
I hope that cutting down a bit more and exercising more, will combine to give me a consistent loss of perhaps seven pounds per month.
that I am not really a cyclist. I joined this site because I like watching the Tours and one day classics, and stayed. I hope that cutting down a bit more and exercising more, will combine to give me a consistent loss of perhaps seven pounds per month.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Oh!As the warmer weather is with us, I hope to get more exercise. I should admit
There are actually a few people on CC with more posts than me who never seem to mention cycling so I'd been wondering for some time if there were non-cyclists among us!
Are you "not really" a cyclist because you haven't really tried cycling, or you have tried and didn't really like it?
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I did not have a bicycle when I was a child. I bought a bicycle about ten years ago, (second hand, off a friend) but I think it is too big for me, and the gears are very complicated, so I think I was put off a bit. Then bought a bicycle with smaller wheels (20 inch) and only three gears, but was put off by the traffic. In 2007 I had two nasty falls (not cycling related) which, long story short, took a lot to recover from, and stopped me doing very much exercise at all for nearly two years. At my age, getting fitness back from zero is not easy.
I would like to find a traffic-free circuit, but that is much easier said than done.
I would like to find a traffic-free circuit, but that is much easier said than done.
potsy
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Well done Speicher, I talk to you a lot and wondered why you had never mentioned cycling, apart from watching the tours, for some reason I was afraid to ask why
I hadn't done any cycling since childhood before I bought a bike in April 09, it was quite daunting to get straight out there on the roads, especially a built up area like Manchester, we have a local trail called the Trans pennine which is flat, traffic free and I have enjoyed the odd ride I do on there, maybe there is somewhere like that near you?
When you say your scales waver, do you mean if you weigh yourself twice within a few minutes or within a few days? I know we weigh more at night so you should always weigh in at the same time of day no matter how often.
Good to see you on here, just please don't be bringing your bad 'tea' habits across and tempting us all
I hadn't done any cycling since childhood before I bought a bike in April 09, it was quite daunting to get straight out there on the roads, especially a built up area like Manchester, we have a local trail called the Trans pennine which is flat, traffic free and I have enjoyed the odd ride I do on there, maybe there is somewhere like that near you?
When you say your scales waver, do you mean if you weigh yourself twice within a few minutes or within a few days? I know we weigh more at night so you should always weigh in at the same time of day no matter how often.
Good to see you on here, just please don't be bringing your bad 'tea' habits across and tempting us all
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It depends how I stand on the scales. I try to keep them in the same place, in the bathroom on a floor without carpet. I can stand on them, weigh 13st, then think "Was the needle on zero, have I really lost that much?", step off, stand on them again, I it will show 13st 7lb or something equally silly. 
I try to only weigh myself in the morning, before breakfast.
Bad habits?
That really is a Potsy calling a kettle black. 
I try
to only weigh myself in the morning, before breakfast.Bad habits?
That really is a Potsy calling a kettle black. We have a similar problem. We have one of those 'toe-touch' jobs which powers-up and zeroises when you touch it with a toe. Then you stand on it. Fine, in principle. But the reading can vary by as much as a Kg or more depending on where you stand on the scales.It depends how I stand on the scales. I try to keep them in the same place, in the bathroom on a floor without carpet. I can stand on them, weigh 13st, then think "Was the needle on zero, have I really lost that much?", step off, stand on them again, I it will show 13st 7lb or something equally silly.
Can anyone recommend a really reliable set of scales? One that gives a consistent reading if you stand on it, step off, then stand on it again? That's all I ask. None of this fancy measure-your-body-fat-HR-BP-GI-blood-sugars-braincellfunction-IQ all-in-one-go stuff. Just a simple weighing machine...
I know you asked for simple scales and not ones that tell you other stuff, but I'm still going to recommend these Salter scales which I use. They do tell you your Body Fat, Body Water, Muscle Mass, BMI and BMR as well as your weight though you can use them so they just tell you your weight and none of the rest. I've tested them multiple times by stepping on, then off and on again and I always get the same weight with each step-off-and-step-on-again.
I do think it's important to see some of this other information too. Body Fat and Muscle Mass are useful to see and you should bear in mind that as your muscle mass increases, this will affect your weight. This week I am 0.5 lbs heavier than I was last week but my muscle mass also increased. As muscle weighs more than fat, I'm fairly happy with this, whereas just looking at my weight and not knowing anything else, I'd not have been happy.
Do remember that BMI isn't the best gauge to use either. OK it can be useful but if you are developing muscle through exercise, it becomes less useful. If athletes used it, many would be considered as overweight or obese as they fall outside the normal ranges for BMI but these athletes are definitely not overweight or obese, they just have a higher muscle mass.
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How important is breakfast? I was talking to someone yesterday, my hairdresser, who wants to loose another half a stone. I do not think she needs to, but that is beside the point.
For breakfast she has either
two weetabix or porridge made with 28g of oats and water
I have Porridge made with Jumbo Organic Oats - 50g - skimmed milk and a level teaspoon of demerara sugar. If I tried her version of breakfast, I would be eating again at about 11am.
For evening meal we seem to eat similar quantities (ie smaller than we used to), although she says she never eats potatoes or other carbohydrates.
However, she reckons that if she ate more than she does, she would put on weight. Yes, bear with me, there is point to this post. Is there a danger that if someone does not eat enough, then they will not loose weight because their body started "thinking" that it is being starved.
With the Weight Watches regime that I am following, if you go swimming, for example, for an hour, you are advised to eat more. The body needs fuel, so depriving it of the fuel it needs, is counter-productive, is it?
For breakfast she has either
two weetabix or porridge made with 28g of oats and water
I have Porridge made with Jumbo Organic Oats - 50g - skimmed milk and a level teaspoon of demerara sugar. If I tried her version of breakfast, I would be eating again at about 11am.
For evening meal we seem to eat similar quantities (ie smaller than we used to), although she says she never eats potatoes or other carbohydrates.
However, she reckons that if she ate more than she does, she would put on weight. Yes, bear with me, there is point to this post.
Is there a danger that if someone does not eat enough, then they will not loose weight because their body started "thinking" that it is being starved. With the Weight Watches regime that I am following, if you go swimming, for example, for an hour, you are advised to eat more. The body needs fuel, so depriving it of the fuel it needs, is counter-productive, is it?
