Weight Watcher's Thread

[4F]

To all the weight watchers here: well done!
I am personally about 3 lbs. from my target weight of 11 st. I haven't been that weight in about 15 years at least.
My height is about 5"5' (or 165 cm). My weight has fluctuated up to over 12.5 st so I'm quite happy with how it's going.

My commute is currently about 55km each day, and I'm trying to ride Mon-Fri.
Is that too much?
I'm worried I'm gonna get burnt out quite quickly. I've only started this new routine about 2 weeks ago. My thighs and t-bands are quite tight and sore every day, even after a hot relaxing bath.
Should I insert a rest day in the middle of my weekly cycling routine?
Any comments and suggestions welcome.
And I WILL go down to below 11 st. this year!!!!!!

Well 55 km is certainly some distance. My daily commute is 45 km and often I will add to this by taking the long way home however on days where the weather is not so nice I would not want to do any more.

If that was me starting off then yes I would have a rest day Wednesday for the first month and then see where you are from there.

 

[Baggy]

No weight loss this week, but no gain either, so it could be worse...

 

[Speicher]

I have lost half a pound this week. Only a very small amount, but in the right direction.

 

[ColinJ]

I can finally wear my black trousers again! I was pretty fed up to discover that I'd got too big for them at the start of the year, and my belt was hitting the endstops.

I've lost 2 inches round my waist and about 8 pounds in weight since then.

That is by doing 235 miles of hillyish cycling, a few hilly strolls and cutting down from 7 nights of beer a week to 2.

I have an easy 25 mile ride planned for tomorrow, a 9 mile walk on the Pennine Way for Friday, and a 57 mile hillyish forum ride for Sunday which I will celebrate with the rest of this week's beer ration!

 

[Baggy]

Well done to both of you!
Speicher, half a pound in a week is a good rate to lose at...
I rode a lot this weekend, but also ate quite a lot, too.

 

[potsy]

No weight loss this week, but no gain either, so it could be worse...

I have lost half a pound this week. Only a very small amount, but in the right direction.

I can finally wear my black trousers again! I was pretty fed up to discover that I'd got too big for them at the start of the year, and my belt was hitting the endstops.

I've lost 2 inches round my waist and about 8 pounds in weight since then.

That is by doing 235 miles of hillyish cycling, a few hilly strolls and cutting down from 7 nights of beer a week to 2.

I have an easy 25 mile ride planned for tomorrow, a 9 mile walk on the Pennine Way for Friday, and a 57 mile hillyish forum ride for Sunday which I will celebrate with the rest of this week's beer ration!

I tend to not worry about weekly weight loss, much better to see a trend over say a month.
Not been on the scales yet this week, though I might do Saturday morning.

So that's 8.5 lbs between the 3 of you

well done Big Colin

 

[moth]

Hi new to the site I'm from suffolk, I weigh 14.13 stone 45 years old and need to do something about it, I've got a mtb bike that i use when I do Thetford Ect with my son and just about to get a light weight mtb bike with skinny wheels and tyres, I only live 5 miles from work and want to ride. I'm planning on doing lots of riding over the next few months. any help with how many miles I should do and diet would be great,I'd like to loose 2 stone at least. and be able to keep up with my son!!!

 

[ColinJ]

Hi new to the site I'm from suffolk, I weigh 14.13 stone 45 years old and need to do something about it, I've got a mtb bike that i use when I do Thetford Ect with my son and just about to get a light weight mtb bike with skinny wheels and tyres, I only live 5 miles from work and want to ride. I'm planning on doing lots of riding over the next few months. any help with how many miles I should do and diet would be great,I'd like to loose 2 stone at least. and be able to keep up with my son!!!

Hi moth.

A friend of mine lost so much weight in a few months that I noticed as soon as he opened the door to me on my next visit. I asked if he had been on some sort of diet. Nope, he'd started commuting on his old MTB. Now get this - it was less than 2 miles each way, but let's call it 2. That is 2 x 2 x 5 = 20 miles a week commuting. He said he enjoyed it so much that he was also doing a 5 mile ride at the weekend. He'd lost the best part of 2 stone just by riding 25 miles a week!

I would never have believed it possible, but he demonstrated it to me. Unfortunately, he had to start using a works van so he could be on call, and he put the weight back on again. He never changed what he was eating or drinking. It was just doing or not doing the exercise that made the difference. It must have really boosted his metabolism because there is now way that he burned those calories just when riding.

I'd say that commuting 5 miles to work and back each day will make a big difference to you as long as you don't start eating more to compensate. Try and get a 2 hour ride in with your son at the weekend.

Good luck!

 

[Baggy]

I tend to not worry about weekly weight loss, much better to see a trend over say a month.
Not been on the scales yet this week, though I might do Saturday morning.

So that's 8.5 lbs between the 3 of you

well done Big Colin

Actually, it's 10.5 lbs between the 3 of us!

A friend suggested it's never a good idea to weigh yourself after a longer ride (due to reasons I've forgotten), so I weighed in again today and have lost 2lbs More importantly, that takes me to a stone lost since mid Jan

I've been weighing in approx every 10 days, too impatient to go a whole month!

...and hello, moth!

 

[3narf]

Hello all!

I wasn't expecting to lose weight, but since November I've gone from 13st 8 to 12st 5. Fantastic, and without dieting at all.

Now it's obvious I am losing weight, the target is 11st 7. How do I calculate bmi, btw? I'm 5'9".

Keep it up!

 

[Banjo]

Hello all!

I wasn't expecting to lose weight, but since November I've gone from 13st 8 to 12st 5. Fantastic, and without dieting at all.

Now it's obvious I am losing weight, the target is 11st 7. How do I calculate bmi, btw? I'm 5'9".

Keep it up!

Well done, your the same height as me, I think from memory that 12 stone 3 puts us into the healthy weight bracket. BMI isnt that usefull as a tool. It doesnt make allowances for the muscle weight in athletes for example.

For me it seems to work, at 12st 3lb I feel great. (12ST 7 at the moment)

BMI Link

 

[moth]

Actually, it's 10.5 lbs between the 3 of us!

A friend suggested it's never a good idea to weigh yourself after a longer ride (due to reasons I've forgotten), so I weighed in again today and have lost 2lbs More importantly, that takes me to a stone lost since mid Jan

I've been weighing in approx every 10 days, too impatient to go a whole month!

...and hello, moth!

Hi moth.

A friend of mine lost so much weight in a few months that I noticed as soon as he opened the door to me on my next visit. I asked if he had been on some sort of diet. Nope, he'd started commuting on his old MTB. Now get this - it was less than 2 miles each way, but let's call it 2. That is 2 x 2 x 5 = 20 miles a week commuting. He said he enjoyed it so much that he was also doing a 5 mile ride at the weekend. He'd lost the best part of 2 stone just by riding 25 miles a week!

I would never have believed it possible, but he demonstrated it to me. Unfortunately, he had to start using a works van so he could be on call, and he put the weight back on again. He never changed what he was eating or drinking. It was just doing or not doing the exercise that made the difference. It must have really boosted his metabolism because there is now way that he burned those calories just when riding.

I'd say that commuting 5 miles to work and back each day will make a big difference to you as long as you don't start eating more to compensate. Try and get a 2 hour ride in with your son at the weekend.

Good luck!

Cheers

looks like there hope for me, going to pick up bike this weekend just got to sort out some new tyres so should be ready for ride to work on Monday Not sure on size but think I may buy a road style tyre!

 

[ColinJ]

just got to sort out some new tyres so should be ready for ride to work on Monday Not sure on size but think I may buy a road style tyre!

I'd definitely go for slick tyres for riding on roads. Knobblies are great for proper off-roading but are hard work on tarmac. Okay, you want the exercise, but there is exercise which is a slog and exercise which is fun and I know which I prefer!

You don't really need huge tyres for road use either. When you think that most roadies ride 23 mm or 25 mm tyres (an inch or less) you can see that you don't need 2 inch tyres on this bike. I'd go for something no more than (say) 1.25 inches wide and probably with some sort of puncture resistant belt in. Something like this. I'm not recommending that particular tyre (I haven't researched it), but it's the kind of thing you should take a look at.

I wouldn't buy the cheapest tyres in the shop either - they tend to be heavy and the wheel rim is the worst place to have excess weight on your bike.

 

[valetillidye]

reading this has cheered me up quite a bit

When I was 7 years younger, single and living alone I was around 12st, mainly due to the fact that I went to the gym every day

A wife, big mortgage and 2 kids later I've crept up to 15st. I've "dipped" into cycling over the last few years but I'm now week 3 into my "training" regime of getting on my bike at least 4 mornings a week.

So far so good however I was a bit worried that as I'm only going to be realistically doing 45-60 miles a week that I wont lose any weight.

I weighed myself last week, I dont intend to get on the scales again until 1st April - pls pls pls let me be a few pounds lighter !

 

[potsy]

Actually, it's 10.5 lbs between the 3 of us!

A friend suggested it's never a good idea to weigh yourself after a longer ride (due to reasons I've forgotten), so I weighed in again today and have lost 2lbs More importantly, that takes me to a stone lost since mid Jan

I've been weighing in approx every 10 days, too impatient to go a whole month!

...and hello, moth!

You want to take those scales back Baggy, they're obviously broken

Just passed the 1000 mile mark for the year and the weight is coming off nice and steadily, weigh-in day Saturday and I too am hoping for around 1 stone loss this year, 11lbs at last count