Weight Watcher's Thread

[guitarpete247]

I'm not sure if my speed increase uphill is down to my weight loss or increased fitness. Probably a bit of both. 1 hill I do regularly I used to have to drop into very bottom gear. Now I manage it in 3rd. Still get scalped on it though. The last time by a guy probably 1/2 my age. Plus he was wearing a KotM top .

 

[subaqua]

weight seems to have hit a plateau. i went down to 16st 7lb then christmas happened and i went back to 17st 13 and have stayed there. waist has shrank though. and legs are , in the words of wifey, very very toned .

 

[guitarpete247]

..... waist has shrank though. and legs are , in the words of wifey, very very toned .

Remember that muscle weighs more than fat. So you've built up muscle replacing the fat that you lost .

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Ditto, my weight appears to have plateaued but my gut has almost gone and my thighs are mighty! Just need to adapt my cycling to stop the hip pain now!


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[MattHB]

T-shirt off type heat is bad for the self-esteme Ive decided. I need to remind myself that Ive already lost nearly 3 stone, so should be happy.. but I really need to loose the middle-age gut that STILL WONT GO

 

[guitarpete247]

We had a BBQ on Sunday and quite a few glasses of Pimms. When I weighed myself yesterday I'd piled on 4lb's.

Yesterday I had a meeting with a new Supply agency in Leicester at 3:00 so decided I could cycle in. Did the 18.5 miles in just over an hour. That included having to stop a couple of times to check map and program directions into phone Sat Nav.

This morning those 4lb's were gone so must have been water retention and I sweated it out.

I still feel a little self concious taking my top off in public, though not as much as I did last year. Being 55 I feel I'm not losing the loose skin from areas of fat loss. Anyone any ideas how to avoid this?

 

[ColinJ]

I still feel a little self concious taking my top off in public, though not as much as I did last year. Being 55 I feel I'm not losing the loose skin from areas of fat loss. Anyone any ideas how to avoid this?

I am currently at the fat end of my weightloss cycle but the last time that I got slim I had some loose skin on my waist and bad stretch marks elsewhere. I think the only way to avoid this is not to get fat in the first place!

If the problem is really severe then surgery might be the only solution.

 

[Speicher]

I appear, literally to be losing size, and some weight.

No drastic changes have been undertaken. Now I have porridge for brekkie, with skimmed milk. Lunch is whole grain (with seeds) bread, with a thin slice of (proper full fat, aka tasty) cheddar, or sardine toasted sandwich, or similar. 4pm is time for half a grapefruit, followed by a normal meal at about 6pm. Less potatoes, no alcohol, (this is a temporary measure ), no lemonade, and no crisps, no biscuits. Home made cakey edibles occasionnally. This seems to be working. Now I just need to increase my take some exercise, and cut out the late night attacks of the munchies.

Reading back over that, it might seem drastic. I am puzzled though as to why the loss in inches, particularly around the waistline, seems out of proportion to the weight lost.

For a few months I had been counting calories, aiming for 1600 per day. This highlighted how high in calories some foods were. (For instance toast with butter and pizzas.)

 

[zippygeorgeandben]

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[zippygeorgeandben]

Pete is correct IMO. A diet is not a quick fix, and a person needs to make permanent changes to the way they view food and their individual diet to establish a healthy and permanent change in the way they eat. That's not to say that you can't have treats occasionally.

Dieting as in, the Cambridge diet, the 48 hour lose a stone diet, etc. are not necessarily the healthiest way to lose weight and can lead to complications. Talk to my sister-in-law who has just had her gall bladder removed because of gallstones, mainly as a result of a lifetime of yo-yo dieting and losing too much weight too fast in the last couple of years.

Chris - your post above was a little too close to home for me.
Have yo-yo dieted all my life, done VLCD from time to time, including the Cambridge Diet.
Have been experiencing stomach pains on and off for a few years now, turned out it was the same as your sister-in-law and I had gallstones. Decided surgery was the best option to remove gallbladder. Let's just say after many ultrasounds, ERCPs, surgery in and out, I'm ok now, although they couldn't remove the whole gallbladder.
Apparantely, these VLCD for men, particularly raise the percentage of having complications with your gallbladder.

 

[guitarpete247]

I did the Cambridge Diet but was only on the VLCD step for about 4 weeks. Since then I got my weight down to my target of 12st 7lb's and it has stayed roughly that. Up and down a few lb's but that is normal. I weigh myself every Thursday and yesterday I was 12st 8lb's so I'm not worried I'm starting to yo-yo. Both GF and I have lost 4st and happy where we are at the moment.

 

[zippygeorgeandben]

Well I'm currentlygoingthroughthe I've put weight on and can't lose it now, I won't even go on the scales!

Hence me getting into cycling.

 

[Saluki]

I gave up weighing myself when my scales packed up, not that they were that accurate anyway. I could do with shifting a couple of stone after a few months of little exercise and rubbish food. I decided to measure myself at the beginning and then once a week. I have lost lots of inches so feel a lot better, pretty sure that I must be at least 4 lbs lighter. Will get weighed at hospital next week as I get weighed by my wrist/hand specialist (what smashing my wrist and its not mending properly has to do with my weight I really don't know). Last weigh I had just topped 13st and at 5'8", that is not a good weight.
I have upped my cycling to 5 times a week with a long ride on Sundays and a medium long ride on Wednesdays (days off) and would like to ride in the Tour of Britain Challenge ride, about 57 miles, on 8th September, they day before the Tour of Britain kicks off from Cambridge to Norwich. It gives me something to aim for. i am fit enough to do the ride, its just that I want to do it in a sensible (for me) time.

I will have to invest in some scales, I reckon. Not having them and not keeping an eye on my weight has really given me licence to eat rubbish food and not exercise enough. I am following a slimming world plan, I don't go to the meetings though as its a fiver a week that I could spend more sensibly elsewhere.

 

[Andrew_P]

I came out of my winter hibernation @ 223lbs could not get back in to cycling my commute, May 1st I hit the road again starting gently with just a one way ride of 15 miles each day. The last 14 days I have done every day both ways.

Five years ago this month I weighed an eye popping 260lbs aged 41

Weight today 198lbs Target for August 180lbs or slightly less.

Reduced takeaways, beer and biscuits. Upped fruit and veg.

I am now really enjoying (most) of my commutes, and will aim not to hibernate this year but will go to the Gym on really bad weather days and cycle the rest at least one way.

It is so hard and painful recovering the fitness to do the full commute.

a bit more than a year and 6000+ miles later and I was 169lbs this morning 5ft 10" just about in the normal range for BMI wearing 30" Loose Fit Jeans. Interstingly I watched a program about low calorie intake or fasting for life extension, and the bloke doing it used the same scales as me at the end and came out at 173ilbs & 19.2% Body Fat. The scales measure a few things and I always take it with a pinch of salt. He seemed to think they would be fairly accurate and mine are 169lbs 14.2% Fat and 40.8% Muscle. Fat is on the low side of normal and muscle is in the high range. If they are accurate I am pleased with that and visceral (internal Fat) is set at 7 which is low normal. I have seen the Fat above 22% and Visceral in the high range at 12.

They are expensive but are really good for tracking more than just weight alone, which when dieting and excercising is important.

I have some spare skin on my stomach I think Colin is right the only answer would have been not to stretch in the first place. As my weight gain was slow I am lucky and have no stretch marks

 

[Andrew_P]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549 Seems to against all the rules of dieting but worked, it is an interesting read or viewing.