Weight Watcher's Thread

[potsy]

I just weighed myself to check the damage from the festering festive season and I was pleased to find that I have managed to sneak in under my 15 stone limit. I knew that I'd put some weight on but didn't want to see a weight of 15-x again. So, 2013 begins with me at 14-13 and subject to my health continuing to improve, I hope to get down to 13-x again this year, or maybe even 12-x!

Keep it up big man, how is the eta looking for getting back on the bike?

As I've posted on another thread I have started the myfitnesspal way of helping me lose some weight this year, 2 days in and I'm actually enjoying logging all the foods and seeing the calories remaining info, think this is what I have needed to make things a bit more structured, rather than my usual 'wing it' method of cutting down.
Have put 1lb per week loss and hopefully that gets a stone off before SITD, maybe more if it goes well

 

[lulubel]

Will mynetdiary let you put in retrospective data? I have a feeling it might.

Hmm ... doesn't look like it. I've had a quick play with it, and I can't see any way of doing it.

I'll play around with the one I've got on my blog for now. It produces a little graph that sits in the sidebar, and I can look at it and feel happy every now and then. If I'm really keen, I can probably track down and enter data going back to about 2008, when I weighed 13 stone.

 

[Saluki]

I am following Slimming World again. Not doing the classes thing as I cannot afford it. When I am walking the dogs, I am walking faster and with a bit more purpose. Trying to get out on my bike as much as poss (geocaching with bike on Saturday) and have started a bit of jogging again. I jogged 4 minutes today. Don't laugh, its been a long old haul sorting out my bum achilles.
In a stone or so, I'll get myself in to a gym for some proper resistance work.

I log my weight, track my food and exercise on www.sparkpeople.com as well as tracking my cycling in the usual places.

 

[RWright]

Do any of you know of a free weightloss/fitness site where I can input a load of backdated weights? (I'm a bit of a stat freak!)

I've got weight data from back in early 2011 that's currently stored on a subscription based weightloss site. I'd really like to cancel the subscription because I'm only using the site to update my weight and post on the forum, but I don't want to lose the pretty downward sloping graph of my weight! I've tried myfitnesspal, but that only seems to allow you to log today's weight.

I put in food and exercise data from Jan 1 at my fitnesspal, try going to the FOOD tab then use the day and month selector, I just used the month selector to go back as far as May 2007, I think it will go even farther back. I just stopped clicking.

EDIT: I just saw the plug in doing it for you post. I don't know anything about that but I was thinking it would be a pain to enter data from very far back manually. This is the first time I have used any food or diet site.

 

[potsy]

I'll post my weight here on Monday mornings to add extra incentive

Big day tomorrow?

MFP has gone well the last few days, will post my weight after I start to see some real progress, wondering what to have with my one remaining calorie

 

[Sittingduck]

Oh balls...
I forgot I had said that! I weighed this morning at 13st 13lbs (same as Sat) but have eaten bad stuff today after another longish hilly ride. Hmm, I'll wager 14st 1lbs on the morrow...

 

[Sittingduck]

Tale of the tape scale: 14st 1lb

Grrr... was doing well throughout the week last week, too. Must be a lot more sensible at the weekend, post long ride. I commit to 13st 11 by this time next week, as I think there are a few lbs water weight in there. We'll see.

 

[ianrauk]

Tale of the tape scale: 14st 1lb

Grrr... was doing well throughout the week last week, too. Must be a lot more sensible at the weekend, post long ride. I commit to 13st 11 by this time next week, as I think there are a few lbs water weight in there. We'll see.

Thing is Ant - this weight gain isn't exactly slowing you down any is it?

 

[Sittingduck]

I think it's having a noticable affect on my climbing but it's hard to compare Boxhill times for Jan Vs July, anyway. On the downhill and rolling stuff, then no - infact it's probably beneficial (at least for the downhill)

Clothing fit is tigther though and I can definitely 'tell'. So I need to go back in the correct direction asap. 14st is way too heavy for 5'9", imho.

 

[vernon]

14st is way too heavy for 5'9", imho.

It could be worse. Try 21.5 stones at 5' 11".

It didn't stop me from doing a sub five hour 100km audax yesterday

I'd be very happy to be 14st.

Watch this space......

 

[Rob3rt]

After yesterdays paining in the hills with a bunch of cat 1 riders dealing out epic slabs of pain I am going to commit to dropping up to half a stone, but only as long as it doesn't adversely impact on my power output since hills are only a secondary concern atm

Weighed in at 13st 1 lb this morning, height 6'3".

 

[Sittingduck]

It could be worse. Try 21.5 stones at 5' 11".

It didn't stop me from doing a sub five hour 100km audax yesterday

I'd be very happy to be 14st.

Watch this space......

I tried it at 5'9" and didn't like it all that much
Having worked my nuts off to get down to 12st 8, it's discouraging to be back at 14, that's all.

Good luck with the loss though - you have done ok so far, haven't you? Still on track?

 

[vernon]

I tried it at 5'9" and didn't like it all that much
Having worked my nuts off to get down to 12st 8, it's discouraging to be back at 14, that's all.

Good luck with the loss though - you have done ok so far, haven't you? Still on track?

I've dropped four stones and have hit a plateau. Phase two has started and I'm aiming to drop five stones by summer, a bit ambitious but manageable with determination and an increased activity level. The weight loss has resulted in large performance gains on the audax front. The riders who know me have made positive observations on my transition from laterne rouge to midfield finisher.

 

[andylaw79]

Well it's my turn to join the merry weight loss brigade this year and it's going to be tough. Set myself a target of loosing an initial 3st by June (anything more is a bonus) and take it from there!

I last got weighed at the doctors mid last year at a routine asthma clinic and tipped it at 18st 8, which at 5' 11" is a tad too lardy. After a couple of failed attempts to drop a few pounds last year I'm more than determined to make it happen this time around. Got a set of scales being delivered today and have been using MFP as a food diary over the last week or so, and the amount I snack and my portion sizes is truly shocking.

I know what my weaknesses are when it comes to food so I've just got to find the will power to break the bad habits of the last 10 years.

 

[4F]

Grrrr, enjoyable Christmas and I am up to 14 stone 12 again. Back on it big style and I will hit my goal this year of 12 stone 4.