Weight Watcher's Thread

[uclown2002]

Once the weather improves you will soon get it back!

I had a shock at the clinic on Thursday. They weighed me and I was 15 st 1 lb on their scales. I was fully clothed with a big pair of boots on so you could probably knock 4 or 5 pounds off that, so that would be 14-10 to 14-11.

The reading on my scales varies during the week from about 14-4 to 14-8 so they are probably under-reading by a few pounds. I'll stick to always using my scales and go by them. On them, I was 14-5 this morning. I will be ramping up the exercise soon so I think that the weight loss will pick up again. I am aiming for about 12-4 on my scales, whatever that actually is in reality - maybe 12-7?

Ignore the clinic weight as circumstances couldn't be much different.

Try weighing yourself naked, first thing in the morning, after toilet visit so you have consistent readings. Even then your weight may occasionally fluctuate 3-4 pounds daily without any change in your regime, mainly due to water retention. As long as the trend is downwards over a period of weeks then you are getting it right.

Good luck.

 

[ColinJ]

Try weighing yourself naked, first thing in the morning, after toilet visit so you have consistent readings. Even then your weight may occasionally fluctuate 3-4 pounds daily without any change in your regime, mainly due to water retention. As long as the trend is downwards over a period of weeks then you are getting it right.

That's pretty much what I do. I don't let the odd high reading worry me because I know from experience that I'll get a low one to balance it out a few days later. The trend is downwards at a slow pace, but that doesn't bother me. Once I can start cycling again, I will lose another 0.5-1.5 lb a week, no problem

 

[potsy]

Do you have a turbo or some rollers potsy? If you do, it might make it time efficient to just burn a bit more off, half an hour a day, doesn't burn a lot, but it is better than nothing.


I have been eating a lot last few days, so while in the bathroom this morning I had a preview of this weeks figures, said I was 2 lbs down. Not trusting that, lets see what it says tomorrow morning!

No turbo Rob, don't think that's for me really, quite happy with doing over 100 miles per week commuting and the occasional weekend outing, just need to stop the snacking again and get back in the groove

 

[andylaw79]

Missed a couple of weigh-ins for one reason or another but have been staying fairly strict with things. Weighed in yesterday morning and another 3lbs down so now coming in at 18st 8.5lb.

1 to 1.5 lbs off a week seems to be a good loss for me to maintain. It's going in the right direction which is the main thing.

Keep up the good work people

 

[phil_hg_uk]

No turbo Rob, don't think that's for me really, quite happy with doing over 100 miles per week commuting and the occasional weekend outing, just need to stop the snacking again and get back in the groove

I had a large packet of chocolate buttons yesterday I just couldnt help myself and a large packet of M&M's a couple of days ago.

 

[Rob3rt]

I had a large packet of chocolate buttons yesterday I just couldnt help myself and a large packet of M&M's a couple of days ago.

I ate a full bag of these yesterday (peanut variety), yum!

 

[Rob3rt]

Current weight: 11 st 13 lbs
Previous weight: 12 st 0 lbs
Loss this week: 1 lbs
Original weight: 13 st 1lbs
Total loss: 1 st 2lb

I have been eating a lot last few days, so while in the bathroom this morning I had a preview of this weeks figures, said I was 2 lbs down. Not trusting that, lets see what it says tomorrow morning!

Today weighed in at 11 st 13 lbs, split the difference between last weeks official weigh in and Sundays sneek preview, 1 lb down!

 

[byegad]

170cm male.
July4 2012 I was 100kg.
Today I'm 82kg.

Two warnings from two different specialists for different conditions in two weeks is quite an incentive.

I was hungry from 4th of July to Xmas all of the time but since Xmas. I've continued to stay on the same diet of vastly reducing carbohydrates, meat and cheese while eating as much fruit and vegetables as I want and continued to lose weight and am not anywhere near as hungry as before. Maybe I'm getting used to it?

 

[RWright]

After week 12:

from 227.4 to 229.6.

I gained a couple this week but I am not surprised or very concerned. I had a cold before my last weigh in and had lost quite a bit more than normal. I think the cold may have dehydrated me or something but I was sort of expecting to put a little back on this week. The weather here has also not been very nice and I didn't get in as much riding as I would have liked.

My Dr. is keeping me on the same blood pressure meds as I have been on the past 3 months but I don't have to go for a check up for 9 more months. I ordered a heart rate monitor to go with my Garmin because we did talk about what he wanted me to limit my heart rate to during exercise. I was hoping to be able to start working harder on my cardio during this spring and summer and I will, just not as hard as I had intended. My Dr. was also happy about my weight loss since I started seeing him back in August, he specifically mentioned the rate at which I am losing. He seems happy that I am not losing it really fast. I am hoping by my next visit in December that we can start dropping some of the meds I am on.

 

[Becs]

just signed up for my first half marathon as a bit of an incentive to get off the plateau! Although it's amazing how much your shape can change without the scales moving!

 

[billy1561]

just signed up for my first half marathon as a bit of an incentive to get off the plateau! Although it's amazing how much your shape can change without the scales moving!

Yeah, you could have legs like a man in no time running marathons

 

[Becs]

Yeah, you could have legs like a man in no time running marathons

luckily there's a very womanly bottom at the top of them to clarify things!

 

[oldfatfool]

Back up to 85.9kg after a low of 83.6 last summer.

Going to have to start trying if I am to get under 80kg for LEL

 

[ColinJ]

I watched a documentary film the other night as recommended to me by phil_hg_uk - Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I'm not sure that many of us would want to go to the extremes of 'juicing' that the two men in the film did, but I found it uplifting and inspirational. At the very least, it shows what can be done if you put your mind to it. Well worth watching.

Also - it was scary to see some of the large Americans interviewed calmly accepting that they would probably die before they were 50 or 55! Some of them who looked like they were 3/4 of the way there were still in their 30s or 40s but looked like sick people of my age (57).

 

[phil_hg_uk]

I watched a documentary film the other night as recommended to me by phil_hg_uk - Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I'm not sure that many of us would want to go to the extremes of 'juicing' that the two men in the film did, but I found it uplifting and inspirational. At the very least, it shows what can be done if you put your mind to it. Well worth watching.

Working for me colin, lost another 4 pounds ................ I will be skint at this rate

Watched another one you might like colin called Food Matters made in 2008.