Lose weight 29

Hezzawithkids

victory - love the flowers, what a fantastic display I love to see a well kept front garden, kerb appeal indeed!! where do yah get yer green fingers from and are you free to come and sort my front garden out???:D My back garden is done now, only took 10 years and lots of nagging but I'm very happy with it now. Over on the Discounts/Codes thread you can get 6 climbing fuscia plants for just £4.99 P&P:D

Must also confess to a weakness for cheese but prefer brie with a glass of red wine (no biccies or anything, spoils the taste of the cheese) or feta cheese in a crisp greek salad, fits in nicely with my diet. Actually dont eat cheddar any more, too boring (unless its been melted over something!)

vixarooni

alliwantistosave wrote: »

I have been there today and finally feel like I have brought a bra that I am happy with. I have even ordered it in purple :eek: I have never had a coloured bra in my life :rotfl: I know you don't do bra's any more but I was very impressed with the service and stock range. So I am now a happy bunny again

Thats fab!! Glad you have yourself sorted...all though now im feeling really unsupported in my bras now. (this is noe good considering the amount of bras i have!!) Trouble is you need to keep buying them because once they go that is it, i think that is what happening with mine, just not tight enough around.

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

Interesting, the heavier you are the higher your BMR, your going to be eating a lot of crap and a lot of it so changing a few things should have results, the difficulties are you are used to eating huge amounts of food and you can not retrain that in a week or two it takes about 3 months to get back into the habit of eating normal size portions. Then you have to deal with the issue of being hyper unfit with appalling muscle tone, exercise can be extremely difficult and often painful so keeping motivated for that is extremely hard at the start (look how hard it is here for people who are only moderately over weight to get motivated to exercise). Its extremely easy to crash the metabolism and end up STS or start to get weight gain which i think is a big part of demotivation and weight loss failure for many people. Then in the long term as the weight comes off your going to have to deal with a drastically reduced BMR (my BMR is 679 cals a day reduced from my starting point) which means weight loss will become harder, the realistic way to deal with this is to increase the metabolism and the amount of exercise done over time to compensate for this reduction, not an easy thing to do.

Then there's the issue of sagging skin, its possible to end up with 3-4 stone of excess skin which will mess up BMI calcs, targets etc and it can only be dealt with by surgery ...

you would also have to consider that is it right to do a comparison based on lb per lb or rather would it be better to do a comparison on % of body mass lost

then its also very easy for someone whose only slightly over weight to get themselves extremely fit (subject to no medical restrictions) and start doing long term endurance training and events which could see there BMR shoot up to the 4000-6000 cal range

but certainly in the initial period it should be possible to have better performance in weight loss in terms of straight weight but maybe not in terms of %, i think the system shock when weight loosing for someone who is gorging themselves on crap day in day out and hardly every moving is going to be a billion times harder to deal with than the slightly over weight person.

take someone whose goal weight is 100lbs

if there starting weight is 300lbs then they need to loose 3lbs to loose 1% body mass, if there 10% overweight (110lbs) they need only loose 1.1lb to achieve the same 1% body mass lose.

then i suspect most people who only have a small amount of weight to loose are not very motivated and "cheat" a lot, not mentioning any names

the other way to look at it who has the hardest journey, which would you pick 200lbs weight loss or 10lbs

I'd pick 200lbs...it seems easier to me becuase the person is getting the results, the amazing comments and a physical change. 10lbs wouldnt really achieve the same wowness! I find it hard to lose anything, my weight stays the same no matter what i seem to do (apart from this year, ive put on a few lbs for sure) but i just cant seem to get myeslf to make the changes to lose the extra weight.

Although just to add i'd hope id never be that much overweight in my life, id rather only have 10lbs to lose than 200lbs, but id rather take on the 200lbs for the quicker resutls side of things.

sarymclary

The garden looks lovely Victory. Are they the tulips that the neighbour's kids pulled all the petals off last year?

Good results coming in. I'm a STS yet again! I do know why it is though, because I'm not counting the calories properly again, just estimating. The days are busy right now, so I'm making meals in a rush, even if they are pre-planned-ish. Anyway, busy day in the garden yet again, and feeling cream crackered now.

Brighton_belle

sorry for the rushed job peeps: a sts for me too fred please

fredsnail

Thanks to everyone who's posted a result - here's this weeks chart:



Congrats to our Joint SoTW Eric and Scotsman4th.

Well done to all our losers and STSers with commiserations to all the gainers - next week starts now.

A "thank Friday the election's over" party is not an excuse to be a gainer next week!!! :rotfl: and the extra walk to the polling booth will do you good in one way at least :j:j

de1amo

my 'left to loose target is another 8kgs --so 20lbs not 41lbs--its disheatening enough lol
i do wish my name was 'total weight loss'!!oh to loose 10,8lbs in a week!well done everyone.

Pud_ding

Thanks for the stats Fredsnails - and Well Done to the losers, better luck next week to the others.

I have re-done my food plan after failing to stick it, 3 meals and 3 snacks so in theory I get to eat every 2 hours or so and lose weight.
I've made sure I get enough fat in the day's food.

If I don't have at least 20g a day fat I get miserable and buy junk food.

Eric_Pisch

vixarooni wrote: »

Thats fab!! Glad you have yourself sorted...all though now im feeling really unsupported in my bras now. (this is noe good considering the amount of bras i have!!) Trouble is you need to keep buying them because once they go that is it, i think that is what happening with mine, just not tight enough around.



I'd pick 200lbs...it seems easier to me becuase the person is getting the results, the amazing comments and a physical change. 10lbs wouldnt really achieve the same wowness! I find it hard to lose anything, my weight stays the same no matter what i seem to do (apart from this year, ive put on a few lbs for sure) but i just cant seem to get myeslf to make the changes to lose the extra weight.

Although just to add i'd hope id never be that much overweight in my life, id rather only have 10lbs to lose than 200lbs, but id rather take on the 200lbs for the quicker resutls side of things.

ill trade you

i suspect your bras will still fit me ...

de1amo

i once lost a lot of weight at 2lbs a week by staying under 11gs of fat-it was a miserable diet and i did heavy exercise -its striking a good balance--i think there is a recommended daily intake for fat of about 14grs for a man--not sure about a woman.

victory

sarymclary wrote: »

The garden looks lovely Victory. Are they the tulips that the neighbour's kids pulled all the petals off last year?

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NO it was not the tulips, it was the lovely bright yellow big fat daffs that they took a liking to:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: