Lose weight 30

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congratulations to Bindiboo our SoTW and also SoTM.

Well done to all our losers and stsers - commiserations to the gainers.

Congrats also to those who signed up to the 5lb challenge in July and met their target.

Next week is the start of the August 5lb challenge - no one automatically goes onto the challenge so if you want to try to lose 5lb in August please let me know and I'll add you to the column - please remember this is optional.

This weeks quote: "Progress has little to do with speed but much to do with direction."

fredsnail

mazza111 wrote: »

Got a shock to discover, I've got another stone and half to enter the "healthy" for my height weight. I really can't imagine being as thin as it says. 11st seems a wee bit skinny for my height. Remember when I got down to 12 st and people thought I looked too thin to be me and were concerned that I was losing it too fast. But really can't picture me being 11st. And that's the maximum healthy weight for my height :eek:


Dunno if I'm deluding myself or if those things are a bit wonky, but i really don't want to be that thin. Am I alone in thinking that or is that what I should be aiming for?

Mazza the "healthy" range tend to be a guideline from what I understand. As with all guidelines they try to blanket cover a huge section of the population without taking other considerations into account.

As long as you are healthy, and feel good that's good enough for me. My max healthy weight is 9 stone. That is very unlikely to happen even if I lived on lettuce for the next 12 months. I'm not going to beat myself up because I've failed to reach some anonymous persons expectations of my weight. IMO my life is too precious to waste on such things.

bindiboo

Thanks fred. Sign me up for August. Having a few days off the plan at weekend then jumping right back on it come tuesday next week. Well done to all and thank you fred for the chart.

puddings_2

congratulations to melvis, eric, mazza, sary and alliwant, you losers

id never really thought about it before until i read erics post about max heart rate, but what is a sort of safe maximum heart rate when exercising? i took my pulse for about 15 seconds and counted about 50 when i was out with the dog tonight, was at the top of the hill and couldnt go another step without a sit down?? anybody got any idea??

fred - if i can find some high capacity scales before august then will post my weight and join your challenge thanks

Eric_Pisch

puddings wrote: »

congratulations to melvis, eric, mazza, sary and alliwant, you losers

id never really thought about it before until i read erics post about max heart rate, but what is a sort of safe maximum heart rate when exercising? i took my pulse for about 15 seconds and counted about 50 when i was out with the dog tonight, was at the top of the hill and couldnt go another step without a sit down?? anybody got any idea??

fred - if i can find some high capacity scales before august then will post my weight and join your challenge thanks

this will give you a guide to what your HR should be based on your age and your exercise intensity

http://exercise.about.com/cs/fitnesstools/l/bl_THR.htm

this will tell you most things you need to know about HR's

http://exercise.about.com/od/cardioworkouts/g/targetheartratezones.htm

start of sensibly and build up slowly, and get checked out by a doc

mazza111

Thanks as ever to fred for the chart and kind words of advice. I think I am deluding myself a wee bit, and should continue to go on the downwards spiral (albeit a very slow one) 1.5st overweight is certainly better than the 5 st overweight I was to start with. Due to my build and not wanting to lose my boobs too much, I would be happy to go down another half stone - a stone. So that's my challenge.


Fred sign me up for the challenge for August please. Will probably fail as it's the wee man's bday and always have to make his milk free cake for him along with other goodies, but we'll give it a go

bettyB_2

Fred I'll join the August challenge, please.

The cloud has finally lifted, as it always does, and I have found that today I opened my eyes and did not automatically want chocolate! It always passes but it has been a bad week so it has felt worse and I have been eating badly.

Hopefully we'll be moving house soon, so that will be stressful (finally found somewhere we like, only a rental so we can move in quickly) but hopefully I will manage to concentrate on work up until then and stop myself from self sabotaging again.

Well done all the losers!

sarymclary

Puds - take it steady on the exercise, but be really pleased with yourself that you are now doing some. It will make a huge difference to your losses each week, as Eric, poor thing, discovered when he had to stop altogether under Drs. orders. Many of us are like you and have more of a marathon challenge ahead of us on the weightloss front, and have many stones to lose before we'll even begin to feel like 'normal'. Just don't over-stress your body in the short-term. Have you had a check up with the doc before embarking on your new regime? I must admit I avoid my doc like the plague, and don't even know who my new one is since moving.

Well my sore throat is still here today, and I just don't feel able to swallow any food. It feels like after I had my tonsils out, all swollen, and just too painful to swallow solid food. Off to buy more soup in a while, and have to go to the library to use their pc/printer, because our printer ran out of ink, to print out a courier label being collected for my OH today.

Fred, can you please include me in the 5lb August challenge, thanks!

Missy™

puddings wrote: »

id never really thought about it before until i read erics post about max heart rate, but what is a sort of safe maximum heart rate when exercising? i took my pulse for about 15 seconds and counted about 50 when i was out with the dog tonight, was at the top of the hill and couldnt go another step without a sit down?? anybody got any idea??

Everyone's maximum heart rate is different - if you're exercising at an intensity level where you physically can't push any harder, that's your max and it's not possible to sustain this for very long (few seconds probably). A (very) rough guide for adult max HR is 220bpm minus age for men, and 226bpm minus age for women. So for example a 30 year old woman's max HR would be an estimated 196bpm.

I go with how I feel for my exercise sessions, and tend to do a mixture of intensity levels throughout the week. You did the right thing if you felt like you were pushing it too hard - just ease off or take a break .

You might also want to look up the "exercise talk test" which measures exercise intensity based on your ability to comfortably talk (or not) during your cardio workout!

broadpaws

hello,
I am new to this thread, and wanted to pop in and say hi, I have had a lifetime battle with my weight and in teh past I lost over 10 stone only 3 years later to have regained it all

However this time I am trying to do it through eating healthy (rather than meal replacement) as I feel my food demons need re-educating - I have a goal of June next year as I ahev booked a holiday for us, and I am NOT going at the size I am , IF I can loose steadily, I will have achieved my goal.

Well done to all you that are trying, and for those slower weeks I raed a quote that struck a chord (sorry if it has previuolsy been used) "A dripping tap still fills up a bucket"

I have lost 13lbs in 3.5 weeks, so hope to have hit my stone loss my monday xx