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The Ultimate Biggest Losers - counting the pennies, losing the pounds

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  • Fmess
    Fmess Posts: 2,920 Forumite
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    2lbs gain although I can't be surprised as I've not done anything towards the diet or exercise in the last 7 days!
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  • Gem-gem
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    Had a 2lb gain!!! Has been a hard week - lost focus from Thursday. Going away on Saturday for 5 days to Lisbon. Will get back properly on my doet when I return next Wednesday. Good luck everyone for this next week. Still 9.5lbs lighter.
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  • shyspender wrote: »
    #28 checking in with a loss of 2.2

    Sorry Shrimpy I forgot to say that that takes me to 215.8 so a total of 8.2 lost so far.
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  • Lost 3lbs this week! Now 169lbs I think. Gave blood so that will have helped and have been a bit of a glutton since so we'll see what next week has in store.

    Well done everyone :) And thanks for taking over the chart Shrimpy!

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  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    Sorry for the late weigh-in! Totally forgot all about it yesterday as I had the day off and all thoughts of dieting went out of the window! :o Weighed this morning and it's 166.4, so 1lb loss! Well done to the losers, and the the gainers, good luck for next week!
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  • shrimpy_80
    shrimpy_80 Posts: 1,631 Forumite
    edited 19 February 2015 at 1:59PM
    After much faffing with Photobucket, here (hopefully!) is this week's chart - huge congratulations to Hopelessly Hopeful who is this week's winner! :j

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    I have hidden anyone who didn't post a weight this week just to tidy the chart up but haven't deleted anyone. I'll post up the last two weeks as well, then will post a full list to date so if I have anything wrong you can let me know.

    Likewise if anything is wrong this week let me know - but be gentle with me! :p I missed myself off the first time I tried this so if I have missed you please don't take it personally!

    ETA - I had added a column showing total weight lost in lbs as I thought that would be interesting, but realised you could work out starting weights from that info and thought some people might not like that? Open to opinion on that one - could show total lbs instead of total % or just leave it alone!
    Barclaycard [STRIKE]£7,296.35[/STRIKE] £6134.99 - MBNA [STRIKE]£4,182.88[/STRIKE] £3267.08 - O/draft [STRIKE]£569.31[/STRIKE] £413.59 - Capital One [STRIKE]£1477.55[/STRIKE] £1451.44
    Total debt [STRIKE]£12048.54[/STRIKE] £11267.10 6% paid
  • thanks for doing the chart shrimpy

    I think % loss is fairer as there is quite a difference in how overweight (or in some cases not) people are so if done in lbs then it isn't a fair assessment as those of us who are larger will lose quicker

    that is my two penneth anyway
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  • shrimpy_80
    shrimpy_80 Posts: 1,631 Forumite
    I think % loss is fairer as there is quite a difference in how overweight (or in some cases not) people are so if done in lbs then it isn't a fair assessment as those of us who are larger will lose quicker

    that is my two penneth anyway

    I completely agree - sorry, I didn't mean ranking the chart based on lbs, just wondered if anyone was interested to see their total lbs lost. I probably wasn't very clear! and probably should stop over-complicating things! :o

    Also - huge congratulations to you for being our week 5 winner! :T

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    Um... and embarrassingly week 6 was me :o

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    Barclaycard [STRIKE]£7,296.35[/STRIKE] £6134.99 - MBNA [STRIKE]£4,182.88[/STRIKE] £3267.08 - O/draft [STRIKE]£569.31[/STRIKE] £413.59 - Capital One [STRIKE]£1477.55[/STRIKE] £1451.44
    Total debt [STRIKE]£12048.54[/STRIKE] £11267.10 6% paid
  • Quick pop in for a STS this week. Been hectic at home and at work so not much time to log on. Haven't been that good with the food due to 4 birthdays and 3 leaving lunches suppose the exercise evened it out.
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  • jodles16
    jodles16 Posts: 1,477 Forumite
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    Thanks for the charts Shrimpy! I think it does look good with people not posting hidden, also love that it goes in order of percent loss!

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