Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 1st Quarter 2025

jennystarpepper

[Deleted User] said:

The only failsafe way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you consume (aka calorie deficit), do that and we lose weight.

Sounds easy I know!

Don't agree, but we are all entitled to our opinion.  Many people have followed the Slimming world diet and have been 20 stone plus and have done minimal exercise and lost vast amounts of weight, it is important but burning more than you consume is not widely thought of as the answer to weight loss.

I've lost 5 stone in total and know for a fact that I'm not putting out more calories than I eat due to numerous injuries. 

Brambling

Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2024 - 4th Quarter

01/01/25 - 31/03/25

Imperial (lbs) please let me know if you want to record  in kilos

Bella_Budget 5/7   /  /  /  /  / STS /  / 
Black_Saturn 3.5/10   /  / STS / STS /   
Brambling 6.5/7  /  /  / STS /  /  / STS /  / STS 
Brie 5/7  /   
Caeraugirl  5/10  / STS /  /    /  /  / STS /  / 
candii 10.5/24   
Catlady2025  0.5/-  
Catz4m8z +1/7   / STS /  /  /  /  /    
Charlies_tribe 3/5  /  /  /  /  /  / STS /  /     
Cheerfulness4 8.5/20  / STS /  /   /  /   
Cranky40 9/7  /  /  /  /   /  /  /   
DundeeDoll 4.5/7  / STS /  /  /  /   /  / 
EcoIntent  5/12   
eltee2 4.5/7   /  / STS /  / STS /   
Felicityfandangle -/14
Frith 
General_Grant 0/7   / STS /   
Gingerlily 9/14 STS /  /  /  /  /  /  / STS 
gsdloopy -/10 STS / STS / STS 
Hinchandrossi 3/14  /   
IzzyBee 4/12  / STS / STS /  / STS /STS
Jennystarpepper 2/7. 
Katejo 0/5  /  / STS /  /   /  / STS / STS 
kayjay1809 -/21
Ladybird1106 -/10
lilian1977 +0.5/10   
Marycanary 3.5/14  /  /   
Molina_Girl 11/10  /  /  / STS /  /   /   
number_23 0.5/10   
Pauper1 8/15  /  /  /  /  /  / STS 
Poeony40  -/10
Pixie_Cosmo 2/12 STS /  / STS /  /   
roundtuit 3/10  / STS /  /  /  /   /    /   
SIRENS 6/9   
SuffolkSue 5.5/8  / STS /   /  /  /  / 

Kilos 
Angelica123 +1/3 STS / STS /   
Cassingtonbear 1/-   
smudgybunny 0.5/5   / STS / STS / STS
wishus -/4

Key
    = 1lb loss (or kilo)
      = 1/2lb loss (or kilo)
    = 1lb gain (or kilo)
     = 1/2lb gain (or kilo 

Brambling

A STS for me this week, it doesn't help that I unearthed my snacks containers filled with 100 calories or less snacks and worked my way through them 😣 it's best not to have them in the house! No tonic in the house so i bypassed the emergency gin! 

Diets or healthy eating plans whatever you want to call them, I don't think it's one size fits all, so many variables including inherited ones to throw in the mix. If we are lucky we find the one that works for us, 

Gingerlily

Hi

Last week’s 2 😈😈 got missed from the chart @Brambling and for this week it’s a STS please.

I’m quite surprised with the STS (a loss of 0.4lbs so just short of declaring a half pound) as that came off the day after pancakes and 3 vodka soda limes. I find weighing daily fascinating, it often makes no sense. 

There was another impromptu meal out with a large glass of wine this week as well as pancake day. I do find socialising is a struggle not to spiral.

This week I’ve decided to give up alcohol and my once a week milk chocolate for the next 6 weeks and increase exercise. The daily dark choc sq is staying. I’ve no social plans in the diary until then and I just need to knock all this impromptu stuff on the head. I’m feeling rather motivated to do this. 

I’m not familiar with the human body diet. I followed the Human Being Diet last year until I went on holiday in October, then extended sickness and festive season happened. Previous to that I was doing the Fast8OO. I increased my calories and portion size with the HBD and lost roughly the same amount as on F8OO. I feel much better on the HBD and it fits my lifestyle better than F800 and a lot of the principles stuck even when I was too sick to do it properly and over the festive season. I do have to stick to a quite strict phase 3 to lose weight though. That and the F800 are the only plans I’ve found where I have lost weight now I’m menopausal. 

Brambling

Gingerlily said:

Hi

Last week’s 2 😈😈 got missed from the chart @Brambling and for this week it’s a STS please.

Thanks Gingerlily, if I've given them to anyone else in error please shout out! 

CRANKY40

Good morning. I've ummmm.......lost  3 lbs this week please Brambling. Probably due to being out in the garden more. Not moving around I hasten to add but just standing still chopping down ivy then carrying one black bag full to the bin each day. It's a boring (and never ending) job but it means less snack time in the house. If it stays dry today I may push the boat out and cut the grass. 

My doctor told me years ago that what you eat is way more important than exercise when you are trying to lose weight. I used to run for fun and honestly it made me fit but it didn't make me skinny. It just made me hungry. 

General_Grant

[Deleted User] said:

The only failsafe way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you consume (aka calorie deficit), do that and we lose weight.

Sounds easy I know!

jennystarpepper said:

[Deleted User] said:

The only failsafe way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you consume (aka calorie deficit), do that and we lose weight.

Sounds easy I know!

Don't agree, but we are all entitled to our opinion.  Many people have followed the Slimming world diet and have been 20 stone plus and have done minimal exercise and lost vast amounts of weight, it is important but burning more than you consume is not widely thought of as the answer to weight loss.

I've lost 5 stone in total and know for a fact that I'm not putting out more calories than I eat due to numerous injuries. 

Using (burning off) more calories than taking in does not mean you have to exercise more but, for the same amount of exercise, you need to consume fewer calories. 

Hinchandrossi - have you lost those 5 stones by eating the same number of calories as you did before or did your calorie intake reduce and your activity fall to match?

Different people lose weight in different ways.  My path to my current 21.1 BMI began with Paul McKenna's "I Can Make You Thin" (book and CD) about 10 years ago.

katejo

[Deleted User] said:

The only failsafe way to lose weight is to burn off more calories than you consume (aka calorie deficit), do that and we lose weight.

Sounds easy I know!

I find that a lack of exercise causes me to put weight on but extra exercise doesn't cause a loss. I just stay the same. I did a 13 mile walk last Saturday but it hasn't made any difference. 

jennystarpepper

@General_Grant, think you put this to me re the loss.

A few things, portion control, no bread, some fasting, only eating if hungry and only setting a 5% loss as a target, as I find if I set say 2lb a week, it isn't going to happen. Bread and portion control are the main ones for me, because of my build and height the number of calories we are supposed to eat will never work for me, it's too much, (even when I used to do 2 hours at the gym), a full sandwich would be too much, half would be ok.

I once lost a lot of weight, 24 to 8 waist, I did exercise all the way through light at first, I increased it when I was at a weight where it would not shift without exercise or do a Marjory Dawes and eat dust. 
 
Exercise should always be done, but I think the amount depends on how much you have to lose, 1 / 2 stone or holiday ready then yes, long term with more to lose then get eating habits sorted, when you lose more, you will feel more active, then keep it up for good health.

I have done Paul McKenna and think he's great, I still practice some of the things he suggests.

Ultimately, I think the best thing is never to go on a diet or put a child on one.

General_Grant

to continue with the calorie record

1349 cals - Total for 5 March (despite another glass of red wine!)
2021 cals - Total for 4 March (out this evening at a friend's - red wine, pizza and coffee & walnut cake)
1644 cals - Total for 3 March
1520 cals - Total for 2 March
1445 cals - Total for 1 March