Congratulations! Are you on a particular diet (Atkins or someone), working with a medical dietician, or just being sensible and having Anne feed you low calorie dog food? <big grin> It can be so hard working from home since the kitchen is just there, and (for me at least) I find it easier to keep going on a many-hour session at the terminal if I have something to keep my blood sugar up!
It reminds me that I too need you lot to nag me <grin!>, well, within limits anyway! Sometimes I just need a little sugar fix to get me through the day :-(
My peak weight was achieved when I was 23, when I hit 23.5 stone (really!) which is 329 pounds (gasp!!). From the age of 15 (when I was 15 stone) I put on a stone a year (which is just over one pound a month, and one pound for one month isn't much, but consistency is important!). Managed to get down below 20 stone in 1988 for a short while (but that was the year that my "big" relationship ended and the weight didn't stay off, definitely got back up to nearly 22 stone sometime after that)
Was weighed a few weeks ago (fully clothed at the doctors) and got 125 kilos, which I make 276lbs (under 20 stone!). Mike, I think a race up to Christmas is in order! Rule 1: slow and steady weight loss, no crash diets, no fads. Rule 2: there is no rule 2
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Well Done Mike!!!!!!
Congratulations! Are you on a particular diet (Atkins or someone), working with a medical dietician, or just being sensible and having Anne feed you low calorie dog food? <big grin> It can be so hard working from home since the kitchen is just there, and (for me at least) I find it easier to keep going on a many-hour session at the terminal if I have something to keep my blood sugar up!
It reminds me that I too need you lot to nag me <grin!>, well, within limits anyway! Sometimes I just need a little sugar fix to get me through the day :-(
My peak weight was achieved when I was 23, when I hit 23.5 stone (really!) which is 329 pounds (gasp!!). From the age of 15 (when I was 15 stone) I put on a stone a year (which is just over one pound a month, and one pound for one month isn't much, but consistency is important!). Managed to get down below 20 stone in 1988 for a short while (but that was the year that my "big" relationship ended and the weight didn't stay off, definitely got back up to nearly 22 stone sometime after that)
Was weighed a few weeks ago (fully clothed at the doctors) and got 125 kilos, which I make 276lbs (under 20 stone!). Mike, I think a race up to Christmas is in order! Rule 1: slow and steady weight loss, no crash diets, no fads. Rule 2: there is no rule 2 <grin!>. Prize: a small piece of christmas pudding and all the sprouts you can eat (steamed, no butter, no gravy!) For me, that's about two sprouts, and only if I'm forced to!
My theory is that when people start exercising they put on muscle and muscle weighs more than fat, so it's possible to start exercising and actually weigh more ... therefore if I put together a strict regime of sitting in front of the telly between now and Christmas, I can convert some of this muscle to fat and actually lose weight! What do you think? Should I write a book about it? <big grin!>
I don't actually have a final goal, since I'm going to just see how I look and how I feel and how things plateau and go from there. But my current goals are:
2lbs a week from now until Christmas, and assuming I didn't put on too much while I was in Florida, that means 12 weeks=24lbs. So my goal is to step on a scales on the 23rd of December and see 252lbs. Actually my internal goal is to hit 250lbs (or even better 113kgs which is about 4 ounces lighter!) by Christmas.
And then to continue the good work (two weeks off for Christmas/New Year and two more weeks to get rid of the Christmas excess!) and lose about the same again before my birthday on April 8th. Now a good goal is to say that it's about 15 weeks between New Year and the Eastercon, so if I can start with my weight at 113kg at New Year, then a target of 100kg (221lbs or 15st 11lbs) at Easter is sensible (again it's about 2lbs a week) and that may actually be enough. I'm six foot tall, fairly broad in the shoulders and chest, and with good solid legs, so getting to 15stone may well be a struggle and may well be close to a final target, but let's get to Easter and see <grin!>
If all this actually works, then I'm going to have to buy a lot of new clothes (though many of the t-shirts will probably be ok, if baggy <grin!>)
What I intend to do is book a monthly weigh-in with the local doctor (well, actually it will be the surgery nurse) just to see how I'm doing, and I'll see if I can get it scheduled for the same time of day on the same day of the week each month. And I'll plot the results up here. My home scales is rubbish (it can vary by a stone depending which foot you put on it first, and even then the numbers seem weigh off (pun intended!)) so the purchase of new scales at some point would be an idea, but the generally held opinion of "experts" in the field is that daily weighing is actually actively counter-productive.
Mike, we'll have to get you, me and Phil together at easter and have someone shout "who's that fat bastard standing between Mike and Chris?" <grin!>
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Date: 2002-09-30 05:49 am (UTC)Congratulations! Are you on a particular diet (Atkins or someone), working with a medical dietician, or just being sensible and having Anne feed you low calorie dog food? <big grin> It can be so hard working from home since the kitchen is just there, and (for me at least) I find it easier to keep going on a many-hour session at the terminal if I have something to keep my blood sugar up!
It reminds me that I too need you lot to nag me <grin!>, well, within limits anyway! Sometimes I just need a little sugar fix to get me through the day :-(
My peak weight was achieved when I was 23, when I hit 23.5 stone (really!) which is 329 pounds (gasp!!). From the age of 15 (when I was 15 stone) I put on a stone a year (which is just over one pound a month, and one pound for one month isn't much, but consistency is important!). Managed to get down below 20 stone in 1988 for a short while (but that was the year that my "big" relationship ended and the weight didn't stay off, definitely got back up to nearly 22 stone sometime after that)
Was weighed a few weeks ago (fully clothed at the doctors) and got 125 kilos, which I make 276lbs (under 20 stone!). Mike, I think a race up to Christmas is in order! Rule 1: slow and steady weight loss, no crash diets, no fads. Rule 2: there is no rule 2
Congratulations! Are you on a particular diet (Atkins or someone), working with a medical dietician, or just being sensible and having Anne feed you low calorie dog food? <big grin> It can be so hard working from home since the kitchen is just there, and (for me at least) I find it easier to keep going on a many-hour session at the terminal if I have something to keep my blood sugar up!
It reminds me that I too need you lot to nag me <grin!>, well, within limits anyway! Sometimes I just need a little sugar fix to get me through the day :-(
My peak weight was achieved when I was 23, when I hit 23.5 stone (really!) which is 329 pounds (gasp!!). From the age of 15 (when I was 15 stone) I put on a stone a year (which is just over one pound a month, and one pound for one month isn't much, but consistency is important!). Managed to get down below 20 stone in 1988 for a short while (but that was the year that my "big" relationship ended and the weight didn't stay off, definitely got back up to nearly 22 stone sometime after that)
Was weighed a few weeks ago (fully clothed at the doctors) and got 125 kilos, which I make 276lbs (under 20 stone!). Mike, I think a race up to Christmas is in order! Rule 1: slow and steady weight loss, no crash diets, no fads. Rule 2: there is no rule 2 <grin!>. Prize: a small piece of christmas pudding and all the sprouts you can eat (steamed, no butter, no gravy!) For me, that's about two sprouts, and only if I'm forced to!
My theory is that when people start exercising they put on muscle and muscle weighs more than fat, so it's possible to start exercising and actually weigh more ... therefore if I put together a strict regime of sitting in front of the telly between now and Christmas, I can convert some of this muscle to fat and actually lose weight! What do you think? Should I write a book about it? <big grin!>
I don't actually have a final goal, since I'm going to just see how I look and how I feel and how things plateau and go from there. But my current goals are:
2lbs a week from now until Christmas, and assuming I didn't put on too much while I was in Florida, that means 12 weeks=24lbs. So my goal is to step on a scales on the 23rd of December and see 252lbs. Actually my internal goal is to hit 250lbs (or even better 113kgs which is about 4 ounces lighter!) by Christmas.
And then to continue the good work (two weeks off for Christmas/New Year and two more weeks to get rid of the Christmas excess!) and lose about the same again before my birthday on April 8th. Now a good goal is to say that it's about 15 weeks between New Year and the Eastercon, so if I can start with my weight at 113kg at New Year, then a target of 100kg (221lbs or 15st 11lbs) at Easter is sensible (again it's about 2lbs a week) and that may actually be enough. I'm six foot tall, fairly broad in the shoulders and chest, and with good solid legs, so getting to 15stone may well be a struggle and may well be close to a final target, but let's get to Easter and see <grin!>
If all this actually works, then I'm going to have to buy a lot of new clothes (though many of the t-shirts will probably be ok, if baggy <grin!>)
What I intend to do is book a monthly weigh-in with the local doctor (well, actually it will be the surgery nurse) just to see how I'm doing, and I'll see if I can get it scheduled for the same time of day on the same day of the week each month. And I'll plot the results up here. My home scales is rubbish (it can vary by a stone depending which foot you put on it first, and even then the numbers seem weigh off (pun intended!)) so the purchase of new scales at some point would be an idea, but the generally held opinion of "experts" in the field is that daily weighing is actually actively counter-productive.
Mike, we'll have to get you, me and Phil together at easter and have someone shout "who's that fat bastard standing between Mike and Chris?" <grin!>