Weight loss accountability/support 2022 edition

Tues 11th: 75.3kg
Tues 18th: 76.7kg
Today: 75.6kg

Still haven’t lost everything I put on at delayed family Christmas 2 weekends ago, so feels like I’m not progressing, but 1.1kg in a week is not to be sniffed at.

Have almost finished the leftover booze from that event, so hoping to make better progress once the temptation to have a few hundred liquid calories in an evening is out of the way.

04/01 - 83.1kg
11/01 - 81.7kg
18/01 - 81.7kg
25/01 - 80.8kg

Target - 75kg

All going well and generally feeling better, although a positive LFT yesterday might put a scupper to recent losses.

Aw shucks, great progress, hopefully covid doesn’t treat you too badly.
Even if you don’t do a calorie deficit, I’d aim to eat healthily, it will help recovery.

I lost 3kg when I had covid, but I was struck down bad.

I’ve convinced a group of my martial arts friends to 100 burpees a day in February.

10 minutes of extra high intensity activity will keep the body composition changing I hope.

How many calories do we reckon a hundred burpees burns? I’d break them into sets of 10, 50 morning 50 evening

About 1.5kcals a burpee, so 150 calories for me, according to HR monitor. Which is pretty efficient for 10 minutes of exercise.

I do them with the push-up, and the DOMs in day 4 is horrendous.
But anaerobic fitness improved hugely in just a month.

You do a 100 in 10 minutes? That sounds intense

Got to sub 7 minutes in first lockdown after 30 days (sets of 25 with 30s rest in between)

My weekly update (more for myself than anyone else) on the no-scales, no stress approach:
Have settled organically into a intermittent fasting approach by eating dinner with the 1 year old at 6pm and then only really feeling hungry around lunch time the next day. Felt very productive in the mornings getting about 80 percent of the days work done. Also so far zero temptation to snack. Have started to throw in some callisthenics exercises mainly dips and pulls ups. Only thing I am missing at the gym is the deadlift.. but that can wait until COVID is less of an issue hopefully in spring.

Results so far: feel so much better and faint outline of abs is making a comeback after 2 years!

Also, reading others’ updates is really motivating !

Also has anyone experience with getting the Apple Watch through vitality? Work changed to vitality and while it seems a bit dystopian with the whole incentivising good behaviour, I can see how it actually helps people get off the sofa

hi,

Yeah. I got an apple watch on Vitality. All works well enough. I`m on the hook for £12.50 eac month unless i do my exercise. Its pretty easy to hit the numbers as long as you remember to track thngs (even pushing my newborn in a pram for an our will get points). Helps with overall motivation too.

Just done my weekly ish waist measurement..
now 87cm, down from 93, no wonder my clothes are fitting better!

Wish I’d done a measurement on my thighs as that’s my biggest clothing challenge!

Actually finding this fairly comfortable so thinking another couple of weeks in this phase is worth it for the gains…

Start of Jan 84kg > today 80.5kg
That gives me until Monday to lose the 500g to achieve my target :)
Exercise every day is starting to get me a little tired but it’s always a good way to kick start the year and get some good habits in place.

February plan is: after not drinking at all in Jan, I will drink a maximum of 2 days per week and ideally only 1.
Increase running mileage to 42km per week (from 36km)
Reduce gym to 2 times per week (from 3) but aim to do one double per week (run + gym)
Food wise I will look to stay the same

I consider not finding trousers big enough for your thighs a good thing!
6cm loss at the waist is fantastic, well done on your progress!

I think I have lost about 5cm from my waist, but a fair way yet to the point where I can tuck a t-shirt/polo/shirt into trousers without feeling a little self conscious.

76.5kg today, from 80.9, so 4.4kg down from 1st of Jan.

So was lazy for lunch time and have ordered a Roosters spicy chicken pitta bread. Pretty good on macros actually.

I realised yesterday that I fit my jeans properly, and I don't need to undo the top button when I'm sitting.

Feelsgood.

Still an elasticated waistband though, right?

Does velour come with anything else?

Is the Juicy logo starting to look legible again?

I’ve surpassed my expectations on weight loss this month. I’ve not even found it particularly taxing. Great start on my way to the 80kg target by June.

When I get to 90kg, running and riding will play more of a role and dieting a bit less.

2 Jan 101.4
4 Jan 100.5
8 Jan 98.6
13 Jan 98.4
14 Jan 97.8
15 Jan 96.9
21 Jan 96.0
24 Jan 95.5
28 Jan 94.0

nice one, great work..

I bought some new scales that were even less kind so essentially started again...
first bike ride in nearly 2 years and 2 stone or so later today, wish me luck.

Definitely could've smashed a pack of bourbons and a pizza last night when trying to set up brakes in the kitchen with the 3 year old helping but resisted, as I did when my pregnant wife opened the massive popping candy dairy milk bar sat next to me yesterday evening!

Significantly better diet (cutting out sweets/chocolate completely), more walking, 50 miles a week on the bike is the plan.....I'm hoping that as I'm carrying way too much timber a few kilos or so, actually 5-6, falls off quick giving the motivation to push more exercise and maintain loss

Strong progress ^

Things seem to have slowed down for me this week - lost about 500g.

Overall down to 89.6 kg vs 94kg on 2nd January, so I can’t complain.

Midweek weigh in looked promising. Agreeing to go for chips tonight, out for food tomorrow and audax on Sunday might throw a spanner in the works, but I will persevere.

No booze has been the easier than I thought. Will try and keep that up for a while longer.

I find it's just habits and norms.....a few years ago it was the norm/habit to exercise regularly and eat moderately well and the exception (maybe once a week) to chuck a pizza in the oven and a tub of Ben and Jerry's down my neck before a bottle of red. With the exception of the booze which I've largely abstained from, the eat shit has become the norm and the exception is to prep a meal/knock up a stir fry is once a week if lucky - and as for exercise....Hopefully it's as quick to fall into better habits as it is bad ones!

Indeed! Second breakfast after the 10min ride to/from coffee was not a good habit. Neither was having a "little" treat with a brew in the evenings. Thankfully those have been easy to cut right back on.