Woo-hoo! There's 5Kg less of me!

[erick]

Two months ago the cardiologist said "Lose it! 5Kg". Today I'm down 5Kg! A slender and comely 93 Kg now!

A stomach bug that kept me off food for three days last week helped :P

But I been working a bit harder in the gym and have kept the cake and bikkies to the occasional binge!

Told my wife that I'm fading away to nothing. "In yer dreams!" was the retort :sadeyes:

Of course, posting here is part of the treatment. You guys will check up on me from time to time so I'd better keep my weight under control. :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Good work, Eric! 5kg is a good start.

[astronut]

Eric,
Excellent news. It's not easy, just a day at a time!!
With the onset of Diabetes, my doctor said the same thing. "Lose weight + excerise.
Two years later I'm a lot fitter (gym) and 15kg's lighter.
The main things needed are support (from family & friends) and your desire to succeed.
Plus it must be a life long change.:thumbsup:

[White Rabbit]

Good job, it's not easy.

I need to start dieting, I'm just topping the 100kg mark now and need to get it under control before it's to late.

It's just really hard with the new job having to grab what ever food is available which is quite often burger and chips. I'm thinking of starting Karate again for some fitness training. Ooooh, it's been a while.

Good luck Eric.

[tileys]

I thought from the title you'd sold a 'scope !! ;) Maybe a little one...

[erick]

It's really quite exciting to see the belt tighten another notch or two and suit pants that used to be tight, now hanging loose! I actually started seriously some 4 years ago with regular gym including weights. I dropped a bit (95 --> 87) then put on weight as the muscles built up (back up into the high 90s but suspected plenty of fat still - my "six-pack" was still well padded!). But I had redistributed weight and my waistline was a lot better than before. :)

[Ric]

Great stuff Eric, keep up the good work.

Cheers

[Jen]

Awsome Erick keep it up cheers :thumbsup:

[BalderAsir]

damn i'd kill to be 93kg, at last look there's 197cm and 118kg of me :)

[dugnsuz]

Well done Erick
I've started treadmilling every day (for past 5 weeks) to lose gut and man-boobs, but haven't weighed myself.
Keep pumping those 30x100 binos like thems in yer avatar!!!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[mcross]

Well done Erick!

I hope you are feeling a lot healthier & have a lot more energy for stargazing!

Cheers,

Mark :thumbsup:

[erick]

Had a big packet of corn chips last night to celebrate my weight loss :whistle: :help:

[TrevorW]

Cut our bread, potato, pasta and white rice loose 10 kgs within 6 months.

It works

Cheers

[Matty P]

Great work Eric, keep it up!

:thumbsup: :)

[Jen]

:mad:
LOL and i bet u didnt even share them with anyone did you :lol:

[erick]

Sprung by my wife so she had some! :D

[Jen]

:lol::lol:
thats ok then u are allowed to have sometimes food :lol::thumbsup:

[Amy]

Congrats Erick~ I should be so inspired. I need to lose and start exercising again. I haven't done well since I left Texas for Florida. Nobody to blame but myself. Keep up the good work! :thumbsup:

[Rodstar]

Keep it up Erick!

I am following a similar path, have joined the gym recently, and I haven't missed a day. Feeling better already. I am hoping to lose 15kg. I have given myself 6 months to do it.

As well as exercise, I am trying to just cut down a bit on my serving portions, and I now order small take away coffees with one sugar, rather than large take away coffees with two sugars!

I am advised by my personal trainer that once your body gets into the new exercise regime, your metabolism will increase, so that you burn your fat more efficiently. That has inspired me to get past the initial fad stage, and truly make a part of my life's routine.

[erick]

You guys didn't check up on me :mad2:

I was bouncing along just over 100Kg at the end of 2010 :sadeyes:

I've worked hard since the start of the year - discipline and exercise - and with the help an appetite suppressant for several weeks (this one - http://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/product.asp?ID=61582 chosen after some careful internet research, and it sort-of worked - not a magic bullet), I'm back down to a steady 95Kg and starting to creep under it. Target steady 93Kg by April. :prey:

[Suzy]

For goodness sake man, go find 2 of those kg you lost and give them to me, I beg you.

[multiweb]

Good for you mate! Keep eating fresh though (the right stuff). Don't diet or even worse starve. You need fat to burn fat. Keep your heart rate up for 20min a day and keep breathing hard. Cycling/Eliptical trainer is easier than treading on the joints IMO. Weights (light) is good for bone density and muscles will burn fat and increase metabolism. I'm not a proponent of diets or cutting drastically on this or that. I like to eat anything I want, reasonably balanced.

[erick]

May I have your permission to hate you! :D

[erick]

Yes balance is important - always a piece of sponge cake with the piece of chocolate cake! :rofl:

No, not true! I am doing mostly the right things - eating right - my wife sees to that - been years since I saw any crispy yummy chicken skin :sadeyes: I "cheat" a few times a week, but try to keep it minimal - just a treat.

Three early morning gym sessions a week - two combined cardio/weights programs alternating each visit. Yep, getting too old to risk joint damage, so no running and no un-assisted chin-ups! Plenty walk/row/bike - some elliptical (hate that machine when used properly! If you bounce along it is easy.) Good legs/arms/trunk programs.

Low 90s in kg would be superb!

[multiweb]

Sugar is the killer ... and salt. It's in every processed food. Shedding Kgs is a lot harder than maintaining a healthy weight. Things that works for me. When I have a snack I eat water melon or raw tomatoes. That fills me up. Or a good pumpkin soup. Or one nice sandwich with 'tough' bread. Chewing hard will give you some sense of 'filled up'. Weird.

[asimov]

Good stuff Eric.

[erick]

OK, who else is going to set a weight/fitness goal? :evil2:

And Suzy, a higher weight goal is permissible, but we won't stop hating you. :face:

[DavidTrap]

Well done Eric.

My wife and I are on the wagon as well. We're both down 6kg since Christmas. Unfortunately I have a long way to go to a target weight. Much easier to be doing it together - she keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Just got to cut out all the rubbish in your diet - we really just eat too much.

DT

[pgc hunter]

Good stuff Eric! Well done. Gets easier every day and that first time you step on the scales minus a kilo or two, it's a fantastic feeling and gives you all the motivation you need! :thumbsup: Those damn cakes eh! My guilty pleasure is chocolate custard. It goes well with chocolate mudcakes !!!

I have to drop some weight aswell, and have been working on it. Weighed in at 102kg a couple of weeks ago and now am around 99. Used to put away the snacks and other unhealthy and therefore delicious foods as if it was a drug. Some days I'd go through a couple of bags of chips and entire bottles of soft drink ontop of regular meals. Now, most of my snacks from last week are still there and have been drinking much less soft drinks and alot more water.

[astroron]

As a person who has stayed around the same weight for over forty years and doesn't have to do anything to stay that way:D I feel for you people who have to struggle to keep the weight down:sadeyes:
But I also admire you for making the effort:thumbsup:
Cheers

[erick]

Note - add Ron to the Suzy list! :D

Honestly, it's good to know that a proportion of the population do not have the problem of trying to keep weight under control that many of us have. I should qualify that statement - a population where all the food one could eat is available. Sadly, there are still far too many people in the world who desperately want to eat more, but the food is not available or affordable. :(

[AdrianF]

I think I had better start loosing weight. Last time on the scales I was 117kgs and a waist line of 122cm. I indulge way too much on feel good foods (chocolate).

Adrian

[GeoffW1]

Hi,

OK, I have begun :hi: I weigh 105 Kg, and the doctor has sprung me for pre-diabetes. Riding the bike every day now, twice when I can, and cutting out the chokky bikkys with orange topping. Delicious they are!! NO......no :P:P

Then on observing nights I do 100 overhead lifts with the EQ5 + ED100 + hand grenade EP, before aligning it. Good as a barbell it is :thumbsup:

Cheers

[pgc hunter]

I've just realised something. All this cloudy weather means I'm not getting exercise hauling around the scope and all of its bits in pieces...

All this cloudy weather is making me fat

[Exfso]

Hey Erick, go have some radiation on your neck/throat, that will rip the weight off, I lost 26kg...:sadeyes:

[Octane]

Eric,

I recently found the inspiration to get fit again.

I want to get back to my highschool 75-odd kilo range. I think I'm somewhere between 85 and 90, now. Maybe more, and, that worries me.

I have had a gym membership for as long as I could remember, but, really didn't have any motivation to go.

I've since lost the reason why I started, but, I'm continuing with it as it's helping me deal with things.

I ran a marathon a few years ago and completely stopped exercising after that. I want to run another one, this year or the next. I use an app on the iPhone called RunKeeper which keeps track of all your running/rowing/biking, etc., anything that would require a GPS track of where you've been, it records it.

I'm not running on the road yet, I will do, soon, but, I've been manually entering data from the 4-days a week cardio session that I'm doing at the gym. Each time you beat a milestone, such as conquering furthest distance, or speed, or what have you, it sends you an email to congratulate you. You click on some links in the email and it provides you with a graphical representation of how you're doing; how many kilometres you've run in a week, a month, etc.

I'm going through a rough time at the moment, however, in the last week or so, the emails have started piling through, and, the motivation is slowly coming back.

Congratulations on your success, so far. : )

Thanks.

H

[Jen]

:thumbsup: yes jen has 5 more kilos to go and oh boy they are the hardest to get rid off grrrrrr i have been working my butt off at the gym :shrug:

[multiweb]

After a while your body adapts to your gym routine and won't change so you need to hit it from another angle. Change what you're doing for a week or two, type of exercise, reps, intensity and you'll start hurting a bit again and the kg will shed again.

[Suzy]

Okay Erick, I'm in! :hi:

So here's my story (naturally it's a blinking novel :screwy:) ...

For the past 25 years I have been stuck at 42 kg (I am 5ft 5" btw), but never looked too skinny (if that makes sense). A few years ago, all of a sudden, despite being the same weight, I looked way too skinny. It took me a lot of work and nearly 12 months to put on 2 kg to weigh in at 44kg and look healthy again. Last year, I got sick and lost 4 blinking kg under 2 weeks, which took me down to 40kg. Aye, I was a walking skeleton, :face: I even scared myself. :scared2: I had to be on a special diet for a whole month of limited and bland foods (what hope did I have to put any weight on during that time :screwy:). It took me a good 6 months to get the weight back.:mad2:

Looking for the fat content in food (without going overboard and doing me more harm healthwise than good) when I went grocery shopping was how I shopped. Milo on milk before going to bed helped (so I wouldn't burn it off). I don't eat much junk food nor do I snack. Years ago a friend did a calorie count on me while she was dieting and it turned out I eat less than what was suggested in her diet book (calories wise).:screwy:

Since the Brisbane flooding in January this year, I lost my 2 kg again :mad2: (I blame it on the stress), so I am back down to 42kg.:prey2: Milo on milk every night doesn't seem to be helping me this time (even switched to the higher fat content of Cadbury Drinking Chocolate). I'm having a huge struggle trying to keep those 2 kg on me.:rolleyes: As I said before, I'm not a snacker by nature, if I eat chips it's only a hand full at a time, I rarely drink soft drink and if I eat chocolate it's only 3 squares, and if I have (my favourite snack) ginger nut biccies, it's no more than 3. I just eat 3 meals and that's it usually. My daughter brings muffins and scones home from work and most of them just sit in the fridge uneaten so ended up getting binned :sadeyes: I hear beer is supposed to put weight on, why am I not then :shrug:. Maybe I need to drink more alcohol. :whistle:
So if anyone has got some tips for me, without giving me huge amounts of cholesterol in the process It would be appreciated. Any nutritionists on this forum:question: :help: In the meantime, Erick, I gleefully join this challenge to gain back my 2 kg. :D

I wish everyone success in trying to reach their goal weight and I'm sure we will all support each other and cheer each other on. As you can see from my story, us skinny people have weight struggles too. :ashamed:

[pgc hunter]

Suzy, you need my tastebuds. I just adore anything that is fattening! I'm a heavy snacker, chips/shapes/rice crackers are like booze...one is too many and a thousand not enough, I used to drink litres of soft drink per day the taste is incredible ... and I'd give up a years supply of clear skies for a year's free KFC and Hungry Jacks and Cider...

Don't even get me started on chocolate products :eek:

I hate vegetables with a passion, and fruits don't give me the awesome pleasure that a nice big load of barbecue shapes do lol


I need your habits and you need mine I think!!!!

[Exfso]

I am now sort of like you Suzy, since my radiation treatment(head and neck), as I said I lost heaps of weight, now at 80kg from 107kg. For the life of me I cannot put weight on now, I eat all the bad stuff, mind you I cant taste any of it :( just to try and maintain weight. My cholesterol is now perfect despite eating rubbish, and if I miss a meal during the day, I lose weight again. The quacks reckon it is because my body is using calories to heal the damage done by the radiation. Sounds a tad sus to me though. Sorry to hijack your thread Erick....

[multiweb]

That's right mate. You need fuel and loads of it. Keep eating the good stuff though and take care of yourself.

[TrevorW]

My wife said I could loose 5kg quickly if I cut off my head

[ngcles]

Hi Eric & All,

First up congratulations and well done Eric -- that is a sensational effort.

I am one of those people who has a metabolism that means I put on weight fairly easily. I eat a pretty average diet that is generally pretty well balanced (occasional take-away but really not much) but did have an excess of carbs usually in the form of snack-food.

About 10 years ago being exactly 182cm (6ft) I was just under 100kg but because I have a pretty large frame (big shoulders & chest) looked a little overweight but not too bad. Over the last 10 years I have been very slowly putting on a kilo here and a kilo there and had been afraid to jump on the scales. My shirt-size went from XL to 2XL and last year I started getting 3XLs -- not good. My best friend over the last 3 months had been on a modified Aitken diet. He had only been about 10kg overweight but he lost it almost in no time. Little to no carbs, high protein lots of lean red meat, chicken etc and salad.

On an impulse Christmas Eve I worked up the courage to stand on the scales and was shocked to see: 113.5kg. :(.

Time for a change! I made my mind up that my target was going to be 90kg. A nurtitionalist would probably want me at about 84kg but I think this is too skinny for me.

On Boxing day after I analysed where I thought my problems lay I started my own diet. I have cut out all pasta and rice and most spuds. I dumped white bread in favour of rye. Eaten a lot of high protein foods and little to no carbs. The hard part for me was cutting down very heavily on snack foods which were my greatest enemy -- particularly after 9pm. I now eat nothing at all after dinner at about 7pm.

I also started walking more. I've always enjoyed walking and was a keen bushwalker when I was young. I now go on a walk 4-5 nights a week to enjoy the stars (when I can see 'em) and I have about 5 different walks I can do ranging from 3.5 up to 8km so I usually cover about 20-odd km per week. My 19yo daughter sometimes comes with me to make sure I'm not visiting a mistress. ;)

I am loosing weight and the results are geting to the point of being enough encouragement to cheerfully push on harder. The first few weeks were hard, it is getting easier now. Since Christmas Day I have lost 8.5kg and I am now (this morning) 105kg on the dot! Still got 15kg to go but I reckon I can make it before my birthday in late August, maybe before. My interim goal is to be <100kg at the end of April. I put a shirt on today that I used to really love but "grew out of". It now fits but will look even better in a few weeks time.

I know a few people who just can't put weight on -- no matter how they try. I envy them but in truth it is the same problem at the opposite end of the spectrum. I have a work colleague who eats junk food all the time lunch and dinner plus snacks, drinks plenty of soft-drink and beer but is as skinny as a match with the wood shaved off.

Suzy, you can have some of mine!


Best,

Les D

[M54]

Hi all,

In my experience it's not good to take weight off too fast.

I had a bout of pneumonia a few years ago and went down to 58kg from about 63kg in the space of two weeks.
My body seemed to react to that an put on more kilos than I lost over the next few months. Kilos that have were very hard to shift.

I get the feeling that when you lose a substantial amount of weight in a short space of time (incidentally, I never diet, I just stop eating snack food) your (my:P) mind seems to react in some hard to control way, because it thinks the weight loss might go on forever, and it starts to push you in the other direction, so that you end up building up your old bad snack habits again. At first you think it will be ok (because you've lost all that weight, haven't you:D) but it creeps up slowly till you wake up one morning and you're back at your original weight, plus some!

I've come to the conclusion that I need to control my mind, but sometimes my mind seems to control me.:rolleyes:

Good effort Eric and everyone.
Let's NOT go gentle into that good night...:lol:

Suzy, if you feel healthy and have energy and stamina, why worry about your weight. Does your GP think it's anything to worry about?
Maybe there's a genetic component to your lithe size?
Maybe some weight training would put some muscle on, that would increase your weight. A lot of maybe's.:P

Molly.:)

P.S.
Hubby just said too much time sitting at the computer doesn't help.:lol:

[GeoffW1]

BBQ shapes, yum, yeah :eyepop: straight to Coles now :help:

This thread is fattening :lol::lol::lol::lol:

[erick]

Very useful contributions, :thanx: everyone.

OK, we are all in this together - let's see how we go over some months ahead. :thumbsup:

Tips, stories and experiences :welcome:.

[GeoffW1]

:lol::lol::lol::lol: My gut is what has to go :rofl:

BTW nice avatar Steve.."Five Miles Out" ?

Cheers

[ngcles]

Hi Geoff & Steve,



I was going to note the same thing. It is the album cover from Five Miles Out by Mike Oldfield 1982. It amazes me how many amateurs are also devotees of Mike Oldfield's music. I would listen to 4 or 5 albums of his per week. Nice music to walk to under the stars while you loose weight !


Best,

Les D

[pgc hunter]

latest wiegh in - 97.9kg, down from 98.6 earlier this month and from 101.7 at the height of the holiday booze and binge season

Looks like giving up my multiple bottle-a-day soft drink habit, giving up post 9pm dinners and curtailing my snack intake is showing results :D



Bloody shapes have always been my mortal weakness. It takes me less time to plow through a box of shapes than it takes for Melbourne cloud to murder my observing session. And don't even get me started on those flavoured Sakata rice crackers. These things are a freakin drug I tell ya :rofl:

[Suzy]

:D Good on you Sab! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Think of soft drink as your worst friend in terms that it actually makes you thirstier. Learn to love water (I drink a good 4L a day)- it quenches your thirst, good for you and fills you up.
Wow I just realised something about myself.. that's probably why I don't snack much because I drink so much water.
Just note though that too much water is not good for you (you'll know this when urine is clear-that's not good, needs to be straw colour)

I might get those little snack pasta pkts and have them before I go to bed, as I'm finding out from this thread carbs at night put on weight.

[pgc hunter]

Thanks Suzy. That Soft Drink, it is as pleasurable as a full, non-interrupted Melbourne clear night. The taste is sooo goood, like sampling our once every 2 month clear nights. I have been drinking much more water lately, and my 1.25 litre bottles of that delectable soft drink are lasting 2 days instead of 2 minutes :lol:

Just got home from work tonight, measured myself under the same circumstances as yesterday (before any drink or food).... and was a full 900g lighter :eek: Since this time last month, I'm a good 4kg lighter :D And the changes I've made have been easy, and am actually not really missing my 10pm steak and/or KFC dinners, 2 litre bottles/day soft drink habit and constant snacking :P

[Octane]

Sab,

Good stuff, mate!

I've been gymming lately. Running/biking/rowing every two days, and, weights in the days in between. In just three weeks, my jeans are slipping off, and, I'm starting to develop some shape in arms/chest/shoulders again that I haven't seen since I was beefy in high school 14 years ago. : D

Slowly, but, surely.

H

[shelltree]

Good work Erick, you are doing a fantastic job! I always find weight loss stories so inspirational so keep em' coming! :D

In 2006 I went from my heaviest of 101kg down to 73kg, woohoo!!! But gradually my great eat habits died and I found myself back at almost 92kg :( That was in November last year so I started up again at the gym and got back down to 88.45kg.

Then Christmas happened :(

Now I'm down to 84.55kg and counting :) So, a 7.3kg loss so far, woot! I'm aiming to get down to around about 65kg or so eventually. So far so good :D

Let's do this!!

[ngcles]

Hi All,

Just thought I'd drop another line or two here to note progress (or lack of it). It is good to hear several others are also progressing well.

This morning I am down to 103kg. That's 10.5kg down in 78 days so far and 13kg to go in 163 days until my birthday -- so I'm very much on target.

By this time next week, I hope to be exerting <1,000N on the surface of our planet!


Best,

L.

[CraigS]

Gee I hope none of you guys are taking The Latin Seed or the Slim Seed (http://www.smh.com.au/national/diet-product-fails-toxin-test-20110312-1bs25.html) diet pills !!

… talk about dodgy practices !

Cheers

[erick]

93.4 kg this afternoon. Still heading (slowly) in the right direction! :thumbsup:

[erick]

92.7kg. :)

How are you all doing?

[garymck]

I found this sight to be very helpful - run by John Walker, the founder of Autodesk - he had a weight problem and attacked it in a rational way. Go to:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/

click on diet and nutrition under the science heading.

Provides tools to analyse/track your weight for free....

Has helped me loose 6 kg in the last 2 months...


"The Hacker's Diet

The Hacker's Diet: How to Lose Weight and Hair through Stress and Poor Nutrition book plus associated computer tools. You can read the book on-line on the World-Wide Web, or download a copy to read or print off-line in either PostScript or Adobe Acrobat PDF format. The WWW and Adobe Acrobat versions have hot-links for all table of contents items, cross-references, and index entries. A set of Excel spreadsheets which accompany the book (but are not necessary to use it) is also available for downloading, and the weight logging and management tools described in the book are also available for the Palm Computing Platform. New: Fourth Edition (2005) improves appearance, accessibility, and ease of navigation; it strictly complies with the XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.1 standards. "


cheers
Gary

[ngcles]

Hi All,

100kg this morning ! Have now lost 13.5kg.:) My interim goal of 100kg was set for the end of April and I've made it 28 days early.

10kg to go and still want to loose it before mid-August.


Best,

Les D

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup: good on ya Les :D

[shelltree]

Woohoo! You and Eric are doing so well, good on you both :)

Pretty sure I've put on a heap of weight since my holidays :P

Need to get back into the swing of things, which has been very very hard :sadeyes: Have had a stressful few weeks although I know that is no excuse...

Time to get back to it and get down to my goal weight! :)

[shelltree]

Got back up to 89.9kg after holidays and lots and LOTS of bad food over Easter :sadeyes: Got my butt into gear and back down to 85.55kg now! :lol: 1kg away from May's goal, hoping to smash it ;)

How is everyone else doing!? This thread is a little deserted! :P

[erick]

Great work, Shelley!

I'm bouncing along in the 91-93kg range, depending if I have a good (bad!) weekend with food. I have to do something to break through the barrier! Back to the gym tomorrow morning after a bad head cold for several days.

[erick]

Let's check in and see how we are doing.

I am consistently under 90 kg now and feeling just great! All my belts are at the last hole now.

I've got close to 87kg a few times, which I think is my ultimate target weight, but am usually in the 88s and 89s.

So how is is going, everyone? Who needs some encouragement?

[troypiggo]

Congratulations all! I've been on a bit of a diet, and have dropped 20kg since Nov. :D And that's with no exercise, because I've had a bit of a hernia problem. Weight loss has plateaued a bit lately. But hernia repaired now, and allowed to start exercise in 2 weeks, so hoping to drop some more and get down another 5-10kg! :sadeyes:

[jamiep]

Troy,

Well done - I've been on a similar mission (done the whole hernia thing twice before - that's no fun!), but with the exercise, sensible eating, and calorie counting etc I've dropped a LARGE amount since last november (a little more than you).

I've been using a gadget called a fitbit from the US ... basically logs your movements, you log your food and calorie intake etc, and it tells you if you're in a calorie deficit or excess situation for the day so you have a good handle on what you need to eat to succeed in your weight loss aim.

It's basically a pedometer on steroids that syncs with your PC and gives you a convenient place to collate all the info.

It's the kind of motorvation a geek like me needs to get of his backside!

Good luck everybody ....

Jamie

[troypiggo]

Awesome!

Mine has just been thinking a bit more about diet. Not necessarily eating less, but eating the right things at the right time. eg not eating huge pastas or rice meals (carbs) at dinner. Making sure eat protein snacks between meals - keeps the metabolism up. And I've cut back drinking beer heaps. Not as hard as I thought it was going to be.

[Poita]

I've stayed just under 80kg, I would be most comfortable at about 76kg, so a little ways to go yet.

For me, Special K for brekky and Campbells minestrone soup is my lunch weapon of choice, (filling and less kj than 2 slices of bread) and no snacking. I just have to remember that to feel a bit hungry is normal, like feeling the breeze on your face, it is something that should occur as a normal part of living.
I think of hunger a bit like fear before public speaking, I had to learn how to channel fear into enthusiasm and anticipation, I see being hungry now as anticipation for my dinner meal, and I enjoy the feeling!

Congrats to everyone who is keeping the weight under control, the insane kj density of foods now does make it difficult.

[AdrianF]

Not sure how much weight I have lost but my belt has had to have another hole put in it and my wife is happy she can now put her arms around me and link fingers.

Adrian

[multiweb]

Lost 6kg since October last year. Probably 6 more to go but I'm not in a rush. Lose it slowly, exercise a little, whatch what you eat and you'll be right. I can never give up eating or drinking. That's base load for me. :P

[supernova1965]

I weighed myself this morning and have lost 10kg in 2 months:D good job everyone

[erick]

Great work team! :thumbsup: