Woo-hoo! There's 5Kg less of me! - Page 2

Suzy · #21 18-02-2011, 11:17 AM

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

multiweb (Marc) · #22 18-02-2011, 11:43 AM

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 (Eric) · #23 18-02-2011, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Suzy

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

May I have your permission to hate you!

erick (Eric) · #24 18-02-2011, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

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 (Marc) · #25 18-02-2011, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by erick

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

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 (John) · #26 18-02-2011, 12:51 PM

Good stuff Eric.

erick (Eric) · #27 18-02-2011, 12:58 PM

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

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

DavidTrap (David) · #28 18-02-2011, 01:06 PM

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 · #29 18-02-2011, 01:27 PM

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!

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 (Ron) · #30 18-02-2011, 01:33 PM

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

I feel for you people who have to struggle to keep the weight down

But I also admire you for making the effort

Cheers

erick (Eric) · #31 18-02-2011, 01:43 PM

Note - add Ron to the Suzy list!

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 (Adrian) · #32 18-02-2011, 05:19 PM

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 (Geoff) · #33 18-02-2011, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by erick

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

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

Hi,

OK, I have begun

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

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

Cheers

pgc hunter · #34 18-02-2011, 06:59 PM

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 (Peter) · #35 18-02-2011, 07:54 PM

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

Octane (Humayun) · #36 18-02-2011, 08:02 PM

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 · #37 19-02-2011, 12:00 AM

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

multiweb (Marc) · #38 19-02-2011, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jen

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

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 · #39 20-02-2011, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by erick

OK, who else is going to set a weight/fitness goal? http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/....evilgrin36.gif

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

Okay Erick, I'm in!

So here's my story (naturally it's a blinking novel

) ...

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,

I even scared myself.

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

). It took me a good 6 months to get the weight back.

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).

Since the Brisbane flooding in January this year, I lost my 2 kg again

(I blame it on the stress), so I am back down to 42kg.

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.

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

I hear beer is supposed to put weight on, why am I not then

. Maybe I need to drink more alcohol.

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

In the meantime, Erick, I gleefully join this challenge to gain back my 2 kg.

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.

pgc hunter · #40 20-02-2011, 02:08 AM

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

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!!!!