Woo-hoo! There's 5Kg less of me! - Page 3

Exfso (Peter) · #41 20-02-2011, 02:18 AM

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 (Marc) · #42 20-02-2011, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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....

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

TrevorW · #43 20-02-2011, 10:47 AM

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

ngcles · #44 20-02-2011, 12:14 PM

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 (Molly) · #45 20-02-2011, 01:37 PM

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

) 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

) 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.

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

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.

Molly.

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

GeoffW1 (Geoff) · #46 20-02-2011, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

a nice big load of barbecue shapes

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

BBQ shapes, yum, yeah

straight to Coles now

This thread is fattening

erick (Eric) · #47 21-02-2011, 09:31 AM

Very useful contributions,

everyone.

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

Tips, stories and experiences

.

GeoffW1 (Geoff) · #48 21-02-2011, 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kinetic

I can only admire your guts.

Steve

My gut is what has to go

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

Cheers

ngcles · #49 21-02-2011, 01:18 PM

Hi Geoff & Steve,

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

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

Cheers

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 · #50 25-02-2011, 02:21 AM

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by GeoffW1

BBQ shapes, yum, yeah

straight to Coles now

This thread is fattening

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

Suzy · #51 25-02-2011, 10:19 AM

Good on you Sab!

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 · #52 26-02-2011, 01:38 AM

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

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

Since this time last month, I'm a good 4kg lighter

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

Octane (Humayun) · #53 26-02-2011, 02:13 AM

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 (Shelley) · #54 26-02-2011, 06:37 PM

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

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

Let's do this!!

ngcles · #55 13-03-2011, 11:39 AM

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 · #56 13-03-2011, 12:21 PM

Gee I hope none of you guys are taking The Latin Seed or the Slim Seed diet pills !!

… talk about dodgy practices !

Cheers

erick (Eric) · #57 13-03-2011, 07:12 PM

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

erick (Eric) · #58 31-03-2011, 09:44 AM

92.7kg.

How are you all doing?

garymck (Gary) · #59 31-03-2011, 10:48 AM

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 · #60 02-04-2011, 02:25 PM

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