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General Weight Loss Support Thread

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  • #1352
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    greenfrogs wrote: »
    ShadowHearth that is amazing. It is so nice to go shopping and actually feel that you look good in your new clothes and to go home feeling happy. Before clothes shopping used have me nearly in tears and I'd end up buying clothes just because I needed them rather than actually liking what I was buying. I hope you have plenty more happy shopping trips.

    I still have a bit of weight to lose and I think the chats in your head to your future self is a really good idea. I am definitely stealing it. It will remind me when I am exercising and am feeling the burn why I am doing it, it's because I want a healthy, toned body.

    Actually I hated all my life buying cloths and Today I was worse then those Harpies from Sex and the City and I am a MAN! :pac:
    I was very heavy kid and at age 16 I was 20 stone too. I did got to 13 stone with a help of personal trainer back then, but all my weight jumped on me when I moved to Ireland 10 years ago. This time I spent only 26eu and did it myself.
    I am happy with my weight, but I really need to start doing something about my arms now, as my choice of excercise was running and walking 5.2 miles 5-6 days per week. I got legs like kangaroo at this point, but my upper body is a bit lacking. :pac: Still got a wee belly, but at this point I just dont give a ****. Still clasified as overweight by BMI chart, but it can Feck off too. :pac:

    I know I sound like a psycho at this stage :o, but I did had such chats in my head while walking or not eating what I shouldn't. Another good one was while walking/running and hitting some particullar spot on my route: "Remember how you were walking here 2 months ago here and you wished to be 115kg? Well you are now 105kg, so move on!". Maybe not right thing to do, but it kept me going and motivated.


  • #1353
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    Haha even men can enjoy a bit of shopping. :pac:

    I dislike my lower body as I carry a lot of weight there whereas my upper body is slimmer. I think I need to start jogging. It's funny how much peoples shapes can differ.

    With regards to the talking I think you should do whatever works for you. It helps keep you motivated and that's the main things.


  • #1354
    newbee22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭newbee22


    I'm finally back to my pre Christmas weight-even a few lbs lighter!I've changed up my exercise routine a bit last week- my body must have been too used to what I was doing!


  • #1355
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    Have avocados in the fruit basket which I must deal with before they go off. I'll have to try to resist having avocado on toast (with lemon) everyday! So delicious!:D My mum bought them for me and she could only get the two in a pack on-line. I love them but I prefer not to have them too often as I know they can be fatty (albeit good fats) but still two in one week is not good I should think! Hate to see anything go to waste though!


  • #1356
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    Precious flower wrote: »
    Have avocados in the fruit basket which I must deal with before they go off. I'll have to try to resist having avocado on toast (with lemon) everyday! So delicious!:D My mum bought them for me and she could only get the two in a pack on-line. I love them but I prefer not to have them too often as I know they can be fatty (albeit good fats) but still two in one week is not good I should think! Hate to see anything go to waste though!


    2 in a week?!

    I'm sure that's perfectly fine!

    Any reports I have read said maybe not more than half per day.

    Avocados are GOOD for you.


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  • #1357
    Precious flower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,812 ✭✭✭Precious flower


    purplecow1977 wrote: »
    2 in a week?!

    I'm sure that's perfectly fine!

    Any reports I have read said maybe not more than half per day.

    Avocados are GOOD for you.

    It's not like I have them every week so I suppose you're right!:) Yeah, there's loads just in half to eat! Good and delicious on toast!:D


  • #1358
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Currently roasting a chicken which I'm having with mash, veg and a potato croquette.
    Still downing bottles of water to beat the band and eating fruit.
    Feeling fab!


  • #1359
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    I weighed myself this morning and I am down 2 pounds to 130.5 pounds. Just half a pound until I am back to my pre-Christmas weight.

    I did a 25 minute walk this morning. It was nice to get some fresh air. I also did one of the operation transformation exercise videos. It was resistance workout. I only managed half of it yesterday so I was happy that I completed it all today. I have found the 30 day shred too hard in the past so I only managed to do it a few times. The OT exercise video is definitely more manageable for me.


  • #1360
    24 to 12 Challenge
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭24 to 12 Challenge


    After a very good week of steady weight loss, I went of the rails a little on Friday and Saturday resulting in a weight gain of 3lbs on Sunday morning. I didn't eat anything bad (except for hollandaise) but just ate too much and consumed too many extra calories on alcohol. I made up for it by going for two walks and not having wine or extras with Sunday lunch. Happy to say that I am back on track this morning. I know this sounds like a lot to gain and lose so quickly, but I am still really heavy and this is probably all water weight.

    Really pleased with myself for tackling the extra pounds straight away instead of feeling defeated and taking up my old habit of calling friends to arrange for a Sunday Carvery somewhere.
    This evening is my weigh in. Fingers crossed. Onwards and upwards..


  • #1361
    24 to 12 Challenge
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭24 to 12 Challenge


    After a very good week of steady weight loss, I went off the rails a little on Friday and Saturday resulting in a weight gain of 3lbs on Sunday morning. I didn't eat anything bad (except for hollandaise) but just ate too much and consumed too many extra calories on alcohol. I made up for it by going for two walks and not having wine or extras with Sunday lunch. Happy to say that I am back on track this morning. I know this sounds like a lot to gain and lose so quickly, but I am still really heavy and this is probably all water weight.

    Really pleased with myself for tackling the extra pounds straight away instead of feeling defeated and taking up my old habit of calling friends to arrange for a Sunday Carvery somewhere.
    This evening is my weigh in. Fingers crossed. Onwards and upwards..


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  • #1362
    24 to 12 Challenge
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭24 to 12 Challenge


    24 to 12 Challenge wrote: »
    After a very good week of steady weight loss, I went off the rails a little on Friday and Saturday resulting in a weight gain of 3lbs on Sunday morning. I didn't eat anything bad (except for hollandaise) but just ate too much and consumed too many extra calories on alcohol. I made up for it by going for two walks and not having wine or extras with Sunday lunch. Happy to say that I am back on track this morning. I know this sounds like a lot to gain and lose so quickly, but I am still really heavy and this is probably all water weight.

    Really pleased with myself for tackling the extra pounds straight away instead of feeling defeated and taking up my old habit of calling friends to arrange for a Sunday Carvery somewhere.
    This evening is my weigh in. Fingers crossed. Onwards and upwards..


    Typo apology. Tried to edit, but system won't let me..


  • #1363
    fatherted1969
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭fatherted1969


    Could really do with copping on to myself with my food intake. I've no idea what I should be eating so may educate myself. I've went from a 5k to a 10k and go at least 3 times a week now so am going well but I'd love to have a go at a half marathon but I think I need to be lighter. What's a good app for calculating calorie intake


  • #1364
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    fatherted1969 wrote: »
    Could really do with copping on to myself with my food intake. I've no idea what I should be eating so may educate myself. I've went from a 5k to a 10k and go at least 3 times a week now so am going well but I'd love to have a go at a half marathon but I think I need to be lighter. What's a good app for calculating calorie intake

    MyFitnessPal is great for calorie counting.
    You enter your height and weight and it gives you your calories for the day and then you enter all your meals using the search feature and it'll give you the calories for each item. It adds each thing up so you can see how you're doing.


  • #1365
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    My first weigh in since I started and I'm down 4 pounds. I deserved it, I cut out plenty and have done lots of exercise. At the start I was hungry but now I'm not obsessing over food in actually wanting it, but rather more interested in how I can make my meals have less calories. I have cut down on portion sizes, not gone back for seconds and not had bread with everything. It's a great start but just a start, but I'm naturally delighted.


  • #1366
    24 to 12 Challenge
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭24 to 12 Challenge


    I got weighed last night and have lost another five and a half pounds. I am delighted as this has taken me over my first stone mark. Also got myself a wrist pedometer which alerts me whenever I have been sedentary too long. This has made me more aware of how inactive I was and I now move around more. I even stand to do 100 on the spot steps by my desk when no one else is in the office -every little helps I suppose..


  • #1367
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,948 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I've been tracking my food on MFP. I've been using it for almost 3 weeks straight now and I've seen a small improvement in my clothes again. They'd gotten slightly snug after a summer in America and then Christmas.
    I never tracked the use of oil in my cooking but did so by accident today and :eek: So many calories! It's definitely something to watch out for.


  • #1368
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    MFP is so handy for tracking your calories. Like you said Mars Bar the cooking oil really is important to track. Last week I made a salad which required rapeseed oil. I didn't have any so I used olive oil instead. The calories for that alone were 240. I made the salad again this week but used a fraction of the olive oil.

    I weighed myself this morning and I am down a pound to 129.5 pounds. I was quite bad with eating junk food Friday and Saturday so I am pleased with a pound. I am going to try and introduce new recipes into my diet this week. I think it was eating the same foods over and over lead me to reaching for the chocolate and crisps.


  • #1369
    fussyonion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,821 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    I'm probably different to most of you using MFP in that I haven't weighed myself at all.

    I never weighed at the start nor am I weighing now.
    I really don't want to because when I was in a weightloss club, I became fixated by the scales; I was ridiculous, getting to the stage where I'd wear the lightest clothes before stepping on, bringing the scales into a different room incase I was lighter in there, not eating for the whole day to see if I lost anything.

    It was dangerous for my mind so I'm not weighing. I'll judge by my clothes regarding any weightloss and for my own sanity, it's best if I avoid the scales for the time being.

    Had a bad day yesterday-pizza, wedges and a truckload of booze. Feeling majorly rough today but will start afresh tomorrow.


  • #1370
    purplecow1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,877 ✭✭✭purplecow1977


    fussyonion I think you are approaching things sensibly.

    I too am using MFP but I had 2 bad days this week and it is heartbreaking to see all my other great work undone and my weekly average avpbove what its supposed to be.

    at the same time, it is good to be aware that such blowouts WILL affect my progress and I need to be mindful of that.

    Initially when I started on Jan 5 I had overegged my weight, unintentionally. After two weeks of being good, I weighed myself and I was pretty Christmas weight. However, a few days later it looked like I was +3kg so there has been a mistake somewhere along the way.

    I haven't weighed myself since and don't want it to bog me down.

    Changing attitudes to healthy eating isnt instant and I have made at least one good change since the start of Jan__ lots more veg with dinner, reduced carb portion with dinner and less junk food, except for this weekend!

    Nobody said it was easy!!


  • #1371
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,948 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Yeah I try and not weigh myself too. Easier said than done at times though!

    My gym took the weighing scales away from the public area of the gym and it's only in the fitness room now. You'll only be going in there for advice and measurements. Thank feck for that!!


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  • #1372
    SmallTeapot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭SmallTeapot


    I'm back to the grindstone since The start of Jan (properly around the second week in). I'm have cut back on chocolate (my vice!), takeaways, crisps, fizzy drinks, cakes, rolls, pastries, desserts, etc. I've had one bad day (malteasers!) since I started, but otherwise smooth enough sailing.

    Have a fitness band and hitting my daily walking goals. Will start logging on MFP from tomorrow again. Going to the gym 3-4 times per week. Trying to introduce more fruit and veg into my diet..... So, as a whole I'm not really buying into a fad diet... Or points counting.... More of a conscious decision to eat a bit healthier.

    Love reading everyone' progress thus far, ye are all doing really well :)


  • #1373
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    OK had my second weigh yesterday and lost another 2 pounds. Again I've done everything right, plenty of exercise (maintainable) and watched my food intake. Small things seem to mean a lot to me such as drinking green tea instead of tea or coffee so I'm not having milk or the temptations. No bread with my dinner also means no butter, no bread at all means no cheese and mayo sandwiches. Anyway still early days but my motivation is immense, I feel like I did when I gave up the ciggies after many times trying, it feels right. Good luck everyone else.


  • #1374
    MiaG
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭MiaG


    Hi All,

    would it be ok if I join you?


  • #1375
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    MiaG wrote: »
    Hi All,

    would it be ok if I join you?

    Thread is open to anyone who wants to support and be supported in their endeavours :)


  • #1376
    MiaG
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭MiaG


    thank you - looking forward reading your experience, and hopefully pick up some healthy meal & interesting exercise ideas and share mine.

    I will try to do no scales February, measure on 1st and on 28 - it would be record for me if I manage!


  • #1377
    jukebox2310
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭jukebox2310


    Hey all. Just seen this group. In the process of trying to lose weight myself. Male age 37 5'11 and weighed in at 17st 11lbs on first weigh in on January 4th.
    Bad choices and illness have seen me get to this weight. I'm afraid it's all down to sometimes 3-4 takeaways a week as well as at least one bag of crisps, 1 bar of chocolate and 2 fizzy drinks a day.
    Since January I have decided I have to change my ways and can proudly say I haven't had a takeaway, chocolate, crisp or drink and today I have lost approx 1st 1lbs to date.
    I have started exercising and joined a gym and am really feeling much better about myself. Trying to get to 14 stone so huge way to go but determined to get there


  • #1378
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Just weighed myself this morning - 15 pounds / 7 kg lighter than 1st jan, going to try get another 5kg off the I'm done


  • #1379
    lyinghere
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭lyinghere


    jukebox2310 wrote: »
    Hey all. Just seen this group. In the process of trying to lose weight myself. Male age 37 5'11 and weighed in at 17th 11th on first weigh in on January 4th.
    Bad choices and illness have seen me get to this weight. I'm afraid it's all down to sometimes 3-4 takeaways a week as well as at least one bag of crisps, 1 bar of chocolate and 2 fizzy drinks a day.
    Since January I have decided I have to change my ways and can proudly say I haven't had a takeaway, chocolate, crisp or drink and today I have lost approx 1st 1lbs to date.
    I have started exercising and joined a gym and my really feeling much better about myself. Trying to get to 14 stone so huge way to go but determined to get there

    great story, keep up the good work!!!


  • #1380
    Magenta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Magenta


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Just weighed myself this morning - 15 pounds / 7 kg lighter than 1st jan, going to try get another 5kg off the I'm done

    Holy ****! Good work!


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  • #1381
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    jukebox2310 wrote: »
    Hey all. Just seen this group. In the process of trying to lose weight myself. Male age 37 5'11 and weighed in at 17th 11th on first weigh in on January 4th.
    Bad choices and illness have seen me get to this weight. I'm afraid it's all down to sometimes 3-4 takeaways a week as well as at least one bag of crisps, 1 bar of chocolate and 2 fizzy drinks a day.
    Since January I have decided I have to change my ways and can proudly say I haven't had a takeaway, chocolate, crisp or drink and today I have lost approx 1st 1lbs to date.
    I have started exercising and joined a gym and my really feeling much better about myself. Trying to get to 14 stone so huge way to go but determined to get there

    Great start! Keep up the good work. The more you make better choices and see the results, it gets easier :)


  • #1382
    jukebox2310
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭jukebox2310


    Just did my weekly weigh in. Down another 3lbs this week so down to 16st 9lbs. Delighted with how January has gone with total loss for the month of 16lbs in total. A lot of my cravings for junk gone too.
    Need to bring this progress to February now and push it on from here


  • #1383
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    I weighed myself this morning and I am down 1.5 pounds to 128 pounds. Really happy with that as I am making good progress. I still haven't kicked my fizzy drink habit. I usually have a can each day along with a sweet treat such as a soya chocolate pudding or some dark chocolate. I know I should chose healthier snacks but I am finding it difficult to change.

    Does anybody else find that myfitness pal recommends a really low daily calorie intake. Mine is 1330 calories each day. I am eating about 1600-1700 most days. I would find it hard to get down to the 1330.


  • #1384
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,656 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    greenfrogs wrote: »
    IDoes anybody else find that myfitness pal recommends a really low daily calorie intake. Mine is 1330 calories each day. I am eating about 1600-1700 most days. I would find it hard to get down to the 1330.

    I think MFP's major weaknesses are in the calories burned for exercise (overestimated) and the calorie calculator.

    The two better ones I've seen are here on boards and Scooby's Workshop.


  • #1385
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    Weigh in number three today. Four pounds off so ten pounds so far. I'm expecting and know this loss can't be maintained and it will slow down but as long as its off even a half pound I will be happy. I've given myself a great start and am delighted but am really looking forward to losing the next ten.


  • #1386
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    Still plugging away, had weigh in number four and am down one pound. After last weeks big loss I felt that things might even out so to lose one pound I'm still very happy. Eleven pounds in total I can't complain.


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  • #1387
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,767 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    18 pounds 8.2kg down so far - weight loss still going but more slowly now. Looking to get another 10 pounds off - aimg to get down down to 14 St / 196 lbs / 89 kg.


  • #1388
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    Hi guys ye are all doing so well. I put on 2 pounds this week. It is completely my own fault. Finding it hard to get back into a good eating routine. Keep craving sweets and chocolate and I keep giving in as well. I must start again tomorrow.


  • #1389
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    greenfrogs wrote: »
    Hi guys ye are all doing so well. I put on 2 pounds this week. It is completely my own fault. Finding it hard to get back into a good eating routine. Keep craving sweets and chocolate and I keep giving in as well. I must start again tomorrow.

    Keep going, and don't (if you are) give yourself a hard time over a little stumble. Today is a great day to start again. Best of luck.


  • #1390
    Birdie086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    Green frogs

    I lost three stone last year, dropped from a size 22/24 to a 14. I still have a bit more to go. (Strength training and clean eating)

    I have had many a week with small gain, many a week with no loss, a few weeks with big losses, and some with small losses.

    This weightloss game is more about an attitude to overall well being and health than numbers on a scale. Keep at it and focus on the positives.(clothes fitting better, feeling fitter, even not being so tired after a days work)

    Every now and then last year I would go off the rails. I would start to feel bad, but I have learnt to remind myself that that was how I USED TO LIVE!!!! Now the going off the rails parts are getting smaller and smaller.

    My motto is 'it's a long game, and I am willing to play it'


  • #1391
    newbee22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭newbee22


    To the ladies in this thread- have any of you noticed a change in your monthly cycle? Have no reason to worry (unless it's an immaculate conception!) but I am very late when normally regular. I have steadily lost my weight and have had no dramatic change of diet in the last few weeks?


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  • #1392
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    newbee22 wrote: »
    To the ladies in this thread- have any of you noticed a change in your monthly cycle? Have no reason to worry (unless it's an immaculate conception!) but I am very late when normally regular. I have steadily lost my weight and have had no dramatic change of diet in the last few weeks?

    Yeah, I think it's to do with your blood sugars.
    I used to have a very abnormal cycle, it was great because it was so short but it was abnormal. My period would arrive on a Thursday night, last all day Friday and be gone by Friday night.
    Since I changed my diet I have a proper cycle, I can also tell when I'm ovulating (never noticed that before), and the cycle is just normal now.
    I was late the first 2 or 3 months and my G.P. said it was nothing to worry about, just my body adjusting.


  • #1393
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    newbee22 wrote: »
    To the ladies in this thread- have any of you noticed a change in your monthly cycle? Have no reason to worry (unless it's an immaculate conception!) but I am very late when normally regular. I have steadily lost my weight and have had no dramatic change of diet in the last few weeks?

    I've been on the pill for any weight changes in the last few years so no period changes myself but I have heard of other women who have experienced fluctuations. I believe it normally settles down and shouldn't be anything to worry about in the long run. I lost my period for a few years when I was a teenager due to anorexia and it doesn't sound like that's your problem obviously but if it stays absent for another few months it'd be worth going to a doctor to get it checked up.


  • #1394
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Today I moved out of the obese BMI classification*. I am now 29.9.

    Not too bad considering sometime last June I hit 33! Slow enough progress, I know, but much of that drop has been in the last four months so I've hit my stride. It's so very motivating when the weight starts to drop off. :cool:

    I'm in the awkward inbetweeny clothing size stage. My size 16s will barely stay on me without a belt (mid thigh crotch-tastic), but my size 14s are a bit too tight to sit down in. But I know that I'll be in the 14s very soon. :cool:

    * I know, I know, BMI isn't perfect! :)


  • #1395
    Frigga_92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭Frigga_92


    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    I'm in the awkward inbetweeny clothing size stage. My size 16s will barely stay on me without a belt (mid thigh crotch-tastic), but my size 14s are a bit too tight to sit down in. But I know that I'll be in the 14s very soon. :cool:

    Congratulations!

    I hate that stage with clothes. You don't want to spend too much money on your in-betweeny sizes because you know you're going to continue losing weight but obviously you still need clothes to wear!


  • #1396
    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    26sdrawkcab wrote: »
    Congratulations!

    I hate that stage with clothes. You don't want to spend too much money on your in-betweeny sizes because you know you're going to continue losing weight but obviously you still need clothes to wear!

    New Look and Penneys jeans FTW!


  • #1397
    dersawazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 163 ✭✭dersawazzie


    Have hit the stone off mark today. Long term goal is three stone so am a bit away but feel good. Clothes are starting to feel a little looser.


  • #1398
    tylercheribini
    Registered Users Posts: 2,014 ✭✭✭tylercheribini


    Hi Ive lost two stone and I am at my optimum weight now but lose flab still remains where the fat once was. Has anyone any suggestions how to tone this? Simple sit up exercises? any variations of these? any suggestions would be much appreciated thankyou.


  • #1399
    greenfrogs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭greenfrogs


    That's fantastic Dersawazzie. Well done.


  • #1400
    SillyBeans
    Registered Users Posts: 440 ✭✭SillyBeans


    I've been yoyoing with this 5 pounds since last July. 2 years ago I was a stone lighter than I am now and even though I still wanted to lose a little more weight, I was feeling good. I refuse to buy bigger clothes so to get into my jeans sometimes involves doing lunges up and down the bedroom after they've been washed. I'm gonna be a stone lighter by the summer - them's the rules.

    Anyone else notice that even with a stone in the difference, they're still the same clothes size? My tummy is a little more tubby but that's it.


  • #1401
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,021 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    For me, once I put up ten pounds or more, I need to go up a size.


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