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Obese to FIT (22stone +)
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Fair play to you Man - "a thousand mile journey starts with the smallest step..."
Keep it up and good luck...
Not to hijack the thread on the OP, but maybe if the people who have joined in this thread who have a similiar situation and similiar goals to the OP would like to keep posting here as they get their journey going, it could end up being a handy support-group type thingy for logging progress, having the odd moan etc... ?
Agree totally - that's why I replied. Anyhow, off to do 5k now!
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Not to hijack the thread on the OP, but maybe if the people who have joined in this thread who have a similiar situation and similiar goals to the OP would like to keep posting here as they get their journey going, it could end up being a handy support-group type thingy for logging progress, having the odd moan etc... ?
Well i'm on the same path as the OP (although I wasn't 20+ Stone when I started).
Started at 229lbs approx 8/9 weeks ago.
Trying to lose 1lb at a time. Hit a full stone lost last week
And in this week's weigh-in i'd lost 2lbs (thanks probably to the long walking distances I mentioned a couple of pages back).
I feel fantastic! I've already lost my first stone and i've just taken a massive chunk out of the next!
I've roped my mate into this with me and he lost a stone in TWO WEEKS, he's a freak! But myself, him and a load of ther mates are going on a lads weekend at the end of August and he challenged me that I couldn't hit 200lbs by Aug 30th!
I reluctantly took the challenge. I'm now 213lbs. It'll be tough work but i'm gonna give it a go!0 -
MrStuffins wrote: »Well i'm on the same path as the OP (although I wasn't 20+ Stone when I started).
Started at 229lbs approx 8/9 weeks ago.
Trying to lose 1lb at a time. Hit a full stone lost last week
And in this week's weigh-in i'd lost 2lbs (thanks probably to the long walking distances I mentioned a couple of pages back).
I feel fantastic! I've already lost my first stone and i've just taken a massive chunk out of the next!
I've roped my mate into this with me and he lost a stone in TWO WEEKS, he's a freak! But myself, him and a load of ther mates are going on a lads weekend at the end of August and he challenged me that I couldn't hit 200lbs by Aug 30th!
I reluctantly took the challenge. I'm now 213lbs. It'll be tough work but i'm gonna give it a go!
If you keep up those 18mile walks it shouldn't be too much trouble!
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@Baralis1
Same story as myself so bar the losing weight before part. Im glad this thread may help you. I feel bit more empowered since posting it myself. Its a lonely oul road at best of times! Like people have said to me the hardest step is getting going. Take 1 day at a time, you will hav the odd slip but dont let that be end of it start fresh the next day.
I feel good this week but i defo do still struggle with not havin visible results quick smart, something that has always been my down fall. but im working on it
Best of luck with it and keep in touch.0 -
I feel good this week but i defo do still struggle with not havin visible results quick smart, something that has always been my down fall. but im working on it
Once the visible results start to show you'll get a whole new level of motivation, the first bit before those changes is always the hardest but keep pushing yourself and it will come.
More motviation once friends and family start commenting, tis a great feeling!0 -
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I've gone over every single day since weighing in on Thursday. It actually pretty difficult when you have to keep up what might be called a Social Life.
Although I'm hoping Bulmers Light might've helped me out a bit
Gonna have to put in some good work between now and Thurs and hope when I step back on the scale doesn't laugh at me!0 -
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Yep My fitness app, i just rechecked the protein shake there i calculated 100grams
phew! so instead of 544 was only 245 but without the milk only 98 so il defo be goin without milk.
Im still fairly shocked i just calculated another mediocer day and i had consumed about 2000 calories before 2pm ! eyes are opened :eek:0 -
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As regards Protein shakes, I added them to my diet and they are calorific with milk for sure, but what I find is this:
if I get up in the morning and i'm hungry for some breakfast, i'll drink a protein shake and after a few minutes the hunger is gone and stays off for a while!
Why don't you just eat breakfast?
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Stench Blossoms wrote: »Why don't you just eat breakfast?
Well for the last couple of weeks i've been trying to reduce my calories as far as I can lose 2lb per week, but I still need to get my Protein in so i've been SOMETIMES substituting Breakfast for a Protein shake.0 -
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I know this post is quite a bit old, but I think it's worth addressing. In the nicest way possible; Everyone else knows you're overweight. They can see it. That's one the reasons you want to lose weight right, to improve your appearance?Deleted User wrote: »Can I ask ye guys though (ye guys = those overweight and trying to get fit); I go to a gym in the mornings (As above) that has a lovely big swimming pool. Usually about 6-7 people in it in the mornings swimming up and down. I like swimming and forever hearing of how good it is for you (cardio/weight loss-wise) but I find that I'm extremely self-conscious. I can't bring myself to use the pool at all.
So you need to lose any misconception that if you jump in the pool with your shirt off, people will be surprised or will stare, or will laugh. They won't, because they can see you're overweight, nothing you can do will make them think you're more overweight. So forget about "revealing" yourself with other people around; they don't care.
The key though is to remember that in the gym is the place you are least likely to be judged for your weight. You're not there to watch movies or eat food; you're there to work out, lose weight and get fit. Nobody else is thinking, "Wow, look at that fat guy". If anyone is thinking anything, they're thinking, "Fair play to that guy, I hope it works out for him". But most people aren't thinking anything, they're too busy trying to hide their own wobbly bits
Fair play vibes, and especially on recognising that you'll have good days and bad days. You'll even have good weeks and bad months. Stick with it and you'll get there. One thing to focus on is that it's not a bad thing if the numbers aren't going down, so long as they're not going back up. A week where you experience no weight change is a good week on balance; it means you haven't undone any good work.
OK, so the OP wanted stories. 8 years ago I was in my early twenties and fat. I'd been fat since I was 11. I broke my knee that year, spent six weeks sitting around and eating, and I just never really came back from that. I was a relatively active kid, played hurling and soccer like other kids, had a blue belt (red tag, in fact) in Tae Kwon Do, cycled a lot as a teenager. But I ate like an elephant. So I was always a wide guy. Always hated it, but never had a clue how to lose weight; as far as I was concerned, I did lots of exercise, so why was I still big. My parents didn't know a lot about such matters either, my mother convinced that it was "puppy fat" which would disappear when I got older and that I just needed to tone up a little bit. My Dad reckoned if I did a little but more exercise I'd be grand.
Looking back now, I know it was all diet.
Naturally as late teens and college arrived, alcohol and food intake went up and activity went down to practically zero. I joined the college gym on more than one occasion, went to a couple of sessions with various sports clubs, but always lacked the drive to keep it up - there was always something more interesting going on.
I had tried to "diet" and such in various guises. I can recognise now why they failed, mainly because of a lack of understanding - "Eat healthy foods only". A 12-inch tuna salad roll is healthy, right? "Only eat when you're hungry". Fine, but when do I stop eating?
Portion control was my downfall, but I never encountered any diet which explained that.
8 years ago, about a year after I'd left college, my girlfriend (now wife) was concerned enough about my weight to fool me into going to weightwatchers on the pretence that she didn't want to go on her own. She knew I was very sensitive about the subject of weight but also very unhappy about it, so I guess she reckoned that was the least offensive way of getting me to do something about it.
So we went to the meeting, I think I was more nervous about the room full of women than anything else, for some reason the idea of stepping on a scales didn't worry me. I was somewhere between 14 and 15 stone. Had been for years, so I was expecting no surprises.
I step on the scales; 17st 5.5lbs. It was actually like being hit with a baseball bat. That put me at a BMI of 35 and based on figures I have today, about 40-45% body fat. I knew nothing of BMI or body fat then, but that didn't really matter - the numbers were there in front of me, I wasn't just fat or a little bit overweight. I was huge.
It all changed for me in that second. I knew I was done. I couldn't look myself in the eye (in a mirror of course) knowing that I was so big. I liked the weightwatchers system, it suited me down to the ground. You can eat X points per day. Eat it and then stop. It worked for me, I was always a fan of numbers. Although my girlfriend stopped going after the first 6 weeks, I lost about 2.5 stone in the first 8 or 9 months, and kept up with WW for about another year after that, managing to drop about 3 stone in total solely on the WW programme. It was WW which gave me an initial understanding of portion control and calorie counting.
There are a few things which are great about the weight loss process;
- finding that your clothes look ridiculously big on you
- Looking at old photos and comparing them to more recent ones
- Seeing these numbers on the scales.
But by far I found the biggest, most motivating ego-boost I received was when someone would greet me by saying, "Holy crap, where's the rest of you?".
I tried to do some exercise with varying success. Managed to go to the gym a few times a week for 3 months, but didn't see any noticeable improvements in fitness or strength, and I was bored. I was probably expecting too much. Then I got a new job which wasn't next door to the gym, and that was the end of it.
Changed job again and decided I hated the bus enough that it would be worth cycling the 10km in and out of the city. I had always enjoyed cycling and here was a good opportunity to get back on the bike and get fit. So after a few false starts, I got into doing the trip practically every day. Also started experimenting with counting calories and dropped a stone-ish.
Got really into cycling then and although I got noticeably fitter and stronger, I never really lost much more weight than that initial stone over the next couple of years. In fact I managed to let it slip a little bit, back to just under 14 stone.
Late last year, looking at BMI and and the end of my twenties looming, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't be 30 and overweight. That I would enter my thirties being the healthy and active person I had wanted to be in my twenties.
So I did. A fairly concerted calorie counting effort along with a few evenings running every week and I managed to drop another 22lbs in 8 months with a week to spare before my 30th birthday. BMI of 25. A relatively meaningless number in the grand scheme, but a validation of 8 years of weight loss - I was no longer clinically "overweight". Something I had not been for nearly 20 years.
I even went and bought a new shirt for going out that night. It was a large. And it was a bit too big for me. Awesome.
I still have a few KGs to go before I'll draw and line and say I'm done. I'm aiming for 15% body fat, give or take. But that's for reasons of training, getting faster on the bike and on foot. I no longer worry that people look at me and see a fat guy, so I'm not doing it to look better.
That's probably not any kind of inspiration for the OP. Mine is a story of falling off the horse and getting back on again and then stabling the horse for a couple of years before getting back on and trying it again. It's not a story of 10 stone lost in two years followed by an ultra-marathon and climbing everest. But in 8 years of semi-committed regulating of my diet, I managed to undo ten years of very committed eating
And I'm happy with that.
You'll get there in the end, OP. It's never plain sailing, and it will never happen as fast as you want it to. I think if you can come to terms with that, then you will manage to stick with it. I believe that it's only through suffering the hard parts of losing weight that you can come to properly appreciate just what each pound is worth. And that's what will stop you from putting it back on.
As Redsunset says, it's a lifestyle change. Not short-term or medium-term. The rest of your life. Me and food still have our love-hate relationship; I love it, it hates me. But I understand the relationship well enough to keep control over it without feeling guilty for splurging and without feeling powerless when I get cravings.0 -
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I know this post is quite a bit old, but I think it's worth addressing. In the nicest way possible; Everyone else knows you're overweight. They can see it. That's one the reasons you want to lose weight right, to improve your appearance?
So you need to lose any misconception that if you jump in the pool with your shirt off, people will be surprised or will stare, or will laugh. They won't, because they can see you're overweight, nothing you can do will make them think you're more overweight. So forget about "revealing" yourself with other people around; they don't care.
The key though is to remember that in the gym is the place you are least likely to be judged for your weight. You're not there to watch movies or eat food; you're there to work out, lose weight and get fit. Nobody else is thinking, "Wow, look at that fat guy". If anyone is thinking anything, they're thinking, "Fair play to that guy, I hope it works out for him". But most people aren't thinking anything, they're too busy trying to hide their own wobbly bits
That's a fair point, I suppose. For the last two weeks or so I've been contemplating the swimming pool a little more, but everytime I think about it it becomes a tad more challenging.
I suppose it's just one of those things that's a huge deal in my head. I haven't been in a swimming pool in years, so it just kinda feels, I suppose, like I'm doing something alien to me and that I'll look like a(n overweight) fool.
I'm sure if I do it once or twice it'll be part of my regular routine and I'll have no problem doing it at all. Just that first step is the hardest.
Cheers to everyone else who took the time to reply to my question. Weight loss, despite being an entirely physical process, really is more of a mental struggle and challenge, isn't it. Can be quite tough at times.
That said, I'm quite literally sitting at the computer wearing a pair of pants I picked up in Penneys about six years ago that were worn once or twice before being too small for me and left in a wardrobe. Came across them by mistake earlier and tried them on. They currently fit quite comfortably. I'm happy about that.
Fair play vibes.
It's a pit there's not a lot of us in one area that could regularly gym together. A 'fat bastard' club would be great. I'd never join an exercise class or do a 'boot camp' thing for fear of being the only person there that can barely move. A group of people who are severely out of shape could be a great idea. 0 -
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