From a Christmas Pudding to a Christmas Cracker - Weight Loss Motivation

That’s rough Jude. I know plenty in similar positions due to work commitments. Makes me grateful sometimes that work for me is just a J.O.B. Out of there at 3 most days and 12 on Fridays. It never enters my head again until I’m back in there. I did try to advance in there before but everybody was just completely stressed out and it was a horrible environment to work in so I high tailed it out of there 😆

Early closing times on Saturdays in the gym are such a pain!!! We went to a pet farm with the kids and with all the organising and time spent there I couldn’t get to the gym 😩 I had been 5 days in a row but I wanted to go again. Brought the dog out for a walk so that made up for it somewhat. Apparently I burned more active calories yesterday between the pet farm and the walk than I did everyday except one last week! Wasn’t expecting that at all

I went out for dinner and drinks with friends last night. Very enjoyable and I’m not absolutely dying today so I haven’t done too much damage hopefully

Sunday gym. I hate you!!! 🤬😆 Mine’s closed on Sunday so I’ll have to get another dog walk in today

I went back to bed for a nap 😆

Do any of you guys wear activity trackers in the gym? Just curious what kinda burn people are getting per session. For myself the Apple Watch says that I burn 450+ active calories in 35 minutes

Yep, fitbit here too, I average about 750-800 calories cardio a session. Then there's the weights on top of that so not sure what they do in terms of calories burnt. My PT reckons it's c.1000 calories a session. I reckon it's less though.

Just do what you have to do Jude, the work will ease up and you'll have more time for family and yourself and you can start working at the weight/fitness them... thats one thing I've learned as I've gotten older, pick your battles and stick to one at a time otherwise you just lose them all. Limit the damage if you can but worry about what's in front of you at the moment and the rest will be there for you in time.

DvB is a MACHINE. After a late one at work I got home to find my OH working. She is a legend and said it would be good for me to go to the gym. Did upper body weights. My foot is goosed. Even with Shrugs my foot aches. More time needed

With respect to that first line, I wish!! There isn't a day that my body doesn't ache, exercise or not. Funnily enough though it aches less when I train hard, so that's motivation in itself.

Made me laugh. 2 days without gym and I feel like an old man. Looking forward to getting back in this evening

So jealous of you guys with the consistent losses... Still killing myself for little return.

Did come within a whisker of my 5k record last night though... so the fitness levels are definitely improving thankfully.

Have moved up on the weights too this week, added 10kg across the board for my reps. Arms and chest feeling that this morning... ouch.

Haven't been able to get to the gym as much this week, only been on Tuesday so far, no chance tonight as I'll be at the match so it'll have to be Friday & Saturday sessions to make up the 3 minimum I ned to stay on programme... I'll be out Saturday at a family gathering with my in laws so pints will be had on top of dinner so some hard decisions ahead... that or a lot of hard work!!

Funnily enough, despite the weight not shifting on the scales my Mrs told me I've definitely trimmed off some of the love handles (it dpes feel like it too) and that my upper body looks a little more toned... so maybe I need to stop worrying about the scales a little.

I did that on Wednesday and was in the pool before I realised. If you have an iPhone you can enter the workout through Apple health - if its a regular workout you will have a rough idea of the calories.

Anyone else see a discrepancy between the machines in the gym (i.e. treadmill, crosstrainer, rowing machine etc) and the fitbits for calorie consumption?

For treadmill running I discount 20% of what the machine tells me as I know its not accurate (I generally run at a 2 degree incline to make up for the fact its not road running too) but the cross trainer tells me I'm burning far less than what the fitbit is.

I err on the side of caution & use the lower reading each time when logging sessions in my spreadsheets though. Interested to see what other folk think though.

Similar, as long as I'm maintaining or increasing the calories burnt or the time it takes to do it I'm more or less happy. Just noticed the discrepancy recently though as I forgot to put my towel over the treadmill display.

It is amazing how easy it is to put weight back on - yet so difficult to lose. I lost 5 stone last year but when i was weighed in end of June i had miraculously found 2 of them again. Been working hard at losing them but it's so hard.

A mixed bag, I had booze every day the last few days, though I did play a round of golf in ridiculous temperature and got to the gym twice. Loads of food though.

It’s nice to know that we’re all human 😆 I always think it’s better to know even if I’m not prepared to rectify anything just yet

that'll be running (600 cals minimum), cross trainer (250 - brings out the sweat by the bucket) & rowing (the real killer for me... have felt like passing out once or twice after a hard session on that one) will do the weights in there as well... (not legs after that much cardio though)

The key will be diet, cut out the cr*p and watch my portion sizes... do that & i'll consider it a good week.

Will need to bite the bullet and get my arm looked at though. Have been having problems for about 3 months now, tweaked it playing hurling & assumed it was a minor muscle injury that would need rest, but it feels more like a nerve thing, I have no issues lifting weights etc but it can get very stiff very quickly, and it feels like I've badly banged my funny bone constantly... have been avoiding getting it looked at what with the hospital situation these days but its not getting any better and can be quite uncomfortable... not an emergency so didn't fancy a silly wait in casualty to get it looked at.

I had a client coming to the office today so I decided to put on my best suit, sadly I couldnt get the trousers to close.