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

Great weekend thanks mate. Made best of the weather and the kids had a blast. Is always nice to go somewhere else, even if it is only down the road. Eat out for lunch & dinner and only had breakfast in the house so nice not having to cook and clean up for a couple of days.

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

Good man, straight back on the horse!

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 know it's not exactly close to you however the Sport Clinic in Santry are good for sports injuries and it covered under your health insurance. You make an appointment (or certainly you were able to when I last had to use it) so no waiting around.

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.