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

Loughc · 06-10-2022 12:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119708354#Comment_119708354

They don't do training sessions, re-read my post.

Loughc · 16-10-2022 9:32pm

Only getting round to posting this now but weighted in last Wednesday. Manic in work.

Results;

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

The system is nothing but consistent 😂😂

I’m expecting a drop off in losses soon as I’m aware my body will resist it at some stage. But for now yay.

Jude13 · 17-10-2022 4:52am

Brilliant progress Loughc. I have bowed out of the tracking as I have too much going on the lest few weeks and the diet is another added pressure. I am usually good with it but I need to give myself a bit of break.

TRS30 · 17-10-2022 7:29am

Great work at @Loughc.

Don't beat yourself up over it @Jude13. You'll get back into when the time is right.

DvB · 17-10-2022 8:02am

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Outrageous!! Great work man, well done.

Loughc · 19-10-2022 10:13am

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Down a stone now over the last 4 weeks and my god have those 4 weeks gone by quickly. Also been over 4 weeks since I've last had a takeaway.

I do have a work night out coming this week, so I'm sure that will hamper by result somewhat I do have dinner and lunch at home planned the next day after the night out so that should put me back on track.

TRS30 · 19-10-2022 12:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119764073#Comment_119764073

Less of a man than you use to be (in a good way!) 🤣

Jude13 · 25-10-2022 6:03am

Savage work Loughc. I need to start at day zero again.

Loughc · 26-10-2022 11:21am

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Beyond delighted with this result. Had a work night out and a night away in a hotel but stayed on plan for the hotel stay. Officially at the half way mark 17lbs down in total. Would love another 13lbs gone to get me to the Christmas break but I know the losses will slow down eventually.

Jude13 · 27-10-2022 6:16am

Holy moley, thats like 2kg a week. You are killing it. I weighed in yesterday, depressing, but thats my benchmark now to work from as week 0.

Loughc · 02-11-2022 4:29pm

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Week 6: -3lbs

And that's 20lbs done and dusted. I'm aiming for another 8-10lbs over the next 4 weeks and then it's a pile on for Christmas haha. But 8-10 will still be difficult.

TRS30 · 02-11-2022 5:37pm

You're smashing it as the kids would say!

Jude13 · 03-11-2022 6:51am

I'm still having a mare. Up 0.1kg

TRS30 · 03-11-2022 8:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119826940#Comment_119826940

So small would call that even IMO.

Loughc · 03-11-2022 9:05am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119827045#Comment_119827045

Yeah even if you weighted in a hour later that gain prob wouldn't be there.

DvB · 03-11-2022 9:37am

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have a poo, be grand.

Jude13 · 03-11-2022 9:40am

That was post visit. I dont know why I expected to lose anything. I hammered the halloween stuff.

Loughc · 09-11-2022 12:49pm

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Week 6: -3lbs

Week 7: -1lb

The slow down has begun but still sitting pretty at 21lbs after 7 weeks, so a stone and a half gone! The program changed up last week a bit and I don't think it suited me at all, think I'll revert back to the original plan and increase the intensity in the walks.

DvB · 09-11-2022 12:51pm

Averaging 3lbs a week, that's more than decent if its something you can accommodate within a normal week. Well done.

TRS30 · 09-11-2022 1:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119852817#Comment_119852817

Still heading down.

Jude13 · 10-11-2022 7:05am

Quality Loughc.

IM +.03kg.

aligator_am · 10-11-2022 8:48am

I've been in Asia the last 2 months and have lost about 10kg, mainly through lack of cider, eating mostly chicken and vegetables each day and sweating buckets from the heat 🙂

Am hoping the trend will continue while still here, I'd gotten extremely out of shape with the whole lockdown situation and just becoming lazy in general.

Loughc · 10-11-2022 11:10am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119855988#Comment_119855988

Yeah lockdown was the start of my weight pile on. Then baby came along and out went sleep and eating habits and times were all over the place.

Its only now that the little guy is sleeping well I have to prioritise myself for a change.

TRS30 · 11-11-2022 9:30am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119856429#Comment_119856429

That last bit is so important. If you don't look after yourself, you can't look after anyone else.

PeterPan92 · 11-11-2022 11:44am

Back here for my annual "oh ****, I'm fat again" realisation. Gained ~21lbs, and none of my "going out" clothes fit. Time to get this off rapidly before the Christmas nights out.

Loughc · 11-11-2022 11:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119860878#Comment_119860878

All I have been doing is settling My fitness pal app to lose 2lbs a week to give me my calorie allocation and going for a one hour walk a day to help get the weight off.

Between the calories deficit and the walking you could easily lose 2-4lbs a week. Maybe even more the first week if you just gained a lot of water retention.

Jude13 · 14-11-2022 6:08am

I had a weekend of take away and a good amount of booze, not going near a scales.

Loughc has it dialed in. I need to get back on the my fintess pal train. I have my in laws arriving this weekend so its going to be a tough sell the next three weeks.

Loughc · 16-11-2022 10:22am

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Week 6: -3lbs

Week 7: -1lb

Week 8: -2lb

2 weeks to go and -23lbs in total. It is getting harder especially as the working hours get longer! But sticking with it only 2 more weeks left before the wheels will come off and I will end up looking like a wheel myself!

TRS30 · 16-11-2022 1:00pm

Good man. Just think of all those extra minces pies you can have 🤣

Jude13 · 21-11-2022 6:06am

Great work Loughc. I am a spectator now. I can't get back on the wagon and am beating myself up about it. Its going to have to be a post Christmas weight tracker for me.

Loughc · 21-11-2022 8:23am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119900136#Comment_119900136

I’m not going to lie I’ve struggled this week. My last official weigh in is Nov 30th and I am hanging on for it haha

Loughc · 23-11-2022 11:55am

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Week 6: -3lbs

Week 7: -1lb

Week 8: -2lbs

Week 9: -4lbs

27lbs down now in total.

Delighted with the result, can't say I did anything extra to earn the extra 2 lbs loss on last week, but weight loss can come in clumps. One week left to go on the challenge and then I'll have to see what I'll do on the run up to Christmas.

TRS30 · 23-11-2022 1:28pm

Joint biggest loss in week 9!!! Fair play.

Loughc · 30-11-2022 10:35am

Week 1: -4lbs

Week 2: -4lbs

Week 3: -4lbs

Week 4: -2lbs

Week 5: -3lbs

Week 6: -3lbs

Week 7: -1lb

Week 8: -2lbs

Week 9: -4lbs

Week 10: -3lbs

And there it is, my last official weigh in on my ten week program, down 30lbs in total.

Going to have a few treats tonight to celebrate and the little man's birthday is Saturday so will enjoy the celebrations in full with plenty of cake.

Going to try and stay on plan for as much as I can between now and the start of my holidays as I am 3.3lbs to the next stone bracket and would love to get there before my holidays.

DvB · 30-11-2022 10:52am

Incredibly well done.

Super achievement to lose over 2 stone in such a short space of time.

TRS30 · 30-11-2022 12:12pm

Great work @Loughc, enjoy your Christmas.

Jude13 · 08-12-2022 10:49am

Great work @Loughc

For some reason I weighed myself this morning, i havent been dieting and living to the fullest. I have put on just under 8lb in a month. 88kg to 91.5kg. Going to an all inclusive place for a week so thats not going to help. Then Christmas. January is going to be tough.

TRS30 · 08-12-2022 10:51am

I vote to lock this thread till January 😁

Jude13 · 08-12-2022 11:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119970135#Comment_119970135

I throw my substantial weight behind this motion.

DvB · 08-12-2022 12:09pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119970135#Comment_119970135

I concur.

No one who enjoys christmas as much as those who frequent here should feel guilty over some seasonal indulgence.

See ye in January folks!

Loughc · 08-12-2022 12:43pm

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I’m tempted to do this. I won’t be visiting this thread again until January.

Jude13 · 08-12-2022 12:49pm

Don't!!! you're our beacon, and target...

Loughc · 19-01-2023 12:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119938468#Comment_119938468

So I signed up for another one of those 10 week programs and it starts today. Dubious about starting this week as we have a hotel stay this weekend and with COVID and sickness in general hitting us in late Dec/early Jan I feel robbed of some of the Christmas season.

Anyway I'll do what I can this week and see if I can properly get into it next week. I lost 30lbs last time I weighted in yesterday and my Christmas gain was +4 lbs which isn't bad considering the last programe ended 30th Nov.

I am now 25lbs away from my final goal optimum ideal weight so this one will be much harder to achieve.

TRS30 · 19-01-2023 3:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120128423#Comment_120128423

If you lost 30 lbs last time, then 25 this time should be well within your reach (unless I read the above wrong).

Loughc · 19-01-2023 3:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120129753#Comment_120129753

I think the less you have to lose the harder it is to shift it, in particular to the last 10 pounds or so. Or so I hear.

TRS30 · 19-01-2023 3:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120129773#Comment_120129773

I have heard that as well however I think it's because your body adjusts to the new regime. Since you have a taken a break, your body will be 'shocked' again and should help you make the early inroads like last time.

Loughc · 19-01-2023 4:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120129784#Comment_120129784

Certainly will be in shock, did my first hour walk at lunch, thankfully the weather could not have been nicer, lovely blue skies and nice and fresh. Fab walk felt positive throughout.

However with the alarm set for 6am tomorrow I don't think the body will repsond as positively for that walk.

DvB · 19-01-2023 4:29pm

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From experience that is definitely the case. The time I was looking to shift 4 stone the first 3 and a half I lost in less than 4 months, the last half stone took about a year more! And that last half stone was put back on in about 6 months & I've never lost it to this day. Too old now to bother, just want to stay reasonably healthy now.

Mutleyboo · 20-01-2023 11:12am

I'm back on the bandwagon as of Wednesday, the same programme as Loughc. I've done it twce before after my 1st pregnancy and it was amazing.. started again last year and 2 weeks in my dad died so wasn't in the head space, started again and had a health issue which stopped me in my tracks, that's all starting to get controlled so here we go again! All done to the letter so far and in a good head space! I've 45lbs to lose..

Loughc · 25-01-2023 11:17am

Week 0: +4lbs (Christmas Gain)

Week 1: +1.2lb

Not surprised with this result as I was completely off plan from Friday - Monday, had a weekend away and went all out, was badly needed and was booked before re-signing to this 10 week plan. Gain would have been much worse if I didn't get all my walks in and I was fully on plan last Thursday and yesterday. Bank on the horse this week, no takeaways now for the next 9 weeks. Fakeaways only form here out.

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

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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens