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

Loughc · 15-01-2019 9:00am

Another 6.30am workout this morning. The workout was good getting up out of bed was harder!! I was so tempted to roll over and leave it, glad I didn’t now.

CheerLouth · 15-01-2019 10:04am

I have a stinker of a cold

Not sure I'll get my walk in today - I have no energy at all

Loughc · 15-01-2019 10:18am

CheerLouth wrote: »

I have a stinker of a cold Not sure I'll get my walk in today - I have no energy at all

Ah no. You’re best to rest. Your body will need it to fight off the cold.

Jude13 · 15-01-2019 11:15am

I thought that anything above the collarbone you're grand to train, even flat out. Once its chest or down lay up.

DvB · 15-01-2019 1:18pm

I tend to keep my exercise up if I have a headcold, i find it helps clear out the sinuses immensely!

Managed a 1hr 400cal 28.5km cycle last night on the turbotrainer, after a horrible day in work I was amazed I managed to get up on the thing at all as I fell asleep on the train on the way home I was that tired.
Hve the kids GAA training tonight so that'll burn off a few cals as well and will get a run in on wednesday, am back up to managing 10k again so will use that as my basic distance again now.

Managed to not eat junk at all yesterday & expect the same today, hoping now that'll give my head the space it needs to get over my crimbo indulgence, that & having all the junk gone should be a big boost.

Will weigh myself saturday morning & see whats what, just hope work doesnt get in the way of the exercise now as I can see a few late nights on the horizon unfortunately.

CheerLouth · 15-01-2019 2:46pm

I went for my walk in the end. Was a bit shorter than I normally do but was glad to get out in the fresh air and am feeling a bit better for it. Going to tuck into a bowl of homemade minestrone soup now. It's more of a stoup if I'm honest - there's 'ating and drinking in it as the fella would say :P

DvB · 15-01-2019 3:14pm

CheerLouth wrote: »

I went for my walk in the end. Was a bit shorter than I normally do but was glad to get out in the fresh air and am feeling a bit better for it. Going to tuck into a bowl of homemade minestrone soup now. It's more of a stoup if I'm honest - there's 'ating and drinking in it as the fella would say :P

The best kind of soup!!

Jude13 · 16-01-2019 5:10am

So instead of going for a run last night as we had baby prep i ordered a chinese. I also failed with my wait till the end of the month and weight myself this morning, so was 98.7kg on 2 Jan, I am now 98.2kg. So its slowly going the right way.

I didnt got to the gym this am as my car is in for its pre baby service, in case it breaks down on the way to the hospital, there is nothing wrong with the car and I am seriously over thinking this. We did the OH's last week. So gym tonight and possibly a run.

Hope you are all a lot stronger than I am. I need to kill it between now and next wednesday, the due date, as diet will go out the window for a week after the birth.

CheerLouth · 16-01-2019 10:32am

My cold has developed into a sinus infection - trip to the doctor planned for this evening. I've been awake all night with the pain in my face. I'm in foul humour today

miamee · 16-01-2019 11:17am

I ate 4 After Eights Last night

But other than that, I've been having a good week since Monday, LOL. Went to the gym on Monday and will probably go to a class there tonight.

Jude13 · 16-01-2019 11:20am

CheerLouth wrote: »

My cold has developed into a sinus infection - trip to the doctor planned for this evening. I've been awake all night with the pain in my face. I'm in foul humour today

Have you tried whisky/ey or Rum? That's the extent of my medical knowledge.

CheerLouth · 16-01-2019 11:26am

No, I was on my own since Sunday as Mr. CL is in the UK, so didn't want to take anything that might knock me out and I wouldn't hear the kids. They are also dosed. Think the pain in my face is defo a sinus infection unfortunately, so need to get hard drugs for it as otherwise, it will morph into a chest infection sooner or later & then I will end up out of work for a week & my nebuliser will be my new BFF

And we have a Go-Live in two weeks, so can't miss work.

Jude13 · 16-01-2019 11:30am

Don't know much about hard drugs, tried hash as teen and hated it.

Loads of multivits and spicey food to clear the nose. Then some rum.

DvB · 16-01-2019 12:31pm

I weighed myself this morning out of habit whilst half asleep & was pleasantly surprised to see i'm back to just being the 3 pounds over what I was on Dec 21st... I had been 5.5 over so i'm hoping i'm back on track now to get down to my fighting weight for the kids communion in May, though i suspect there may be a few bumps in the road between now & then. If i can get back to 11'7 I'll be happy, especially if I can keep my running (& fitness) levels up.

Jude13 · 16-01-2019 2:14pm

3lbs is 1.4kg, that's good going. I can't get my head around stone and lbs, its like shillings and halfpennys my dad used to talk about.

DvB · 16-01-2019 2:53pm

Jude13 wrote: »

3lbs is 1.4kg, that's good going. I can't get my head around stone and lbs, its like shillings and halfpennys my dad used to talk about.

For everything else I use metric, but for some reason bodyweight I always go back to stones & pounds.

Loughc · 16-01-2019 4:25pm

DvB wrote: »

For everything else I use metric, but for some reason bodyweight I always go back to stones & pounds.

Same. Stones and pounds are yer only man for the weight for me.

Posy · 16-01-2019 7:39pm

I'm the same. Kilos and grams are for measuring sugar and flour, not people! :pac:

mirrorwall14 · 16-01-2019 7:40pm

Me too ðŸ˜‚

OUTDOORLASS · 16-01-2019 8:00pm

Really hoping the people on Op Trans get on well tonight. Takes fair guts to expose yourself to that extent.

Loughc · 16-01-2019 8:41pm

OUTDOORLASS wrote: »

Really hoping the people on Op Trans get on well tonight. Takes fair guts to expose yourself to that extent.

Especially the school teacher! Fair play to her!

Jude13 · 17-01-2019 5:46am

I have always had kilos as weight, we'd get weighed a lot over a season. No idea what I am in stone and lbs, they don't seem to have any logic behind them.

Anywho, I did an evening weights seision after work and really loved it, I was very up for it, I usually am as I have for years hated evening exercise. Maybe it was just a nice change. My car is in for a service so I can't get to the gym in the morning. I jogged 1.5km to the gym and then on the way back I felt so good I took a detour for a 7km jog home.

I was sleeping like a log till 4am until Jude jnr decided to wake the OH and scare the pants off us thinking she was going to make an appearance. So little sleep today. Gym again this pm.

Dalomanakora · 17-01-2019 6:26am

Weighed last night, a small loss again. Hoping to hit 5.5 stone off by my birthday in the beginning of April.

one stone to go til that, and 2 stone 2lbs to my final weight

Loughc · 17-01-2019 9:05am

Right the good. I’m just out of the gym, delighted I went as I worked a 13 hour shift yesterday in work so I didn’t think I’d be able to drag myself out of bed this morning. But I managed it.

And the bad... I got home last night at 9.30pm and ended up getting a chipper. First takeaway of the new year. And it so wasn’t worth it, the chips were completely over cooked

I guess that’ll teach me!!

Hopefully it won’t set me back too much on the scales on Saturday and it’s certainly given me more motivation and determination to do even better!

Jude13 · 17-01-2019 9:28am

Thanks for saying the chipper was bad, I know it wasn't but I appreciate it. I'm sure it will be offset by the gym.

6kg (1sonte) is doable by April, I am trying for 8kg by then. I left a suit at home ages ago when I was 8kg lighter and I want to wear it to a wedding.

DvB · 17-01-2019 9:31am

Ah, you have to be able to have the odd slip, any change in lifestyle to achieve a goal has to be sustainable or you'll reach the goal after a lot of self sacrifice & let it slide again in time as you slip back into old habits.
Allow yourself the odd 'treat' and simply manage it so it literally is a 'treat' and not a 3 times a week occurrence.

Did another 25k, 400 cal burn on the turbo bike last night, its taking me slightly less time (takes c.60 minutes) than it did a week ago but I have to say I prefer the running, getting home late and the dark evenings puts a stop to that though. I used to enjoy running at night but having been involved in a couple of near misses with ignorant fools in cars I stick to daylight running nowadays.

mirrorwall14 · 17-01-2019 10:24am

14 days fully on track. Very happy so far. I feel my energy levels are much higher and I’ve built in about an hours low/med intensity mini workouts. (I’m very conscious of injury as I’ve gone too far too fast in the past and I’m carrying a lot of excess). Slow and steady wins the race this time. Still viewing it as the start of the rest of my life. Not a diet.

Weigh in tonight and still a little nervous though !

CheerLouth · 17-01-2019 10:26am

Weighed in last night and was down another 2.5lbs - so that's 5lbs over the last two weeks (think that's just over 2kg)

Very happy with that. Was also Slimmer of the Week too

Hoping to lose another 2lbs this week to get half a stone off! Also taped OT last night so can't wait to see how they got on!

mirrorwall14 · 17-01-2019 10:36am

CheerLouth wrote: »

Weighed in last night and was down another 2.5lbs - so that's 5lbs over the last two weeks (think that's just over 2kg) Very happy with that. Was also Slimmer of the Week too

Hoping to lose another 2lbs this week to get half a stone off! Also taped OT last night so can't wait to see how they got on!

Oh well done, and on slimmer of the week too!!

Jude13 · 17-01-2019 10:40am

Flipping hell CL, killing it.

DvB · 17-01-2019 11:14am

CheerLouth wrote: »

Weighed in last night and was down another 2.5lbs - so that's 5lbs over the last two weeks (think that's just over 2kg) Very happy with that. Was also Slimmer of the Week too

Hoping to lose another 2lbs this week to get half a stone off! Also taped OT last night so can't wait to see how they got on!

Well done!!!
Keep up the good work!!

Loughc · 17-01-2019 11:31am

CheerLouth wrote: »

Weighed in last night and was down another 2.5lbs - so that's 5lbs over the last two weeks (think that's just over 2kg) Very happy with that. Was also Slimmer of the Week too

Hoping to lose another 2lbs this week to get half a stone off! Also taped OT last night so can't wait to see how they got on!

Savage results! Well done CL

CheerLouth · 17-01-2019 11:46am

Thanks everyone!

Motivation on this thread has kept be going a lot!

DvB · 17-01-2019 11:59am

If we ever have a pre christmas meet up we'll only need to book small room, we'll all be that skinny

Jude13 · 17-01-2019 12:04pm

Ha, has there ever been a meetup. I can imagine people on the bus dressed like a tree like that train pic.

Loughc · 17-01-2019 12:05pm

DvB wrote: »

If we ever have a pre christmas meet up we'll only need to book small room, we'll all be that skinny

Love this

Loughc · 17-01-2019 12:06pm

Jude13 wrote: »

Ha, has there ever been a meetup. I can imagine people on the bus dressed like a tree like that train pic.

None yet Jude. I tried many a years ago but it didn’t really take off. If there ever was an appetite for one I’d definitely attend!

DvB · 17-01-2019 12:34pm

Loughc wrote: »

None yet Jude. I tried many a years ago but it didn’t really take off. If there ever was an appetite for one I’d definitely attend!

I'd defintely go to a Dublin based one, even if it was just a few of us having a few beers/drinks/food or something. Be nice to put faces to names.

Posy · 17-01-2019 3:12pm

We'll organise one this year- we will all be skinny and fabulous, before we start ruining all our good work again.

Loughc · 19-01-2019 11:44am

So had my second weigh in this morning,

Week 1: -2lbs
Week 2: -4lbs

To say I’m delighted is an understatement!!!

This makes all those early gym sessions so worth it!! Grabbing my gym gear now to go again. I’m 2lb away from the next stone category so I’m really pushing for that next week.

Posy · 19-01-2019 12:15pm

Well done!!

kitten_k · 19-01-2019 10:03pm

I never really weigh myself but had my 6 week post op checkup on Monday and they weighed me. I am about half a stone heavier than I was the last time I weighed myself which was probably 1.5 years ago.

Was out food shopping today so I have bought Wheatabix, honey and bananas to bring into work for breakfast. Also bought some things for lunch instead of buying rolls every day and currently have my brown bread baking in the oven.

kitten_k · 19-01-2019 10:04pm

I’d be up for a Dublin meet up, had one the other week with the forums game crew and it was great to put faces to the names.

Loughc · 19-01-2019 10:33pm

kitten_k wrote: »

I’d be up for a Dublin meet up, had one the other week with the forums game crew and it was great to put faces to the names.

That’s it we’re putting it in the diary this year!

kitten_k · 19-01-2019 10:50pm

Bread is done, love the smell

Mam of 4 · 19-01-2019 11:57pm

kitten_k wrote: »

Bread is done, love the smell

That looks scrumptious Kitten K !
Could I be cheeky and ask for the recipe ?

kitten_k · 20-01-2019 12:19am

kitten_k wrote: »

This is a lovely bread made from porridge oats

Mam of 4 - this is the recipe, very easy to make.

Marengo · 20-01-2019 12:24am

Had trouble with chest infections, asthma and throat infections since May 2016, 42 years old.

I went on a diet cutting out red meat, bread, dairy, all sugars in September.

I went from 16st 7ib to 14st, a loss of 2.5 stone in 2 months. Managed to get through Christmas without breaking the diet. Health improving, feel much better.

Best wishes to everyone, for a happy and healthy 2019. And just remember, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER give up

Mam of 4 · 20-01-2019 12:31am

Thank you Kitten , much appreciated !

Jude13 · 20-01-2019 5:19am

Had a bad weekend for the old diet. Went to the gym alright and did an 8km on Thursday (our weekend is Fri Sat). But I ate a load of after eight's, had a pal over for dinner and sat out the back drinking cider, full fry with GF bread the next morning. Hopefully the gym and run prior helped a little.

I also had an active rest day, we had a load of ikea stuff arrive and I had to put it together.

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

"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