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

Week|Cals|Steps|Water|Drink|Loss|Total
1|1821|10966|8|0|-2.4|-2.4
2|2291|9681|10|3|-2.8|-5.2
3|2219|13250|10|2|-4.2|-9.4

Shocked with the loss this week to be honest. I have made a huge effort with walking and managed to get to the gym last night for the first time in 8 months. I’ll add a column for tracking exercise next week. I can’t remember the last time I dropped weight 3 weeks on a row. Can I make that 4??? :eek: Fri, Sat & Sun weren’t great. Eventually I’ll have to try and reign those in too

I had a tummy bug from Sunday night right through to Thursday and despite not eating much, with two 24 hour fasts, I still managed to gain weight

End of week 13ish and I have barely been on here. Working all hours and its really affecting my mood and ability to train. I finish my 13ish weeks this Thursday with a final weigh in and pictures. On the same day I have to submit massive reports by COB with a not a minute late deadline which we have all been working on for months.

Great to see all the updates, its a real motivator. I still haven't had a quality street or a mince pie.

Week 1: -2.9kg/6.4lbs
Week 2: -0.7kg/1.5lbs
Week 3: -2.1kg/4.6lbs
Week 4: -1.1kg/2.43lbs
Week 5: -0.5kg/1.1lbs
Week 6: - 1.2kg/2.65lbs
Week 7: Holiday I didn't weigh in.
Week 8: -1.7kg/3.75lb (over 2 weeks)
Week 9: -1.9kg/4.19lbs
Week 10: -0.9kg/1.98kg
Week 11: - 1kg/2.2lbs
Week 12: -1.1kg/2.43lbs
Week 13ish: -1.9kg/4.19lbs



Cumulative loss over 13ish weeks: - 17kg/37.48lbs

Great work Jude and good to see you back

kitten_k wrote: »

As I have said on here I am doing SlimmingWorld and even though I can see a difference on the scales and in my clothes I couldn’t really see a difference in the mirror. Anyway went out last night and wore a dress that I hadn’t worn since June 2019 - so I decided to do a side by side and was shocked at the results.

Well done kitten_k - that’s a very noticeable difference and you look great

Looking fab Kitten K x

First off thanks for all the support on this thread its been great. I have come to the end of my journey, somewhat strangely. I set out with a personal trainer to train from 01 Sept to approx 01 Dec to get in shape. I started at 95kg and had a great time training and my goal was to get to 85kg. It went so well I extended my trainer to 10 Dec. My goal was solely to lose weight and we had pics and body composition BMI/fat % each each week and weigh ins every morning. He had mentioned that there were things called 'transformations' where a client has a big photoshoot before and after type thing but usually after 20 odd weeks but he thinks I should do it, he would get a bonus if I did. I was not mad keen on it but he was so I thought he is a good guy and I'll try and help out. He said that, as shown by pics on the wall, to improve the pics people shaved their body hair and got a spray tan, oh how I laughed 'there is no way I am doing that' I would say over and over.

So with my photo's/transformations this Thursday and me eating very little and training like a loon for pics I don't care about but get him a bonus I receive a voice note. He outlines that the pics are for me.. and if I don't shave off my body hair and get the fake tan he would not get a bonus and he could lose his job. I am balancing this training with an insane workload, billing each 30 mins of each day and 7:30am-7pm hours min. So prior to my second last training this am, as I couldn't sleep with my anger at the message I pulled the plug on my training as I am not willing to shave my body and get a fake tan so he can show his boss some pics. I was willing to do the pics without those things but the emotional blackmail was a step too far. I set out my stall from the outset that I would not be shaving or getting fake tan, if he promised his boss more then its on him.

TLDR; trainer was great, then was unprofessional at the end of a great experience.

Week 1: -2.9kg/6.4lbs
Week 2: -0.7kg/1.5lbs
Week 3: -2.1kg/4.6lbs
Week 4: -1.1kg/2.43lbs
Week 5: -0.5kg/1.1lbs
Week 6: - 1.2kg/2.65lbs
Week 7: Holiday I didn't weigh in.
Week 8: -1.7kg/3.75lb (over 2 weeks)
Week 9: -1.9kg/4.19lbs
Week 10: -0.9kg/1.98kg
Week 11: - 1kg/2.2lbs
Week 12: -1.1kg/2.43lbs
Week 13ish: -1.9kg/4.19lbs

Cumulative loss over 13ish weeks: - 18kg/39.68lbs
Start weight 95kg
End weight 77kg

Hope everyone else's journey is going well. See you back here in Jan.

Amazing work Jude. Truly amazing. 40lbs in a week over 2 months is incredible, you can be very proud of yourself for taking that on in conjunction with a heavy workload and in the run up to Christmas. If your anything like me it'll be about maintaining now ( give or tale a few settling back to normal lbs) which means you can enjoy yourself again... and its well earned too!

Top work fella.

Well done Jude, that's some going!!
If you have before photos, you should still do the mini photoshoot at the end, a side by side comparison, just for yourself! I think they're a nice way of seeing how far you've come.

JohnGreenFan wrote: »

Weight Loss so far:
Week 1: -1.4lbs
Week 2: -3.8lbs
Week 3: +0.6lbs
Week 4: - 3.2lbs
Week 5: -0.8lbs
Week 6: -1.8lbs
Week 7: -0.6lbs
Week 8: - 1.2lbs

Back to personal training on thursday and yesterday and it was surpsingl nice to be back - I never thought I'd be the kind of person who looked forward to the gym! Hit one of my personal goals too - I was aiming to improve on my 5k time before Christmas. Previous time was 42ish mins, on Saturday I achieved it in 38:20 so absolutely delighted with that, really really pleased. On track to hit my goals of losing a stone overall before Christmas so it's all going nicely!

Just as an aside on the running, if you're using it to increase fitness & stamina & aid weight loss speed isn't the be all & end all. Rather than run faster, try & run for longer distances over a longer period of time, I went from 5k to half marathons in just under a year but noticed I had hit a plateau in terms of weight loss when sticking to the same distances and speed so started to vary it. I'd do a fast 5k every now & again in between some longer runs of 10-15k to mix it up and that worked a treat. Now I'm not saying start going for 10-15k runs, but try & run for a time period, say 45 mins & build it up to an hour, then try the 5k again in a faster time, that way your body doesn't get used to a pace and stops burning calories at the same rate. Its more fun too, as doing the same runs over & over gets borning after a while.

Well done though & keep up the good work.