WEIGHT LOSS + the challenge

[kickinit]

maybe you should of used this to me it looked like you where serious. and for the fact a lot of people still think this is true.

[dedja]

sorry ...

[Squids]

Maybe Ian is exercising too much and at the wrong intensity.

[Q.]

There is a school of thought that when adipose cells shed fat they refill with water temporarily. Water weighs more than the triglycerides it replaces giving the impression of a weight loss stall. This might explain you losing inches, but not losing weight.

The cells do shed the water, but the cycle can repeat.

[Hazbeen]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

[whufc]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

Great Work!!! Keep It Up!

[Ian]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

well done, hopefully I'll be down 20kg by the time it's 12 months since I was diagnosed

[Psyber]

I've hit May at 98.8Kg - same weight at the end of the last 3 months - I gained a bit during April and just got it down to that again.
I had big plans to exercise more in the last month, but a minor injury, a cold, and a reaction to my final Rabies vaccination, got in the way.
I'll try again this month.

[MW]

cracked 89.4kgs last weekend...lightest I have been in many years. Maybe 15-20 years. about a year ago I was close enough to 100kgs.

[mal]

My progress since the thread opening

109.0 October 2006
118.8 September 2013


Talk is cheap but :
Will try and get down to a picket fence 111.1 by Xmas eve

[MW]

Currently 86.8kgs which for a 6'2" guy, that's about my limit I would think.

[Hazbeen]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

Broke the 100 mark this week.

Am now 99 kg, not bad I think as i'm 194 cm

[tyrone]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

Broke the 100 mark this week.

Am now 99 kg, not bad I think as i'm 194 cm

Impressive. I'm down 13kg this year just by cutting carbs.

[Psyber]

I've hit May at 98.8Kg - same weight at the end of the last 3 months - I gained a bit during April and just got it down to that again.
I had big plans to exercise more in the last month, but a minor injury, a cold, and a reaction to my final Rabies vaccination, got in the way.
I'll try again this month.

Nothing has changed from the above - I think I'm going to have to increase my exercise levels.
However, given my age I'll see a Cardiologist and have a Stress EEG done before I push myself further.

[Ian]

I've lost 20 kgs in a year thanks to a better diet and exercise following being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Gone from 124 to 104 kgs.

Broke the 100 mark this week.

Am now 99 kg, not bad I think as i'm 194 cm

well done, 100 kg has been a massive hurdle for me

I got the shits on and didn't weigh my self for 12 weeks after hovering between 107 and 111 for over 6 months,

Yesterday I jumped back on the scales 1st thing in the morning, I re weighed myself 4 times to make sure the scales weren't buggered, put on a couple of things hat I knew the weight of to check them, all working good and down to 93.7 KG. My lowest weight since I was under 15 playing footy, basketball and living a pretty active life.


The only thing I have changed in that time is I'm eating a cooked breakfast most mornings, diced lean bacon, chilli, mushroom, garlic and some extra hot chilli powder fried up and served in a whole meal wrap.

about 30 kg down in the last 12 months, over 40 in the last 24 months

[Dissident]

This time last week (Monday morning) I started (again) the induction phase of Atkins. I attempted it 3 or 4 years ago and it worked well, then we won a Thursday night social basketball grand final and two pizzas and 12 beers later, Atkins was gone.

I was 107 last week and now I'm 102.5
Second week of induction is now, so should get under 100 soon - I haven't seen that for a while.

Idea for me is to hammer this out as far as I can, and then I have a plan for a "proper long term" diet - and exercise regime. I just need - psychologically - something noticeable to start with.

[Sorry Dude]

Since October last year I have lost 32.6kgs and 12.5 of that has been in the last 5 1/5 weeks on the Shannan Ponton 8 week challenge (I won a spot on this 6 weeks ago). My first goal is to get down to 100kgs (currently 116.1kgs) and then reassess the goals and go from there.

[Dissident]

Awesome work!

[Sorry Dude]

Looks like there is a lot of it being done in this thread.
It has been bloody hard work though. The freedom to be able to run again though has been amazing.

[Dissident]

I guess the trick with weight loss is like anything else you do

Want to enjoy working? Then find a job that interests you. Etc.

Making your life into something you enjoy health-wise seems to be the most important thing. If eating/exercising becomes a chore it's so easy to stop.

Jan - March this year I was walking (fast) 4 or 5 times a week, usually around 6km each time. I t was addicted.

Add to that walking up Anstey's Hill once a week too

Then from April to now, none at all. So I want to get back to it


I went for a 6km walk Saturday early evening with my mate who only a couple of months ago, had a double lung transplant. We used to walk around the shops together at a snails pace because he couldn't talk and walk at the same time without stopping.

Saturday, we walked 6km easily and even ran part of the way