Week 1: Lost 4lbs
Total: Lost 4lbs

Comments: Pleased as punch. Walking loads, and am going to up the pace and start jogging again when I’ve shed some more poundage.

Tips: Soup, soup and more soup. And fruit.

Week 1: Lost 2 lbs
Total Lost 2 lbs

Comments: Didn't eat marvellously virtuously, but began the exercise regime again in earnest, after not having been Garyed for a few weeks. After a Boot Camp class yesterday morning, I'm sore in places I didn't even realise had muscles. I guess that's why they call it Boot Camp. So despite being bunched up like a pretzel with arthritis, I'm feeling great. Exercise is actually, erm, fun.

Hopefully I'll see more weight come off next week, as I'll be back in the three-times-a-week zone, with an optional run on Saturdays.

Tips: Nuts are a great snack. Tasty as owt, and much better than a million of the alternatives.

And well done, Drakes!

Feels longer ...

Focus is on alcohol first. No beer (or wine) and 3 games of squash. Diet changes will come in more slowly, but cutting down on bread.

I'm attempting to be dry in January then will follow a friend's advice, take the following off:

- 1 day a week
- 1 week a month
- 1 month a year

As for weight, on one day I had lost 3 pounds but 2 days later I was back to normal!

Week 1: Lost ?lbs
Lost: Lost ?lbs

Comments: Have lost bathroom scales.

Tip: Get bathroom scales. Flippancy aside, I am serious about this. Genuinely, we're scaleless. As mentioned in the original thread I was able to lose just over 3 stones some years ago the bulk of which has stayed off and can confirm that the vast majority of non-medical scales are less than totally accurate. As Drakeygirl says don't let apparently odd readings dent your confidence unduly - especially as time progresses and your rate of loss slows naturally.

Always try and place them on a hard, uncarpeted surface and make sure you measure yourself in the same state as your original weigh in. If you were dressed in jeans and a t-shirt then wear similarly weighted clobber. If you were just out the shower and in the nip, then measure in the nip etc.

Week one: loss 2 pounds
Total: 2 pounds

Now 13 stone 8 lbs, which doesn't sound as heavy as some but I am a short arse. Antibiotics had cut alcohol consumption to nil for two weeks but I did allow myself one glass of wine on Sunday after finishing the tablets on Friday. Knowing that having a drink is likely to make you sick is a big disincentive. It will be a much bigger test of willpower to stay off the booze (or at least cut it right down) now.

I've also been more careful about what (and how much) I eat. Have taken dried fruit (sultanas and prunes) to work to stave off hunger.

...and now I've cried *three* times (yep) at the picture of me elsewhere, I realise that I must properly try and lose weight. I also need to get fit again.

My real problem is laziness (and living alone). Can't be bothered to properly prepare tomorrow's or today's lunch in advance, so I end up picking up a sarnie (and I *hate* most pre-prepared sarnies) and a chocolate bar. Get home late often and sometimes the easiest thing is to make some pasta, or a potato, or fill myself up with bread. I pick and I drink too much. It's really a lifestyle thing for me. I need to motivate myself to plan food better. I do really like food, and actually like cooking.

I'm not sure how much I want to lose - probably two stone over a couple of years - but really I want to feel fitter and just be a bit more toned rather than worrying about pounds and ounces. And, seriously, I want to not cry when I see a photo of myself posted in a public place.

lost 2.2lbs. The 0.2 is important to me - the gym scales I use go to 3 decimal points and when I tried to lose weight before I would become disheartened if one week there was no change so 0.2 is much better than 0.0.
Jo,I sympathise with you as Pasta and potatoes are the things I just cannot give up. Chocolates and crisps are relatively easy, bread less so but potatoes/pasta impossible.
By the way dont beat yourself up about the photo I thought you looked great and you are as funny as hell. Feel sorry for Martin Simmonds as Drakeygirls camera made him look like me apparently.

I got in late (Jan. 5) and no change in weight yet. I have stayed off the alcohol, however, so I have hope for better results in the future!

Week 1 loss: 6 lbs
Total loss: 6 lbs

Comments: A fast start but I always do that. This week was all about diet and nothing about exercise - illness in da house. We're off for a couple of weeks on Saturday so I do need a fast start. I'm hoping the good weeks and the bad will even out. I'll weigh again before we leave on Saturday.

Tip: I'm trying to count calories - indicatively not precisely - and am finding this site very helpful - Myfitnesspal.com. It has a great database of foods and allows a high degree of customisation. Worth a look.

EDIT. See Bob's post above re HealthNut. It doesn't really matter which app/site you use by they do provide some great support.

Week 1 loss: 4lbs
Total: 4lbs

Comments: Happy with that although I'm aware from previous diets that the first week or two tend to be a bit easier, for me anyway. It's keeping things going after that which is usually the problem.

Week 1 Loss:1.4 kilos aka 3.7lbs
Comments
Was expecting more to be honest,been tough,First three days was easy but by thursday i would have fought Mother Teresa for a Kebab.
Can't really start the gym until Saturday due to work.
Keep going everyone and good luck.

Week 1 loss: 0.5 lbs (I've had a haircut)
Total: 0.5 lbs

I've been good in work, eating soup and fruit but have yet to start the exercise regime. Indulged in a few treats at home to clear out the Christmas remnants, specifically chocolate remnants.

Must do better this week!

I started taking my weight a little more seriously a couple of years ago when I was hitting the upper reaches of the recommended BMI on my yearly medical. We also had just got our Wii and so I tried the Wii Fit game. Over the course of six months, I lost 20lbs, dropping from about 180lbs to 160lbs. Over the past year or so I have maintained that weight within +/- a couple of lbs.

I don't believe the Wii FIT was the sole reason, but it certainly helped - personally I think the fact that it does track your weight everyday sub- conscientiously affects your diet etc - I found I tended to stay off snacks etc as I was aware that it would impact tomorrow mornings weight.

Yes, weight does fluctuate on a day to day basis and even within a day (the Wii Body Test claims you can vary by up to 2lbs within a day through water retention hence recommends measuring the same time each day). The key is to average out the daily reading and look at the trend.

I found this website (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html) very good for both tracking and some insight on losing weight (from an Engineer's perspective its easy : calories in - calories used = weight gain / loss). It also applies some fancy averaging to the daily weight so it takes out the daily fluctuations and concentrates on the trend - hence less discouraging when you get a day where it goes up..... and its free (you can also get a free pdf copy of his book which is a good read)

For the record - I'm currently 161.5lb, which is 1.5lb up on my pre Christmas weight - not too bad given the amount of chocolates I ate !.

just for the thread title alone.

Genius!

Note to self: Must buy bathroom scales!

My first week may have been a success, but I have no way to tell yet. The batteries in my last set of scales leaked and killed the electronics, and that was at least ten years ago.
I have relied on my clothes telling me if I've lost weight or not in the past, but I realise that this method might not be enough for this thread...
( "Today my pants told me that my tummy is getting a bit smaller." )
So I'll get to the shops before the next weigh-in.

But I've been good, mostly. Vegetable soups ( top tip: to get creamy thick soup without using cream; put a tin of rinsed beans - cannellini or soy are good - in the soup right before blitzing it with your mixer. That also makes the soup more filling, and very good for you. ), only snacking on nuts and dried fruit from my emergency box, and taking long walks.
But I always do that, so to get more exercise I've come up with the idea to have my own private disco for one twice a week, play all of my favourite disco and funk tunes and dance around like a mad woman for two hours or so.
That won't feel like exercise, I love dancing, and in the privacy of my home with no onlookers and no mirrors nearby I can really jump around in an energetic but very unflattering way that will burn flab properly.
So this is my new plan, I started slowly this weekend with just a half hours worth of flapping about like a dying hippo.
I'll have another go tomorrow, the full hour this time.

TUESDAY EDIT: I've just finished an hours dancing ( with some aerobics moves thrown in when needed ) and I'm absolutely soaked in sweat, time to hit the shower.
I think this is going to work. That's the best time I've ever had working out. I made a fatfighting playlist last night that will be very much used.

But I am on a VLC structured regime which was easy days 1 & 2, hell on days 3 & 4 the miraculously I've not felt hungry since.

4 food packs a day, gallons of water, half a pint of milk (in tea & coffee), not a drop of alcohol. Plenty of support & counselling, I worked out that if I continue to shed weight at this rate I'll have completely disappeared by September (OK, OK I know I won't!).

Just over 4kg in week one.

This week: lost 4 pounds
Total: lost 4 pounds

It's been a horrible week though, I have flu and I'm so poorly. Not eaten in days, can't exercise either, just too woozy.

I've been eating well and exercising lots for about a month now, so I don't know whether my weight loss is flu related or if I'm reaping the rewards of my previous work.

I'm going back to bed now.

As of this morning, the I tipped the scales at 19st 3lbs (well, not so much tipped as pounded flat). This is certainly more than when I weighed myself a week or so ago, although I'm not sure how much by, as I didn't make a note of it at the time. Duh.

Last week was a business trip to the US which is never good from a food and drink point of view. I really do need to get a grip on not eating out of boredom, as well as reigning in the breakfast and lunch time buffets. Still, no more trips until end of Feb, so I'm making a start now.

Found a free app that will run on my iPad called myfitnesspal which seems to to be a combined food diary / calorie counter database and exercise log, akin to what I've used with some success in the past. And seems free as far as I can see. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but a free d*et app, well maybe.

Feeling peckish. Time fof a satsuma.

Lost: 1lb
But trying really, really hard. Salad lunches, brown rice, one biscuit a day. Feeling less bloated. Can't cut down on drinking though.

Lost: 0lb
Total: 0lb

It's more than I deserve, having remained a pig. I'm grateful to have no put any on, and will carry that positivity into week two.

Is what the youngest mini-mondo pointed out too me while pulling on a polo shirt. So I'm on the wagon too. I'll weigh in today and update in the next entry..

What's going: bread, cheese and reducing the booze. No spirits. No nibbles after 8..

My neighbour has been on a no cheese, bread or booze routine over the last few months and has almost evaporated. Incredible..

Glad to have you on board.

Everyone's doing well this week - those that haven't lost anything yet are changing their habits and being really positive.

That's the trick. It doesn't matter who's lost the most. Everyone's body and metabolism are different and react in different ways to changes. The reason for this weekly weigh-in is just to try to help people keep their new healthy habits going.

Ultimately, this is something we want to do for ourselves. It's just we're using eachother as a collective conscience.

And by the end of the first week we'll have lost a pretty impressive bit of weight between us. I'll tot it up on Sunday and stick the total in Monday's Week 2 thread, and do this every week.

Happy shrinking!

I weighed in this morning at 100 kilos which will make it easier to calculate my weight loss as a percentage. Hooray !

Week one: Lost 4 Pounds - I'm taking that with a pinch of salt and we'll see what next week brings.

I've tried [a little bit] and I have eaten a lot less than in the Holiday weeks, so I suppose it's possible that I've lost a little, even the Wii fit says I have improved my BMI, I couldn't find the tape measure I used last week so I used the metal one and it says I've lost 2" off my waist, which is frankly ludicrous!

So, next week will be the real test of my progress. :-)

But well done to everybody! Even if you didn't quite achieve what you would have liked to, we're all trying and that's better than not trying!

My belt did up another extra notch this morning, so I thought I'd weigh myself again (three days after the last weigh-in).

I've lost another three pounds.

That's half a stone lost this week.

AND IT'S ALL THANKS TO THE WONDER OF THE FLU!

Yes, you too can lose half a stone through the natural, easy wonders of a throat so sore you can't bear to eat, and a 103 fever (sweat your weight off the way nature intended!).

Do you want to harness the power of this miracle diet for yourself?
Yes you do!
Then, all you have to do is come round to mine for a lovely flu-filled snog!

...Hello??

...Where's everyone gone???

...Guys? Come back! I'm only kidding!

Seriously, I might have lost half a stone this week, but I look like death warmed up (my fellow mums at the school gate were kind enough to tell me) and I feel like crap.

But, I'm past the worst of the flu now, and hopefully I'll be well enough in the next few days to get back down the gym again.

Onwards and upwards, and to all a good weekend.

Hannah xxx

need to weigh in for Week 1?

Also, remember to hit the scales on Monday morning and post an update in next week's Chubby Checker (Week 2) thread.