Week 1: Lost 3lbs

Total: 3lbs

Comments: My body has obviously heaved a sigh of relief after my festive alcohol and food intake turned me into a Christmas pudding.

And I'm feeling positive. Managed to get in a couple of good swims, and some brisk walking, and made myself some nice healthy soups and stews to keep me filled up.

And I’m really proud of myself for living up to my vow not to drink at Friday’s Massive Mingle. It was just a few days after launching Chubby Checkers, so it was just to early for a night off the new regime. Dodged the cakes, too.

I was a bit concerned I might compensate with lots of cigarettes (I’m a ‘pub’ smoker), but despite joining the regular smokers outside a few times, I didn’t really fancy a cig, so had fag breaks without fags. Which proved pretty conclusively to me how my occasional smoking is linked to drinking beer.

So a fabulous first week. A long way to go, but it’s a good start.

Tips: Organise yourself so you've got healthy things to snack on when you're hungry. And keep a big jug of cold water in the fridge so you can have a glass of that when you feel like grazing - often it's thirst that makes you head there, not actually hunger.

You looked fantastic at the Mingle; positively svelte compared with my lumpen bag of fat. Personally, I've lost nothing, and gained another 2lbs.

This is also my first day in my new job - yay! My office is also next bang door to a Pret - oh dear. On the plus side, I'm cycling there.

Week 1 : Lost 4.8lbs

Total : 4.8lbs

Given how little real effort was involved I'm both pleased and surprised by how much I've lost. The week still included a curry and alcohol so it's not been a huge shock to the system.

Got to try and keep the momentum of going to the gym, and drink more water - my standard state seems to dehydrated.

Big Macca style thumbs up to Drakey for staying off the sauce at the Mingle. Not an easy thing to do in my experience.

Only just started yesterday. I'm only going to weigh monthly or so since this low carb diet is more about waist measurement than actual weight, although they're both important. I'll keep you posted, though.

All starts today for me, following the big weigh in yesterday where I found out that I’d gained 5lb over Xmas and I’m about a stone and a half heavier than my lowest position on last year’s chubby checker.

I've made a small but positive start as I've just had my hair cut, just need to build upon that momentum.

So here goes. From today, I will be taking up the food combining regime that I worked with last year. This is certainly the easiest food control programme I’ve ever experienced. Basically there are two food groups (carbohydrates and proteins) that need to be kept separated at any one meal time.

This means that you could have egg and bacon for breakfast but no bread (following the principles of the low carb diets). A few hours later however you can have a meal based upon rice, potatoes or bread as long as it doesn’t contain one of the protein foods.

Both food groups can be combined at any time with anything from the neutral menu (eg salads and vegetables).This gives plenty of flexibility and makes it easy to eat out as long as you know which group is which!

I was going to try the three day detox kick start programme but I’ll see how I get on without it. Can’t be doing with three days’ worth of string beans!

I’ll be off the demon drink for a period (about a month) and then we will see. I already started easing back into the walking last week and so I guess I’m good to go.

I’m in this for the long haul and so won’t go mad!

Week 1 : 2lb
Year : 2lb

I also lost five pounds over the December/Christmas period, and since I started all this in September I am down 33 lb - 2 stones and 5lb. I am swelling up but only with pride (sorry, cringeworthy joke).

I have cut right back on carbohydrates.

lost a kilo. 2.2lb ,
probably just water as all the books say.
Back at work today so probably less time to snack but less time for gym.
Great advice at the end there,Drakeygirl.

Oh dear... Started off quite well, and I've lost just under a kilo (about two pounds in old money). However, when walking to the gym on Friday, I twisted my ankle when I stumbled into a pothole in the road. It was dark, I hadn't woken up properly, I was entirely sober etc, but I'm now off the whole exercise bizzo for a week or so and get to wear a rather fetching blue sock-like support thingy on my foot while I limp around. Bugger. Possible moral: getting fit can be bad for your health.

I have, however, purchased a rice cooker and an omelette maker, so the good eating should continue. It's not like I'll be going out much. Pooie. However, the time at home will allow for planning and writing up interesting charts, which seems to be essential for success. The planning, that is - the charts are optional.

For any Word Birds who are thinking of taking up cycling, I offer the following advice from 1895 to assist them with their endeavours:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bic...

I hope to be back on my own velocipede by the end of the week, fingers and toes crossed.

As I had last week away from the office, the holiday spirit was still in the house.

Lost 4lbs

After years of doing this I know how my body works - good lump of weight in wk 1 and then a brick wall. Still, quite pleased. Did one gym session (30 mins on the bike, 10k distance - shattered)and that should get me back into the routine of going. Mrs B does Weightwatchers (has lost over 4 stone in last 2 years) so I just let her do the meals and points and I eat what she eats. At work I'm really careful (I work in the food business!!!!) and try and drink loads of water as well. Over the last 2 years we have cut out alcohol before a work-day (partly weight and partly because I am on the road at 6.30am and do 750 miles a week just to get to the office. A drink-drive ban would cost me my job.) and that has helped greatly. Trouble is I tend to really go for it on Friday & Saturday drink-wise so I've got to curb that. As I said last week, I've tried loads of diets and fads but the answer comes down to 4 words. Eat Less, Move More.

Week one - 5lbs
Total - 5lbs

It always begins like this though, doesn't it? Still I had some cakes over the weekend, but the rule for 2012 is that any cakes etc I want, I have to make. Got one run in, had to do to Dublin for the weekend so that stalled any more runs.

I'd be interested to know what people have for breakfast. Still stuck on cereal, there must be a better way.

ain't nuthin' but a number for me as I will be stripping fat and adding muscle so no loss in weight and there probably won't be any.

However, the fat is coming off and the body shape is changing for the better. A good first week.

Off the booze since Saturday and no intentions to touch a drop until the Liverpool mingle on 27th Jan.

...nothing to report!

It was all going well until the weekend; then we had to go and sort out my wife's aunt's house. After a long day, we had takeaway and too much wine - Strike 1. Then on Sunday we did some sorting of the photos. jewellery, etc and then went out to eat - Strike 2. And - of course - I drank rather too much - Strike 3!

So a promising start came to nothing - still, I'm used to that as a Scot. So:

Loss This Week: 0 lbs

Total Loss: 0 lbs

Ho hum. Still...

(Yazz: The Only Way Is Up)

Lost about 1 and a half pounds. Have been languishing at home with nasty virus so unable to burn any calories off, but have watching what I eat, mostly, although have been doing mouselike comfort-nibbling little bits of dark kitkat.

..weigh myself last week, but have been a "little bit good" as my friend's daughter says.

Will start proper this week. Well done everyone who has started and good luck to those who are starting now.

The festive season was mostly spent at home, or strolling along the road to see relatives, with occasional joyful visits to the supermarket to re-stock.

However, a slow stroll around Bellahouston Park reminded me that I had run round the park in October, but my enthusiasm for running had been dimmed by adverse travel followed by adverse weather. Must do better.

I have started the week with porage (I add a handful of raisins before cooking, that keeps me going till lunchtime) and I have made my own lunch for work today. I've already had my 5 a day today! If I can keep that up, and get a bit of exercise, all will improve, at a sensible pace.

The other thing is the drink. I can manage fine without one - I was at a friend's 55th birthday part on Saturday and I had to drive. No problem at all being in a pub full of some of my oldest friends as they got fu'. But I've got used to a wee glass of wine or a beer on a regular basis.

So I will do the same thing I did before - I will keep a food diary. No, of course I'm not going to publish it! But I found that keeping a diary of all I ate and all I drank was a useful preventative.

And that Fruit & Nut Toblerone can wait until February at the earliest.

All best wishes to everyone for this!

Lost: I don't know

Total: I don't know.

Being a juvenile scaredy cat for some as yet unfathomed reason and haven't yet dared to stand on the scales.

I don't know why. All my clothes still fit. My belt notches at the same place. I know I've gained since my last concerted attempt to measure myself mid-year last year, but not any catastrophic amount.

I have, though, played the game since the new year. No booze and I've let the dwindling amount of cake and sweeties in the house go relatively untouched. I've also been pounding up and down the hill to the station and back as part of my daily commute - and climbing the four flights of stairs to my desk here in the morning.

Have also fired up a beginners Yoga DVD I was given last year. A yoga regime does not necessarily aid a weight loss plan but at my age some return to suppleness would be a bonus. The American lass on it is quite naturally as fit as a butchers dog so it's a pleasure to watch. Although Mrs B did point out very early on that for it to work you have to join in with her. D'oh!

Off the booze, ( for now ) , no more cheeses, no more cakes, more salads and soups and more exercise.
Now I´m off to attack the overgrown jungle outside with a hoe, a rake and the ipod

I have spent most of the last week some hundreds of miles from my bathroom scales. Will set The Line tonight.

Nothing.....

I only started post-mingle. This is the first time in my LIFE I've tried this.....
Got up this morning at 5.30. Had Alpen. Went for a swim before work and weighed myself for the first time in nearly a decade afterwards. Bloody hell...isn't that what quarterbacks weigh?
So, it would be fair to say that I have quite a mountain to climb/burn off. No booze til the next mingle - and, my greatest enemy-late night snacking - will, I hope, get its first bloody nose tonight. We'll take it from there....

My target is to lose three stone in 2012

Oh Lordy, this ain't gonna be easy..............

My office is located 20 paces from the finest salt beef emporium in the West End. This is really going to bugger things up.

We can all get into some good habits together.
I would encourage you all to cultivate and nourish any other non-fattening vices you may have, just to even things up a bit.

If I lost anything but got weighed Sunday for the first time since 2010. At 11 st 13 lb and five foot five I am two stone over what I'd like to be. I guess I lost a little last week but only started counting from yesterday. I have cut down on booze, adopted slimming world principles (I've lost a couple of stone using this method a couple of times but then put it back on). I have been cycling for 30 minutes Sat Sun and today. So simple plan drink less eat better do more. Also bought a new acoustic guitar so when I crave I head for the study and practice to distract me. Once the craving goes I am back on track. Target to get under 11 stone by end March.

Well, not really but you get the gist.

Week 1: lost 4lbs

Total: 4lbs

I cycled into work today (10 miles each way). If I can do that at least twice a week, I should get some results...

week 1 lost 2lbs

total 2lbs

slightly disapointed, as i thought it would have been more than that.
must have been that remaining mince pie, i downed last thursday.
as from tonight, mrs P and i have relinquished our glass of wine with our meal and had a nice sugar-free cuppa instead.
let us see what week 2 brings..

tomorrow (I really am!). I think that I've finally (hopefully) shaken off the cough and cold that's been with me since start of December, so I'm going to the gym tomorrow. I'll weigh myself there, post it here and then check back in next week. Not looking forward to those weighing scales though!

Lost: 0,6 Kg

A slow start, but a celebration this weekend saw me eating a little more than I intended...
Still, I'm slowly getting back to the good habits that I lost touch with for a while.
Like bringing my own lunch (well, dinner in my case) to work, eating mostly vegetarian and taking a long walk almost every night on my way home from work.
And winter has finally arrived, so the cold and the snow will help me when it comes to taking walks instead of the bus (I love cold weather, the colder the better, and taking long walks in the cold air feels so good - while I'm doing it and afterwards, it fills me with such energy).
As always my problem isn't so much what to eat, but how much...I need to get strict about my portion control!

At least I haven't gained everything back that I lost last year! I gained a couple of kilos but never let it get out of control.
But this time around I need to come up with things to keep me interested in the long run, so I don't get bored and stop trying before I've reached my target, like I did last time.
Probably best achieved through changing exercise methods regularly.

Week one - down 4lbs.

Started at 15 stone so it's fair to say I had it to lose.

Off the drink for January so that's a help.

Need to step up the exercise though.

I've been shifting boxes all week, and running around. haven't felt the need to comfort eat recently, thank god. Hope I've managed to knock it on the head again.

As a result of the running around, my excess christmas poundage appears to have come off again. Yaaaay.

Had the ego boost of going to a family party today... Saw lots of relatives that I hadn't seen in ages. Got lots of compliments on the amount of weight I'd lost, which was very pleasing.

Still refusing to weigh myself, though, as I think I'm heavier than I was in the summer, and I'll just get despondent. But, over all, I'm pretty happy. Even feeling vaguely foxy. Woooo.