10 stones, 140 lbs, a whole bloody person to lose!! Anyone else?

[10stonestolose]

Age:45
Starting weight: 19st 10lbs on 01/01/17
Goal: 9st 10lbs
Plan: low carb, high fat

Well, it's the biggest I've ever been. Feel horrid, but determined to make this the last year of being a fat person. I''m going to diet the shit out of this mess I'm in! I've see threads to lose 100lbs, but not 140. If anyone else is in the same scary boat and fancies friendly, non-judgmental journey sharing, please say hello and share away.

Shutty I'm so glad it's not just me! I'm trying to have a really good week, get my 3lb off from last week but I just feel like it's such a huge, wobbly mountain to climb and I'm still not seeing any results that it's hard to stay motivated...

Thanks Twenty, I'm keeping everything crossed! Like the sound of your lentils, I have no idea if lentils are low carb or not, off to investigate.

Holy and Shutty, totally with you on the seeming to take forever slog. It does feel like we've been dieting for 14 months not 14 weeks! Dieting is bloody boring, no doubt about that. I just think let's get through today at the moment, the alternative (i.e.:staying fat) terrifies me enough to keep me focused for now, but it is one hell of a long slog (1-2 years for most of us, I'd say). We just have to KOKO and then never let this happen again!

Easter egg has now been bagged up into 25g bags (7sp each) and hidden in the freezer.

Proud of you Fairfax, well done for resisting!

I hear you all - dieting is just boring and a slog and takes too long!

I probably shouldn't say this but I did have a lot of enjoyment getting fat, booze, cakes, pies etc!

But .....I don't want to be fat anymore so for me this is the pain for that enjoyment.

Haha me too wobbly!

Well I tried a Body Balance class (mix of yoga, pilates and tai chi) last night at the gym. It was still pretty hard, mainly because of how heavy I am, but I actually quite enjoyed it. I went for a short run this morning and I've done lots of walking today when I'd have normally used the car. I'm finally starting to feel slightly less stiff, so hopefully the gym will start to feel a little easier soon. It has to eventually, right?

Hope everyone's had a good week along our road to towards losing a whole bloody person. At least a finger or a toes worth, or at the very least an ear

Thank you lotsa and twenty those all sound amazing! Apparently there's roughly 20g of carbs per 100g of lentils. They are high in fibre though. I'm having massive tummy issues and drs have decided to test for coeliacs disease. This stew thing I'm making is about the only thing I can stomach at the moment without massive issues. It will probably turn out to be nothing

Rolling into week 7 - the desire to give up just seems to go on and on...but I am a stubborn cow... well at least for this week.

So currently on holiday and on day 2 there has already been just enough far too much alcohol and cheese....

So not feeling hopeful (and no results til Tuesday morning when I get home!)

Will a least try to be a bit more active though

Narcs, I suffer with IBS type symptoms regularly, so feel for you if it's happening all the time...hopefully the docs will have some answers for you. It makes eating out or at friends/rellies houses really difficult too, is if dieting on its own isn't hard enough!

Duchess enjoy your holiday, you've got to live a little sometimes. With you on the stubbornness, I think about caving and then think there's no way I can give in now.

I was at the gym at 8am to do our 1hr cardio/weights programme. I do feel a bit stronger than I did on some of the machines, but totally shattered now. Going to try to do more walking later on today. Weigh-in tomorrow.

Enjoy the weekend sunshine everyone!

2lb down, which means I'm into the next stone bracket and 1/2 and lb off 25lb.

Starting weight: 20st 9lbs (BMI 49.6)
Current weight: 18st 12.5lbs (45.5)
Goal: 10st 7lbs (BMI 25.3)

Week 1 loss: 1lbs

Week 2: 3lbs

Week 3: 4lbs

Week 4: 1lb

Week 5: 2lb

Week 6: 0.5lb

Week 7: 4.5lb

Week 8: 2lb gain

Week 9: 2.5lb gain

Week 10: 7.5lb

Week 11: 1.5lb

Week 12: 2lb

Week 13: 2lb

Total lost: 24.5lb
Total to lose: 10st 2b
Left to lose: 8st 4.5lb

My First 11 Interim Targets

1. Lose 10% of total I have to lose = 15lb loss (target 19st 8lb) Met Feb 25/ March 18

1. Lose 10% of total body weight = 2st 2lb loss (target 18 st 7lbs)

1. Get into a dress size 18 in most shops

1. Lose 30% of total I have to lose = 3st 1lb loss (17st 8lbs)

1. Get below 40+ the very severely obese class III BMI category = 4st loss (target 16 st 9lbs)

1. Lose 40% of total I have to lose = 4st 1lb loss (16st 8lbs)

1. Lose 20% of total body weight = 4st 2lbs loss (target 16st 7lbs)

1. Return to wedding weight (16 stone)

1. Get into a dress size 16 in most shops

10. Reach the half-way point and lose 50% of total I have to lose (half a bloody person!) = 5st 1lb loss (target 15st 8lbs)

11. Get below the 35-40 the severely obese class II BMI category = 6st 2lbs loss (target 14st 7lbs)

Koko!

Fairfax well done on the 2lb off and I bet being in the 18s feels better?!

Holy just brilliant!

I've just put on £430!

narcs hope you have some answers & you are better soon. . I had issues for years even as a kid and was diagnosed with a loose egg intolerance. So I can't have omelette, scrambled or runny yolk eggs. It's okay as an ingredient in cake luckily!

Ace Fairfax that's great going!

Duchess have a fab holiday . You can always get back on the wagon when you get back to normality

10stones good on you gym at 8am on a Saturday is some commitment! Fingers crossed for a good result tomorrow!

We have had such a lovely day doing the garden, however, I'm such an idiot as I currently look like this (

Fairfax maybe adjust your scalesdid you win on the GN?

Thanks Wobbly, hope the sunburn isn't as bad as you thought last night. Keep moisturising...with aloe if you have it, but anything that doesn't sting will help.

I've lost 2lbs this week...I should be pleased, but after all that exercise, I thought it might be more! The good news is that I've broken through the 3 stone barrier and have now lost 30% of what I have to lose. So that feels good and it's always good to tick another target off.

Stats on their way...

Losing a Whole Bloody Person: My Progress So Far

Starting weight: 19st 10lbs (BMI 43.2)
Weight now: 16st 9lbs (BMI 36.5)
Goal: 9st 10lbs (BMI 21.3)

Week 1 loss: 9lbs
Week 2 loss: 6lbs
Week 3 loss: 1lb
Week 4 loss: 5lbs
Week 5 loss: 2lbs
Week 6 loss: 2lbs
Week 7 loss: 3lbs
Week 8 loss: 1lb
Week 9 loss: 2lbs
Week 10 loss: 3lbs
Week 11 loss: 1lb
Week 12 loss: 4lbs
Week 13 loss: 2lbs
Week 14 loss: 2lbs

Total lost: 3st 1lb
Total to lose: 10st
Left to lose: 6st 13lbs

My First 10 Interim Targets

1. Lose 10% of total I have to lose = 1 stone loss (target 18 st 10 lbs) COMPLETE ON 15/01/17!!!
2. Get below 40+ the very severely obese class III BMI category = 1st 7lbs loss (target 18 st 3 lbs) COMPLETE ON 29/01/17!!!
3. Lose 10% of total body weight and 20% of total I have to lose = 2st loss (target 17 st 10lbs) COMPLETE ON 20/02/17!!!
4. Get into a dress size 18 in most shops COMPLETE ON 26/03/17!!!
5. Lose 30% of total I have to lose = 3st loss (16st 10lbs) COMPLETE ON 09/04/17!!!
6. Get below the 35-40 the severely obese class II BMI category = 3st 11lbs loss (target 15st 13lbs)
7. Lose 20% of total body weight = 3st 13lbs loss (target 15st 11lbs)
8. Lose 40% of total I have to lose = 4st loss (15st 10lbs)
9. Get into a dress size 16 in most shops
10. Reach the half-way point and lose 50% of total I have to lose (half a bloody person!) = 5st loss (target 14st 10lbs)

10stones oh my goodness! Look at you!

I'm starving and in macdonalds...having a Diet Coke

Thanks holy, well it was all going so well....

I've managed 14 bloody weeks without cheating with food and today I attend a very chilled 70th garden party and we're all called out into the garden to sing happy birthday and then given a piece of cake. Choice of blueberry, carrot and chocolate...I plump for blueberry and then have the temerity to have a second bloody slice! Wtf? What's happened to me?! For 14 weeks I've turned down EVERYTHING with sugar in and now I cave! At a 70th! Aargh!!!! May have drank lots of whiite wine too last time I did this I fell completely off the he wagon for a year, please, please help me to stay on it.

Right 10stones listen, you are not off the wagon. You had the tiniest blip but it's done now. Completely over, you are not going to slip back

You are going to stop, right now. This won't turn into a binge - brush your teeth, drink a pint of water, dance like a maniac to one song if you feel yourself slipping. Tomorrow is a new day and you are right back on it

Look at this - *Starting weight: 19st 10lbs (BMI 43.2)
Weight now: 16st 9lbs (BMI 36.5)
Goal: 9st 10lbs (BMI 21.3)

Week 1 loss: 9lbs
Week 2 loss: 6lbs
Week 3 loss: 1lb
Week 4 loss: 5lbs
Week 5 loss: 2lbs
Week 6 loss: 2lbs
Week 7 loss: 3lbs
Week 8 loss: 1lb
Week 9 loss: 2lbs
Week 10 loss: 3lbs
Week 11 loss: 1lb
Week 12 loss: 4lbs
Week 13 loss: 2lbs
Week 14 loss: 2lbs*

That is you. You are kicking ass and it's not going to stop now

Think of 5 reasons you are doing this - your health, to look good in summer clothes? Focus on those

One pothole in the road, don't let it throw you off the whole bloody course, you've done too well for that

Koko, we can do it!

Holy thank you for coming to my rescue! I know what you're saying makes total sense. I just need to stay strong. In car on way home now. I'm tipsy, so I think I need an early night and start afresh tom. I have a 7.15am yoga class to nail. Thanks again x

Oh don't feel bad 10stones this is one little blip. You hit the 3 stones mark this week and have been inspirational!

Fresh start tomorrow & you can carry on KOKOING!

Wobbly and Holy honestly, virtual friends are better than real ones at times like this. Thank you both so much! Home now and pjs on. I think I just need to forget this afternoon ever happened. This thread has literally been a lifesaver over the last 14 weeks. What a lovely group of people we have, I'm so grateful and I'm determined not to let you or myself down. Tomorrow I will be back on it! KOKO indeed!

Morning ladies
10 stone did you hear of carb refeeds while on low carb / high fat diet?
Thank you for your advise on what you eat etc. Still very impressed with all your exercise...

My weight this morning 131.2kg
Staring weight 138.5kg
Week one -2.5kg
Week two -1.2kg
Week three - 3.7kg
Week four +0.1kg

Morning guys!

10stone how you feeling today?

5lb off this week, least that's the 3lb gain from last week gone!

Going to koko, 0.5lb would mean 1.5stone off and 3lb would be into the next stone bracket so that's my aim this week

Well done to everyone, we're doing it guys!