Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus... - Part 5

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Hello, welcome to the fifth instalment (wow!) of the ‘Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus …’ thread

If you want to read them (but by no means feel obliged!), the previous threads are here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

We’re a very friendly, supportive group, and all at different stages, but we’re all seeing some real changes in ourselves and our attitudes to food. It’s a long old road, but it helps to chat along the way

Collectively, we’ve lost an incredible…......... 1024lbs since the start of the first thread in Dec 16, which is amazing!

We tend to weigh in on Fridays or Saturdays, but feel free to join in at any time, with whatever weight loss method you think works best for you. Some of us have lost more than others, but we're all in this together, so if you're losing, gaining or staying the same, it's nice to have some inspiration to keep going.

We’re always welcoming to newcomers, but as with the previous thread(s), I’ll add one caveat - we’re all here because we are trying to lose a LOT of weight. If you’re looking to lose the last half stone, or even two or three stone, this might not be the thread for you. Good luck with your goals, but you may find more support with in threads with people who have similar goals to you.

Oh that's such a big deal Stripeybum. We flew in February and I was so, so, SO worried about fitting into the plane seats. It takes the shine and excitement away. So to know you fit in the seat, that would be a huge big deal to me. Massive NSV, well done ✈

Maybe try tight leggings honeysucklejasmine. I've only really got excess skin on my boobs. I've lost very little cup size since losing weight, but 12 inches in chest size. But the cups are very much empty 🙈. I have to sort of "fold" my boobs into bras so that the folds don't show. Eek.

My husband (who's list 5.5stone to my 6.5 stone) has much more excess skin. It must be generic. He has numerous folds of skin on his face when he smiles - it's most noticeable on his face. Not fine folds like wrinkles (although he is late 40s!), but rolls of extra skin. We're hoping that his skin elasticity will come in time.

I'm still carrying all of my extra weight on my tummy, everywhere else is pretty slim new. So I don't know if I'll have excess skin there (I suspect I will), because there's still plenty of fat under the skin. Thighs, bkm, aims etc have not been too bad.

I'm a little paranoid about excess skin, not bothered about my tummy as that ship sailed a long time ago due to massive stretch marks from my first pregnancy, but I would hate to have excess under my chin or arms.

I bought aloe Vera gel and hopefully it is working, it is supposed to be the best thing for tightening skin and keeping it hydrated and elastic.

Well done Stripeybum that is a great NSV, agree it’s horrible thinking you won’t fit. I was surprised on Ryanair flight yesterday how much room I had, bit of a revelation and I wish it had been like that on my one and only long haul I’ve done.

Honeysuckle I think you can get so,etching called compression leggings and assumably shorts too, think they would sort that out.

Bloody hot here , 28 already and I am so not a fan of the heat. Advantage of having a teen DS is he sleeps for hours in the morning so we can at least chill. Went to explore local shops yesterday and was delighted to find the linen t shirts I wanted in H and M down to 6 euros each and found a black dress for same price . Was even more delighted to fit the medium (even if they have made the sizes bigger) and appreciated being checked out by rather a hot German guy whilst I was wearing the dress as I went to retrieve breakfast this morning, it’s the small things in life that are sometimes quite pleasing!

You’ll all be proud of me as I arrived yesterday and I haven’t succumbed to the cake. When I used to come with my Mum she’d have us in the airport cafe as soon as we landed and buy massive slabs of cake to takeaway and proceed to get through as much as she could.

Shame about the chat Tractors but you’re right, you can keep plugging away at the weight and then when you do start somewhere new (and you will) they will only know the slimline version of you.

Well done Fate , great milestone to be nearly at. AnotherOtter , that 100lbs really in sight now, glad it was a good week and I think the advice you got about the cyclic nature of things and setbacks is very sensible. Logging my food has made me feel very in control as has my exercise regime. Last summer we kept running whilst away but just too hot here so I’m thinking of not logging this week and show myself I can still be pretty sensible and get back to it afterwards. I know I can but it does make me feel a touch nervous.

NotaNurse so relived to hear you’re feeling better.

Chesty well done on the loss, I think we have so many years of disordered eating behind us to get to the size we were at that really it would be surprising if we didn’t have more difficult episodes .

Well done Breaking, have a lovely holiday- paddle boarding sounds fun!

Fezzes Re loose skin from memory around the 80lbs mark I think, maybe a bit before. I’m finding it seems to vary, last night I did look at one of my thighs and there seemed a bit more than normal- maybe I was a bit dehydrated after heat and travel.

Strawberry i’ve got a wrinkly bit under ny chin now which I call my turkey neck but it isn’t too noticeable and I’m to push 50 so expected it.

Actually I have far more loose skin on my stomach than I realised as have just been forwards near a mirror in hokidaybflat bathroom and had a bit of a shock! My boobs look very sad at that angle too. It is what is is though and the benefits outweigh it by so much more.

Thanks everyone, I’m guessing I’ll have excess skin on my inner thighs, upper arms and the worst on my stomach.

Thighs and stomach no big deal, arms will be noticeable on a sleeveless top and waving my arm about. So all perfectly liveable. It’s a good incentive to keep the exercise up later on to help improve it all and if it doesn’t a reminder to how hard I’ve worked.

Either way I’ll see whenever I get there!

Good attitude Fezzes Was pleased yesterday as DH looked at new T shirt and said he thought next size down might fit a bit better so went back and grabbed a couple in a small, slightly surreal moment.

Hi,

I am still here. Had a busy few weeks but still plodding on.

I find the discipline of logging my food intake really helps.

So far, if I take my weight back in January when I was weighed at the hospital (after a rather scary health issue) I was 157kg (eek!).

Now I am 139kg so that is 18kg off (or 2stn 12 lbs in old money). The best bit is people have started to tell me how much better I look.

I have just started a virtually vegan diet (I am already veggie so it wasn't a huge leap). I have also virtually stopped drinking alcohol. So this can only help.

I am aiming to lose a kg each week so this would mean I could hit my target weight in a year. Not impossible. 1kg a week does not sound a lot but it makes a difference. I am loving the fact that I have gone down a size in jeans and now the new ones are loose. I have also just taken a load of clothes in on the sewing machine!!!

So onward and upward.

Lelly

Well done Lelly! I love taking clothes in on the machine - sense of accomplishment twice over - being able to alter clothes, and cutting off the excess fabric I don't need any more.

I'm in awe of those of you who can alter clothes.... I cannot! I'm living out if Primark so it's only cheap for replacements and can't wait to start buying more expensive clothes again.

Well done lelly, you big loser!

I'm another one in awe of you sew-ers.... I can sew a button back on a shirt, but have been known to use a stapler to fix an errant hem .

Pouring rain here, everything is starting to look far greener, so hopefully things will start growing again soon. I'm doing pretty well this week - a few days of really concentrating has got my head back in the game, so I'm doing all I can to keep it going. Hope the rest of you are having a good week, KOKO!

Well done Lelly and everyone for KOKO

This thread is helping me stay on the straight and narrow.

I've realised I've stopped eating bread, pasta and rice and I feel so much better for it 😁

Checking back in (ex-B1rd). Been away on hols, food wise stepped off the wagon but didn't actually set fire to it Back on track since Tues, which that day was HARD but was already a bit easier again yesterday. Didn't weigh while away so will see what next Monday brings... Off out for the day but packed a picnic so all tasty but healthy. Hope everyone's OK and coping with the disrupted summer routines/return of the hot weather?

I'm having a week of eating at maintenance calories as having another tough week. Keeping up the exercise and have started the 5k to 10k running programme today. Was quite tough to run longer but I seem to have a lot more power in my legs with the extra food. My weight had bounced up a few pounds which it always seems to do when I eat at maintenance. I obviously have very responsive glycogen stores which would explain the easier running too I suppose. My fortieth birthday is looming next month and I am not coping well with the arbitrary change in number. I was hoping to be at my target weight by then but unfortunately the strict dieting (my definition of strict, only about a 500 deficit a day) is just triggering binges in me and I'm still with it enough to say it's not worth it. I keep posting on here about having to be patient and have realistic expectations but I need to walk the walk. Even considering taking the whole of August as maintenance and just aiming to get the binge eating and mood shite back in its box again. But I'm so impatient! I'm having a lot of arguments in my head these days.

Well done getting back on the wagon, MagicKeys/B1rd. Did you enjoy your holiday? No heat wave up here with us for which I am very thankful!

Well done on your progress, Lelly. I would say that 1kg a week is a lot and will probably get harder and harder as you get nearer to your target. There seems to be the occasional poster that keeps up a high rate of loss but the majority complain bitterly that they can't. I kept extrapolating end dates too and I'm not sure it's a helpful thing to do as there as just too many variables to be accurate. Just my 2p, hope I don't sound judgmental as I don't mean to be.

Great NSV with the small, Post.

I wear thick, high waisted leggings to reduce the leg and tummy wobble, honey. The £10 Sainsbury's modal ones have lasted me well. They are fairly generously sized like the supermarkets usually are.

whispers I’m actually thinking of trying out couch to 5k

I’ve figured out the key to me staying on track is exercise.

As it when I exercise it get my mojo up and gets me focused rather than the actual weight loss side.

DVDs are pretty much out the window at the minute with the kids. Clubercise Although fun, I find I get stuck on doing the movements whereas at home I happily keep moving.

So starting the running program may be better at the minute, with the bonus of improving my confidence and pushing myself.

So I may try it out this week or while in holiday.

Not sure why pp was in bold!

Well done to those who are nearly at goal, you're all keeping me inspired.

AnotherOtter your approach sounds very sensible and well done on the running.

Fezz c25k is a great program

Lovely nsv Post, hope you're having a lovely holiday.

Enjoy your picnic Magic

I'm still on holiday and paddle boarding was so much fun, even if I spent the first half just trying to stand up on the thing. Today I'm paying for it though, as I ache all over from the effort of continuously getting back on the board, think my body is telling me I'm not as young as I think I am

Yey, another potential runner! Good for you fezzesarecool, C25K is a fantastic program and is definitely the thing that got me the running bug.

You're absolutely right about confidence and pushing yourself. I'd say the benefits of C25K are equally shared between the health benefits of half an hour cardiovascular exercise, and just as importantly the mental/psychological benefit of succeeding in a challenge and achieving something you never thought you could (in a reasonable time frame too).

In think that psychological benefit of succeeding in a challenge translates to weight loss too - saying to yourself "I can do this, I will do this... I am achieving this!"

I think I run more for this reason than for weight loss. It's amazing to see what my body is capable of!

Stripeybum I stopped eating bread and pasta (I still eat oats every morning though, and occassional rice, so not carb-free more that I only have wholegrain unprocessed carbs) without actually realising and without planning too as well.

I don't miss them at all. In fact now I'm used to filling my dinner and lunch with no carbs, I actually sometimes have so few calories in the day (but never feel hungry) that I feel the need to have protein powder just to up my calories so I can run.

Another very easy low calorie swap I've discovered is quorn. Quorn mince instead of lean mince is massively less calories. And all my children love, love LOVE quorn sausages (even though no one is veggie) - and they are only 60 calories each. I normally aim for a 400-500 dinner, so with 3 or 4 portions of (above ground) vegetables, I could have as many as 6 or 7 sausages for dinner! That's a massive amount of food, I only usually need 3 or 4, making a really low calorie main meal.

Holiday was good thanks AnotherOtter - as much as a child-activity centred break with aaaaaaalll the in-laws can be Although there was a lot more bread and chocolate than normal life, I did manage to get out for a run, so that helped my head massively. Aiming to fit in another run tomorrow, thanks to mum babysitting. Come over to the C25k dark side Fezzes you know you want to! I'm impressed with you doing the next step up Otter. I am sticking at the 30 minutes for now as it's all the time I have - hoping to start to feel a bit stronger and faster. I hope you're adding "very responsive glycogen stores" to your CV!

Picnic was good today and lots of walking - this time last year it would definitely have been me getting moany and flaking out before DC, but today was the other way round, and I had to jolly them along. I didn't really know how to do that, as it always used to be me suggesting a rest first! In fantastic parenting, I bribed them with an ice cream in the end...amazing how they found the energy to skip to the cafe...

What I like about the c25K is that if I enjoy it then later on it can become a family activity.

In my family exercise wasn’t part of our upbringing. As in I didn’t have any exposer to it other that trips to the park, swimming lessons and having a bike. But it wasn’t like, at the weekends let’s go for a swim for fun or although walking distance to the shopping centre let’s take the bikes, IYSWIM.

Already I notice with the kids if I have a exercise dvd in then they join in at some points and they know when it’s mummy’s exercise time that they have to try and not fight.

Also with my baby he absolutely loves when certain ones come on and has been my motivation in some days when I can’t be bother, for me to do it just to make him clap and laugh.

So as part of my long term maintenance plan if Im thinking that if I do a activity such as running, then the kids will be brought up with exercise being a natural part of our routine. So maybe, once the kids are older, a couple of nights a week we all go for a run together and I could teach them use it as a outlet.

Even now with my dip in mojo, I’ve not exercised for almost 2 weeks, but last night I did go to Clubercise. As soon as I started it I remembered how much I actually enjoy doing a physical activity.

So lots of experimenting over the summer while my routines are completely out of whack!

So c25K people, not making excuses but I absolutely can’t try this without my phone. Any recommendations for a exercise band to hold it? If I order once in the next couple of days it’ll be here before holiday.

Also I’m used to doing my 1 mile walks with weights, 2.5 dumbells (each). So I’d love to use this with the programme. Where can I get this weight that straps over my hand? I’ve only seen 1lb which is no good for me and I’m not wanting to use wrist or ankle weights as that’s too dangerous.

And last question, how to you carry you water? Normally during a 60 dvd I drink 1 1/2 litres. Thanks

I've seen them on Amazon Fezzes

I’ll take a look

Also hi to Lego if you’re lurking, hope everything’s ok

I got a running belt bag/pouch about £3.99 off eBay, as I needed to put my keys as well as phone in there.

I don't carry water as it's only 30 mins (but do drink before, and lots after!) I ordered an armband phone thingy from Amazon but couldn't get comfy with it so for now I just hold my phone. I am going to ask for a belt I think for my birthday. I have just bought some cheap wireless earphones though, and am looking forward to giving those a try. Totally agree with you about the bonus of finding something (free!) family can a)join in, and b)start to see as a normal part of everyday life. Good luck! Are you using the NHS ap? I really liked it, and being able to choose the voice of who'll be encouraging you along.

MagicKeysToAsda I haven’t planned that far yet lol

Just figured I want to give it a go and it would fit in nicely in holiday

So will definitely be looking into the app thanks

The loose sort of plan is to give it a go for 3 to 4 weeks so that even if it’s nit my thing, I’m comfortable with my body in public if that makes any sense