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Group weight loss challenge 2017!

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Dusty48 said:
Weight loss Mar 1- April 16 = 11.25lbs
Starting my 3 prong action plan today - diet,weight training,and walking.
Diet: Starting slowly,implementing simple things first,e.g no pastry,biscuits,sugar etc.I need to get my head around an eating plan. I always used Slimming World Green plan in the past to lose weight,but I ate huge amounts of carbs,cutting out fats almost entirely, LCHF stands everything I believed in on its head,so I am wincing at examples of the diet lol.Tomorrow will do a grocery shop,lots of protein and veg,but much less fruit. The nurse told me to cut down from my usual 6-7 pieces of fruit a day to only 3 :(. I am eyeing my overloaded fruit bowl very disconsolately. Will have to step up the veggies instead!
Weight Training: For several years I have been been housebound with numerous health issues,including a stroke and a hysterectomy. Crippled by arthritis I have done no exercise,and I am sure my muscles have completely atrophied.I'm a total weakling who finds it difficult even to get up out of the chair lol.I am going to do some strength exercises 3 times a week,starting extremely slowly. I got weights and even the cast iron dumbell bar alone weighs 1.5 kg,just about the level for my pitiful arm muscles.So I will start with that without weights lol.Only very short session,with basic curls,presses and lateral raises. Ooh,dont I sound like the complete weightlifter,even though that is almost my entire fund of knowledge in the arcane topic.
Walking: My knees were so bad that for the last 3 years I was on two sticks even indoors. I have seen me literally crying with pain just cooking the meals. Now,nearly 5 months after my second knee being replaced,with a very rough and slow recovery I am down to one stick,and have been able to go for short walks for the last week.I am doing 2 15 minute walks 4 days a week,slowly increasing the distance,though the speed is still pitiful,a 40 minute mile. But I am improving,should do better in time.
At least I have got the weights and walking in place,so I need to concentrate on the food. I have 10 weeks to get my HbA1c down from 49 to the normal 45 if I am to keep out of the clutches of the docs.Can but try.
Wish me luck.
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Sending lots of Good luck your way Dusty
WL
 
Excellent, well done, but what's a kilo in old money? :D
 
2 pounds is perfect, if I can lose 2 pounds a week from now till Christmas...best prezzie ever...I'll be 10 stone and very very happy. :D Mind you I'd have to get 4 pounds off this week due to putting on 8 pounds on an Easter bender. 😱
 
Hi people! Had a frustrating week,as my computer got damaged last Tuesday,and I couldnt access anything online,so I was a bit in the dark! I have now got a new keyboard,so its all systems go!
I lost 3lb.!!!
Hopefully now I can get info, might get settled in. I am thinking of joining Slimming World for support.
My first goal is to get my BMI out of the morbidly obese category.I started out 1st March at a BMI of 40,weight 112kg.I started on here for the challenge last week at BMI 38.8,weight 108.2kg.and at the end of my first week my BMI is 37.8,106.7kg - total; loss about a stone old money.🙂.
I wasnt told when I had my hysterctomy over a year ago that the average person puts on 25lbs! EEK! Thats just about spot on .Here's hoping with new knees,leading to more exercise, and a LCHF diet, I can lose that unexpected gain,and control my diabetes.
 
Hiya chums - I am sooooo struggling right now. As you know, for months I have been consistently losing weight, with ease.

Well, no longer, hit the proverbial brick wall.

Must REALLY try harder
 
Dusty48 said:
Hi people! Had a frustrating week,as my computer got damaged last Tuesday,and I couldnt access anything online,so I was a bit in the dark! I have now got a new keyboard,so its all systems go!
I lost 3lb.!!!
Hopefully now I can get info, might get settled in. I am thinking of joining Slimming World for support.
My first goal is to get my BMI out of the morbidly obese category.I started out 1st March at a BMI of 40,weight 112kg.I started on here for the challenge last week at BMI 38.8,weight 108.2kg.and at the end of my first week my BMI is 37.8,106.7kg - total; loss about a stone old money.🙂.
I wasnt told when I had my hysterctomy over a year ago that the average person puts on 25lbs! EEK! Thats just about spot on .Here's hoping with new knees,leading to more exercise, and a LCHF diet, I can lose that unexpected gain,and control my diabetes.
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Well done.
 
Hazel said:
Hiya chums - I am sooooo struggling right now. As you know, for months I have been consistently losing weight, with ease.

Well, no longer, hit the proverbial brick wall.

Must REALLY try harder
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Sorry to hear you are struggling.
Hope you can get through the brick wall soon.
 
Hi folks - well done to all those who have achieved weight losses to date.
Can I join in - I need to lose more weight.
In February 2016 I weighed 11st 7lbs.
I gradually lost weight but around December 2016 my weight plateaued at 9st11lbs - with a total loss of 1st 10lbs.
I've lost 2 or 3 lbs since but then gained it again :( I'm finding it difficult to shed any more weight.
So I'm thinking of joining Slimming World - my DSN at the time of my dx in April last year said she would refer me to SW as it works with Diabetics but i didnt follow her up on this. I wish I had. So all I need to do now is locate the nearest SW group and enrol........*My target weight is 9stone.
Keep up the good work folks and take care.
WL
 
wirralass said:
Hi folks - well done to all those who have achieved weight losses to date.
Can I join in - I need to lose more weight.
In February 2016 I weighed 11st 7lbs.
I gradually lost weight but around December 2016 my weight plateaued at 9st11lbs - with a total loss of 1st 10lbs.
I've lost 2 or 3 lbs since but then gained it again :( I'm finding it difficult to shed any more weight.
So I'm thinking of joining Slimming World - my DSN at the time of my dx in April last year said she would refer me to SW as it works with Diabetics but i didnt follow her up on this. I wish I had. So all I need to do now is locate the nearest SW group and enrol........*My target weight is 9stone.
Keep up the good work folks and take care.
WL
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You need to talk to @Hazel - she has had tremendous success with SW 🙂

It's interesting to see your weight loss - I was also around 11st 7lbs in January 2016, then plateaued at 9st 11lbs for the past 3-4 months! In my case, I don't need to lose any more, so I won't be joining you at SW 😉 Actually, I lost 4 lbs running the half marathon - chiefly, but not entirely, dehydration.
 
Northerner said:
You need to talk to @Hazel - she has had tremendous success with SW 🙂

It's interesting to see your weight loss - I was also around 11st 7lbs in January 2016, then plateaued at 9st 11lbs for the past 3-4 months! In my case, I don't need to lose any more, so I won't be joining you at SW 😉 Actually, I lost 4 lbs running the half marathon - chiefly, but not entirely, dehydration.
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I recognise that the trouble with me is not enough exercise - ok I pedal away on my exercise bike but that isn't sufficient really - the farthest I've walked is 1 mile - 1/2 mile to the local shopping centre - & 1/2 back but not on a regular basis - not including 1hr walking around the shops.

Time wise - the longest I've walked is 2 & 1/2 hours but not briskly - then I suffer with horrendous low back pain & aching the following days 😱

I've had ongoing physio on my back over the years the last sessions being 6 months - was given a personal programme of exercises to follow which if I'm honest I don't practice on a daily basis which I should - so I've a lot of changes to make. I feel stronger now since my op - but admit it's the motivation that's lacking here - and perhaps an aim too (Will have a little think about this).
Not up to running a half marathon Northie - yet - nor even a quarter of a marathon but miracles never ceases to wonder :D ha!
WL x
 
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I've put on this week 2.6lbs to be exact but I was downing them sweet cocktails at my daughters hen do oops.

Back to it now and to get them blood sugars down too

@Hazel have you tried any changes to your exercise as I find if I change that I lose again. It's the keep the brain guessing what your up too sort of thing or so I was told.
 
Well done to those that have had great losses this week. I have lost 2lb this week, which seems to be a pattern lose 2lb, stay the same for a couple of weeks, then lose 2lb. But very slowly the weight is coming off.
 
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