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Weekly weigh in - Fridays

LeafyArts said:
Yay, @aylalake we seem to lose similar amounts each week - that is fabulous. Are people beginning to notice your transformation yet?

Have a great week everyone!
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Thank you. One person keeps telling me I am fading away! :)
Because I am mostly in heavy winter woolies and a raincoat it is hard to see past the Michelin person look. (Other brands may or may not be available).

The great reveal shall happen in another month or so when it warms up and I have hopefully lost another few kilos ;)
 
LeafyArts said:
Good afternoon Weight Warriors!

I am a bit late here today, long commute and a busy start to the day. I have lost 1lb this week, which I am happy with.

Sorry about the gain @IanBish that is disappointing for you, I hope that you can lose a decent amount next week to make up for it.
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It is a bit disappointing, but we warrior on. This week's battle may have been lost, but the (inch) war is still very much on.
 
aylalake said:
Thank you. One person keeps telling me I am fading away! :)
Because I am mostly in heavy winter woolies and a raincoat it is hard to see past the Michelin person look. (Other brands may or may not be available).

The great reveal shall happen in another month or so when it warms up and I have hopefully lost another few kilos ;)
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When I was overweight I hated that I looked like I had layers on even when I didn't. Think sausage in a skin.
Now I'm 3 stone lighter I love that I can add layer and layer and layer and still look slim.
Stick with it, it's so worth it!
Ps I'm here because 6 lbs have crept back on
 
MrsA2 said:
When I was overweight I hated that I looked like I had layers on even when I didn't. Think sausage in a skin.
Now I'm 3 stone lighter I love that I can add layer and layer and layer and still look slim.
Stick with it, it's so worth it!
Ps I'm here because 6 lbs have crept back on
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Don't know whether to give you a hug for the (small) gain or a win for a (massive) loss or a like for the nice supportive post.

What I like most about this thread is how supportive everyone is to the wins and losses of others.
 
Commiserations @cdpm hopefully you will be able to knock those pounds off by next week.

Heh, yes I am well bundled up, too, @aylalake - I think my big reveal will be April/May, I still have a fair bit to go yet.

That is so true @MrsA2 - but well done on losing that 3 stone and for keeping an eye on things and working on those 6lbs.
 
I had a really hard week, nearly gave up completely. The hunger and cravings have been so intense.
So I increased my calories, adding in another 250 a day, resigning myself to a minimal weight loss this week. My thinking is that after 9 months of strict dieting, I was maybe deficient in something.

But, surprise - I have lost 2lbs! In 6lbs time, I will have lost 100lbs. It's a goal I am excited to reach.

I can't update my signature, I am on the app until later today.
 
LeafyArts said:
But, surprise - I have lost 2lbs! In 6lbs time, I will have lost 100lbs. It's a goal I am excited to reach.
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Great news, @LeafyArts - that's amazing! I'm not sure how many earth weeks that equates to, but by the end of this month we should send you a card with a big "100" on.

Well, I didn't *feel* like I'd lost anything this week, so I'd resigned myself to that fact. But the scales told me that I'd lost 2lbs, so I'm a couple of pounds away from 16 stone.
 
Fantastic achievement @LeafyArts :D
I must admit I don’t count calories anymore since being on keto so the fat and protein stop me from feeling hungry. I’ve lost 4st but that has taken me 4 years. My leptin response is damaged after years of abuse and is taking it’s time to heal.

I’ve stayed the same this week boo hoo!
Well done to all you losers, stickers and gainers. We’re still committed so give yourself a pat on the back :cool:
 
ravensmitten said:
Down 2lb this week

Including the 11 from last week, that's 13 in total, which means if I lose 2 more I'm back to where I started last year in January as I'd put on 14lb since I let things spiral out of control.
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Rather than off the top of my head, according to my weighing app (happy scale) [which is linked to my health app on the phone which is linked to my scales own app - convoluted chain of applications, I know! but I like the happy scales apps interface and it doesn’t link directly to the scales I have. (I’ve been inputting things manually for a few years and I got a fancy electronic one that does the entries for me now.)]

I’m

Down 13.5lbs in 7 days

25.1lb in 30 days

Seems like a lot to lose quickly, I feel I’m eating loads of real food but def appetite is a lot less than before. I could eat piles of rubbish before but now I’m not interested.

I’m saying I’m losing it quickly, Id put on almost 10 extra stone very quickly in the space of 3 years 2016/2020 (after doing a very low calorie diet to try and keep my weight down) and even gained one more stone recently in one week without doing much at all!

yes all the gain wasn’t out of nowhere and I did like carbs but if I’d have realised they were doing me such a wrong un’ I’d have ditched them for the most part a lot earlier. ah well, live and learn, we are here in the now, not that helpful to look back to do anything other than to help inform the present.
 
Thanks @IanBish - I look forward to that card at the end of Feb, hopefully I will do it by then. How great that your scales gave you a nice surprise, I think because we are so used to the diet after all this time, it seems like we are slacking, when really we are doing all the right things.

Your experience is very helpful to read, @MissMuffett taking our time to heal our messed up bodies is better in the long term and keeping an eye on it consistently is also key. You are an inspiration. A STS is better than a gain.

@ravensmitten You are doing so well! I think quitting the carbs has really helped my appetite too, I used to eat so much and it just made me hungrier and hungrier for more all the time. Now I realise I must have had some insulin resistance going on. I also gained 10st over just a few short years, major life changes and stress, then the whole pandemic worry were the cause (as well as poor eating habits), but at least we are doing something about it now - and as you say, the experience has given us information, which I think, will help us move forward in a much healthier way.
 
LeafyArts said:
Thanks @IanBish - I look forward to that card at the end of Feb, hopefully I will do it by then. How great that your scales gave you a nice surprise, I think because we are so used to the diet after all this time, it seems like we are slacking, when really we are doing all the right things.

Your experience is very helpful to read, @MissMuffett taking our time to heal our messed up bodies is better in the long term and keeping an eye on it consistently is also key. You are an inspiration. A STS is better than a gain.

@ravensmitten You are doing so well! I think quitting the carbs has really helped my appetite too, I used to eat so much and it just made me hungrier and hungrier for more all the time. Now I realise I must have had some insulin resistance going on. I also gained 10st over just a few short years, major life changes and stress, then the whole pandemic worry were the cause (as well as poor eating habits), but at least we are doing something about it now - and as you say, the experience has given us information, which I think, will help us move forward in a much healthier way.
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Think you are right on all points there, non 'slacking', time to heal, etc

In my wholly unfocused, uneducated, under researched AND underfunded (and probably totally nonsense) guess, I reckon something at some point goes out of whack and tips a balance somewhere and because the body tries to even up there's some form a pushback, and of course once that starts there might be a bit of a cycle/spiral/snowball in motion down a snowy mountain kinda thing. and maybe there is this invisible/unknown battle being waged causing that pushback, where you don't know 'the enemy' or even if there is one, or how it acts or reacts or responds to what you are doing. making you an 'easy' adversary.

Like once that whatever it is out of whack a bit, its far easier to pack on weight even if not eating to or in excess.

Knowing what gets it back in whack or towards whack is probably the answer.

maybe, i dunno really, lol

:bag:
 
ravensmitten said:
Think you are right on all points there, non 'slacking', time to heal, etc

In my wholly unfocused, uneducated, under researched AND underfunded (and probably totally nonsense) guess, I reckon something at some point goes out of whack and tips a balance somewhere and because the body tries to even up there's some form a pushback, and of course once that starts there might be a bit of a cycle/spiral/snowball in motion down a snowy mountain kinda thing. and maybe there is this invisible/unknown battle being waged causing that pushback, where you don't know 'the enemy' or even if there is one, or how it acts or reacts or responds to what you are doing. making you an 'easy' adversary.

Like once that whatever it is out of whack a bit, its far easier to pack on weight even if not eating to or in excess.

Knowing what gets it back in whack or towards whack is probably the answer.

maybe, i dunno really, lol

:bag:
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Yeah, that out of whack thing, it is what gets me every time and I don't know the answer, either. I am terrified it will come back and get me again. Maybe it is the whole carbs thing, I intend to stay very low carb for the rest of my life, although I will have to work hard not to let it slide.
Have you read the book "Ultra Processed People"? That has given me a lot of food for thought, there may be something about heavily processed food that is messing with our bodies and brains.
 
Of course I'm making it up as I go along there, and its probably tendencies, genetics, diet, stress, viruses, environmental, interactions of them all, ie. complex pictures. Sometimes do wonder if my more recent ancestors saw a lot of famine etc... though we probably all did at times.

LeafyArts said:
Yeah, that out of whack thing, it is what gets me every time and I don't know the answer, either. I am terrified it will come back and get me again. Maybe it is the whole carbs thing, I intend to stay very low carb for the rest of my life, although I will have to work hard not to let it slide.
Have you read the book "Ultra Processed People"? That has given me a lot of food for thought, there may be something about heavily processed food that is messing with our bodies and brains.
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Yeah, I know that feeling, I lost a lot of weight before and maintained an okay A1c but it crept back up when I kept my finger off the pendulum as it wasnt sustainable/didn't have a plan or strategy in place/hadn't got over a few things.

I haven't read that no, thanks, I will look it up. I can imagine what all the madness we do put into foods probably isn't the best and could interfere with us quite a bit, we are sort of surrounded a bit by a virtual reality which we've built up over the ages really.
 
Not a good week for me - higher than usual FBG, and now 1kg gain. I wish I could figure out why so that I can deal with it.
Apart from 2 little Italian biscuits earlier in the week, nothing else has changed. Oh, several hours of intensive gardening.
 
aylalake said:
Not a good week for me - higher than usual FBG, and now 1kg gain. I wish I could figure out why so that I can deal with it.
Apart from 2 little Italian biscuits earlier in the week, nothing else has changed. Oh, several hours of intensive gardening.
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Yeah, it's really hard to know, dunno about fbgs. Maybe intensive gardening could build muscle or do something involved with that process I guess, I don't profess to know how it all works.

If so I guess this can be why its not always strictly about numbers and its a long game I suppose. Even more difficult is everyone is different.
 
aylalake said:
Not a good week for me - higher than usual FBG, and now 1kg gain. I wish I could figure out why so that I can deal with it.
Apart from 2 little Italian biscuits earlier in the week, nothing else has changed. Oh, several hours of intensive gardening.
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Maybe a bit of inflammation from the gardening or perhaps a virus being fought off on the quiet, any aches or pains? It is so frustrating to gain when you are doing all the right things, but stick with it and it should come off soon.
 
ravensmitten said:
Of course I'm making it up as I go along there, and its probably tendencies, genetics, diet, stress, viruses, environmental, interactions of them all, ie. complex pictures. Sometimes do wonder if my more recent ancestors saw a lot of famine etc... though we probably all did at times.



Yeah, I know that feeling, I lost a lot of weight before and maintained an okay A1c but it crept back up when I kept my finger off the pendulum as it wasnt sustainable/didn't have a plan or strategy in place/hadn't got over a few things.

I haven't read that no, thanks, I will look it up. I can imagine what all the madness we do put into foods probably isn't the best and could interfere with us quite a bit, we are sort of surrounded a bit by a virtual reality which we've built up over the ages really.
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That is a good point about a plan or strategy, that is where I have gone wrong in the past, I think.

Yes, the book is amazing, we are living in quite a strange world in so many ways, much removed from what are bodies are designed for and it is causing a lot of problems for so many people.
 
I'd rather put on a kg of muscle than fat though the scale shows just the numbers so how would I know?!

Although my new fancy scale says it can tell me biometrics, I'm a bit skeptical of a home device being able to tell me with any accuracy anything meaningful, past using existing equations and general estimates in anything past how much I weigh.
 
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