Iād sign up for that.
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To be fair, Intiniki, you can achieve the same result at The Real China in Eastleigh.
Theyāve just been fined Ā£70K for giving 100+ people an opportunity to lose weight very quickly indeed.
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Originally posted by @Bucks
Originally posted by @saintbletch
Gentlepeople of Papsweb, perhaps we could use a third-party website to record some of this stuff and then post a weekly summary here?
Someone mentioned on the NY Revolutionsā thread that they use a Fitbit. I also have one and it really has revolutionised my fitness and general health.
It makes you focus on what you actually do as opposed to what you think you do. The main reason I get off my lardy arse to do stuff is down to my mate Macca who lives in Sao Paulo. He also has a Fitbit and when connected on the site you can cheer or taunt each other.
Anyway, one of the benefits of the Fitbit website is that you can record all of your exercise, calorie intake, etc WHETHER you have a Fitbit device or not.
You can install an app on your phone that lets you record your daily calories. It scans barcodes from the labels on your food and, as long as that food is in the database, it knows the nutritional breakdown - you simply enter the quantities. (Kebabs are not in the database unfortunately).
Iād strongly advocate anyone getting a Fitbit device (or similar) if they have an interest getting and staying fit. I have the Charge HR which monitors heart rate, sleep duration, steps, stair count, etc. If youāre slightly geeky like me, then the graphs and stats you get from it will really turn you on.
If youāre slightly geeky like me, then the graphs, badges and stats you get from it will really turn you on and keep you focused on beating previous bests.
Hereās my last weekly summary (ignore the weight stats as I donāt use them)ā¦
As I say, you donāt need a Fitbit to record details of your exercise and diet, but if you have one it makes it a more automated experience.
If youāre interested in registering and befriending me so I can taunt you about how shit you are in bed, and tell you how youāll never amount to anything with that spare tyre and defeatest attitude, visit the link below and follow the āWhat to try out Fitbit before getting a deviceā linkā¦
Go on, you know you want to!
" slightly geeky"
Well, if you want geeky, look at my stats from a Monday (footy night).
I like the 4.30pm peak as you realise you havenāt done all the the jobs you were meant to do at work and start panicking.
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Actually Fatstuff, Iāve just realised that Iād lent the watch to Mrs Bletch that night.
Bless her.
While I was out, she must have taken the opportunity to go to the gym and exercised vigorously.
She didnāt mention it, though.
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Half an hour on the bog and two pounds shifted already - this is going to be a piece of piss.
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Will use the OP for the summary, but just post your Monday morning weight and I will collate + any good tips./successes - next weigh in is Monday 11th. Those that have not provided a baseline, get your fingers out!
Bletch - fitfuck tool is too compicated and just shows when you are being a lazy feckerā¦ Just tell us your weight now and then the next time. Weekly award will be base on loss as a percentage of baseline.
On the weighing yourself, I find the first few weeks up and down before everything settles, so I normally weigh myself monthly and find that a better way to stay motivated. I might try weekly and see how that fairs.
Oh, what the hell. A bit of public humiliation if I fail might give me the additional motivation to focus on some weight loss 
I used to be able to lose weight at the drop of a hat, but for various reasons piled on weight between my mid 30ās - 40ās and Iāve been Type 2 diabetic for the past 10 years and it is so much harder to lose it since, even though the health benefits are even more obvious. Iām a chunky 5ā4 and have shifted 10 kgās over the past couple of years and sitting at 80kgās right now. Aiming to really crack on now though and shift another 10kg by June when I make my next trip back to the UK.
I have a sedentary life style along with the associated aches and pains of someone closer to 60 than 50, so exercise is not a comfortable experience lol My main exercise is basically golf which I try and fit in 2-3 times a week. I will also aim to do a couple of short but intense 30 minute cycle rides a week, and a few of us in the office have set up a rough and ready gym in the basement which I will endeavour to do another 2-3 times a week. Diet-wise I am already pretty good and do a combination of a 5/2 and LCHF and barely drink alcohol as I suffer the worst hangovers if I have more than 3-4 drinks lol
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84kg. Up 2kg over Xmas!
Target is 80kg which is my ideal race weight.
Itās stubborn middle aged blubber which is proving difficult to shift.
Right then chubsters, I am a svelte 94kg, I have somehow managed to accumulate half a stone over xmas.
Day 1. 30 minute lunchtime session. 1 calf strain after 30 seconds of star jumps. Lol
Persevered with squats, push ups, crunches, planks, and some other bicep and tricep exercises for the rest of the session, but going to have to rethink some of my cardio goals. Hopefully tomorrow mornings golf game wonāt be affected by the calf strain (and any other muscle soreness that appears overnight!)
oh wellā¦ Something is better than nothing
no more updates until next Monday now, but not the start I was hoping for haha
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Aspiration: flat belly before end Jan (fix that everything else follows).
Current weight: 59.5kg
Weight to be 56kg
Methodology: ditch the crisps, chocolate, coke. Revert to fish/chicken + veg diet + stomach crunches and plank x4 per week. No pasta, no wheat.
Donāt worry about: alcohol consumption.
Big watch out: 3.30 Kitkat fix. Solution: buy lots of fruit.
Easy peasy!
Iām currently 15st 7lb ish, havenāt weighed myself since before Christmas so donāt know how true that is now. Those that have seen me will know that at 5ā 9.5", apparently my ideal weight is between 9 and 12 stone, thatās got to be a joke surely??
I normally cycle the 8.5 miles to work 3+ times a week so as soon as I get back on that Iāll be better. I donāt mind not losing weight just want to stay fit, however a not properly mended ruptured achilles has severly curtailed the exercise I can do. The walk from St Marys to The South Western that time was felt for a couple of days after, always in the other leg though.
I will try and cut down the crap I drink and eat however Pub Quiz night and pool nights donāt help, mind you I could switch from beer to red wine!!!
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Well Iāve been contemplating making some lifestyle changes since November last year. Now that a few busy things have calmed down Iām going to get started.
Having played football virtually non-stop from the age of 8 to 27, this seasonās sabbatical hasnāt been kind to my fitness. You wouldnāt look at me and think Iāve put on a lot of weight, but thereās definitely a slight increase. Enough to make me feel a bit uncomfortable and want to stop it in its tracks now. I too think itāll be one of those āIāll know it when I get thereā things - Iāll be fully capable of the exertion I think I am and at full confidence.
I donāt own a set of scales so I have no idea how much I currently weigh. At last check it seems I was 12st 7lbs/80kg, but I suspect weāre looking at a little more now. Overall, for me itās not so much the weight as my fitness and tone. Having always had decent natural stamina I donāt want to lose it. That this should naturally lead me towards a healthier weight suits me.
Iāve done the whole MyFitnessPal thing in the past and it was mildly helpful but eventually became a pain in the arse. What it did do was give me an appreciation of the nutritional info for foods I regularly encounter, meaning that Iām able to make better decisions on the fly. Being truthful I just didnāt give a toss over the final quarter of 2015 and ate/drank whatever and whenever. Although I probably wonāt start logging every single thing Iām eating again I will be cutting down on empty calories as much as possible. Iāve taken 2 weeks off beer to see how that goes. Itās my birthday in a fortnight so I canāt see that staying entirely sober but perhaps Iāll do some more stretches of abstinence after that.
Where I live has a gym onsite, so Iām planning to do 3 one-hour sessions there a week. When I get into a routine of it, getting up earlier before work seems to work for me. A mix-and-match made up of various from 30 mins treadmill (steady pace of 12km/h, but I have been advised in the past that short sprints may be better for football), 30 mins of exercise bike, 2km or 5km of the rowing machine, 15 mins high-intensity on a stepper or cross-trainer etc. It bloody wakes you up! I did my first session of 2016 this morning and felt pretty damn good when I got to work. Brighter and more alert.
My watch seems to automatically track my steps with Google Fit (though Iām not feeding that info to anywhere at the moment), so Iām aiming for 10,000 a day - at least during the week. Iām lucky enough that my commute to work is actually a walk and that contributes about 3,000 per day. May have to start eating lunch at home so that I can double that distance straight away. Would definitely be good to get playing some 5-a-side football to top all of this up as well.
When the weather improves I may lop off one of the gym sessions and start running again. Had a bit of a dodgy knee last Summer but it seems to have cleared up. Thereās a good circuit from mine all the way around the Common that comes in at 6k. Bonus being that my watch can track the distance AND feed music to Bluetooth earphones so I can track it all without carrying extra bulk. I signed up for Strava last year and my profile looks a bit empty at present!
Well, that was cathartic to get off my chest. And I guess Iāve got no excuse not to keep to it nowā¦
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15st - need to lose at least half a stone, a whole one if possible.
Niggling groin strain isnāt helping but after a few walks I have decided that Iād rather feel fitter with a dodgy groin than let the injury heal and feel as fat as a wardrobe that has eaten every other item of furniture in the house.
No doubt the ridiculous and totally misleading body mass index will class me as grossly obese, housebound, and needing to lose four stone.
Boys and Girls - BT, Rally, ant - are you in or out? need just baseline in kg
If I can get myself weighed today then sure thing. If not Iāll just keep tabs on the thread and drop in now and again.
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Iāll wiegh myself tomorrow morning (always in the morning) but I donāt expect to lose a lot.
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Iāve always found Coke aids the weight loss.
And donāt worry about the Kit Kat fix, just get your four fingers from somewhere elseā¦
Jokes!
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