The 2020 Weight Loss Thread!

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Two bouts of Covid has left me with reduced lung function, which translates into getting tired quickly when doing exercise and have a wheeze. I can manage 2 x 20 minute walks with the dogs each day and 45 mins at the beach on Sundays

Pottering about the house and attending to maintenance jobs is fine, but if I have to go up and down the stairs more than 4 times in 10 mins, I need to take it easy for a few mins

The doctor says I should lose "at least" 10kg

Before Covid, I never missed a day's work since I started in 1968 and had a mild bout of flu in about 1975. Retired in 2012 and had a hernia op in 2018

Some inspirational comments on this thread. More needed
 
FINALLY!

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lkpat said:
All you health nuts are going to feel stupid lying in the hospital one day... dying of nothing...
Death is the number one killer today.
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
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Death is inevitable.

At least I will be able to enjoy every moment to the fullest when my time comes.
 
11/11: 120.4kg
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Particularly satisfied with this, as for the last 2 days I've been at an off site workshop, hotel food and corporate hospitality.
 
Start: 106.5 kg (January)
End Jan: 101.6 kg (-4.9 kg)
End Feb: 96.1 kg (-5.5 kg)
End March: 94.2 kg (-1.9 kg)
End April: 92.9 kg (-1.3 kg)
End May: 89.1 kg (-3.8 kg)
End June: 86.2 kg (-2.9 kg)
End July: 84.3 kg (-1.9 kg)
End Aug: 83.3 kg (-1.0 kg)
End Sept: 81.7 kg (-1.6 kg)
End Oct: 79.5 kg (-2.2 kg)
End Nov: 78.7 kg (-0.8 kg)

I thought I was stuck at the 79 kg mark, but this morning there was a sudden dip to 78.7 kg. The lowest I've ever been. I've started with creatine now and doing slightly more weight training which could account for the slowdown in weight loss in "scale weight". Overall pretty happy with where I'm at. Everything is just gravy from now on since my dream goal was 80 kg by the end of the year.
 

The Workout and Fitness Thread

Thanks all - this year has honestly been life changing! Till next year and the many new peeps that we will see this side!!!
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Decided to do a year in review linking to this post 21 Dec 2022. Pretty much the date I decided to get my health in order.

Hard lock down was tough mentally and physically basically just let go and let everything go to poep. When I got back from Serbia in Oct last year was 110kg highest I have ever been. Managed to get that down to 108.2kg in Dec 2022 not much to be honest when I started this journey. Also 187cm to put height weight into perspective.

Biggest push to get healthy was I was 34 at the time and not getting any younger.

Some parts of this year were easier than others (winter cold morning were the worst - but just get up immediately after the alarm goes off). The first month was probably the most difficult from a physical perspective but if you keep it up that just gets better. What helped was getting a personal trainer who understood what I was looking for. I dont need constant monitoring just a check in from time to time and a program that I can follow. I essentially had 2 core programs.

The initial was a full body work out same week that cycled the following for each day of the week:
1. Strength
2. Hypertrophy and musle endurance
3. Power
4. Speed and agility
5. AMRAP

After doing this for about 3 months I started to add pilates into the mix to improve core strength, mobility and flexibility. I thought it would be a joke before joining its anything but. Will def do this in the year to come.

Next program kicked things up a lot which I started about Oct and looked like this. Each week as follows (Pilates is on a Monday and AMRAP is optional - both of these I will keep next year and want to do a full week containing both)

1: Legs, push day, pull day, push day 2, AMRAP
2: Push legs, pull upper body, pull lower body, push upper body, AMRAP
3: Plyometrics, Strength, Hypertrophy, Joint Integrity X 4, AMRAP
4: Legs, push day, pull day, push day 2, AMRAP
5: Push legs, pull upper body, pull lower body, push upper body, AMRAP
6: Plyometrics, Strength, Hypertrophy, Joint Integrity X 4, AMRAP

So what else changed this year.

1. Sleep patterns - from 12/1 am to 7-8am to 9-10pm - 5:30am most days
2. Best mental state I have ever been in, also full of confidence.
3. Best physical state of my life, especially overall health.
4. Down 3-4 belt loops.
5. Went from 110kg to 97.7kg- 12.3kg likely gonna hit goal weight of 94kg - not the goal of all this as fitness was most important for me.


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6. Heart rate went from an average resting HR of 75 to sub 60


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7. Here is a summary of the activities, calories and time spent. I think on the back of this a solid foundation has been laid for next year.


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Thanks all for the support, advice and most importantly motivation.

See you all next year when we will likely welcome a few more people into the thread!

On that note

 
I'm sticking with the pinned thread for now, until it reaches capacity :D


Finally, finally, I have figured out what's been going on for the past while with my weight, as well as how I was able to lose so easily all those years ago. (hint - cheese in excessive quantities is BAD, and walking counts as exercise).
Sinbad said:
11/11: 120.4kg


Particularly satisfied with this, as for the last 2 days I've been at an off site workshop, hotel food and corporate hospitality.
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No cheese in the hotel food! :D



So, checking in this morning at 120.2

This is the lowest I've been since May 2021, and just below where I was when I landed in the uk in March 2021 (I lost a few kilos with the stress of moving, new job, living in airbnbs, separated from wife etc). It rapidly piled back with the heathrow injection
 
AdrianH said:
Weighed 96kg in April.

I finally dropped below 83kg this week.

I haven't weighed little this since probably 2012 or so

Will be cheating on Monday and Tuesday though, first time in months.
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Down to 82kg now (14gk loss), losing about 1kg per 4 weeks.

2kg away from 1st April goal :)
 
Fsk it:
Starting weight this year(7 Jan) is a gross 138.7
Current weight (18 Jan) is a slightly less gross 136.1

Doing:
Kj control, daily weigh ins, and 15 minutes on the rowing machine every day.

Goal:
I was 81kg in 2016 after losing 40kg in the previous insane weight loss journey. So I want to get back there. Almost certain to be a 2 year journey.

Attached: the saddest graph in the world:
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konfab said:
Fsk it:
Starting weight this year(7 Jan) is a gross 138.7
Current weight (18 Jan) is a slightly less gross 136.1

Doing:
Kj control, daily weigh ins, and 15 minutes on the rowing machine every day.

Goal:
I was 81kg in 2016 after losing 40kg in the previous insane weight loss journey. So I want to get back there. Almost certain to be a 2 year journey.

Attached: the saddest graph in the world:
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Consider some kind of slow walk/jog routine and look at running long term.
The brain helps the body to get lighter because you always looking to go faster.

Also stops the dreaded yoyo effect.
 
wise_guy said:
Consider some kind of slow walk/jog routine and look at running long term.
The brain helps the body to get lighter because you always looking to go faster.

Also stops the dreaded yoyo effect.
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I am doing about 20 minutes on the rowing machine every day. Already noticed I am not getting as tired as I used to.

I would love to get back into running tbh. I am waiting for the parkrun to open as I don't really feel like getting mugged.

Also weight update: 134.8
 
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