Dear reader,
I asked yesterday for you to join me in a weight loss challenge for 2014. I know, I've said it before, I've done this diet and that diet. I've promised other bloggers I'd join them, they've promised me the same blah, blah, blah.
Written my blog while munching on crisps and writing how I'm going to diet.
Well, no more! I am determined, neigh totally committed to getting rid of this fat.
I would like to lose about 3 stones in total. I'd also like to get fitter too. I'm coming to that age when it all can go a bit Pete Tong. I'm 43 now, things are sagging and loosening!
I am delighted to say that the following bloggers are on board. Some have done brilliantly already. Some want to lose more than others but the best thing is, we are going to do it together.
So Maria, Highlandhearts, Katie Jane, Welsh Poppy and One life three kids, I am totally thrilled.
I can feel a new me coming on. Miss slinky.
I think I'm going to set myself a goal because I achieve things better when I have a target, so I'm going to try to lose 10% of my body weight by the end of January. I reckon I'm 14 stones. (Big man wanted the batteries from the scales for something else) so that's 14 stones multiples by 14 pounds in a stone which makes 196 pounds so 10 per cent is 19.6 pounds. I'm going to round it up to a stone and a half.
Wow that seems a lot in a month and a half. I think I will make it the end of February.
What do you reckon?
If anyone want me not to publish their comments/goals, just say so and I won't.
Let me know if you want to join in.
X
I am not a blogger but would like to join in, may I? I too would like to get rid of 10% of my body weight which in my case would be 17 pounds! I am tad older than you and have noticed that it is not too easy to shed weight as you get older!
ReplyDeleteVC- you're in. The more the merrier. When I was in my twenties I could eat what I liked, now it has come back to bite me. It's so much harder to lose it. My boss is 53, eats well and is really really slim. He runs every day, I think it keeps the metabolism high.
DeleteI did lose between one and two stone around a year ago (did not monitor as we were travelling) and have found I am very slowly starting to return to my old ways. Especially as now I am back to working in an office and sitting for far longer than I have for past 20 months, and also no hubby with me most of the time so I am sneaking in crisps, chocolate etc!! I am currently a large size 14 and would like to be a bit lighter, but mainly to shape up my flabby bits a bit, so really need to make a comittment to exercise rather than cut down too much on the eating. I would like to lose a bit more weight as I have just turned 50, but the most important thing is to STOP the snacking before it gets out of hand again. I wish you all the very best of luck, you are brave indeed to start this just before Christmas! Just do not be too hard on yourself X
ReplyDeleteYou did well. Being in an office is such hard work. Someone always has biscuits, birthday cake etc. I am like a Hoover at work. I may have to do it over a longer period. Man indoors says I'm not being realistic with the time scale. How did you lose it, just eating sensibly?
DeleteHonestly, just cutting back on the junk food, and cutting back on portion sizes, especially meat, but monitoring most other things from breakfast cereal to rice and pasta. Not necessarily cutting down that much, more a case of a maximum amount of grams per portion. I eat around 40g a day porridge now and generally around 100g meat per portion. I try to limit bread and potatoes, and of course the obvious bad things - fats, sugar, salt, chocolate, cakes etc etc.
DeleteI'm aiming at losing 10% of my body weight over a year. It's much more obtainable. Anything extra is a bonus.
ReplyDeleteResearch has it, if you lose 1-2 lbs a week, it stays off.
My biggest obstacle is shift work. Nightshift kill all your good intentions.
Good luck!
Dear 50, you are absolutely right
DeleteWhen I get tired or work through the night I just want to stuff my face! It throws your body all out of sequence. My man thinks I am being too ambitious with my goal. Ill do my best. Thanks for popping in and best of luck x
Can I join in, please? I am the same weight as you - 14 stones exactly - and I'm determined not to go over that horrible weight, indeed the sooner I am 13st-something, I shall be much happier.
ReplyDeleteI was also 43 once . . . . . many, many moons ago and as my exercise gets less, my fat gets more. I'm sure the sensible thing to do is to eat smaller meals and try to increase the exercise, but it's hard, isn't it? The mind knows what to do but the body refuses to do it!
With my sensible head on, I shall try to eat reasonably well & healthily up to and including Christmas, 'cos I don't want to spend Christmas saying, "Just the one potato, please and no gravy/bread/custard/cream/pudding . . " Then when the feasting is done & the family gone, I shall start in earnest. Promise!
So 196 pounds and counting - DOWN!
You're in rambler, great to have you here.
DeleteOh Oh, it all sounds so familiar, snacking, naughty but nice, crisps, night shift, etc. etc. I have made it to my smallest jeans but they are a size bigger than they should be. At 5' 5" I ought and used to be a size 10 at my biggest but I am a size 12 and possibly a little bit more. Over the last 30 years manufacturers have slowly increased their sizes so that a size 12 now measures what used to be a 14. Statistics prove that we are all getting taller and bigger, well I will never grow taller and I sure as hell don't want to grow bigger. All this running on is to say that I want to join in I have no idea what I weigh but will get weighed in the chemist tomorrow and blog it. I can feel the hot flush of shame already.
ReplyDeleteOh Oh, it all sounds so familiar, snacking, naughty but nice, crisps, night shift, etc. etc. I have made it to my smallest jeans but they are a size bigger than they should be. At 5' 5" I ought and used to be a size 10 at my biggest but I am a size 12 and possibly a little bit more. Over the last 30 years manufacturers have slowly increased their sizes so that a size 12 now measures what used to be a 14. Statistics prove that we are all getting taller and bigger, well I will never grow taller and I sure as hell don't want to grow bigger. All this running on is to say that I want to join in I have no idea what I weigh but will get weighed in the chemist tomorrow and blog it. I can feel the hot flush of shame already.
ReplyDeleteHey Pam, it would be great to have you on board. How did you get on with your progress bar. I'm going to add one for my weight loss now.
DeleteI had a set back with some crumbling plaster this morning, The bar will happen tomorrow hopefully.
DeleteHi there - forgive me but this is a test - I am having the b***gerest time posting. If it works I will chime in. Anna
ReplyDeleteGood for you. I am trying hypnosis every night in my iPod. Kne week down and my cravings have subsided, and it puts me to sleep too. Lol
ReplyDeleteAre you going to join me? Oh go on, it would really motivate me and you're a determined person. I need you!
DeleteHallo there. Let me just give this a "test" as I keep losing my comments. Anna
ReplyDeleteOk now it looks like it might be working. I have tried SO many times to comments on some of the lovely blogs out there only to get lost in cyber-space. Can I join in the weight-loss challenge please Miss? I have now hit 75 kg (I live in France - reckon that's about 12 stone) and have gotten WAY WAY too comfortable with it. I would like to lose about 10 kg (I'll have to calculate the conversion rate). The stupid thing is, I live in what I consider to be the most beautiful part of the world (the French alps) and do I take advantage of it by skiing, hiking (do I heck, nor have I done so for MANY years). Anyway, I'm 55 now (newly divorced - yeaaay - and want to get back on track with my weight too now that everything else is going the right way). Oh and by the way, well done on the fags. And don't beat yourself up for the slip. If you were running a marathon and fell at the 15th mile you wouldn't go back to the beginning would you. You would just pick yourself up and keep on going. Lovely blog (which I have just discovered by the way). All the best. Anna
ReplyDeleteThreaders, it works. Hooray. I have shown all your comments just so you know they did work. It's lovely to have to join us and from France too. Thanks for your support about the smoking. Been off now for nearly 2 weeks, cold turkey so well pleased. Of Big man (my other half) would love to be near the mountains. Newly divorced? That's probably the best lump of useless fat you ever lost! Divorced myself-twice!
DeleteOh, I'm so glad it worked and I got to write to you. You know, I just read your comment about cooking oil. You read my mind! I love healthy food and really do eat healthily and like you just thought I was using a "splosh" of olive oil. The heck I was. When I stopped and actually checked how much I was using I think I know where the extra pounds came from. And yes I have been divorced almost 2 years now and it is WONDERFUL. We have peace in the house, my money is my own and life is good. Now about those 10 kg ....... Speak soon. Anna
DeleteHello - please can I join in too? I'm older than you (mid 60's) and have 3 stone to lose. Fed up of being fat and unfit. Fed up of huffing and puffing to put my socks on. Need to get back to eating sensibly and walking the dog more instead of stuffing myself and throwing a ball for the dog (lots of exercise for him and none for me!) I want to feel better and fitter.
ReplyDeleteHave you already started this or is it for after Christmas? I'm so fed up with myself feeling so unhealthy I need to start now, rather than pile more on.
I don't blog but hope you don't mind if I join in too.