Hi Everyone
I thought I'd act on Cath's suggestion and start a new Fat Club thread because the initial one's getting so long it's a bit difficult to navigate.
I'm in the doldrums at the moment, eating and drinking a bit much and not really getting out there to run. Weighed myself this morning, 10st5lbs - would realistically like to take it down to 10st. Just stop eating the crisps and drinking the wine - so easy isn't it ?!!!
Young Runner have you thought about support tights ? Grim I know but they look like normal tights nowadays and they will help. Also try and vary your position and try to get a walk in when you can - even if it's only ten yards - it will ease the pressure on your feet.
Unfortunately the reason why you don't feel any hungrier is that although you're standing all day your calorie expenditure isn't hugely different - it's just the strain on your feet... but just think of all those extra pennies you're making...
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And you still have the cutest picture on the forum )
It wasn't the extra potato as such, just the fact I stuffed it when I was already full! A crack in my discipline!! I am sure my trousers are tighter today...
But you're right, start again, onwards and upwards (or should that be downwards?!)
Good luck everyone.
Have a good rest today.
Cheers, V-rap.
Yaay 3lbs down! 10st 2.5lbs now. Not long before I break in to the magic 9s again!!
Last nights run was a bit of a disaster. Was planning gentle 5/6 miler but knee decided to still be sore from half mara. Funnily enough it hurt more going down hill - so I worked myself into a sweat doing hill reps - then went home and soaked in cool bath. Think I'm going to have to lay of running for a whole week - cos I really don't want it to get any worse. Will stick to long walks, cross trainer and possibly even dig out swim suit.
RE: diet clubs - they (seem to be) working for me, and it is all about the motivation. Following their guidelines however they differ all amount to the same thing - changing your eating habits for the better, and encouraging you to make the right food choices. Can't be bad.
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Definitely don't worry - it seems to have done more damge to your motivation than your waistline. Let it go!
Enjoy your day off - hope the weathers as nice where you are.
I've already asked the nice people at RW to give us our own forum but that might take a while.
Sounds like a good idea, it's great this has proved to be so popular.
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Well went out on the new mountain bike last night. Now i have a very sore bum. As i only wore normal running shorts. Firends at work laughed and said get a proper pair of riding shorts.
Going for a swim at lunch time.
Nic
I can sympathise because I got press-ganged into an RPM class a week or so ago and was a touch saddle-sore afterwards. I've got a new bike in the garage (husband won it in a local newspaper competition) and haven't dared try it out yet. My old bike had a nice broad leather saddle. This one looks as if it will cleave me in two vertically if I sit on it.
Enjoy your swim.
Cheers, V-rap.
Make all the difference ;o)
Will
Does anybody know anything about it?
NT
In test-tube conditions, it's said to be capable of persuading a little fat to bind to it and, theoretically, to be able to carry that fat through the gut unchanged. Sounds rather like the (equally overblown) claims made for wheat bran in the F-plan diet.
The bottom line is that there isn't a scrap of evidence that it makes any difference to weight loss in real life. Save your money and buy a whole lobster instead.
Cheers, V-rap.
All the time I've been dieting and going to the gym/running I've always worn long or just below the knee pants and a baggy tee shirt. I know it sounds silly but I felt as if I could hide the fat a bit (silly woman!).
Today I went to the gym in.......ta da....lycra shorts (well not too short, shorts!) and a running vest. Even better, I felt quite good in them. My next goal is to wear one of those crop tops that the beautiful people wear, without a spare tyre hanging down underneath (well I can dream.....)
Not least of all because I had two all day breakfasts yesterday and drank several beers too!
A big fat 0! I just 'weighed in' and haven't lost anything! I thought I had been quite good all week, but looking back I did eat a lot last Friday, so that may have something to do with it. I had an induction at a new gym thismorning though, and on their scales I was 4lb less. I only ate a Special K cereal bar and drank 750mls water in between weighings (and went to the toilet twice!). Do you think that could have made the 4lb difference, or that one set of scales is wrong?
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Don't worry, it's just a difference in the scales/
My gym scales put me at about 2kg heavier than the electronic ones I weigh in on at WW (which is why I prefer the electronic ones!) Don't be too disheartened - you didn't gain anything - which is always good!
I've really tried to stop weighing myself anywhere else now, but the temptation can sometimes be too great!!
I only use my home electronic scales whish also have a fat% calculation using a measurement of resistance to a small electric current. However I use them first thing in the morning and for some reason the fat calc is a little more erratic then.
My gym's scales take nearly 7lbs off my weight - BUT they don't make me thinner!