[Closed] Christmas Chub Club.....

Well done for taking it on. Looking to maintain progress to date rather than loose more, hoping the weekly weigh in will keep me on the straight & narrow.

Mmm, in view more only for me, working ok for you others?

I've changed the editing permissions to allow anyone to click and edit the link, try adding a random number and close the spreadsheet, when you go back in it should be recorded now.

That's got it, thanks mate.

Added. Put a bit on over the year thanks to lockdown and no longer doing a physical job, will be unemployed soon so need some motivation to keep the weight loss going. Already down 5kg from my peak of 86 so doing that again would be the target!

Will be interesting to see if I can drop weight more easily once retired or whether I end up spending more time baking...

Dieting is not a hobby.
The best way to be a healthy weight is to stop obsessing about food and weight gain.
I think about food three times a day, breakfast, dinner and tea.
Willpower and motivation are false grails.
It is that simple, people prefer complicated because it allows them to make excuses.

First weigh in tomorrow chubsters!

I'm in. I've over indulged on holiday but my wife has put on about 5kg during lockdown so I was going to be starting a sympathy diet with her next week. I found Chub Club great motivation for me losing (and keeping off) around 15kg 3 years ago.

Apart from lockdown, quite a lot of traumatic things have happened again here. I'd pretty much given up on everything and I've piled on the weight. Comfort eating is not a good friend. But I'll give it another shot now things have started to calm down a bit again and see how it goes. Not looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in though 😬

Stick me down on it please. On a non Google Huawei

You're on there now PePPeR. Tomorrows weigh in may not be great, but it's the baseline to start from and things and only improve (hopefully!).

Would it be wrong to have one last takeaway tonight? Partly to stop me wanting one tomorrow but also it could fudge the result as it'll artificially up the starting weight!

*gnu* comfort eating is better than drinking, smoking or the bottle or pills tho! I am grateful to crisps and toast for getting me through the loss of both parents within a few months and ...the help just came with a spare tyre I guess.

Doing it in kg helped me not fret too much about the actual starting numbers.

Thanks coconut. Love the inclusion of Santa. (Or Father Christmas, if you prefer).

Thanks very much for taking it on, will endeavour to not fail monumentally like usual !

It all starts today folks! I'm starting at 86.9kg, target to lose 2kg by Christmas. Good luck all.

Comfort eating here too. Not looking forward to the weigh in when I eventually crawl out of my pit.

88.9KG so not as bad as I feared.

87.2 here, dropped 9.5kg so far this year is ok, another 2kg would be great.

75.2 here, the most I've been for about eighteen months.

81.0 to start. Gives me exactly 6kg to lose. 0.5kg/week seems doable.

125.6kg start weight, do I win?
Put in a target of 120kg hoping that's doable, but some more would be nice. Can't remember what I was in January in the original chub club so not sure how much I've gained this year.

good work... imagine how ripped we will all look on christmas day 😉

125.6kg start weight, do I win?

... nah you can only lose in this game..

Right I’m back in. Had a bit of an easy August with holidays etc but been back on it in Sep.

Need to push through to Christmas so can have a guilt free festive period!

Just noticed this thread so I'm going to jump in. I've lost 10kg since last Christmas but I've been stuck at the same weight since mid August. I've been exercising more than I have ever done in the past but just can't seem to shift the next 5kg that I'd love to lose! Any tips welcome.

86.3kg today, small loss of 0.6kgs... I think that's mainly due to me not drinking alcohol (7 weeks now).

How's everyone doing ?... remember it's early days and from previous Chub Club it's not always a weekly loss!

87.6KG, so 1.3KG lost this week. I'm struggling to get back onto Keto because of the cupboards are still full of crap and the stress of the upcoming funeral is getting to me.

Going to jump on as well. Was 92kg at the start of lockdown. Slowly losing weight which is a surprise really. Down to 88kg but seem stuck around this weight. Although lost a little more this weigh in. Not going to obsess it though.

Jumped in a week late, new to the party also as not done it before but in it to make myself a bit more accountable. Lost 5kg last summer and slowly put it back on since so hoping to kickstart it again.

Ah, missed this. I'll add mine in now. Q3 worked out OK for me, I had a target of 18lb which I missed but still managed a 13lb loss. Time to see if I can do better than a turkey before Xmas!

I hope you don't mind me joining. After a year off alcohol and a fair bit of exercise, I smashed my shoulder up last October and went back to the booze at New Year, then 2020 happened and I've worked more, been more stressed, drunk too much and exercised way too little... so this comes at _just_ the right time!

79.9kg so a 1.1kg loss for the first week! Presuming it's a big drop due to me having a pre-binge before the first weigh-in so it's skewing the figure slightly, still in the right direction though.

All are welcome, it's not too late if you still want to join - Insert a row and complete details.

1.5kg in the first week but I have extremely inconsistent scales so we’ll see if it stays off!

Just had a fantastic indian curry (delivered) with all the trimmings washed down with a couple of pints. Mmmmmmmm.

I just had a dirty Domino's, can feel the weight piling on already!

Can you add me please, I was in it for the third quarter of 2020.

Since I (successfully) completed my first (and 99% sure my last) Cairngorm Loop 300 I have let it all go. Just eating excessive crap and not doing any structured training, just riding my bike once or twice a week with no real drive or purpose.

I want to push on with my fitness over the winter but not give in to my normal routine of eating mince pies daily from early November. And Port! With cheese after an evening meal, yes please! Need to moderate as I'm no longer able to eat what I want with it taking no effect on my waistline.

I find I lose weight in approx. 1kg steps rather than gradually. I can sit at a weight for a good few weeks despite exercising more and eating less. Then the next time I weigh my self I can be 1kg or even 1.5kg lighter.

I think the worst thing that effect my weight is alcohol closely followed by sugary foods.

Cut out the snacks between meals and try to be active for at least an hour a day and you should lose weight* It can just take a while.

* As long as your meals aren't all kebabs, cans of coke and pints of lager.

I've added myself (and sorted the blue/white alternate colours, as everyone loves a pretty spreadsheet), sorry I didn't realise I could add myself.

I've set myself a modest 1kg weight loss by Christmas but if I manage to maintain my current 75kg then I think that would be an achievement in itself.

I've just joined, line 62. However, when I change my target weight the formula doesn't seem to update my weekly reduction. I tried one of the blank users up top and it worked with different figures, and formula looks to be the same format...!

I’ve joined and made a rush decision yesterday on the way I am tackling (or not) weight issues.

Of course it’s simple as kindly mentioned a few posts or so up. Still, not the thread to go into it that deeply, I’ll see at Christmas if my latest effort has worked 😎

Just worked out the formula went out of sync and was reporting average weekly reduction for the line above each user from about line 58. i.e. twonks weekly reduction was based on my weights, and so on. So values have changed (correctly) for the last few people.

Not sure what went on with my weight in week one- big 2.5kg drop seemed a bit unrealistic to me, I must have weighed myself after eating for the first weigh in.

Anyway, a sensible 0.5kg drop this week. It's bloody good outside though, I'm wondering if now is the time to lose insulation!

Slight gain up to 80.2kgs this week, must have been all the cake and sweets being handed out at work. Must make a concerted effort this next week to make up for it.

All formular are correct. "FB_ATB" your target weight is higher than your starting weight, is your plan to join Chub Club and put on weight 😉 May be he's correct and we all have this wrong!

Slight increase this week. Must be the crisps. 🙁

The 70kg was my target for the end of Sep, so want to maintain that level now I’ve got there.

Weight on the up a bit again this week. Not too worried as I seem to have got my exercise mojo back, just need to stay off the the booze (as I finish off a bit I bottle of red).

Enjoying my cycling, the gym, swimming and walking. Need to - finally - get my running shoes on.

Friday bump

Stagnated at 86kg this week 🙁

How's everyone else getting on ?

Probably stagnant or up but I leave it until Sunday morning for my "official" reading, best of Fri/Sat/sun weighins 🙂
After next week I'll have a lot more spare time which hopefully will mitigate the effects of my OH's ice-cream / bread making and my inability, in the main, to resist the delicious results.

Thanks to things getting a bit stressful I've been eating quite a few snacks and not getting out on the bike as much as I should so my weight this week is the same as I was at the beginning! Lost a kilo in week 1 and have now put it all back on. Must be more disciplined from now on.

Down only 200g here, but given I'm also doing the 100 Day Challenge I'm a lot leaner and have been eating a lot just to keep myself fuelled.

In real money I'm down another pound to 11st4 which is getting there.

Up at 88.9KG this week, I'm really struggling to kick the comfort eating and get back on the Keto. Weights session on Monday went well but Tuesday's Hill Intervals on the treadmill had me blowing out of my arse at 5KM and binning it. As a consequence of the ultra-low carb intake for a couple of days I had absolutely no energy on Wednesday so the HIIT session didn't happen and I couldn't summon up the arsed for Thursday's Hill Intervals either. At least the dog got a good long walk instead. Weights today, hopefully it won't be a day of failures...

Forgot last week's weigh in, was dealing with more stuff here. Down 0.7kg on 2 weeks ago which is a step in the right direction I guess. Haven't done anything at all differently though. Once I manage to motivate myself to start doing something it should help, but that's the difficult part for me unfortunately.

Similar story, very busy at work and just gobbling down what is to hand...so happy just to see a tiny decrease!

up 0.4kg this week....grrrr....

I'm tracking you @coconut!

Same as last week, no gain but no loss either. Must try to motivate myself and make a conscious effort this week to get a decent loss for next week's weigh in

Up almost a kilo this week. 🙁 Must cut back on the bread.

1.5KG up this week. Still haven’t stopped comfort eating. I really need to man the **** up and give myself a bloody good talking to..

80.4kg today so 0.6 lost since last week. Still haven't got back to my lowest so far but I'm determined to keep getting out on the bike and really cut down on the cheeky snacks. Being in lockdown really isn't helping as it's far too easy to go for a quick walk and end up getting a fizzy drink and a chocolate bar on the way back!

86kg for me today. We're rally up against it this time with a lock down. Time to up the ante.

83kg this morning so up from last week 😡 Must be all the exercise I’m doing, all the fat turning to muscle 🙄 (nothing to do with all the biscuits I’ve pinched this week!)

A Halloween scare for me when my weight went up but a good healthy loss this week so I'm in the same kg as my goal - 70.8 💃💃💃

Down half a kilo but seem to be stuck in this zone. Need to ride more but the weather has been dire and the forest is a quagmire.

Good going all... we can hit this still, 6 weeks till the big final weigh in!

0.9kg down this week, another small loss but still heading the right way.

A small creep upwards to 80.7kg, mainly due to spending loads of time on the computer doing job search stuff while drinking lots of sugary drinks (tea and Pepsi...) rather than out on the bike.
Thought it would be worse so not too unhappy.

Lockdown means I haven't done any big climbing or distance days on the bike either but lockdown finishes on Monday and my new smart turbo trainer has arrived so absolutely no excuses from now until the final weigh-in!

Managed to shift a bit this week - can't have hurt dissuading the OH from making ice cream / more sourdough and leaving the wine alone (after last weekend where we got through a bottle of prosecco between us for reasons unlikely to repeat any time soon).
And salad & falafel, or soup, for the evening meal seems to help too.
Onwards!!

Yay! 2KG down this week. It’s taken me a while but I’m back in the Keto groove again. Hopefully this is the start of my return to my target weight.

Poor show from me this week! Nearly back to my starting weight even with exercising everyday and 160km on the bike. I have hovered around this weight since August and just can't seem to get under it!!!!!

Pretty sure I've been more active this week but only a smidge off on today's weigh in 🤷‍♂️

Not part of official chub club but lost 11kg since 28th September. Cut out booze (mostly) pasta, bread, spuds while reducing calories. Carbs mostly coming from leafy vegetables and a few pulses. Lots of fish and curries with cauliflower rice and basically anything I can chuck coconut milk or creme fraiche into.

Down to 80.3kg this week, only a small drop but I have noticed a large drop in the ft round my midriff. Have started to do a bit of weight work on top of the bike rides/turbo workouts so I'm presuming I've switched a bit of fat for a bit of muscle.

Might put all off that 300g back on later though as a neighbour has just dropped off a load of homemade biscuits as a thank you for helping them out earlier in the week, they smell and look gorgeous!