[Closed] Chub Club 2020

12th time lucky 👍😀😂

Ooooo Might have to count me in*

* bookmarked 👍

Thanks fatty from another fatty 👍

Pm’d

Yup, I’m in. Had the worst 2019 and I’m going to smash the arse out of 2020.

Already done it. Started at beginning of October. No booze, healthy eating, back to the gym. Mrs almost fancies me again 😂

Not planning on slipping back to old habits over Christmas

Given my high blood pressure I'd probably take a proper go at this next year.

I'm going to make 2020 my year, I'm in. PM Sent

Off to a good start- there's a charity cake sale today and I resisted temptation for all of 30 seconds.

Maybe I should change my user name as the F stands for Fat- nominative determinism at play.

started in 2019. put 10kg on 🙁

will join .

absolutely disastrous year/2 years, has left me sitting uncomfortably at my heaviest ever by some margin, already forming plans for a new year campaign so this is nicely timed. I'm in, I'll PM.

Just need a total idiot proof simple to follow eating plan for the terminally lazy now.

Would it be worth everyone putting in a fiver, and biggest relative loser after six or twelve months taking the pot?

That would be an incentive!

i agree saxonrider but open to abuse.....

Yep, I am in. Had a pretty poor 2019, so determined to start 2020 with a bang and finally get below 80 KG. Add me to the list please.

Just need a total idiot proof simple to follow eating plan for the terminally lazy now.

2019 has been a bit of a crap weight year for me for various reasons.
I did well in 2018 on Chub-Club so I'll give it a go again and see if the motivation works!
PM'd you.

I'm in and Saxonrider's comment sounds great to me.

Done

I'm in details pm,d

I’m reading this in the kebab shop. I think I need to look at my life choices.

Yup

IN, I need to not look a mess in race overalls this year, and race my bike.

Yes please. Emergency brain surgery has put paid to the good work over the summer...got the unofficial nod from the neurosurgeon today that I can start excersing again so New Year seems like a fresh stab at life.

Fractured shoulder, few other medical things, bout of depression and now chest xrays and steroids for a chest infection It's fair to say i'm carrying a bit of extra timber and i'm nearly 5,000 km down on last year 🙁

Excuse my ignorance but what does this entail?
A broken collarbone in the summer put me out of biking for a while. That combined with apathy and a reluctance to damage myself again has resulted in virtually bugger all riding in 6 months = a few more pounds and quite a few less miles and sod all fitness!

I need to do something again.

I’ve sent you a DM.

PM'd - I am in a bad way and need some encouragement I think.

Wee boy came along September 2018 followed by a car crash in November 2018 which prolapsed a disc and tore back and arm muscles. Everything still hurts but I am feeling big and sluggish, the brain weasles are weaseling and it is passed time I really got to grips with my body (and mind) again.

Depression is rubbish, being fat is rubbish, being depressed and fat is just nyyygh

(Hopefully I may actually be able to ride a bike again sometime next year too)

I am signed up, need the extra motivation to loose the weight put on over the last couple of years. One side effect of the happy pills my Dr put me on is increased appetite and weight gain, I had plantar fasciitis for the best part of 6 months and had a suspected TIA last month

PM'd. 20kg to loose after knee replacement and then enforced rest for a while due to heart issues. Thankfully the fitness is now on the way back up, but the blubber needs to take a serious dive.

Emotional eating with all the health carry-ons over 2 years has been my downfall, plus it seems to be in my nature to love the shittiest food going. My only plus point seems to be the fact that I don't drink booze at all and do get plenty of exercise.

Currently sitting in the GP waiting room for my yearly checkup.
102kg and rising, 10kg up on 10 years ago. Since child no2 arrived at the end of last year.
I'm out of my checkout and as suspected by cholesterol has rocketed to 6.4. I was offered statins but would rather try and change my diet first
So chub club 2020 here I come

@rascal Rob sends a weekly (ish) reminder and you record your weight in a shared spreadsheet with the others so you can all see each others progress or lack thereof.

My personal experience of 2019 was paying for weight watchers, just used the app and pointed food for the first 4-5 months. It taught me a bit but also helped me see where my biggest mistakes were being made.

End of the year I'm 15kg lighter, over 6inches off my belly and closer to a medium than an XL in most shops.

I do have a the advantage of 15 miles of bike commute a day and I lived like a monk for most of the first half of the year. I also spend a lot of time preparing my own food rather than talking back to takeouts or readymade food.

Good luck with chub club everyone, I'm hopefully out for next year!

can i ask if theres a better way of doing this. while the accountability is good i need someone to stand at the side of me and smack me whenever i get a mince pie...

Possible suggestion, is there a way you could do the data collection via a survey (survey monkey etc), (same two questions every week, username, weight) get the output of that as an .xls file, then a simple bit of VBA, or just use vlookup to transfer, would save you having to type out everyones data every week.

I'm fat. I'm in.

I'm in.....again

need to lose about stone and a half. It can be done.

PM’d.
A stone less would be epic!

Possible suggestion, is there a way you could do the data collection via a survey (survey monkey etc), (same two questions every week, username, weight) get the output of that as an .xls file, then a simple bit of VBA, or just use vlookup to transfer, would save you having to type out everyones data every week.

Last year it was Google sheet I think. It worked fine.

“I’m seeing 2020 clearer now the fat has gone”

Lardeeeleela!
👍😜

Possible suggestion, is there a way you could do the data collection via a survey (survey monkey etc), (same two questions every week, username, weight) get the output of that as an .xls file, then a simple bit of VBA, or just use vlookup to transfer, would save you having to type out everyones data every week.

I wrested this task from TOJV's sweaty grasp when I realised he was doing it in a very manual way. Google sheets it shall be again. I'd rather Excel, as I can develop it waaay faster, but anonymous access is a problem.
A Tableau dashboard would be ideal too, but live updates are an issue.

Just demolished a German donner kebab - t'was gert lush!

Am working on the principle that the more I have to lose, the easier it'll be.

Rob likes irrefutable logic

As a lapsed mountain biker looking to return to the fold after a few years away, for the first time in ages I feel cycling could be a possibility again. Went on a keto way of eating in August and have lost 2 stone.

Death.

Taxes.

Joining chub Club and bailing out in week 6.

Well... that just gave me a kick up the arse (by just... Christma Eve...) the BIL had a heart attack. He is a year younger than me and I don't know how much worse shape he is in as I really have sunk low this last year.

He is still with us. Recovery just now, but it has somewhat altered our festive plans to say the least as he lives the other end of the country. Going to try and use this as inspiration for 2020 I think.

I'd best get my (fat) arse into gear and sort this out...

First weigh-in will be 3rd Jan.

Instructions etc. Will be with you ummm... Shortly 🙂

I'm in, just sent you a PM.
Years of being able to just about fake being in good shape have made me lazy. Need a kick up the backside to stick at something for more than just a few weeks.
Fingers crossed and thanks for sorting!

PM sent here too, thanks for doing this. Very timely.

PM sent - need to get my arse in gear this year, the timber has gone on over the last 12m 🙁

PM sent. Thanks Rob.

I'm going into the new year weighing several Ks less than last year. I shall not be participating... 😁

Email sent. Hope I will stay in for this one.

My mum got my other half a hot men with baby animals calendar.

For twelve months I'm going to be the lesser of two naked torsos she will see so will have to up my game... Or buy a puppy.

Sent a PM, so I'm in again.

Going well this year, until my wife had serious car crash. All my focus was taken up with things other than food and I had no time to exercise at all. As a result nearly all my good work was undone, especially when you factor in a 'sod it, i'll lose it in the new year Christmas'!

Matt

Sending PM now, thanks. Hope my heads in the right place for it this year, I really do. Could do with losing a fair bit with the amount I've piled on, especially over the past 18 months.

im in, need to shift some weight. lets see!!!

I’m in. Managed to shift a good bit about 1.5 years ago but work changes etc mean it’s crept back on.

#crispsforbreakfast

Have we started?

Is it too late to join? If not, how do I do it again?

Pm Rob Hilton your user name & an email addy for him to send reminders and a link to the spreadsheet of shame. First weigh in tomorrow. There’ll be a collective groan from the scales and fatties alike.

Done; only a few kg I want to shift but motivation has been sadly lacking.
Target is weight loss and improved muscle tone.

Emailing you now Rob Hilton. I was conspicuous by my absence last year (too much stress to even think about dieting!), but this year I’m back on it for sure... Did well in 2018, aiming to replicate that or better. Was the heaviest I’ve ever been when I weighed myself 5 days ago at 14st7, already lost 5lb in 5 days so...

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Possible suggestion, is there a way you could do the data collection via a survey (survey monkey etc), (same two questions every week, username, weight) get the output of that as an .xls file, then a simple bit of VBA, or just use vlookup to transfer, would save you having to type out everyones data every week.

I wrested this task from TOJV’s sweaty grasp when I realised he was doing it in a very manual way. Google sheets it shall be again. I’d rather Excel, as I can develop it waaay faster, but anonymous access is a problem.
A Tableau dashboard would be ideal too, but live

updates are an issue.

Errrrrr you lost me there👽
Please explain in layman’s/pc illiterate speak😜
Tempted to join if it’s not too difficult

Errrr

mboy
I wish I could be 14st again!!!!
Probably 20yrs or more since I registered anywhere near that.
Way back in the late ‘70s, early ‘80s I was a 10st weakling, now rocking almost 16st @65😏👍🏻💡

So, here we go again.....

95.4kg, aiming for 90 by end of March and then 86ish by summer.

86.1kg- at 5'8" that puts my BMI close to obese. Would have to get down to just under 75kg to be at the top of the "normal" range. Looks like it's the Marjorie Dawes Dust Diet for me!

If we're doing BMI, I'm in the 29's but I don't subscribe to that......at my recent lightest I was 13st and didn't feel good with it, and that still had me in the overweight category. To be mid healthy range I'd a further 1.5st down from that which I just can't see.

Elsewhere, it's been written that the BMI is flawed not only because it doesn't take build/athleticism into account but because it's only 2D, and we are 3D objects; ie as we get taller we get broader and deeper.

https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi.html

(not making excuses, I'm still a fatty in need of the Dust diet, but I need a realistic expectation)

Tiger6791

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Have we started?

Sort of. Well, I've weighed myself 🙂

Due to the number of late entries and a little procrastination on my part the email & link will be a day late.

So, weigh yourselves today, hope your starved brains will have the capacity to renember what it was and you'll have something to record it in tomorrow.

Chub Club is (almost) go!!

*Rob is so excited! 🤗 🤗

I think I’m in. Emailed Rob again as hadn’t heard anything (posted before I saw Rob’s post)
I started keeping a food diary with myfitnesspal a couple of days ago as I’ve stopped eating meat a few months back and was mildly concerned that I wasn’t getting enough protein as I seem to take a few days after a ride before my legs stop aching. Turns out I’m consuming less than half of what it’s telling me I should be having and that’s with making an effort to eat more protein. Will need to be more like Mr. Strong and have eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The other depressing thing it tells me is that the snickers duo that I had yesterday has more calories than my main meal did! I’m going to miss those delicious nutty chocolate treats.

have a bigger main meal and the balance will be restored. Sorted!!

have a bigger main meal and the balance will be restored. Sorted!!

You don’t get a body like this by accident 😀

Dagnamit! Forgot it was today (I blame the lack of email 😉) so have already drank a gallon of tea 😤 Will weigh tomorrow!

BMI... I don’t subscribe to that……at my recent lightest I was 13st and didn’t feel good with it, and that still had me in the overweight category. To be mid healthy range I’d a further 1.5st down from that which I just can’t see.

I do tend to agree- I know I'm not a brickouthose rugby player getting a high BMI- more of a Daddy Pig, I just find it a simple tool to try and come up with a target. Think when I started riding loads in late 2014 to do the Pru 100 in 2015 I was around 89kg and dropped to c75kg by the time of the ride.

Just found my data for the original Chub Club from 2017 (who's idea was that then?). I started at 85.6kg, was 75.4kg at the end of March and 69.5kg by the end of Jun. The April - June I remember was tough going. and even at the low 70kgs I still had a bit of flab but struggled to shift it.

depressing thing ..is the snickers duo that I had yesterday has more calories than my main meal

Snickers is my kryptonite too! So far since being back at work this year I've a 100% success rate at avoiding the vending machine. About 1hr to go before the munchies kick in and the desire to go walkies starts....

mboy
I wish I could be 14st again!!!!

Yeah but I might only be 4ft tall! 😉

86.1kg- at 5’8″ that puts my BMI close to obese.

BMI is highly misleading indeed. I’m only 2 inches taller but last weigh in the other day was 6kg heavier so even closer to the “obese” tag line...

So how did you manage to drop 5lb in as many days? Are we going to see the imboy diet for sale?

I can't fathom how the bmi reckons a healthy weight for my height is 55-74kg. At 55kg that'd be almost emaciated.

concerned that I wasn’t getting enough protein as I seem to take a few days after a ride before my legs stop aching.

I wouldnt be unduly concerned about aching legs after cycling. Most people (including vegetarians) get enough protein, once you work out where to get it from (veg obvs, and the great thing is you can rarely eat too much) I'd be more concerned about diettry fibre.

I also don't rate BMI. It's a population sized model rather than for individuals, although it's clearly a good enough proxy

GOOD LUCK 🤞

Thanks Rob.

Weighed in this morning and recorded it.

Do we have a standard group weigh in plan. I always go for first thing in the morning before breakfast as my starting point. Guess it doesn’t matter as long as you always do the same thing each weigh in.

I wouldnt be unduly concerned about aching legs after cycling. Most people (including vegetarians) get enough protein, once you work out where to get it from (veg obvs, and the great thing is you can rarely eat too much) I’d be more concerned about diettry fibre.

I Wasn’t overly concerned but they did seem to be aching longer than usual, I just thought that it might be a reason hence logging it all on mfp. I will definitely be upping my intake and will look at the fibre too.

Managing to resist the lure of the snickers, but I finish work in 1.5hrs and there's the temptation of the cheeses left from Christmas...

Emailed again as I think I've missed out 🙁

I'll join in, I'll PM you Rob. I was going to last year but I'm now the wrong side of 16 stone and I can't remember the last time I rode a bike that wasn't just a trundle round the park with the kids.

I can't see week 1 going well as I've got a LOT of cheese left.