[Closed] Corpulent Collective 2018

thought that banging out the km would bring me on a downward curve.

"you can't out run a bad diet"

"a six pack is made in the kitchen, not in the gym"

etc.

Seriously, been there. Use exercise and calorie burning as a supplement but if we think because we ride 'a lot' we can eat what we want, we're destined to fail. You'd need to be doing grand tour intensity and durations to really use exercise as the mechanism. I'm afraid.

I find it easier to lose weight when I am not exercising. It removes a variable, which in itself is hard to quantify, ie how much food to eat to fuel the exercise, but not over-estimate the calorific requirement and overeat.

The amount of XL bike gear for sale in the classifieds suggest most get this calculation wrong.

I'm taking a mulligan on fridays weigh in. I think when i activate the scales just as i put them down it craps out the zeroing somehow and the measurements go up by ~900g, which according to the kitchen scales is the weight of the bathroom ones.

Technology, eh?

Well I've not weighed in for a while and I'm pleasantly surprised to see a little drop. I've had a bit of illness and changes to blood pressure and head meds, so weight hasn't been a priority in the last two months. A good sized bowl of porridge in the mornings has made me a bit less snack-happy, and a push on veg over carbs could be helping too.

Well. I’ve try fallen off the wagon and will probably miss my target by 5-6lbs (maybe more). No reason really, just gluttony on my behalf. Looking forward to the next chubby clubby and will knuckle down.

...and maybe get a handle on some of the evidently psychological reasons I sometimes shove food in me gob.

Finished a whole 10 pounds short of my eventual target, but not at all downhearted as it does mean I have dropped another 21 pounds ( 1.5stone ) since New Year.

This doesn’t tell the whole story,which I’ll bore you with now.

last August I finally got to the stage where my weight made me so unhappy I knew mentally it was the right time to do something so on advice from my brother I went to a local Slimming World meeting, convinced it wouldn’t work for me but willing to try.

i weighed in that evening at 20 stone 5.5 lbs 😟 (285.5 lbs) and since then I have lost a total of   5 stone 9.5 lbs (79.5 lbs) and now weigh 14 stone 10 lbs (206 lbs). My final target of 14 stone (196) is a weight I cannot recall being since I started riding way too many years ago to recall but I have always been a  “Clydesdale “ class of racer so it seemed a good target.

For me this weight loss has been nearly entirely due to a “change of diet” as I have not got out on my bike nearly as much as I would like, but if anyone asks I always stress I am NOT on I diet, I have CHANGED my diet, if anything I eat more now than I have for ages but it is far healthier food, my dinner plate is packed with vegetables, I cook nearly all my own meals now and take always are a rare treat rather than the norm.

when I started this journey I was wearing 46” waist trousers with the expandable “active waist band and braces as I belt was uncomfortable, today I am a comfortable 36” waist and all round in a much better place mentally and physically. My asthma is much reduced though still present and I have loads more energy.

In 2 weeks time I am due surgery to repair a hernia which was a significant driver in my decision to do something about my weight, and I am looking forward to a summer of getting out on my new bike and enjoying life again.

many thanks Roberto for setting this up, it must have been loads of work to and remind us all each week but I for 1 very much appreciate your work.

A notsofatoldgit 😃

Top work - and brilliant answer to the diet / not a diet it's a change of habit question.  Good job!

Nice going slimoldgit!!

Sadly I've not had time to do anything fancy-pants for the next edition + with Windows 10 causing my laptop to run slower than Daniel Lambert, it's mildly infuriating trying to. So, for the time being, Chubby-clubby 2018.2 will just have to be a carbon-copy of the 1st edition and a will mean a re-setting of start weights & targets for all.

At some point I'll include the 1st edition's data so those who have stuck with it all the way will get a full picture of their progress.

I'll assume anyone who is still playing wants to go into the next edition and include whatever they input as their weight for 30/03/2018 as their start weight. Anyone who doesn't input for 30/03/2018 (tomorrow, but doesn't have to be done tomorrow) will be ungraciously dumped and will have to suffer the shame of having to email me to join in.

Anyone who strayed from the path is welcome back for take #2 and, of course, anyone else can join in the fun - just email me with your forum name and I'll send you instructions and a link to the new spreadsheet.

As there will be no data to speak of for a few weeks, the dashboard will be all broken again - once people starts populating their rows it'll magically fix itself. I hope it will anyway cos I've forgotten how it all works 🙂

Sadly I’ve not had time to do anything fancy-pants for the next edition + with Windows 10 causing my laptop to run slower than Daniel Lambert, it’s mildly infuriating trying to. So, for the time being, Chubby-clubby 2018.2 will just have to be a carbon-copy of the 1st edition and a will mean a re-setting of start weights & targets for all.

All we ever expected of you is middle of the road averageness, Rob. Of which you have delivered, and will deliver, in spades.

We thank you for your service.

*salutes*

All charts in the new edition will be beige - like the hummus I'm currently consuming.

Just a heads up for those using MFP.

https://content.myfitnesspal.com/security-information/notice.html

Also. We’re all done. I started so well, but just drifted off in the last month. I know where I went wrong, do should be able to fix for next time. I’ll hit 10 stone if it kills me.

Well it is all over bar the last weigh in 🙂

Well done to everyone who took part, regardless of outcome. And a huge thank you to Rob for organising it and for all the work in the background to set up and maintain the spreadsheet. Here's hoping we can all maintain this going forward and look forward to seeing some of you out on the trails, smashing KOMs left right and centre.

I can’t input my weight as on mobile only 🙁

well done to all!

See you in Chub Club 2 - Chub club strike back with a purpose

(Final weight was a disappointing 88.8 but pleased with overall progress, if someone would be really awesome and input that into the sheet I’d be very grateful 👍😀)

Bravo Rob, thanks for the service and the general geniality. CC-2 welcomed.

Currently, only 35 flabby bodies are going in for round 2 as that's how many people have updated their weight up to last Friday.

If you've emailed me re staying in - I'm not ignoring you, I'll do everyone at once when the new spreadsheet is live. Which will be some time in the next couple of days.

Finally updated my Friday weigh-in.

To all those who may have missed their target, take comfort in the fact that I went up 1.3kg from my start weight.  Now do I still keep my original target to spur me on, or relax it a bit?

There was weight loss this week, which was nice. So disheartened that I did not bother on the penultimate week.

Now do I still keep my original target to spur me on, or relax it a bit?

You know what Frankie would say

Eat more pie??

No! He'd say no pudding for you :).

I've managed to just about get back down to pretty much where I started, hey ho! Well done everyone else 🙂

I'll be in again for the next one.

I'm in. Fattening up ready for the new round.

It’s live!!!!!

So exciting!

All current weights have been moved over as start weights for this edition, email with link has gone out and I can fully focus on planning just how I’m gonna lose 0.4 pounds a week :).

Anyone who's new to this & wants in, email me, yo.

Oh yes - include your forum name in the email please :).

Hi

It's showing as view only for me so I can't add a target. Not a bad thing really!

Cheers

Neil

I fink it's fixed

Yep, well done!

Do you have any expertise fixing forums?

I'll just stick my target in there from last time as well then :p

Thanks for setting this up again Rob.  I've lost 13kgs (30lbs) since Jan 5th, which is more than my bike.  Hoping to lose another 10kg in the next 12 weeks, which will make a total of two bikes lost if I can keep up the clean eating.

Checking in each week has really helped with the motivation, and I doubt I'd have kept it up if it wasn't for the spreadsheet and weekly reminders.  Well done everyone 🙂

Yep, well done Rob - new target entered and locked on.

1lb/week should be OK to acheive and will take me below 80kg which is a place I've not been to in over 25 years!!

The weekly weigh-in has been a great motivator and I should just keep doing these regardless of what me weight ends up at 🙂

14kg lost since early December and still not done any exercise.... maybe once it warms up 😉

Thanks again Rob for sorting this.

Question about MFP - if I change the start date and weight to now will it re calculate calories required?

Appreciate if I change these then previous diary entries will be erased but not too fussed about it .

I've unconsciously followed Jamie's strategy of putting on weight just so I can motivate myself to lose it agen and feel better about do that... I'm not sure it's the way forward, but it is what it is.

Family dim-sum meal tomorrow should be interesting what with the encouragement to gorge myself when I'll really just be wanting to nibble a bit of tofu. Maybe I'll order the chickens' feet in a bid to put myself completely off eating for a couple of days 😀

Hmmm... the weekly email bounces back from BTInternet addresses:

554 Message rejected on 2018/04/06 13:06:51 BST, policy (3.2.2.1) – Your message looks like SPAM or has been reported as SPAM please read www.bt.com/bulksender

I might bother to look into this, I might not - who knows??

Anyway, it means Wally & Shooterman didn't get this week's and I know they're both in, so, you two: update please :).

Woo, in again - let's do this! Low carb/high GI seems to be the way for me, just need a little willpower!

Interestingly I didn't weigh myself after reaching my target in CCv1.1 but I continued with the low carb thing - I presumed I'd gone up a bit over Easter (no choc but plenty of alcohol) but it seems that I've continued to lose a bit of weight 🙂

So my weigh in figure today makes me look like I've lost a chunk in the last week but I haven't really - I think 1lb/week works for me at the moment.

oh yeah... and I had fish and [3] chips the other night!

Just back from 10 days away 🙂

I've been eating carbs and been drinking every night!

Jumped on the scales last night and I've lost 1lb.... Yay!!

However I did Ski over 230km over 8 days so not just been eating

I missed the weigh in last week but looks like i'm back on track with a more achievable target this round. Still not back to my 'best' in last season but not far off.

One thing that I can't seem to kick is the desire to eat a bowl of bloody cereal at about 10pm, it's ridiculous, the only way I can stop myself is to clean my teeth early so I can only drink water. I completely lack any sort of self control.

I'm like Groundhog Day. Same starting weight, same target.....feel like Sisyphus.

I've been a bloody saint today but can't really tell anyone about it cos frankly, i'm a terrible bore by now.

I'm in the process of cocking it all up though, when a bag of roasted salted pistachios says '25g contains 145 kcal' is that 25g including the shells?

can't do weigh in tomorrow, so did it this morning. 2lb off. Don't know why, not complaining. Next stop, 13.5 st, then after that i can start saying I'm closer to 13st than 14st again.

Might do mine now too. Last week was 4lb up on the last weigh in but I had been to America and had a bloody great time.

2lb of it has gone already. Phew.

Early weigh-ins are the thing this week! I did likewise - 1lb up.

Currently on a train in Greece hoping I'm going the right direction and wondering how much I'll put on by next week...

Plenty, I reckon

Right back on it after hols!

2.2 lbs off and here we ago again...

Normal BMI is somewhere over there on the horizon, still out of sight, but feels closer...

(79kg = Target = 24.9 bmi)

Well, living like a monk has its benefits. That's the best part of 800g off.

Carrot and butternut soup is on sale at Tesco and must be made with dust. I had enough defecit in the bank to not be completely derailed by my wife making raspberry pavlova for pudding.

1.4lb up.

I really need to have a word with myself. Not so much I’ve fallen off the wagon, that I have bought a wagon factory and jumped off that.

Would have been 140 if I’d stuck with what what I was doing, but now 151.4lbs. Bum.

i should get back on it really, but it's sunny here and we may BBQ. You know what that means...

Well there was a shock. After a pretty lazy week eating wise I appear to lost a massive 1.5 kilos! Certainly last weeks weigh-in was a disappointment and probably missing a morning ablution of some kind.

If anyone needs a helpful hint on how to beat the Friday morning weigh-in it must be to go and ride the Alpe Du Zwift in a hot cellar the night before. Still felt a bit dehydrated this morning but certainly gets the results. My lowest ever weight (well in the last 30 years anyway) and FINALLY) I have a normal BMI 🙂

EDIT: However. I have a stag do this weekend so lots of beers and unhealthy eating will soon knock me back to where I was. Maybe I need to over indulge and go full Roman Excess

Can't for the life of me figure out how to send an email from my phone for a group contact so there ain't one this week.

And it was gonna be the best, most hilarious, motivational one ever...

Plateaued again so need some ideas for low carb, low calorie lunches.

Well a weekend in Malta put me five pounds up but I think it was all alcohol after a week back I'm back down to where I was,  happy days

Plateaued again so need some ideas for low carb, low calorie lunches.

It can get pretty monotonous but soup does the job, check the labels though, Covent Garden carrot and butternut squash soup is like 150 calories for the whole pot (2 servings, and is half price in sainsburys at the moment.) fulfils your low calorie criteria but it is packed with sugar (9.1g)

Add in a pack of beef jerky for a snack and i've still spent less than a meal deal.  if i'm starving i'll throw in a handful of spinach and it'll wilt in the soup

Slight increase but I stopped using MFP! and have rediscovered SUGAR...

Need to focus...

Flat, maybe a lb on but based on 3 days in Amsterdam at an exhibition eating Stroopwaffels and nights out entertaining on the company card, I can live with that.

Harrumph.

Up a smidge, deserved it though. Eating out, beer and a take away this week. I've got the hang of this cause and effect thing now I think.

Yay, down 0.9kg, but still over Jan's start and way off the target. Only been slightly careful with food intake and still v little exercise. Hopefully if I can get into gear some more will come off.

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Rob concurs! It's like I've taken up competitive (bread) eating. I feel a return to veganism is required to sort me out...

My daughters have also enrolled me in a 30 days burpee workout.......

Day 1 was do as many as you can in 2 mins (24) and then most of the rest of the program is based on repeats of a % of that number, to make it as hard for the superfit as it is for the rest.

http://www.coachmag.co.uk/full-body-workouts/6188/take-the-30-day-burpee-challenge

Then there are rest days, and then some 'other' days like the 60 as fast as possible day

And last night's (Day 15) was killer. One minute ascending; in minute one do one rep. Minute 2, do 2, minute 3 do 3, and so on. Rest for the remainder of the interval. Easy so far, but of course as you get further in the reps get more and the rest gets less..... but keep going until you fail to beat the minute.

I only managed to do 12 in minute 13 when the timer beeped, but that was a blessing because there'd have been no rest and then I'd have failed min 14 with (at a guess) 6 or 7 on the basis I got down for rep 13 but couldn't get back up again due to the lactic in my legs!! Supposedly completing min 14 is good; I'm considering that unfinished business for after the course is completed.

Well I'm down about 1kg from last week (but I think last week was a bit higher than it really was) so I'm feeling happy.  At least my daily [lunchtime] salad seems appropriate in this weather 🙂

Back up above my starting weight from a couple of weeks back - need to up my game (improve my eating) again.  Great to have this as extra motivation though, thank you!

Rob concurs! It’s like I’ve taken up competitive (bread) eating. I feel a return to veganism is required to sort me out…

Yeah, not sure what happened. Was chugging along quite well, then the wheels came off 6 weeks or so ago, and refuse to go back on. 7lbs up on where I was then. Which is ****ing shocking.

When the time's right, the time's right.

Back on it today for me: low-carb veganism, no booze, (hopefully) kick the ciggies, joined strava to record daily partial commute. I'm quite all or nothing, don't you know 😁😁

I like JV's burpee thing! I'll get on that once my poorly back has righted itself.

Oh, I forgot to fix the charts - it's on the to-do list, though :).

Rob, have you tried an ecig mate, check out the thread on here from yesterday about recommendations as i'm a bit out of the loop these days but it helped me kick the fags.  The ecigs themselves are a bloody nightmare to quit as well though so maybe, if you are a proper all or nothing person then just make the call to not be a smoker 😉

Had a bit of a shock this morning.

Not weighed myself for some time.

Was 77kg back in November last year, the heaviest I've ever been. A solid month in Italy of riding, not eating shit, but still enjoying vino and birra saw my weight drop to 71.5kg.

Weight didn't stay there, but leveled around 73kg.

My mum passed away a month ago and my diet and lifestyle has gone out of the window. The last month has been a mish-mash of pub grub, meals out, sausage sandwiches, three or four beers a night in the pub and no exercise. Subsequently my weight has rocketed to 78.1kg!

Time to head south and get riding again!

I find it hard to eat healthily whilst in the UK. I know it's doable, but the food is generally rather hearty and the beer moreish.....

Dear alansd1980, alpin & fatoldgit,

Please stop ****ing up my charts 😀

Data needs to be input for every week (one of you doesn't even have a target weight!!) otherwise things go awry.

Love from Rob xx

Milestone weigh-in today - this morning the scales reported under 100kgs for the first time since 2012.  Still behind where I need to be to hit the target by June 22nd after things went a bit awry over Easter, but I'm catching up.

Well done that man! Going from 3 figures to two figures must feel good 😀

Nice one marcgear!

Bonus points for using "awry", which was the word of the day yesterday :).

(I had to check how to spell it!!)

Another couple of pounds away! Hopefully heading in the right direction again

1lb down.

Hopefully this is a turning point, as to be on course but then wang on 7lbs was just ridonkulous.

Cutting out all sugar, as that is my only weakness, during the week.

Anyway, 11lbs to go, maybe a bit more as lost some muscle due to being a decrepit husk of a man who's joints explode at the slightest touch.

a man who’s joints explode at the slightest touch.

Someone's put one of the bangers from a party-popper in your spliff.

Static week for me - can't complain I spose. Have fixed the charts and back-filled the missing data for the miscreants, so everything is now tickity-boo.

Significant mental win today, into the next 5lb section. I was very stuck in the 165lb+

I've spent about 6 weeks in the 76.xKG range, i mean, i'm still there but it's 76.0 today!

Bit of an increase this week, on average everything is going in the right direction but the fitness gains and weight loss are smaller and hard won now.

Gone are the days of dropping 7lbs in one week! I’m now doing well if I can drop 7lbs in 2 months!

A loss! A loss!

YAY!

Lordy knows how with the amount of semi-stale office sarnies I’ve stuffed down me gullet this week, but I’ll take it.

I lost 1/2 a pound.

This time next year Rodney...

Doing the OMM Bike this weekend, so 12 hours of racing, in the warm weather. Can I defer my weigh-in until Sunday evening 🙂

Definitely getting harder now to shift anything without massive efforts and serious self control. Still, almost 10 kg better off than Xmas and 20 below my worst ever. I'll take that. If only I could now eat what I wanted and it would stay that way 🙁

Phew.  Thought I'd plateau'd on just low carbs and zero exercise, but down again this week - first time below 82kg in >20 years!

The 'plateau' was much more likely due to a load of guinness over last weekend 🙂

1lb (0.5kg) increase

Had a bad weekend food wise Damn you .....

Cooked breakfast

2 x Sausage & Bacon Sarnies

Burger

Wine & Cheese

600cal expedition breakfast

Burger

Coronation chicken baguettes

Pack of Jelly Babies

Lemon Meringue Pie with Ice Cream

Nom Butter (WTF that is)

Entire pack of Caramel Wafers

Profiteroles

M&Ms

Burger King......

Cannot understand why i've not lost anything......