OK, I said I'd do this this coming year so here it is.
Need to shift a few mince pie pounds? Did you last see your racing weight about the same time as we went metric? It's your chance to shine.
STW chubbers, here's the 'rules'
Weigh in tomorrow after the festivities and then email me your data - address in profile, please put STW in the title so I can find it easily. I need your weight (stones/lbs or kg, just specify what), and then a target for 1 month from now (27th Jan); 3 months (31st Mar) and then 6 months (30th Jun). Feel free to post up here as well if that motivates you, if you want to keep it private then don't.
Weigh ins then on a fortnightly basis, which allows for a bad week / week away / smoothing of data - trust me having done this before, every two weeks is fine. If you want to keep track yourself every week, up to you but I'll only track every two. I suggest weigh in on Friday am, and email results to me so I can then analyse at the weekend.
As we all have different targets and amounts to lose I'll track absolute loss and % loss plus progress to target. No prizes other than smugness, unless Mark or Chipps have some XS T-shirts they need rid of.
Did you last see your racing weight about the same time as we went metric?
2013 iirc was the last I saw of race weight.
2013 iirc was the last I saw of race weight.
You're lucky, mine was in the [i]previous[/i] century... 😳
2007 before all but dying on Aconcagua... 10 years, 2 kids, 2 mental breakdowns, far to much beer and pizza and crappy food/sugar later, i weigh exactly the same. only its all lard, not the ripped toned muscular chap that went to Argentina! i think i will be emailing tomorrow!
YGM (tomorrow).
I'm in, YGM tomorrow. Midday ride planned.
Might be less work for you if you just set up a spreadsheet on google docs.
Keep it simple though, when I did the fat club a few years back the number of columns got a bit mental.
I'm in!
I've gone all veganuary! Also no alcohol or refined crap/obvious carbs - pretty much iDave+ thingsWithFace-
One day in and it's killing me already 😆 😆
You'll be hearing from me tomorrow, OP...
I'm pretty sure that I've started badly....
I'm in. Will mail details later
i am just sat here looking at the fantastic sausage butty my wife has made me.
i need to lose some timber. but i have tried for years, lost five stone a few years ago, put 3 back on.
it just makes me miserable, so i am not gonna join you. i am just gonna ride and ride some more, and enjoy my sausage butty.
good luck........ 😀
Unlike Deborah Meaden I am in (YGM)
I'm keen for this 🙂
YGM - 88.7kg before this morning's bacon butty (Operation Tubgone begins Tuesday when I go back to work).
Target is a stone gone by June.
Tempted. Currently eating lindt balls in bed so lots of room for improvement.
Currently eating lindt balls in bed
Is that prison lingo? 😉
Yep I'm in. Biking to work and low carb diet should shift the muffin top.
Email sent - a shocking 15st 5lb on the scales this morning, nearly a stone and a half over what I was in November 2015. Most of that last 5lb gained in the last month.
I think getting to 15st should be quite achievable in the short term, 14st more difficult, but I want to get to at least 14st, maybe 13st 7lb by June. We'll see, I may have to adjust the end target, I'm 6ft and broad, and will probably put some muscle on, so 13.5 may not be achievable whilst still looking reasonably healthy.
Being the skinny-fat I already am would probably appeal to some of you, but don't ostracise me yet 
A 1 lb a week running target sounds pretty do-able, but without some external motivation I'm not likely to do it.
Cheers OP!
Hang on... you're John Virgo??
Hang on... AOL still exists??
Hang on... ton is Deborah Meaden??
Go I'll join in, 13.4 stone this morning and I'd like to be 12 stone on the button.
Cheers all; I see a few emails this morning so far, if you've 'joined' on here and not sent a mail yet, then pls do so, and can you make it clear what your username is on here as well?
To Rob's question
1/ yes, but not that one.
2/ Yes! Never seen the need to change it, just use it as a front end address.
3/ I know - it was a revelation to me too. Especially the video of her wrestling in her pants.
As for me - 15st dead this am, 95.3kg
Aiming for 14.9 by end of the month; 14.2 by end of March and then 13.7 by end of June
Thanks for doing this.
12 stone 10 today
12 stone 3 target for one month
12 stone target for three months
11 stone 10 target for six months
Email sent
Cheers
Count me in.
15st 8lb this morning - heaviest ever 😯
Aiming for around 14st by end of June.
Email sent.
Aim to be 70KG by 6 months
I'm in, will weight a send an email over in a bit.
Probably going to be the heaviest one as ill be over 16st and I'm not even tall 😳
Starting a new job tuesday and planning on doing a lot more riding to work so hopefully I can shift some weight.
I was thinking of doing this, but I am too terrified to get on the scales and see what the damage is after 15/16 months of inactivity due to injury! All set to turn the tide now though, I was trying to get started the last couple of weeks but with Christmas things got a little caught up!
Good luck... I may or may not be brave 😉
Probably going to be the heaviest one as ill be over 16st and I'm not even tall
Dunno about that, I'm 16 on the nose. I am 6ft though.
Aiming for 97kg by Jan 31st, 90 in 3 months and 85 by the time the National Champs rolls around in June
Bring it!
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Target is a stone gone by June.
Nothing if not ambitious eh! 😆
Tempted. Currently eating lindt balls in bed so lots of room for improvement.
Know how you feel... sort of. Without the innuendo but at least...
Today's weigh in here... 13st5 or 85kg in new money. Which is mildly depressing! Nearly had to go out and buy new jeans recently as I'm starting to have to breathe in a lot to get into a 34" waist! At 5ft10 and of slim build my "racing weight" would be around 10 1/2 stone or 67kg, but realistically I don't expect to get there. I'd settle for seeing the other side of 12st, and be very happy if I got down to 11 1/2 without losing any muscle.
Aiming for sub 12st by beginning of April, so roughly 7lb per month weight loss. GF's birthday on 8th Jan though, and she won't be happy if I don't indulge in food and booze with her though, so my resolution is going to have to start a week later than most...
Nothing if not ambitious eh!
Well, at 6'1" I'm not that tubby anyway, and I want to lose the stone a good bit before June (ideally by March), but the main target is to keep it off. Slow and steady weight loss is (I reckon) the key to keeping it that way.
According to my scales im 16st but they don't appear to be working properly as it stopped on 5st when i first stood on them...
I'm in. Post Christmas weight has popped up as 106.6 kg, or 16 stone 10.5 pounds in old money.
I'm aiming for 85 kg this year, then we'll see how it goes from there, as that would be my 'most svelte' for nigh on a couple of decades.
Matt
I'd like to join in but don't have scales! If it can wait till Tuesday I'll break the scales when I go back to work.
that's fine, ping me your start and targets Tuesday, I'll add you then.
Today is 'clear out the bad' day Chez Pondo, will approach scales tomorrow if I'm brave.
Probably going to be the heaviest one as ill be over 16st
Got you covered, bro. 🙂
Funny isn't it, I'm a 34" waist at nearly 15st 5lb but I'm 6ft and well built. Seems funny that someone 2 stone lighter has the same waist size.
Rode today, got some pb's despite the bulk so fitness can't be so bad, did the Pearce XC at Hopton. Currently in A&E waiting to see if there's any of my dropper remote still in my leg.
I might bring myself to consider the terrifying idea of scales tomorrow. Feel like a right porker at the moment
Yesterday I went out for the first ride in about 7 weeks. During which time all I've done is sit in front of a Mac and eat rubbish!! I really enjoyed getting out again, despite my terrible (lack of) fitness. So I've another one planned for tomorrow morning.
Will break the scales before-hand and send you the details. I really need to shift some timber
Email sent. I'm 2.5 stone heavier than when my first son was born, averaging 6lb a year on.
It really has to come off now. Email sent, including spelling my own username incorrectly... Thanks for doing it.
I think I might be beyond the point where I can get away with sucking my gut in.
A bit annoying I am fatter now than when I was drinking 2 years ago.
May send in an email.
I like "chub club", but "slimmingtrackworld" would have been a cool name too.
Despite increasing my riding in recent years I'm struggling to ride as fast, so I think it's time to try to lose a few kilos.
I'll be going for the sensible, slow approach - a bit more riding with intervals and cutting down on chocolate, cakes & boozes.
5ft 8in and 78kg now - not actually sure what a sensible six-month target would be, any suggestions?
10kg in 6 months seems doable.
Less than a lb a week in old money.
Don't forget, if you are doing exercise...especially resistance stuff, then you'll be changing composition so before and after pics sometimes help to gauge progress rather than just scales.
I'm aiming to lose 8-10kg this year. 3kg in the next 6 weeks hopefully, a further 3 by the end of April.
Currently 86kg, 6'1"
Have just spent an hour compiling a spreadsheet with figures. Just working out best way to share, may do a google doc if people agree?
So far 19 of us, combined we weigh 3782lbs = 270 stones. Or nearly 1 3/4 tonnes. And we're aiming to lose 449lbs = 32 stones, so 12% or our weight.
There are a few 'missing' names -people who said they might or would, but haven't emailed me yet:
Jamie?
Atlaz?
Pondo?
Gozarch (space saved for Tuesday when access to scales)
Capt Kronos?
Flying Ox (you said count me in but no email yet?)
wonny_j?
Tallmartin?
Piemonster?
daftvader?
I'm in, will send email when I get back and get a weight.
I'm in, fo shizzle - just going nowhere near scales till tomorrow morning!
Sorry, been a shitty day here will try and email before midnight!
no worries, just reminding.
Jamie - Memberbefore and after pics sometimes help to gauge progress rather than just scales.
Photoshop doesn't count in this instance.
I'm in. Will email tomorrow
Photoshop doesn't count in this instance
That's where I have been going wrong then.
Will email you in a bit, Jon.
Once this gets going it would be helpful to hear what seems to be working for people.
As chakaping mentioned above, I'm also planning to take the "slow but steady route". Never been good at cold turkey - no will power! But slowly cutting down on intake and increasing output will hopefully work for me.
I agree, I'm just collating numbers - this is your / our thread to use as self-motivation, to help each other and to share what's working and what isn't.
For me, Jan is about booze and snack removal. That'll help me a lot I think.
I'm in.
Embarrassing the state I've let my self get in to.
Will weigh in & email you in the morning.
Oh lordy 100kg, that's a work from home desk job for the last year and a half. Aiming to get down to 85kg by summer, would be better to lose a chunk of weight if I have to have an op later in the year anyway.
Ouch! 16st on the nose. But then the excesses of xmas and the last few months have stopped today as planned, as has the booze... just need to start excersizing again now.... but that is one major obstacle. Some of you may know that I suffer from severe bi polar (manic depressive knife maker... what could possibly go wrong?!) and also have bouts of agoraphobia which makes getting out of the house tricky. So this may be the kick up the arris I need... here's hoping! Sorry for the ramble....
Well...I guess I'll email in tomorrow. On mobile, and can't be asked to parse Jon's non-clickable email 😉
Funny isn't it, I'm a 34" waist at nearly 15st 5lb but I'm 6ft and well built. Seems funny that someone 2 stone lighter has the same waist size.
Yup quite agree. Thing is I'm a slim build, not much to me really. Got a huge paunch right now though. People say "oh poor you" sarcastically when I tell them I'm 85kg and seriously overweight, but they don't understand that I should be well under 70kg for my build! When I left uni at 23 I was only about 65kg and plenty strong enough.
Thing is though, even when I was thinner, I had to buy 34" waist jeans cos I couldn't get anything smaller over my thighs (buying jeans as a cyclist ain't easy) or my arse! Always needed a belt to keep them up. Right now I'm muffin topping 34's though which isn't good...
Email sent.
Need to lose some weight net but increase (recover) muscle, don't weigh that much more than 5 years ago but it's flab vs muscle. Ageing and slowing metabolism is a bitch.
Well the last self-help thread on here was the packing in smoking one. And I've not had a fag for over 18 months now. Which is why I need to get involved with this one. Piled the weight on since giving up the cigs.
Hopefully this goes as well 🙂
spaces saved for all of you!
Pls remember to send me your end Jan, end Mar and end Jun target weights as well as your current. And if not obvious, what your stw name is.
And second, I said kg or lbs but most people have sent in lbs or st so if we can standardise future weights to lbs then avoids me having to recalc.
75kg
Goal 70kg.
Yep - I'm in!
I managed to fix my dodgy scales and it added a stone...
Will send my new weight over in the morning will do in kilos to make it easier
Lbs better please!
I'll get in on this, genuinely scared to step on the scales.
I'm just picking this up now. Count me in; I'll send you an email tomorrow morning (Monday), as I'm lying in bed at the moment.
In early July, I was around 75 kgs and due to injury and gluttony, have managed to get up to about 82 kgs. It is time to get back in the ring...
Email sent.Currently 13st 7lbs,up to my early 30s I weighed around 9st 12,I'd like to get into the low 10st's,so at least 45 lbs to go.I suppose at 5' 7",I'm a bit under height for my weight.
Aiming for 97kg by Jan 31st, 90 in 3 months and 85 by the time the National Champs rolls around in June
Good luck, I have just sold my boat and decided to take a break from competitive sailing for a few years now. Mtb has taken over my life. I have to say I am not missing the cold of the winter handicap events, but I am missing the events themselves.
Just sent you a mail to join up. I've been putting it off for far too long.
My numbers 80.3kg (177 lbs) now target 77 (169) but with much better muscle tone so assuming I need to lose 5kg (10.4) of flab. Increase due to a year of riding once every 6 weeks and nothing more than 20km.
New email sent, Weighing in at an embarrasing 17st when I'm only 5'8" 😳
Waiting for the mrs to wake up to look after the kids (she was working last night) so I can get the bike out and a go for a trial run of my new commute for my job starting tomorrow so I know how long it will take.
New job has changing/shower facilities and even a washing machine and dryer for dirty kit (perks of working in the bike industry) so no excuses not to ride!
2/2/17 194lbs 88kg or 13St 11 3/4lb fatty bumbum
I'm in
Weighed in on 1st January 2017 - an eye watering 15 stone 8lbs (for me)
Target by year end 14st 8lbs
Oh turd.... 🙁 yup email sent and would like to join you guys on the quest to less chubbieness.
13 stone 9 lbs pre poo this morning.
Last time I weighed myself a year ago I was 12 stone 4 lbs. Christmas booze and chocolate accounts for a bit of that.
5 foot 10 so definately on chubby side of normal. Can feel it too round my neck and belly 🙁
So...... Would like to get back to around 12 stone.
Good luck all chubby lovers!
jesmond dingo; no email received
woody21 and firestarter - what's your targets for 1 month, 3 months and 6 months, that's the game we're all playing.
Email sent
Well I've Just tipped the scales at a super-chunky 16st 2lb - the heaviest I've ever been. My love of the pie is well documented. Since packing in smoking if I have only 2 packs of Seabrook a day it's officially a Slow Crisp Day
As I've never done an actual weight loss program before I have no idea on timescales for targets that are achievable. What does everyone reckon?
I want to shift 2 stone to be roundabout 14. I'm 5'11" and I believe the technical term is a 'big unit' anyway.
Right.... I'm off out for a ride
Woooft 83kg which is a number I've never seen before. I feel a bit fat so knew but this is a shock. Normal operating temp is around 76kg which is where I was in August !! Too much work, crap diet and booze.
Email coming now !
As I've never done an actual weight loss program before I have no idea on timescales for targets that are achievable. What does everyone reckon?
1kg/2lb a week is the classic 'lose it and keep it off' loss rate.
1kg/2lb a week is the classic 'lose it and keep it off' loss rate.
Have emailed a couple of you separately on this so I'll post it up here. I agree with the above, in fact I'd aim for less. Maybe 1.5lbs per week to start with and then 1lb / wk after. Slow and steady! That's why i recommend weighing max weekly, and I'm going to collect data fortnightly, to allow for off days and bad weeks and for differences to be noticeable.
I lost 43 lbs in 36 weeks in 2013 at about this rate. There are 26 weeks between now and mid Jun, so losses of between 26 and say 45lbs are very doable. 2lbs a week for 26 weeks is close on 4 stone, which is also doable if you have a huge amount to shift - but looking at the people signed up the most anyone's aiming for is 3st / 42lbs, and most people seem to be aiming for around 20-25lbs, which sounds a [u]very[/u] doable and healthy rate.
