Cantona's Calorie Cutout Countdown Continuum (updated weekly)

Celebrated my FAKE birthday on Saturday. Due to me being at uni during my actual birthday, decided to have a bit of a small celebration and I drank and ate a lot of rubbish. Then the next day I had a couple of McDonalds cheeseburgers to cure my head. Naughty.

Because I knew of my fake birthday I chose to go to the gym alot this week: Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. So it's been quite the exercising week. 6 days is probably a personal best in one week for me.

A couple of times this week I've been busy with mates and have had to do quick meals, so I found myself skipping the veg out. Certainly Tuesday and Wednesday.

I'm off to uni a week on Monday and while my food and exercise should remain the same, I will be back drinking again. Hopefully I won't put on too much weight.



Dinner:
Friday: Gammon, fried egg, chips and salad
Saturday: Steak, chips and salad. THEN: cheese board other various snacks
Sunday: Pork steak, potato wedgies and salad
Monday: Lasagne and garlic bread
Tuesday: Chicken and rice.
Wednesday: Fish, chips and pickled onions.
Thursday: Sausages, mashed potatoes, vegetables and gravy

Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 8lbs

Next target: 11 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 9 stones 6lbs

Hopefully I'll be at my next goal by next week, regardless of a bit of booze.
 
Quite a new experience for me this week. Moving away for uni again, but challenged by having to shop for myself and my two new housemates as well as not trying to drink too much with mates and also trying to get down my new gym.

Food has been OK. The housemates were a little unsure about healthy eating, but they've been convinced and it's only the main meal we cook together, so not a big issue for them. They actually said they'd like to be more healthy and I am having a positive influence on them.

Moved back to uni on Monday, but on the Friday before I went to the pub with my mates for the first time in ages and had 5 pints of lager. Having not really drank properly for ages, I found myself to be quite, quite drunk. This lead to me not turning down the chance of a KFC at 1 in the morning.

Came back to university and caught up with an old mate in the pub to watch football. Not seen him since February, so he was pretty shocked at how I looked. I had a few beers and a packet of crisps. Felt fairly drunk. At least losing all this weight has now meant it's a cheap night out for me. I used to get through 10 pints no problem. Half the man, half the beers I guess.

Exercise has been OK this week. I helped my sister and brother in law move into their new house on Saturday, so did alot of lifting up stairs. Monday I moved into my new uni house, so again, did alot of lifting. Tuesday I went to the gym and today, Thursday, I got a new plan sorted at my gym. A whole new workout which is hopefully going to tone me whilst I lose the weight.



A NEW SECTION OF THIS DIARY (that I'm not proud of):
NAUGHTY MOMENTS:
Friday: 5 lagers and a KFC fillet burger meal
Tuesday: 4 lagers and a packet of cheese and onion crisps.
Thursday: A coke.

Dinner:
Friday: Sausage, mash, carrots and runner beans with gravy
Saturday: Steak, chips and salad
Sunday: Roast pork, roast potatoes, carrots, parsnips and broccoli with gravy.
Monday: Steak pie, new potatoes, carrots and green beans
Tuesday: Fish, chips and peas with a bit of ketchup
Wednesday: Chicken, stir fry and rice.
Thursday: Spaghetti Bolognaise

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 6lbs

Next target: 11 stones 0lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 9 stones 8lbs

A couple of naughty moments and still losing weight, I'm liking it.

GOAL REACHED:
Start the regime change: 24th October 2009 @ 21 stones
Reach 20.5 stone: November 7th 2009
Reach 20 stone: November 13th 2009
Reach 19.5 stone: 26th November 2009
Reach 19 stone: 10th December 2009
Reach 18.5 stone (Move from very obese to obese): 24th December 2009
Reach 18 stone: 21st January 2010
Reach 17.5 stone: 2nd February 2010
Reach 17 stone: 18th February 2010
Reach 16.5 stone: 4th March 2010
Reach 16 stone: 18th March 2010
Reach 15.5 stone: 1st April 2010
Reach 15 stone: 22nd April 2010
Reach 14.5 stone: 6th May 2010
Reach 14 stone (Move from obese to overweight): 20th May 2010
Reach 13.5 stone: 3rd June 2010
Reach 13 stone: 24th June 2010
Reach 12.5 stone: 6th July 2010
Reach 12 stone: 12th August 2010
Reach 11.5 stone (Move from overweight to not overweight): 16th September 2010
Reach 11 stone:
Reach 10.5 stone:
Reach 10 stone:
 
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A mixed week this week. Started to realise that university is probably the reason that the bad habits I had, got much worse. Managing to stick to the food intake quite easily, but going for loads beers with mates and stuff is just par for the course here.

Had a catch up with a mate on Sunday and we drank alot and I alot of shit, so the week has gone badly. It's my birthday today and while I haven't done anything bad yet, I'm probably going to have a couple of beers.

I've realised that maintaining the same weight can be just as challenging as losing it, so I'm happy with any result that isn't me gaining weight.

Started OK with the gym on Friday, my legs were killing after that. This new regime is really going to make me fitter and work on my core. Could barely walk on Saturday and I really wanted to get some exercise in before a big session on Sunday, so I went swimming Sunday morning. I find swimming to be quite boring after a while, but it's good for gentle exercise.

Due to the hangover from Sunday I went swimming again on Monday. This allowed me to get back in the routine without going too mental. Went back to the gym Tuesday afternoon. Plan on going again Friday and over the weekend. FEEL THE BURN.

Friday: Steak pie with new potatoes, carrots and broccoli
Saturday: Sausages, boiled potatoes, roast parsnips, roast squash.
Sunday: Fish and chips with mushy peas
Monday: Pork, rice, carrots and a tomato sauce.
Tuesday: Sausages, mashed potato, green beans.
Wednesday: Steak, chips and salad
Thursday: Going out for my birthday; Italian

NAUGHTY MOMENTS:
Sunday: About 6 or 7 pints of lager, some crisps, a kebab with chips and two cokes.
Tuesday: half a slice of dominoes pizza. (It was free!)
Wednesday: A 6 inch turkey/ham subway, but it was full of salad and had no sauce. 2 beers.
Thursday: Had a burger and chips for lunch. Probably will have beers later.

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 4lbs

Next target: 11 stones 0lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 9 stones 10lbs

Stayed the same, quite happy with that.
 
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I just read through your whole diary. I have no clue why, but I just couldn't stop reading until I finished. YOU MADE ME MISS CLASS! Lol, jk. Class was cancelled this morning, but I would have missed it if it wasn't!

Not many guys I know can cook, but your meals sound so good. Roast pork, steak, spaghetti? I wish I could eat like that every day. And yet you've lost so much weight, even with such filling meals. I'm sitting here munching celery just to keep my stomach from growling.

And your pictures! You've changed so much from your "before" pics. You almost look like a different person; especially at those wedding pics. You were so much thinner, and added to the fact that you were clean-shaven, as compared to your other pics, it was almost hard to tell if it was really you.

Keep up the great work!

~Swoofie
 
Thanks for your comments. I don't know if it should be this easy, but it has been.

All you have to do is stick at it. If you've lost 1lb in one week, you know you can do it. So keep going. Why go back to old habbits when you know you can do it? If you find you've maintaine weight and not lost any, hey, it's not amazing, but it's better than going up.

Self motivation can be hard, but it's the only way you can achieve it.

Comments from your brain like "One bit of chocolate won't make a difference" or "I won't go for that walk today" should be ignored. You'll only feel guilty afterwards if you listen, and you'll feel so much better if you do what is right.

Don't give up.

Yeah, so this turned into more of a pep talk than I intended. :)
 
Started the week off with a BANG. With trips to the gym in consecutive days; Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Had Monday off due to lectures all day. Went back to the gym on Tuesday and decided that with my university timetable I will try to keep to: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday for gym and I might go swimming on other days if I find I have excess energy.

Went to the gym again on Thursday, pounded through and I’m certainly making progress on my fitness.

Not been as naughty with food and drink this week, but next week is going to be much worse I feel, and probably the week after. I’ll make the most of it now.

A major problem I have noticed is my “loose skin”, it wasn’t something I’d really thought about before the diet, but it’s obvious looking at it now. Sort of depressing, you get rid of one problem and another happens. I might go and see a doctor about it, as I looked online and the advice varies.

Friday: Steak pie, roasted vegetables and rice (My housemate cooked, she doesn't appear to do foods that go together).
Saturday: Lasagna
Sunday: Roast chicken, potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, broccoli and spinach with gravy.
Monday: Chicken stir fry. (Housemate forgot to put rice on, so I had an orange afterwards.)
Tuesday: Pork, spinach, new potatoes, carrots and a tomato sauce.
Wednesday: Toad in the hole (sausages in yorkshire pudding (a batter)) with carrots and broccoli.
Thursday: Spaghetti bolognaise

NAUGHTY:
Friday: Chocolate cake from my birthday
Wednesday: Something called a “sugar mouse” got pressured into it after never had one before. Tasted like cleaning products.

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 1lbs

Next target: 11 stones 0lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 9 stones 13lbs

1lb until a 10 stone loss. Nice.
 
A pretty shit week this week, but the overall outcome hasn’t actually been that bad.

Limped my way into the week; Friday my right knee was slightly hurting so I didn’t do anything. Saturday the knee was getting better but I didn’t want to put too much pressure on it, so I went swimming instead.

Sunday I also went swimming, just to make sure my knee was OK. However, I came down with a bad case of man flu. I was basically at deaths door, didn’t think I’d make next week! Sunday, Monday and a bit of Tuesday I basically wanted to die. So no gym or exercise then, but did go to the steam room, and probably kept my weight down through sweat loss!

As you can see the diet has taken a bit of a kicking too. While I haven’t got that bad, I have fallen off the wagon somewhat. Got mates coming down to see me at the weekend too, so it isn’t going to get any better next week, or at least the weekend.

Woke up Wednesday after having a fair few beers with mates the night before, had a Subway to cure my head. Decided in my wisdom to then have what I’d normally have for breakfast; for tea. So it’s not THAT bad really.

Had to go to university all day Thursday, so no chance of exercise. Plan on going tomorrow though.



Friday: Cottage pie with runner beans and spinach.
Saturday: Chicken stir fry and noodles
Sunday: Chicken, jacket potato with cheese, courgette and carrot
Monday: Steak and ale pie, chips and peas (a bit naughty)
Tuesday: Cheese burger and chips (fairly naughty)
Wednesday: Meatball subway, crisps, coke. (fairly naughty)
Thursday: Sausage and vegetables.

NAUGHTY:
Tuesday: 10 lagers and an extra McDonalds burger.
Wednesday: Meatball Subway, crisps and a coke

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 2lbs

Next target: 11 stones 0lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 9 stones 12lbs

Stayed about the same, but it’s disappointing because I’ve weighed myself constantly and at one point I was below the 10 stone mark. Still, I know if I keep up my gym work and general healthy diet it’ll be along in now time. The costliness of being ill and eating rubbish is apparent for all to see.
 
Had some a couple of mates come down for the weekend and they aren’t really in the world of bothering to eat well or healthily, so it was poor food and lots of beers on Friday night. Saturday was poor food, but I resisted the booze.

Sunday they left and having finally got over my phlegm (lovely) filled cold, I hit the gym again.
Sunday night I had another Dominos pizza, because my housemates came home from a trip and couldn’t be bothered to cook. I felt bad and told myself I would try and hit the gym to make amends.

In a bid to do over the bad food of the weekend, and last week to an extent, I went to the gym Monday. But my cold from last week came back with revenge. So I found myself not wanting to do much exercise with all the excess phlegm and god knows what. But have been going to the gym and just having a steam room and sauna session, probably getting rid of some excess water weight.

An OK week, but weight loss is weight loss.

Friday: Dominos pizza and chicken nugget things
Saturday: Chinese restaurant
Sunday: Dominos pizza AGAIN (THIS IS BAD BAD BAD)
Monday: Two sausages, carrots, broccoli, new potatos
Tuesday: Chicken pie, chips, peas and carrots.
Wednesday: Spaghetti Bolognaise with garlic bread.
Thursday: Chicken stir fry with rice/cous couse (I don’t know which yet)

NAUGHTY:
Friday: Dominos pizza and 6 beers
Saturday: Tesco meal deal for lunch (Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, crisps and a coke) and Chinese for tea (Didn’t really have a proper breakfast either)
Sunday: Dominos pizza

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 10 stones 13lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 1lbs

Back in the saddle and broken the 10 stone mark too.
 
Dude you're doing really well, peoples jaws must drop when they see you, you look like a totally different person, I bet some of your friends walk past without recognising you. the hardest thing for me is gelt, if I treat my self, or slip up I can't get over it and I over do it at the gym, like really over do it 2 hours in the gym n 20min in thr Sauna and end up filling kinda iffy.

Keep up the good work.
 
Mover-N-Shaker said:
Dude you're doing really well, peoples jaws must drop when they see you, you look like a totally different person, I bet some of your friends walk past without recognising you. the hardest thing for me is gelt, if I treat my self, or slip up I can't get over it and I over do it at the gym, like really over do it 2 hours in the gym n 20min in thr Sauna and end up filling kinda iffy.

Keep up the good work.
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I guess so. Sounds stupid, but I genuinely don't "get it". Because I looked in the mirror everyday, I never saw any dramatic difference. Some people have genuinely failed to recognise me, which I found surreal.

I find everything in moderation is fine. If I know I'm gonna eat or drink some bad stuff, I try and make up for it in the gym by going once more or something (Before, on and after the day). But I don't kill myself over it. Also, I haven't found a massive problem with weight gain.

Just try and be more sensible in my outlook on lifestyle, health and fitness.
 
Friday and Saturday I still didn’t feel gym ready. Really wanted to go and felt guilty for not. Sunday I went and watched football in the pub all day with lager which made it bad. UH OH.

Monday I went back to the gym. Finally. I even woke up in the morning and said to myself “oh, I can just go tomorrow”. But that isn’t a good attitude and I decided I needed to go. However, I had found myself needing to be uni all day, so never got a chance. Tuesday morning I woke up and went straight to the gym. Pounded myself and felt much better for it. Wednesday I felt tired, but just went to the gym and did the steam room and sauna.

Thursday, I woke up earlyish and headed to the gym straight away. There’s nothing like the feeling you get right after you finish your session. Tiredness, but you feel great.

Got a couple of parties coming up at the weekend, so I knew I really had to get the gym in today. Housemates birthday tomorrow and then a mates housemate on Saturday. Then I’m off home on Monday for a few days, so no chance to get to the gym. The scales next week could be a bit bad. But for now, they seem OK

I was a bit premature, but I started a before and after thread, which is very wordy (apologies) but does have before and after pictures and also GRAPHS. Everyone loves a graph.

Link here: http://weight-loss.fitness.com/befo...bs-134kgs-10-stones-13lbs-141lbs-69-4kgs.html


Evening meals:
Friday: Sausage and mash potato and a banana afterwards because of no veg
Saturday: Roast pork, potatoes, sweet potato, broccoli, gravy.
Sunday: Chicken, roast potatoes and carrots with gravy.
Monday: Vegetable pasta with tomato sauce and garlic bread.
Tuesday: Roast pork with apple sauce, mash potato, green beans, carrots with gravy
Wednesday: Tiny bit of left over pork, jacket potato with cheese and little bit of pickle
Thursday: Sausages, cabbage, carrots, broccoli

NAUGHTY:
Sunday: 8 beers and two packets of crisps
Monday: A can of coke.
Wednesday: A piece of burnt flapjack

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 10 stones 11lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 3lbs
I’ll take that.
 
WORST WEEK OF THE REGIME CHANGE. I fell off the wagon, then ate the wagon and washed it down with a crate of beer. God I feel just so bad in myself for it.

Knew I was going to be drinking on consecutive days this week, so I hit the gym Friday. Didn’t really have time for the full work out Saturday morning so just went for a steam and sauna (the lazy mans weight loss).

Friday night was my housemates birthday, so I had a few bottles of beer and some bits of pizza, nothing too bad in moderation, but it’s not a good start considering the week I’ve had.

Saturday morning went down to see a mate at uni for a house party. Grabbed a lunch from Tesco and then we went down and started drinking at about 5pm and didn’t stop until about 3am.

Sunday we went to the pub for lunch (no breakfast), had a bit of fish and chips, but I had a massive hangover and I couldn’t eat it all. Grabbed another sandwich from tesco for my tea.

Monday, I went into uni and forgot to pack my soup so had to grab a sandwich from there. Went home Monday night and had a couple of beers with family.

Tuesday night I had quite a lot of booze. Not nearly as much as Saturday, but still a lot. Some nice cheese after too. Wednesday I had a bacon sandwich for lunch.

Thursday I spent all day in uni after coming back from being at home and grabbed a sandwich and some crisps.

Not been able to get to the gym since Friday.

At least now I know what happens when I go back to bad ways. I DO NOT LIKE IT.

Sounds stupid, but I felt fatter. I knew I was bigger before I stepped on those scales.

Lunches:
Friday: Mushroom soup
Saturday: tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, crisps and a coke
Sunday: tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, crisps and a water
Monday: Cheese ploughmans sandwich, crisps, coke
Tuesday: Cheese and chutney on ryvita.
Wednesday: Bacon sandwich.

Dinner:
Friday: Pizza, sausage rolls and some chicken things. Resisted the birthday cake!
Saturday: God knows what food. Too much. So much beer I can’t remember.
Sunday: Fish and chips with mushy peas and tartare sauce.
Monday: Roast pork, roast potato, broccoli and carrot with gravy.
Tuesday: Steak and chips with salad
Wednesday: Spaghetti bolognaise and garlic bread.
Thursday: Pork, tomato sauce, carrots, green beans and new potatoes.



NAUGHTY:
Friday: 5 or 6 beers and probably too much pizza.
Saturday: So much beer and food I can’t even remember :(
Monday: 4 or 5 beers. THIS IS BAD.
Tuesday: A fuck tonne (this is metric) of booze and cheesey food stuff.
Wednesday: bacon sandwich
Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 11 stones 0lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs :(

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 0lbs
OH MY GOD.

Going on a two week booze ban. BACK IN SADDLE. GYM TOMORROW. COME ON.
 
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Minor update:

Went to the gym today, weighed myself and I'm actually 11 stone.

Not as bad as I thought.
 
Don't beat yourself up mate, you're back on a new wagon (non-edible this time) and you know what you're doing! Have a good weekend xx
 
So after last weeks terrible fiasco, I decided I needed to change. And how did I start this week? By doing exactly the same. It started OK enough, went to the gym.

Then my mate asked me round for some beers, bit of video gaming and some pizza. Yeah, why not? I thought. Got persuaded into having the largest pizza Papa John’s do. It’s not even nice pizza. I didn’t enjoy it at all. Had a couple of beers and went home. The pizza clearly didn’t agree with me and I threw most of it back up.

Saturday was another disaster. Got a phone call from a mate asking me to go to a party. I really didn’t want to, for my diet if nothing else but eventually got persuaded. Had a few beers (not as many as last weeks house party, obviously learned me lessons), went to a club and danced for about 3 hours and I was sweating like a maniac. Exercise!

Sunday morning, woke up and had some crumpets for breakfast with some fruit. A mixed breakfast. Only had about 4 hours sleep that night and then I went mental and decided I needed to hit the gym. So I went to the gym knackered after the nights sleep and couldn’t manage a full circuit. Went in the steam room and sauna.

Monday I felt abit of a cold coming on, so went to the steam room. My plan was to go to the gym: Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Tuesday. But because of this stupid cold I haven’t been since. I have been hitting the steam and sauna every day though, hoping I can get back into the swing of things by Sunday.

Although the plan is to have a few beers on Sunday. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to have another “unnaughty” week again.

This is BULLSHIT. It shouldn’t be this hard to be free from bad things.


Dinner:
Friday: Pizza
Saturday: Pizza
Sunday: Roast chicken, potatoes, carrots, broccoli, green beans, courgette and gravy.
Monday: Chicken stir fry with rice
Tuesday: Beef stew with carrots, potatoes, onions and mushrooms with peas
Wednesday: Lamb with cauliflower cheese
Thursday: Cheeseburger and homemade chips

NAUGHTY:
Friday: 3 beers few crisps
Saturday: 8 beers, 6 inch subway, fair few crisps
Sunday: the other half of my 6 inch subway.

Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 10 stones 11lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 3lbs

Moving the right way.

Getting to 10stone 7 is taking FOREVER.
 
Sunflower said:
Don't beat yourself up mate, you're back on a new wagon (non-edible this time) and you know what you're doing! Have a good weekend xx
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I had no peer pressure at home. University is bloody different and I don't know if I can hold off lifes temptations.
 
So sadly, there’s not been a lot to write about this week. My cold is only just starting to go away so I haven’t been to the gym at all (BAD TIMES), I just feel so phelgm filled in a morning that the idea of running doesn’t fill me with pleasure, but I plan on rectifing this tomorrow, especially since the plan for Saturday is to be in the pub for 12 hours.

Apart from the gym fatality I have sort of stuck to my diet, apart from Sunday when I went and watched football with a mate and sank a few beers.

Booked myself in to see a doctor on Tuesday. I just have lots of questions about health and fitness in general as well as my sagging skin that I wanted to know the answers to from a professional. So hopefully that is good news. I’m not sure at what point I need to stop losing weight. I know I’m safely (I guess) into the healthy part of the BMI, but I thought maybe I should be a bit lower. I’m a bit unsure as to whether all my “excessive skin” is indeed that or perhaps a bit of fat. People keep telling me I look OK and I shouldn’t lose anymore. So I dunno, it’s all very conflicting.

I bought some Pork scratchings today, but I haven’t eaten them. Anyone else do this? Buy yourself something that ordinarily would be scoffed before you’ve left the shop but now leave it as a “treat”.



Dinner:
Friday: Turkey with tomatoes, onion, peppers, peas and rice.
Saturday: Sausages, mashed potato and carrots
Sunday: Bolognaise on some baked potatoes with cheese
Monday: Sausage casserole with pasta
Tuesday: Chicken and peppercorn escallops (NOT HOMEMADE!) with chips and peas.
Wednesday: Cottage pie with green beans and a bit of broccoli
Thursday: Beef stir fry with rice.

NAUGHTY:
Saturday: Pork scratchings for lunch.
Sunday: Burger and chips for lunch, 6 beers and some crisps.
Monday: A piece of flapjack. Crisps.
Tuesday: Crisps


Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 10 stones 11lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 3lbs

Stayed the same, but then I haven’t been to the gym in bloody ages. Determined to try again tomorrow.
 
I noticed a few new members of the forum filling out a little questionnaire, so having never done it I thought I would do it. I’ll fill it in 3 times, once for the answers I would have given 18 months ago (before I even thought about losing weight), once for the answers I would have given 12 months ago (when I first started to change) and once for now.

Red = before
Orange = Just as I started
Green = now

1. What is your current height and weight?
5"7, no idea what weight
5"7, 294lbs
5"7, 151lbs

2. If you were at an ideal weight now, what would that weight be?
No idea
168lbs
140lbs

3. At what weight would you like to be at four months from now?
Not bothered
238lbs
140lbs

4. Why do you want to lose weight?
I don't really
As a challenge to myself
To look a bit better

5. Do you want to lose weight for a specific life event such as wedding or reunion? If so, when is that event?
No.
No.
No.

6. What obstacles could get between you and your weight loss goals?
My willingness to do it.
Nothing, I'm fairly determind.
The fact that I'm so close and starting to let "normal" foods creep back in

7. Why do you think that you now have a weight problem?
Eating and drinking too much.
Eating and drinking too much.
Years of eating and drinking too much, while have mostly been eradicated, some evidence still remains.

8. What lifestyle changes do you think would help you lose weight?
Food and drinking habits.
A mixture of what I eat and the exercise I do.
Drinking less at the weekends.

9. Have you lost weight in the past? If so, what has worked in the past to help you lose weight?
The only times I can remember are when I've been ill and not been able to eat for a few days.
The only times I can remember are when I've been ill and not been able to eat for a few days.
Currently lost 143lbs and still going, a mixture of good eating and exercise.

10. Why do you believe that you did not lose weight or you gained the weight back?
Because I never changed my habits
Because I never changed my habits
I DID!

11. What, if anything, has not worked for you in the past in helping you to lose weight? Why do you think it did not work?
Never really tried before
Never really tried before
Fad diets do not work.

12. Would you try writing down all food and drink consumed for a given period of time?
I guess, but I'd probably lie
Yes.
Yes and I do.

13. Do you cook at home often? If so, what do you cook?
A bit
Yes, most evening meals a mixture of everything.
Yes, most evening meals, a mixture of everything with a tendancy towards healthy, but not always.

14. How often do you go out to eat? Where do you go?
Very often, bi-daily, takeaway and fast food places
Not often, maybe a takeaway once or twice a week.
Seldom, wherever does decent food.

15. What are your three favorite foods?
Crisps, pizza, steak
Crisps, pizza, steak
Steak, lasagne, beef stew.

16. What are your three favorite restaurants?
Dominoes, KFC, McDonalds
Dominoes, KFC, McDonalds
Subway, Italian, Chinese

17. What are three things you can do differently when it comes to food?
Eat less junk and more fruits and vegetables, eat breakfast
Eat less junk and more fruits and vegetables, eat breakfast
Reintroduce old foods, eat more dairy, eat less snacks when drinking alcohol.

18. If you woke up tomorrow and your body was exactly the way you want it, what would be different?
Thin without man boobs.
Thin without man boobs.
Slightly more muscular with less sagging skin.

19. Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Yes.
Yes.
No.

20. Do you binge eat (large amounts at a time)?
Yes
Yes
No.

21. Do you hide your food or eat in secret?
Sometimes
Sometimes
Rarely.

22. Do you eat when you are sad, nervous, or depressed?
Yes.
Yes.
Rarely.

23. Do you eat as a reward?
Special foods for special occasions yes, otherwise the same old junk.
Special foods for special occasions yes, otherwise the same old junk.
Snack or junk foods, yes.

24. Do you eat while watching TV or using the computer?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.

25. What do you normally eat for a meal?
Breakfast: Nothing. Lunch: Subway, Tesco sandwich, crisps, coke. Dinner: Ready meal, takeaway, KFC, Subway, seldom freshly cooked.
Breakfast: Sometimes cereal. Lunch: sandwich/wrap. Dinner: something home cooked, could be anything and everything.
Breakfast: Porridge and a banana. Lunch: soup or a sandwich. Dinner: Something home cooked, could be anything and everything within moderation.

26. What type of snacks do you eat?
Crisps mainly, rarely chocolate, sometimes sandwiches; Subway;KFC could be a snack, anything in the fridge
Crisps basically, anything out the fridge.
Mostly fruit. Crisps as a treat.


27. In terms of exercise, what, if anything, are you currently doing?
Sometimes play football.
Football sometimes and also a bit of walking.
Gym 3-4 tmes a week is the aim.

28. Where do you go for exercise? A local public gym? School/work gym? Home?
Nowhere really.
Nowhere really.
The gym.

29. What, if anything, are your three favorite types of exercise?
Football, Cricket, swimming.
Football, Cricket, swimming.
Gym, Football, Cricket.

30. What is your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly motivation to move towards your goals?
I don't have any.
To see if I can do it.
To know I've come this far and not quite finish is frustrating after the challenge I have had.

31. Do you have rewards for certain goals?
No.
Not yet.
I was going to buy a pool table when I did it, but I've had to spend most of my spare cash on new clothes, so I guess they are my reward.
 
Kept telling myself to go to the gym and kept putting it off. Not been for about 2 weeks and that really isn’t on. So I said to myself Tuesday afternoon (after telling myself to go on Tuesday afternoon on Tuesday morning) that I would go Wednesday afternoon. Basically I kept putting it off. It got to today and after spending 10 hours at university doing work, I picked tonight as the time to get back to the gym. Bloody stupid, but after 2 weeks away it was good to get back, didn’t quite manage my full cardio set as a bloody stitch crept up on my, but I plan to go back tomorrow. Colds can fuck off :)

Went to see my Doctor on Tuesday, here at university, about my loose skin situation. He basically said I need to have the operation but the area I’m in at the moment has no funding so I wouldn’t really have a chance. He was sympathetic and told me to ask my doctor back home. Which I will do. He was very impressed by my weight loss though, kept wanting to shake my hand.

On the advice of a friend I emailed David Lloyd’s (the gym I go to) PR people. Got a phone call a few hours later saying she was going to do a press release and it could go in the national news.

Fairly exciting times ahead.

Last night had all you can eat Chinese so didn’t eat breakfast this morning as I was still ridiculously full.

Dinner:
Friday: Lasagna and garlic bread.
Saturday: Chicken and bacon sandwich with chips. – ate out
Sunday: Roast chicken, potatoes, leek, courgette, potatoes, carrots, beans
Monday: Sausages and new potatoes.
Tuesday: Meatballs and pasta – ate out for housemates birthday
Wednesday: All you can eat Chinese :(, but I didn’t have lunch, does that make it OK? – ate out
Thursday: Pork, steamed potatoes, broccoli, carrots

NAUGHTY:
Friday: 6 beers.
Saturday: All day in the pub, pints and pints of beer, crisps and a subway.
Sunday: Burger and chips for lunch with a coke


Tale of the tape:
Actual starting weight: 21 stones 0lbs

Current Weight: 10 stones 13lbs

Next target: 10 stones 7lbs

Final target: 10 stones 0lbs

Weight lost: 10 stones 1lbs

All this beer/terrible food is making weight loss hard. Haha.
 
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