New boy. Just starting down a long road.

getthingethappy

Hey Everyone,

First the numbers, 40yrs, Height 6ft 4in. Start point 28st 9lbs. Goal - under 20 St by November 2nd.
Long term goal - 15 Stone.

I've fluctuated up and down for the best part of twenty years now but always put more on than i've ever lost.
Following non weight loss surgery, but undoubtedly linked to lifestyle, in 2012 i was 21st 7lbs, and since that point i have steadily shoved it all back on.( I was 26st when the health issues arose) Always a member of a gym, very sporadic attendance.
I actually enjoy exercise when i do it but lack the discipline. Work is as sedentary as it gets, 12hrs a shift on my backside at a computer. But just lately i've been catching repeats of the U.K version of Obese :a year to save my life and felt somewhat compelled to give it all another go.

Lost 11lbs this week and for the first time, i am in a position to be able to afford a personal trainer at the gym, so i'm just heading there today for the first session. Will be doing three sessions a week with the PT and one or two extra visits off my own back.

One thing i can't quite get. If you watch that Jessie Pavelka chap on the box, he always puts these people on pretty low cal diets, say 1600 calories. The PT at my gym wants me to eat six meals a day of 500 cals. Now i'm not saying there isn't some logic in why he's saying i should (the science makes sense)but it seems pretty contradictory to what i understand dieting to be, not to mention a complete pain in the backside organisationally.

Anyway, looking forward to giving some positive results on here and picking up some good tips around food and managing cravings and the like.

arganusai

Hi,

Well done on deciding to make yourself feel better. I have similar feelings, in that I want to get down to a reasonable size too, I'm 30yo, F, was 18st now 16, 8st. Also very computer driven job, so not much movement.

I find just logging the food on the app makes you think twice about what you eat, and also the levels of fat in foods which can be deceiving!

I've lost 18lb so far, (starting after xmas) and find that just rowing for 30 mins twice a week and cutting down on the fat and sugar have made me feel so much better already. Still a long way to go, but getting there.

This seems a nice way to lose weight slowly and hopefully in that sense by re-educating ourselves on the contents of food keeping it off too. I'm sure these celebs who drop 3 stone in a week then put it all back on as quickly can't be the right message.

Take care and best of luck .

getthingethappy

Thank you and congratulations on your loss thus far.
You are quite right of course, the app is perfect for focusing the mind on what you are putting into your body.
Had the first PT session yesterday. Painful in the extreme but it does highlight how unfit i am. I can get on a cross trainer and knock out 7k in fifty minutes without to much bother but the circuit training he had me doing yesterday was something else!

Here's to a healthy 2014 for both of us.

StarFall90

I have another 175 pounds to lose. Feel free to add me