Is it possible to lose 5st healthily in 7 months? and if so any tips?
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janejellyroll wrote: »Retroguy2000 wrote: »
Arrogance? "Who on earth do I think I am"? This really boggles your mind? Calm down. It was just a simple request, with a "please". No need to be dramatic about it.Retroguy2000 wrote: »Good luck! And please just use pounds in the future. It saves everyone else having to work out the actual numbers.
Who on earth do you think you are demanding that just because it is the system you are the most used to using????
Some people's arrogance never ceases to boggle the mind.
Some of "everyone else" have to convert to stone as it is what they are used to and some of "everyone else" have to convert to kg as that is what they are used to. But hey, we cheerfully cope, and we respect that people from all around the world use this forum.
As far as I can tell, it's only Britain and Ireland that still uses "stone", and I'm sure everyone there understands pounds too. I don't think anyone can deny that talking about losing X pounds over Y time is easier. Who thinks, "It's viable to lose 1% per week, and 1% of 17 stone is 0.17 stone which is...??"
I'm from Britain too actually, and I stopped using "stone" years ago. Going from X stone Y pounds to V stone W pounds is how much? I can do it in my head, but it's still an inconvenience.
By all means, continue as you were. Nobody is saying you can't. Again, there was a "please".
"Stone" really isn't that hard to work out though . . . I'd never really encountered it before I saw posters using it here. A quick Google sorted me out. I really don't think people should feel like they need to flatten out verbal/linguistic differences in order to post here. Anyone who finds "stone" an obstacle to providing feedback or doesn't want to bother doing a conversion in their head can just move on to one of the many posts from users who are using pounds as a unit of measurement.
FWIW, when I reply to a post using a different system, I try to remember to include the converted values in my post, if I've done the calc, to help others understand/reply. I'm not nice enough to convert to both the other systems (of lb kg st), though. 🤣5 -
In 2014 I lost ~50 pounds, taking me from 180 to a healthy (mid BMI) 130 in about 9.5 months.
I can't say for sure you can lose the full amount in the time frame you listed, but you can certainly make a lot of progress toward your goal in that time.
Choose a realistic rate of loss, and update it occasionally. Losing 2 pounds per week now may be reasonable. Losing 2 pounds per week when you're only 20 pounds from goal probably won't be. And then accurately & honestly track your calories in. For me, it was also key to MOVE MORE but that was because I worked a desk job, and did not do much intentional movement at all.1 -
As I survey the world around us today, of insurrection in our capital and morgue trucks lined up outside hospitals and food banks trying to get food into the hands of millions who've lost their livelihoods this year, I'm thinking that indignation over someone saying "Hey, could we please use pounds instead of stone?" is a tad out of proportion.1
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As I survey the world around us today, of insurrection in our capital and morgue trucks lined up outside hospitals and food banks trying to get food into the hands of millions who've lost their livelihoods this year, I'm thinking that indignation over someone saying "Hey, could we please use pounds instead of stone?" is a tad out of proportion.
The thing is: big things being wrong in a major way doesn't mean that one is automatically going to never notice anything smaller. Our brains have a lot of space and minor annoyances can easily be registered alongside significant problems. If you haven't been annoyed by anything minor in the past year or so, I think that's great. No snark -- you should probably teach a workshop! But I don't know if that is most people's experience during the political, social, and economic turmoil we're currently living through.6
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