richardholt2011 Member

Hi I'm Richard from London and not feeling so great, because i am starting to get serious health issues from my weight, plus i am pretty overwhelmed with other stuff. Hoping that maybe i can get the support and motivation on here that doesn't come from elsewhere.

I ate like a crazy teenager yesterday but still had a decent weight loss in the week. And you should see this fat boy on his bike!

hi also looking for inspiration, support, chastisement etc and very happy to return the favour

Isle of Dogs

Long-term recidivist and really really need to tackle my weight. 2nd day so-far

sitting in a cafe or a bar in a European city watching the world go by

Hi just rejoined after a long absence and really need help keeping me on the bent and narrow

Just rejoined after a very long absence. There are 93.5kg of me of which 28.5kg really need to go. Although if i can convert some of them into muscle I might relent and allow them to stick around.

Yes - details to follow tomorrow once i have weighed myself and taken a deep breath

I am in London and happy to make new friends who understand an English sense of humour.

London based guy here keen to have people on MFP to say hi to. Am currently on the borderline between overweight and obese and the aim is get to the borderline between 'healthy' and overweight

Hi - keen to make friends and get/give support on here. This is my second session with MFP; I was on here a couple of years back. I' currently one week into 30 days without alcohol, as part of a big plan to get down from 90 kg to 65 kg and kick my diabetes into remission. By the way I have a dog and a fella.

London

Oooh some of these answers make me feel quite queasy! Not sure I should ever have started this! Bottom line seems to be that a bit of the 'other stuff' goes, but probably not a huge amount. Nothing I can do about it of course even if I wanted to, but interesting to know, yuckiness aside.

Thanks mattashbrock but with respect like everybody else you have sidestepped the issue (none of the so-called academic research i have looked at answers the question either) - you say that 'in most cases you will be losing both fat and SOME muscle' but my question is will i be losing some of THE REST or not? my sense is…

Stick with it - we all know how hard it is, but you are worth it.

God much as I despise this present government I have to respect the fact that they gave a gong to april ashley. Should have been OBE or CBE but there you go

Captain Mike on Homeland cooks eggs in every second episode. It's designed to show what a model husband/father he would make - unlike the terrorist / sex cheat/ VP candidate. But do you know - personally I want more than eggs from a man.

Thanks for the replies. The body fat estimate is from scales at the local gym - the ones which measure (or claim to measure) the amount of body fat that I'm currently carrying, using electric current through the feet. The answer it gave was 23 kg. As I say, if I lose 20 kg of fat I will end up with almost no fat which…

Yes and have promised myself more as a reward for weightloss

I suspect that like most diet/exercise advice the science behind 8 glasses a day is pretty dubious - but commonsense suggests that drinking a reasonable (but not precisely defined) amount every day is a good idea (and no, coffee doesnt count). Good for the bowels, amongst other things - and what can be nicer than…

cherry tomatoes

Just the one - 12 year old black labrador. He spends a lot of time practicing his sleeping. He loves carrots. Got kidnapped once (we had to pay a ransom to get him back). He also flew the Atlantic, both ways. How cool is that? Now he has arthritis and cancer and wont be with us much longer. We take things a day at a time.

For simply recording what you have done the android app on MFP works fine.

1. Where were you born? Bahrain 2. Where do you live at the moment? London 3. Where else have you lived? New York plus various places as a kid 4. What is your current occupation? What is your dream occupation? Job hunting; I don't dream about work 5. Tell us any 5 things about yourself :) Been together for over 20 years…

I thought there were no live gay groups on here. Well, i would welcome support/friendship/cruel humour from other gay men - nothing against soccer moms and the rest, they are all great, but I'm not sure they get all the cultural references. I live in London with a man and a dog, we lived in NYC for a short while, am very…

Keep a plastic cup on your desk. Drink a cupful on the hour every hour. Cross each drink off with a marker pen on the cup. (if you dont spend the day at a desk there is surely some way you could adapt this)

Oh and running outside --- eek! Are you crazy?

My partner knows that I ride the exercise bike but my rather modest weight training exercises are strictly private. And it's a big ambition to pluck up the courage to go to my local gym (200 metres from where i live) and go on the running machine. Or in my case it will be manic walking machine... Hopefully soon

It tastes a lot better. Crunching the flakes in your mouth so they burst on your tongue - fantastic. Just use as rarely as you can - salt is quite an easy habit to get out of