The Daddy wrote:

Nice one little Davy!

'twill be a while before I'm called that.......4 stone to go by my reckoning.

Missed last week for logistical reasons but at the weigh-in this week I was 5.5lbs lighter over 2 weeks. That's a result given I have attended 3 boozing sessions - 2 of which were half day affairs and involved dining, Guinness, red wine etc.

I am now the lightest I have been in approx 10 years - under 19st. Next goal is my wedding weight which is about 1 and a half stone lighter than I am now.

See you on the other side.

Hate the bastards who go just for Jan or something and take up all the space such that us regulars don’t get to do our routine stuff.

Hullo thread. Figured I'd post an update since it's the end of the year. 

This year I mainly did a lot more walking to work since the office moved to London. Then I spent august onwards being a fucking hipster vegan. I was pretty good at eating better this year but less good at sticking to my (humble) exercise routine. Luckily all the walking made up for it. 

I am now a 36" waist and I reckon I will probably drop back to 34" which is basically my waist size from like 15 years ago when I was a y u n g b o i and is my 'normal' size. I went from just about a 2XL to well into an XL this year in terms of tops sizing and then got a shirt for xmas off my aunt which was an L that actually fits normally so I'm pretty chuffed about that, guess I did a bit better than I thought. 

Anyway, this is by no means a humblebrag cos I think it's been 3 years since I started trying to eat better and get more exercise to lose some weight, which seems like a long time and at the same time sitting here thinking about it doesn't seem to have felt that long, I guess probably because it's the laziest routine of all time. I just want to continue to let it be known that you don't have to go to a gym, you don't have to do any diet clubs if you don't want to. You can just do little things one at a time as you feel comfortable and eventually it will all add up. I still don't weigh myself and still have no plan to. 

Good luck for 2018 thread peeps. Happy new year.

Yeah boiiii (and also thanks)

Don't worry about telling yourself you gotta knuckle down though, just pick one thing and do that, so in January just do dry January and carry on as normal and then in Feb just pick something you can easily change and just do that to start, no point making it hard on yourself else you just give up after a bit unless you are real masochist. 


In my experience walking more was the single biggest thing. I think I walk about 10k a day (so 5k to work and 5k back) not including other shit like taking stairs instead of the lift and all that shit. Cos even if you have a shitty day and you just eat a fat takeaway, if you're walking about a lot and eating okay the rest of the time the occasional OMG NEED JUNK FOOD NAO fix isn't going to negatively impact on anything. Which is cool cos you already got your walking routine sorted with Clayton so once you make inroads on either a bit of extra exercise or some changes to what you eat/drink then it'll start adding up. 

Good luck dude!

No humblebrags Rouj, you just go ahead and share the success.

1 and a half lbs put on over the fortnight.

I would have taken that - so content.

Back into sensible eating these last couple of days.

Have stashed away any unopened contraband. We tend not to open anything - different story once opened though....

Going to go dry this month too - I have a mate's 50th birthday weekend in Donegal at the end of the month so will aim for that.

To be honest I couldn't face the thought of drink. It's something I don't miss that much any more - especially in the house.

Had a sufficiency over Christmas. New Years Eve was a car crash - got totally pissed on a smorgasbord of whiskey, akvavit, Tequila, lager, cherry beer and sherry. That's what I remember at any rate.

Haven’t been in this thread in a while, but just catching up on Davy's posts and am bloody impressed. Well done!

Well done for getting out for a jog in the first place, that’s often the hardest bit. Build up slowly and you’ll be knocking off 5k+ in no time. Then you can do parkrun, invite the new lass at work along and go for a coffee after. Job done.

Well, coffees finished, they’re both still glistening with the moisture from the hard fought 3 mile meander. She stares across at his red, sweaty face from behind a cappuccino-froth moustache and invites him back to hers for a shower. He coyly accepts, and they both head briskly back to hers. “Wait here” she says when they arrive back at hers. She emerges from the front door 2 minutes later wearing a pair of green frog-eyed wellies and brandishing a karcher pressure washer with the patio dirt blasting attachment.

Ooh, I've got one of those.

Check different brands of what it is you are eating.
What seem similar can be hugely different. For example I seem to remember Uncle Ben's microwave rice pouches had nearly twice the calories of other brands.

Cut carbs not fat. Fat is the one true god.

Not a fat fighting thing really but I ditched caffeine entirely back in December and am feeling much better for it now for whatever reason.