Piling on the weight - the confession thread!

[CyderPig]

Message to us all.
Fair play to you Tiny!!!
Si

[derekmiller]

Nice one, Tiny.

[robgunby]

Well done tiny! I massively respect the combination approach of severe diet and severe bbq

[DJBenz]

So I undertook a zen like journey over the last 3 years of denial and hardship, equally balanced with meaty based excess.

Awesome.

And congrats on the incredible wight loss.

[gunman]

Well done Tiny.

I too am prone to being on the beefy side. At my heaviest, I was just shy of 19st. When I was younger I mixed and spread concrete for a living, then when I left college I moved into IT and worked in an office, the weight went on quick!

I have lost 6st now over the last 4 years by sensible diet and exercise. I swim a mile (in the pool) 3-4 times a week before work in the normal way, but have done 5 mornings a week from new year and lost 1.5st in this period.

You can bbq and stay half way slim, it's all part of a balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. In fact, I have found the odd binge out on pulled pork and ribs actually helps with weight loss .

[Verminskti]

I went from 17 stone down to just below in about 4 months and I've kept it there for about 4 months like Tiny said with the low carb and higher protein. Oh and heavy lifting. Muscle wastes quicker than fat but takes more calories to maintain so keeping muscle is a damned good thing for fat loss (muscle also weighs more than fat per volume)

It's been a case of getting a new way of looking at food. I love food it's amazing, I love the experiance, the flavours, the social element, the time waste element. However now see it as a fuel as well. After years of eating anything I now have learnt to listen a bit more to my body and give it the fuel it needs. I could probably stand to loose another 2 stone and I am very slowly loosing weight but I'm a lot fitter, healthier and enjoying the new lifestyle because it should be obvious a diet by exclusion only works whilst things are being excluded.

If anyone wants the website that though preachy and american, got me on the right path drop me a pm.

Also congrats Tiny!

[Tiny]

Chaps,
You have been most kind, but without the surgery could not have done it alone, riminsky if you could pm the name of the site, could do with an angle to freshen up the effort and lose the last 4 or 5 stone.

Cheers
Tiny

[robgunby]

Yeah I'd be interested too. I try to keep an open mind about these things - I was told Allen Carr (the anti smoking genius not the comedy fool) was preachy but I stopped smoking with ease after decades of heavy lung abuse, so hit me up!

[Tyrone1Wils]

I've lost 2 stone last year and it was pretty easy to start with, i kind of stopped dieting and started eating whatever i wanted (in moderation) and managed to keep the weight off. I've now started my journey again to lose some additional weight.

The best way to lose weight is to count calories (it's not as much as a ball ache as you'd imagine).

Id recommend using MyFitnessPal, go to the website or download the app. You simply put in your weight, height and activity level. Then chose how much weight you'd like to lose a week and the app/website will tell you how many calories you should be eating a day.

There's a massive database which has the caloric values of all kinds of food, for packaged items you can even scan the bar-code and it will bring up how many calories there are.

Also, congrats on the weight loss everyone!