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Pass the mince pies- Christmas Chat Thread Part Deux
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DvB, as someone who's been on a weight journey for a while (4.5 stone off in the last year and a bit, some more off a few years before that), I can guarantee you some of those lbs are water retention.
It's realistically more like a 2lb gain, because there's no way you could realistically eat enough to manage 5lbs in a week or two. 5lbs on in a week would be an extra 3000-ish calories every day - so 5,000+ calories total per day. Not possible for most people.
A few lbs will drop off within a few days.
Was back to work Saturday gone, and I'm off today. Slept til 9am for the first time in about a year! Incredible
Back to work with a bang though. One of the colleague's relative died unexpectedly
so they've gone back to their home country naturally, so I'll be doing something like 8-10 days in a row after Friday 
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Chuckles save it for a bleak period later in the year would be my advise.
What scare me is that I still have a pack of haribo, loads of gluten free (gf) crisps, gf Christmas pudding and cake, and many varieties of cheese to tempt me to stray.
I feel your pain. We have a box of mince pies, a full pudding, 3 large bags of dorito chilli heatwave, about 5 tubes of pringles, peanuts & an assortment of other sugary, chocolaty goodies... all sitting there chanting 'eat me' everytime I walk pass "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens
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I feel your pain. We have a box of mince pies, a full pudding, 3 large bags of dorito chilli heatwave, about 5 tubes of pringles, peanuts & an assortment of other sugary, chocolaty goodies... all sitting there chanting 'eat me' everytime I walk pass
Hello please pm your address and I will come clear out the rubbish free of charge 0 -
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I joined back to the gym on NYE and I'll deffo will be back on the Slimming World meals for a good while too, I might setup a thread to keep us all motivated!
There is also a Motivation and Personal Development forum on boards if anyone is interested, you can just PM the mods.CheerLouth wrote: »I'm on for a thread to keep us all motivated and healthy I need it as I sit here eating Wensleydale & Cranberry Cheese 0 -
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chuckles30 wrote: »I worked the 27th and the 31st, but I was still like a bold child last night refusing to go to bed - I was thinking that if I didn't go to be, I wouldn't have to get up this morning!! Anyway - it's done, I'm back:(
I had booked Friday off as I thought I would have visitors, but turns out, I don't really need the day now......weighing up my options for cancelling it or taking it anyway as a pj day. But then I know I will probably need it worse later in the year.....decisions, decisions
My advice is to definitely keep the day for later on in the year when a PJ day would be badly needed.0 -
Dalomanakora wrote: »DvB, as someone who's been on a weight journey for a while (4.5 stone off in the last year and a bit, some more off a few years before that), I can guarantee you some of those lbs are water retention.
It's realistically more like a 2lb gain, because there's no way you could realistically eat enough to manage 5lbs in a week or two. 5lbs on in a week would be an extra 3000-ish calories every day - so 5,000+ calories total per day. Not possible for most people.
A few lbs will drop off within a few days.
Firstly, thats an impressive amount of weight to lose, a huge well done on that, thats genuinely a fantastic achievement.
I had managed 3.5 stone myself a few years back after piling on weight after retiring from competitive sport so try to monitor myself to not let it happen again, christmas is the one time of year I allow myself to fall off the wagon so to speak and I kind of expected it TBH.
Secondly, I suspect you're right, 5lbs in less than 2 weeks sounds way off given what I ate/drank (though never underestimate what beer can do on the calorie count). I'll do some stints on the tubo bike this week (Its great for working up a serious sweat) and get back into it & hopefully see that 5 drop to 2 or 3 by the weekend.... far less fun that what I've been doing for the last 10 days but I suppose that's what makes christmas great, if we did it all year round thered be no fun in it AT least we're not alone!!!:D "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens
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We have something like 5 tubs of chocolates, a few boxes of biscuits and two slabs of coke and Fanta sitting there. Thankfully I don't like coke and Fanta and I'm not a chocolate person.
Gave one of the ladies who works next door to me a free coffee yesterday because she was too busy to come in. Comes back in later with two massive bars of Butler's for me.
Despite not being a chocolate person, I had one bar for dinner 0 -
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There is also a Motivation and Personal Development forum on boards if anyone is interested, you can just PM the mods.
Thread is already up, but that is a great idea, I must give them a shout, I'll need it this year! :pac:
Thread is here for anyone interested, we'll keep it nice and easy going.
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Dalmon that is a serious wedge to lose and some dedication. I have done about 3.5 stone in the past for my wedding (113 to 90kg) As with DvB I stopped playing competitive sport, had a few surgeries however I ate like I was still training five days a week and a game at the weekend with the thought that I can lose it any time. But realized I am not 22 anymore. My annoyingly naturally fit OH was a great motivator to lose the kgs. In saying that we meet when I was 113kg.
Anywhoo I have about 8kg this time (about 1.5 stone to shift). Day 2 of the gym, alarm at 5:20 was a nightmare. We start taking down the decs tonight and hopefully will finish it tomorrow. We need the place clean before the little one arrives.
This place is a nice comedown from the highs of Christmas.
3.5 stone is extremely impressive too, well done! I'm sure you'll shift the 8kg in no time
Like you guys, I had issues with surgeries. I'm actually still waiting on lists for a minimum of 2 more surgeries :pac:
Until I'm given the all clear, I'm not allowed to exercise. My first big surgery was back in April and I deliberately got super strict on my food back then because I knew I'd pile on the weight if I didn't.
Thankfully it's still coming off, but I'm getting loose skin due to no exercise. But sure I can save to have that removed if it gets bad, it's far better than obesity!0 -
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