Reply to: Are you overweight?

[mudskipper]

Found it to have a devastating impact on my weight.

Ever since not commuting my weight dropped for sure. Anything less than eight hours sleeps and the lbs start piling on.

More sleep = less eating time

[scooterscot]

Quality of sleep

Found it to have a devastating impact on my weight.

Ever since not commuting my weight dropped for sure. Anything less than eight hours sleeps and the lbs start piling on.

[d000hg]

Why do people need to weigh or measure themselves to judge whether they are overweight? Why not just get your kit off, look at yourself in a mirror and be honest about what you see?

Metrics enable you to see if things are changing before the eye does. Also, the eye lies - some people will always see more fat to lose.

My scales measure internal (visceral) fat as well as overall fat % though how accurate and how scientific this is I do not know. Also whether there is a common scale used, or every manufacturer makes up their own.

[Mich the Tester]

Well it's a start. Now get fit and next year you might achieve

Two years later,

[mudskipper]

Why do people need to weigh or measure themselves to judge whether they are overweight? Why not just get your kit off, look at yourself in a mirror and be honest about what you see?

[TheBigD]

I'm built like Terry Wogan Ill have you know.

FTFY

[mudskipper]

Well, I'm actually having my first coffee since December as I type, and it seems to be going down OK, and I've dispatched ms doodab to the local middle eastern place for a kebab (chicken with salad and rice) for my lunch, so I suspect a burger king would go down quite well. If I'm going to go all the way into town to get it I'd probably go for a wagamama instead though.

Sounds like you're feeling better - good stuff!

[Mich the Tester]

Why do people need to weigh or measure themselves to judge whether they are overweight? Why not just get your kit off, look at yourself in a mirror and be honest about what you see?

[doodab]

How's your appetite? Are you able to eat better now? Is the Burger King a possibility or just a distant dream?

Well, I'm actually having my first coffee since December as I type, and it seems to be going down OK, and I've dispatched ms doodab to the local middle eastern place for a kebab (chicken with salad and rice) for my lunch, so I suspect a burger king would go down quite well. If I'm going to go all the way into town to get it I'd probably go for a wagamama instead though.

[mudskipper]

Nah, I do that at home with these vacuum bottles that feel like having your insides sucked out now. Last time I did it I barely got 50ml out. Which is probably a good sign.

How's your appetite? Are you able to eat better now? Is the Burger King a possibility or just a distant dream?

[doodab]

Do you need your liver pumped again? Instant stone gone...

Nah, I do that at home with these vacuum bottles that feel like having your insides sucked out now. Last time I did it I barely got 50ml out. Which is probably a good sign.

[hyperD]

I was 11.5 stone and fit over a year ago but I was cycling 160 miles a week to clientco. Sadly now, I'm 13.5 stone and unfit as MS can vouch for. Need to get back on the bicycle commute again. GF#1 has been instructed to serve smaller meals which may make a bit of difference.

I've reached the size limit for getting into my bike leathers!

[Pondlife]

Body mass index (BMI) = 24.9. Their calc reckoned I'd still be healthy at 3 stone lighter which seems like bollox to me.

[MyUserName]

I feel hard done by!

It has me at 27.1 which is overweight. I cut weight down from 15st 10lbs to 14st 2lbs (I went all the way to 13st 10lbs but that is too light to fight at, I kept getting pushed around so I brought it back up again).

I train twice a day most week days (once before work and again at lunchtime), I group train on Thursday evenings and sometimes again at weekends. Currently my 100 burpee time is 14 minutes, although I want it down to less than 10 minutes before the end of the year, I also have the challenge from Mrs MUN of getting a visible 6 pack by July which is a tough one.

[MicrosoftBob]

Working away from home, and trying to economise to add to the deposit for our next home has led to rather a couch potato lifestyle

Each weekend, it's being house clearing, and doing up the house prior to putting it on the market and during the week it's stay at a bedsit

Sheer boredom has led to a lot of nights of microwave meals and watching movies (:

Can't wait till the summer, when I'll have a couple of months of off in hopefully a country cottage, cook my own food, get out with camera and lose a bit of weight...till the cycle begins again with the next contract