Comments | cdave: Weight for it!

cdave

Weight for it!

Mar 16, 2009 22:58

I realised the other day that despite never keeping a diary, or weighing myself more than once every few months, I can remember my weight at various times. So graph time!

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chiller March 16 2009, 23:24:36 UTC

It must just be your natural weight. Congrats for being healthy! :D

cdave March 16 2009, 23:32:55 UTC

Thank you.

iBon's just got home, and we've come up with a new theory (that ignores the 12 minute fast walk each way to the tube these days).

I didn't lose weight for a few months when I joined the gym, as I was putting on muscle. Then I improved stamina and metabolism. Then I quit and lost muscle. Now I'm on the verge of loosing stamina. I've got to start doing exercises again. Which is easy for me to say, but I've been saying it for ages.

I'm really impressed how you're really pushing yourself!

chiller March 16 2009, 23:35:39 UTC

Aha! But I am trying very hard NOT to push myself, which is incredibly tricky. Pushing myself is how I got into this sorry state... nowadays I have to find the borders of my capacity and stay a few inches the wrong side of them...

I think your gym/muscle/stamina theory has some legs to it.

cdave March 16 2009, 23:56:48 UTC

Even more impressive that you're using your spoons to go out on walks.

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kaz_pixie March 17 2009, 06:14:19 UTC

I agree with what you said about going to the gym, to be perfectly honest with you I think the gym is great for getting a little bit of exercise to assist with weight loss (although I really do find it difficult to put time aside in my life to just do a little bit) and I find it great for shaping my body and great for building fitness. As far as losing weight goes it's usually a hinderance to me. I think I'm not going to go back until I'm down to 13st and that will take me nicely into summer. I'm thinking perhaps I will start swimming 3 times a week instead just to make sure that my general fitness/lung capacity is there.

The stuff with my Dad, and seeing my mum struggle so much with her weight all the way through my life has just made me realise that I need to get this sorted before much longer.

cdave March 17 2009, 09:19:08 UTC

Everyone says it only gets harder to lose weight when you get older.

Swimming's supposed to be great, but I find it sooo dull. With running I can at least listen to music or an audiobook while I do it.

kaz_pixie March 17 2009, 12:08:22 UTC

Sometimes it's nice to just think about nothing, I can relax whilst I swim and get my thoughts in order.

sarahdotcom March 17 2009, 06:42:56 UTC

I gained a fair bit of weight this winter, like I was actually the heaviest I've ever been. Usually weight just drops off me really quickly but this time not so much. I must be getting old. I think I'm getting back to normal now but my flatmate's IKEA scales at 8-10 kilos so it's hard to tell.

sarahdotcom March 17 2009, 06:43:59 UTC

That was meant to say "add 8-10 kilos"

cdave March 17 2009, 09:22:20 UTC

That's incredible! Those aren't scales, they're carnival guess-your-weight machines.

The only reason we have a set of scales at them moment was because iBon needed to weigh a case for a flight, to make sure it was less than 20 kilos.