its good to read of someones success well done.. I seem to start off ok.. but then I end up failing..its all too hard now.

keep up the good work btw.

6 Kgs !!

Well done. it's hard work to lose weight.

reducing beer would be great help in your efforts.

cods wrote on Apr 8^th, 2014 at 8:28am:


not as easy as one thinks... 

my rule is, "never drink before a work day"

so that means only Friday after work and Saturday...

the main issue is Calories..

don't blow your daily allowance and you can drink as much as you want... which is about 10 beers if you eat absolutely nothing all day... 

we eat everything we've always eaten in the past but we just cut down the sizes of the meals... probably more on the snacking side of things Helps a great deal... either don't do it or have an apple, banana or grapes...

anyways.. my KFC has just arrived.. toodles..

True Blue... wrote on Apr 8^th, 2014 at 6:52pm:


it's not as much what you eat as it is what you do ... get of your butt and walk. And I mean walk, not plod along like a turtle.  A minimum of half an hour, an hour is better, at least 4 times a week and you'll lose the excess kilo's

Tell you how I lost 10 kilos. I broke up with my wife of 43 years a couple of years ago.

I decided that was one hell of a way to lose weight so I determined to keep it off, which I have.

Also I now have a wonderful woman in my life and have had more affection in the last couple of years than all of 43 with my ex.

Incidentally she was the one to 'play up' not me. But I was the one who got lucky in the end, meeting a truly wonderful kind, woman to share the sunset years.

The other aspect is that if you're big, it takes quite a few months to lose that extra weight.


Good on you True Blue. I know how hard it can be.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Apr 8^th, 2014 at 7:30pm:


for most people regular exercise is unsustainable...

you work all day and the last then you want to do is exercise... a lot of women work all day and then come home to cook tea... they aren't going to want to go out exercising..its time for them to put their feet up...

for me... by using the fitbit I knew I was averaging around 6500 paces a day... and, averaged burning around 2400 calories a day...

so our plan was to work out what 1400 calories a day looks like

so we adapted what we usually eat to 1400 calories...

so instead of two weekbix for breakfast it was 1 ... etc etc .. you'd be surprised how much you can eat on 1400 calories a day...

we used the Calorie King booklet to work out how many calories were in the food that we ate... we weighed and measured everything ...

but once you know how big the meals should look like then you don't even bother...

so instead of 3 or 4 potatoes.. you have 2... instead of 2 snags.. have 1... have a carrot and another 50 grams of mixed vegetables..

western society has become supersized.. we also purchased some smaller plates for when we have a paster dish...

Saturday nights we still have KFC.. but instead of the Two piece feed I get one rib piece and a box of chips... its plenty...

if I snack after tea I grab some grapes or an apple instead of crackers or a couple of sugary biscuits

my clothes are becoming lose again compaired to xmas time...

I am turning 50 this year and want to get back down to the weight I left the army at which was 88 Kilograms... I weighed in at 92.8 this morning which gets uploaded from the scales to the fitbit site and then they send you out the Badge...