Hi again everyone, I am still here, I have not been posting much on the site recently but i have visited the site a few times. I have for just over two months been concentrating on getting fit and losing some weight. I was a bit over weight and decided to do something about it, I seemed to have put weight on since retiring from work. I have cut my sugar,cakes biscuits and sweets,all the things I love and have been walking and cycling and have managed to lose one and a half stone,I am now a healthy weight and have a BMI of 24.6 I realised things were bad when I could not climb under the layout without difficulty, weighed my self and my BMI was 27.
I have realised that my layout is no conductive to easy maintance, the two front boards are 2'x4' bbolted together with the fiddle yard the same size bolted to the back, its to big to put on it's side so a re design is on the cards. so boards of about 1'x3'/4' and I think a small station with a couple of sidings, perhaps a passing loop based on somewhere on LMS would be fine, might be totaly fictional yet and not to ambitious.
Hi Chris....so a slimmer layout all round is planned..know the feeling of carrying too much weight and under board lack of agility...good luck with the new plan....
Good to hear your username is becoming more accurate Chris :)
I've been dieting (and by the sounds of it around the same weight) for the last couple of months too. Realised a while back I couldn't fit through the scenery repair/derailment access cutout in my layout that easily any more. Now it's easy :)
Thanks guys, I am only 5' nothing, i always told people 5' 1" but I must have shrunk with old age...he...he. So when I realised I was 10 and a half stone and a bmi index of 27.5 I thought I better do something. Cut the sugar,cakes chocolate and sweets etc and a lot more exercises cycling and a lot of walking. It took me just under 9 weeks but with determination I have done it. I keep myself now between 9stone and and my max weight 9stone 2. I just need to sort the railway now, I need to do small sections and get them running correctly and i need a plan this time.
Well done Chris! Keep up the effort!
Got a weight problem myself.
Mine was caused by a growth hormone deficiency.
I'm 5'6" but for my weight I should be 7'4".
CFJ
If you're coming to the meet up, Chris, will we recognise you? :goggleeyes:
I hope so Mick, the wife says my face looks a bit thiner but so does my belly...he..he
By the way guys where do you get those dowels from for joining boards, I had a look in B&Q but they do not seem to have them.Its ok guys disregard this post Colpatben has posted the location in another post.
Someone posted this just the other day:
http://www.stationroadbaseboards.co.uk/cart_dowels.htm (http://www.stationroadbaseboards.co.uk/cart_dowels.htm)
:NGF:
Well done on the weight loss Chris, I have been having the same battles myself, mind you the last time I was 10 stone was about 40 years ago when I was 13!!
(and yes, only 40 years before some smart bugger from Leyland pipes up :P )
Quote from: Lawrence on August 04, 2015, 01:24:56 PM
Well done on the weight loss Chris, I have been having the same battles myself, mind you the last time I was 10 stone was about 40 years ago when I was 13!!
(and yes, only 40 years before some smart bugger from Leyland pipes up :P )
:zippedmouth: :nerner:
Chris,
Does your diet allow consumption of reasonable quantities of beer/wine ?
I would like to follow in your footsteps and I could cut out sweet stuff but not my daily "aperitif".
Best regards,
Joe
In common with most of you I too have a weight problem.
I gave up crisps, sweets, chocolate (that was the most difficult), cakes, biscuits, cut down on the amount of food on the plate, as a teetotaller I couldn't give up beer or wine, got a bike and guess what?
I weigh as much now as when I retired 8 months ago. ::)
Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on August 05, 2015, 06:08:08 AM
In common with most of you I too have a weight problem.
I gave up crisps, sweets, chocolate (that was the most difficult), cakes, biscuits, cut down on the amount of food on the plate, as a teetotaller I couldn't give up beer or wine, got a bike and guess what?
I weigh as much now as when I retired 8 months ago. ::)
Quote from: joe cassidy on August 04, 2015, 09:01:47 PM
Chris,
Does your diet allow consumption of reasonable quantities of beer/wine ?
I would like to follow in your footsteps and I could cut out sweet stuff but not my daily "aperitif".
Best regards,
Joe
I don't know how Chris has gone about it but, if it helps, what has worked for me has been cutting out/down on carbs and getting regular exercise. So that has meant no rice, spuds, pasta bread etc ok occasionally I will have a scone or a danish and I still have my Friday night off where I allow myself some chips with my meal or daughter and I will share an M&S meal deal and I get a bottle of red :beers: I still have grilled sausage, egg and black pudding for breakfast every day and instead of sandwiches, the boss makes me wraps for lunch.
Gym wise, I try to go, after work, 3 times a week and have been mainly using the cross trainer and rowing machine, mixing it up with other stuff I usually make a session last 45-60 mins.
I started last October and was tipping the scales at over 100kg, I have got down to 84kg at the moment and would like to lose another couple of kg before the end of the year. The real plus side for me is that I had a disc out a few years ago and had a very weak core/back and was on a high dosage of nerve pain drugs, I have now reduced my drug intake by around 60% and feel a lot stronger and have less pain.
The downside is I have gone from an XL to a Med, so it has cost me a fortune I new clothes :(
I'm going to be 54 this year so I want to keep this going as I want to be healthy enough to enjoy my retirement, when it comes, and be able to possibly even finish a layout :doh:
Quote from: Lawrence on August 05, 2015, 11:03:14 AM
I still have my Friday night off where I allow myself some chips with my meal or daughter
You eat your daughter? :o
Quote from: Lawrence on August 05, 2015, 11:03:14 AM
I started last October and was tipping the scales at over 100kg
Yay - I've got way to go yet then :claphappy:
Quote from: Lawrence on August 05, 2015, 11:03:14 AM
I'm going to be 54 this year so I want to keep this going as I want to be healthy enough to enjoy my retirement, when it comes, and be able to possibly even finish a layout :doh:
Strange the weight loss is causing hallucinations, Lawrence :-X
I've lost 1.5 stone over the last 15 months. Very gradually but generally via the following :
No cakes when taking a coffee break
Alcohol only at weekends.
No chocolate when getting petrol etc
Slightly smaller portions
Cutting right back on crisps etc
Generally eating healthily (rarely having fried foods).
Also, plenty of regular exercise.
We allow ourselves treats occasionally and also relax on holidays.
After being a regular sports player till aged 54 (I'm now 60). I played football 3 times a week till 55, I had piled on the pounds for 5 years.
I now feel so very much better having lost that bit of weight and never get out of puff.
I also don't miss the cakes, chocolate etc and am happy with no alcohol Mon-Thursday.
Thats the way to do it Port Perran, thats what I have basically done cut the sweets and chocolates and cakes, I still eat my pies, I love pies and I dont even come from Wigan....... hope there is no one from wigan on here......
Quote from: lil chris on August 06, 2015, 01:35:28 AM
I still eat my pies, I love pies and I dont even come from Wigan....... hope there is no one from wigan on here......
But Wigan is a lovely place to come from........going to however..... :no:
OK, hat, coat, door.... :-[
With regard to your thoughts on a new layout, how about Monsal Dale on the rooftop line, I have thought myself that it would make a nice exhibition layout. With the viaduct, station perched on a hillside and tunnels either end, could all be fitted into about 12' long with very little compression. Maybe when Cromford is finished. :hmmm:
By the way congrats on your weight loss!
Quote from: port perran on August 05, 2015, 01:06:23 PM
I had piled on the pounds for 5 years.
You're not alone in this, here's a real and rather chilling story.
I knew a chap who was a very keen rugby player and with that sport it meant a lot of food and alcohol. Anyway he had to give up rugby but didn't give up on the lifestyle, he ballooned. One day word went round the office that Bruce had died of a heart attack, he was 37. A gentle giant sadly missed.
Quote from: port perran on August 05, 2015, 01:06:23 PM
I now feel so very much better having lost that bit of weight and never get out of puff.
Well done for heading off potential health problems later on.
Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on August 06, 2015, 06:59:00 AM
Quote from: lil chris on August 06, 2015, 01:35:28 AM
I still eat my pies, I love pies and I dont even come from Wigan....... hope there is no one from wigan on here......
But Wigan is a lovely place to come from........going to however..... :no:
OK, hat, coat, door.... :-[
Hey, I had a
great interesting time in Wigan last year ;D
And don't forget we have members who live there! :thumbsup:
I've lost nearly a stone, gradually over a couple of years, which I reckon is the way to do it. I like to lose a little more, but I'm not that worried about it - I'm not seriously overweight.
What I don't understand is that my partner and I eat the same meals, and the same quantities (she gets very upset if she thinks my portion is bigger than hers). In fact, she probably eats more because she scoffs crisps, which I can't stand. Yet she remains as thin as a rake of Mk 1s. How? Why? It isn't that she takes more exercise either, as I do the lion's share of the dog walking.
Life is just so unfair sometimes. :(
Chris
Quote from: Bealman on August 08, 2015, 09:53:01 AM
Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on August 06, 2015, 06:59:00 AM
Quote from: lil chris on August 06, 2015, 01:35:28 AM
I still eat my pies, I love pies and I dont even come from Wigan....... hope there is no one from wigan on here......
But Wigan is a lovely place to come from........going to however..... :no:
OK, hat, coat, door.... :-[
Hey, I had a great interesting time in Wigan last year ;D
And don't forget we have members who live there! :thumbsup:
:sorrysign:
Humble apologies to anyone living there who was upset. That was not the intention.
However, I was quoting a friend who comes from Wigan and said he has no intention of returning, unless just passing through on a train.
Thanks for all the replys guys and thanks steve 836 for the suggestion of Monsal Dale, I will look into that it.I am thinking of,making the new layout modular, I could possibly make it into a module on it's own.
By the way Anyone from the North west of the uk knows that the people from Wigan are known as pie- eaters, and actually the origin of the story is not about eating pies, just a humble story. I missed Wigan show this year but I will make sure I go to next years meet.
Chris, you haven't missed it, it is on later this year http://www.wiganfrm.org.uk/exhibition.html (http://www.wiganfrm.org.uk/exhibition.html) :D