losing weight

lil chris · August 02, 2015, 08:46:06 PM

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.

sparky · August 02, 2015, 09:57:33 PM

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....

zwilnik · August 02, 2015, 11:43:39 PM

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

lil chris · August 02, 2015, 11:55:34 PM

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.

Hyperion · August 03, 2015, 01:00:55 AM

Well done Chris! Keep up the effort!

NinOz · August 03, 2015, 03:06:06 AM

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

Newportnobby · August 03, 2015, 09:28:52 AM

If you're coming to the meet up, Chris, will we recognise you?

lil chris · August 04, 2015, 01:32:59 AM

I hope so Mick, the wife says my face looks a bit thiner but so does my belly...he..he

lil chris · August 04, 2015, 01:34:31 AM

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.

Yet_Another · August 04, 2015, 01:14:06 PM

Someone posted this just the other day:

http://www.stationroadbaseboards.co.uk/cart_dowels.htm

Lawrence · 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

)

Newportnobby · August 04, 2015, 02:00:17 PM

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 )

joe cassidy · 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

D1042 Western Princess · 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.

Lawrence · August 05, 2015, 11:03:14 AM

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

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