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Fat Club Update

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The idea of relentlessly banging on about weight and fitness here and on Twitter didn’t really work. There are only two people that I follow on Twitter doing it and one of them is my sister. But I have been marking major milestones and today was one of them.

So from Dec 29th to Feb 9th, I have lost 20 pounds.

How? No booze, no snacking, no sweets, normal breakfast, normal lunch, smaller dinner, fruit whenever I’m peckish and a small amount of treadmill Mon-Fri.

My BMI, body fat and visceral fat are all still atrocious but on the way down.

On advice from @adventsparky on Twitter, we invested in a body fat analysis machine (aka tarted up weighing scales) on Amazon. This Omron BF510 Body Fat & Composition Bathroom Scales has both feet pads and handgrips to give a much more accurate analysis of fat by running a small signal through your body.

I then track that in a spreadsheet in Google Docs.

Next major milestone will be the 2 stone mark. I figure about another 2ish weeks for that.

Eventual aim is 4+ stone reduction by mid-late summer. Fingers crossed.

8 Comments

  1. Is the accountability helpful, even if other people aren’t doing it?

  2. Totally. Every other time when I did it quietly, I gave up in under a month.

    I’d actually be happy to use the Withings scales to auto-tweet my weight a la @jason or @leolaporte. But the Omron is a better device and less than a third of the price.

    Now I feel like I’d be letting people down if I gave up. I’m so looking forward to the day I announce I’m at my marriage weight!

  3. Well Done Conor. That’s a massive achievement already.

  4. Thanks Ant. Been easier than I expected. The hard bit was (like giving up the smokes 11 years ago) just making the decision to do it.

  5. Whoa ! The main link in Amazon (from Pharmacy Place) charges uk£36 for postage…

  6. P&P was nearly the same price as the scales when I got it so it must have gone up again. Not good. Dabs would send that for a tenner to Ireland if they sold them.

  7. Addendum: The Seller SuSuu is only charging uk£6 postage.

  8. Bum. I wish I’d seen that!

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