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Title: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 23, 2018, 04:41:17 pm
Weighed in at 16-13.0 today - first time I've been under 17 stone since I got fat. Dropped 9Lb since the beginning of the month by trying to exercise (mostly 30 mins on the exercise bike but sometimes a swim or a walk instead) daily. Hope to be down to 15 stone by Christmas!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: dalymount on July 23, 2018, 04:44:55 pm
well done Stephen, i do 10 k every day if your ever driving along the clontarf road youll see me stop and say hello. i usually do from the wooden bridge to sutton and back
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 23, 2018, 04:49:18 pm
Thank, DM. It was actually your post a couple of months ago about the heart attack victim that rekindled my motivation to lose the excess.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 23, 2018, 04:50:48 pm
Ya fat bollix stop making us feel guilty for not doing anything..
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 23, 2018, 04:54:05 pm
I was about your age when I started piling on the weight. Before that I could eat pretty much anything I wanted with very little exercise!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: dalymount on July 23, 2018, 04:59:38 pm
Well diabetes is very prevalent in our society nowadays, so you cannot be to careful .I have it myself so I suppose that is mostly the reason for all my walking.anyway keep it up your doing brillant to have lost that much weight in that time
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: john m on July 23, 2018, 05:09:29 pm
Well done cant motivate meself to give a bollox still cant break 20 stone .
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: dalymount on July 23, 2018, 05:27:18 pm
You can if you really want to John
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: silverbullet on July 23, 2018, 05:41:12 pm
Weighed in at 16-13.0 today - first time I've been under 17 stone since I got fat. Dropped 9Lb since the beginning of the month by trying to exercise (mostly 30 mins on the exercise bike but sometimes a swim or a walk instead) daily. Hope to be down to 15 stone by Christmas!

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: dalymount on July 23, 2018, 05:50:04 pm
Classic signs are excessive piddling,excessive thirst,excessive tirdness
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Octavia1 on July 23, 2018, 06:11:56 pm
Apparently smell of fruit off yur breath is another sign.... I started putting on the weight wen I went back to me bike....
......it's all about Wat you eat if yu ask me.....
We'll done anyway..... This job can make yu lazy  ::sleep
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 23, 2018, 07:49:26 pm
I was lazy before I took this job on.All those symptoms yis list are the same as if ya were drinking lots of cider.Just saying.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Bob Shillin on July 23, 2018, 07:59:48 pm
Well done, but if the focus is primarily on weight loss, as opposed to general fitness, diet is more effective apparently. The arbitrary 80/% diet 20% exercise for weight loss. The exercise builds muscle also.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: watty on July 23, 2018, 08:12:28 pm
I was lazy before I took this job on.All those symptoms yis list are the same as if ya were drinking lots of cider.Just saying.

A 'gentleman' told me one time cider is great for hiding the smell of beer if you've been drinking all night.  He was all in.  He had 2 cans of cider in his coat pockets as I dropped him off to work one morning.  Management job 'n all.  Last I saw of him as I did a U-turn was him taking a piss in the bushes before he went into to work... 

Sometimes I think I picked the wrong career path  :2cheers
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: silverbullet on July 23, 2018, 10:03:27 pm
Take the Chinese take away off your speed dial.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 23, 2018, 10:12:56 pm
It’s hard to motivate yourself sometimes to go to work,never mind exercise.
I always tell my doctor that I walk to and from work every day, just a shame that work is 8 steps from the front door.

Fair play to you ratser, and Erm; think of that doting grandchild that you mind. Cut down on the beer and fizzy drinks, cut out the rolls, bread wraps etc etc and just try walking around the block or get an exercise bike(no one wants to see you in Lycra in public)  lol
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 23, 2018, 10:19:39 pm

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 23, 2018, 10:20:16 pm
Laffin rofl rofl
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Belker on July 24, 2018, 06:31:14 am
Fair dinkum Stephen, keep up the good work.

C'mon John M, ya said last month ya were going ta give it a lash !

I just weighed myself now and come in at a miserable 14 and a quarter stone,
having an eating disorder is a big help in keeping the weight down !
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Belker on July 24, 2018, 06:32:58 am

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Those sandals look comfortable, where did you buy them Tony ?
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 06:37:15 am
I'm not the smallest myself coming in at an unhealthy 15st 10. I gave up the smokes a couple of years ago which has added the 10 lbs. Must start some shite myself to lose a bitta weight.

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 06:50:11 am

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Those sandals look comfortable, where did you buy them Tony ?

The nuns were good to me Kenneth
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 06:51:29 am
I'm not the smallest myself coming in at an unhealthy 15st 10. I gave up the smokes a couple of years ago which has added the 10 lbs. Must start some shite myself to lose a bitta weight.

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I'm a stone lighter than you but only 5ft 10
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 06:52:53 am
Are they not the superman sandals Tony?? From the phone box. I'd say the wimen loved them back in the day

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 07:03:29 am
Are they not the superman sandals Tony?? From the phone box. I'd say the wimen loved them back in the day

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 rofl



Ffs I can't be the only one here that's done it in a phone box..... Can I?
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Belker on July 24, 2018, 07:14:07 am
Ffs I can't be the only one here that's done it in a phone box..... Can I?
Yea, you probably are !
Your most likely the only one on here who would fit in a phone-box !!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 07:18:14 am
Ffs I can't be the only one here that's done it in a phone box..... Can I?
Yea, you probably are !
Your most likely the only one on here who would fit in a phone-box !!


 rofl rofl
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 07:19:17 am
No phone boxes in my days Tony so probably yeah

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Octavia1 on July 24, 2018, 07:21:47 am
Ffs I can't be the only one here that's done it in a phone box..... Can I?
Yea, you probably are !
Your most likely the only one on here who would fit in a phone-box !!
 rofl
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 09:39:20 am
No phone boxes in my days Tony so probably yeah

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Feck off, your not that young.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 09:46:10 am
No phone boxes in my days Tony so probably yeah

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Feck off, your not that young.
Wanna bet. I bring down the average age of the posters here to under 50  yay
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 09:54:49 am
No phone boxes in my days Tony so probably yeah

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Feck off, your not that young.
Wanna bet. I bring down the average age of the posters here to under 50  yay

It must be all that tree hugging keeping you young looking
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 09:57:12 am
I'm not just young looking, I am young.  Probably a decade between most of yiz and me, maybe 2 or 3 decades for some of the posters

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Shallowhal on July 24, 2018, 09:59:27 am
I'm not just young looking, I am young.  Probably a decade between most of yiz and me, maybe 2 or 3 decades for some of the posters

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Very disrespectful talking about the pension scum like that!!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 10:00:47 am
I'm not just young looking, I am young.  Probably a decade between most of yiz and me, maybe 2 or 3 decades for some of the posters

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Very disrespectful talking about the pension scum like that!!
Not my fault they were born in the 50's

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Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 10:00:57 am
I presumed most on here have reached the bullseye + maybe it's just because I've reached the 51 mark.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 10:07:40 am
I presumed most on here have reached the bullseye + maybe it's just because I've reached the 51 mark.
I've not reached Double Tops yet  yay yay yippee yippee
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 10:10:56 am
I presumed most on here have reached the bullseye + maybe it's just because I've reached the 51 mark.
I've not reached Double Tops yet  yay yay yippee yippee

Fuck sakes I've jocks older than you  rofl
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Vikkiz on July 24, 2018, 10:11:49 am
I presumed most on here have reached the bullseye + maybe it's just because I've reached the 51 mark.
I've not reached Double Tops yet  yay yay yippee yippee

Fuck sakes I've jocks older than you
And they are probably in better condition than I am
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Tony on July 24, 2018, 10:12:40 am
I presumed most on here have reached the bullseye + maybe it's just because I've reached the 51 mark.
I've not reached Double Tops yet  yay yay yippee yippee

Fuck sakes I've jocks older than you
And they are probably in better condition than I am

Laffin
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: SClass on July 24, 2018, 12:33:47 pm
I'm not just young looking, I am young.  Probably a decade between most of yiz and me, maybe 2 or 3 decades for some of the posters

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Very disrespectful talking about the pension scum like that!!




Now Hal
 >:D
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Shallowhal on July 24, 2018, 12:57:55 pm
I knew you'd be along soon!!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: silverbullet on July 24, 2018, 01:05:53 pm
Are they not the superman sandals Tony?? From the phone box. I'd say the wimen loved them back in the day

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 rofl



Ffs I can't be the only one here that's done it in a phone box..... Can I?
Back in the day when STD meant Subscriber Trunk Dialling!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 25, 2018, 01:30:50 pm
Well done, but if the focus is primarily on weight loss, as opposed to general fitness, diet is more effective apparently. The arbitrary 80/% diet 20% exercise for weight loss. The exercise builds muscle also.

In my experience the 20% is key! I was only saying to the 'erm the other week, a couple of years ago (my first attempt to lose weight) I made significant dietary changes, cutting visits to chippers/Chinese takeaways/McDonalds from my working routine and replacing my then daily cooked breakfast with a bowl of muesli. Despite sticking to that I didn't experience any significant weight loss, staying around 18 stone. It's only when I exercised regularly that I started losing weight, maybe it's a different ratio when you're carrying a lot of excess? Anywaysanall, I reckon my fitness has improved too (but still a long way to go) - I used to be sweating and panting like Jimmy Saville in a playground after 30 mins on the exercise bike, now I still work up a sweat but don't get out of breath. On the food front, I still have room for improvement... I'm trying to cut out the habit of stopping in the kitchen for a couple of sandwiches on the way to bed.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: mercenary for hire on July 25, 2018, 01:45:26 pm
Try drinking vodka instead of whatever yer drinking now.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: dalymount on July 25, 2018, 03:14:59 pm
Jesus I would not compare myself to Jimmy Savile in any way shape or form.he used to work up a sweat to,but for entirely different reasons
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Rat Catcher on July 25, 2018, 05:19:39 pm
Just a turn of phrase. The exercise might make me sweat "like a paedophile in a playground" but that's where the comparison ends. Strange how innocent we were back in the days of Jim'll Fix It... In Mickey Flannagan's words he couldn't have looked more like a nance if he tried yet we all watched it and parents sent their kids to sit on his knee.

Different times, on a lighter note I showed my mother some videos of the innuendo in Rainbow a couple of years ago and she was cracked up laughing... mainly because she never twigged any of it while we were sat watching it as kids - e.g.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc)

Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: silverbullet on July 25, 2018, 05:26:07 pm
Just a turn of phrase. The exercise might make me sweat "like a paedophile in a playground" but that's where the comparison ends. Strange how innocent we were back in the days of Jim'll Fix It... In Mickey Flannagan's words he couldn't have looked more like a nance if he tried yet we all watched it and parents sent their kids to sit on his knee.

Different times, on a lighter note I showed my mother some videos of the innuendo in Rainbow a couple of years ago and she was cracked up laughing... mainly because she never twigged any of it while we were sat watching it as kids - e.g.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc[/url])

And now so called hipsters are all going for the Rolf Harris look. 8)
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: markmiwurdz on July 25, 2018, 07:08:03 pm
Jesus I would not compare myself to Jimmy Savile in any way shape or form.he used to work up a sweat to,but for entirely different reasons

Now then!!,now then!!!...........
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: Bob Shillin on July 25, 2018, 07:16:55 pm
An excellent way to lose weight, tone the body, calm the mind, and put some flexibilty back into the too long seated taxi driver is Ashtanga Yoga.

Without having to get too much into the yoga buzz, there is a guy called Godfrey Devereux who runs a yoga retreat in Ibiza, and he has a video/DVD  "Dynamic Yoga". It has a 1 hour practice divided into 2 parts, energising, and relaxation/stretching. If you can even divided the 2 parts to morning and evening, or even 1 part on alternate days it will do the job. If you follow the instructions to the letter particularly "sucking the muscles into the bone", and don't eat for c. 2 hours before and after the practice, the weight will drop off quickly if you maintain the practice every day.
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: U Wha on July 25, 2018, 07:29:15 pm
Just a turn of phrase. The exercise might make me sweat "like a paedophile in a playground" but that's where the comparison ends. Strange how innocent we were back in the days of Jim'll Fix It... In Mickey Flannagan's words he couldn't have looked more like a nance if he tried yet we all watched it and parents sent their kids to sit on his knee.

Different times, on a lighter note I showed my mother some videos of the innuendo in Rainbow a couple of years ago and she was cracked up laughing... mainly because she never twigged any of it while we were sat watching it as kids - e.g.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc[/url] ([url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc[/url])

 rofl rofl rofl rofl Brilliant!
Title: Re: Sweet Sixteen
Post by: silverbullet on July 25, 2018, 09:26:30 pm
Sweating like a Paedo in a Barney suit.