Weight loss, and maintenance

[lnr]

It's a long time since I've posted anything here about weight loss. And even longer since I'd updated my webpages about it. In fact they were last updated in 2006 and I'd long since removed the link to the weight loss pages from my front page.

Last week however I finally reached a nominally healthy BMI of 24.8, and hence declared myself to have reached my target at Slimming World. So now I'm no longer planning to post anything about weight loss at all, but may make the occasional post about maintaining my weight.

If you'd like to see the graph of my weight over time, see a couple of before and after photos and read a bit more about it I've now updated my webpages, and you can find the relevant page here:

My Weight

At some point I need to go back to the GP and get them to do all the health checks again, to make sure that the weight loss has my blood sugar and cholesterol under control now that I'm not longer taking medication.

Comments

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Oooh, well done!

I would be interested to see how you manage to do weight maintenance; I think I had about 6 months of success with that before it all started creeping back on again...

[lnr]

Basically the theory is that I continue with much the same diet as when losing weight, but add a bit more of the good-for-you-but-a-bit-fattening things. We shall see how it goes in practice!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Cor, you have lost loads!

I'm not sure I should point this out but because the "before" photos are taken from a bit closer than the "after" photo there is a bit of an optical illusion that you've shrunk in all directions and are now a foot shorter than you were before.

[lnr]

Good point. I've resized the September2008 so the discrepancy isn't quite so bonkers, and at least it's now the same size as the January2009 one if not the same scale.

[indigo-violet.livejournal.com]

Crikey! Brilliant xxxxx

[lnr]

Thanks!

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Well done! I wish I was a few inches taller so my BMI was more sane ;/

[venta.livejournal.com]

In that case, you clearly need to find your local branch of Growing World :)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Heh ;) Apparently my sister-in-law grew an inch (or stretched her spine) via daily yoga.

[lnr]

I've rounded to the nearest cm in height for the BMI calculations, and even so I was surprised when measure at the GPs to find I'm pretty much 5'7" - I always thought of myself as more like 5'6.5" and I used 5'6" when calculating BMI in the past, which is one reason my old target weight was lower!

I still don't really believe in it.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Gosh! I was going to say that I barely recognised you in your 'after' photo, but I think that's just one of those odd tricks where some photos look nothing like the person they're of. The photo of you up a mountain a few weeks back looked pretty much like you (only thinner than I remember) so I'm assuming that you've not changed radically since then!

The weight loss is truly impressive, though!

[lnr]

That was Snowdon, in April, but yeah, I'm not noticeably slimmer than that now. I think it's the hair that makes the difference.

[miramanga.livejournal.com]

Wow thats very inspirational! Love it!

[lnr]

Thanks.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Ooh, metformin, I'm munging lots of data about that at the moment.

[lnr]

Technically they're only supposed to prescribe it to actual diabetics, which did get me a few funny looks in the chemists, because if you're diabetic you don't pay for your prescriptions.

I'm not sure being quite so interested in the assorted studies I've read about it is a good thing as far as my GP is concerned :)

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

\o/

[lnr]

\m/

[perdita-fysh.livejournal.com]

Very well done! You appear to have lost 15 years along the way as well and now look ready to start university *&)

[lnr]

I think that's an illusion of nice photography - and the fact it's summer and I'm all tanned and happy as opposed to January in the office.

I actually think I look older in real life, but then I *am* older, so that's OK :)

I'm glad I don't *really* look young enough to get IDed all the time.

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Oh awesome - congrats! Wish I could do that - I've gradually gotten worse and worse no matter how healthy I seem to eat.

[lnr]

It's weird, without some serious external motivator of some sort that gives me the initial push and determination I'm hopeless at it too, and I've no idea why I've had that a couple of times but not at all in between.

[olithered.livejournal.com]

Ace!