Thread: Personal milestone

For the past eleven months I have been going to the gym. My wife and I started at the gym because my wife decided that she wanted to get fitter and lose some weight. I started because I wanted to give moral support to my wife. That is not to say I wasn't fat. At 105 kg (I think about 231 pounds) I didn't think I was fat. For me the fat was evenly distributed. But looking back I was fat.

Today when I weighed myself after my workout I weighed in at 96kg (211 pounds). I remember back in 1997 I told someone my weight had reached 96 kg and they told me I was a bit portly. Ever since then my weight slowly went up. So I haven't been this weight for thirteen years. That of course is not counting when I first moved to Thailand and suffered almost weekly bouts of food poisoning. At that time the toilet and I became very well aquainted and I dropped down to 95kg, but that doesn't count.

I'm hoping with more hard work I can get my weight down to about 90kg, but that will be in about a years time, I'm hoping.

So I just wanted to share my good news with you all.

Congrats. It can sneak up on you. If you gain a pound a month in 5 years you're talking 60 pounds. That is nearly 4 full size bowling balls you're carrying around. At 61 I can say that exercise is the fountain of youth. FWIW, bicycling is a great way to control or lose weight and enjoy yourself in the process. Weight lifting with proper form is also a wonderful thing IME.

Good news !!

Getting in shape & staying in shape gives you a great quality of life.

You're definitely on the right track, your goals seem to be long term. When you want to get in shape &/or lose weight, it's a slow process, you have to take your time & teach yourself how to properly do it. You know how that works, you learned how to shave with a straight.

keep it up !

Well done Nathan! You sound determined. I'm sure you'll hit your targets. Good luck!

Well done!

I've just started training again after a bit of a hiatus and I'm definately finding it tough lol..! This has been a motivational thread for me, I have to say!

Great job and keep at it!

Congratulations! I just turned 60 (how'd that happen?) and have been s-l-o-o-w-l-y getting back into a near-daily workout after a very long hiatus, during which I got fat and catastrophically out of shape. If I'd kept my efforts going, modest as they were, from when I first hit middle age it would be a much easier road now, so you've been wise to muster the discipline now. But we have to start wherever we are.

My reward, if you want to call it that, will be to set up and start using the weight bench waiting in the garage, when I work up to enough of a baseline of fitness. But of course the real reward is better health, a better quality of life, and -- for me at least -- more self-respect and confidence. Well done, and still better to come.

~Rich

I have been continuing with the weight loss. Now I am only 95kg or 209 pounds. That means that according to the BMI I am no longer obese. I am only over weight. I no longer have noticeable love handles and the man boobs look more like pecks. Still have more work to do, but I'm happy with what I have achieved.

Congrats !!!

Keep up the good work !

good job! good health is its own reward

Nathan, congratulations on your recent success. I have found that diet is just as important as the workout itself, although I mainly weight train, I'm also trying to lose any body fat.

Cut out carbohydrates where you can and drink as much water as possible, 3 litres a day is recommended. I have found that eating minimal carbs really sheds fat quickly, although you need some for energy.