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Exercise burns calories. Less input, more output is a simple equation. When you exercise you will build muscle to some extent but don't worry about turning into the hulk. When you exercise your body will also want to maintain some water to help it recover - however this will only impact on...

I have yet to find a correct level of intake and exercise. I have around 4-5 HEX B's a day but find unless I also have some days of schedule that I lose more. I do not want to drop the exercise level but am terrrified of going back to the bad old days. I now have scales at home and although I...

Ian, When you said on Wednesday about doing the parachute jump I wanted to catch up with you as the tandem jump when the parachute didn't open properly is one of my "thin" stories. Massive respect on your loss.

I am maintaining whilst allowing myself occasional flexidays. The important thing is for you to find your level of healthy extras so that the extra calories (I know we don't count them but we all know they are there) come from a (mostly) healthy source. I am averaging about 4 B's a day whilst...

Focus. I knew I HAD to loose weight and so went for it. It was a combination of the food optimising principles in combination with execrcise that worked for me - without both my losses would have been significantly slower. The syns are there to be had but before you have that chocolate bar think...

Is it mostly women - yep. Should that stop you from joining and losing hell no! Some groups do have more blokes than others so if it is an issue then shop around but after the initial "shock" I don't think it really makes a difference.

10 months to target but that is unusually fast - it suprised all the other finalists when we chatted.

The before photo you can kinda see behind me in the ceremony is attached. This isn't me at my biggest (unsuprisingly camera shy) but gives a pretty good idea.

No idea. If you go onto the Slimming World website you can read the story of Mike who won. We all had individual shots taken as well as a big group shot taken by the Slimming World photographer so there is always a possibility but it wasn't mentioned on the day.

I think I have added a couple of pics though it has taken me an age to work out how to do it.

Ladies and Gentlemen (well lets be honest mostly ladies) I am just back from Kensington Roof Gardens and am proud to announce I came second in the national competition. It was really inspirational for me to hear the stories of all of the other nine and we also had previous winners of man of the...

You have gone from knowing you have to do something about your weight to actually doing it and that is such a massive thing that I cannot applaud you more. Changing your approach to food and your life in general is exactly what you need to do and I really hope you get the happiness you deserve...

You are patently not nasty - just someone who has found something that works and who wants to share that plan with others. I can look at the "superzize" guys and go - only a 56 inch waist - pah. It is so so easy to go from overweight to obese to the m world obese if you do not have the controls...

Then step back from the sainthood, take the compliments on your loss and the fact that people consider your opinion important as pluses without looking for them or hiding away from them and forget about those last few pounds for a couple of days. It takes time to build up steam and you have...

I always broke it down in little chunke. Each half stone off (obviously) but also every 10 pounds (20, 30 etc) and also made it metric to every 5 kilos. Because my start weight was "and four" pounds I also counted each even stone achieved as a target. That way I managed to achieve a mini target...

I can remember when I got down to 20 stone and I was just so damn happy but as you say that was a weight that most of the people at class could not even imagine. I lost it really quickly - 10 months - and found my biggest motivation was that it kept working for me. If you have any questions just...

I only seem to post to show off but it definately is possible. I know exactly what you mean though - no-one else at my class has lost more than four and a half stone (though that is great before anyone replies). Just look at it this way - why should whatever has worked so far suddenly stop...

Honestly i'm not lying - though I have lost 15 8.5 lbs not 16 stone. I did really have to go for it though as written controlling portions and exercising for first time since school. As to cost fresh fruit is expensive but otherwise as I was doing green not too bad at all. My average loss was...

Hiya, Not anymore but I am looking back on over 15 stone lost. Advice-wise the end is too far away to worry about. Focus on how much you loose each week and not how far you still have to go. Down the line you can look to your actual goal but in the mean time each half a stone down is a massive...

I have upped my HEXB's to 4 a day and have also stuck in a few extra syns but not have found my balance yet.

Fantastic work!!!!!!!!!!! Really pleased for you.

Funnily enough have just e-mailed a "before" for my C to send off to head office. Not interested in a makeover - silk purse/sows ear - but def interested in bigging up my consultant. How do I insert an image into a message?

I believe the appropriate phrase is humuna humuna

Apologies for another showy-off thread so soon after my last one but I've done it. Half a pound short of fifteen stone in 40 weeks and now the hard work really begins.

For an answer that may not be what you want to hear I have lost the weight and have loose skin - not anywhere near as much skin as there could have been but still not a shirtless at the beach bod. I am told that losing weight gradually is the best option to allow the skin to gradually retract...

I do know that you cannot enter yor weight as 50 stones on slimming world online. When I started I didn't know how much I weighed and only went off my losses. I wanted to use a nice round number as my basis but it wouldn't let me use 50

Club 50 was something I made up - I used each "10" as a mini goal.

Photos added - i think

but i is werry werry shy. I do have a before that I have dug out but the after comes next week hopefully - hell who I am kidding it will be next week.

coming from Saint Fern that is a compliment

I've lost 2 and a half of my 10 year old daughter - one was my first major target

half a pound

its kinda in the title I guess but I have only gone and done it - club 50. Can't think of anything inspirational to say but I can't stop smiling and next week . . . . .????????????

Yep 9 months. No surgery, no suplements,

My C has actually asked me to get some "before" photos together and my sis e-mailed me some over today (don't have many myself - can't think why). I can't look at them. I mean I know I was that big, but they make me feel very uncomfortable.

14 stone gone, less than one to go, so i'm approaching the end of the first part of my journey. Next comes maintaining.

I don't miss my padding but I am not looking forward to winter proper. No ice on the car yet but It takes nearly a whole journey to warm the thing up. I had to pretend I wan't cold on Saturday so my daughter would take my coat at the fireworks display - that was some damn fine acting even if I...

I'm not going to finish my lunch. Its all free, but I have a very contented full feeling and am just going to put put down my knfe and fork and step away from the plate. This must be what it is like to be a "normal" eater.

and pleased. It has taken 30 weeks and I have finally got down to "only" overweight. I don't post much but I am sooooo pleased and I wanted to say how much I have gotten from looking in on you guys and gals. Ta very much. Twice

When I started I didn't know how much I weighed - I only know it was too much. I got "officially" told when I got down to 20 Stones at weigh-in, but I had a sneeky weigh-in before that when i managed to get a weight off someone elses scales and not that **** thing that told me I was more than...

I am the bloke who wins it every week and it was to avoid the grrrhhhs that early on I stopped taking the basket (but keep the stickers). Our consultant sometimes goes to the next one down but at othertimes uses it to reward people who have been struggling but have managed a loss or others who...

I've had a quick look and I too am a bloke

1) To be able to buy clothes anywhere and not just in fat-boy shops. 2) To take my daughter swimming 3) Not to have to see every narrow entrance as an opportunity for humiliation. 4) To have the confidence to exercise in public. 5) To be able to think about, one day, along the line, if the...

Long time reader, first time contributor

9 stone 11 so far and not a red day in sight