Weight Watcher's Thread

[postman]

Here in Meanwood,i am trying to put weight on.I lost over a stone during my walk with cancer.I got to 13st 10lb,but then getting back to being active i am staying around 13st 4lb ish.I would like to touch 14st,i look better fuller.

 

[Drago]

222.6lbs this morning. The rate of loss has slowed to a crawl. I think thats probably indicative of being pretty at the natural weight for my height and build (192cm mesomorph with certain ectomorphic characteristics) as I can't cut any more out with starving myself or skipping meals wholesale.

Just shows how we wise (read: lucky) I was choosing 220lb/100kg as my target.

 

[Mo1959]

What a sad reflection on eating habits this is. Workers in a well paid job would rather quit the job than lose weight.
Copy and paste from a news item.




Hundreds of North Sea workers are still too heavy for offshore helicopter travel less than two months before new rules come into force, BBC Scotland has learned.

From November they should weigh no more than 124.7kg (19.5st) in their clothing and footwear, so they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

When the plans were announced by industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) last year, they said more than 2,200 workers were above that limit. New figures suggest up to 800 still exceed it.

Jobs could be lost as a result, and an occupational health expert said some had left the offshore industry rather than lose the weight.

 

[Drago]

I got refused a job as a chopper spotter in the dibble. The craft could only carry so much payload and it was cramped, so there was a 100kg/6'2" limit. I could have probably just got under 100kg, but wasn't about to chop my feet off!

There must be some real bloaters in the oil industry.

 

[T4tomo]

Wasn't too much damage, edged up 1 lb to 11st 13lb. Happy with that, still under 12st.

and this week back down to 1/2 lb under 11st 12lb. or 75kg in metric

 

[Homers Double]

To be fair, I was over the weight limit of my bike when I bought it, The shop owner who I've known for years just laughed at that bit and carried on.

Still doing well but it stalls when I have beer or three like I did last night, BUT I did have a sensible meal out and no chips: to the surprise of the local pub chef who knows us very well.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I got refused a job as a chopper spotter in the dibble. The craft could only carry so much payload and it was cramped, so there was a 100kg/6'2" limit. I could have probably just got under 100kg, but wasn't about to chop my feet off!

There must be some real bloaters in the oil industry.

Many years ago I met a woman who worked on the rigs

There were not many women there and she was not at all complimentary about the blokes that worked there

and over eating was one of the things she commented on
and that fact that the ones that ate most were the ones most likely to - err - be a pain shall we say

 

[wafter]

What a sad reflection on eating habits this is. Workers in a well paid job would rather quit the job than lose weight.
Copy and paste from a news item.




Hundreds of North Sea workers are still too heavy for offshore helicopter travel less than two months before new rules come into force, BBC Scotland has learned.

From November they should weigh no more than 124.7kg (19.5st) in their clothing and footwear, so they can be winched to safety in an emergency.

When the plans were announced by industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) last year, they said more than 2,200 workers were above that limit. New figures suggest up to 800 still exceed it.

Jobs could be lost as a result, and an occupational health expert said some had left the offshore industry rather than lose the weight.

A sad reflection indeed but hardly surprising given the rampant obesity in this country plus further confounding factors of this situation - probably more eating driven by comfort / boredom in an isolated, likely cold and dark location; along with minimal potential for enjoyable outdoor cardio. One also wonders what the food provision is like on the rigs.

On top of that many probably lack the means (be it knowledge, determination or both) to lose weight. I certainly had absolutely zero luck before I discovered low carb / fasting as I didn't really know what I was doing and quelle surprise none of the "low fat" rubbish pushed by the food industry made any difference whatsoever.

 

[Webbo2]

Many years ago I met a woman who worked on the rigs

There were not many women there and she was not at all complimentary about the blokes that worked there

and over eating was one of the things she commented on
and that fact that the ones that ate most were the ones most likely to - err - be a pain shall we say

I‘ve just listened to a podcast featuring an old climbing mate and he comments about working at Kishorn building a large oil drilling platform. He says that there was no limit to the amount of food you could eat, he says people would eat 20 steaks for breakfast.

 

[Drago]

I guess its typically the sort of tasty but rether fatty and carb heavy grub that gets served. I cant see a bunch or roundabouts and roughnecks asking for a waldorf salad and a glass of san pellegrino.

A chap I knew was an engineer on the rigs and he was a big feller. Passed away at 74 from a dicky ticker. Lovely guy, but clearly hadn't been skipping lunch.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

A sad reflection indeed but hardly surprising given the rampant obesity in this country plus further confounding factors of this situation - probably more eating driven by comfort / boredom in an isolated, likely cold and dark location; along with minimal potential for enjoyable outdoor cardio. One also wonders what the food provision is like on the rigs.

On top of that many probably lack the means (be it knowledge, determination or both) to lose weight. I certainly had absolutely zero luck before I discovered low carb / fasting as I didn't really know what I was doing and quelle surprise none of the "low fat" rubbish pushed by the food industry made any difference whatsoever.

From what I have seem "health" foods often just replace the "bad" thing with another bad thing and then plaster the "NO BAD THING1" all over the packaging

Now I have to have gluten free stuff I find that a lot of the stuff labelled gluten free load the stuff up with sugar to make it taste "better"

 

[wafter]

From what I have seem "health" foods often just replace the "bad" thing with another bad thing and then plaster the "NO BAD THING1" all over the packaging

Now I have to have gluten free stuff I find that a lot of the stuff labelled gluten free load the stuff up with sugar to make it taste "better"

Absolutely - much of the food industry seems to be a disgustingly cynical exercise in manipulation and exploitation; flogging ultra-processed crap that makes you obese / diabetic, then up-selling you the supposed remedy that doesn't work and probably gives you cancer... All while skirting around, or at best paying vague lip-service to the real issue that the crap they peddle is fundamentally bad for you and that should be consumed "in moderation" despite being engineered specifically to encourage compulsive consumption.

IMO they're one step removed from smack peddlers hanging around schools; the difference being that they have the establishment's blessing... presumably because of the obscene amounts of money flowing into party coffers from corporate donors.