Fetchie Flab Fighters
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1 Jan
1:48pm, 1 Jan 2025
6,147 posts
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flip
Happy new year. 😁 Been a while since I've been on here. Got to my heaviest ever by November but doing marcothon (min 3 miles or 25 minutes running all December) I've lost about 8lbs. Long way to go but it's a decent base. I'll change the running now as my knees really can't take trail running every day and the quality of thr runs wasn't grand this time round and do more gym work and swimming. It's lower impact stuff for me now. Even spin classes that I really like take their toll. I'm 60 at the beginning of September and a half decent triathlon to do a few days after to celebrate. My weight goal is for then although I've a significant run in late spring so hope I've got somewhere by then. Good luck everyone with their goals in 2025. |
1 Jan
2:02pm, 1 Jan 2025
5,589 posts
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Shades
Hi flip - that's an impressive weight loss doing marcothon but doesn't sound like it suited you running every day. But as you say it's given you a good start and now you can switch to your preferred training. You've got plenty time to prepare for those goals. |
1 Jan
2:03pm, 1 Jan 2025
25,957 posts
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geordiegirl
Hi flip great to see you and be good having you around. I’m sure you will get yourself back and in good shape for the Tri. I am up 3-4lb since coming back from holiday as I got back and straight into Xmas festivities. I am so so ready for normality and routine to return. I only have this month until my op on the 31st so my aim would be to get these few lbs off and sort the freezer stock and to get some good healthy meals stocked in for my recovery as hubby will have enough to do without cooking from scratch every night. Agree with shades that’s a good overall result Mel. Happy new year to you all here’s hoping it’s a good one for us. |
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1 Jan
3:02pm, 1 Jan 2025
6,148 posts
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flip
Shades wrote: Hi flip - that's an impressive weight loss doing marcothon but doesn't sound like it suited you running every day. But as you say it's given you a good start and now you can switch to your preferred training. You've got plenty time to prepare for those goals. Thanks shades, it's been a difficult marcothon. Poorly knees and girlfriends dad passing away just before Xmas. I'm surprised I kept it going but it's good for my head when times are tough. I wasn't focused on the weight at all except knowing running was tougher heavier and only realized I'd lost wight when I got into a pair of jeans I bought in the summer and couldn't get into. Diet will be to the fore now. I rejoined the gum I left over a year ago due to the high cost but it's got a 25 metre pool and if you swim a lot and work, it's just difficult to swim using public pools. I still swim in the sea, but not in the dark because I grew up when Jaws was the biggest film ever 😂. |
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1 Jan
3:08pm, 1 Jan 2025
6,149 posts
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flip
geordiegirl wrote: Hi flip great to see you and be good having you around. I’m sure you will get yourself back and in good shape for the Tri. I am up 3-4lb since coming back from holiday as I got back and straight into Xmas festivities. I am so so ready for normality and routine to return. I only have this month until my op on the 31st so my aim would be to get these few lbs off and sort the freezer stock and to get some good healthy meals stocked in for my recovery as hubby will have enough to do without cooking from scratch every night. Agree with shades that’s a good overall result Mel. Happy new year to you all here’s hoping it’s a good one for us. Thanks K, two decent events booked this year and two non even challenges to keep me focused. Hope you're well. I started doing some Lakeland trails again and always remember running in with you on one. Possibly the fconiston marathon but I did so many I can't remember which. You know back then, I never really thought I was that fit or that good a runner but liking back on the old times I did for the dirty double, I can't believe I was that quick. I'll never get to that again but I'll take what I can get! |
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1 Jan
3:13pm, 1 Jan 2025
25,959 posts
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geordiegirl
It was Hawkshead back in my early days of running, 2011, and such a lift seeing you! You def made the run in easier. It’s a shame we often dont recognise how well we are doing at a point in time. I so wish I was as ‘fat’ now as I thought I was years ago! |
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1 Jan
3:21pm, 1 Jan 2025
6,150 posts
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flip
geordiegirl wrote: It was Hawkshead back in my early days of running, 2011, and such a lift seeing you! You def made the run in easier. It’s a shame we often dont recognise how well we are doing at a point in time. I so wish I was as ‘fat’ now as I thought I was years ago! True words that. Still the ♥ is still ticking and the creaking joints still holding. 😂 |
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1 Jan
3:44pm, 1 Jan 2025
5,592 posts
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Shades
@geordiegirl - considering all the socialising you've been doing recently 3-4 pounds is not so bad. You'll drop that just by going back to normality. @flip I've had some knee problems over the last 18 months and then a lengthy bout of sciatica and a couple of bouts of Covid. This meant I couldn't do much running and my knees were grumbling when I started running again. The instructor in my gym has given me a specific plan to strengthen and protect my knees. Some of the quad work is challenging but I can definitely see an improvement after 5 weeks. Might be worth speaking to the staff in your gym and see if they can help. |
1 Jan
3:57pm, 1 Jan 2025
3,889 posts
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RevBarbaraG
Happy New Year, one and all. Well, hardly surprising that my weight is up since 1st December. But it’s less than 3lb, so I’ll take that. If we look at the year as a whole, then I am, in round figures: Down 4st 9lb (with another 3st 1lb to go) Down 3 clothes sizes (with ideally another 2 to go) Down 12% body fat (with at least another 8% to go) Down 7” on waist circumference, with another 3” to go. Visceral fat down from 16 to 10. And, I have established a habit of regular exercise, incorporating endurance, strength, balance and flexibility. I am vastly more mobile, active and comfortable in my skin. I have reduced my blood glucose from out of control diabetic to borderline prediabetic while getting off all medication. Not a bad year, considering! So for 2025, my plan is - to consolidate and build on my new habits of eating, fasting and exercise. - to move towards my ultimate goals on weight, body fat, and health markers. One specific goal is to run the 10K in the Great West Run at the end of May. I’ve only been running occasionally the last few months, distances between 2 and 3 miles. So my interim plan for January is to run that distance twice a week. I’ll potentially drop swimming back to once a week to enable that, while continuing strength twice a week. Then from February, start extending one of my weekly runs. |
1 Jan
5:07pm, 1 Jan 2025
6,435 posts
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TheScribbler
I’m 2kg heavier than I was last time I stepped on the scales. It’s been a fairly indulgent December, so that’s not too much of a surprise. Feeling like I will benefit from getting back into a regular eating, exercise and sleep routine. I don’t drink alcohol, but we were at our friends house until 02:20 this morning, eating things like pizza and crisps. I felt really sluggish and headachey this morning. I need my sleep! I’m also thinking that it would be good to take on a challenge to keep me running this year. Maybe a half marathon or dip my toes back into triathlon. |
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