Nice weight loss going on here - Congrats Littleman & thesaintv12

I think I need to look at what I'm eating now as that's the one area I haven't really given much though about.

Nice job on the 2 stones Saint!  Yeah, go for it Chuck.  One easy thing to do is to stop drinking calories.  It is amazing how many empty calories people drink in a day like soft-drinks, juices, sugary coffee drinks. For a lot of people not drinking sugar/HFCS all it takes to start losing weight.  I think the average American has about ~300 calories a day this way, it would be interesting to know the numbers for the UK.

Updated with the new numbers.

nffc - looks like you're having a tough run - anything we can do here to help you meet your goals?

Quoteweight training has done a good job of letting me keep my muscle while taking off the fat

Littleman - do you know about recent studies on EPOC* and weight lifting? high-intensity weight lifting can really turbocharge your calorie burn. Though I love to run and it's a primary form of exercise for me, running and most steady-state "cardio" has very low EPOC, whereas high-intensity weight lifting (short rests between sets, getting your heart rate up as well as moving iron) has big EPOC.

* EPOC - Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption (i.e. afterburrn, the calories you burn in the 48 hours after exercise that you wouldn't have burned without the exercise).

>anything we can do here to help you meet your goals?

If you could get the Internets in the UK turned off for a week or two that would help.

I'm on it, back in full flow Saturday onwards, going to have to switch to home workouts in the main, just can't make the gym day time and they too busy at night for my patience level.

That's interesting stuff Ergophobe.  Right now my lifting is intense in that what I do is heavy for me, but I do take substantial rests in between my sets -- so my heart rate doesn't spike like it would.  I might have to increase the intensity eventually to continue my progress.

@ littleman: http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/epoc.html

@ nffc: releasing the virus bots now... expect the internet to go dark in the UK sometime tonight

Thanks for the article, reading now.
4/4

2/4 the comeback begins.

4/4

my four this week included, yesterday, a beautiful 6-mile run at 10,000 feet with lightning in the distance and a dramatic sky, with rain falling 15 mins before and 15 mins after, but not a single second while actually out running... a nice break in the middle of a 6-hour drive back from a meeting.

BTW - anyone participating here planning on being at Pubcon? I was thinking a group workout or something would be cool

Had a slack week this week  1/3

4/2

Just came back from vacation and not much training. Lots of beers and carbs though. Put on 5 lbs in 2 weeks so getting back to lifting some heavy weights.

As Littleman, I enjoy lifting weights the most and the 3 majors - bench, squat and dead lift is really getting to become an enjoyment for me. Who would have thunk it a couple a years ago? For inspiration and motivation my training partner and I have begun to set small goals in terms of max weights and my long term goal in 2012 would be to make a combined 400 kgs ~ 880 lbs in the 3 majors. Small increases, but still some way to go

4/4.

Is that me doing the totals?  If so I will get them up later.

Rumbus - did you mean 2/4 ?

Arrgh, of course! Fat fingers. 2/4 it is.

Week 8.  Good to see that everyone is still posting results.

Rumbas
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 1/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 3/4
Week 6 - 2/4
Week 7 - 1/4
Week 8 - 2/4
Week 9 -


littleman
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Week 1 - 4/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 4/4
Week 4 - 4/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4
Week 7 - 4/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 -

thesaintv12
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Week 1 - 3/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 3/4
Week 4 - 3/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4+
Week 7 - 4/4+
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 -

ergophobe
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Week 1 - 3/4
Week 2 - 4/4
Week 3 - 3/4
Week 4 - 3/4
Week 5 - 4/4
Week 6 - 4/4+
Week 7 - 1/4
Week 8 - 4/4
Week 9 -


nffc
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Week 1 - 0/4
Week 2 - 2/4
Week 3 - 1/4
Week 4 - 1/4
Week 5 - 1/4
Week 6 - 1/4
Week 7 - 0/4
Week 8 - 2/4
Week 9 -

Chunkford
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Week 1 - 2/3
Week 2 - 2/3
Week 3 - 2/3
Week 4 - 2/3
Week 5 - 2/3
Week 6 - 3/3
Week 7 - 3/3
Week 8 - 1/3
Week 9 -

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I think we've just done week 8?