great_badir
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ORIGINAL: JIm R
Personally have found being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes works a treat.  When diagnosed, lost 2.5 stone virtually overnight and kept most of it off.
The man speaketh the truth.
I first hit chubby status in my late teens and then stayed a fatty for over ten years until, shortly after my dad succumbed to leukemia a few years back, I was at my heaviest ever (nearly 15 stone - I'm only 5' 6" and a bit!) and some..."things" started happening to my body. That and dad's illness made me completely paranoid and do the worst thing anyone can do - self diagnose on the tinterwebs. Naturally I ended up giving myself all sorts of terminal cancers and when I finally did go to the docs it was all, of course, nothing to be that concerned about even though I needed to do something about my weight. So I did.
With taking up cycling, cutting out regular shitty food and cutting down portions, my average punching weight now flows between 10 stone 1 and 10 and a half, and this must be year three going into four that I've maintained it. Getting rid of every single piece of fat clothing I owned is a great incentive - if I put the weight back on, I have to buy a whole new wardrobe, as I didn't even keep a token pair of trousers so I could do the "this is what I wore before thing", cos it's too much of a temptation and a slippery slope back to fattery.
Although my appetite remains unchanged (I can still put away the same amount of food I did when I was 15 stone with no trouble whatsoever), my self control and will power is much better so I can walk on by a burger place, kebab shop and cake shop without feeling the need to go in and get something. Chrimbo, however, is the only time I really struggle. As YFU said, what with my family, my wife's family and our own food fancies, christmas tends to last for about a month and, whilst none of it can be called "shit" food, it's all very calorific, so I generally put on about a stone. But I make sure I'm back on it by mid January and try to get back down to my (new) average weight by the time the bike comes back out of hibernation in early spring.
But I'm finding that maintaining weight is much harder than losing it - sometimes I find out I've put on about three pounds in the space of one weekend and other times I find I've lost three pounds which has made me technically underweight. Now I tend to weight myself pretty much every morning.
But it's a very fine balancing act. Losing weight - pimps easy (you just need will power and physical work). Maintaining the same weight (give or take) month in month out - fucking difficult (it requires hard mental work).
But then if I can do it, anyone can. That is a cliche, but it's very true cos I was the dictionary definition of sedentary lifestyle.
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RE: Who Else Is Trying To Lose Weight This New Year? - 
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I prefer my theory! 
I did hit it briefly around September last year though.... 
. Between jacking my shoulder in, my lift to training jacking his knee in or my instructor being ill I've hardly trained at all in the last 5 weeks. 
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