Mig Forum Biggest Losers 2025 thread

[chunkytfg]

Late the the party but I've been losing weight for s while now.

I got put on a training course at work for a month last November and due toots location and a lack of anything convenient food wise I managed to drop 8kg in that month. I went down from 118kg to 110kg.

I then fluctuated a little bit up to Xmas and managed to drop anoint 6/7kg for my wedding in Feb.

Since then I've been steadily losing although it was a real struggle ignoring the 'food noise' so I opted for mounjaro as a means to silence that noise and after 3 months of it I was 90.4kg yesterday morning.

I'm trying to be happy with my current weight as being 6'2'' I'm not obviously 'fat' with a 34'' waist but having been fat my whole life its hard to shake the feeling of needing to lose weight.

 

[brewdexta]

Not all calories from food are absorbed by your gut. If you eat more wholefoods, less off the calories in the food are absorbed. An obvious one is sweetcorn, but applies to other wholefoods too.

This doesn't explain why I was as thin as a lat until about 40, yet ate vast quantities of food and ale. If I tot up my daily calorie intake from those days then I probably should have been 20+ stone, not 10.5 stone wet through. The calories can't just disappear, so I'm guessing there's a limit to how much fat you can put down per day and somehow those calories are dumped?

 

[Onoff]

Ultra processed and processed foods messes us up big time I reckon. Interferes with absorbtion, immunity etc. Just my take. We are simply not designed to process this stuff. We are designed to process natural stuff. I MUST get back on the healthy eating train.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Now down to 109kg from 115kg over the last month (13.2lb off).

Means I'm now only overweight, for the first time since I destroyed my ankle (again) in 2019 (192cm tall, for reference).

Just massively reduced the amount of pop I drank and replaced it with water, kept eating how I always have.

Main issue is when I reach a target weight that feels right, how will I:

a) replace the calories I was getting from simple sugars in pop

b) find time to prepare an additional meal a day, if I can't stomach taking the additional calories in one sitting.

Not all calories from food are absorbed by your gut. If you eat more wholefoods, less off the calories in the food are absorbed. An obvious one is sweetcorn, but applies to other wholefoods too.

This doesn't explain why I was as thin as a lat until about 40, yet ate vast quantities of food and ale. If I tot up my daily calorie intake from those days then I probably should have been 20+ stone, not 10.5 stone wet through. The calories can't just disappear, so I'm guessing there's a limit to how much fat you can put down per day and somehow those calories are dumped?

Your metabolism, gut microbiome, and hormones (men don't usually have to think about them, because they're pretty stable, but they can change as you age) all play a huge role in how you absorb and retain nutrients.

A significant change in your routine, or a bout of illness can cause those factors to change, shifting how your body responds to food.

There's also the aspect of lean muscle mass, the more you have the more calories you use with everything you do...

Hence someone with can actually eat significantly more than a much heavier but fat bloke without the wiry one gaining weight.

I am going to guess that around 40 something caused you to significantly change routine or physical activity level, slowly you got a bit less muscular but kept eating the same, and then suddenly months later it hit some tipping point causing the extra weight sort of spiraled on you before you realised it was happening?

 

[Onoff]

A significant change in your routine, or a bout of illness can cause those factors to change, shifting how your body responds to food.

A course of antibiotics even.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

Ultra processed and processed foods messes us up big time I reckon. Interferes with absorbtion, immunity etc. Just my take. We are simply not designed to process this stuff. We are designed to process natural stuff. I MUST get back on the healthy eating train.

My understanding is that ultra processed foods are very much designed to replicate the macronutrient profile and texture of really high calorie, easily absorbed, "high value" foodstuffs that would not normally be very abundant.

Our brains are pretty much hardwired by tens of thousands of years of evolution to want as much of this stuff as they can get, and evolution hasn't caught up to us inventing agriculture, or industrial methods of production...

Which allows food manufacturers to get us pretty much hooked on the stuff, because the brain responds in much the same way to constant hits of "high value" foods, as it does to smoking, drugs, gambling, etc.

It is generally deficient in certain vitamins and micronutrients though, which can definitely have big negative impacts on the body's ability to function properly if they aren't coming from somewhere else.

I believe that doctors have been increasingly concerned that people switching to veganism for "health reasons" but then eating lots of highly processed meat substitutes are getting more unwell than if they had stuck with their old veggie or meat-eating diet, because they end up eating more calories with less micronutrients.

 

[Jelly_Sheffield]

A course of antibiotics even.

Yep.

In my case it was a good old fashioned case of Bilharzia (Liver Flukes), but you don't need to be that dramatic.

 

[MattF]

Ultra processed and processed foods messes us up big time I reckon. Interferes with absorbtion, immunity etc. Just my take. We are simply not designed to process this stuff. We are designed to process natural stuff. I MUST get back on the healthy eating train.

I personally don't think stuff like that is down to the food we eat, but rather the person. Simply genetics.

 

[Onoff]

Yes but that was just a fluke.

(Mods, I'll ask again can we have an I'll get me coat emoji please?)

 

[Onoff]

I personally don't think stuff like that is down to the food we eat, but rather the person. Simply genetics.

Gut microbiome all day long. The pavement crackers here might consider a (screened of course) fecal transplant from a so called "super pooper".

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/are-you-a-super-pooper

If anyone would like to become an overweight, myopic, pessimistic, moany old git prone to procrastination and self doubt just drop me a rinsed out takeaway mango chutney pot & an SAE in the post.

 

[Onoff]

Gut bacteria:

Gut bacteria may hold key to protecting brain against Alzheimers

A bacteria best known for causing stomach ulcers could lead to a new strategy in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease

www.independent.co.uk

In the words of Depeche Mode, get the balance right.

 

[Keith 66]

My downfall was working in the school as a technician, there were two lady food tech teachers who didnt really get on. So they used to compete with cakes & several times a week magnificent creations would appear in the art staffroom, Most of the women didnt eat much but Luis & I didnt like to waste it......
That was over 5 years ago & i havent shaken it off. I have cut chocolate & grouts pasties etc out & cut beer down too.
Seems to be working. A mate is 78 & still brews 5 gallons of homebrew a week, somehow he manages to drink it all too. And he is wiry thin.

 

[pedrobedro]

I cut out a lot of meat and lost a stone, down from 11st 101b. Fish and smaller portions helps.

 

[chunkytfg]

First time ever under 90Kg as a fully grown adult this morning! 89.5kg!

I've only ever seen this weight as I travelled past it on my way to triple figures!

Technically still got 4kg to go to hit a 'normal' BMI but as far as I'm now concerned I'm happy where I am at. 34'' jeans and a 42'' chest is good enough for me.

 

[pedrobedro]

First time ever under 90Kg as a fully grown adult this morning! 89.5kg!

I've only ever seen this weight as I travelled past it on my way to triple figures!

Technically still got 4kg to go to hit a 'normal' BMI but as far as I'm now concerned I'm happy where I am at. 34'' jeans and a 42'' chest is good enough for me.

How tall are you ? I'm in the same measurements at 20kg less

 

[chunkytfg]

How tall are you ? I'm in the same measurements at 20kg less

186cm/6'2''.

I do Triathlons and have done for years even when alot bigger so have pretty muscly legs from dragging an overly large body around 140 mile races!

 

[Keith 66]

I used to cycle a lot. Had to stop that as the arthritic elbow took too much of a beating from the handlebars. Likewise i used to do a lot of rowing, had to go easy on that for same reason. Surgeon told me "No more racing"!
Im 6' 2"currently 125kg & need to shed 25 - 30kgs.
Thats a 25kg sack of spuds or barrel of resin im carting about in lard.
Lost two kilos last week wearing chainsaw trousers & working in the heat
Aah well, need to get on the rowing machine more as i can favour the bad limb.

 

[Turbo]

I used to cycle a lot. Had to stop that as the arthritic elbow took too much of a beating from the handlebars. Likewise i used to do a lot of rowing, had to go easy on that for same reason. Surgeon told me "No more racing"!
Im 6' 2"currently 125kg & need to shed 25 - 30kgs.
Thats a 25kg sack of spuds or barrel of resin im carting about in lard.
Lost two kilos last week wearing chainsaw trousers & working in the heat
Aah well, need to get on the rowing machine more as i can favour the bad limb.

I'm like a rowing machine as it gives me a good full body workout and by altering your style slightly you can concentrate on one aspect.
It's the only cardio machine I can work up a good sweat on without something giving up.

 

[Onoff]

I took my first exercise the other day in years. Lugged the perfect working order running machine out onto the patio and covered it with a tarp. There it can sit until I move it on or scrap it.