Ok all you chubby rolly polly land whales, how about a little challenge:
I find that losing weight in the group tends to be better than alone.
So!
State your starting weight taken in the morning and how much of what you eat during the day, lets try to get as many on board as possible and week per week write your weight and the biggest loser gets a hearty round of forum applause.
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I’ll go first:
Weight this morning taken in the nude, unbreakfasted and after slucing the meat tank: 175.6kgs
Breakfast one Semmel, 160g and a cuppa.
09:40, 0,5l bottle of fizzy water and a cuppa.
Has anybody tried force drinking a plastic bottle of water, literally squeeze the bottle while drinking, half a liter goes down in about three seconds and you can have the most satisfying one minute continuous burp ever.
That was a typo? I own a weighing device in Switzerland, not in Spain, would be too depressing with all that fine food and wine. When I left Switzerland last month it was 94 kg. This is like 20kg too much, but I bought an e-bike with a 1000W motor, so it should be OK with a few kilos more.
Sorry, can’t take it every day, but when I’ll be back in Switzerland I’ll do! Good luck!
Maybe replacing it with one without the motor will help 
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20kgs too much on 94 kgs. 74 kgs? What are you.. an embryo?
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I’m 85kg now, down from 96kg. My ideal weight would also be around 76-78kg, although I’ll be happy if I get to 80kg.
Thing is, I’m in the “enhanced games” category, so probably best not to count me here.
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It depends on his height I guess. Shorter people obviously weigh less.
Hovering between 135 and 137, would like to drop 25kg but not more, it’s a frame issue as I have very wide shoulders and back. The Dr told me 85kg would be “ideal” but I feel at that weight I’d look like a skeleton (a wide one), plus I don’t want to be thin, being among the strongest kids was always the case, so the aesthetics are baked into my character.
6 Years ago I managed to get down from 96kg to 78kg. I’ve managed to hold around 78 since, but still have a visceral fat tummy. My ideal weight is 72kg, but those last 6 kg are so stubborn.
Losing that weight was a matter of “thinking thin” for 6 months - eating and boozing less and exercising more…
I read this as the weightless club and thought it was advertising for SpaceX. Weighing yourself every morning is not a good idea. The post prompted me to go on the scales. 76kg - stress, but after an avocado, chorizo and cheese open sandwich I feel much better.
All around 70-80 kgs… heck guys, dont go out in a strong wind.
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Going from 135 to 85 would also leave you with a significant amount of loose skin.especiallly if weight is lost fast.
Ha, I have a desert runner build. I guess my forefathers had to run a lot while hunting. Something between 69-72kg feels great while running and hiking.
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I think mine is closer to potato farmer (Gaelic genes).
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62 kg here; the last 5 kg appeared from nowhere, and in no time. All subcutaneous fat (that’s what the gym body analyzer tells me), which is the most stubborn one.
Wouldn’t bother me so much, apart from the fact that none of my expensive trousers fit me anymore. And I cannot run uphill sustainably as before. I blame that on the weight, not on the age. 
So, after some 1 h of weight training, I had a latte machiatto, 200g of blueberries, a fist of walnuts with multigrain bread, a birchemuesli and a kolache. With this heat… I don’t think i’ll eat much until the evening…
I’m happy with my weight now my thyroid is gone and the meds are adjusted correctly.
I lost 10kg over the course of six months without really changing much in terms of diet and exercise levels but mine was all due to endocrine issues.
I won’t be part of the weight loss journey but I’ll be here to support you in spirit.
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I got up to 84Kg before Christmas - from 76Kg.
I think people naturally put on weight in the autumn - it’s evolutionary - to cope with the cold winters.
I’m 80Kg now but want to be at 78Kg rather than lower as some of what I put on is muscle from calisthenics.
I haven’t changed my diet much.
This was a self-test to see how easy it was to lose (never needed to before) - it’s not easy so hats off to those with lots to lose.
It’s not easy to lose weight - especially the last bit.
I wanted to experiment with exercise for losing weight - to see if it matched the new findings that exercise makes little difference and it’s all in what you eat.
I concur that the new findings are right. I’ve found that the only way it works is with hard endurance exercise for many hours - five hour bike rides in the mountains, for example and then consciously moving for the rest of the day (rather than laying on the sofa).
So not really losing weight as such but using myself as a guinea pig.
It’s pretty much a waste of time weighing yourself everyday - you can lose a kilo in weight through exercise in one day through dehydration.
Much better is once a week and looking for a downward trend.
If I could offer advice for those who want to lose weight (or not gain it), because this has worked for me and it’s not really a conscious thing any more:
- No fizzy, sugary drinks (real or fake sugar) or one or two a week max.
- If you haven’t got the crisps, biscuits and chocolate at home, you can’t eat them.
- Have salads with every meal - include lots of fibre such as kidney beans.
- Have oats for breakfast - a big bowl can keep you going all day.
- If you are taking lots of real exercise then you will need lots of carbs to give you that energy.
- Eat plenty of fish (frozen is better than “fresh”, unless it is actually "fresh)
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Long-time lurker here, but I really liked this topic, so this is my first post 
I’ve always been overweight, ever since I was a kid. Honestly I was never into sports, just a pretty lazy guy. I became a father in 2015, and back then the highlight of my day was putting my daughter to bed so I could finally relax and enjoy something sweet like cake with butter or mascarpone, waffles, or whatever I had around.
I’m 1.79 m tall, and by 2020, at 34 years old, I weighed 115 kg. Not great, but not terrible considering I never exercised. That summer I tried to swim across the Rhine River, I had a panic attack from the effort and almost drowned. That moment changed something in me.
The very next week I started swimming because I never wanted to feel that again. At first, I had to stop and rest every 50 meters. I could barely manage 20 laps (500 m) in an hour, but I stuck with it. Slowly but surely, I improved. 35 km total in 2020, 96 km in 2021, and 240 km in 2022.
In 2023, after becoming a father for the third time and weighing around 100 kg, I made another big change: I started intermittent fasting and completely cut out sweets. That year I swam 352 km.
At the start of 2024, I decided to climb Kilimanjaro with a friend, which pushed me to take my cardio and nutrition much more seriously. By September, just before the climb, I was down to 86 kg. Reaching the summit felt incredible and motivated me even more. Around that time, I also joined a Masters swimming group at my local pool, and by the end of the year I had swum 600 km.
In March 2025, I competed in my first-ever Masters swimming competition. Two months later, I swam 1500 m in 21:30 (1:26/100 m), which felt like a huge milestone. By October I was down to 80 kg, but progress stalled and I still had stubborn belly fat, so I switched to a more structured plan focused on fat loss and muscle gain. I revamped my diet, tracked everything in an app, increased my daily steps progressively from 8,000 to 14,000, and added 4 gym sessions per week while continuing to swim.
That same month, I competed in the Swiss Masters Championship and managed to place 6th in one event, something I’m really proud of. By the end of 2025, I had swum a total of 901 km.
In February, I reached 69 kg at around 10% body fat, eating about 2,100 calories per day (170 g protein, 200 g carbs, 70 g fat). That’s when I shifted focus toward building muscle again. Around that same time, I also completed a 10 km swim in a single session with my club, only stopping briefly for a bathroom break.
Right now I’m at 71 kg, eating roughly 2,500 calories per day (155 g protein, 285 g carbs, 80 g fat). I walk around 12,000 steps daily, go to the gym four times a week, and still swim four times a week, though with slightly less volume, since overall it’s already a heavy workload.
I should stop swimming or swim even less if I really want to maximize muscle gain, but I made myself a promise back then: I wouldn’t stop swimming. And that’s a promise I intend to keep.
My goal now is to reach 75–77 kg, maintain a low body fat percentage, and make it sustainable long term
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Welcome to the forum.
What an inspirational story. Thanks for sharing!
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34, at that age your metabolism can still react with leaps and bounds.
Not so much at 66, your metabolism tells you to stop having brainfarts.
Clombing Killimanjaro… I would love to do that but my knees say “no”
I did climb Popocatapetl though at 50 though.