Some of you who have been here a while might recall that the time before last I attempted to lose weight it was a smashing success.  In just eight months with diet alone I lost a hundred pounds.  You might also recall that the last time I tried to lose weight I did the exact same diet but even more religiously and threw in exercise and failed miserably.  Being older with a slower metabolism apparently makes it harder to burn calories.
    Last August 3rd was my 67th birthday.  I looked in the mirror and wanted to puke.  At 271 I had really let myself go.  Soooooo   I stopped eating all junk food and started dog walking twice instead of once a day again. Also I greatly increased the length of our walks.  I'm walking about five times farther per day than I was.
    I don't own a scale because they can do more harm than good.  People become fixated on them.  I had a doctor appointment the end of October so I waited until  then to see how I was doing.  I could see I lost some weight but I had no idea how much. 
     About a week short of three months into my current program I had lost twenty three pounds.  At 248 I'm still seeing a fat guy in my mirror but twenty three pounds in a little less than three months is very satisfactory progress as far as I'm concerned.  A little success like that encourages me to try even harder.  I have not touched any junk food at all in three months.  My next doctor appointment is six months from now so I'll check my weight again then. 

Nice one RM. Ive got a bit of extra Morphy I could do without. Youre a good example to all of us.

Great job man! My big problem is that I just don't like exercise. I ran a half marathon a few years back and I managed it but at no point was it fun or enjoyable. I didn't do all that much training because I actually don't like running at all. There are basically no team sports I care abut enough or am interested in so I've been a bit stuck on what I'm supposed to do to stop growing horizontally. BUT, recently, as part of my plan to get a Finnish slinging team together, I met up with some historical reenactors and went to a pole weapons training class and boy, that was a workout. We did a pretty intensive warm up, some drills and then some light sparring, finishing up with a game where you are armed with a glove and have to tap the other persons body without getting hit yourself. Your non-dominant arm is your "shield" that you can block the glove with but everywhere is is fair game. We did duels, teams and then a full battle, half the group versus the other half. It was so much fun and I was sweating buckets after. Tricking myself into doing exercise is the key!

Any exercise you enjoy is always going to be better than something you have to make yourself do.

23lbs is no mean feat.a stone and a half !

Keep at it