Slim Like Gentleman Jim 2011 Championship

[FatFreddysCat]

Now it's over i've lost 3lb since tuesday now i'm back working  . Cant believe people coundn't be bothered to send their weights in on time when Finny has gone out of way to do this, shame on you 

[finnster01]

Slim Like Gentleman Jim 2011 Championship - Final Results

Admin I will add another email with some more charts for those that participated last year as well and do some comparisons. That will have to wait a little bit, as I just wanted to get the final results out.  

Commentary - I will get back with full commentary, but I just wanted to apologize for being late because of a pair of slippers, a stepladder and a very heavy box (that despite FoF folklore did not contain a collection of sticky magazines of dubious nature). Just want to congratulate Airfix with a totally amazing run and results. He broke the Slim Jim world record in both categories and although I did not manage to secure the Fulham prizes I wanted (thank you FX Pro for nothing) maybe next year I can get them to pony up something.

COYW!!!

Name   Start weight   7-Jan   14-Jan 21-Jan 28-Jan 4-Feb 11-Feb 18-Feb 1-Mar WhiteJC   190   186   184   184   182   183   180   179   176 FatFreddysCat   225   221   224   222   223   224   223   224   224 RidgeRider   222   219   218   217   217   215   213   213   212 os5889   250   249   247   252   248   252   253   253   253 Rambling_Syd   245   244   244   240   239   237   237   234   232 AmericanJames   204   203   200   199   198   198   198   198   197 TraversBarney   185   187   187   185   184   184   183   182   180 AlFayedsChequebook   206   200   200   197   193   193   192   192   192 FCSilverFox   202   199   197   196   196   194   194   192   191 Dugliss   199   198   198   197   196   197   196   196   195 BigAlFFC   233   229   229   227   226   226   225   225   225 WhiteNoise   195   192   191   190   190   187   188   188   186 DTownDough   246   246   245   244   244   244   244   245   243 VicHalomsLoveChild   224   225   223   222   222   222   221   219   218 ClintClintDeuce   211   211   209   210   209   209   209   209   209 Sipwell   168   168   167   166   166   166   166   166   166 Blingo   191   191   187   185   184   183   182   180   179 Airfix   229   227   222   219   215   212   209   206   203 FFCSteve   209   205   203   203   201   201   199   201   198 SnowyAndBlackie   150   150   148   149   147   147   147   147   147 Fernhurst   240   241   237   236   235   235   235   234   235 Logicalman   249   248   247   247   250   248   249   246   248 Nick The Swede   277   276   276   276   276   276   276   276   276 EpsomRaver   227   221   218   217   217   216   216   214   216 Fletchino   218   217   217   216   218   218   218   218   218 McBrideFan1   285   284   283   281   281   280   279   279   279

Biggest Loser in Week 8       Pounds WhiteJC   3 Airfix   3 FFCSteve   3 Rambling_Syd   2 TraversBarney   2 WhiteNoise   2 DTownDough   2 RidgeRider   1 AmericanJames   1 FCSilverFox   1 Dugliss   1 VicHalomsLoveChild   1 Blingo   1 FatFreddysCat   0 os5889   0 AlFayedsChequebook   0 BigAlFFC   0 ClintClintDeuce   0 Sipwell   0 SnowyAndBlackie   0 Nick The Swede   0 Fletchino   0 McBrideFan1   0 Fernhurst   -1 Logicalman   -2 EpsomRaver   -2

League Table: Biggest Loser - Year To Date (Pounds)       Final - Mar 1st Airfix   26 WhiteJC   14 AlFayedsChequebook   14 Rambling_Syd   13 Blingo   12 FCSilverFox   11 FFCSteve   11 EpsomRaver   11 RidgeRider   10 WhiteNoise   9 BigAlFFC   8 AmericanJames   7 VicHalomsLoveChild   6 McBrideFan1   6 TraversBarney   5 Fernhurst   5 Dugliss   4 DTownDough   3 SnowyAndBlackie   3 ClintClintDeuce   2 Sipwell   2 FatFreddysCat   1 Logicalman   1 Nick The Swede   1 Fletchino   0 os5889   -3

League Table: Biggest Loser - Year To Date (Pound for Pound)       Final-Mar 1 Airfix   11.35% WhiteJC   7.37% AlFayedsChequebook   6.80% Blingo   6.28% FCSilverFox   5.45% Rambling_Syd   5.31% FFCSteve   5.26% EpsomRaver   4.85% WhiteNoise   4.62% RidgeRider   4.50% BigAlFFC   3.43% AmericanJames   3.43% TraversBarney   2.70% VicHalomsLoveChild   2.68% McBrideFan1   2.11% Fernhurst   2.08% Dugliss   2.01% SnowyAndBlackie   2.00% DTownDough   1.22% Sipwell   1.19% ClintClintDeuce   0.95% FatFreddysCat   0.44% Logicalman   0.40% Nick The Swede   0.36% Fletchino   0.00% os5889   -1.20%

(Charts below. Just click on the links)
Initial Weights
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40377464@N04/5344032638/#
Weekly Gain-Loss
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40377464@N04/5529042840/#
YTD - Total Loss Pounds
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40377464@N04/5529045332/#
YTD - Total Loss Pound-For-Pound
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40377464@N04/5528456863/#
Weight Loss By Date
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40377464@N04/5528455583/#
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[Airfix]

Thanks finn for posting the results, I never believed that you were trying to put mucky mags up in the loft - everyone knows that yours are under a loose floorboard in the spare room!

Thank you too for your sterling efforts in corralling this random rabble into some semblance of order.  The total loss of 182 pounds means that we almost lost TraversBarney (though I still prefer to say that we managed to lose Odious Dogbreath, or Fat Lumplard with enough weight of soil to bury him completely!).

I'd like to thank my dietician, my mother and father, my wife, sister and all the family, my friends who never doubted me for a second (yeah, right!), my pet rock,  my stuffed Monkey toy, Flat Eric,  the Queen, Emergency Bitter, Mrs Jenkins from number 42,  everyone who knows me and the panel for making this marvellous voting decision

For the record, I am now 196 pounds and falling.  I aim to get to 182, where I will stop.  At the very latest, I shall move on to the next phase of the diet on May 1st as I really don't want to be still on this phase when I go out to the US on holiday.  If I make it there, I shall have lost a grand total of 75 pounds (5 stone 5 pounds or 34 kilos) which represents nearly 30% of my old bodyweight.  And, according to the BMI index, I shall STILL be "overweight"!!

I'll keep you posted.

 

[sipwell]

Congrats to Mr. Airfix for winning the competition. I think we all should chip in to buy him some food, as he apparently has been starving himself in the last couple of months. Given his irregular activities on this board I am wondering whether Airifx isn't poverty-struck as of late.
Let's present the facts:
1) he hardly ate;
2) he hardly contributed to this forum (access only to the internet via the library?)

Surely this implies he cannot afford food or a subscription to internet?

In any case: thanks Mister Finn for doing the bookkeeping. My diet has been less than a success but I can comfort myself in the fact that I needed not lose weight. I am fine the way I am, but I stayed clear of biscuits and other instant fatmakers in the last couple of months. Let the crunching begin!

[FFCSteve]

Well done Mr Airfix! Keep up the good work.

Just noticed you didn't take part yourself Finn! Must be the perfect weight eh?

[The Equalizer]

Congrats Airfix! You really are a shadow of your former self. In fact, you're virtually 2 dimensional these days.

Fortunately, in these days of modern technology, there are 3D cameras so that even in your 2 dimensional form we can still enjoy photos of you online in full 3D.

[finnster01]

Well done Mr Airfix! Keep up the good work.

Just noticed you didn't take part yourself Finn! Must be the perfect weight eh?

I didn't participate last year either Mr FFCSteve.

I think sometimes it is important to have an independent ref in competitions like this. For me personally, weight wise, I have improved significantly due to a health scare 2 years ago and I have shed 60 pounds since. I am now only about 170 +/- which is a big difference from being a tank at 230 who didn't give a poo. It was either that or an early bath for me. Sometimes that is what it takes to wake up.

And if I can help any good Fulham fans to drop a few pounds each year, then I am a very happy man

[Airfix]

I have shed 60 pounds since.

Niiiiiiiiiiiice!  Liberating, isn't it?

[Blingo]

Good work Finny. Thanks m8. 

[RidgeRider]

I want to chime in with a big thanks to Finn as well for doing all the work to keep this going. Well done Sir!

I also want to congratulate Mr. Airfix, amazing results and truly inspiring.

[Dugliss]

Well done to Airfix, will we ever see his record beaten? Maybe we could buy a stapler to secure all that loose skin he must have flapping around.
Thanks to Finnster again this year for all the hard work, shame I didn`t put in quite so much effort myself

[FFCSteve]

Well done Mr Airfix! Keep up the good work.

Just noticed you didn't take part yourself Finn! Must be the perfect weight eh?

I didn't participate last year either Mr FFCSteve.

I think sometimes it is important to have an independent ref in competitions like this. For me personally, weight wise, I have improved significantly due to a health scare 2 years ago and I have shed 60 pounds since. I am now only about 170 +/- which is a big difference from being a tank at 230 who didn't give a sh1t. It was either that or an early bath for me. Sometimes that is what it takes to wake up.

And if I can help any good Fulham fans to drop a few pounds each year, then I am a very happy man

Holly cow mate! That is some serious weight loss. Well done to you!
Oh & thanks for your hard work running this not so impressive diet. (Except Airfix of course!)
Hope your feeling better now, after your accident?

[FC Silver Fox]

At the outset of this competition, I offered a FoF bumper sticker to the winner of :

1. The best excuse given for not achieving their target or generally under-achieving.
2. The best use of a football cliché in this competition.


Over and above Finnster's sterling work running this competition which, in itself, warrants a FoF bumper sticker, it seems to me that he wins the the 'best use of football cliché' quote for a number of his posts.  I can't see any valid candidates for the 'under-achievement excuse' award but I'm open to suggestions from the last 17 pages.

Any objections or other candidate recommendations, bearing in mind its too late to slap in a potential award winning post now ?

[finnster01]

At the outset of this competition, I offered a FoF bumper sticker to the winner of :

1. The best excuse given for not achieving their target or generally under-achieving.
2. The best use of a football cliché in this competition.


Over and above Finnster's sterling work running this competition which, in itself, warrants a FoF bumper sticker, it seems to me that he wins the the 'best use of football cliché' quote for a number of his posts.  I can't see any valid candidates for the 'under-achievement excuse' award but I'm open to suggestions from the last 17 pages.

Any objections or other candidate recommendations, bearing in mind its too late to slap in a potential award winning post now ?

I have two recommendations:

1) Our Welsh Wizard Owen (OS what ever number he uses)for managing to put on weight in a slimming competition and then followed by trying to boil his body away (although I do think that was after the slimming period closed)

2) The second nominee is Nick the Swede who informed me that he had moved apartments and his scales were lost in a box somewhere so he couldn't weigh in...

[FC Silver Fox]

Splendid recommendations. I'll see if I can rustle up a 3rd sticker.  If you 3 gentlemen would like to PM me your name and address, I'll pop a FoF sticker in the post to you, hoping that OS hasn't boiled dry.

[FatFreddysCat]

Down to 217 now,and has the weather hots up i will lose loads  How's everyone else getting on now?

[Airfix]

Was 203lbs (92 kilos) on the 1st March, now 191 (86.5 kilos).  Aiming for 182 (82.5 kilos) by the end of April, if I can.  Whatever I weigh on 30th April, that is where I finish it and move on to stage 3.

Total loss so far 66lbs (4st 10lbs) or 30 kilos.

 

[FatFreddysCat]

Was 203lbs (92 kilos) on the 1st March, now 191 (86.5 kilos).  Aiming for 182 (82.5 kilos) by the end of April, if I can.  Whatever I weigh on 30th April, that is where I finish it and move on to stage 3.

Total loss so far 66lbs (4st 10lbs) or 30 kilos.

 

  :Sparkyticus:

[finnster01]

Was 203lbs (92 kilos) on the 1st March, now 191 (86.5 kilos).  Aiming for 182 (82.5 kilos) by the end of April, if I can.  Whatever I weigh on 30th April, that is where I finish it and move on to stage 3.

Total loss so far 66lbs (4st 10lbs) or 30 kilos.

 

  :Sparkyticus:

Have to agree with that.

I bet you feel pretty good right now Mr Airfix? That is an amazing feat. Took me well over two years to shed my excess, but as a result I literally can feel my life expectancy took a major turn for the better (and so says my doctor)  :045:

[Airfix]

Was 203lbs (92 kilos) on the 1st March, now 191 (86.5 kilos).  Aiming for 182 (82.5 kilos) by the end of April, if I can.  Whatever I weigh on 30th April, that is where I finish it and move on to stage 3.

Total loss so far 66lbs (4st 10lbs) or 30 kilos.

 

  :Sparkyticus:

Have to agree with that.

I bet you feel pretty good right now Mr Airfix? That is an amazing feat. Took me well over two years to shed my excess, but as a result I literally can feel my life expectancy took a major turn for the better (and so says my doctor)  :045:

Thanks guys, I can't pretend that it hasn't been hard, there is much that I miss.  Mrs Airfix has promised me her special hot coronation chicken for my first celebration meal (I can almost taste it already) so there is something to look forward to!

I do feel better about myself but less in a "healthy" way and more in a mental state.  It is wonderful to look at clothes and know that there will be a size in the shop to fit me.  I have lost 6-7 inches off my waist and am having fun re-creating my wardrobe.  Had a clear-out of clothes that don't fit me any more and they are currently in the spare room awaiting selling on eBay - gotta make some money to buy the new clothes somehow.

Yesterday I was in shorts and a t-shirt.  When Mrs Airfix saw me she commented that I looked mighty fine.  Can't argue with that, can I?