I’ve got a month to lose a stone

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Going on holiday in one month and need to be able to fit into my bathers! Don’t have time to mess about any more so need to be properly committed to diet and exercise just for one month. Anyone want to join me?

I’m going to try to stick to chicken and fish with green vegetables or salad. Trying to tell myself it’ll be unadventurous but it’s only a month.

Not eating until the afternoon is probably 90% of the reason for that - you're too hungry.

It’s definitely caused by the wine. Nothing better than a good sandwich when you’re feeling the effects of wine.

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I lost 7lbs before I went on hol but put on 4 lbs whilst there not due to unhealthy eating but all the cocktails so remember it’s the drinks that can put the weight back on. TBH I’d rather enjoy my hol than watching what I’m eating and drinking and remember OP nobody cares what you look like on hol just enjoy yourself. Your weight with your height doesn’t sound overly overweight tbh but to answer your question I just cut out all snacks beforehand (I never eat breakfast in week anyway usually have brunch at weekends around 11.30) and had plenty of chicken and veg, salmon rice broccoli and Hallumi salads

It’s not overweight and I have no intention of not enjoying myself whilst I’m on the holiday.

You've very snippy in how you speak to people.

Great contribution.

I’ve lost a stone on slimming world in a month but you need to stick to it. Xx

You are snippy I was only trying to help jeez !

Please let us know on day 14 how that consistency is going….

Sorry I don't have any specific experience relating to PCOS. I am sure all the same advice applies - strength training, steps, plenty of protein from a whole foods diet.

I can't stress enough that strength training should be building up to 10/10 effort level, you want to be pushing to failure. Progressively overloading your muscles. That is what triggers muscle growth and helps you build not just a slimmer body but a more capable body and one that will burn through calories even on your rest days. Just lifting a few easy weights is better than nothing but you're leaving a lot of potential benefits on the table.

I often hear "I don't want to look too muscular" as a reason why people shouldn't train like this and my reply to that is "don't worry, you won't". When you look "too muscular" under the right lighting, freshly pumped and flexing, that's when you'll look your absolute best in normal lighting, normal clothes, not flexing.