Three week pre-Christmas challenge

[TinglyandCurious]

So I’ve got three weeks before various Christmas events and would like to lose 7lb. I’ve got a hell of a lot to lose overall but would like to start with a small goal before things inevitably ramp up over Christmas week.

Does anyone fancy joining me? I’m doing standard calorie counting - approx 1350 per day (I don’t lose weight at anything more than that despite being several stone overweight.)

Thanks 🙂

Me please!

Great @Wherethewildthingsfart good luck for today. Am hoping for 3lb off this week and then 2lb per week for the two weeks after.

Bran flakes for breakfast and chicken salad for lunch. How about you?

Me please! I have been quite focussed the last few weeks and had lost around 6lbs. Still a few to lose and I'm still uncomfortable in my jeans. So another 6 before Christmas would be great.

My plan was to go for a long run today as I'm not working. However I went to a lovely wedding yesterday and slept terribly so my new revised plan is to walk the dog then sleep a bit, then see how I feel this afternoon!

1350 calories is about right for me to lose as well but I struggle to cut back that far so will see how i get on.

Good luck @thenewaveragebear1983, and well done on your loss so far! That’s brilliant. Hope you had fun at the wedding.

I’m already hungry but feeling motivated..

Me!
I've got 6Ib to lose.
I want to try and lost 2Ib per week ( if possible).

Here we go.... 🤞

I've had a really weird week and have ended it feeling really unwell with a heavy cold. So have probably gone way over on my calories this week and haven't exercised. This week I have 3 Christmas socials so my plan is to do alternate day fasting- enjoy my socials but on the down days, stick to 800 calories a la fast 800 style. Maybe I will maintain instead of gain? My plans all coincide with gym classes so unfortunately I won't get to many/any this week but I will try to run a few times to keep ticking over.

Hi @Enigma52 welcome and good luck 🙂

Sorry you’ve been unwell @thenewaveragebear1983 - alternating fasting sounds like a good idea though. To be fair maintaining would be great if you can have some lovely social events at the same time.

Weigh day tomorrow so will check in 🤞🏻

@TinglyandCurious thanks 😀
Won't be easy. I love bread, crisps and chocolate 🍫!

Sorry, I’ve been AWOL I’ve been away!

Excited to start. I’m going to do a mix of 18:6 with a 36 hour fast thrown in once a week. If this doesn’t work I’ll go back to OMAD although it’s miserable in the run up to Christmas!
I prefer all types of fasting as I don’t like to cut anything out or I feel like I’m missing out!

In total I would like to lose 13.5 lbs but will settle for 7 to get me down to the half stone mark.

Still feeling really crappy today, I was supposed to be having a fast day but that's not exactly happened, I've had 1600 calories and not even had my dinner yet! I've been off work ill so it's been toast and soup and things. But it all adds up.

Tomorrow we have a team breakfast at dishoom , it will be Indian style breakfast food. I'll be honest, it sounds odd to me- bacon and sausage naans and things like that. But apparently it's amazing food so hopefully I will be feeling well enough to travel to the city to join them. Then will have to travel back home to work from home for the afternoon.

That sounds amazing @thenewaveragebear1983 ! Hope you feel better soon. Have you had this mega cold that’s wiping everyone out?

@Wherethewildthingsfart I have definitely had some sort of horrible cold, not sure if it's the mega cold. I feel a bit brighter today but can feel it in my chest now 😢