School staff health and well-being thread1

[Monkeytennis97]

Hello all! Welcome to any school staff looking to improve their diet/exercise in 2021!

Last year I lost 5 stone and my BMI dropped from 42 to 28. My aim this year is to drop another 2 stone to get into the 'normal' weight category and to improve my stamina with jogging.

Welcome all!

Hello
Thanks for this thread. I need it.

To top it off, dh lost 8 stone last year and I'm still my size 16 asthmatic self. 14st. So I need to lose 3 to be healthy at my height.

Thank you @Monkeytennis97 for this new thread. I’m in awe of your success in 2020!

I’m not sure what set as a target weight loss wise. To get into the healthy category I would need to lose 6st, but I feel very daunted by that. I might just take it 1st at a time.

@DrMadelineMaxwell Welcome! Wow that's a huge loss!! I'm 12 stone 7 now, was 17 stone 9lbs after years of comfort eating when DS was at home. We got this!

DH "made" me step on the scales this morning. Had such a shock I went straight downstairs to do some exercise.
DH is now making me a healthy soup for lunch and clearing out the fridge of cheese whilst I recover from the workout.
We got the dog a Fitbit for Christmas. He's not going to know what's hit him - off on (yet another) long walk shortly.

I lost 3 and a half stone a couple of years ago, and looked fab on itbut I'm embarrassed to say that about 2 of it has slowly gone back on, mostly via alcohol.

SO.... I'm in. We can do this!! Apart from anything else, my school is open this week and I can't do any of my clothes up.

@HarrietDVane welcome!!! Yup when I started in March I thought anything I do is better than before. Didn't go mad cutting calories (think I was on about 1800 a day) but got a Fitbit and walked/ jogged around the house (in the first lockdown I didn't go out the house for 6 weeks), got a treadmill and walked on that whilst watching walking videos on YouTube. Weight loss been a lot slower since September (funny that! Stress!) but still lost a stone and a few lbs since then. Good luck with it all I'm sure you'll smash it!

@CallmeAngelGabriel Welcome too!! Yay! We can all definitely do this! The dog got a Fitbit?!😂

Thanks for this thread. I have piled the weight on for the last 4 years. I was overweight in May on my 40th Birthday in May. I am now two stone over that. Not good.

@RigaBalsam welcome!! Here's to looking forwards!!:)

Marking place!

Hello! Got 2st to lose, after weight crept up in my mid-40s. Peri-meno aches and pains stopped me running, GP couldn’t be less interested so after drifting along for a few years I’ve upped the Vit D and walk off the extra weight.

Checking in! I am about 2 stone heavier than before Covid, and also drinking way too much.
I'm going to do dry January and aim to do RED January. But from tomorrow 🤣

Welcome @AllDoneIn @Saucery @GleamingBaubles 😊

What's Red January?

I've also upped my vit D, heard on Dr John Campbell that Dr Fauci was taking 6,000IU a day so I alternate between 4,000 and 6,000 daily and once back to March I'll take 2000.

What's RED January gleaming?

Thanks for this. Last NYD I was vowing to lose a stone by Easter and keep it off for the rest of the year. I guess I had a reasonably excuse with pandemic???

But no more.

Eating is SO emotional, isn't it? Wish this driver was addressed more.

@JanuaryChill

What's RED January gleaming?

Thanks for this. Last NYD I was vowing to lose a stone by Easter and keep it off for the rest of the year. I guess I had a reasonably excuse with pandemic???

But no more.

Eating is SO emotional, isn't it? Wish this driver was addressed more.

It really is. I have palpitations and numb limbs with the rate at which I piled it on. None of my clothes fit either and I refuse to by more.

I lost in first lockdown and saw a 12 (just) on the scales but levelled out around 13st3. Today I was 14st2 😱😱😱😱 nearly all of which has been December so I reckon I can get it off again!

Run Every Day. Even if it is just the length of the drive and back.... (And it's a short drive) but the aim is you get dressed for exercise every day - because once you've got the sports bra on, you might as well do something!

@GleamingBaubles just the word run brings me out in palpitations and a cold sweat 😂 I can manage light jogging on the treadmill now but too self conscious to do it outside. I reckon if I get another stone off by Easter I should be able to start running then... possibly....

They haven't yet made the sports bra that can take me on.

Oh my goodness just getting a sports bra on and off is a workout isn't it?!

@JanuaryChill

Oh my goodness just getting a sports bra on and off is a workout isn't it?!

😂😂 @JanuaryChil I haven't worked out your namechange... am I being really dense?!l

@CallmeAngelGabriel

They haven't yet made the sports bra that can take me on.

😂😂

On my last weight-loss blitz, I did loads of power-walking, really fast. After a while, as your stamina builds, you get to thinking that you could just tip over into a jog.
I also did Couch to 5K, (through a heat wave, and was so dedicated at the time that I would get up at 6 to run before it got too hot) but bailed mid-way through Week 5, when there was a massive leap. Stupid really, as I should just have kept at the stage I was at, rather than giving up altogether.
Trouble is, I broke my leg very badly around 8 years ago, and it's never fully recovered, so there's a limit to what I can do. Bizarrely, I can still ski, but that's out the window this year.

Monkey, think of what month it is now, and which it was yesterday....

(Not giving any answers for free here, oh no!)

@CallmeAngelGabriel

They haven't yet made the sports bra that can take me on.

I have to wear 2. 🙈

@JanuaryChill got you now!