January Starters - Thread 11!

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Come on in losers!

sorry about the troubles, @Zempy
Dinner tonight, not low calorie or anything, but had a small portion. Very filling and everybody liked it: https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/crispy-topped-artichoke-butternut-squash-and-rosemary-baked-gnocchi/

morning losers - I have lost weight again without trying, 55.9 kilos. That really is enough now, but I am struggling to get out of the perpetual dieter mindset. My entire life I have been trying to eat as little as possible - if I could not eat, I would not eat. I don't know how to change that.

Have had a healthy breakfast and off to gym.

Morning 🌄 losers!
Thank you all for the good wishes for yesterday
@discov I had a good sleep thank you. I don't think I realised how much it had been weighing on my mind until I was sitting in a pub garden and suddenly felt incredibly tired.
@Zempy hope everything 💩 sorts itself out today!
Loving the boot chat yesterday! I have my eye on a beautiful pair of grey ankle boots for Christmas. They are from Jones the Bootmaker which feels so solid and old fashioned.
Shoes are the only clothing item I don't buy second hand ( well so far anyway!) Very successful marketing campaign by Clarks to my parents when I was a child I think! 🤣
I have a great day planned, taking my beautiful nephew to a dinosaur 🦕 show this afternoon and then to a 50th birthday party. Followed by a sleep over and a visit to my parents on the way home. I will be nutured all weekend which is what I need.
I've really appreciated you all this week thank you! And have a lovely weekend everyone xxx

@HeidiLite I don't think you calorie track do you? Is it worth starting to see where you can add some additional? It's like a backwards problem...my mindset is similar when I step on the scales. Only pleased with a loss - persuading myself to be happy at staying the same.

@BreezyPeer enjoy being nurtured.

Went for a open swim last night - think that will be the last one. After 45 mins in the water I had numb hands and feet, and it took me about 2 hours to stop shivering. But yesterday I had more calories than I've had in ages - ate too much of the wrong stuff. And didn't really enjoy it. Good reminder.

Today I have some time to myself in the house to finish my evening course homework, then off for lunch with family followed by a 50th party tonight. Not much exercise planned as did something every day last week. Tomorrow is time to recuperate ahead of the manic week again. Enjoy your weekends ladies!!

Morning everyone, I’m pleased you’re ok @BreezyPeer , enjoy your weekend.

I’ve got no idea what to suggest @HeidiLite , cheese, wine and avocado is probably not helpful is it. 😄

@Thelittlestranger I bet the water is getting cold now. Not for the faint of heart (read me🤣) generally is it. I think you’ve done well. I used to swim in an outdoor pool that was heated to 8 degrees but never after October.

Early start here taking DS to the station, DD to work and Ocado have been already. The forecast is for very heavy rain all day so I’m going to read and work on my watercolour. I might look for recipes to use up things I don’t want to waste in the fridge. I’m a bit bored of my usual ones.

Looking forward to a pressure free day 🧘‍♀️.

@Thelittlestranger you are brave! I stopped a couple of weeks ago (mainly because we had a lot of thundery showers).

@BreezyPeer have a lovely nurturing weekend. Lots of fun and warmth is what’s needed.

@HeidiLite yeah I get that. One reason I put weight back on after keeping it off for over 5 years is because I really struggled with the constant chatter in my head about being ‘good’ or not and then rebelled, stopped weighing stopped tracking (tracking works for me). Not food noise but internal monologue that got too much.

I do think some work on things like intuitive eating can be really helpful but I suspect easier at a healthy rather than overweight starting point.

today I am doing mild housework and being ill as as dd2. All of the kids mates are properly poorly/off school as is half my team at work so this virus is nasty. I feel better than yesterday though so am in that ‘yes I’m ill and i’m going to enjoy it’ place which means books, sofa and trashy tv.

i do have a shopping project if anyone fancies it. I have a birthday coming up and yesterday I realised I’ve lost 51 lbs and will be 51. And my bonus looks like it will be quite a bit higher than I expected so I feel I am due a treat. I have always liked the stuff on one hundred stars but always thought I’d look a bit silly/ship in full sail. But now I think maybe. But what. For context quite short, curvy, possibly soft classic body shape and colour palette is fair and neutral (was a spring, think I’m more summer). My lifestyle is quite dull and my wardrobe sensible but I fancy something a bit fun.

https://onehundredstars.co.uk/. Also doesn’t have to be from here. Open to ideas

My lovely @PenelopePoweringOn I missed you! Your day seems excellent. I have a glut of figs and plums if you fancy finding me recipes too.

@HeidiLite just read my intuitive eating point back and it doesn’t make sense. I meant I think the intuitive eating stuff is maybe easier tackled where you are now ie healthy weight than when people are overweight. So may be worth a look. I found it frustrating when overweight as I wanted not to be iyswim.

Sorry you are poorly @myladyjane. I am also ill. Been up half the night and am still 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩

My arse is in tatters as Jim Royle would say. On the plus side, I am back down to 8:13.

Going to spend an hour drinking tea, then shower, then Vinting. Looking after a friends dog overnight so I need to pull myself together really.

Enjoy the weekend everyone

Morning losers! I am posting from a lovely hot bath which is bliss after the first job of the morning which was pre-holiday de-fuzzing. Bikini line isn’t a challenge anymore and no blood was spilled. DH is in work this morning but I’m meeting him at 12 as there’s a free 2.5 hour heritage walk in the town we grew up in and we’ll be going over a few old stamping grounds. Rain is forecast so it’s good job I bought that coat.

Aa usual I’ve gained a pound the day after jab day. It’s just part of the process now but it was devastating the day after my first way back in January.

I’ve almost caught up with the thread and congratulations are in order for lots of things but @cloudjumper in particular. If I get a chance I’m going to skim our first thread to confirm that we are all totally different people. We’ve blossomed losers! Blossomed I tell you.

I impulse bought a dark blue double gauze dress in Tesco yesterday for the princely sum of £4. It’s a size 16. I knew it would be way too big but I plan to do something creative with it. I tried it on for a twirl and I was blown away by how ‘catwalk’ it looks being so massively oversized so I’ve shelved that project for a rethink.

Have a fabulous weekend all!

That sounds amazing @Jins. Like your own Molly Goddard style creation?

I can barely sew a button on!

@Zempy it put me in mind of something like this photo. It has a gathered neckline and massive statement sleeves already

@zempyyour poor arse.

I am apparently only mild ill. Dd2 in bed, dh walking around like a shot buffalo so me with my mild headache and fatigue am but a lightweight in illness terms (genuinely swear I get less ill on mj than I used to). Dd1 has sport and boys to occupy her today so she’s raring to go.

Hope you’re feeling better soon @Zempy!! Having the sh**ts is so draining.
Waving from the side of a football field, clutching to a thermos with coffee for dear life. I’ll never understand why football season runs over the cold months, who came up with that idea 🙄
I’m trying hard to establish a capsule wardrobe, but keep getting side-tracked by things I don’t really need 😆 I think I need to step away from Vinted for a bit - although it’s tricky, as I’ve just listed a whole load of stuff again.

Here’s a photo of me in said £4 dress.

I’m loving the oversized swishiness. I’ll definitely put the project on hold

Looks fabulous @jins. It reinforces that it's so much easier to wear ANYTHING when you are slim - and you still look slim!
Hope you had a decent night and are feeling better @Zempy and Happy Birthday!!!

@BreezyPeer 🤗 glad you've got a nurturing weekend, sometimes we just need a bit of home comfort.

I also need to step away from Vinted for a while! Apart from to list a shed-load of things.
@myladyjane I've always wanted a One hundred stars kimono to waft about in! I saw Siobhan whatserface wearing one on the pottery throw down and loved it.

I'm hankering after this jumper at the moment -https://tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/product/tuc147164333
Can't decide whether to order or not. £65 for a jumper seems like such a lot when I'm used to paying £5-£10 on Vinted! 😂

weighed in yesterday
SW 101kg
CW 74.7kg
GW 70kg
loss this week 0.5kg
And metabolic age now 46! (I'm 51, nearly 52).
Loss is definitely slowing down now. I'm torn between bumping up the dose for a few weeks to get to goal or just sticking with it and accepting it'll take a bit longer. I think the sensible thing to do for long term is just to stick with it. It's all more time embedding the habits I suppose.

oh, foot update - I finally got a call to arrange the private X-ray on Thursday and turned it down as it's been so much better. Went to clubbercise yesterday, and did one song high-impact and then had my foot throbbing for the rest of the night 🤦🏻‍♀️. I'll just have to lay off the high impact for a little while longer.

@myladyjane I’ve spent a fair bit of time on that link and I keep coming back to the dress on the home page
https://onehundredstars.co.uk/collections/darcy-dress/products/susani-charcoal-crepe-darcy-dress

Naturally because I’m me I’ve been scrutinising the finer details, fabric, pattern matching etc and I’m mildly concerned about lining a cupro/viscose mix with cotton as they behave very differently in the wash. They aren’t too bad with their pattern matching though. Certainly better than LuLaRoe which is in my mind because I’ve just watched the documentary series.

How do you feel about Batik prints? I won’t go down that rabbit hole if you aren’t keen

Ah thank you @Jins for looking. I also had a good look this morning and do you know, I’ve sort of gone off it a bit. I do like the one you’ve picked - it’s in my top 5 but I’d have to belt it or it would totally swamp me. I did like the Rachel dress too but only in 2 of the prints and again I’d have to belt it. I think the short kimonos are too boxy for me and whilst I love the dressing gowns, i KNOW I’d do that ‘keep for best’ thing and wear o e from M&S.

I did google Batik prints and did like quite a few actually. I think the issue I will have (and always have) is finding the mix of fit,shape and colour. Bold, quite drapey and fluid but with some fit. That I will wear. Moon on a stick!

@MJalltheway my issue with that jumper is it’s 60 quid for polyester. It’s v nice though - make it heavy cotton and I’d snatch it out your hands

My WLJ twin. I’ve mentioned I’ve also been struggling with unintentionally losing more weight and the mental shift into trying to gain a little. I feel bad writing about it as I know so many are still trying to lose - but I do think it’s something a few of us will have to manage.
The obvious response is to reduce the dose and eat more when hungry. The tough thing about this as we’ve spent all our dieting lives embracing the hunger as a ‘good’ thing (willpower, self-restraint, discipline = morally superior). It does require a change in mindset, but I think eating more nutritious food when hungry is different to giving in to sugar cravings - which can tip your hormones out of balance. We don’t want to undo all the ‘good work’ but it’s hard to manage choices when giving in to hunger has always been framed as a slippery slope to gaining it all.

I remember you said you weren’t even sure last time you jabbed, and you’re on the lowest dose already. I would start tracking this so you can play with the timings to ensure you’re spacing it more when you’re losing, and then if you put more than you’re happy with you can decrease the gap.

After my concern at the fast gain earlier this week, following my first 10 day gap, I’ve lost 0.9kg again. I’ve also gone back to waking several times a night to wee, so I think the gain was water weight and the last two nights have been expelling it. So, despite my advice above, I’m thinking for me maybe a 10 day gap might be too much of a drop off MJ levels followed by a peak; and it would be more consistent to lower the dose to 2mg but keep to 7 days. But it’s literally one instance, so who knows if it’s more about mid-cycle hormones, and the change-in-weather bug that we’re all trying to fight off (DH in bed on day 2 of a migraine). This whole phase is individual trial and error. I guess the one thing I’m thinking is it’s probably healthier at this stage (where BMI is 20-22) to gain weight and tweak the MJ dose to lose it, than it is to lose more weight and struggle to gain it.

@Zempy @myladyjane hope you feel better soon. @HeidiLite I’ve bought into the ‘eat more protein’ message on t’internet, partly because I want to build/not lose muscle and partly because it makes me feel full for longer so I’m less likely to snack on rubbish. I think for me at least this might be the long-term strategy. Plus I quite like both chicken and eggs.
I’m going out later and have been looking through my clothes to find something nice to wear. I’m shocked by how many really pretty clothes I have and how long I’ve been buying less nice ones, not because they looked attractive at all but just because they fit. I love that I can wear the good stuff again, hate how much time I wasted.
I’m loving the outdoor swimming talk too, I swim all winter but hoping lack of bioprene won’t be a problem this year.

@myladyjane I have a short jacket/kimono from there in one of the skew prints. It works well over dresses and with jeans. I’m only 5f3 and it didn’t feel too boxy even when I was heavier.

Did any of you watch the show - The biggest loser? I watched a couple, loved seeing the large losses but the trainers were awful (one was Jillian 😬). Anyway there’s a documentary on Netflix, I’m about halfway through, looking back it was absolutely vile, the producers, the trainers and sone of the contestants. Different times hopefully.
Anyway worth a watch.
@Jins you are so talented.

We posted at the same time - weird we both said boxy. I meant Kew not skew.

@Aimingdown enjoy wearing the clothes and have a great night.

@DGonMJ its such a hard balance. Hope you find the right ratio for you !

thank you all, yes as you say @DGonMJ , it's the 'embrace the hunger, look at you go, eating as little as possible, willpower yaddah yaddah'.
I'm not tracking food any more, and yes @Aimingdown I am certainly looking to build more muscle, so will try to shift my mind to 'food is fuel'. It's hard when food has been the enemy to be avoided at all costs for the past 30 years or so..

@BlueLimes yes, I watched the documentary as well. Evil. Jillian, even though I don't personally like her much, has published some emails showing that the doc and producers knew exctly what she was doing, and no she was not going rogue.
In addition to working them to death for entertainment, they studied the contestants later and found their metabolism never recovered. www.health.harvard.edu/blog/exercise-metabolism-and-weight-new-research-from-the-biggest-loser-202201272676

@HeidiLite that’s awful 😔

btw I meant to say I love the sound of your new boots.
I do read everyone’s posts but I’m a bit random with comments or lose track as there are so many posts. On that note, I can’t remember if I thanked for the reply to my weights query @DGonMJ belated thanks !!

@myladyjane thank you 😊. I am the same, I cannot wear anything that doesn’t acknowledge my waist a little bit otherwise I look really big whatever size I am.

Your description made me think of East. Do you remember East? Well it is sort of back in a new form. I know that they are summery and probably not what you want but in the sale section I imagined that the Amelie or Jennie dresses might be what you were thinking of with your description above.

East