May 2025 Starters Thread 6 - We’re all totes protes now ✌️

[FlorenceNightshade]

As requested a protein and fibre filled shiny new thread for us!!

So sorry for people who are waiting for their cats to come home. Fingers are crossed.

I hope your DH feels better @DidILeaveTheGasOn .

Congratulations to everyone for NSVs and for keeping on keeping on.

@Apprenante that sounds bloody marvellous, congratulations!
My other half is on the mend now, which is a relief, poor thing has been in bed for days. I think he's been staving off a bug, or maybe just a heckload of tiredness came and got him.

You lost me at "spiders"....nope nope nope.

I’ve barely time to keep up now schools are back, but I had to say I’m so sorry for everyone missing cats. You were all so kind to me when my wee baby was knocked over a couple of months back. I feel your pain and you have my love

Oh good @DidILeaveTheGasOn.
I'm certainly not tall but I'm not worried by spiders. I'll come to your cellar. I even go in my shed. (Pats self on back)

@DidILeaveTheGasOn I’m not worried by your ghosts, but given that there are spiders, I suggest bricking the doorway up immediately and going shopping for entirely new clothes.

Bobbing along here. Work is very pressured and I am missing the comfort of leaving work, buying armfuls of crap from M&S and eating it in the car. It’s not that I want to, and my inner MJ Dowager Duchess won’t let me anyway (‘No, dear. That’s not what we do.’) but I miss there being something I can do to feel better. All I can think of is to go home, put on some saggy clothes and my old egg-stained cardigan, drink mint tea and think about retirement….which seems a lot more miserable than chucking a bag of Percy Pigs down my neck followed by a packet of those big chocolate chip shortbread biscuits from the bakery counter. Meh.

Congratulations! You deserve a night off for that. ❤️🩷

I used to be scared of spiders, but have got better lately. But we’ve moved into my late father’s barn conversion and the spiders in here are in a different league! And the entrance hall ceiling goes right up to the apex of the roof, so there’s no way to de cobweb (that I’ve thought of yet!).

On a positive note, we just went to see the new solicitor who is dealing with our house sale, and he seemed altogether more competent. I’m feeling a bit more relaxed.

Huge congratulations, @Apprenante! 🥂🍾
Hope you had the most fabulously indulgent time away.
Fellow child bride here, our 52nd anniversary later this year . 👰🏻‍♀️ 🤵🏻‍♂️.

So sorry to hear about all the missing cats, and horrified at the wild beasties in rural France ( and the ones lurking chez Gas 🕷️ 🕷️😱).
Achieved over 10.000 steps today, ashamed to say haven’t managed that for a while. Hope I walked off the 99 🍦 that I couldn’t resist.

Still tracking my food on the WW app, which is very useful - only have one more big family meal coming up on Saturday evening.
DSonIL’s parents chose the venue and it just serves mezze ( and very nice it is too ) which is handy as no-one really notices if I pass on a few plates .
Well done to all the losers and the near -to-target 🎯 gang !

Well done to all you losers!! 🥳

best wishes to those with missing cats 😢

courage to those with 🕷️ I can volunteer myself I don’t like them but am the least affected in my house so that apparently makes me Chris spider catcher 🤣 not at all tall tho so ladders required!!!

you’ve all cheered me up!!

I’ve struggled this week despite going up to 10mg

I’ve never managed to loose more than 3st and that’s the territory I should be entering now but I think I’m reverting to a little self sabotage which is frustrating.

also someone else above said I just want to be done I feel great I look better but still oh so far to go!!!!

however, in line with all the talk of new habits I’m trying to be kind to myself accept a bit of chocolate isn’t the end of the world (although it has set of cravings for more which had completely stopped!!) 😞

rather than battering my self for the money I’m wasting buying jabs then still eating rubbish!!!!

jab day tomorrow so I’m hoping to refocus & have a better week!!

on plus side I’ve carried on with the LRW workouts which I’m pleased with!

We all seem to be having a wobble/slow down at the moment. It’s either the autumn air or just the four month blues?

I ordered another 10mg pen this week, added to all that I stock piled, so that I can go slightly bigger doses if I need to and still get through the next six months. I’m just about to go onto a 7.5 pen. Hoping to get 5 x 6mg jabs from it plus a golden dose. I’m still hanging onto eating healthy food but I’m eating big portions. Do you think that matters if it’s a big salad?

@DBatteryBand i know that feeling too well i am afraid… the only thing that works for me is chrwing gum in the car. My mouth is occupied, my tastebuds are busy with the minty taste and im either listening to music or calling someone. But thats only if i can get to my car, having escaped the tentatiin of the corner shop, Tesco and then M&S…. Perhaps i should change my walk to the car park! 🤣

I think bulk is fine @Gingercar A salad full of grated carrot, cabbage and so on takes a nice long time to eat, makes you full of fibre. A huge salad of cheese and mayonnaise - maybe not so wonderful. Which were you planning on having?

@bookedanappointment how're you doing?

Fine work on the size 14 @PinkScotthats a fabulous victory!!! I got a lovely oversized pink cardigan out of Next the other week out of the kids section (note - age 16 is pretty much the same measurements as a ladies size 12!) and it’s kids so clearly far too young for me but sod it!
congrats on the goal weight @stripesdotsdashesit’s an amazing feeling isn’t it!!
@DidILeaveTheGasOnI don’t quite trust myself to behave either. Despite being super good and healthy most of the time and only having a few “bad” treats. It really is ingrained isn’t it. Well done on the loss!! I’m trying to stop with my fitness pal and obsessing, and allowing myself a treat. So I get used to my new ways. big fat nope from me for the spids tho. Soz. You’re on your own.

@SussexLass87i also do IF, rarely eat breakfast so usually fairly simple to eat, I didn’t know that about heart health. My BP has come back down to normal after being borderline higher so I’m not overly worried but there’s a family history of heart failure.
@notgonnafailthat sounds like an interesting podcast I’ll check it out. I did read the food noise book recently by jack(?) Mosely.
Wow happy anniversary @Apprenanteand upcoming wishes to you too @ElsieJay🍾🥂
@SutekhsEarsthank you so much for checking in. I am doing ok. Much better emotionally this week, have some close RL friends who have been really supportive and DH is being wonderful. I appreciate everyone’s well wishes, but blown away, did expect some judgement really but you are all such a lovely bunch 🩷 I’m very grateful.
(Sorry I had to delete my post - epic nc fail and I’m stuck on this username for this thread!)

I am still stuck 1lb away from GW, didn’t do usual Sunday jab because wanted to long it out a bit, and was a bit munchy today. So I’ve done it tonight. Back down to 2.5mg. Actually dreading the snacking coming back. This needs to be my last pen as I need to go back on the pill. 😳
Jab 19 - 2.5mg
SW 12 stone 4lbs 4th May
GW 9 stone 4lbs
CW 9 stone 5lbs today

love
AccidentalPrawn xx

The mental hunger/needing something to comfort us is something I'm really interested in because it's a big pain in my arse at the moment.
It's too early for me to come up with anything remotely coherent but it's something I'm thinking about a lot. The need for comfort is genuine, and we're ignoring it because we don't have an alternative to food comfort yet. That's potentially something else that would contribute to that restrict->binge cycle. The times we need a big hug, we're saying to ourselves that we can't have a big hug anymore. That's pretty brutal and not sustainable.

And there's a lot of marketing that goes into programming us to see food as a hug, we haven't just come up with that.

Needs more thought. We need alternative big hugs I think, not to say to ourselves sternly, no more hugs for you.

I have loads of leaves, cherry tomatoes, peppers, beetroot, edamame beans, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and pine nuts in balsamic vinegar with bits of either feta, halloumi or mozzarella cheese (I’m veggie). I have it practically every day. But I have a huge portion (of the veg bits). I just wonder if it can get too big..

I'm not sure there can be a salad full of vegetables that is 'too big' unless it's giving you stomach ache because there's too much roughage.

Weigh day today 18 weeks and I have lost 2.5lbs and hit two milestones (I feel this is a whoosh for me at this stage!) into the next stone and 2.5 stones down. I’ve only got 12 pounds to go to target now it actually feels achievable for the first time. Gosh I feel quite emotional 🥹 it has never felt like I could actually do this before. I really hope that I can get through my two holidays coming up and a three day visit from a friend and not trip myself up over a chocolate sundae 🤐🤐🤐.
Any holiday tips from anyone?

I agree with @DidILeaveTheGasOn , I really wouldn't worry about the amount of veg you eat. Hope you don't mind me suggesting that worrying that you're eating too much veg doesn't sound like a healthy attitude to food. Apologies, it's meant kindly @Gingercar .

I suppose it depends on the quantities of beans, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and pinenuts. But they're all sources of protein. Actually sounds great to me.
But if your salad bowl doubles up as your washing up bowl ....

PS My indulgent night away resulted in no weight gain at all. So I'm a happy (old) bunny. Thank you for all the good wishes

I'm also struggling. I just can't get back into it.

But...I weighed in and I'm have stayed the same which is good news, so I'm obviously eating a bit less than I was previously. But i still have a way to go and I want to do it!

I'm not doing it in a particularly healthy way. I have been weighing most days and if the scales go up I manage to cut back a bit for a couple of days but then something happens.

Someone upthread said that we've learned that food is hugs. I agree but also for me food is celebration and reward.

@Gingercar i would say that huge salads are fine, but then I'm not losing, so don't listen to me 😁

I really enjoy reading all the posts about the psychology of weight loss and what overeating has done for us mentally especially from@DidILeaveTheGasOn

@DBatteryBand I need a Dowager Duchess too!

@tostaky re:making healthy snickers - that is exactly the sort of thing I do! I come on here and read inspiring stories of weight loss and nsv's. And then find myself in the kitchen wondering what i can make for a treat 🙄

I think that those of you wondering about the change in season affecting our appetites could be on to something. I’ve said for years that I was meant to hibernate over winter and have a long history of eating well in summer, and comfort eating in winter. And having enjoyed zero food noise for months, I’m suddenly finding I’m hungry late at night. I’ve managed to resist so far, but now my goal is in sight I am worried about reducing doses (my original plan).

My Weight also stayed the same last week, which naturally I’m putting down to the need to build up reserves for hibernation.

I’ve had a week of really struggling against the snacking. Just done my 4th 2.5 jab for context and I feel absolutely nothing on it. I’m 5.5lbs away from GW and have 4 doses left and then I’m done.
im not allowing myself to get too annoyed this morning with the scales saying I’ve 1/2lb on. I don’t actually think it should have been 2.5 off last week, so I’m looking at it as a 2lb loss over the last 2 weeks 😬
need to focus on better nutrition this week. I need these habits to stick once I go full cold turkey. I’ve bought too many lovely things things that I want to still fit me 😆
including a full on ultra glam dress that I’ve nowhere to go to wear it! But I figure I’ll be the best dressed at Christmas 😆

Someone said ages ago about making Mounjaro really work for them, now the price is going up. I've taken this to heart - no more dawdling along, losing a tiny bit or mostly STS. I'm going to increase my dose slightly and actually lose the weight.
Whoever said it put it more succinctly & elegantly, but I don't remember who it was, or when. But thank you anyway.