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

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

Big hugs @bookedanappointment . We're here if you need anything.

@bookedanappointment goid to have you back!! Missed you!! 💐 sorry you d had a tough time 💐 well done on almost getting to target!!

One of the reasons I love this group is we’re so diverse!! Sone of us got to target weeks ago some of us will be luck to be at target this time next year (I include myself in the latter!!!) but we all get the battle!

@SutekhsEars i work with people like this I’ve developed a great poker face and mostly say something along the lines of … oh mmm thanks … if only I’d known sooner that was all it took … so helpful… and leave the room …. Prat’s …, I’m glad you shut them down!!!!

@DidILeaveTheGasOn
'If it was just mind over matter I'd have lost the weight years ago.'
Not the most dazzling riposte, but better than silently fuming, which is my usual method!
@Seahorsesplendour I get too angry & reactive for poker-face. Well done you.

@SutekhsEarssometimes the best answers are the simplest one, like yours. Nothing more to say and they get the point.
Tomorrow is jab day and im definitely going to increase as chocolate, wine and extra servings have made a strong appearance this weekend! To be fair it was quite a social weekend but i did open the cupboard and the fridge too many times without any good reasons!
i cant remember who said they wanted all their weight gone NOW! But i feel the same… Im in for the long run like you @Seahorsesplendour… maybe early 2026 i would be at goal. I have “only” lost half of the weight i want to lose.

Ended the weekend with a massive NSV….I had decided not to buy any new clothes till I got to a size 14 but desperately needed some new jeans I’ve lost 5 inches off my waist and 4 off my hips. Tried on size 14 in next, fitted perfectly, I was in total disbelief! So I tried on two other pairs in different styles just in case it was a rogue wrongly sized pair….all fitted perfectly. I ordered a pair and two really sexy cardi’s that are really two young for me and I was was so excited they came today and I’ve been prancing in front of the mirror like a teenager! Still a stone to go to goal and already a size 14 I’m soooooo happy.

note I am tall and have never ever been below a size 14 even as a teenager.

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Yesssssssssssssss @PinkScot !!! Loving it! More prancing required!

@PinkScot That's bloody marvellous!!! Well done!!! You must be cockahoop.

How wonderful to be a 14. I am in desperate need of new work trousers - I am walking everywhere with my hands in my pockets. My colleagues seem to think this is evidence of my insouciant, devil-may-care attitude, but the reality is that if I don't have my hands in my pockets then everyone is going to get a good look at my saggy pants and melted wax thighs. What a thought!

@PinkScot Hooray for jeans and sexy cardis! Prance as much as you can manage.

Aaaargh…,so much to catch up on !!
Hope I haven’t missed anyone :
@DidILeaveTheGasOn - hope your knee is feeling better now . Love love love ❤️ the peacock teal sofa, agree with @Apprenante that it would tone perfectly with grey- such soothing colours.
@tostaky - best of luck with the new job, new bag and new you !
@lissie123 and @Gingercar - hope there’s good news on the house front soon.
Fab screenshot from FB, Ginger - may have copied it onto my phone …👍
@PinkScot - new clothes sound wonderful, great NSV! Sadly in my present wardrobe the words sexy and cardi do not go together. Mine are reminiscent of Pauline Fowler in early EastEnders episodes 🙄.

Lovely lovely weekend with family, far too much rubbish eaten but very tasty, enjoyable and shared with my favourite people.
DGD back to Italy next weekend for Uni, DGS has an induction day today, Freshers week at the end of the month and lectures begin on 6 Oct. He’s very happy to have finished his military service, but it’ll be tough getting down to studying again after a 16-month break.
I haven’t weighed, but am tracking intake on the WW app and am doing ok, AFAIK.
The temperature is better for walking too, and the sea beautifully warm - the best time of year to be here.
Good luck to us all, whatever stage of the journey (horrid word!) we are on .

Thinking of you, @bookedanappointment.
💐 xx (( hug )).

I did it finally - hit goal weight! 69.45kg/153lbs which is 10kg/21lbs off since May! ✨️🌟💥🎆
Yesterday must have been a woosh day, I was weeing all day! Absolutely chuffed to bits. I set my goal as BMI under 25, which im now at with 24.9, and fitting into size 12s.
Its been slow with average 1lb a week, but it's all added up. Im still very wobbly, but think i need to make peace with that and continue the exercise and hopefully tone up a bit.
Time to taper my final pen! X

Four years ago, I lost weight with WW’s and walking 10,000 steps a day in the hope it would help my knee but it didn’t, eventuallyI could hardly walk, and was in so much pain. I then put the weight back on as I wasn’t able to exercise at all and had to stop doing my steps. My knee is great now and am able to exercise hence trying to lose the weight all over again. I didn’t get to my goal weight though so this time I won’t give up until I am at goal. If you get your knee done, you will be amazed at how the pain just disappears, and you get your life back!

Decided to jab yesterday, 5 days late. I counted clicks to have 6mg.
Got a dehumidifier yesterday thanks to this group, and also realised I'd need to get a microchip cat flap installed in the back door before it gets cold - we leave the door open for them at the moment. My sofa budget has been eaten up by that. A worthy cause though, should be done by the end of the month.
Lots of cleaning and sorting yesterday, I love how much energy I have now. A world away from May.
My dp is sleeping a lot at the moment, he seems OK and he's always been a napper but this is something else. I'm wondering if the move has knocked his mh.
It means I'm spending a lot of time on my own. I'm not sure how to use the time.

Well done @stripesdotsdashes !

@Kbr22 I'm really hoping when I combine a repaired ACL with a lower weight, I'm going to feel fantastic. I already feel pretty good!

Am having the worst summer. Not only has my gorgeous girlcat, Alice, still not returned (been gone 2 months), but one of the boys has now been missing for a week as well. I don't know what's happening to them, but I do live in seriously rural France, so there are wolves, foxes, badgers, vicious sheepdogs (to protect herds from the wolves) and snakes, as well as lots of birds of prey. Am feeling very miserable and my other boy is missing his siblings a lot (he enjoys licking them both to within an inch of their lives)

Am also feeling super bloated and sulphur-burpy after raising my dose by 0.25mg a week, so going to go back down again as I just feel so uncomfy.

Oh @notgonnafail im so sorry. I’d be distraught too. I hope he comes back. 🥹

Oh no @notgonnafail :( we've got a missing kitty here too. It's a horrible feeling, I'm so sorry.

Sorry to hear that @DidILeaveTheGasOn our furry companions just don't know the stress they put us through. Hope your's comes home safe and sound soon xx

@notgonnafail thats an awful feeling… we had a cat last year who never came back so i feel your pain…

i did my jab today, a slightly higher dose… well it is NOT working because who was in the kitchen earlier making “healthy” snickers bar from an instagram story… hides
Dates are full of sugar, chicolate is full of sugar and fat, peanut butter is full of sugar and fat… This is NOT healthy!! 😭
planning a yoga class at 6.45 to take my mind off food. And thinking of having a protein shake as a punishment for having naughty thoughts about snickers bars as a way to boost my protein intake and stay in my calories deficit today (and satisfy my sweet tooth!)

Huge congratulations to you, @stripesdotsdashes !! 🥂 🍾 🥳

NSV today when I realised my favourite work trousers now make me look like a clown. I really liked those trousers as well…

Hopefully this one will be animated ! 🤞

I had a deep tissue massage this morning, to help my knackered old back. I was cringing myself off the table! It's still a bit 'tender'.

@tostaky We need sugar and fat to survive. Have a snickers bar! There are no bad foods.