January 2025 starters - goal weight era

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@Polkadotdash sorry to hear that. You might be able to ask for some more specific feedback for next time? Hope you’re planning a nice evening x

@Wtafmakeitstop thanks. I get formal feedback as a matter of course as it’s civil service. I kind of don’t want it really as there’s not much I can do with it! I either have to make a really big change of subject area (not great at my age) or I have to stay where I am and wait for someone else to retire.

You’ve taken the first step to move from a job that’s making you unhappy and you came very close. Something better will turn up, it usually does.

Sorry to hear that you came second @Polkadotdash but I am so pleased you went for the interview.

Don't give up hope or discount changing subject area, I managed it after 55 even though my new role is less closely related to my PhD.

I should have known I wouldn’t get it - I saw a single magpie on the way to the interview!

@Polkadotdash well done though - you did it and did well so you can do it again. Yes to the magpie - little fucker

Wise words.from @Jins @Polkadotdash don't give up.

Also, this may have been asked before - but do you track your food @Polkadotdash ?

Our anniversary yesterday, so we had steak and a few glasses of wine after 3 days of clean eating, so a bit rusty this morning. It was mentioned up thread about what to take when not sleeping and I find melatonin is a game changer for me. I go back to sleep after going to the loo as it just quietens my thoughts.

I hate tracking my food. I find it so boring. It also leads me to try to really restrict what I’m eating, which never works for me long term. I’m now thinking if I could do a week on 1000 cals a day to try to force my body to respond. Also I’m thinking that if the jabs aren’t doing anything more for me and a strict calorie limited diet is the only way to go, then I should just get on with that and stop spending money I don’t have.

And I’m the opposite end of the spectrum with sleeping. I can sleep for hours and hours. Went to bed at 9pm last night, slept straight through to 7am. I could easily go for a nap now as well!

I feel totally demotivated at work now. I’m considering taking some time off as I cannot be bothered to keep flogging my guts out for no reward. I need a new strategy.

@Thelittlestranger thanks for reminding me of melatonin, I need to buy some for DH who has been complaining about insomnia.

Gym asked me to substitute several classes over coming weeks. One of the reasons I went on jabs was that I subbed a HIIT class about 1.5 years ago and later overheard people discussing in the changing room that the class was actually really tough, they didn't expect it when they first saw me (not spelled out but they meant because I didn't look that fit). It's a lot more fun to be in front of class when looking shredded, let me tell you.

oh its getting worse at work today. I messaged my line manager at the end of the day yesterday to let her know I hadn’t got the job. She messaged me back at 11 this morning to say ‘oh that’s great news. You must be really pleased to be second choice 🙂’ Bearing in mind she is sitting opposite me as well. I messaged her back and said ‘I don’t think it’s great news. I’m really disappointed and frustrated. It’s a real knock’. To which she messaged back ‘Ah but if the other person turns the job down, you will get it. You’re being glass half empty’ and then continued to message me with things along the lines of cheer up, stop moaning, there are other jobs etc etc. I got to a point where I thought was going to cry so I had to leave my desk and now she won’t even look at me. What the fuck is wrong with people?

what an odd reaction from your manager. Was she trying to find something positive to say and couldn't think of anything better than 'yay a silver medal!'?

Sorry @Polkadotdash. I think all you can do is tell yourself everything happens for a reason.

Work has been crazy busy, but my out of office is now on as I am in court tomorrow, then off to Morocco on Saturday.

I am so excited to get away and collapse in a heap. Normally my holidays are very active, full of cultural sightseeing, but I am inclined to stay in the hotel on a sunbed asleep for the majority of this one! I expect I will drag myself round the market at some point.

Jabbing a day early. Weight is stable at around 8 stone again.

Sorry @Polkadotdashas someone who got to the final 2 3 times in my job search, it sucks😓. The only advice I can give is that you should take confidence in the fact you obviously did really well after worrying you wouldn’t. Completely agree with Jins, Take time to think about what you want to do, and ignore your boss, the lack of emotional intelligence there is unbelievable!

@Jinssorry to hear things are tough, hope DH and DS ok. Did DS get any news on the process he was in?

ooh enjoy Morocco @zempy!!

Long and v busy week here, and my eating has been terrible. Realised today I haven’t jabbed for 2 weeks so did 5mg. Pharmulous have been brilliant, after doing the awful video on Tuesday, they called today to say they needed more info, sent photos of my pengate stash and Bolt order and a 10mg pen is on its way- highly recommend!! That’s with a bmi of 22.9.

sorry know I haven’t caught up with everyone’s news, hope all ok.

Thanks for asking @26inprogress. No news at all. It’s as if everything has stalled completely while he was off work which is odd as it was the ideal time to question witnesses. He has made a complaint about the person that reported him which he’s been asked to put in writing. I think I’ll have to help with that as putting things in writing is not DS2’s strongest suit.

Otherwise things are plodding along and tension has eased a bit since I found a suitable poem for DH to read. It couldn’t be more neutral.

My measurements are down slightly from last week but weight appears to be the same. It’s enough to make the clothes I decided were ok now not ok. I’ve dug out my most padded bra for my holiday packing 🤣

Hi everyone.

I hope @Polkadotdash is feeling ok. What an absolutely crap reponse from your manager. 😡

My pen arrived today, I might jab tomorrow. I am not sure if it is one of the new ones without the bonus dose. I couldn't quite remember what the pens I was using look like. I've just googled it and it looks like it is just the plunger that starts in a different place on the new pens, but I am nowhere near the fridge so I'm none the wiser until I get it out and compare. Curely first order went really smoothly, delivered by Royal Mail exactly when they said they would deliver.

Sods law, my weight is down to my lowest weight recorded today now my pen has arrived on subscription!

I don’t know how to link articles but there’s a really interesting one in The Independent today.

There is a procedure where they reset the mucus in the duodenum of patients who have got to a healthy weight using WLI. That’s where the excellent hormones we are missing live, and this procedure revives them somehow.

They did the procedure on 29 people and 16 had a “sham/placebo” procedure. The ones with the sham procedure had gained 40% of weight back in six months. The patients with the refreshed duodenum lining only regained an average of seven pounds. All of them off WLI.

Sounds promising? It’s allegedly a simple procedure with so few side effects, nobody could have known if they had really gone through the process or not.

very interesting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/glp-1-drugs-weight-loss-rebound-jabs-b2964047.html

I wonder how they worked that out with the duodenum? The human body is such a curious creation. Each of us built on a similar design but each totally unique. I’m watching a thread elsewhere on mumsnet about a woman who is stuck at 16 stone in her weight loss despite doing everything ‘right’. I mean, the thread is totally bonkers and full of trolls who are insistent on telling her that having a drop of full fat milk is making her fat and that she can’t be tracking everything she’s eating so she must be lying etc etc but it does make me think that it’s a very basic formula to say ‘calories in, calories out’ is the only thing at play in weight gain and loss.
Weirdly I’ve managed to lose 1lb this week. One whole pound! First loss since October. And I’ve eaten cheese, had wine and even some fancy cake at a leaving do.

I haven’t seen that thread @Polkadotdash , but I seem incapable of losing an ounce ‘despite doing everything right’. No gain since stopping, no overall loss either, just normal fluctuations of life. I’m exactly the same weight as when I stopped MJ three months ago.

I thought I could lose the last few lbs by just eating 1200 of low carb cals a day. My body has different ideas. I guess it’s the same as years of careful eating post cancer and not losing the weight I gained through my treatment process.

I find all the studies about gut microbiome fascinating. The rat ones, where they gave a slim rat gut bacteria of an obese one and the slim rat became obese without changing their diet.

@Polkadotdash I have had some weird losses when theoretically there should not have been any. Maybe your body thinks the famine is over and it can relax?

I don’t believe it’s just calories in vs calories out either. A certain amount of MJ in my system switches those calories from fat storing to fat burning. I’m eating way more at the moment, currently overfeeding my sugar, carb and caffeine addiction, and I’ve lost a kg this week.

It’s been another rollercoaster work week. Quite a shitty start to it, followed by a successful project launch (despite a certain person trying to derail it) and all the high that comes with that.

Happy weekend losers!

The body is a mysterious things and calories in vs calories out is bollocks. It really matters where those calories come from and that’s down to individual metabolism. If I ate (and have in the past) 1000 calories a day of low fat carb heavy foods I would gain weight. On Atkins I was consuming approx 2000 calories of high protein, medium fat and low carb and lost at least 2lb a week.

WI. 8st 7.8 which is a tiny loss in the scheme of things but puts me on exactly 25% body weight lost. Feels like a nice round number

Morning losers and maintainers! I agree about it not just being calories in, calories out.
Although I have got back from being on holiday at my heaviest weight for a few months.
It doesn't always correlate so clearly.

Happy Sunday!
Lovely weekend here, time to do the wardrobe swap. I bought so many summer clothes last year, don't even remember what I have. But - I weigh the same as last summer, so at least this year, don't have to stress that I won't fit into any of them.