HotMamas - Five years on, are we fit or are we fat???

[FjorGynAndHotWater]

New thread, this one WILL work!!!!

Still evens at 10.8.5 think scales may be broken

+4 to 10.11.5

Clearly scales NOT broken

Lol Sazz you have me . My scales aren't broken either, +5 going to attempt a fast day today before the festivities kick off in earnest, and give my liver a bit of a breather...

Well I did manage a fast, give or take a chocolate biscuit, and got it back down to 12 1.5 . About to celebrate with toast & marmalade

Well, lots and lots of booze and yesterday's cheese-fest have pushed me up quite a lot... 12 6.75 so +6.5 on the week which isn't ridiculously bad for Christmas week but still far from ideal! Trying to think before putting stuff in my mouth today

Hope you are all having a magnificent Christmas with lots of goodies but not too much

Hi ladies, you seem to be the only thread that posts short messages with daily weigh-ins, any chance I can join you? I'm weighing tomorrow properly but suspect I'm about 12.5.... wanting to get down back to 10 and looking good for the various weddings and hen do's planned this year!

Hi 4weeks and welcome. please do join us - we are a bit crap, hence 5 years of posting

I am mainly succeeding in trying to keep off 4 stone I lost a few years ago. Holidays are always crap though as I let it go rather and then get back on the treadmill wagon for the start of term.

So, no weigh in just yet for me but will be back with a vengeance on Mon and will need it as I have been baaaaaaaad. Totally worth it though

Fjorny - sounds like you are being pretty restrained. Well done you!

Keeping 4 stone off is great, well done! After a low cal/carb day today of chicken and soup I'm feeling marginally better especially as scales were nice with 12.3 tonight so hoping for 12.2 in the morning. Going to walk to work and back (2x3miles) if I can motivate myself...

Hello 4 weeks, as SP says we are not the most motivatited but we do try a bit..

Unfortunately my restraint went completely tits up at a friend's for a few days for NYE. Mucho of everything and am fucking 12 11 this morning Hoping lots of it is water retention but looking down lots of it is actual real belly fat...

Braved scales this morning as you lot shaned me into it i was happy to be in oblivion till mon

So, was 10.8.5 on 20 Dec and in 2 weeks have put on 2.25lb to 10.10.75. WTAF????? I have eaten/drunk so much more than in previous years.

The only thing I can think is that the muscle wastage from 3 weeks of zero exercise and the time of the month are contributory factors. I have missed meals where I have been picking all day, so maybe I sub-consciously have balanced it out a bit, but I don't feel I have been that good.

Anyhoo, having a Chinese tonight before getting back to it properly on Monday.

Fjorn - hope your nye blow out has dropped off.

Does anyone have a target? Mine is back to between 10 and 10 1/2 stone, tone up belly and arms and get back to weekly Pilates to keep my body from seizing up again. Aiming for 3 lots of exercise per week.

Serviceplease, what a result but agree grazing will have helped albeit with naughty Christmas food. Long hours at work the last 2 days so no exercise but min

Hit post too soon.
...minimal food, weigh in today was 12.1.5. I'm going on holiday on the 31st so wanting to be 11.3 by then but know a stone in a month is tough, especially as out to dinner tonight and tomorrow. Wish me luck, I'm off for my first run in about 9 months, hmm.

Enjoy your run 4 weeks - I'm sure the endorphins will make you feel fab and reinvigorated

A stone in a month sounds ambitious, although I am hoping to get tones and fit by the 24th which is also ambitious

I agree ambitious, unlikely it will happen but the fear factor of the amount to lose in 4 weeks will hopefully have more of an impact than aiming for a couple of pounds if that makes sense. Run today was painful and not fun in any way shape or form except for the fact I liked the look of my workout gear (shame the red face and huffing/puffing gave the game away that I was a newbie)!

Ha ha my last weigh in was indeed a pile of poo!

Post Xmas weigh in at 11.0.5 so up 6lbs. Have lunch out today with a client and birthday dinner later in the week so can't see it being a great one if I'm honest. I will try though as I feel horrid in my work clothes.

Onwards and downwards in 2014 ladies

I am here brisk walk this am so start as I mean to go on! Hoping to do school run but will be working crazy hours this week so we shall see

SP a blip that's all

Is it bad of me to be a bit relieved you larded up too sazz??? sorry!

Am up a magnificent +11 to 12 11 (so actually 'only' +10.75...) but surely at least 6 of that is water. Hopefully can get a few off by Friday. Already hungry though after two weeks of shovelling it in

LOL, you're forgiven Fjorn

Ate loads of scrummy sandwiches for lunch but ok for tea. Will try and do some exercise tomorrow but I have so much work on I will probably just end up fire-fighting a deluge of emails. Hardly calorie burning stuff

PMSL at being hungry; I can't switch off the sweets craving after mucho sugar and PMT. Bugger.

Hope you weren't too scuppered by your tea, and manage some exercise today. I am back at work and feeling very , it's really time for me to get a new job but am not really good at anything, unless anyone needs someone to tit around on the internet
.. luckily the biscuits are absent today.

Did manage -3.25 to 12 7.75 so not all bad news :)

Fjor, -3.25 is great, good job. Job-wise are you a whizz at social media? ...you could maybe be a media manager and look after someone's social sites? ...only thing I can think of that isn't eBay related.

"Looking forward" to weigh in tomorrow, although exercise bar the lonely run has been poor I've managed 700 calories today so that MUST have an impact tomorrow! ...fingers crossed for a solid 12, I was 12.1 today so it's possible.

Hope you all have good days tomorrow.

You are doing really well 4weeks! Hope you cross that stone barrier this morning.

I had another good fasting day and am down another 2.5 to 12 5.25 . Still v bad but much less v bad than 4 days ago . I know this massive loss is all water and once that's gone it'll slow right down again but would really like to be under 12 by the end of the month.

SP don't make it worse filling your face with cake you don't even really like do it with cheese instead

Loti hope you're making healthy choices but still managing to eat some real food

Helga have you run off???

Still at 11

On treadmill now, so that's a (small) start.....

Well down on your great loss Fjorn and sounds like you are well into the loss groove 4weeks

2k run and 45 mins circuits (had to cut it short as my shoulder was twinging). Off for a sports massage this afternoon so fingers x'd it will start to ease up.

Trying to work out a plan to get to pilates regularly.....

12.0 weigh in today, excellent. Coffee, a Pret protein pot and banana was intake up to about 8pm then crisps and 2 glasses of wine "happened" in the pub... Aiming for a maintain of 12 tomorrow because of this. Keep it up ladies.

Wow 4weeks you are doing amazingly well! Congrats at making it down to 12 already

SP hope your massage sorted your shoulder out and you had a fab evening!

Scuppered by crisps at work again and consequently back up a bit to 12 5.5. Fasting today so no succumbing to temptation although am hungry already better go and get a cup of tea instead...