7lbs in August anyone???

[Rshard]

Following on from June's and July's thread, we're aiming to lose 7lbs.

All regimes welcome. Support and encouragement guaranteed!

Starting weight for August for me is 11.10.5. This is from my WW weigh in last Wednesday which is where I ended July. 7lbs would get me to 11,3.5 just in time for my holiday.

Good luck everyone!

Not a good day. It did not pan out as expected, we had unexpected visitors (I was pleased to see them) but it did knock me off balance. Still managed to do my walking but did not do any other exercise. To make matters worse my calorie intake for the evening meal took me way over my limit. I also had 2 small (1970's wine glasses) glasses of white wine. I don't even like white wine! Never mind, I'll start again tomorrow. Hope everyone else had a good day. Check in tomorrow.

Has anyone else found the weather has made them more hungry for the last few days? I have been dieting for around 2 months now and have found it pretty ok - hungry off and on but manageable ... More like starving beast in the last few days!!

jooly good plan to draw a line under today and start over tomorrow!

You mean it being cooler pass? I've not felt that way yet but I will for sure as we head into autumn

Yesterday wasn't brilliant for me as we ended up at a Mexican for dinner. I think I ended up within TDEE but outwith my 1200 calorie goal. Scales held steady today and I have had a successful but hungry fast day. Looking forward to breakfast tomorrow.

The weekend is going to be tough for me this week, multiple meals out and about and likely some alcohol.

Think I need look into how much milk I am having in my tea too.

I wfh on Tuesday, which is fatal for me. In the office I never pick at anything, even though there are often cakes, biscits etc on offer. And yet on wfh days, I spend my day picking at things in the fridge. I keep telling myself that I won't, but somehow every time I go to get a drink, I end up doing it

Yesterday was better, I was in the office and so I ate
B = hardboiled egg and slice of ham
L = chicken salad
D = vegetable stir fry

I do low carb WoE so no rice, potatoes, bread etc.
I only weigh myself on Friday mornings and go by that weight. I am only losing about 1lb a week at the moment, and sometimes I plateau for a few weeks, which is really frustrating. I'm hoping that I'll have lost 1 lb tomorrow morning. Theres no way I can lose 7lbs in August as my weight loss has slowed right down the nearer I get to my goal weight, but I am still (slowly ) going in the right direction.

My aim is to be 9 stone 7lbs by Christmas, so I have less than a stone to lose now. It's just that the final stone is the hardest!

Morning all - just checking in to see how everyone's doing. I've had an OK three days of calorie counting - been pretty strict using my Fitbit and although the deficit is not huge (average 450 cals per day) I'm 1.5lbs lighter on the scales, so obviously a bit of water and/or bloat.

There's a big difference for me between working in the office days (very sedentary, particularly when raining as I stay in at lunch time) and work at home days when I work short hours and pad around the house doing chores or walk into town. Yesterday I was in London for meetings so added another 4000 steps...

Hi, I'd like to join too, currently 12.8 and would like to get to 11 but firstly need to get out of the 12's! In starting today using mfp, hoping this thread will give me the extra motivation to stick with it

My scales arrived 148lbs which is the heaviest I've been in about 18 months. Real kick up the bum.

I did eat a big meal at my friends last night so I'll hop on the scale tomorrow to see if that's maybe a truer reflection (I hope so anyway....) and we can go from there.

Morning all. Deary me yesterday was tough going. We had a funeral to go to, dh's auntie, not a close relative but still a lovely lady and to be honest I could attend a funeral of a total stranger and totally bawl my eyes out. During the service though my dominate thoughts were wondering what was going to be at the buffet and when DH would start sprouting hair from his ears like the majority of men I was surrounded by.

I do love a good buffet and I do tend to be one of them annoying guests to be first in the queue and walk away with my plate piled high. In my defence though I do clear my plate and bloody enjoy it. Yesterday was no exception. It was so hard to resist. However I am priding myself that I only made one trip to the buffet room and although I was slightly disappointed, there was no pudding to stuff my greedy face with. All that and I only drank soda water, not my usual pint of full fat coke.

Throughout the day I kept to my new changes until 8.30pm when the kids came in from playing out, DH decided to watch a documentary about the walkers crisps factory. This programme should have a warning, everybody in the house got the crisp munchies. I am ashamed to say I gave in and devoured a packet of cheese and onion and 4 tuc biscuits. Why oh why did I let this happen. Good people reading this post, learn from my mistake do not watch the crisp programme. I shall be writing a strongly worded letter to the BBC.

So my new change of no snacking after tea, totally failed yesterday which has seen the scales move upwards this morning. However today is a new day and I shall try much much harder.

My new change for today is to try and change my mind set. I have a mantra. I intend to keep telling myself and others around me that I eat healthy, I am a healthy person I only eat crap. I have just tried telling DH this and he spat out his tea laughing knobhead.

Anyway my day has started with hot water and lemon and a mug of green tea. Today is going to be good, I am going be healthy, DH is not going to annoy me one little bit and the kids are going to be little angels !

ellie welcome aboard, good luck it's so hard to do in the school holidays but we can help each other.

lastqueen a Loss is a loss, embrace it !

Happy Thursday everybody

I agree a loss is a loss, although it can be frustrating when you've tried super hard.

A friend and I were talking about this in real life and and agreed that without the ups and downs of weight loss we'd both definitely be much heavier if we hadn't started in the first place!

It's tough and I'm definitely finding it harder now I'm over 40.

Just checking in as I haven't posted for a couple of days. Not going particularly well but not disastrous. I have had a couple of slip ups but at least I haven't decided that there is no point in trying for the rest of the day. My normal approach is all or nothing so I'm really trying to just accept I won't be perfect but the important thing is to keep trying. Hope everyone has a good day.

rshard I totally agree. I have never had to worry about weight until the age of 40. It just seems to stick and refuses to budge. Any tips you have would be gratefully received.

grey your attitude is so good, don't right of a full day because of a slip up. You go girl!

We went to the circus last night and were so good, no burgers/hot dogs/candyfloss etc.

Hahaha Belle your post has me laughing as I watched the exact same programme last night ( had it recorded ) and ended up devouring a huge packet of crisps so you ain't alone there!

Good job on the loss Groovee

I've just tried to stick with it bell to be honest. I'm doing WW so don't eat many carbs and those I do tend to be brown ! I started running and although that caused me to plateau a bit at start, at least that's what I think although it could have been coincidental, I'm now able to run further and faster and I'm doing pretty well at the moment.

I definitely agree with the philosophy that if I hadn't started changing how I eat at all, I wouldn't have lost anything, even if is sometimes sloooow in coming off. But I have always been a slow loser, so being over 40 now just makes it positively glacial!

Also, MFP has helped me realise that a day where things don't go to plan won't matter a huge amount, even on bad days my calories are generally around my TDEE. As long as there is an overall deficit across the week/month there should be a loss.

Totally forgot to log my weigh in! Lost a lb so that's August off to a decent start.. 3 more weigh ins until my holiday and 3.5lbs to my 3 stone goal.

Fantastic, Rshard!

Hi everyone, I've had a good day today. I have managed to stay on target with the calories and surprisingly I have not felt hungry, I was expecting to. I have also been studying MFP and I am very interested in the cholesterol counting that it does on the food diary. Do you think it is very accurate? I know that in the past I have had quite high levels and this might be a good way to bring it down, tracking what I am eating.

Hey all.

Is it too late to join? I've got a wedding I'm 6 weeks and need to lose some weight.
I hate and can't stand to look at my hips and belly which just seems to keep on getting bigger no matter what I do.
I'm a stress eater and so at the moment can't stop eating. Have given up chocolate and trying to only eat pudding when we go out for a meal we'll see how that goes.

Very good day
7 mile run left me well in on calories

Hello, another late joiner here. Hoping this thread will give me motivation to stick with(ahem start) the healthy eating. Just back from hols in the Lakes and something needs to be done. After having had baby number three nearly 18 months ago all my excess weight seems to go straight to my waist making me look constantly five months pregnant. This is unsurprisingly not a good look and makes finding flattering clothes near impossible it would seem. Hoping to return to the school run in September looking at least slightly less pregnant. Weighed in at 11 st 13 this morning - have been doing SW for over a year now and it's just not working any longer for me. Having lost 1 1/2 stone over a year ago - the weekly SW weigh in no longer motivates me and I suspect some of their eat as much free food as you want has made my portion sizes go crazy. Anyway using MFP for now and hopefully C25K soon.

Room for one more? I was 12 stone exactly two weeks ago, but am sitting at the airport on my way home after 14 days of ice cream and seafood heaven... Will weigh in tomorrow when I get home but a 7lb target this month will be more than needed! I've only lost 7 lbs since January which isn't great.... I use a Fitbit and exercise - I love food. By thing requiring calorie counting and weighing things for my plate doesn't cut it. I tried mfp but having to log what I eat makes me want to run screaming for the hills....

Thanks for the encouragement RShard

zombie hunger has receeded so back on pls today:)

Menu was:
BF: scrambled egg and mushroom wrap
LU : Pret bean soup we cherry tomatoes and a few crackers (oatcake type thing)
SN : banana, 10 almonds (yes I counted them out!), some greek yogurt
DI: mini pot of humus & half a pepper (that was a bit of an oops but hardly a disaster), homemade bean chilli with veggies/spinach

Going out tomorrow so a run in the morning and will be good and stick to 1 glass of wine (none if dinner out is not v healthy)

Good morning lovelies hope you are all feeling the love in this thread. I must say it's keeping me focused during the day, my treat is to stop for ten minutes, have a cuppa and read the new posts. They really seem to help with motivation.

Rshard you are doing so well. What diet/way of eating are you doing because it's working.

pass enjoy your run and report back on how you did. It's a great start to the day and should get you in the zone for the rest of the day.

Hello and welcome to newbies, stick with us, it's a good place to be.

Today is going to be good, I am going to stick to all my new habits. The scales were down by 2lb this morning, which is never a bad thing. It does help that we were out dog walking for most of the day yesterday. The first thing I did differently was not buy a big bag of goodies for the journey. I am a bugger for buying sweets for car journeys and literally start attacking them as soon as we get out of the street. I never bought any yesterday and guess what, nobody died. In fact nobody even asked for one or noticed we never had any. I was shocked and stunned by this revalation. Another habit I hoped I have cracked.

We took a picnic which wasn't the healthiest, scotch eggs, Pringles, party sausages, need I say more. However my portion size was very controlled, I did have a cheese buttie, only a handful of Pringles (how that is even possible I will never know), half a scotch egg a some cucumber and carrot sticks. We stopped off at the Icecream van, I had a solero which I dropped half way through eating. I very nearly rolled around the floor screaming in a toddler style tantrum. I was gutted I was enjoying it so much. I consoled myself with a latte before we came home.

For tea I had yoghurt and berries, I just wasn't hungry, then while the dc's played out I went to the gym. There was no 9pm munchies, I didn't log anything on MFP so I haven't a clue how many calories I ate but I reached all my goals on my Fitbit.

I hope to stay in the same mindset today. I will be spying on you lot seeing how you are doing. Please keep posting it helps to keep in the zone.

Today's new habit for me is drinking more water.