It's Offtober! The "lose 7lbs" in October challenge thread

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The last thread inspired us to shift the pounds so let's kick October's butt too!

Link to the September thread here

Kiki so do I, that's why I appreciate this thread so much - I never want to talk to my RL friends about diets and things because I know it's a totally boring subject unless you're in the same boat (and sometimes even if you are). The literal entire point of the thread is somewhere to channel self-indulgent moans so moan on

Off to weigh in now, fingers crossed! I've just put on a dress which used to be a go-to when I couldn't find anything else to wear; I was so miserable the day I put it on and realised I was bulging out of it

But I'm back in it now for the first time in MONTHS! Hurrah!

Thanks Quim :) I hope you got some good news on the scale but fitting into a favourite dress again is the best reward of all! Hurrah!

Hurrah for dresses fitting!

I'm going to a posh awards thingy on Wednesday No idea what to wear!

Will be doing the try-on of shame this weekend

Anyway quim how was the weigh in?

I've GAINED

Only by the tiniest bit but how is that POSSIBLE?!

I was dying for a wee at the time so I'm clinging to the fact that my bladder could have weighed... what? A pound?

BOOP your life is so flipping glam

Is something new on the cards, maybe...?

Oh no Quim! How bitterly disappointing

It's just not bloody fair sometimes. I reckon you have a very heavy bladder

Keep going though - the trend is downward overall

Please be assured it's not glam. This awards do is in a magnificently niche part of the building industry. But I would like people to notice I'm slightly thinner than last year

Focus on definitely being more streamlined rather than the numbers on the scale. You are clearly smaller than you were last week or any time in the last few months despite not weighing less. Disappointing yes but could be water retention for exercise reasons, hormones or anything really. I will only weigh in before consuming anything for the day, ideally having (TMI warning) 'evacuated' first and ideally immediately after a particularly sweaty run post fast day. I don't want to weigh water or food I'm currently processing, I'm only interested in how much fat has been burnt off! A cup of tea weighs half a pound...

Award ceremonies and last minute city breaks agogo for you BOOP.

I agree with quim, you might need a new dress for your "slightly thinner than last year" figure :)

Quim, that is so annoying. I think hold onto the fact that the dress fits, which is presumably the point of this whole thing.

Unless you are going to the moon, the measure of how much you weigh doesn't make any difference to your life. It's the shape and fitness of your body that counts.

(Even though the damn numbers on the scales count too, goddamn them!!)

Kiki, be as long and self-indulgent as you please. This is the place for doing that.

Nigella Lawson says never to tell anyone you are on a diet, and I agree with her. I never do in real life. Except DH. But it's so nice to have people to chat to about the mundanities.

I'm having a bit of a terrible day. It was "book" club last night and I went to town on the nibbles. Today I'm not hungover but tired and wanting junk food. I had a packet of hula hoops and a fry's peppermint cream for my lunch

Thank you all so much for your kind words about my Dad. They really mean a lot :)

doin Thank you, I will continue to vent/chat away as needed, I avoid the topic in real life :) . I get hangovers from snacks these days - all that sugar and salt makes me very off the next day and massively craving more sugar and salt. Vicious circle really. Drink lots of water or herbal tea if you like that sort of thing. I'm afraid I didn't read back earlier in the thread so only just realised about your dad .

I seem to be managing a bit of a fast day without any issue. It won't be a proper 500 calorie one as I already have non-fast day dinner planned but will be overall very reduced calorie day and a nice long gap between eating as I think I can last out until I make the family meal now. If I manage a bit of a run in the morning I might achieve my perfect weigh-in scenario!

Thanks all I do so wish I could easily celebrate NSVs without needing the arbitrary victory of the numbers. I can see that I'm doing well, and I'm so grateful to you lot for holding my hand and gently prodding me!

I've just looked in the mirror and thought for the first time that my jawline might even be looking a bit more defined. I should cling to these things and ignore the stupid scale. I did weigh in on an empty stomach after a fast day, but I think last week I had had an even fastier Fast Day on the Thurs...

Onwards into November we go though, and next month I WILL see a sodding 55, I will I will I will!

You will quim I am the same as you though. I don't believe it till I see the figures SHOW ME THE NUMBERS. I'm sure yu a are looking svelte though. I can only dream of 55!

Damn you doin you have now forced me - yes forced me - to eat hoola hoops. Bloody hell they were good though. I enjoyed them so much I did the whole lick-my-finger-and-mop-up-the-crumbs-in-the-bottom-of-the-bag thing

OK, what is a 55?

What flavour, BOOP?

I'm a barbecue beef kind of girl.

I have a 6 pack

DH is making pizza. I asked for a big one (fnarr fnarr).

I am all self sabotage today.

Beef here too Doin. I consider it to be the only hoola hoop flavour.

55 is, I assume, 55kg that quim is aiming for. I am a bit heavier than that!!

I'm so glad you said that. I agree, it is the only flavour.

I resisted any more packets last night. That was yesterday's triumph.

Kg of course! You'll have to stop all that kind of mad talk now that we are leaving Europe.

55kg is 8.5 stone!

Jaysus, I haven't seen that weight for some time

Maybe next year...

Morning all , I have had a few days of eating too much (again)

I am away with family and I really struggle admitting to them I am on a diet . No idea why , it's not like they don't know I need to lose it .

So I am on damage limitation now .

8 1/2 stone is just a distant dream to me . my aim is to see 10 stone anything on the scales and I will be delighted .

Well done everyone for keeping on keeping on . I agree about this weather . The motivation isn't quite the same when you are wearing a baggy jumper .

Good luck all ! I am off to have a chat with myself about why I keep falling off this wagon .

How 10 stone something is also my aim. It's a way off for me too. I'm just puddling round wit the same pound at the moment.

I have decided that I am going to shake up my eating a bit this week. See if I can kick start the loss again.

Once I've got over this hangover

Doin well done at stopping at one packet. That's a thin person's thinking that is!

That's a thin person's thinking that is!

Maybe I'm secretly French?

Although my children are not quiet and respectful...

Oh you have some of those screachy rude English types

Personal victory for the day (week!), I got out for a run and didn't die. Only half the distance I normally do but lungs still loaded with snot apparently, gross. Apologies .

I remember 9.5 seeming a realistic goal at one point, think I may have glimpsed it briefly but then settled at 9 stone 10, which I would like to get back to eventually. I am quite muscly though so look pretty slim and tiny at that weight! Muscles are currently obscured by a layer of cushioning but they're there somewhere.

End of month recap:
I'm currently at 10 stone 8.8, post run, post fast weight*, which is nearly 3lbs down from 2 weeks ago. Not a massive achievement but I am happy to have halted the upward trend which was the primary goal.

*Well not right now as I'm eating toast loaded with banana and nut butter.

It took me ages to accept that I would have to start my thinking at zero rather than "But I am up by a stone, woe is me!" If I can manage to be at no more than 10.5 after Christmas I will be delighted. So I probably have to loose another 6lbs at least before then. Game on.

I got the squabbly Irish type

Well done, Kiki, 3lbs in a week is a great result.

Makes our aggregate numbers look a bit better for the month!

Oh God I need hula hoops now! Ready salted all the way for me, I'm a puritan

I managed to dodge a takeaway last night (which has become a bad Friday habit due to not having a kitchen) by doing a humungous charcuterie spread. I know cheese, bread and meat is probably no better calorie wise, but it felt less greasy and more Fronch dahling I even had two French Fancies just to underscore how Français I am. They totally eat them for every meal over there, y'know.

55 is indeed kg - it's what the scales in boots and the doctor's surgery measure in so it's become my default setting, you're right though, I need to get with the times and think in stone! My long-term aim is 54kg which is what I was about 4 years ago. I have a punishing figure which gains weight in a huge jiggly block around the middle, and my boobs and bum stay pretty flat so I start to look like an oak tree. When I started the diet I had 1.5 stone of jiggle, and was disguising it under dresses that flared from the waist, and snapping at DH every time he touched my waist, lest he discover my tyre of shame (as if it really was a secret). I know it wasn't tons and tons to lose but I am already much happier in my own skin with just half a stone of jiggle! I'm still bobbing around in the mid-high 56s for now though, I was so hoping to break the kg bracket by the end of the month...

Well that's over 2 weeks officially Doin! Though I spent all this week trying to claim back my last week's 3lbs loss. probably shouldn't have drunk wine most nights clearly replacing sugar with booze, must do better

Ooh, I did a 'loose' instead of 'lose' in previous post

I'm ignoring all this talk of hula hoops btw. I love them too much to be allowed them.

But if we've gone all French then maybe that excuses my vin rouge tipples all week? #remain