It's Mo-Slender! The 'lose 7lbs' in November challenge thread.

[KikisDeliveryService]

Let's do this! A new 7lb challenge starts NOW! Previous October thread here. Come join us for chat and friendly kicks up the butt motivation .

Morning all! Did not have a golden day yesterday, I had to skip my run and then I ate a large amount of pie. I have skipped weighing myself this morning, and it's a fast day today so hopefully tomorrow I will see a loss anyway!

I'm quietly polishing my halo here. I have already run 5km and had fruit for breakfast. Must. Not. Slip. Up.

"...and then I ate a large amount of pie" So many of my tales of Fast Days Gone Wrong end like that

Bloody brilliant start BOOP! Will you succumb to the social pull? How frequently do you see this friend? I've become really bad at seeing friends since dieting because I don't want to wreck "good" days I'm definitely going to have to start making more of an effort once the renovation madness is over, as that's not the way I want my priorities to be long-term. I do so wish I could go out and have a lovely time with my friends without it involving seventy grillion calories.

I am just really boring in social situations now it's like I have forgotten how to talk about anything other than carbs and dieting.

It's fab when people notice though and then ask how you did it and I say no sugar, bread, rice pasta, spuds 800 cals 8 weeks, and they are all ooh I couldn't do it and then talk about all the food I can't have

I must admit my heart sank to my boots when the text arrived because I was hoping to maintain my golden streak. I immediately thought "bugger. Too many calories " I like to have at least a few days to plan.

Anyway, we are only going to Pizza Express so I have already made my choice and I am driving so can only have one small drink. And I am trying to eat accordingly during the day.

God this dieting lark is so bloody dull sometimes isn't it?

If I stick to what I'm planning to eat and don' accidentally fall into snacking this afternoon I will be on 1003 calories for the day so I have some wriggle room.

God I am so bloody dull sometimes

Thank god my BF is dieting too (though he's at goal now ) or he would have LTBD (Left The Boring Dieter)

Oh my God BOOP a night out at Pizza Express and still coming in at 1000 calories is winning it! Driving to dinner is quite inspired, it takes away any possibility of cracking.

It is all totally boring though. Food, eating, scales, calories etc. just churn through my head constantly, and I have to seriously fight the desire to talk about it in real life because it's boring enough in my own head let alone to people who aren't remotely involved in it!

Which, again, is why I luffs all you losers so much for letting me yammer on it about it day in and day out

I luffs you lot too

I'm on a couple of other groups (not on MN ) but they are either too big so I never feel a connection with anyone. Or they just fizzle out as people give up. This one, as Goldilocks would say, is just right

Not going climbing tonight anymore my belay partners MIL has just passed away, she was 94 and it was expected.
Will be going to MIL's for tea so I don't think today is going to be as golden as I originally planned.

Oh that's a shame hairspray

I just nearly forgot to have my tea! Not hungry at all.
Anyway I have smoked salmon pate on celery sticks, with cucumber and tomato.

My day including my bottle of wine comes in at 860cals, and according to Fitbit my exercise takes off another 90 :)

Sorry to hear that Hairspray - hope your mate and their partner are holding up OK. Have a lovely tea with your mum though.

Beyond I love me some wine, but if I put away a whole bottle on a more or less empty stomach as you plan to I'd be smashed!

(P.S. Beyond I'm assuming that's you but you've had an outfit change since this mornin!)

Urgh. I have done hardly any exercise this week: loads yesterday but out of three "good" days none on Monday or today except dog walking, due to this stupid cold coming and going. It seemed to retreat on Tuesday but I feel like I'm drowning today, and it's pitch black, howling and raining tonight. I just don't think I have it in me to shlep down to the swimming pool!

Oh god no quim stay warm inside.

I did it! Sort of! We shared some polenta chips and I had a cappucino. But I stuck to my crap diet pizza and one small wine. I am legend!

Oh my good god alive. Polenta chips are 44fucking2 calories

And I had a LOVELY evening. So nice to see my lovely friend.

Glad you had a nice evening Boop, amazed that you managed to stick to your plan. Can you send a bit of that willpower my way please? I'm going out for dinner tonight so I am trying to plan my day's calories so I can still have a nice meal and a glass of wine. But no pudding. Definitely no pudding.

Weighed myself this morning and I am back on track. Have lost just over 4lbs so far this month, I was hoping for 5lbs but I guess that is a result of my adventures in pastry on Wednesday. Anyway 4 and a bit is pretty good considering all I am doing is reining in my eating on non fast days. I have been doing the 5:2 diet for months and had barely lost anything, obviously calorie counting is the way forward for me.

Spuriouser 4lbs is better that "pretty good". It's excellent!

Nice to see you had a fun evening BOOP

My friend is ok, her DH is down in Dorset (we are mids) organising the funeral etc. Like I said it was expected, she had been sick for a long time and I think it was almost a relief for them that she is no longer suffering.

That is a great result for just holding back on non fast days, I was rubbish at 5:2 I over ate so much on my non fast days!

I guess it is my destiny to never see 12.9 on the scales as when I weighed this morning I was 12.8!!! thats 6lbs down from the 1st!

Onwards and downwards!

I think it just drives home how much I was really over-eating before, without realising. It's just so easy to fall into a pattern where you eat too much, and it becomes normal.

That's a really good loss Hairspray! Well done

Excellent hairspray! I'm struggling to re-achieve my low of last Saturday

Today I reached a stone! :)

Might be going in to have my op tomorrow, so trying to think about how to do hospital food...

Have to pop to a shop to get some bits anyway

I make barriers in my head, and once I have achieved one, say 12.9 I think right I am never going over that again. My last barrier was 13st it doesn't necessarily work in terms of it will make you keep the weight off but it motivates me to break it into little bits!
My next goal is to weigh less than 6ft DP, 12.5 rugby winger and fit as a butchers dog. Little plumpy me next to him in photos at xmas last year were just horrifying! That is what kicked me into action although I didn't start BSD and losing in earnest till August.