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 .

[BeyondReasonablyDoubts]

Lunch today is Tesco's Indian superfood mix with lime pickle and mango chutney. Bit higher in sugar than I'd like, but my healthy shop hasn't come yet

[KikisDeliveryService]

Breakfast (brunch really) turned out to be some left over veg & cheese bake with extra broccoli added, so now I'm sorted until dinner time which will be bolognese on a load of raw baby spinach instead of pasta. There will probably be a small dish of raw mixed nuts at some point.

Grey has been successfully banished from my roots! I have yet to go on a walk, was rather hoping for some autumn sunshine but it's more November drizzle. Raincoat it is.

[Rshard]

B: low fat yoghurt and passion fruit. Banana
L: glorious green soup, 3 paprika rice cakes. Apple
D: to be decided.
Snacks: 2 chewits.

[HairsprayBabe]

I never eat breakfast,
Berries and yoghurt for lunch
cauliflower curry and popadom for dinner

I had 7 peanuts at about 11 am going to avoid snacking this evening if possible, just stick to tea (skim milk) and infused water.
I have drank 1.4l so far today I attempt for 3 a day but it is usually closer to 2.5l

[LizardBreath]

Thanks for welcome Also need to get into half of my wardrobe again, get so angry with myself that I can't get into lovely clothes!

Day so far:
Breakfast was celebrations (hadn't joined this thread then!)
Lunch: ham, egg and cheese muffin things which I love and a shed load of salad-stuffednow!
Dinner will be a hearty soup of some sort.

Plan to do combat and cx tonight.

My downfall is also picky sweets, can't stop until they have all gone no matter how many there are! Literally only just realised this-must not buy anymore!

[FeckinCrutches]

Kiki I've had hideous physio this morning and extra foam rolling excercise

Food plan for today

Banana before yoga
B-Egg/avocado/quinoa pot
L-Thai chicken soup
D-Roast cod with baked cauliflower and red onion

[FeckinCrutches]

Oh...and 3 squares Lindt seasalt

[Howlongtillbedtime]

Lots of lovely new people waves

Today my plan is
B boiled egg and a slice of
L soup with ryvita and philladelphia (seems like I eat this every day . Help !)
D heck sausages in a casserole thing with new potatoes and a huge load of veg .
Snacks fruit

Very busy at work so have grabbed ten mins and said fruit and lunch won't be until half 3 so any ideas would be great . I am bored of soup and when I get bored I get fat !

Good luck all

[MoveItMoveItMoveIt]

Can I join? Starting from today I'm going to clean up my diet and exercise more.

Goal is 7lb loss this month.

[HairsprayBabe]

Is anyone else on here a veggie? I know I started gaining weight when I cut meat out of my diet 7 years ago.

Low protein left me gorging on bread and crisps all the time. I think if I ate more meat I would lose more weight but I can't bring myself to do it just for weight loss!

Going low carb has changed my life, I just need to pick up some exercise I don't totally hate!

[DoinItFine]

Nope, not a veggie.

I eat more meat when trying to lose weight.

Welcome, MoveIt.

I found one of the pork buns I made for dinner last night in the fridge, so had that as well as ham and cheese on rye bread.

Not doing too well today.

Feel like a bit of a fraud on this thread today.

Also bought chocolate brownies for me and DCs to have later. In a house full of sweets.

Seriously.

[KikisDeliveryService]

Doin are you hungover or hormonal by any chance?!

howlong do you ever end up with dinner leftovers you can have for lunch instead? This time of year it's all soups or stew for lunches for me, so not much help to you actually! Although my previous job meant eating lunches with a load of very tiny children so no time to dwell on whether I'm enjoying it.

feckincrutches by your user name I'm guessing you're in far worse straits than I am The foam roller/deep tissue massage makes me want to cry.

I think everyone needs to stop buying sweets! Halloween is over... bring on the mass sugar crash.

[Howlongtillbedtime]

kiki leftovers in this house are eaten by my husband for his lunch at work . We don't have a microwave so anything I have has to be cooked or heated without one .

I do like soup and I do like salad but i am getting fed up with the same thing all the time .

[BeyondReasonablyDoubts]

Mm brownies...
I'm actually okay cake-wise atm, but when I do crave one I have a cunning plan. I have one of these as a meal replacement. Urge curbed without going off plan...

[FeckinCrutches]

Damn. Just realised there is half a bottle of red in the cupboard that needs finishing off.

[FeckinCrutches]

Oh and Kiki the crutches were from earlier in the year. This time it's running related!

[BitOutOfPractice]

Doin you are not a fraud. You're just having an off day that's all. Still time to make a good dinner choice, even if it's just one that gets lots of nutrients into you.

How's your dad doing anyway? There are more important things than a diet sometimes

[KikisDeliveryService]

feck last time I had sports massage I had to eat a tub of Ben & Jerry's to make myself feel better. It's a mystery to me how I piled weight back on...

Oddly, running is one of the few activities that doesn't aggravate the problem, but running is the most boring! Actually I love running with buddies I can gossip with, but solo is so very dull.

[FeckinCrutches]

I only go out running with friends, I just stop otherwise! I thought I was going to pass out today with the pain from the massage, utter torture.

[ponygirlcurtis]

Maybe 'Mo' is short for 'motivation', BOOP

You're no fraud Doin - I have similarly lost my mojo a bit and need to be more mindful. See meal planner below But it's not easy, or else we wouldn't need support like this thread to help us along. Be kind to yourself - you have other stuff going on.

Today I have had:
B: protein shake - don't normally have breakfast but didn't have much dinner yesterday so was starving.
L: roast chicken, mixed veg and pesto, Alpro yoghurt. piece of rocky road traybake left in staffroom
D: possibly beef stroganoff and Slimming World coleslaw
Plus wine, as it's my day off tomorrow

[vvviola]

Can I join? Although I work in kilos thanks to lots of time spent in countries that can't compute stones and pounds. So what does that mean I have to lose?

I try to do 5:2 but mainly fail.

[FeckinCrutches]

Just over 3kg?

[readyforsunshine]

Can I join too please? I'm on another thread but desperate for a buddy as I did really well losing with a fat twin last time! I'm 5'3 & 10.9, 1/2 a stone would prob see me squeezing back into my clothes & if I could lose a few more lbs by Christmas they may actually be comfortable
I'm going for mainly protein & greens, I can't seem to keep focus on healthy eating, I need the food to be quite boring to make a good start or I end up cheating. Today has been
Cinnamon Oat bran porridge
Ham & poached eggs
You with a drizzle of honey
Dinner will be chicken breast in Parma ham & lots of green veg

[RedAmberGreen1]

Hi, may I join too please? I started at the end of September after a routine health check revealed I was on the cusp of having high blood pressure - I’m 40 but there’s a family history of it – and that I was a stone and a half heavier than I'd assumed, (I've never owned a pair of scales). It was a bit of a shock because I considered myself to be healthy and fairly fit.

Anyway I bought a pair of scales and I’m dieting down to my target BMI in the hope it will bring down my blood pressure - really don’t want to go on medication for it. I’ve lost eight pounds and another seven would put me on track to reach the top of my BMI range before Christmas. I’m not sure what after that. Not having weighed myself for 18 years, I don't know what the right weight for me would be – I guess I have to see how I feel.

I’m using MFP, on a target of 1350 a day. The biggest surprise has been portion sizes. It wasn’t so much that I was eating the wrong things, but I was eating far too much of them. I’m also running/ swimming/ doing weights a couple of times a week and eating back some of those calories. I have a 10k coming up which is helping keep me focused on the fitness side. They say every pound lost is equivalent to 2 seconds a mile faster. Not sure if that’s accurate, but one nice thing is that I’m seeing my Parkrun times drop week on week.

[Msqueen33]

I am on the wagon big style. Weighing in at a heavy 12'7 😮😮😮 Shocked myself when I got on the scales.