I'm Dreaming of a Light Christmas. The Lose 7lbs in December Thread (Or at least not gain 7lbs!)

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Happy Advent!

Here's the link to the November thread where we cheered each other on to be MoSlender

Now we slide frostily into Christmas with the hope of losing more (or at least not losing our grip completely)

Hi everyone! Thanks ever so much Archie, I feel a bit pathetic celebrating on this thread where everyone's into their second and third stone and it's taken me since April to shift a single one, but I'm soooo proud of my milestone

You sound like you're being very very hardcore - is this an early-days push to try and kickstart? Because unless you have a will of steel I can't see you staying on the wagon very easily for weeks on end when there's only boiled vegetables on it Don't get me wrong, I am a 5:2er so have days when my food diary is insane, but just checking you are allowing yourself nice things too: stir-fried veg with a chicken breast, white fish on a pile of veg with a light white sauce and a sprinkling of cheese, that sort of thing.

Don't worry though, the rage is definitely related to diet change! DH I can tell you from bitter experience It does pass though, I think it's feeling deprived as much as feeling hungry that does it, your body's mad at you for taking away all its lovely glycogen and making it do some bloody work. I still have the odd ragey day, but much less than I used to.

Consolations Hairspray - we've all been there with the unfair-gains, but props to you for not using it as an excuse to start eating everything on the trolley!

BOOP it all sounds incredibly miserable and quite concerning. I don't know anything about morphine withdrawal, but you just ditched the patches without your GP, didn't you? D'you think they'd normally have given you something to tide you over as Hairspray said, or at least just another kind of pain relief that didn't disagree with you as badly? It's terrible that you've just been ditched with no scan appointment in sight

I have a dodgy shoulder too, always stiff when I wake up, can be difficult to lie comfortably except flat on my back, and I have whole days where my arm is numb and achey. I was in the middle of whingeing to DH about it the other day when I suddenly thought of you and your poor shoulder. I felt very chastened, and shut up quite abruptly

Do you mean you stopped taking the morphine 6 days ago Boop? It would be fairly unusual if the withdrawal effects were starting now, but not outside the realms of possibility. Glad you have a doctor's appointment coming up, hopefully they will be able to find you a scan appointment soon

I have not been golden these last couple of days. It's been a stressful week between one thing and another and yesterday I had half a massive bar of chocolate for breakfast
Fast day today though, so getting back on track! DP and I both have the day off work today, so we are heading into town to do some Christmas shopping

hello all
I think I have found my people!

I was doing okay, slow but steady but then winter got me, mum fell ill and I've regained 5lb. Plops. Xmas doesn't mean anything to me and I've got a bunch of working at home days around it so plenty of time to cook decently and work out. I love working out but with mum being ill (lives a long way away) I've had to drop it.

So at the very least I'd like to shift the 5lb gain which is from November so should be easy to get rid of it, some of it might even be fluid...I hope!!

Dh has announced we have to attend a drinks party in london held by his new boss on the 27th. That is rather helping my December resolve. I don't really go out at all and I'm a sahm with no social life so I'm quite terrified.

Thanks for all your concern. The doctor gave me 5 patches with dire warnings of addiction. I have used 3 and, since they seem to have little effect and make me into a zombie, I haven't used numbers 4 and 5. I took number 3 off yesterday and just feel so bleurgh and headachey. My period is also (very unusually) 3 days late so that's not helping I guess.

I'm so sorry to be a moaning Minnie instead of all full of Christmas cheer. I'm just so fed up of being in pain all the time. It's so boring.

Anyway, I have just arrived at a new business meeting so done new business would cheer me right up. I'm going in

Hello lorelei. You are home now. 5 lbs shall be gone!

Thanks Bit! Good luck with new biz and I hope you feel better asap.

Mummyreindeerlegz - this is going to sound weird but I am a bit jealous of people who stay home mostly (not with kids, just generally lol). Do you have social anxiety or is it just that you haven't been out in a while?

when I had a spinal injury the timing of recovery was such that the first big social gathering i went to was at Xmas. I was just very quiet and focused on nodding and smiling politely because I had nothing to say that wasn't medical!!

You wouldn't know it if you met me but I have really quite bad social anxiety. I am rubbish at making and maintaining friendships and I'm generally just happier being a home body.

I'm worried about having nothing to say, I'll go for nodding and smiling and being interested.

Mummy, I'm the same in terms of being deeply introverted and fine on a 1:1 with friends but find gatherings where I don't know people to be hellish.

Def go with that, sometimes I'm armed with chit chat about what I;m reading or watching or whatever as there's usually some common ground to find there.

I actually booked annual leave for my own work Xmas do - really glad I did now with mum being ill - but tbh I booked that day and the few days around it mostly to get away from all the flipping crowds in London and also get out of the do which I find to be a total waste of an afternoon. My colleagues are sweet but we go out as a big group and it's just work talk or small talk.

Well, that was a BUST.

I was supposed to weigh in this morning after two terrific fast days this week (we're not talking about Tuesday, shh); but I got embroiled in some nonsense about our new bathroom, then had to drop in on the building site and was tremendously delayed, so by the time I made it to Boots and weighed in it was 3pm, still on two cups of tea from keeping myself empty for the scales, about to faint with hunger... and the scales showed a 300g gain!

I think y'all are right (from when this happened to me a couple of weeks ago) that weighing later in the day can have an effect even if you haven't eaten. Muscles and organs getting all fired up or something. I'll write it off for now: I have a Final Push week lined up for next week, one last blitz to catapult myself towards goal weight (soooo close!) before it all goes to shit

On a heppier note, WELCOME Lorelei! So sorry to hear about your mum - there's a lot of it about at the moment on this thread so you've definitely found your huddle!

Speaking of which, anyone seen Kiki or Doin around? Hope they're OK.

"Heppier"? What am I, the Queen Mum?

I often see Doin around in other threads but not seen her recently. Or Kiki. Hope you're both ok

Quim That is a bloody kick in the teeth isn't it? Grrr those bloody scales. Can you get there first thing tomorrow?

BOOP unfortunately I've succumbed to a Hangry Tantrum with a large bowl of pasta Whatever weight I see will be badly skewed by an influx of carbs and probably a glass or two of wine before the flicks tonight, so I think I shall hold off until next week.

I was so looking forward to seeing that new Kg bracket though. I was hovering on the brink of it last Friday. Harumph.

On a separate note, how much frickin weight does a girl have to lose before her arms stop being a total flappy flabfest?

Ahhh how annoying Quim! Fingers crossed the final push is a successful one, in the meantime enjoy your pasta and wine

Welcome Lorelei!

I survived the Xmas shopping (and the Xmas shopping hoards) and even managed not to treat myself to a glass of wine when I got home. I'm making a chickpea stew thing for dinner later, which should be nice and filling whilst being relatively low-calorie, so hopefully my fast day will be a successful one.

Quim the answer to the arm question is "more than I've managed to lose"

thanks for the welcome, it makes me feel very "heppy"

sorry so many are coping with so much horrible life stuff.

I am out for lunch on Saturday but that's it really in terms of treat stuff - I chose the place carefully so I know they don't do silly portions and we've got to meet some people after so we can't do our 7 hour lunch that we sometimes do!!

I was supposed to be out on the razz in London tonight. But my friend has been scuppered by the train strike. But I'm at a birthday party tomorrow, a gig on Saturday and out on Wednesday and Thursday next week then away next weekend. I shall be porky

I'm hosting a Christmas bugger on Saturday and I'm hoping it'll stop me eating too too much as I'll be too busy rushing around. It will feature sausage rolls, turkey sandwiches and a Yule log (all home made) so it may be bad. I'll enjoy it though!

Sunday we are off to the pantomime and then to prezzo. I'm going to pre plan what I'm having :-)

A Christmas bugger?

Buffet!

Though I imagine in some circles you could have the other. Not in mine though.

oooh ooh Reindeer a Christmas bugger, how exciting for you

I'm down 100gms again. Slow. Slow. Progress.

It does mean that I'm 64.9kg rather than 65 so hurrah! Which is 10st 3lbs in old money. 7kg to go which at this rate means I'll be at my target in about 10 years.

Out for dinner tomorrow night with the naturally thinnest couple I know so hoping some of their high metabolism will rub off.

Keep it up people. Christmas is a mere 2 weeks and 2 days away, I need to drop weight like a boss to make 7lbs by then.

A buffet sounds much more appealing