Yes We Canuary! Lose 7lbs in A Month Thread.

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Happy New Year Slenderistas.

Let's move away from the Christmas bugger and ditch Linda for good.

Squiffy don't be disgusted with yourself. You are merely human like all of us. Don't beat yourself up. Just dust yourself off and don't let it completely derail you.

What are your takeaway options? Can you rustle up a quick tomato pasta sauce or something from your cupboards

Squiffy Yy to not letting it derail you. Any amount of 'bad' days followed by getting back on the wagon is better than slipping into continuous bad habits

16:8 is fasting but for 16 hours a day (so fit all of your eating in the 8 hour bit)

I have been out for lunch, didn't eat loads and it was lots of veg. But I will hit 10k steps today for the first time in ages so I have a extra calories to play with anyway.

Squiffy, draw a line and move past it. It's done, what you do next is the important thing.

Amazing work Hairspray!

I have drawn a graph. It's got my starting weight at the side, and the number of weeks until my sister's wedding along the X axis (19 weeks). I'm going to graph my progress. [geek] I want to be as thin as possible!

Squiffy, a baking course would have sent me flying over the edge too! If I were you, I would have planned for today to be on 'off diet' day - just go back to it tomorrow!

Had a slightly bigger post parkrun breakfast than planned but otherwise stuck to it like glue today

I've been out for Chinese to celebrate my DD1's birthday on Monday. We had a smashing time with lots of laughs and I over indulged. But I'm buggered (bufffeted?) if I'm going to stint on my first born's 18th birthday. It was absolutely delicious too

Hairspray that photo is remarkable! You look fantastic, such va va voom curves (whereas I am classic Apple (Pie) shape so my only curves are sticky out stomach).

I'm down another Linda, now 100gms off pre Xmas weight. Did Parkrun yesterday (Sat) and did 5km walk with dh and dogs in the evening before heading out to Partayyy where I only drank fizzy water (disguised as G&T) and I avoided the duck spring roll and mini burger canapés in favour of sushi . The party was ok sober actually, not brilliant but fun.

Squiffy you have exactly the right mindset to be successful - we all have days where we go off piste, but you just need to keep on keeping on, get back on the horse, don't give up, look at all the post Xmas losses, PROOF that any blips can be easily recovered from.

Cheddar I LOVE a graph too - I have an app on my phone where I put in my goal weight and all losses/gains and it produces a beautiful graph, so satisfying. 19 weeks is a good amount of time - how much do you want to loose?

I am now 14lbs off my goal weight. Have lost 11lbs - almost at the half way point.

BOOP happy birthday to your dd - absolutely right to have a blow out, congratulations to both of you!

I'm a little late to the party, but was on the last two threads, so hope it's ok to rejoin now!

I lost 1 Linda in December - at least I didn't gain anything over all! Have lost 4 kilos since last week of Oct - slow but steady (I hope). My first goal is to lose 10% of body weight and get to 90 kilos, second is to get to 76 kilos which is a nice round (hopefully not too round)12 stone. I have a beauty advent calendar left over from December (I had 3 ☺️) and I'm opening 1 door for each kilo I lose! 7lbs would be an amazing amount to lose in Jan - I would settle for 2 kilos by my birthday (7 Feb) which would make me 95 kilos, a number I haven't seen in a long time!

Anyway have been back on the wagon this week - am counting calories with mfp. Am allowing myself a maintenance day at the weekends and had homemade raspberry ice cream tonight - was delicious! Am also throwing in a bit of 16:8 as it suits the way I eat - late breakfast, small lunch and normal dinner. I just have to avoid my current weakness which is hot chocolate at bedtime!

I made a big batch of humus today with (mostly) Greek yoghurt instead of oil, so I have something tasty and healthy for lunches and snacks. It's yummy! Comes in at 108 cals for a generous serving. Quite pleased with myself. I think that's the key, having healthyish food there for when I walk in the door starving!

I like mfp as it allows me to have the stuff I like - I eat fairly healthy meals but have sugar in my tea and refuse to give it up as life just wouldn't be worth living! I loathe sweeteners. And I don't want to be on a diet where I have to beat myself up for eating a banana or an avocado! The only problem is if I have calories left after dinner I WILL eat them... I just can't leave them there!

Am still dieting in secret because I am afraid of people slapping biscuits out of my hand if I tell them! I don't want to be made to feel guilty for having a little treat if I want one. I have told DH that meals are going to be healthier for a while 'because it's January'! I am thinking about telling him, he is doing my head in a bit eating whole packets of biscuits and massive quantities of chocolate of an evening while I nibble on a square of Lindt dark... it is the chomping noise that gets to me!

Sorry I have rambled... well done on the losses everyone and for getting back into a good dieting frame of mind after Christmas!

Another lb down for me! Reached my 2lb goal for Tuesday a couple of days early so pretty happy with that.

Feeling super guilty and cross with myself this morning. Last night I had several glasses of wine, rice with my main course, pudding, and cheese with crackers. Stupid dinner party, stupid lack of self control! I'm too scared to stand on the scales. Will be extra good today!

Teapig as soon as Ive had a drink my willpower goes. I'm sure the damage won't be too terrible and it's good to have some downtime sometimes!

Teaping, I think it's only partly drink = lack of self control. Was it also a bit of not wanting people to know you were on a diet, and wanting to act normally? Live up to their expectations? It's a weird one, and I do it too.

Stayed the same despite consuming rhubarb tart with ice cream, two mini caramel Santas, a slice of Christmas cake and a cherry chilli Aldi chocolate bar (the small ones), and a large glass of white wine. And 3 square meals. I know on 5:2 and No S weekends are relaxed day, but I think that was going a bit far! Must do better.

Down another 0.8lb this morning. Surprised after having a higher cal day yesterday!

I have a lovely graph too, but til I get back down to my lowest (my Nov lowest would be nice, my all time Feb last year lowest even better) it doesn't look very impressive

BOOP, too right you need to properly celebrate your DD's 18th birthday! Glad you had a good time, hope she has a lovely day tomorrow.

I am impressed with your resolve Arch!

Your homemade ice cream and houmous sound lovely, Mountain.

I am the same teaping, and I am officially back at work tomorrow so now that's the holidays over I am going to have another go at cutting out alcohol for the rest of the month. It's only three weeks (I am telling myself) and I reckon I can only shift the 7lbs if I do that. That will take me to 2lbs off my goal weight.

I've been awful over the weekend too teaping

Wine, cheese and crackers on Friday night, sausage sandwich, cake, and more wine yesterday...

Only green tea and an apple this morning, in work and have canteen choices for lunch, so planning roast dinner without the carbs- just meat and veg. Have salmon and puy lentils for dinner tonight.

SW weigh in on Monday, so need to turn it around! Haven't dared step on scales this morning...

Oh lord I'm so sorry. 18 was a typo. She's actually 17 on Monday. Bad mommy

BOOP, I was panicking then, thinking I'd missed her big birthday!!!
Feeling pissed off. Put on a Linda 😩 How??? All I ate yesterday was an egg white omelette, celery and soft cheese and chicken, prawn and veg in a Cauliflower rice stir fry.
Shakes fist at the sky

12.6 v unfair as I was good yesterday even on a Saturday! Was planning a few treats today but I will have to nix them now as I don't want to go back to square one!

Archduke, I started this year at 11 stone 7 - would love to be 9 stone 7 by the wedding. If I'm not getting there by mid-March I'm going back on BSD. My ultimate goal is 8 stone 7. Ish. Which I haven't been since I was 20. I'm only 5'2" so that's not uber-skinny. My healthy weight range is 7 stone 3 to 9 stone 11 - 8 stone 7 is pretty much bang in the middle of that. 7 stone anything sounds ridiculously unachievable!

Well today will definitely be a write off. Weight spike may very well be period related as my consumption of one cheeseburger and Dr Pepper at Five Guys will attest.

Hi tooextra, nope I think I just had a couple of drinks and forgot all about my diet, it literally went out of my head! How ridiculous. Amazing that you ate that yumminess and stayed the same though - wooo!

Bit that Chinese sounds amazing, I'd love a Chinese tonight... haha.

I've still not plucked up enough courage to stand on the scales - I'll wait til tomorrow morning! I've done a pathetic13 mins hiit on the rowing machine (just starting out so I've gotta build up to longer periods!) and about to have a low carb dinner.

Oh lord, I'm on the scales first thing tomorrow, and somehow this afternoon polished off a treat bag of Revels.

Stuck to it well today. Had one extra snack but still well in for the day.

Thanks for all the kind words! It has helped me sort of stay on track, my eating hasn't been perfect but better than it would be on the past having broken yesterday I would have eaten loads today too! A bit more than I wanted too but not too much.
Got back to the gym and did my first couch to 5 k in about 6 months - nearly killed me. Then did 10 minutes on the bike. Instead of bus home I walked the 40 minutes.
Really don't want to step on the scales tomorrow morning!