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

[BitOutOfPractice]

Happy New Year Slenderistas.

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

It certainly is amazing Cheddar!

I'm booked on my first ever spin class tonight! I am very nervous!

very well done Cheddar

Ooh BOOP I would love to do a spin class but all the ones round here seem to be on at 8 o'clock at night and that sounds like a hideous time to do exercise! I have been in my PJ's for hours by then!

Does any one take any weight loss supplements, matcha extract or raspberry ketones? Or similar... I have just decided to start taking some African Mango extract, sounds spooky but they were on offer in Holland and Barrett and I am a sucker for a sales pitch! Looking around online there seemed to be a few studies done, 100 or so over weight people lost weight over ten weeks whilst taking them against a placebo group they lost 5 lbs more? OMG I am a scientist what is wrong with me!!!

I am desperately trying to convince myself I haven't wasted £7.99!

BOOP I am petrified of spinning, props to you! I used to see the classes going on at the gym with the instructor roaring at everyone, and it all looked very military.

Hairspray um... no, I haven't...

I don't know anything about the African mango thing, please don't bother with the "raspberry ketones" though!

I am actually proper scared. I mean, I can run for 40 minutes or so. I should be able to spin, right? My friend tells me that you can change down a few gears with nobody else knowing so I'm hanging onto that

Hairspray erm...no. Me neither. Never tried those things. Do you have to take them at a full moon?

I went spinning once, Nearly broke my bloody legs! I forgot it wasn't a "normal" bike!

Oh god! You're not helping!

There is so little I can do with my dodgy shoulder that I'm looking for other things I can do

Ha it's too late for that I bought them yesterday, was only supposed to be getting some vitamin D and st john's wort for DP ah well!
I shall take them worst case scenario is I get a bit of a boost from the placebo effect, and I will avoid spooky tabley nonsense in the future

I have no idea how they are supposed to work, but I am planning on 1 before each meal with some water
Lord keep me away from the shops I cannot be trusted!

I have always meant to try spinning, but I just never have. I am a little bit scared but also attracted by the idea of burning loads of calories. Report back Boop, let us know how it goes! if you survive

Wait, is matcha extract a weight loss thing? Is that why everyone is suddenly drinking matcha lattes? I had one once when I had vague ideas about cutting back on caffeine, but I must say I prefer coffee

Also I did an extra weigh in today after my fast day yesterday and I have lost precisely nothing so far this week. Serves me right for not waiting until Friday

Spinning is fine boop! You get to sit down sometimes!

My friend and I wrote poetic laments to our healthy eating today

Hers:
Oh carrots and hummous,
Long have you plagued me.
Your nutritional status and crisp snap
can help heal all that ages me.
With training and care, I can finally
attempt to eat you.
and with dedication, I have managed
to prepare and bring you,
Yet in the fridge you sit,
Mocking my greasy face zit,
You vitamin-ridden tit.
Because I, yes I,
do dream of chocolate.

My response:
Hungry rumbles emanate
But of what food to partake?
All things nice have been banned
There is nothing to consume at hand
Enforced I am to slice
All the veg once, twice and thrice
Create yet again a bowl or two
Of soupy nutrition, oh fuck you
I dream of baked goods to dunk
and slather in buttery junk
While choking down more salad
And wishing I could eat some bread.

Also, very envious of archduke's outside pool action today. Oh winter, how bored I am of you now.

Kiki

My favourite bit is

"Create yet again a bowl or two
Of soupy nutrition, oh fuck you"

That so sums it up!

to the poems. I love how the swearing increases as they go on!

I'm bored of winter too so I'm going to Marrakesh in 3 weeks

BOOP! Marrakesh! How exciting! Is that the jaunt you and Chardonnay are slimming down for?

Ack SO JEALOUS Boop!

Erm I'm ashamed to say that no it isn't. Chardonnay and I are off to Tenerife in March. I have the good grace to be a bit embarrassed now!

My soupy nutrition was all right in the end. I poached an egg in my lunch portion and added loads of miso and coriander. I am sated. Meh. This is the first day since 2nd Jan that I've really missed bread. I nearly bought a loaf of Vogel on the way back from yoga (justification: super healthy and nutritious!) but glad I didn't or I'd be mainlining it with lashings of butter and cheese at this point. I have enough self control not to buy stuff, but not to not eat it if it is in the house.

Hahahaha, good for you boop! I have 4 holidays lined up for spring/summer

We are booking my birthday holiday tonight!
Off to Geneva, or the "Land of Cheese for Every Meal" as it shall now be know!

Shall be v v v romantic, sort of feeling I might come back with Dfiancé not DP

Good for you KiKi I'm also going to Iceland in Feb, Barcelona in May and Majorca in June

Oooo hairspray how exciting!

I went to Iceland a couple of months ago-it's a gorgeous country. What are you plans while you're there bitoutofpractice?

Bet I have hexxed it now BOOP!

I shall enjoy it anyway plus we are going to see the Large Hadron Collider

Wow BOOP That's some impressive holidaying!

Well we are hoping to see the northern lights. I've been before and not seen them. Blue lagoon is on the list and we are hoping to get up on a glacier

In my defence I have a big birthday this year so a couple of those are for my birthday although Chardonnay will tell you that I am something of a Judith Chalmers