Let's Get FEBulous! Lose 7lbs in a Month Thread

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We've powered through January. Now let's keep losing the Lindas through the shortest month

January thread here

I've banged on about this before, but I've really found it comparatively easy to go carb-free during the week.

The thing I found with my LC stint was that cutting carbs, whilst all scientifically ketogenically whatever, is also just an ace way of ditching calories. If you just know you're not having bread, chips, sugary crap etc. it really does leave you with the less calorific stuff, and even if you're like me and cannot possibly control yourself around cheese, for instance, it's far better to be having an inhuman amount of feta on your salmon and veg than an inhuman amount of Parmesan on your pasta.

As everyone says though, this is all entirely personal: I can avoid carbs Mon-Thurs because I know I can have them at weekends, whereas the opposite is true for some people.

One thing I can definitely testify is that it's bloody hard to break the carb habit. I was eating carbs every time I opened my mouth when I first cut them - it was a big adjustment, but I really never looked back. Like you Cheddar I can't possibly contemplate a life without them, but it's now second nature to avoid them during the week. (And then eat quadracarb meals for three days solid )

DAAAYUMN Morris four Lindas in a week! That's insane!

lasty honestly I'm in awe of you. Especially going for a bloody run when you haven't had a solid meal in days.

I remember a distant ex who had his Wisdoms out and then got horribly drunk on a several-days empty stomach and acted like an utter arse. You are acting with far more grace, and jaffa cakes are the very least you deserve

I managed to eat dinner by having it in tiny bits and only chewing just enough so I don't choke... No Jaffa cakes tomorrow....

I am still drinking a lot of my calories I just find strawberry ribeana so much less of a chore

I am not eating soup or Dahl ever again.

I've just finished watching Apple Tree Yard. I am wring out

How to maintain once I've lost weight. My method is to be careful / calorie count in the week, and let go a bit at weekends. It worked for me for about 5 years after I had my dd2. So I hope it's sustainable for me again. Plus keeping up the exercise which I've actually started enjoying. I know, I know, it's like I don't know myself.

What is Apple Tree Yard?

Four part drama on BBC. Bit saucy in parts, disturbing in others (triggering) and very compelling.

Oooooh super, I shall seek if on iPlayer!

BOOP, yes, I need to keep exercising too! Anyway, maintenance is a bit academic from here - need to lose another stone and a half before I can even begin to worry about that!

-3lbs this week whoop whoop! 🎉

YES! YES!!!! 10 stone 13.75! New stone bracket!! Hurray!

Well done Binary and Cheddar fabulous work!

Please read the following paragraph in the manner of Eyeore or Marvin the Paranoid Android . . . . or just skip it as it's a massive whinge.

I'm fed up, I've stuffed my leg. I was running this morning and my calf went pfuttt. I limped home and now (8hrs later) it still really really hurts and I can barely walk.

I'm fat and feel like diving into a packet of biscuits or chocolate bar. I know this isn't really the answer but I'm so fed up with my leg, with job hunting, with being (hopefully temporarily) skint, with having frizzy hair, with the bloody puppy who vomited on the carpet so I had to spend all day cleaning it, with my horrible squabbling kids, with cooking all the time, with dh who is away on business, with being old and infirm, with stupid fat stomach which won't go away.

Off now to take the dds to stupid netball where I have to sodding keep score so can't skive off and chat with the other mums like normal.

[arch flowers] hang in there, don't let everything get on top of you. How's the leg feeling now? Can you stay off it for a while... Maybe not with the netball runs/ running around after a puppy.

Arch! Do not despair, exactly the same thing happened to me (without the netball). I stopped running for three weeks and it was shit, until a chance encounter with a taxi driver taught me about foam rollers.

Get one, and roller like mad, it's agony but works.

Ah that's tough Arch, sounds like a thoroughly rotten day. Get some foam rollers to help your leg. And remember that you do have a brain the size of a planet. Hoopy.

Aww Archy That sounds like a rotten day, Can someone else do the stupid netball?

*Binary 3lbs is fab! Well done!

And Cheesey you are now Ten stone something! How bloody good does that feel?

Never mind the , Arch, have some zero calorie !

Brilliant, Binary!

It feels AMAZING, BOOP! It's only one Linda down, but it feels like a lot more. Still here!

Fantastic stuff Binary and Cheddar, woohoo! *Cheddar I am about 2 lindas behind you, can't wait for that new stone feeling, I have been stuck in the 11s for around 20 months...

Rats! I am 11.11 again this morning.

Had a golden day yesterday so not sure why I am being punished by the scales, probably to attone for my weekend extravagances!

Hopefully it is mainly water and glycogen stores so I might get a few lbs off before the end of the week. I am so bloody annoyed at myself as I was on to lose almost 1/2 a st in the first two weeks.

but then I list what I ate at the weekend and I think hmph serves you right!

Friday -
4 cocktails
Garlic bread starter (shared)
Mezze platter (shared)
Butternut squash and goats cheese salad
3 more cocktails
Chips from the Kebab house blush

Saturday
Avocado and eggs
Buffet late lunch with the rugby on
Wine x 2 small glasses
Curry - no rice or naan
Beers x 2 - bottles of carlsberg
Birthday cake

Sunday
Fruit and nutella blush I felt like I was being good because everyone else had waffles and icecream too!
Dips and low-carb crackers and vegetable crisps plus olives and crudites for dinner.

SO. MUCH. FOOD.

Archie A foam roller is good advice, it is painful enough to bring tears (as is sports massage) but they work. Avoid a really nobbly one, they don't need to be vicious. I also recommend getting into yoga alongside the running habit - it really helps get those poor running muscles stretched out. Most importantly, try not to go back to old eating habits just because your leg is out of action .

Nice to see you back quim, hope you've taken control again!

Whoops! for cheese and binary - awesome work slenderistas!

Thanks sausage! I love teaching it so that really helps with my own progress too.

lastq I can't believe you went for a run! It's making my teeth hurt just thinking about it, amazing! My perma-dieting chic and slender grandma ('never mix proteins and carbs' was her mantra) told me that 2 jaffa cakes per day were 'allowed'. It worked for her! It wouldn't work for me, it would just turn me into a sugar monster who would devour the entire pack in a corner in secret.

I fasted yesterday, not a crumb touched my lips until 6 pm and then I had chicken stew and broccoli. This morning: same weight as Monday morning! So unfair. But there is no reason for me not to have a golden week so by Friday I ought to have busted through to under 10.10 (currently 10.11, 10.10 is my lowest weight of 2017). Single numbers are the goal - short term 10.9 and under, long term 9 something. (I'm 5'5")

But, as I was removing pjs to get on the scale I did remark to my mirrored self that I look tiny. My weight is mainly on thighs now, I lose from top downwards so I am lucky enough to get a waist back first. Boobs obviously disappear too but they're annoying for exercise so I don't mind really.

I wore my tiny fitted coat yesterday

Lost 1.75 lbs since Friday. So that's down from 11 stone 8 on the 15th Jan when I started to 10 stone 10 today. I've no idea where it's gone from though. I look the same.

Arch, sorry about the leg.

Well done, everyone who's lost -and those who haven't lost but have stuck to good eating!

Some great losses here! Nothing doing on the scales for me today, but a cm off the waist. Managed 15 mins of hula hooping yesterday and this morning, and very much feeling it!

God, you lot, you're so lovely and supportive and [tea] all round.

Thank you very much for the cheery up messages I do feel less gloomy and will dig out our foam roller. Yoga is a good idea too, thanks Kiki. I'm now watching a documentary on Broadmoor so that's bound to put a smile on my dial .

Usermuser you have lost almost a STONE! Congratulations that's remarkable, I bet you don't look the same. Did you have a pic taken when you started? Are your clothes looser? Rediscovered cheek bones? New spring in your step??

12lb total, User! I bet you do look thinner - it must have gone from somewhere! Are your clothes feeling looser?

Kiki, I was getting that too in Jan, it's really annoying fasting and not seeing anything on the scales. Stick it out - sometimes it whooshes off after the second fast day of the week. And hurray for the fitted coat!

Cheddar I'm fine with it luckily! I know the scales are a mysterious beast and it'll show on the numbers eventually. I feel fantastic at the moment (post-yoga glow), really strong and healthy. I like to dwell on those positive traits while I have them as those feelings can flutter away so easy. Today is a GOOD day.

Hope it is for others too