Stop the grazing. Look aMAYzing. Slenderistas spring into action to lose 7lbs in May

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May the force of the Linda be with you as we aim for 7lbs off in a month

Here's a link to the April thread

Sorry, another bloody essay by me.

squiffy i still look at my thighs, arse, arms and think fat 🐄

But then look around, who has a perfect bod? Magazines is all airbrushing.

Your DD is very brave Arch.

Glad she is ok.

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Well done to your daughter arch getting back up there must have been so hard. And well done to you for supporting her in doing it, would have been awful for you too!

Thanks for the pep talk. That's quite a good way to try and look at it as I don't think me being negative about myself will ever change but maybe if I'm negative and as you say that puts me into action then it isn't all bad.

Hi everyone, I feel like the days are passing me by.

Archie. So very proud for you. I always love hearing things like that.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. I was unwell and had a function to attend. Have another assessment today in work. Never ending just now. Just stick me on a stage and I'll do a bad tap dance for good measure

Slenderistaing, that's what we are here for. Well I've not got anything to report. Bit of body shaming myself here too. I know it's wrong and I need to embrace it all for now. Hard isn't it.

I have nice hair...

Wow Arch, your dd has ovaries of steel!! Well done her and well done you for not having a nervous breakdown!!

After a golden weekend (apart from that piddley slice of cake) I'd really hoped for a loss today. Yet somehow I'm up 1.5lbs?! crazy body!!

Well done to your DD Arch!

Went slightly off the rails (as per usual) this weekend, but hopefully not too badly. Fast day today so hopefully that will make up for it a bit! Also on Saturday I finally made it back to bodypump for the first time in about 6 weeks, so that's good. I was very achy yesterday though!

Morning all couldnt face the scales yesterday by this morning I am 11.1 and reasonably happy with that considering all the food and booze.

Here is a little photo of my spread

arch that's amazing, what a brave girl❤️
The Eurovision party was fab on Saturday, totally spoiling & great fun. There was a delicious Indian spread & I selected sensibly, grilled prawns, lobster & lamb chops with raita & tomato, pickled red onion & coriander salad (polishes halo😇)
Another nsv, had a one day event with dd yesterday & didn't have a bacon roll😵 I took a chicken Waldorf salad a felt v virtuous!H
Those body shaming, I can remember visiting a friend of mine in hospital & she had suffered a series of strokes. I had looked in the mirror before I left & felt disgusted at & my fat thighs, I must have been all of size 12 it was very sobering to see her having to learn to walk again we really don't appreciate how amazing our bodies are until something goes wrong.

Hairspray can I pleeeeeaaaase come to your house for dinner?

That food does like rather tasty :)

Well done on the nsv, ready!!

Forgot - I had an nsv yesterday too! DH told me my arse looks smaller

Hello slenderistas! Back from an amazing weekend of dancing with my mom and sister. Didn't go too mad but have put a pound on. I'm sure it'll go quick. I want to be the elusive 10 stone something before I go away again on Friday. (Sorry! I know. It's ridiculous!)

A picture came up on Timehop of me a year ago and blimey I was enormous. Biggest change has been in the shape of my face. I look like a different person!

Here's to an angel week of golden days

A better weekend for me after excesses on Thursday, Saturday was very low calorie but watching Eurovision without wine was not as much fun as I would have liked....

Did 10k run yesterday and that probably went better than expected so treated ourselves to dinner out and a few drinks which was fab!

Weighed in this morning at 12st 9 which I'm quite pelased about, really want a good week to get to that 12st 7....

Wow Arch, your dd has ovaries of steel!!

That made me retch. Nerves of steel, resolve of steel?

Sorry niki :( Like balls of steel, just for the female side

😁 i guess you couldnt say balls!

Hellooooo everyone! I've just caught up on all this wonderful progress, you're all doing brilliantly! BOOP at the dancing, are you a good dancer? What an amazing experience!

Congrats to your daughter Archie, that must have been a really hair-raising day. What was the accident she had? Is she fully recovered now?

I had a slightly disappointing weigh-in on Thurs - only a Linda or so down on my America gain after three consecutive Golden Days, so still a lot of work ahead. I decided to put it from my mind though, as I declared my birthday weekend as having Officially Begun at 6pm on Thursday. I ate and ate and ate this weekend, spent most of Friday prepping lots of food for my party on Saturday, which basically consisted of lots of nibbles; then had a cream tea yesterday afternoon and sushi and Champagne last night for my Actual Birthday, so all in it was four nights on the sauce in a row! It was epic

Mega Golden Day today to try and counteract but I'm out with a friend tomorrow so it won't be golden. Sigh. Next week I'm going to finally have that elusive Angel Week (just four days in my scheme) but it does seem like May isn't going to be my month. The lighter evenings are making me think about taking up running again...

Speaking of which TV how did you get on?

Oh oh oh I did have a NSV though - for my birthday party I wore a dress I last wore on my birthday six years ago when I was a slip of a thing! I didn't even need giant pants with it! I had planned to wear something else but I saw it in the wardrobe and thought I'd give it a go, and when it not only did up but fit quite comfortably I just had to wear it

Hairspray your Euro spread looks epic, made my mouth water!

Quim well done on fitting into the dress, a fab birthday bonus

Run was fine, I finished in 57.11 which I didnt think I could achieve having only laced up my running shoes once in 2017.

I'm sure carrying almost a stone less in weight made a huge difference even if partly psychological

Oh quimmy a very happy birthday to you. Sounds like you had a fabulous weekend. Many happy returns

TV that's brilliant result! Well done!

Thank you BOOP , i genuinely think my weight loss over the last few months was a massive help and of course that wouldn't have happened or been maintained if I had not found myself on this thread...

TV that's a fantastic time, well done! You must be so pleased.

Quim brilliant NSV, getting into a sleep foxy frock is a lovely way to celebrate a birthday - happy birthday to you btw.

WTF is a sleep foxy frock. I think I meant sleek.