I'm back in the zone and I'm going to kick off with 1 week hardcore boot camp.

[saladsmoothie]

If anyone wants to join me I promise to be terrifyingly encouraging at every step. And if no one wants to join me I shall update this thread anyway because I found a MN thread really useful last time I did this.

My plan for this week is...
No wheat, no sugar, no snacking (nb this means no booze).
Drink lots of water (my skin is bloody awful atm).
Stick to under 1500 calories per day (ideally 1200)
Run at least 3 times in the next 7 days.

Also...
Day 1: 10 squats, 10 lunges, 10 press ups.
Day 2: 11 squats, 11, lunges, 11 press ups.
Day 3: 12 squats etc etc etc and so on increasing for the rest of the month.

I lost a BUTTLOAD of weight last year and was fit and healthy and size 10 for the first time in my adult life. Have had some big life changes in the last couple of months and have been comfort eating and exercising a lot less. Really need to get back on the wagon before all my new small clothes get too tight.

[biscuitbasket]

Morning back!


It's hard when you have other stuff going on, but well done on avoiding wine! I've been sober for ages, and feel much better for it!

Did yoga session this morning. Did have 2 fags last night though :(

[saladsmoothie]

It's the end of day three for me and I'm feeling good!
Had a great run. Did some strength work.
Ate well.
All good!! How is everyone else?

[CiderwithBuda]

Can't say I've been great.

Food has been ok. But booze has not. And I haven't exercised. Even cancelled my spinning class this morning. Drank too much wine last night so woke up at 2.30am and can never get back to sleep when that happens.

Today's mission is to not drink, I'm fine when DH is away but rubbish when he is here. I really need to break the habit.

[Loubilou09]

CiderwithBuda I initially stopped drinking for 3 months which was absolutely HUGE for me - I drank a lot of wine every day before that. I now find the only way to properly lose weight is to ditch the booze, I have completely changed my lifestyle around booze in the last 7 months and it has helped immensely.

I seem to have lost another 1lb since Monday and am now down to 33 lbs lost and more importantly I am just under the 12st mark which is a massive achievement and has given me the boost I needed to keep going! Personal Trainer weighed me today and I was 5lb down since she last weighed me 5 weeks ago. I am quite surprised at that as I haven't been an angel at all and have probably had more like 1600 calories a day for the past 5 weeks so still quite pleased with that. If I can keep under 9,000 calories week for the next couple of weeks I should increase that to 1.5-2.0 lb loss per week. Fingers crossed!

1250 calories yesterday with a long dog walk in the morning and a HIIT class in the evening.

Aiming for about 1100 calories today, have already done a 3.5 mile run and some strength training with my personal trainer and going to do a dog walk later and Zumba tonight.

Keep going peeps! Summer bodies remember :) :)

[KeiraTwiceKnightley]

2lbs off so far. Nice weather helps as I don't feel so hungry when it is hot though less inclined to exercise too I suppose.

Off work today so plan to go for a good walk first thing. It's so beautiful out there! Hope everyone else is feeling motivated.

[CiderwithBuda]

Xotic - sorry meant to reply - we prob have been on weight loss threads together before. I seem to have been on hundreds!

Loubilou - well done on giving up the wine! That is a momentous achievement. And something I really need to address. I logically know that if I want to lose weight I need to stop drinking so much wine. Last night was a better night - had two weak white wine sodas made with low alcohol wine. It's what I used to drink a few years ago when I was successfully losing weight.

So a better day yesterday. Didn't eat until lunch time and had a slice of cheese with salad in a sandwich made with soya and linseed bread. Had a few cherrys in he afternoon. Dinner was BBQ- a home made burger, a sausage (97% pork) and a piece of marinaded chicken with salad.

Yesterday was a fairly stressful day until late afternoon. My youngest sis was induced on Tuesday morning but labour was very slow. Stressed all day yesterday about her and what was happening and finally got word that she had had my new nephew. Very exciting. I now have 10 nieces and nephews!

[KeiraTwiceKnightley]

Congrats on the new family member Buda. I think a new life is always miraculous and wonderful- perhaps most of all in difficult times like the country has been through this week. A sort of hope iykwim. Hope your sister is well too.

Just had bbq for tea. Lots of meat, salad, asparagus - but no carbs. Hoping for another lb or so gone before the weekend.

[lifesjoys]

I've spent my time managing at most, 5-7000 steps. Today, I've done 14000! That is exercise to me!

I'm going away on Saturday for a week, so I expect a lot of walking to be done.

I've done pretty good today!

[Xoticdreamz]

I've been on a few as well cider:)
Feeling really frustrated, I've walked 10,000 steps and done 30 mins on exercise bike and kept my cals under 1000 I think but stayed the same .
What happens now is a great big binge usually but I'm really trying to keep going and convince myself that tomorrow the scales will go down .
No alcohol and loads of water for me today .
Hope everyone else is getting on well.