It's Offtober again! Double, double, toil and trouble, burn it off to beat the wobble! Join us as we lose 7lbs by Hallowe'en

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Credit for the title to Quimmy

So, new month, a new 7lb challenge. Let's not let our September resolve waver. Onwards and downwards Slenderistas

Here's a link to the September thread

Ok, I've read the thread. morning all.

I'm a lifelong dieter, I am always on a diet but I'm getting nowhere at the moment. I am teetering around the 12st mark, so 2 stone off would be great. I've lost 2 stone in the last 2 years, doing the blood sugar diet. I still do try to follow the principles even if I don't calorie count. It's just the weekends get me every time.

In September I did an alcohol and sugar free month, we had a new treadmill - and I lost a few pounds, then in the last weekend I regained all that weight in one almighty feast.

I am feeling so miserable about the way I look right now. I am a sahm, I live in jeans and stripy tops, and I just feel so bloody knackered, all the time. Then at the weekends we tend to drink wine and eat crap and any hard work from the week just gets lost. It feels like a really chaotic way of eating and I feel completely out of control with my food right now.,

So......I know I need to low carb, so I avoid pasta, grains, potato, rice and sugar; I need to use my treadmill more; I need to drink more water; I need to stop grazing and nibbling constantly. I do need to calorie count, but I don't know how many I should have. BSD is v low calorie, which I think I've got to stop aiming for as I never actually manage it. I'm considering doing 2 low calorie fast days and on the rest just aim for sugar free, low carb, 1400 calories.

Can I join? I have DS graduation in July and I am not going to be fat. Am 5ft1 and size 14/16 have a shedload to lose want to be at least a 10

So many newbies!

A warm welcome to all

Well I was very bad in that I went out Friday Night and had the hangover from hell yesterday. Didn't eat a thing just flushed out with tons of water. No gym either.... Feeling normal again now so i just ate a brown graniery roll with some laughing cow cheese spread. Going to my parents for dinner later and will go for a brisk walk with my mum. Back to the gym tomorrow with bells on...

I blew out yoga today. My knee is killing me. I cycled 8km though and did alot of walking.

I forget how much exercise and training lifts my mood: a weekend of taekwondo, running, rowing machine and swimming, and I feel awesome.

I definitely have a preference for burning calories rather than eating less. Although I eat less and more nutritiously when I train!

How I’ve missed it, even though I will ache for the next few days

Hello new people 🖐, the thread is busier on week days :)

Ok, I'm starting tomorrow. Or that should be Re-starting. I've eaten far too much this weekend and I feel yuck for it. I'm trying not to dwell too much on it and just move forwards. I'm going to hide the scales too, they don't help me at all and I get so obsessed with the numbers.

Hello everyone...can I join? Just finished my second body combat class of the week and booked in for more next week. Plan is to reduce carbs, factor in 5:2 (it has worked really well for me in the past) and get to the gym at least 3/4 times a week. Do we think doing that makes a stone - stone and a half by xmas doable?

I’m 5ft 1 and planning on weighing in tomorrow

Ok I’m back (with my tail between my legs). I’ve been eating sweet crap for weeks, first of all because I felt so ill but then because I lost the plot. I need a bloody good telling off and to find that bastard plot quickly.

Niki I’ve always measured myself against you, both 5ft 4, both 10st. Well now I’m bloody 10st 5! if I don’t change my ways I’ll be a stone up by Christmas and I cannot go there, I just can’t.

Welcome all the newbies, there is a lot of support here (and a good telling off for me I think 😀).

I’ve hidden the chocolate on top of the cupboard. 9 weeks to Christmas - I’m back.

Don't worry poorpaws 5lbs isnt that much.

I am getting AF in the next day or two. Hoping that leads to a whoosh. I shall cry if it doesn't. So bored and looks like Oct may be another stay the same.

Can I join?

I have been comfort eating (terminally ill elderly parent, juggling parents with childcare, work worries, the usual things affecting a 40 something female) and have piled on weight. I'm really big and really upset about it. Things have to change. I'm worried about my long term health. Plus I hate how I look.

Good morning all, happy happy Monday.

10.3 same weight as Friday morning can I class that as a no weekend gain?

Anyway! That brings me to my lowest Monday weight ever #thrilled and a chance to really solidify my loss for the month.

Welcome to all the new folks bear I am a BSDer - lost 5st in total now and weekends are usually my kryptonite too!

Fast day today with Badminton tonight followed by stirfry.

Can i join please. 5ft 1 and I've crept up to 10st 4.

Bollocking 11.2 this morning - popcorn at the cinema is the only culprit and not enough water - forgot to buy big bottles on Friday night and its now showing on the scales - aiming for 10.13 on Wednesday. Also and this is probably TMI but I haven't been to the loo for two days!!!! Any ides to get things "moving"???

Hi newbies and hope everyone has a fab week!!

Hmm. After my smug post on Saturday I'm back up to 11 5 this morning. Fish and chips plus a doughnut on Blackpool prom yesterday along with no running or gym for over a week are to blame.

And I'm going to Edinburgh tomorrow so unlikely to lose anything this week.

If I can get back to 11 4 by the end of the month I'll be very happy.

plumstone use milk of magnesia to get things moving. Two capfuls of the stuff at night works like a charm.

Marvellous Niki - thanks will give that a bash tonight!!

Morning all, lovely to see some new faces too!

I'm aiming for about 1000 calories today, fast day tomorrow and about 1000 again on Wednesday because from Thursday I'm off to Dublin for a long weekend, so I want to mitigate some of the damage I'll do! Will weigh in Thursday morning to see where I'm at.

I don't actually own scales. I am at someone else's house this morning and saw scales in the bathroom and took the opportunity to jump on them when I was in there.

I am 12 stone. This is at least half a stone worse than I had guessed in my worst case scenario.

I need to kick the sugar habit. I used to go to the gym a lot, so at least I was strong and fit, even though I knew I was carrying a bit too much weight. But at the moment I just can't fit that in. I need to tackle my diet. It is disastrous.

I am still 10st dead.

I actually reduced calories quite a bit this weekend.

Could it be monthly water weight Niki and give it a day or so after AF has packed her bags and you will see a loss?

It probably is. TMI alert but my boobs get very heavy and swollen and enlarge before af. I am hoping that that alone is a pound of two waiting to drop.

Good Lord, we don't normally get such a rush of new faces at this time in the month! Welcome Coke, treacle, PhD, bear, Whatshould, history and Ipity to The Best Thread on Mumsnet™! Was that everyone? Sorry if I missed someone off, lovely to see new faces.

Sounds like everyone's doing really well - some very virtuous weekending going on here, and great losses and lows!

Ipity Christmas is 9 weeks away apparently (gulp) so I'd go for a stone by then, 1.5 Lindas a week should be do-able but you'll need to keep your focus when the parties start! I expect you'll see a big drop at first and then it'll even out, so you can hopefully just do "damage control" over Christmas itself. That's the best any of us can hope for really!

So when I weighed in on Friday I was 300g heavier than I had been 2 weeks before. I've had two non-Angel weeks and one Angel Week, but it does suggest to me that I need to be doing a bit more to maintain. I'm now a Linda above Goal Weight, 800g above Lowest Weight, and keen not to let it get any more than that. It's going to have to be a question of exercising more, isn't it... How long have I been saying that now