Beware the Lindas of March! Slenderistas spring forward and March towards a 7lbs loss

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So, winter has us in its icy grasp as March begins but by the end of the month we will be lighter, warmer and, erm, slenderer!

Here’s a link to January’s thread

Come and join us on mumsets best thread™️

Oops sorry just read you had been good with the water, just keep at it. I wouldn’t set too much store on body fat scales, they are notoriously inaccurate but by the sounds of it you’re not stressing it and it appears to correlate with your ups & downs.

How is everyone doing today? I had a good day yesterday but I did attack a block of Cheddar in the evening Making seabass and veg for dinner!

So far so good, Quim. We're having a pork fillet dish for dinner, should be tasty! Not looking too good for steps (I was relying on going for a walk at lunchtime, but then got ordered invited to a meeting that meant I couldn't), but I might just scrape 10000 with a following wind!

Not weighed today, went on a night out to celebrate my move to Nottingham, sore head today, easy to do a fast day though as I only have enough food in for dinner 😂 and I cannot be bothered to go to the shops 😂😵

Hairspray I struggle so much to fast on a hangover!

How are you liking Nottingham and your new housemates?

Mind if I join you? Started the week at 10st 10lb ( was 11st 8 in November). 9 st 1 puts be at the very top of healthy bmi but I'd be delighted to be 9st anything for the first time in...ever.
Well done everyone...this is a nice thread.

I usually just want to eat beige things but I literally have nothing even remotly junky in, and I really don't want to leave the house

Only really met one girl she seems normal enough! The kitchen is a bit grotty, and both showers are broken 😒
I bloody hate house shares! The communal areas are always just so negelected!

Hi all. Hope everyone is good. I took Sunday and yesterday off from the gym but I kept my calories to 1100 both days and used my skipping rope instead. Work crazy busy yesterday and today and I'm on full days all week instead of half days so I'll get myself to the gym this evening when I'm finished.

Omg....all the Easter eggs in the shops right now are testing me. I'm defo going to buy myself whichever one I fancy this year

Wow so much happening on this fast moving thread. Will try to catch up.

I’ve stuck to 1100-1300 for days. Weight is Just.Not.Budging. Infuriating. I’m sticking with it though - I have to lose some soon!! Been stuck at 8 st 13 for over a week!

Hi I would like to join - I posted at the end of the Feb thread!!!
I'm 5ft 3inches - 53 years old - weight 12stone 7llbs - I'm on 1200 calories and using MFP. I am calorie counting.
I would welcome any nutrition tips and advice on my food intake.
Breakfast 3 Weetabix and semi skimmed milk.
Lunch - 2slices of cheese, one whole meal flat and a large salad.
Dinner 2 chicken thighs with 2 tomatoes 1 red onion 1 yellow pepper and half corgette - drizzled with oil and cooked in oven.
2 satsuma and one bag baked crisps.
Water and tea. I need to up my water intake.
I walked just under 8000 steps and included the 291 calories in the above.
Thanks

Morning all! This thread is moving way too fast for me

Welcome (back) Mary and MyWife!

I'm at the same weight as I was on Friday, which I'm pleased with after the weekend, plus AF is in town so I'm quite bloated.
I'm having a fast day today so with a bit of luck and plenty of water I'm hoping to see some movement on the scales this week!

Welcome mywife, mary
That’s a very nice loss mywife, great to move out of one stone bracket into other, so close to the stone down.
Have you just started mary or are you a few weeks in? There’s a lot of thinking you shouldn’t eat back your exercise calories but then my main belief (not shared by all and no offence to anyone!) is that 1200 calories is too low so if you can keep your activity levels around the 6-12,000 step range a minimum of 1500 would easily see you lose weight. I’m around 11.3 and I lose on 1700 - I do 10-15,000 steps a day. If you’re too strict on yourself you can have a tendency to crack/binge. Best to lose on an amount of calories you can live with for a time depending on how much you want to lose.
spurios you have achieved the dream, swatw

Morning all 9.6 or possibly 9.5 scales are indecisive and I still don't trust the floor!

Hair do you have digital ones or old school ones? I find digital ones less temperamental!

Morning. Well done to those who are losing.

It's kick up the arse time here. A couple of bad days has rolled into a bad week and now I'm into old eating habits territory.

I have hurt my Achilles by running too far on Sunday so no exercise for me this week. I need to get my motivation back before I undo all my good work.

That’s such a pity TheDonald, I hope you’re not in too much pain? Look at the last few days as a mini break, it’s over now back to basics. Please rest the injury and take it slow. I’m so happy to feel better and I’m determined not to overdo it again. Down .4 on yesterday’s weight so only 1.8 over my lovely low of last Friday. My average has dropped down more importantly so in good form😬

TheDonald - take super care of your achilles. I didn't take mine seriously at first, and 18 months later, I am still not back running. Properly rest it, stop any sort of exercise (even walking) if it gives you any discomfort, and see a physio if it still isn't right in a couple of weeks.

As for motivation - what I found helped was not going absolutely hell for leather at it, but making sure that I planned food I knew was filling and super-tasty (but still lower calorie) so I didn't feel deprived at all. That has been my approach for a couple of months now, and it is really working for me, because it doesn't feel hard.

Back down to 12st 9.2 this morning - literally the last 5 days I have yo-yoed 1.3lb up and 1.3lb down. I'm really hoping I've go rid of it now though! I was reflecting today that only as couple of weeks ago, 12st 10.something would have felt awesome, and now it is a bad day. It is amazing how quickly a new low becomes your norm, but it is easy to not notice that. I'm feeling quite upbeat about progress today.

Thanks Not2be - I've only started one week ago - my excercise is no where near where it should be - 1200 is 500 calories from my TDEE - so I will hopefully lose a pound each week. Once I'm excercising more I will increase my colorise intake - it's helping me to focus using MFP - does my daily intake seem OK or is there anything I need to add in?
I've obviously over eaten and it is my portions of past and rice. I will eat some now I know what a portion is!!!
When I used to eat my dinner I was actually full half way through the plate - but I carried on eating - I don't need all that food.

Your food looks fine mary, were you happy eating that? Make sure you’re measuring your food and tracking everything, underestimating/overestimating are equally damaging. No food make you slim or fat, too much of any food will add weight. Yes some food is more nutrient dense so will keep you fuller and in better health. 80/20, get 80% of your cals from good unprocessed food and 20% of what you fancy. Keep your walking and your water up, there are no magic steps, cheap pedometer, get your steps in wherever you can. 10 minutes marching on the spot can yield me 600-1000 steps depending how fast I go. Jog on, quite literally😉 Finally it didn’t go on overnight and it won’t come off overnight. If you see 5lb off the first week and 2lb on the next, it doesn’t mean anything apart from you lost 3lb over two weeks. It doesn’t mean starve yourself after week 2 weigh in. That’s my 2cents and then some, wishing you loads of success

Hello hello! Welcome Mary and wife, lovely to have you both!

Mary your food looks absolutely fine - if you find it satisfying then you're on to a winner. If you feel deprived though, I'd add in a bit more protein. It's a while since I banged the drum for ALL THE EGGS but they do make a fantastically filling breakfast, and a great addition to a salad, for very few calories.

I think it's fine to kickstart things on lower calories, but be really aware of finding yourself getting fatigued and resentful - at that stage it's far better to introduce a couple of hundred more calories into your diet (coffee and a bit of dark chocolate after dinner, a mid-afternoon snack, whatever your "danger zone" is) than it is to slog away at it until you hate everything, then lose the will and faceplant into a wheel of brie, and then become despondent about starting again because your overwhelming memory of dieting was misery.

Having said that, you should be able to do pretty well on 1500 calories without feeling too deprived - BOOP does very nicely on 1200, she'll be able to point you in the direction of some lovely recipes if you like (all from Hairy Bikers if I know her at all!).

Like Not I'd try and up your steps a bit too. Since New Year I've been boosting mine by hula hooping in the evening The FitBit counts it as steps, which obviously it isn't, but I figure it's probably similar in terms of cardio to walking on the spot (and actually I get fewer steps p/minute hooping than I do actually walking, so I figure it evens out if it's a bit less taxing) but also theoretically waist toning too. I just stick on an episode of Grey's Anatomy and hoop for the whole thing - sometimes I do two episodes if I have time, so 80 minutes. I'm not saying it's a miracle worker, but it's the only regular (gentle) at-home evening exercise I've managed to stick to for weeks and weeks on end (although I don't tend to do it on weekends) because I'm doing it whilst doing what I would have been doing anyway (vegging on the sofa watching crap TV...) and I figure it can't hurt.

slightly it is so frustrating, but on calories that low you'll definitely see some movement soon.

judy you are seriously a machine! You must have lost a bundle by now!

Spurious bloody excellent work on the SWATW (I'm pinching that Not ) - I've just simply never ever managed that: I've gone mad Golden on weekends before (like three times ever ) and come out lighter, but never managed to just be "sensible". Maybe it's a skill I'll cultivate in my thirties.

Sorry to hear about the injury, that sucks - I know the feeling of not being able to exercise and so drifting endlessly towards the fridge in despair. My sympathies!

SWATW, love it To be fair, on Saturday I worked a 12 hour on-call shift, and I was way too rushed off my feet to have more than a couple of sandwiches and a cappuccino until I got home. So only Sunday was a proper weekend day.

Thanks quim - I’m really short and I think my TDEE is only about 1600 so 1200-1300 isn’t much below that. You’re right though, if I keep plugging away, it’ll come off. I’m not feeling deprived at all (and I’m eating eggs a lot!!) just annoyed that I’m not half a stone lighter NOW!

I’ve done over 9000 steps and it’s only lunchtime, hurray!

That's brilliant sore! Been for a run or something?