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!

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I've had a moment of swearing at my scales too Quim!!

Wowsers lady that's an amazing time 😵

TV. I remember you floating round 12st 7 for ages - the same time I was battling through the never ending 11st barrier. I'm now fighting with 10st 10. We will get there. 🤜🏻

Where's Hairspray, Nikki, Pony and Chard. She should pop on over too BOOP.

Have good weekend all X

I've been wondering where a few regular faces are

Evening all! I see I've missed a lot, most notably raving it off. I wish I could do that but frankly, it's not so much that my raving it off days are behind me, more that they were never in front of me. I've always been more of an old man's pub girl than a nightclub girl, and I can't remember the last time I even saw midnight!

I've had a bit of a day today. Nothing major, just dealing with an overtired and very emotional 2 year old, on my own, all day. DH is home now and has taken over, ostensibly so I can get on with tidying and cooking before our dinner guest arrives. But clearly, I am dicking about on Mumsnet instead

12st 7 today - which I'm thrilled about. I'll be way up tomorrow though, because I'm about to start on All The Wine.

Ive totally failed to control my eating this week. It's been all chocolate biscuits, chocolate, cake and heaps of pasta. Came in to try to get some inspiration from you all.....I'll be going away wanting gnocchi and an all inclusive holiday!

Oh how I'd love to be dancing till 4.

I can't even manage a cheeky drink of choice at home tonight. There is no white wine in the house.

Morning all. Coming in around 11.4’ish, no real surprise as I’ve been lax the last few days. Firmly in maintenance denial mode, you know where you keep attempting to be good but you’re only just keeping the wolf from the door! I think this might be where I normally slip back, whenever I get close to 11, self sabotage kicks in. Bloody typical it’s happened right before a holiday. I’m just going to do my best from now until Wednesday, exercise is fine no work needed there but the grazing has to stop. Bit low today, long day ahead of ferrying children around as himself is working - then a friend over for dinner so cooking to be done for tonight & a bit of batch cooking too. I need to pull my positive pants up, feeling like this won’t get it done.
What’s everyone else up to? Anything fun?

Forgive me, Slenderistas, for I have sinned! I really don't know how many calories I ate yesterday. I've pieced it together in MFP as best as I can and it doesn't make pretty reading. All I know is that there was a lot of wine, and also tortilla chips, damn them!

1.2lb up on yesterday, quite surprised as I know I deserve worse. Hopefully it won't stick around, as I'm firmly back on the wagon today.

That little flux won’t affect your average feezles and if tortilla chips and wine were involved, it’s fluid retention. Loads of water today will sort you out. Hope you enjoyed the splurge

Fastest time in 6 months at parkrun this morning! Weird health kick way of thinking is working. Very happy

Morning all.

Well done lasty. That's a great feeling isn't it? I haven't done park run for ages because it's a bit tight to get to Pilates afterwards but no Pilates next week and I'd be curious to know if I'd be quicker now I'm a stone lighter.

I'm 10 9 this morning . Only 1lb loss but I'm happy to see scales moving downwards. I've eaten out twice this week too but it's all been logged and I'm well under calories.

I definitely feel like I've found the wagon again after several bad weeks.

hoola hope dd is doing well. I hope the chocolate made up for the lack of wine?

What's everyone up to this weekend?

kick I'm a total parkrun obsessive, have been for years the lengths I go to to make sure I don't miss one are insane

Was naughty yesterday and ordered take away. However I also did a lot of walking so I basically just ate my exercise calories. Which obviously isn't good, but also isn't extremely bad.

Today I trialed the slim pasta. They taste of absolutely nothing, BUT we're literally a tenth of the calories with double the portion! So I felt like I was really cheating and having a huge bowl of cheesy naughty ness when in reality it came in at 267. Would have been 429 with 50g of normal pasta I think I will be switching to the slim pasta for good.

Park run sounds terrifying! I prefer Yoga where I can sob quietly in child's pose while my muscles scream at me for not stretching every day

Majesty in another life I used to run for Scotland so parkrun isn't too scary, just trying to force myself back to be a mid level club runner, and it's hard when you're chubby

Chocolate always helps thanks kick.

I've been to a toddler birthday party today which involved fire and marshmallows. It was really good. Also, been so busy I've had 0 snacks. Hoping when I add it up it will be an accidental low cal day...especially as I bought a rolled rib of beef to do a huge roast tomorrow.

I really need to find some time to get back into running. I once did a triathlon for charity, in a half decent time. Now I'd struggle to run up the stairs.

Tall person here. I was 17st 10lb for the new year. Started dieting properly at the start of March and I'm down to 16st 7lb. This is the point I couldn't pass when I last dieted 10 years ago. Seems to be easier this time.

Wow lasty that's impressive! You're probably the sort of parkrunner who laps me and is all friendly and cheerful while I swear under my breath!

Hey guys! I've sort of fallen off this thread & also stopped weighing myself for a while! The batteries on my scale broke and life got very busy for a while...

I'm back now though as I don't want to undo all my good work (lost about a stone since the end of last summer) and I'm feeling very sluggish!

Will weigh in tomorrow to survey the damage.

Well done to everyone for continuing to lose & continuing to plod on! Happy weekend all.

4lb off so far this month and finally saw a 12 on the scales this morning (followed by 13.5 but I don't care about that!)

Down to 127.8 this morning that's only 1kb up on my lowest pre hospital visit so happy with that, should be back on track by the end of the week if I can stay in the zone. Off out in the garden now to do some weeding, that should help with the steps.

Well done hoola and captain Holt.

I've been gardening all day. I've clocked up 6k steps so far. Lots of signs of spring. I'm so happy the light nights are here.

Have gone slightly over calorie limit the last two days but only a 0.2 gain. Can be fixed if I focus, maybe I could even loose a bit more. The crazy weight loss has slowed down thankfully, and now I can focus of keeping the pounds off.

Well done to all who have had losses.

Actually managed something resembling a good weekend again

I had a reasonably ok weekend. I drank less beer than expected and actually had fewer gins too. Didnt each much at all yesterday so perhaps not the healthiest way to keep things under control but I sense it will have helped

Thank you quim and pebbles, the plateau thing definitely seems to be the story of the last 15 months. I think I have managed to not get too annoyed because the NSVs are possibly just as gratifying for me and buying slimmer fitting clothes and smaller waist sizes makes it worthwhile.

Nevertheless I still want to hit those dam 11s and maybe a healthy BMI

TV I remember you buying a new waistcoat I think it was and wondering if you'd get into it. I bet it fits beautifully now!

I also had an OK weekend. I'm a bit up this morning but I think that hormonal

Loving the sunshine today. Finally feels like spring has sprung.

Morning all. I'm vowing to live a bit healthier again. Weighed in this morning at 9.8, which is about 3lb up from my goal weight which I reached a couple of weeks (months?) ago. I don't mind so much that my weight has crept up a bit but eating rubbish and drinking too much has made me feel like shit. My skin looks not great, I feel
sluggish, my sleep is not great and my confidence has gone down a bit.

Hoping to energise myself this week by drinking a lot less alcohol and eating healthier foods (not so much cheese and crisps). The main thing I'm hoping for is for my mood to lift.

Hope you all have a good week:-)

I'm in a weird place. I ought to be celebrating - my average for last week was down 1.6lb on the week before, which objectively I can see is amazing. But I had a crappy weekend diet wise and was up again this morning to 12 st 8lb. Plus there are a few other rubbish things going on (both me and DH have job uncertainty, DH and I have had a relatively minor disagreement about a couple of childcare/family things, AF has arrived - that sort of thing) and it has all left me feeling a bit blah.

Looking back, I can see that the diet wheels came off because of a couple of social occasions where I indulged. Not madly, but a bit - I didn't go OTT, and I was definitely more restrained than I would have been when not dieting (I turned down prosecco, for god's sake! If you knew me personally, you would know this was a Big Deal). It hasn't had that big of an impact, but I'm looking at my calendar, and I have quite a few days like that, which has left me worrying that too many small impacts can add up to one quite big one. It's left me feeling quite demotivated.

Sorry for the pity-party - I'm hoping this is just hormonal, AF, stress-related Monday morning strange mood stuff and I'll shake it off in a couple of days.