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

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In no comparison to hairspray at all but the guy I've been seeing who I really liked has said he wants to just be friends which always means you never hear from them again.
Not going to say anything dramatic like I thought he was the one or shit like that but we did really get on and I'm a bit and there is a tiny bit of me that thinks like if I was a stone/half stone lighter would he have felt differently

and hugs hoola you’ll get through this.

Also and for lastqueen Be queenlike. Cool unavailable icequeen, to quote Bridget Jones. You deserve nothing but the best.

I have eaten the curry I made last night, and had one (only one!!) choc biccie with a cup of tea. I feel better and very proud that I did not in fact eat All The Food

Slightly I joke that I am Scottish Bridget Jones. Did shed half a tear in the car (fml) but we'll move on.

Aww sorry for the tears xx Had you been seeing him long?

Quick one for you hoola, listened to a talk with someone going through bereavement counselling. After a particularly tough session, the counsellor asked what she was going to do, she said feed her face. Counsellor asked why? She said that’s what she always did when upset or stressed, the counsellor suggested she feed her soul not her face. Might be useful, might be useless but to reiterate what I say very often, no one needs to live on very low cals. If you’re one of those who’s trying to live on 1200, for heavens sake cut yourself some slack. You may be hungry cause you’re really not eating enough. If I remember correctly you’re pretty light already,
I’m so very sorry your poor little one has this facing them and of course you going through this. Wishing them a hugely successful outcome and you really are in the best hands.

Thanks thedonald, naughtysausage, slightly and not I'm not in the slightest bit hungry I just want to eat junk. It's a purely emotional response. Feed the sole is a great way to think not and sounds like something my councillor would say. We have been working on getting back control where we can. This is dds third open heart and 6th procedure so far. She's not 1 yet and her condition usually requires a single surgery shortly after birth. So we have been living with thus a while.

But I'll stop now, this is a weight loss thread not a general support group.

Last I'm sorry it hasn't worked out. That's crap, and by the sounds of it you can't even get angry with him.

Hoola sending you and your DS the very best of luck. What a difficult situation. Not speaks the truth (as usual), it's good advice.

Last, that's really crap. I can't tell you how many times that happened to me during my OLD years (of which there were many). The translation of 'let's be friends' is 'let's not be friends at all, let's just get you to say that we are so I don't have to feel guilty about not wanting to go out with you'. It really, really sucks.

I've had a badly off the wagon day today. Everyone has their limits, and it appears that one of mine is being confined to the house with a grumpy toddler who won't eat any of the food I prepared for her - the delicious, nutritious but absolutely not part of my calorie allowance for the day food that became leftovers that weren't leftover for very long .

Oh well. Not going to beat myself up. Tomorrow is another day.

Hi, I have watched this lovely thread for ages and thought I might as well join if that’s okay.
I calorie counted 2 stone 3lb off from April last year.
I have gained about 4-5 back on and want them gone again for my 40 th in a few weeks time.,

I've eaten today but I don't care - it's cooooooold! Back on track tomorrow!

Big hugs to you hula no practical advice but my thoughts are that you're going to have trouble eating nutritiously while in hospital so be kind to yourself right now. Junk is comforting for such a short amount of time and then it just makes you feel worse. But perhaps there is no 'worse' for you right now. So hard, I'm so sorry

@Thisimmortalcurl welcome to the thread. And well done on your fab loss so far.

Did you reach your goal weight before regaining? I'm almost at mine (or I was last week before the snow) but starting to think about how to stay there.

I have definitely been eating all the food this week. I haven't been exercising and I didn't even log what I'd eaten this end of the week.

Dreading the scales this morning. But the sticky toffee pudding and custard was delicious

Welcome immortal, brilliant loss, you’ll have to elaborate on how you managed your loss, around a pound a week yes?
Oh dear, I’m one for talking, wasn’t much feeding of soul around here last night. So I can’t eat crisps/choc over lent right? Well I deserve a prize for finding all the food I can eat that’ll stack up the cals at warp speed: Cheese/crackers/grapes/fizzy jellies/non-fizzy jellies/toast dripping with butter/peanuts/bit of cake....gin & wine
I’m up another pound this morning, clearly no surprise as the pure weight of that lot in my system isn’t negligible. I was so cross at the scales however now I’ve confessed to you lot & Mfp I can see why I see the flux and I’ll do better today. As in I’ll stick to my cals so aim to eat all the cals😉
I blame the snow, I’ve gone isolation crazy...

So I think we've learned this week that snow and dieting are a tricky mix! The silver lining is that spring is just around the corner, so the Linda's will just melt away, right? Right??

I wasn't punished too badly for yesterday's misstep - 0.5 up, and still an average loss for the week. Hoping to confirm that tomorrow when my average gets finalised. And actually, looking back at the week's weights, I'm really pleased so far, solidly in the 12st 10s. First sight of 12st 9 might have to wait for next week, but I can live with that. Just got a tricky evening with my parents to negotiate this evening, but shouldn't be too bad, maybe a couple of glasses of wine, but we don't have a big meal planned. Hoping it will be fine!

Oh dear. Backup to 10 9.8.

I'm going running this morning and getting back on the wagon today.

Not sure what I'll do with the other sticky toffee pudding in the fridge though

My average is still down too feezles, so glad I’ve adopted this method, well done you getting to the 12.10 stage. You’ll be the right side of 12.7 I bet in the next couple of weeks. I’m literally itching to get back to decent levels of activity.
TheDonald I’m so so jealous of you being able to get out for a run. Don’t mind the gain, bit of flux that’s all. If you have the cals for the sticky pudding, enjoy a bit, or can you freeze it for another day? It’s not like you eat it all the time I’m sure

So I ended the month exactly the same weight as I started it (11st9) despite exercising every day in feb. However, I am significantly slimmer and more toned so look and feel better even if the bastard scales won't move!

Keeping trudging on. Going for a big yomp in the snow later followed by a pub lunch but won't eat a lot else today.

Slightly shocked to find I'm at my lowest weight of 2018! March is already proving to be an improvement on the doldrums that was February for me.

Working on a Saturday is very good for the diet! No lunch dates or anything to get carried away with

Hoola sorry I don't know why I thought your dd was a ds. Hope you are ok today. And please do talk to us on here. We are a support group too. Especially when other areas of life are more important than dieting

Speaking of feeding the soul - my run this morning was amazing! I'll try to post some pictures. Very tired and hungry now though!

Run pictures. 7 miles in just under two hours which is ridiculously slow for us but we were wading through drifts a lot of the time

TheDonald, are you near Sheffield? That reservoir looks very familiar!

Feezles not a million miles away but I couldn't get there today. There are several closed roads in my way.

My DD will be going to Sheffield Uni (fingers crossed) in September so I will be up there a little bit

I've lost last week's cheese weight. Yay!

Hoola don't worry about non-diet talk. WE are all here to support each other. Sending you every best wish for your DD's op. What a massive amount she's gone through already bless her

Lasty I'm sorry to hear you've been friend zoned. OLD truly does suck sometimes.

Thinking of you too hairspray Hope you have some nice things planned this weekend as well as all the stuff you need to sort

I have such a soft spot for Sheffield. Went to uni there myself and it's a brilliant city to be a student in. Your dd is in for a treat boop.

I've had a bit of a nsv today. My waist is easily an inch smaller than the last time I tried to measure it and I'm not even having a particularly skinny feeling day. Bit chuffed at that.

I've got a target to be down 3lbs in 2 weeks. So am going to be well behaved every day until then. Which means lots of walking, an evening workout in my living room and 1400 calories each day. Im going to pop it on here to be accountable.

Morning all. Looked out to see a slight thaw, oh please let this be the start to a return to normality. I’m down a pound from last weeks average, at one stage during the week it looked like it might be 1.5 but my binge on Friday hasn’t fully left me.
How’s everyone else getting on?