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Welcome to the brand new shiny daffodil-strewn April thread for annihilation of the Lindas.

Here's a link to the old thread

And happy Easter today

Ellie I can confirm you're not the fattest because I'm checking in at 15.11 sigh.
Still, 2 years ago I was 16.12 so thats some progress, right?

Does sighing burn calories?

Storm that's over a stone! Don't be too hard on yourself

Hello all. Busy morning with all the confessions. I've only had one HCB but damn you you've reminded me there are some more left.

I don't think it matters how much we weigh or have to lose. We are all in the same boat of wanting to make changes and sometimes struggling to stick to it.

I didn't weigh this morning as was in a bit of a rush and struggled to wake up. I slept so well I didn't want to emerge from my dream. I dreamt I was on a modelling assignment with David Beckham

I've popped back because I was today reminded of the German word 'kummerspeck'. We don't have a matching word in English, but it means the extra weight you gain from comfort eating. It's literal translation is 'grief bacon'. For some reason, it always makes me smile so I thought you might all appreciate it as much as me - and as someone very much prone to comfort eating, I say: Grief bacon be gone!

Back to reality and cold with a resounding bang. Very bloated from all the good holiday fare and currently sporting a lovely 7’ish pound gain. What can I say I’m a high achiever😉 All joking aside I have to accept I’m a lost cause on holidays. I think I’m being relatively well behaved and then when I tot it up it’s madness (between 2,500-4,000 seriously crazy!) I did a lot of walking and some jogging but it couldn’t compete with my greed
Anyway. Line drawn under it ___

toosmall omg at destroying all the evidence of pringlegate - but you can pull this back

kick it's a bloody good thing those buns are disappearing out the shops now...

hoola and sending you getting through the day vibes

fizz you will pull it back and you can certainly do a lot in 8 days

ellie your weight is a mere single point on a longer journey - you can get your mojo back

storm a stone is a stone - it's still all in the right direction overall!

boop at that dream!

not hiya! I remember your posts from my time on the mfp thread - I'm pretty sure you'll be able to pull it back now the holiday's over and sure a good proportion of that will be bloat and not even a real gain.

No change on my weigh in this morning and just clocked an extra 400 cals of office snacks before leaving the office. My challenge will be to figure out what I can have for dinner given I've already used up my calorie allowance for today...

Grief bacon be gone indeed!
This week is proving a struggle for me - I have DH and DS both off for the week and they are a bad influence on me. Plus, we're going out to places and I can't be totally in control of what I'm eating. I'm tying to just make sensible choices and not go too mad. Realistically, I'm probably just going to have to be happy with not putting anything on this week...

Hiya sesame! I thought the name seemed familiar, nice to “see” you. My suggestions on dinner depends on how hungry you are, if your office snacking filled you up something light? Scrambled egg maybe? If you really hungry maybe eat most of what you originally planned, tomorrow’s a new day.
Speaking of eggs, I may have eaten rather a lot of the Easter variety as they were waiting for us after hols, shocking carry on

hounds when I've been eating out lately I've mostly been trying to avoid bread and trying not to eat my own pudding.

not shocking indeed..... I've gone for a rather impoverished dinner of egg, broccoli and cottage cheese. And really hoping that's going to be me finished for today.

Morning all. Weight nudged down a couple of pounds, my average weight is up by 4lb, which had been up by 1.5lb before I went away so I have some reining in to do.
Reading back through the thread and I’m with you on the Pringles shame TooSmall, I was off crisps for lent but made up for it over Easter, managed to get through 2 tubes of Pringles with only a small bit of help from the rest of the family. I’d dole them out on a 1 for you, 3 for me basis. It’s official I cannot have crisps, I have no self control and am like a wild woman around them. Or chocolate, can’t have too much of that around either.
kick I’m a big convert to the averages, I’d swear by it. I just have to learn not to celebrate one day lows or feel devastated by one day highs. Takes a bit of time though

I should add that I also made my way through 2 x 200gr bags of crisps and the majority of a 500gr pack of potato chips (like mini chips?) Aiming for full shameful disclosure
I see a couple of new folks have been a bit sad at having a certain amount to lose. First of all well done for taking this step and secondly there’s a fair few here who’ve lost 5-6 stone so you’re in good & supportive company. Time will pass regardless, this way as it passes there’ll be less of you day by day. I know I’ve mentioned it before but I do the Team RH plan on fb and I would highly recommend it from a positivity and results POV. I know I don’t seem like much of a success story but I know that’s my mistakes not the plan. There have been some truly astounding weight loss successes there. It’s all about keeping to a calorie deficit you can live with, an 80/20 nutrient dense/bit of what you fancy and a decent number of steps daily (10-15k, work up to it)
Anyway I’m not selling it, I just want to spread the word a bit as I think it’s brilliant, and it’s been the answer to lots of people’s weight loss trouble.

Hi everyone. Weighed at the gym this morning and I'm 2 Linda's down...yay.

On nil by mouth from 10 tonight as I've a hospital procedure tomorrow that I'm a bit nervous about but glad that it's not an over night one.

It's brass monkeys here today!

Hello all! And welcome to the new faces!

Weighed in this morning 2lbs down, so now it's only a 4lb gain. Hopefully I can get that off fairly quickly!

Crisps are my big downfall too. I could easily sit and eat a whole family pack. I would just not have them in the house, but my DP likes to have them in. I put them in a basket in the cupboard up high so I can't see them or get to them easily, which actually does help me not eat them. I'm a simple soul

Well done TheReal! And good luck for tomorrow

Hi, can I join? I've been following this thread since about July last year until last month when I feel off the thread after about 200 posts. I also fell off the diet wagon completely

I started at the beginning of May last year when I weighed in at 15st 6lb. By Dec 18th I'd got down to 11st 10lb. I weighed again on Jan 2nd (I use Boots scales) and was 11st 13lb. Since then I've been struggling. I went up to 12st 2lb back down to 11st 10lb then back to 12st 2lb when I weighed at the end of Feb. In March I fell off the wagon completely and when I weighed in yesterday I was 12st 8.8lb

The one good thing was it was the wake up call I needed. I'm climbing back on the wagon. I've started inputting into mfp again although I'm concentrating more on not snacking inbetween meals to start with at least for the next few days. Then once I've got used to not snacking again I'll start being stricter with what I'm eating for my meals. On the bright side the weather is improving. It's warm here and the sun is shining which makes me want to eat healthier foods. I'm determined not to put all the weight back on again which is one of the reasons I'm here, to gain support in losing the weight. I'm aiming to get to 10st 6lb.

Fell off the thread. Not entirely sure how you can feel off the thread

GRIEF BACON That HAS to make it into next month's thread title! The Germans are so creative with their one-word solutions to complex phenomena, aren't they? Not that faceplanting in despair into a pile of bacon is especially complex, but "kummerspeck" is much pithier...!

Welcome back Panda You've done tremendously well to get down from the 15s to the 11s, and even more well to climb back on the wagon before the regain got to more than half a stone or so. You always hear about people losing loads and then losing focus and ending up right back to square one. I have a friend who did that, lost about 3 stone on the Cambridge diet, and is now at least as big as she was when she started, but has totally lost confidence and can't bear to start again. It's crushing.

So anyway, gold star for you, forget the recent blip and let us hold your hand as you get back down into the 11s and beyond!

Thanks Quim Love the name btw.

I've never posted on these threads but did lurk and found them to be very helpful/motivating so thought it was about time I started posting. I've been on two other threads but both petered out as people stopped posting for various reasons. Waves to Ellie from other threads. I'm not stalking you I promise

To add to what not said, I'm one of those who's shed 5-6 stone, albeit over almost as many years. That's taken me from a generous size 20 to the generous size 10 to 12 I am now.

judy well done on the loss and good luck for the op.

spurioser I got my bf to put the easter eggs I bought for my colleagues in a high cupboard for me so that I wouldn't be tempted.

Welcome missing you are still over halfway to goal which is still a great achievement.

Morning morning! (well afternoon but I'm feeling morning-ish). It's a beautiful day here, sunny and warm and I'm just back from the gym. Class was tough today. I had breakfast at the gym too which was a nice treat

Crisps are also my nemesis. Cannot resist them. Try not to have them in the house if I can help it. Pringles would be hoovered up here and no fire to hide the evidence.

1.5 lindas down since Easter. Same again to go to get back to where I was. Boring isn't it?

Hello Panda you've come so far and, as Quimmy says, well done for climbing back on it before more damage is sone. Much easier to think that you've ony just over a stone to go than having to start from scratch.

@Therealjudgejudy good luck for tomorrow

It's a lovely day here too. Had a lovely long brisk walk in the park, got a load of washing out on the line, had virtuous homemade soup made by the OH for lunch and going to make veggie chilli for tea. After a day minding my nieces and nibbling on their treats I'm feeling like a good girl again today

I took advantage of the nice-ish for England anyway weather and walked to the shop (quite far)

Shame I came back with tuc biscuits and magic stars

I am really not doing well am I! Fish and chips for tea tonight too, but it's a new day tomorrow so I'm not going to beat myself up. I shall have a green tea tonight and hope all is forgiven and the scales show me some mercy tomorrow morning

Hope all goes well for you tomorrow judy, I think you mentioned before you’re in Ireland too or am I mixing you up with someone else? Blooming freezing here this morning! Managed a jog as the sunshine was irresistible but nearly went on my arse on a few ice patches.
Managed to stick pretty close to my 1700 cals and did 18,000 steps - delighted with that. Hoping to be another smidge down in the morning.
Tuc crackers & magic stars, what a combo maj😉 You got a decent walk in so that’s not all bad. In bed as no calories left and if I’m too close to the kitchen there could be carnage. Bloody Friday again, gateway day to pigsville around mine, due stoopid totm and surrounded by chocolate eggs. Time to bag ‘em and get himself to hide them. Not that he’s any match for me in menstrual madness but it might help...mightn’t it?

Not perfect by any means but a decent-ish day done. Lots of steps, hard labour in my so called garden and little snacking.

Hope everyone is keeping on the wagon now Easter is over. I haven’t got any eggs left but perhaps that’s a good thing.

Let’s make it a good result for all of us at the end of April, I’d like 5lbs off at least.

You lot are so lovely, this is truly the best thread on MN! I am a bit better today. Thanks for your messages.

Can I join? I need to lose at least two stone, I'm size 16 and very unhappy. None of my clothes for properly. I tend to eat a lot of junk and am determined to stop because its making me feel ill. So I'm going to try and cut out chocolate and crisps and bread and generally eat more veg and fruit. I'm in my fifties so I'm aware it may take a bit longer. Im not good at exercise and can't run for medical reasons but am trying to walk more and hope to start going swimming once a week after the Easter holidays.