Phew what a scorcher! And that’s just the Slenderistas! Come and join us to lose 7lbs in July and become Hot Stuff

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Here is the July version of the best thread on MN

Here we support, chivvy and help to find that wagon and lose 7lbs in a month. Everyone’s welcome, new and old.

Link to the June thread

Yes you can choose your own food and claim for it (only small budget but at least you have choice)!

Here are the things you can claim for:

www.gov.uk/jury-service/what-you-can-claim

I have been told jurors go to a restaurant nearby for lunch in my city but so far nothing confirmed. I would be delighted if i could do my own thing and get some fresh air at lunchtime no matter how meagre the allowance.
I am at sheriff court so only a 2 day trial apparently and therefore not a disaster if picked. Currently i have been here2 hours already and am no nearer knowing if required or not. Sooo boring and inefficient

Well done on dipping below that 12 mark TV.

Cider doesn't that mean you have actually lost over 7lbs this month, if you factor in losing your gain? I think it sounds like the wine was much needed, hope you are doing ok. Enjoy visiting your Dad's.

I am just bimbling along at the moment and trying to maintain - I have put in to restart the focus next Sunday so we'll see if that happens! Today I have been very kindly invited to an afternoon tea - I am a bit frightened! It will be sandwiches and cakes a-go-go. I eat mostly low-carb - I will blow up like a big balloon faced with all those carbs and sugar! I am telling myself it's just a one off and I don't plan to eat anything else today.

It does indeed Ponygirl! Will need to be pretty disciplined to achieve the same next month though. Dublin thus week and then next week we go to Budapest for ten days. We used to live there and I’ve had my holiday so I’m going to try to stay in non holiday mind set!

E njoy your afternoon tea. As a one off if should be ok. Drink loads of water afterwards.

TV - so good to get down to the next stone level!

Just checking in with my final weigh in of the month... 9.6 (60.2kg), which means I’m 4.4lb down from the beginning of the month! Really pleased with that after an 8 month😳 plateau.

See you on the other side!

Brilliant Happy! That's a good feeling.

What a jetsetter, Cider. What was living in Budapest like?

I am a bit gurgly this morning but OK. Enjoyed the tea as a one off - cakes were mostly little bites - I was worried about meringues the size of my head and giant bits of heavy fudge cake!

Cider and Happy you've done amazingly, well done! A loss in a month with a holiday in it is unheard of for me Cider!

Nina the tooth stuff sounds miserable. I'm a bit phobic about dentistry (medical intervention in general, in fact) so serious sympathy here. I predict the mashed potato diet will be the next big thing

Welcome INeed! There's a thread in Weight Loss Chat called something like "I can't believe it's summer again and I forgot to lose two stone", the title really made me laugh - it's so much harder to hide in the heat!

Hello all. Remember me? I feel a bi of a fraud offering to start August's thread sunce I've hardly been here in July...

I have been bumbling along, not losing or gaining. Still running a fair bit and eating reasonably healthily. It's all the socialising in the pub that keeps stymying me

Just weighed myself on my way home from work and I'm 11st 10.9lbs. I haven't been perfect this week so pleased with that.

Cider and Happy well done on your losses.

Tv congrats on getting under 12st.

BOOP we all need a break now and then, mine lasted 6 months, consider last months yours.

Ponygirl - loved living in Budapest. We were there for six years. Have some fab friends from that time. Love the city itself. Loved the climate. Cold snowy winters but generally fab summers. The social life did not help my weight though!

Glad your afternoon tea was good. I had a very carb heavy day yesterday. I’m not low carbing but trying to limit them. Got to last night at my dads and tried to complete my diary entry on MFP but was way under so had more than enough calories for a crisp sandwich!

Quim - nor for me usually! I can’t believe how focussed I am at the moment. It ebbs and flows and I am probably having too much wine but generally I’m in focussed mode. DH says he has never seen me so motivated!

Sorry - typed the above but got interrupted before I got to post then just posted.

BOOP - we all do it. It’s the time of year. (I say that any time of year! )

Extra steps in going to the doctor this afternoon. Started a UTI this morning and it got quite bad quite quickly. Now have antibiotics. Again.

Oh no Cider, that's rubbish. Hope you can nip it in the bud.

What shall our new title be? How about 'Come one, come all, come in, come on - roll up and step out to lose 7lb in August' (watched The Greatest Showman again yesterday, got, Come Alive stuck in my head). 😊

Here you go! Link to the August thread