Feeling hot hot hot! But are we looking it? Can the Slenderistas catch the wagon up and lose 7lbs in August. Come one, come all!

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The summer is scorching. And so are the Slenderistas. We encourage, nag, support and cheer each other in to lose 7lbs in a month on the Best Thread in MN™️

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Rubbish weekend here for me. Struggling to get back into right mindset. Haven’t been walking or doing anything exercise wise. And have been eating whatever. So. Not stressing but starting again tomorrow.

So I will be joining you Therealjudgejudy. No excuses. Walking, water and calories.

Happy - well done! I'd be really pleased with that, it's a steady and sustainable rate of weight loss.

I was down again this morning - 12st 7.7! Don't feel that's really deserved, but it leaves me only 1.5lb above pre-holiday. As before, I know it's all bloat, but I'm still very pleased.

Paul seems to have deserted me today, I've been very nibbly - I need to refocus before dinner time! I'm still feeling very positive about it. Bring on next week!

Thanks Quantum and well done to you too! Bit depressed today having to go back to work after a lovely sunny Mediterranean holiday hey ho! Hoping to get into the swing of things with exercise again this week😬😬

Good luck all this week!

Spuriouser! Welcome back weary traveller! We'll sort you right out, don't you worry

Happy 12lbs is a super achievement! See, this is what I'm always saying when people get demoralised about slow losses, time passes so quickly and although it'd be lovely to kick off a stone in a fortnight, even if you plug away at it very slowly, you'll wake up much lighter a year later rather than the same weight or bigger and still waiting for the motivation to do a juice fast and lose it all in one go. You can be the poster girl for nice steady weight loss

That's brilliant Quant, well done! You must be thrilled, the last Linda is surely headed the same way!

Well, my weigh-in yesterday morning was DEFINITELY unfair. I was only 300g lighter than last Friday (which was also an unfair weigh-in), after SIX golden days on the trot Three of them were very golden indeed, and I only had slow cooker chicken soup for dinner on two nights, so there genuinely wasn't much opportunity for cheating. A couple of rubbish days step-wise but still clocked over 100K over the six days. I don't understand it. I would say it's the scales but the mirror wasn't telling an especially different story. I can't believe how long I've been trying to lose this last single Linda to get back to goal, it's driving me mad!

In theory I've only had one "bad" day and plan to have three golden days, which should equal a loss on Thursday morning, given that I theoretically lose after three bad days and four Golden ones. But absolutely nothing is working out as it usually does right now so I feel all lost and demoralised. I'm tempted to just chuck the towel in and enter holiday mode now. I had friends over yesterday and there was a lot of wine so I'm hungover, and I'm supposed to be giving blood later so I'm contemplating toast.

Arrrrrgh it's so frustrating! Maybe it really is the scales? It just doesn't seem worth dropping fifty quid on a new set just to find out, it's not as if it'll make my body different if the scale says a slightly different number...

Quim considering the scales won’t budge despite being golden maybe you are at goal? What are your (goal) stats again?

Now I’m older (and have had kids) my goal has definitely shifted up a bit. Not a huge amount but I would say pre kids my goal was 9stone exact. Now I’m very happy at 9.4 or 9.5.

Maybe this is your body telling you you have reached goal:-)

Thanks @Happy!

Well I was in the gym sweating my ass off at 7am this morning. I sliced yellow and red peppers last night to snack on at work so I don't eat crisps. Food wise, I wrote a meal plan for the week last night complete with calorie count and will stick to this if it kills me.

Good luck @cider... we've got This

Ha! Thanks, Quim, but today ain’t the day to shift that Linda – I was back up to 12st 9 today. This is well deserved – it’s the product of prosecco on Saturday and Paul’s very hurtful desertion of me yesterday.

I’m sorry the scales aren’t moving for you – it does feel unfair! I think your holiday might help your body reset and ‘shock’ it back into responding.

I treated myself to a nice breakfast and lunch today, as I am determined not to punish myself. A good part of it is about rebuilding a more positive relationship with food. I was pleased that I ate the lunch slowly and didn’t finish it despite it being gorgeous – but I am stuffed now, so probably didn’t get that quite right. It was my main meal for the day though, so should hopefully be fine.

I think, based on memories of last time, I’m only meant to weigh myself once a fortnight while Paul is Making Me Thin, but I don’t think I can drop the daily weigh habit and I do like my averages. Instead, I think I’ll designate a regular day to compare weights and look back on to see.

Of course, I would know for definite what I am meant to be doing about weighing myself if I had actually found the book yet, but I haven’t because I haven’t looked for it

Happy I share your post-holiday blues. I countered it by booking the next one less than a week after we got back. We’re off to Pembrokeshire in April, which (I assume from your username) isn’t too far from your neck of the woods!

@wuim I hear you - it’s been a series of disappointing weigh ins for me as well. I lost two and half stones about 3 years ago and since then been gaining and losing the same 3 kilos. I weighed in again today and nada :( I won’t give up ! I will plug away and as you say in a few months I may suddenly be lighter. If nothing all this will atleast ensure the pounds don’t creep back on

Quim* bloody fat fingers

Ah Quim that's so frustrating. But keep going, it will show at some point, sometimes there is no rhyme or reason to when the big loss appears. Carb refeed needed maybe?

I have been OK today on day 2 of BSD restart - nowhere near 800 and a bit picky (but at things like sliced ham so not too bad I hope). But it's still a low amount of calories.

Cor blimey judy you don't do things by half do you! Well done!

pony I carb refeed every weekend Normally it's weekdays on and weekends off, but since that hasn't been having its usual effect I went on a six-day blitz (as opposed to the usual four) in hopes of kicking the last bit, but... no cigar. I don't feel too podgy so I guess that's something, it's just nagging at me that the scale isn't cooperating.

Happy goal is 52kg. I finally got to it this time last summer and maintained for a few months, went over after Christmas and stayed up a bit due to a busy Jan and Feb, then got it down when things calmed down in March, and stayed pretty stable again until we had a mad June. But this time it just won't budge! I tried to blitz it at the beginning of July, which I'm normally very effective at doing providing I can carve out 10 days without social commitments, but I only got down to 52.6. I thought I'd whittle the rest away over the rest of the month but whatever I do I'm just treading water. It's just frustrating because when I was 2kg over in Feb, I really went for it in March and with my 2:2:3 strategy I kicked almost exactly 500g a week and got down to goal in a month. This time even with six good days on the trot I'm just not losing.

52.6 isn't a terrible weight by any stretch (I never actually come in at 52 to be honest, in general I call anything under 53 a "fine" weigh-in, it inevitably tends to bounce around by a few hundred grams), it's just really getting on my nerves now. I've had three disproportionate-to-my-efforts weigh-ins on the trot and it's starting to wear me down.

bloop we just need to grit our teeth and push through it, we've both done it before and we'll do it again! I'm glad it isn't just me.

I'm still stuck too 11st 13 this morning

I think I have got to a place where I watch calories and seem to be able to have occasional blow outs at weekends but I'm not doing enough to shed the last 4-6 Lindas that would make me complete...

May try to come up with something new for a big 3 month push before you know what is upon us

Hello! Still at 12st 9 this morning, but I am feeling zen and focused!

So, imagine me sitting cross-legged and chanting:
I will not eat if I am not hungry!
I will not eat anymore once I am full!
Ommmmm!

Well yesterday I was 16 cals over my goal which I didn't loose sleep over!

Gym session done this morning and I've a Tupperware box of sliced red pepper today to snack on.

Well felt crap yesterday as seemed to have a cold or something. Zero energy. A two hour nap in the morning, able it 45 mins in th afternoon and was in bed at 8! Feeling much better today though.

Thought yesterday was crap but logged it all in MFP and it was fine. Heavy in carbs but under calories.

Back at it properly today. Went for a walk. First one for two weeks. Decided to do my original short loop which is 3.6 km but was doing well so added in a bit and ended up at 4.6. Will go out again later.

Breakfast was Greek yoghurt, a nectarine and breakfast boost seeds.
Lunch will be a tuna salad wrap.
Dinner will be steak and roast veg.

Snack mid afternoon will be an apple and maybe a few almonds.

Need to get drinking. Water that is!

Feeling enthused again. Spoke to my friend in Sydney earlier about my trip over in November. Definite motivation there!

Ugh yet again stuck at 58.7 - I was 54 this time last year and up until January. My happy weight is 53 but I can’t seem to maintain that so would be happy with 54 but but seem to be bouncing between 57 and 58 since May - so frustrating.

I do 16:8 which works best for me
So I skip dinner. Breakfast was savoury oats with lots of veggies , snack was a banana and lunch was idlis soaked in lots of Sam air (yum) - early “dinner” was a smoothie. Oh and two licks of the chocolate cake batter while I was starting on DDs birthday cake. Been consciously guzzling water all day. Am debating moving to 5:2 to maybe shock my body ?

bloop two licks of cake batter? Baking whilst dieting is already beyond me, but not licking the bowl is superhuman restraint!

I think from the sounds of your diet that 5:2 would be quite suitable for you - sounds like you're already in the habit of going without in the evening, which is a big part of the battle, so you'd just need to shave your calories a bit a couple of days of the week. You could play around with how low you can go comfortably, you might find you need more than 500 for it to be sustainable.

Well, had a great day yesterday and a very busy evening packing for holiday, it completely distracted me from the fact that I wasn't eating and I was quite shocked when I saw it was quarter to eleven! Made for an excellent day diet-wise and hoping for one more today before the holiday saturnalia starts tomorrow...!

TV meant to say we've all been there! It's actually very encouraging if you think about it - it means your lifestyle is quite compatible with maintaining without any extreme effort. Just means you'll have to have a final push for the last sticky few pounds, but it sounds like once you get them off you should be able to keep them off without too much trouble.

Cider your food plan sounds lovely! I need to eat stuff that's left in the fridge today before I go away, but I'm not going to eat it just because it's there. A bit of cheese thrown away isn't the end of the world. with Quantum

Thanks and enjoy your holiday quim. I am very envious of anyone who goes to canada. I haven't been back since returning to uk in 2012 and i still miss it alot. You are probably right about maintaining weight but it doesnt feel like i have a safety net right now. I would be happy if 12st was my max so losing another4-6 would give me that cover.

Another 12st weigh in this morning . i think my big eating will be done in the morning today with bacon rolls provided at a meeting. Will have to look at a very low calorie evening

That’s the spirit, Quim! Let the cheese go, because the deeper truth is – there is always more cheese out there when you need it

Cider glad you’re feeling better. Hope your menu yesterday was as tasty as it sounds

TV I think Quim is right, if you’re close to goal, you’ll need a real push to get there, but sounds like maintaining will be a snap – which is great!

12st 9 again this morning. Normally being stuck for 3 days would see me very frustrated, but I am oddly OK. I think it is because I am not expecting quick results (now that the holiday bloat has gone), and I know that while I have made a good start to reprogramming myself, I have not ‘cracked it’ yet. I need to stay focused, and treat every meal as an opportunity to practice.

Paul and I had a pretty good day yesterday. Wasn’t really hungry for breakfast, got peckish mid morning so had a small bunch of grapes which really hit the spot, then ate my main-meal lunch slowly and consciously. This was quite the feat, given it was my absolute favourite lunch (possibly meal), a Lebanese falafel/hummus/salad box with pita. But! I didn’t quite finish the salad and I left half the pita. Now, me leaving bread uneaten is a pretty big achievement, so I was very pleased. That said – I think I probably should have stopped a bit earlier. And I didn’t do very well eating my sandwich consciously for dinner either. Oh well – today is a new day.

Gym done this morning. My work snack today is a box of blackberries I picked from my garden this morning .

Yesterday I was 32 cals under my goal so I feel positive for today.

Weighed in this morning and came in at 58.4. That’s a miserly 300 gms but as that’s the first downward I have seen in two weeks I am going to take as a amazing sign of things to come and keep pushing ahead.

My second weigh in tomorrow morning (Judgement day).

@lovesugarfreejelly63 good luck !

So I started on 5:2 today and today was my first fast day. It was actually not too bad. I had a heavy breakfast and then kept filling myself with water and finished up with a fruit at 4 and then more water. Am going to bed early to avoid the late night snack pangs.

Good gym session this morning plus a 5k run. 1 cal under goal so that's good.

Don't work Fridays so tomorrow will be a test to not snack. Fingers crossed