Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus... Part 6!

[honeysucklejasmine]

Hello, welcome to the sixth instalment (wow!) of the ‘Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus …’ thread smile

If you want to read them (but by no means feel obliged!), the previous threads are here:

Part 1 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2812619-anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-in-2017

Part 2 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2920520-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-in-2017-Part-2

Part 3 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3045244-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-in-2017-18-Part-3

Part 4 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3193507-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-Part-4

Part 5 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3271618-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-Part-5

We’re a very friendly, supportive group, and all at different stages, but we’re all seeing some real changes in ourselves and our attitudes to food. It’s a long old road, but it helps to chat along the way

Collectively, we’ve lost an incredible…......... 🌟 1205.75lbs 🌟 since the start of the first thread in Dec 16, which is amazing!

We tend to weigh in on Fridays or Saturdays, but feel free to join in at any time, with whatever weight loss method you think works best for you. Some of us have lost more than others, but we're all in this together, so if you're losing, gaining or staying the same, it's nice to have some inspiration to keep going.

We’re always welcoming to newcomers, but as with the previous thread(s), I’ll add one caveat - we’re all here because we are trying to lose a LOT of weight. If you’re looking to lose the last half stone, or even two or three stone, this might not be the thread for you. Good luck with your goals, but you may find more support with in threads with people who have similar goals to you.

Well done Fezzes, another pound bitten the dust ! Strawberrypig I’m not weighing either. Really sorry about your DD am£ hope sh3 gets seen very soon.

I've gained another 1lb this week think it will be on its way up from here on in.

Total loss: 14lb

strawberry I'm so sorry to hear about your DD, hope you are getting some help and get the neurologist ASAP.

Moonlight you have a person to grow. And one week you’re going to get a massive loss

@FATEDestiny, hope you’re recovering from your injury.

post yes very true, just wait for the 20lb loss in one go in Jan/Feb

Need to stop craving Wispa bars right now.

Fezzes well done!

Moonlight be gentle on yourself, you're growing a person.

Strawberry hope she gets an appointment soon.

Did parkrun again today. Got a personal best (by a few seconds) but honestly I hate it. I have no trouble with the distance but I can't run. Today the tail walkers were constantly breathing down my neck, whispering to each other, and on the last lap I just felt like I was holding everyone up. I'd rather just go for a walk.

Honeysuckle I’m going to be annoying and tell you that you can but haven’t learned how yet. Friend has spent a year telling me she can’t (she’s very thin, not that very relevant). She decided maybe she could try and we did the going really really slowly thing and suddenly she went from saying she can’t to maybe she could one day do the race for life and yesterday she ran her first km.

That’s a bit crap about the tail walkers, not in the Parkrun ethos but I guess people vary. No good doing it if you’re not enjoying it, maybe give it a miss for now and possibly consider C25K at some point which takes you through it properly. I can’t stress enough how going what seems like ridiculously slowly at the start helps hugely. Over time your body very gradually speeds up once it’s ready.

Honeysuckle, if you hate it stop doing it and find something you do love. There are so many options out there now, a dance class, a fitness session at the local trampoline place, a netball group, ridding a bike.

I would love to love running, so much appeals to me about it. However, I have really poorly knees (rheumatoid arthritis) and massive boobs, so really uncomfortable and it is just not fun. I think endorphins are essential in exercise, If you are not having fun it's not the right exercise for you.

This week: -1.25lbs
Total: 74.50lbs
To lose: 37.50lbs

Pretty pleased, step in the right direction again. Haven't had a post parkrun gain (yet) so hopefully I don't end up shooting up tomorrow.

Have you done C25K honeysucklejasmine, or just gone straight to Parkrun?

Thanks for asking about my ankle PostNotInHaste. It's completely better now and I've been back to running as normal this week.

Now I've lost my 7st 7lb and got my BMI under 25, I'm much less strict with myself. I'm still aiming to lose another 10lb but am not concerned how long that takes me, as long as I don't gain. So I've lost 2lb in the last 4 weeks, and that's fine with me now my BMI is 24-point-something.

Is anyone thinking about trying RED January?

www.mind.org.uk/redjanuary

They have changed this year's challenge from Run Every Day in January to Be Active Every Day in January. I assume to include more people. So be it running, walking, swimming or whatever - the idea is that you do something active every single day in January.

You can raise money for Mind, the mental health charity, while doing RED January or simply take part as a way to improve your own mental (and physical) wellbeing.

I'm going to commit to running every day.

Forgot the image

STS for me this week and that's good compared to how things were during the week...

Mentally struggling. I think a lot is connected to 5 stone being my original target and I never thought I'd hit it. I have, which stuns me, I feel good and far healthier. I need to lose another 1.5 stones to be securely healthy, but I'm feeling like I'm stuck in a mud-patch! Torn between forcing myself into a "big push" (feel tired even thinking it) or deliberately having a month or so at maintenance, keeping up the exercise and not going off the rails but just having a rest...

Love the idea of RED Fate but I have three 30 minute child-free slots per week (on a good week) so that decides my running timetable I have been using my running miles for Home For Good charity this year - they're fundraising for "A mile for every child" aiming to get a joint total of 35000 which is every child who will enter the care system in 2018.

Loss this week: 3lbs
Total loss: 93.6lbs
Time spent pissing about losing and gaining the same half stone: four fucking months

Think my loss this week is the unmasking of small losses over the past few weeks of STS that were hidden by fluid retention. Still doing the 12 week challenge and aiming to get to my target by the New Year. Or maybe the Old New Year (do you have that in the rest of the country?).

Fingers crossed for a quick appointment, strawberry. Hope your rheumatoid arthritis settles soon, imagine it can be extremely painful

Moonlight, has your midwife given you any guidance how she'd like to see your weight change during the rest of your pregnancy? I know some are very vague and sometimes outright impractical.

Honey, that is very poor of the tail walker to be acting that way and is entirely against Parkrun's ethos! If you have a look at their social media accounts, it's all about "walk, jog or run", any time is a good time and a fifteen minute 5k is the same length as a sixty minute 5k, etc, etc. I don't know if I have missed something though but have you got straight from no structured exercise to trying to jog/run Parkrun? I feel like not long ago I saw you posting that you were losing weight purely by controlling your calorie intake rather than exercising. Even someone who has very good cardiorespiratory fitness (eg swims or cycles extensively) would not manage going straight into running a 5k. Or if they physically got round, they'd be lucky to escape injury and find the whole thing very unpleasant. Some people build up slowly by running 1k a few times, then 2k a few times, then 3k, etc, but most use walk-run-walk intervals to build up. The latter is the basis of Couch25K. Building up slowly doesn't just build your cardiorespiratory fitness (how much puff you have) and muscles but also builds up your joint, ligament and tendon strength which is just as important and takes much longer. Running is high impact: a lot of force goes up your leg and that energy has to be absorbed somewhere. If your joints, ligaments (fibrous tissue from bone to bone) or tendons (fibrous tissue from muscle to bone) aren't strong enough then you will get injured. tl;dr: the average person needs to build up their fitness to run slowly: shortcuts will feel horrible and could well end badly. I've gone on a bit very unlike me and hope I'm not trying to teach my granny to suck eggs Well done on your loss this week, know it's been tough recently.

Great news that your ankle has recovered, FATE. I am considering RED January too but have issues with Mind.

Magic, sorry to hear you are struggling The way you sound to me makes me think you need some R&R and not having the burden of a calorie deficit. It's not wasted time but is a great learning experience to prepare for maintenance. What does SW recommend about taking breaks?

Have no fear, AnotherOtter, Fate. I did do the C25K first, but with various speeds of walking rather than jogging. Hence I can walk 5k relatively quickly (sub 10 min/km) with very little effort. But running has never been my strong point. I have a large chest and a connective tissue disease after all! 😂 My friend and I walked out first PR and have been working on "scouts pace" jogs since. She's much fitter than me though. I think this week I jogged maybe the first 400m then walked the rest - my friend went on ahead.

I think I'm getting really bad at picking at food, especially the kids, so I'm finding it harder to lose through diet alone. It's still my main focus but I do try to do something every day (walking or exercise DVD).

Still, onwards and downwards.

Glad your ankle has healed, fate

Well done on your loss AnotherOtter, no matter how it's come about. I love your long posts, and I really appreciate your insight.

Magic I know exactly how you feel.

I'm getting a Fitbit tomorrow. Charge 2 HR, my sister is kindly giving to me as she's upgraded. Looking forward to having a play and seeing how active I usually am.

I LOVE my Fitbit Charge 2, it's the best money I've spent on my health.

I'm hankering after the Charge 3 now. I think Santa might be getting me one

Lol fate I'll be perstering you to tell me how it works in that case! I'm told it's very easy and I need an app. We'll see.

Monday is my official weigh in day, so I was very brave. The past week I have had cake, wine, burgers, chips, crisps and little or no care about losing weight. Stress must have increased my metabolism though as I STS. If I look at it closely though, I have had lots on my "banned" list but smaller portions of it and the rest of my meals have been healthy and balanced.

Great news on DD though, we have found a consultant and she is seeing her on Thursday. Not been able to talk to anyone IRL about this as I don't want anyone to know at the moment as a) think it best to minimise it with DD until we know if there is a problem and b) don't want to add stress to my mum who is undergoing cancer treatment.

So many of you are so close to target now. I know what you mean about faffing about with the same few pounds though AnotherOtter. I was in a bit of a loop last month.

Back to feeling scared, spoke to the neurologist who said we need to move as quickly as possible.

Oh Strawberrypig, I’m really sorry, that must be very scary And with your Mum having cancer treatment you must feel under enormous pressure. Hopefully what neurologist it’s precautionary, fingers firmly crossed.

Oh strawberry, that is scary. I really hope the neurologist is just being cautious.

Hi- can I join?

Have just read through the whole of this thread and what you’ve all achieved is amazing and incredibly inspiring

I weighed 260.8lbs on Wednesday last week and at 35 years old and 164cm tall- that’s not great.
I had promised myself this year would be the year I sorted myself out but I haven’t done it. A combination of being a lone parent to 2 kids, no family nearby to help and friends who all have busy lives of their own, plus working, plus going through family court with my ex, plus general laziness and being tired have meant this year has flown by and I’m now heavier than I was on January 1st.
Something switched in me last week though, I don’t know what caused it but I feel different, determined.
I need to get to a weight of 179lbs to be in the ‘overweight’ bmi category and then 151lbs to be the top end of ‘healthy’
I can’t even tell you the last time I weighed either of those, I’ve been obese my entire adult life and felt overweight throughout my childhood.
I say felt because I look at pictures of me at 12/13/14 years old and I was a healthy size. I remember feeling huge, but I wasn’t. I was bigger than my friends but looking at us that’s because I had boobs and bum and they hadn’t gone through puberty yet.
Wish I could go back and tell that girl that she was healthy, she wasn’t fat at all.

I am calorie counting with MFP trying to stick to 1340 a day and not eating back calories exercised.
I walk to work which is 3 Miles, have an exercise bike at home for when I’m watching tv and a plethora of exercise DVDs
Am trying to be on my feet and moving as much as possible on the days I’m not at work as my job is incredibly sedantry.

I’ve also upped my water intake massively. I have a slight (huge) Diet Coke addiction and can easily get through 8-10 cans a day which is ridiculous and must be awful for me. I’ve managed to cut that down to 3-4 cans already and plan on weaning myself off completely in the coming weeks. I’ve tried cold turkey before and it leaves me with the most horrendous headache that can only be relieved by drinking Diet Coke- crazy that that hasn’t been enough to stop me sooner!!

I weighed myself this morning and am down to 255.8 so 5lbs off which I was shocked and pleased with. I’m aiming for a more manageable 2lbs a week from now on.

Have a wedding at the weekend though so calories will be blown!

Can I also just say, Strawberry- I’m sure the neurologist is just being cautious, always better to get things seen to quickly regardless of severity but it must be so very worrying for you. I hope you’re doing as ok as possible

Apologies for the essay!

Welcome Quandary - that is already so encouraging that you can see where your slip ups are and have already started to change the little details.

I think for most of us it is not always the big things but all the cokes, chocolate bars, drinking nights out that trip us up.

Strawberry how are you doing?

Hello Quandry, welcome to the thread.

I'm ok, had a bad evening yesterday but was on a teaching experience day today, which was a massive distraction. I loved the smell of Bunsen burners after such a long time, bit more Heath and safety these days though! There used to be massive flasks of acids left in the unlocked labs I loved the day, and was surprised how much confidence I have found since losing weight. I know I have a lot of weight to go but I don't feel people are looking at me because I am bloody huge.

Thanks for the support, this thread is fab

Welcome Quandry. Off to a great start and I think that’s a very healthy view to take of the wedding, to know you’ll have a higher calorie day but to do it having compensated a bit in advance and then get back to it.

Strawberrypig, yes to the confidence and I don’t know if anyone else has found it but my tendency towards people pleasin* is far more in check now., though I suspect that’s partly due to how conditioned I’d been by my Mum and the role I fitted intimsince my teens. But I think working on your mindset for this spills into other areas which is good.