Half a stone off (or 3kg) in May

[VivaFrida]

A fresh slate for May!

Carrying over from the April thread but new joiners are welcome.

Please join this thread - all plans are included (calorie counters, weight watchers, citizens of slimming world, intermittent fasters, no-carbers, eating-only-blue-food eaters).

We are here to support each other and aim to lose 7 pounds, or 3 kgs.

Official start: tomorrow, May 1st.

My starting weight for May is 60.0 kgs and getting to 57-ish kg or just under by the end of the month would be great.

Who is in?

Thanks all! Feeling a lot better this evening after taking it easy today. Managed to stick to plan as well. Gonna get an early night and hopefully be ready for park run in the morning

viva your posts are inspiring.

I think it's finally shifting. After two weeks hovering at 13.3, was 13.1-3/8 this morning and 13.0-3/8 this evening. Since 15.4 that's about 10lb. Pleased with that

OhTheRoses that's a great loss in just over a month, well done.

Down another 0.4kg for me this morning Not quite fasting today as I had a Pret hot chocolate at 10am!

Yes but the two week plateau was really hard and without WW in the background I'd have given up because I was being so gopd and nothing seemed to be happening after the first two weeks!

Weigh in day!
Weighed myself twice today, moving the scales between normal position, and position 2 (still over 4 tiles but more to the left) - still a dead-on 1kg difference...
i shall continue doing this and make sure I consistently use the lower weight...
I am sure it has contributed to the quick loss of my holiday gain, but we shall see next week!

Current weight: 90.6kg
May's start weight: 90.5kg
Loss Gain in May: 0.1kg

Initial start weight: 94.2kg
Total loss in 2019: 3.6kg

Hello all! It's
day 18

And I have been officially given the evil eye by life:

1. Just got news that a big funding bid I applied for has been rejected. That would have been a life changing development for me but it was not meant to be. 'Thanks but no thanks' - Intellectually humiliated r us!

1. I have received the dreaded letter with the compliance form from the dreaded Inland revenue - ! The positive of this instead revenue peremptory request is that it immediately made me forgive about 1.

They say gremlins come in 3 so now waiting nervously for what no. 3 would be....

ANYWAY.

Probably from sheer grief and worry I have now lost more weight and am tipping the scales at 58.5kg - only 2.5 kg to go to 'old me weight' -

And in fact (hey some good news in this shitstorm!) I am wearing my 'old me' jeans - my (almost) smallest pair - a size 8 - petite coz I am a short arse [ to tell the whole truth I have a pair of SUPER small Armani skinnies which I found in a charity shop that fit me only at my SUPER smallest - I haven't braved those yet!!]

So, I am in a precarious financial situation and the inland revenue seems to think I am a tax evading Mrs. Google/Amazon/Richardina Branson but WHO CARES I am size 8, innit!!?? Important things first.

ANYWAY

Very welcome to the thread QRCode ! We are of similar weight! What's your height? I am only 165cm (5 4 and a half) and pret hot chocolate... I love it!! I have discovered Aero chocolate to make at home - 99 cals, 3 old ww points and absolutely lovely.

I was supposed to go out running this am but felt so fucking battered by life (yes I am feeling sorry for myself...) that I did not have it in me. Did x-trainer and indoor bike instead. Made me feel a lot better. Then cleaned house with the team and will be off for a walk in a moment. I need to clear my head.

Did I mention my life is a bit shit at the moment?

Congrats on the great loss in April/May OhTheRoses! You must feel great.

Oh sazzle27 - that scale difference would drive me absolutely bonkers - but you are handling it very well!

Did you make it to park run Lookingforpizza?

Sorry about the bid viva. In my experience, the lessons learnt from the structure of an unsuccessful bid, inform the next application which is often successful. You may be surprised how many go's some of those big bids take and how much consideration is given to those who put in the effort to make them, even if unsuccessful, at the promotions rounds. Are you publishing and likely to be entered into REF?

Chin up, and just keep carrying on. Every prof has been beaten back at some stage but the ones who make it are the ones who come back for more rather slink off into the realms of minimalism, a one trick pony and turgid teaching.

Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again!

I got weighed at the hospital yesterday.

They said I was 10st 10lbs 😠

Please someone tell me they will be wrong. At home I am 10st 4.8lbs 😓😤😠

Viva I am even titchier, only 163cm. Don't be too despondent about your bid - in March last year I was turned down for the job of my dreams. I took a similar role, but was managed out due to a restructure/cost cutting exercise. When I was advised that this was due to happen, I had seen my dream job readvertised, so I got in touch again. I knew I had been one of the final 2 from over 60 applications, but they had offered it to the other one and she had then decided it wasn't what she wanted after all. Anyway, I went to meet them and they offered it to me the same day, I started as soon as the old job finished and got more money too

You never know when your luck will change! And at least I know I'm safe from the dreaded HMRC - no income tax here!

Viva sorry to hear about your bid... Kudos on the weight loss but unfortunate circumstances/causes of it...
the scales are really doing my head in, it is literally 1-2 inches left that makes the difference, so I'm just weighing myself 2-3 times every time to make sure 😤😂🙄🙄 (picture attached)

^ apologies, never finished labelling!

Black is tile grout, blue and red are two scale positions

Aw @viva I’m sorry to hear that, life really does chuck it all at you sometimes doesn’t it. Well done for getting yourself on the cross trainer in place of a run though.

Yes, woke up naturally at 7 after a great sleep and tootled down to park run. I managed to run 3 out of the 5k straight but knackered myself. Somehow ended up being slightly slower than last week but trying not to be disheartened. Was a bit lonely not having DP to walk there and back with but was glad I went. I’ve decided to enter a 5k at the end of June so gonna try and get my running speed up with some sort of training plan.

Food wise i am having a bit of a fuck it day and enjoying some treats. Not going too mad and will be back on it tomorrow. Just enjoying a lazy day alone watching telly now.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend

Have done 90 mins hard labour sorting out dd's study and 14000 brisk steps today. Am absolutely whacked. Going to see dd at uni tomorrow to provide love and encouragement before exams. Always walk lots when I'm there.

Dinner soon - chicken thigh, lemony cous and salad.

Hey @FunkyBarnYardBroom it's hard to know for sure, but there's no reason to think their scales are correct. Can you test your scales by weighing something you know the weight of? To be honest, there's a chance your scales aren't perfect. But the point is you are losing weight! You can feel it in your clothes and how you feel. What the scales say is almost irrelevant.
I'm doing terribly. I'm eating far more than I planned. Not losing anything at the start has worn my determination down I think. Hoping to restart today.
Good luck everyone.

I'm so pissed off with myself this morning. I've lost rather a lot of weight now. 4 stone and 4lbs since Christmas so I asked my daughter to take a photo of me.

Turns out I have some sort of reverse body dysmorphia and where I was thinking I was approaching looking "alright" I actually still resemble a pink haired, moon faced Incredible Hulk.

Today can sod off.

cricketmum no darling. We have seen your picture. You look gorgeous. Remember that an unflattering angle can dent even Aphrodite's confidence! And beauty, true beauty, is so much more than our body shape. It's the way we smile, the way we carry ourselves! And call me a hippy but I believe that if you are a nice person you will always be beautiful. And you are lovely. We can see it in your posts, in the way you are kind to others, in the way you engage with life. You have lost four stone and you are amazing for having done so. And I tell you a secret. You are beautiful now and you were also beautiful with 4 stone on. You rock cricket!

Oh @cricket I know it’s so hard to get out of that mindset but you have achieved so much! And as @viva says an unflattering angle can make so much difference. You are so brilliant and inspirational for what you’ve achieved, we’re all here cheering you on!

So, it's

day 19

I have been running 10k this morning (use the term running loosely... more like... 'heffalumping' ...) - it's hard to motivate myself to get out of the door when I feel so much on the receiving end of life's spiky baton.

Also I noticed a pattern - I posted a while ago about the series of circumstances that saw me ballooning from 53-56kg to 70kg rather sharply in 2016. Well in the past few years I have put weight on when something awful has happened; then I get a grip, adjust to the new 'normal', starting losing weight and when I get to roughly 59kg (hey where I am now!!) here comes another awful occurrence and there goes my weight up again. However, I'd say that compared to the challenges I had in the past, these latter events are relatively manageable and I am (mildly) confident I can break the pattern.

Thank you for your kind words & suggestions ohtheroses - yes I do have a good publishing record. However this result is making me question my professional choices and I am thinking I no longer wish to play this game. Maybe it's time to look at the wide world instead!

Have a good day all.

@VivaFrida thankyou so much, you actually had me in tears reading that. @Lookingforpizza thankyou too :)

I'm sure I'll shake myself out of my flump for tomorrow and be back all positive and happy. I'm just having a down day I think. The thought of going on holiday in 8 weeks is massively stressing me out! Hey

@cricketmum84 this is so recognisable. Some days I think I look absolutely fine, other days like I’m a big fat blob.

I think it can take a while for our brains to catch up with what we look like, which is why I think I keep having these contradictory thoughts in quick succession.

But whatever the “truth” may be, I know that I’m doing the best I can, as are you! Losing four stone is a massive achievement and one to be very proud of. If you’re not quite as slim as you’d like to be I’m sure you’ll get there and that you’ll look perfectly fine at every stage on that journey 🤗

@VivaFrida sorry to hear you’re having such a shit time. I hope life gets better pretty soon and that, in the meantime, you manage to resist all those temptations and break the pattern. Stay strong 👊

I didn’t have the best weekend food wise. Something to do with being stuck on practically the same weight for almost two weeks now. I guess, I just thought “what’s the point” and blew the diet for a couple of days. But I can’t say that made me feel any better, so I’m firmly back on plan again

Perfectly normal to have down days @cricket we’ve all been there!

I’ve been up nice and early this morning and gone shopping with a friend. I’m trying to avoid buying clothes as I don’t want to buy things that I am hoping won’t fit soon. Feeling a pang of guilt for having pizza last night so gonna head to the gym shortly. Had a nice NSV this morning, a skirt that was VERY tight a month or so ago now fits just so, which made me happy.

Today’s food:
B: Berry muesli and yoghurt
L: M&S egg mayo sandwich
D: Salmon, sweet potato and salad
Snacks: Latte, chocolate, hot chocolate

Puts me on about 1250 for the day, which I need to stick with for the next 3 days before weighing in. Luckily pizza hasn’t derailed me too far!

Sorry @viva I completely missed your post. I do think that recognising patterns and triggers is half the battle, and you know how to tackle them now in a healthy way. I really hope things pick up for you - keep running, it will help!

@VivaFrida running 10k is such an achievement! I'm in awe of you. The first step to breaking bad habits is recognising them so you've already won half the battle.

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of their Sunday. I had Camembert and halloumi whilst watching Eurovision with crusty bread so I'm on the salad train now. DH is making a roast pork dinner for him and the kids, I'm having a couple of veggie sausages with plenty of spinach and roasted cherry tomatoes!