Half a stone or 3kgs off in September!!

[cricketmum84]

Link to previous thread here: Half a stone (or 3kg) off for August!! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weightlosss_chat/3652424-half-a-stone-or-3kg-off-for-august

Morning all! Welcome to the half a stone loss challenge for September. All are welcome whatever plan or method you are following. I'm mainly following ww online with some intermittent fasting thrown in for good measure!

All I ask is that we continue the uplifting positivity and support seen on previous threads! We cheerlead each other, celebrate success and support through the harder times.

We had a great month in August with lots of losses. I don't know about you lot but the longer this goes on the more it feels like a way of life for me now rather than "being on a diet"?

Stats for me are:
Starting weight: 19st 13
Loss for August: 14lbs
Loss for 2019: 5 st 3lbs
Target for September: 10lbs off

Ready for September??

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Yesterday's food diary:

B: back bacon roll, fig.
L: quarter of a small pie, salad. One big cookie.
S: homemade chicken/veg stir fry. 2 slices garlic bread. A few grapes.

Drinks: 1 glass champagne, black coffee and lots of water.

No snacks.

Fixed the scales: have lost a kilo so far this month, so am very pleased and it's good motivation to keep going! Think the food diary is working.

@AdventureTravelDreamer
I always seem to weigh less after a boozy night because I think I’m massively dehydrated. Plus I don’t want to eat much the next day if it was a big night out.
Didn’t check in over the weekend and just catching up on the thread.
The scales are still showing a small gain on my September start weight but I’m trying to stay positive. Had a good weekend all in all and did a walk and a swim to balance out my naughtiness on Friday night.
Plan for today
B. Wheat biscuits
L. Egg salad
D. Jacket potato and beans
Snacks - already and a hazelnut latte which was delish
Have a good day everyone

@Hopefully. I ended up taking a shit buy out offer from my exH. For a number of reasons but mainly to save my mental health. There were no children involved and this was a good 12 yrs ago. I had put up the deposit for the house we owned jointly (lesson learnt) and when we separated we both moved out and privately rented the property, as it was in negative equity. After one yr he said he was having financial difficulties and needed to move back into the property. It’s a long story, but I agreed as he essentially said he was going to be homeless. Big mistake. He moved his pregnant girlfriend in 😲
It was an absolute nightmare. After expensive legal advice and a lot of game playing I ended up taking a shit offer from him to get rid and move on. I couldn’t afford to take over the mortgage alone and he refused to move out. Refused estate agents access to value and threatened to force me to evict. That’s especially difficult when one of the occupiers is pregnant.
The only advice I can give is to pay for good legal advice and don’t be forced into any decisions you are uncomfortable with. Oh and it’s true when they say possession is 9 tenths of the law! In my case, as he was the one in the property he had all the power.

Thank you all, had a super fab birthday! DH and my best friend conspired, so BF babysat DD, so DH and I could go for a meal out.
We had meze and it was amazing. We walked there (2 miles mostly downhill) and walked back too (the same, but mostly uphill!)
Wouldn't have attempted that 6 months ago.
Just trying to keep going with the better eating. It's so easy to fall back into old patterns.

What I ate today (while studying for professional exams later this week - eek!)

B: Bircher muesli, skinny cappuccino
L: leftover chicken fajitas, garlic bread. Fruit and yoghurt.
S: roast chicken leg, small portion sweet potato fries. Fruit and yoghurt.

Drinks: lots of water, black coffee.
Snacks: None.

Am going to try not to weigh myself for another week - will hopefully prevent me from obsessing over every pound gained or lost.

Today's meals:

B: Strawberries and double cream; coffee with cream

L: 2 eggs scrambled with butter, smoked salmon,spinach wilted in butter

D: Roast chicken thigh with skin, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, mushrooms sauted in garlic and butter. Gravy.

And I'm losing weight!

Yum @thebatshavelefthebelfry - low carving? I really like that woe, but I have to eat lunch at work and it is never low carb.

Posted by mistake! @HollyTheHarrier, I would love to be 60kg (well, 59.9!), so I have weight envy as well as mile running envy! Do you have a goal weight in mind?

Glad you had a lovely meal @Vebrithien, and did you say it was your birthday too @bluebeck? I love a birthday week! Hope you enjoy.

So after feeling really positive and body confident this morning along comes a wanky man to make you feel like a bag of shit.

Driving along a country lane near home and it's a single track road with passing places. I'm alone and I come come bumper to bumper with another car on one of th single track points.

His passing place was about 2 metres behind him. Mine was about 25 metres.

He outright refused to move back and made me reverse the whole way back by driving at me aggressively and threatening to his my car.

Then when I got into the passing place he blocked me into it while shouting "fucking fat c*nt" into my window.

I've cried a lot. Mainly at how stupid I was to think that I was getting to a normal size and how positive I was earlier. It breaks me that people still look at me and "fat" is the first thing that they see.

Oh cricket that is awful.

What a total wanker he is. I hope his tiny willy goes green and drops off

@cricketmum84
Fuck him. That has made me feel so angry. I can assure you, even if you were as thin as a rake he would have yelled something at you as that’s what he does.
Unbelievable.
💐 sorry.

So a weird week. I started a new job and had to throw 16:8 out of the window. I’ve had breakfast a few days and been eating later. I’ve done no exercise and there might have been wine...

Anyway after over a week I have lost 0.1kg - which isn’t nothing but annoying....

Cricket, only someone desperately unhappy and insecure with themselves, would be so vile to a perfect stranger.
You've done so well, for so long.
Don't let some insignificant wankbadger ruin things for you.

I have been super good all weekend and yesterday. Now away with work for the night all by myself....eaten chicken & chips...wine and now contemplating pudding ... it is ok to have a day off ?!?

Plus a large glass of red wine

Another good day. Not as good good as yesterday but good nonetheless.

Again, that’s all I’m saying.

Just read your post cricket some people are just idiots. Do not let them derail your fabulous progress. Maybe he did not know how to reverse !!!

Just read your update @cricketmum84

What a wanker. I’ve had similar before and it nearly made me unable to get behind the wheel again.

You will think of this again and again and again for DAYS. Be with it. Don’t push it away. And then it will bob away and become more distant and the next thing you know it’s gone.

The next time he may end up picking on someone who may be less accommodating to his verbal abuse.

for you cricket. What an obnoxious arsehole. And it had nothing really to do with your weight, he obviously was just trying to be as aggressive and rude as possible. You are doing an amazing job for yourself and your health.

@cricketmum84 well he's a charmer isn't he? My DH has a thing he always says about really obnoxious people 'pity them, after all they have to be with themselves 24 hours a day for the rest of their miserable lives. At least you only had to put up with him for a few minutes" fair point. Just think. That man (with his tiny penis dropping off as per PP) is sitting somewhere , angry at the world, unable to enjoy anything nice. You have your lovely family, and us lot who admire you and your ever-shrinking body and superb will power. So, fuck him, and yay you, yeah?

Thanks guys. You've all made me cry a bit again.

Love the thought of his tiny green knob dropping off.

DH said he hopes he traps it in his car door and it goes black and drops off too :)

It's just really knocked me for six. I cried on my nail lady telling her about it too. It's just that thought that that's the first thing people see about me. Haven't eaten a thing today. Just can't face putting food in my body while I'm a "fucking fat c**t".

He's a wankstain in the bedding of society

Awww @cricketmum84 what an awful experience but do not let the fucker derail your excellent progress. As pp said he would have shouted something else, he's clearly a thick twat who cannot reverse. I grew up in the countryside down a single track lane and the amount of idiots who could/would not reverse was infuriating. Lol at the shrivelled nob falling off. It's already in the past

Oh Cricket. Damn that arsehole to hell. May his filthy tongue swell up and choke him.

Do not give him this power over you. He doesn't know you. He doesn't see you. He is worth nothing.

You are doing an amazing thing. Your are amazing. He can't take that from you. Don't let him.

Anyway, what's his number plate and we shall set the power of the hive upon his blackened soul. I'm so angry I could cry on your behalf. I am sorry this happened 💐

You can reverse your car. He cannot. You win on all counts and he had to insult you because he felt emasculated. He'd have called any woman above about a size 12 the same, and been just as vile to anyone thinner. Next time I hope he meets a large strong man who thumps him!

Had a very odd experience yesterday - finished a 17 hour fast, ate lunch and a snack, hit the gym- did a great class (30 min cardio, 60 min power step which is half step, half weights)but weirdly stopped sweating which is very odd for me, and afterwards couldn't wind down- have been awake half the night (and drunk a lot, though there wasn't a reason to be particularly dehydrated), and still feel slightly hyper and not properly physically tired. 10.1.2 this morning, but hope it's just the weirdness! Not looking forward to today!