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Slenderisters! Watch the weight Fall off us this October
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RedLipsAndRosyCheeks · 30/09/2019 15:06
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BitOutOfPractice ·
07/10/2019 10:39
Morning!
Oh paws that sounds horrendous you poor thing. I wish you better very soon.
Kick that's amazing - great time! 
Peridot there is nothing more depressing and annoying than re-losing weight you've lost once. I am a stone and a half heavier than I was two years ago and feel horrendous and nothing fits 
Well, at least I've lost the mysterious 3lbs I put on last week despite being golden every day and starting sober for October. It's going to fall off now, right?
QuimReaper ·
07/10/2019 11:13
Hello hello! I started a reply on the app but I guess I got distracted, apologies!
BOOP that is so bitterly disappointing, I absolutely hate it when that happens. I see it's now evaporated so it was just a blip, but there's absolutely nothing worse than a kick in the face for all your hard work! Sober October will absolutely have the weight dropping off you. I've still only ever managed 11 days at a stretch off the sauce, I'm in awe of you 
paws that is absolutely staggering 
I am so so sorry, you poor thing! Was the gastroenteritis related to the shingles, or just absolutely hideous bad luck? You're quite right to bench the diet until you're back on your feet, you'd be bonkers to think about calories when you just need to be focusing on getting better. I know what you mean about Lucozade but gosh, thank goodness you could keep it down - you need those calories for your body to fight off the shingles, imagine how screwed you'd be if it weren't for those fizzy wee calories. Bet you won't want to look at a Lucozade ever again when you're back on the solids though
Red and Kick you BOTH get to feel extremely, wonderfully smug with those incredible running achievements I simply couldn't begin to run 15K in under 2hrs, and takeaways and feasts are hard-earned and very much deserved by both of you.
sweetsorrow I love a surprise loss, congrats! I always feel they make up for the extremely mean experience of being golden and not being rewarded. It's sooooooo hard to just keep plugging away at it though, isn't it, especially when you look at yourself and just feel you've still got a long way to go. 17lbs is a tremendous achievement and you should be enormously proud. and if you're in a XS tracksuit you must be getting very trim indeed! One of the reasons I used to keep switching up how I weighed myself was because it meant I could keep going for different milestones, switching between "I've lost half a stone!" and "I've got a new kg bracket!" and "I've lost 10lbs!" etc., to keep the sense of achiement alive. You could try the same, celebrate a nice round 20lbs soon, then shoot for a nice round 10 kilos, then or 2 stone, etc.
Peri 3.5lbs in a week where you've been housebound and poorly is really quite amazing, you must be very chuffed. I really feel your pain on the coughing - I always used to finish up colds with a dragging cough which seemed to go on and on and on, it drove me barmy.
Well, my own news is that I was a modest 300g down on Friday. Not much to shout about but I'm pleased the scale's still moving. My aim for October is to lose 1kg, so 300g is a fair start...!
QuimReaper ·
09/10/2019 12:17
Hello all! Peri that's a fab calorie count, and as Red says especially with wine and popcorn!
On Monday I was out getting my steps in the pouring sodding rain (AGAIN), and I slipped on a smooth bit of pavement in my apparently gripless Converse, and landed smack on my lower back 
I went down like a ton of bricks, like when you slip on ice, landed with my whole weight. (Good job my weight's less than it has been recently 
) It was SO painful, I actually lay there completely unable to move for about a full minute! It doesn't look like there'll be any lasting damage but having been a bit better yesterday it's worse again today. Humph. I don't even have an impressive bruise to show for it somehow, which I was sure I would. The very least I want is a war wound.
STILL I managed to get decent steps yesterday and have already got 18K for today, so I'm powering through!
Have had a bit of a dodgy week in general really. Headaches, bad tummy yesterday, and an absolutely dreadful night's sleep last night which meant getting my steps this morning was a real struggle. I was hobbling along feeling very ropey. I'm hoping things'll look up tomorrow 
KickBishopBrennanUpTheArse ·
09/10/2019 20:13
Oh no quim! Sounds like you need to take it easy. I'm struggling with a cold here. You're supposed to feed a cold aren't you?
QuimReaper ·
10/10/2019 10:26
Thank you guys for the sympathy! It's still really nagging and I can't stand on my right leg but it seems to be on the mend. Also right after I posted last night I suddenly spotted a nice big consolatory shiner on my elbow where I guess I took a secondary bump! Doesn't really hurt so it can't have taken much weight but it's come up like a plum, whereas there's nothing to see on my back except for two very small bruises 
Weird.
Kick that cold is doing the rounds, and it seems to be quite a quick strain, I definitely successfully fed mine to death I'm serious, I came down with it the Thursday before last, felt awful by Saturday, then spent all of Sunday on the sofa with doughnuts, pizza and (medicinal) Prosecco, and it was loads better by Monday and gone by Tuesday. Miracle!
I've had a pretty good week food-wise, no slip-ups to speak of, and last night I think I had a NSV. I was looking in the bathroom mirror, and it may have been the light, but I think I saw... cheebones I spent ages turning this way and that, I don't remember ever having any bone structure whatsoever! I mean, I probably did when I was a skinny teen, but it was just my face and I never thought about it. I couldn't tell if they were still there in the harsh morning light but I think my face might be looking a tiny bit different. I find things like that so fascinating, like when I lost about 5kg and suddenly my rings all started falling off; you'd really have thought 5kg wouldn't be enough to make a difference to how fat your fingers are.
Now I'm wondering if I even have a jawline lurking under there...
QuimReaper ·
12/10/2019 13:24
Welcome fifaffu! That sounds like a good strategy, especially upping the veg, most of our evening meals are now either just protein and veg (dodging carbs wherever possible has been very helpful for me!) or something from the slow-cooker and it's made a big difference for me. Less fat's always a good idea too, I try and limit my cheese intake during the week and have tried to get my mayonnaise habit under control 
Beware of low-fat alternatives if you're switching out yoghurt and things though, they're often full of sugar and can give you a bit of a sugar crash.
QuimReaper ·
14/10/2019 13:43
fiff I'm always surprised anyone rocks up on this thread and says they don't eat dairy, I swear if didn't eat cheese all of my weight problems would be nought If it's just oil and things that should be a fairly easy thing to reduce as you say, and I bet you'll see great results.
I am not that strict with low-carbing in the sense that I only do it Mon-Fri (and occasionally do make something with chickpeas or beans), but I have found it a very useful way to slash calories. I dabbled in low-carb years ago after reading about it on here and it really forced me to get more creative with evening meals as a meal without carbs was really anathema to me! I've just kept it up as a way to keep mid-week meals light, and I think it's been great for increasing my veg intake too.
Peri that's a fab loss, well done! Gosh, this cough really isn't letting up is it, you poor thing - hopefully a big pot of nice medicinal chicken soup will be the silver bullet I'm feeling very lethargic today, it doesn't feel like the sun's come up at all and it's pissing with rain again here - will this wet spell ever clear up?! It must be the wettest October we've had in years!
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QuimReaper ·
15/10/2019 10:34
Red half a pound is so little, I'd call that essentially a STS - sounds like you're bobbing along quite nicely really! How's the head today? 
(P.S. I'm aware I celebrate my own 200g losses and don't call them "essentially a STS", but I do call them that when they're gains )
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