Moving down in May

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So here's the new thread for tomorrow, excuse the boring title. Unless a miracle happens by tomorrow, I will be starting the month heavier than I started April. Weigh 9st1.5. Aiming for 8st13. Hopefully things might start to change in May. even if its only slightly, which will lift our spirits.

Round and round we go.

I found it really hard to get started because part of me was thinking life is too short to be spent battling with scales. I was miserable with being fat but part of me wished I could just accept myself and stop being bothered.

It does bother me though and I am glad I’m tackling it.

Ooh yes Xmas is awful isn't it. I'm already wondering how I'll cope with it this year diet wise. Maybe doing a fast 800 for damage limitation 2 days a week? I've also been going since January, and I hate losing the same old pound or two but there is a downward trend, but I don't want to have to start all of this again in January!

I'm remorseless about my Christmas lard!
Today's food:
B. Scrambled eggs with spinach & smoked salmon, toast & butter, 3 coffees (450)
L. Salad with hummus and tofu (450)
D. Tub of oppo choc ice cream (380)
It was a late breakfast and a late lunch. Low on calories for me but ok.

Morning all,

I had an awful run yesterday, really struggled. Going to revert back to the couch to 5k programme, which I'm on my final week of instead of trying to push on further.

Good day eating wise though,

No breakfast, fasted until midday
L porridge, berries, yogurt (300)
D grilled chicken (bbq), jersey royals, salad, 3 marshmallows, small g&t (550)
S coffee, bread sticks and beetroot dip, lidl low cal ice cream - espresso & Carmel flavour (yum!), 3 marshmallow (330)

New interim goal is 10st 5 hoping by 9th June, and overall would like to get to 10st 2 which would be a stone lost.

I'm 5'8 and that would have me looking slim, but not skinny

Noted my marshmallows twice.... just 3 eaten. Prob another 3 today though

Sorry, kind of noting stuff to keep my own focus!

Stopfundinghate, Christmas is difficult isn't it, put on some weight Christmas 2018 and spent all year telling myself I was going to get under 9st again, failed totally, made a half-arsed attempt to lo carb for my holiday last August, came back and put on more weight and ended up at 9st11. Last Christmas I was slightly more careful as I did't want to be even heavier for my Birthday (turned 45 in January), will try and adopt the same stance this year. Seems a long way off. Weighed in at 9st1.75 this morning, so much going on, problems with exchanging for our house move, best I can do is just not totally over eat. Think the beautiful weather helps though.

I weighed in at 10 stone 7 today! That's a whole stone lost

How big are your marshmallows? Just asking because on Monday I had 5 and it came to 106 cals

Agree about Christmas! Why is it so easy to put weight on but so hard to lose it again. I'm hoping I'm starting new healthy habits rather than a 'diet' so would like to think I'll cope better this year....but easier said than done!

Well done @Monstera!! 10st 7! You must be so pleased. My marshmallows were pink & whites from Sainsbury's. 3 is 69 cals.

I loved the low cal Lidl ice cream. Ate about a third of the tub for only 116!

Morning.

Well done monster on your whole stone. Do you look and feel different from where you started?

I must fast today to make up for a fairly rubbish couple of days. Yesterday I had a few beers and a piece of fried chicken with fries. Calories wise that would probably fit into the maintenance level for someone my size? But the scales always disagree with what calculators tell me.

So lots of water and black coffee for this morning and water and herbal teas thereafter

That’s brilliant Monstera !
I‘ve come to terms with the fact that it takes constant vigilance to not let myself be thrown off track. I remember listening to a podcast with a weight loss expert/scientist and he thought that it takes slightly obsessive habits to manage losing a significant amount of weight and then permanently keeping it off. And I tend to agree - all the people I know who have lost and kept weight off are pretty obsessive about what they eat and/or exercise! I don’t know whether I find that a comforting or depressing thought, really...

Amazing! Well done @monster !
Re: Christmas/ special eating events, I used to go to a really nice ww group and there we planned the extras we'd have in advance. For example, over Christmas I'm going to have an extra 16 points and I'll spend them on say six Christmas cookies or whatever. That was helpful for not getting out of control. The problem with all diets for me is the boringness of constant food tracking and giving enough of a shit to maintain. When I finally get into a healthy BMI that will be my challenge

Honey depending on what else you had for the rest of the day that really doesn't sound too bad, definitely balanced out if your fasting today.

I've definitely got obsessive about what I eat this time but I don't k is how easy it would be to log everything when we start to eat out again or have meals at friends houses! Not realistic or much fun!

That was all I had other than black coffee and water. I didn’t drink much water though and I’m beginning to think that has a massive effect on me.

Re Christmas i guess losing half a stone extra that you know you’ll put back on would work. Not sure I’d have the discipline though for a month of pre Christmas dieting.

Honey. I find that beer really bloats me out - wine and gin are fine though 🥰. I’ve had no beer all week plus doing MFP and have lost 4 pounds. I’m also eating dinner with the children which I’m sure helps too x ps re: cheat days the PT James Smith says the same too - people go crazy - far better to have more reasonable amounts over the week.

4lbs is great @Mimilondon39! Congrats!
Today's food for me;
B. Porridge, berries, almonds, coffee (250)
L. Chorizo, potato, veg fry (500)
D. Wagamama chicken ramen (500)
S. Nakd bar, 3 squares dark choc (250)

I'm very full now so hopefully I'll stop there. I'll go for a walk later to get me up to at least 10,000 steps

Yes restricting beer is critical for me so I knew I’d pay for yesterday. I have started ordering just one beer in my obligatory shop lol.

Someone dropped off yesterday’s beer as part of a sort of care package.

I’m 24 hours into a fast and want to break it sensibly and just have a low cal meal. Unfortunately I’ve just had a bit t of a fall out with ds and feel sad and frustrated. Would be very easy to eat or drink those emotions down

Wow 4lbs in one week! Fantastic progress.

Honey, eating your feelings is very familiar to me. Will you feel better afterwards though? See if you can put it off for a bit and distract yourself? Or is three a way you can have some of what you want to satisfy the craving but in a moderate way? X

B: Yoghurt
L: chicken noodle soup
D: cheesy pasta bake
S: Reese's peanut butter cup, halo top ice cream, strawberries and raspberries
1,157

Honey I feel you I had a v bad morning yesterday - stressed husband and both my children were horrible and said they hated me because I took them for a walk! What helped me was having a massive cry (it releases endorphins) and then I put on some pop music in the kitchen and danced. Could you do something similar? Or I find a warm bath and a weepy film good for emotional release...

Well done @Mimilondon39 4lb is incredible!

@Iggle so jealous of your Wagamama

I stuck to plan today

B couple of spoons of porridge left in pan from kids breakfast (150)
L jacket potato & beans (300)
D chicken salad, new potatoes (220)
S an apple, 6 haribo star mix, a chunk of choc, white coffee, 10 almonds and some breadsticks and beetroot dip (460)

Just under 1200 and actually didn't feel too difficult. I think because meals were light so room for picking!

Very slow 5k jog.

Morning. I did damage limitation by eating what I wanted but only for an hour. Short eating window.

Back to xst10. Beginning to worry that maybe I can only lose weight in the first ten days of my cycle lol.

Mimi I’d love a good cry. Feels like ages since I had one. Maybe I need to find a sad movie

Well done!! @Mimilondon39

Yesterday's food

B - orange and coffee
L - barley risotto with leeks and peas
D - spag bol, 100g spag and bol made mainly with veg
S - 25g ice cream and berries

Good luck today everyone!

Well done everyone! So much easier to get back on track with light at the end of the lockdown tunnel. Hangover I think you are a picker like me - my dad always used to call me the mouse because I’d take little bites of food here and there! Honey I blubbed my eyes out at A Star Is Born with Bradley and always cry at The Greatest Showman. Can recommend both! Going to try and get the kids to watch the new Little Women with me later but I think they might be too young. Wonder - both the book and film is a real sobfest too.

Mimi, 4 pounds in a week is fantastic. I feel your pain regarding children and husband, such a difficult time at the moment. Monstera, a whole stone is amazing. It is indeed a relief that there is hopefully some light coming at the end of the lockdown tunnel. Had a bit of a meltdown last night, as dont know whether we are exchanging today (had a few problems with COVID clauses), some of my work is starting, which is great but I dont know how it will pan out, need to start home schooling again next week etc etc, also having another period. Anyway today is a new day, everyone is struggling in different ways, weighed 9st1.5 this morning. I know (unless there's a miracle or a horrible two day lurgy which I dont have time for), that I'm not going to make 8st13.75. However, June is a new month.

Morning all! Can't believe it's nearly June already.
I totally understand eating your feelings @TheHoneyBadger. I either eat them or walk them off. One very unusual time I did a relaxing yoga, but it has never been repeated!
I'm hungry today, I've just had a small portions fry up of 400 calories and my stomach is still rumbling. Trying to decide whether to have a second bit of toast or not. Maybe I'll be good and have fruit