Anyone need to lose a stone or less and needs motivation?

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Not that I can provide the motivation but hey ho, I thought perhaps if there were more of us it might help!

I'm currently 10 stone 12 and 5 foot 7. My fighting weight is 10 stone and I would like to get back down to this.

Lockdown has seen me put on at least half a stone. A bad back has seen me stop running and lack of school runs means a distinct deduction in time on my feet.

Anyone else in the same boat?

Ok, so this morning I was 60.1kg - which is only 400g loss since last week BUT a loss of 4.8kg or 10.5 pounds since I started monitoring. I have managed to convince myself that this morning's result is due to me skipping pudding last night - normally I would have a bit of fruit and cream, or a small amount of dark chocolate. It's become a habit to treat myself like this, even if I'm not hungry after dinner. Last night I consciously avoided it and, hey, weight loss! Even though I know it can't wholly be down to that, I find the thought quite motivating and am going to use it to try and break this habit.

Will be walking later today - rained heavily the last two days, so exercise mostly been mat-based.

Huge well done on the overall weight loss @borsetshireblueballs. I know how hard you'll have worked for that! Hope you have a good (dry) walk today

Well done @BorsetshireBlueBalls - your weight is actually my current goal weight so I'm slightly envious
My scales showed 66.6kg this morning down from 67.5kg at the weekend - I was trying to hold off weighing myself until the weekend but I have no self control and every morning the scale is RIGHT THERE in the bathroom waiting for me and all I need to do is just....step....on...

Anyway I'm not going to be putting that down MFP yet I will wait for an "official" weigh in at the weekend and update it then.

Thanks! and @overweightcat - a whole kilo in a week! Really good.

I haven't eaten much today and walked 5k home, mostly unhill, from the volunteer job I do, which has just started again today. So quite a high deficit (I fondly imagine) but I will endeavour not to eat my own weight tonight. Feeling stiff as a board right now so need to get into my gym kit and stretch before my hips and calves seize up. God. Age.

Checking in again. I’ve apparently lost a whole half a lb this week 🙄 better than nothing I suppose and my period is due in the next day or so, so not too worried about stalling a bit.

We have re-booked our wedding! It’s in August, hopefully it all goes ahead. It will be socially distant with only ten people there so we have postponed the reception til 2021 but we don’t want to wait to be married. Now really want to lose this ten pounds!!! Or at least some of it. Even 7 will make a real difference.

That’s fab news @Plancina! We only had 12 guests at our wedding and it was lovely. We had a separate party for friends after we came back from our honeymoon and I think it can work really well 🙂

Aww that's great @Plancina !

How's everyone doing today?

I did a 20min workout this morning as I missed yesterday's, did a bike ride with DCs and a longish walk afterwards. Forgot my Fitbit for all of it though
Then gave in and had a large G&T and I'm now eyeing up the crisps...

Can't imagine tomorrow being great food wise since its Father's Day and DP has picked what we are eating all day!

What a lovely thing to motivate you, @Plancina!

So-so day here in terms of food and exercise... Better than the average Saturday but not as good as a week day. But the scales were down another pound this morning, so feeling happy! 7 more to go.

That's lovely news! Congratulations @Plancina!

I had a big blow out last night (partly inspired by another thread in which posters were saying how sometimes you need to eat more in order to kick start your metabolism again, which was music to my slightly tipsy ears and resulted in me pouring lots more wine and inhaling spicy nuts and penguin bars...). I got on the scales this morning (I can't seem to stop myself weighing everyday) and I was down a pound on yesterday. Which is just bizarrely random.

BBQ tomorrow, so I might as well just write this whole weekend off!

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend and getting some lovely weather.

I am back on the thread and hopefully now on track. Managed to gain more weight and am now 10st 3.6lbs and want to be 9st 12lbs. Have been drinking too much wine and then having cheese and crackers for supper - all guaranteed to equal a fast weight gain.

First day of winter here and it is throwing it down, looks like I am going to get very very wet walking the dog.

Hope your weather is much better than ours and you all have a good Sunday.

Ooo I need to get back on it tomorrow. Not a good weekend (well actually it was lovely and filled with lots of lovely drink and food but not good diet wise!).

When I get back to the weight I want to maintain, Will I always have to avoid the nice treats? I've always maintained the weight I was but it was a stone more than I wanted to be. I've lost around 4lb and want to lose about 6-8lb and stay that weight. Will I always have to live on 1200-1400 calories?

@carrottopper I think you'll probably have to look up your maintenance calorie intake? That's what I'm hoping to do if/when I get down to my goal weight. Your current calorie intake is to lose weight so I would assume it would probably be a bit higher to stay at the weight you want then keep.

Not doing fantastic this weekend food wise with Father's Day and everything.
stepped on the scale today to see 67kg up from 66.5kg on Wednesday/Thursday. I'm praying it's just because it's that time of the month imminently as my boobs are sore and I went through a stage of unjustified rage at poor DP followed by crying at a lady on TV because she looked a bit like my grandma yesterday...

@carrottopper ditto with over indulging due to Father's Day. Too many Prosecco and beers 😆

I'm weighing tomorrow, I think I'll be over the moon with maintaining after this weekend. We went out for a walk earlier and DH said "you're looking more lean" so I'm happy with that 🙈

@carrottopper some of the people I know who have successfully lost weight and kept it off tend to eat normally and then go back "on plan" every time they put on 3 or 4 pounds. Not sure if this would work for you but it does for them!

Thanks. Reassuring- yes I will look up the maintenance calories (if I get there!!!)

Good to know I'm not the only one who hasn't done well today! Tomorrow is a new week though.

@carrottopper - Just to follow on from what the others have said... I chose my target weight partially based on the maintenance calories it will require. Super low calories is fine in the short term, but I don't want to work hard to get really thin if I've got no chance of staying at that weight!

That's interesting @PowerslidePanda... I hadn't thought about it from that angle. How do I work out the maintenance calories off my target weight? Do I just pretend I'm that weight and add it into the online calculator?

I've totally written today off... For the first time since I started doing this I'm not bothering to fill in the diary on MFP as I genuinely can't really remember what I've eaten /drunk today and can't be arsed to try and unpick it! Really hope this isn't the start of a slippery slope of not botheredness.

That's interesting @PowerslidePanda... I hadn't thought about it from that angle. How do I work out the maintenance calories off my target weight? Do I just pretend I'm that weight and add it into the online calculator?

Yes - I did it a few times with a few different possible target weights. The one I've settled on requires 1676 maintenance calories (with light exercise). At the moment, I'm eating 1200 - 1500 a day, but the maintenance calories for my starting weight was 1863, so I'm hoping that's a good middle ground.

@powerslidepanda that's such a sensible way of looking at things. I'm starting to make changes to how I eat which will need to be permanent. I don't think it means permanently depriving myself of everything, but without changes any lost weight will be back on very quickly!

The article I think someone shared recently about how slim people eat suggests they intuitively adjust after a big meal / blow out for the next couple of days which I think sounds like a great idea.

@Lurkingforawhile - I can so relate to that! I've lost a decent amount of weight a couple of times before, but then gone back to eating whatever I want and undoing it all. It needs to stay off this time - I've read a lot of posts on Mumsnet about how the older you get, the harder it gets to lose weight; so I don't want to be doing this all again in a few years!

That makes sense! I don't have that slim person intuition to naturally compensate for a blow out, but I'd like to keep tracking my calories even once I'm at my target weight to try and replicate it!

Thanks @PowerslidePanda. I've had a play around and worked out that to maintain at my target weight, with my current level of exercise (zilch), I'd be able to eat 1366 calories a day. Which doesn't seem sustainable. So I'm going to have to either start exercising (I do want to do this anyway, to tone up and get fitter), which would take me up to 1564 or keep going with a fast day or two every week to help keep my overall totals down.

I'm not at target yet (in fact THREE WHOLE POUNDS HEAVIER on the scales this morning from yesterday. Really didn't think I ate THAT much... Hoping it's my imminent period that's doing it) but lots to think about for when /if I do get there.

@clevername that must be water retention!! I think exercise is just about finding what works for you. I always think I should be a runner but I hate it and am ploddy. Instead I walk, swim and do fitsteps (currently at home). I do find there's a risk of eating too much after exercising tho!

Ha! I bloody hope so, @Lurkingforawhile! (more like wine retention after this weekend...)

That's one of the reasons I'm actively not exercising (if that makes paradoxical sense?!)... I know that I'd feel hungrier and, more crucially for me, I'd definitely justify eating loads more if I was. I decided I'd start ramping up the exercise once I get to about 2 lbs away from target. I'll prob try and do a few YouTube based workouts - a couple of HIITs a week and some toning sessions for my arms and stomach.

Sounds like a good plan, @clevername. The phantom 3 pounds sucks though - hope they disappear as quickly as they showed up!