Frugaleers talk food/fitness & weight loss - 2020 part 3

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Starting thread 3 early

wreck that doesn't sound good. A quick and dirty isotonic drink which might help is 500ml dilute squash (half strength) with a quarter teaspoon of salt in and a teaspoon of sugar (less if it isn't sugar free squash).

Hi all, been life busy & had no time for Mumsnet, having no internet & phone reception still being the main reason I've not been on.

I'm 168 think I've been that now for the longest while & on holidays a lot of the next two weeks

Lovely to see you Happier!
Glad you have been life busy, was getting a bit worried that we hadn't heard from you x

Nice to hear from you happier, I’ll be joining you at 168 after my weeks holiday, then another few days away the week after next. It’ll all be grand once the kids are back to school.
Totally knackered, sleeping poorly & not feeling well. Away with kids & family, not always easy. My own kids are a challenge, the others are very hard work. My tongue is practically in half from biting it, I don’t need those calories as well!

Morning

I went awol yesterday with it being results day. Now that is out of the way I am back.

I have arranged to go running 3x week with a couple of friends (lapsed fell runners like me) before work. Today was the first one.

I have decided to try 16:8 because it gives me more flex with family dinners. As none of them are up before mid afternoon it should work.

I have bought herbal teas to be my go to "I am bored lets eat" substitutes. Hopefully that will reduce my snacking and caffeine jitters.

I’m quite liking 16:8 so far unescorted although I definitely need to be more organised with dinners as when it’s late it messes the plan up a bit. Sometimes I end up doing 14:10. I have had the odd day where I’ve really wanted to just say “fuck it” altogether but then I set the timer for 12h and that feels really easy but still stops me snacking at night (my biggest downfall I think).

All that said I am really struggling with motivation the last few days, with life stuff generally so that’s had a knock on effect. Still fasting as much as I can but the snacks are creeping in during the eating window 😒

I think I’ll try skipping breakfast most days next week to shift the holiday gut, up 5.2lb on last Friday. Back home tomorrow for 8 days, I’d like to see half of that gain gone by then.

Eating all the salt, carbs and chocolate today.
Asod tomorrow then back on it. I think +5 lb min add feel v bloated

Well that was depressing but not unexpected.

I haven't weighed in ages. I've eaten too much but also I'm awfully bloated (ovulating?). I think I'm just going to have to give up until I'm back at work!

I have had a good first week. 2.3Kg but my legs want to fall off - I finished the week on 5 x runs (total 11 miles), daily walks (15 miles in total - I don't really count these as I always do them and they are the time me and DH chat about daily shit) and I have dusted off the turbo trainer - 30 minutes today.

I assume most of the loss is water (heat and exercise sweat).

I had a bit or a realisation today - that with wfh I really have no excuse not to get out and exercise. I just have to remember that I don't need to eat.

That’s a brilliant loss unescorted
I suppose it depends on when you’re back at work wreck, if it’s this Monday - sure, taking the weekend off is grand. But if it’s for much longer you might set yourself back and you’ll kick yourself.
I’ve a lot of damage to undo. Ouf, I ate everything and drank everything else

3rd September for one day then back again on 7th.

Right, that’s a fair amount of time alright. Well I suppose you could say fluff it and do a fair amount of damage. Or you could say mini fluff it - call it a diet break, aim for a maintain and see where it brings you. You might be surprised with a loss. Be a shame to take a step back now

Faced the scales, 164lb. Surprised & relieved, I saw a 7 in the number and thought I’d hit 170+ - turned out the scales was reset to kilos 😂 Of course my body might gift me a few extra pounds in the next couple of weeks, that can be the trend but I’m going to try to avoid that. Lots & lots of water for the next few days, like a bloaty blob, I look 5 months gone!

Wreck don't give up! You will just feel bad. It is OK to have days where it doesn't go quite to plan so you just start again from where it went wrong. On results day it was a mess for me - so I wrote it off and started again on Friday. You can do this! We have your back.

Something as flipped in my head - I am enjoying exercise for the first time in years. I suspect it is because it was instrumental in my weight loss this week, I feel lighter (physically and mentally) and I have roped in a couple of mates to mix it up a bit. We roared with laughter all the way around our before work / dog walk run on Friday so have booked in to do that M,W and F. We already run together on Thursday evenings (club run). The family shout encouragement (not in a sneery way) when I am on the static bike and have decided that mountains of salad with everything works for them too. This is no longer a chore.

Not I can't work in lbs... I have no concept of them. Having a 7 in my weight will be this week's goal. 2 would be awesome. I still have a way to go.

Yeah unescorted what a great start.
I agree wreck that's too far away to bin it off and restart. Aim to maintain instead maybe.

Good start yesterday, calories 156 spare, 17700 steps,

Well done Unescorted

How are you getting on wolf?
Nice work life
2.2 lb to a kilo - I’m the other way, kilos mean flip all unless it’s like 100, then I can do the maths instantly. I always used stones & pounds but that was too upsetting over the years, so pounds was less emotive and kilos felt too slow (cause I’m crap at this weight loss lark haha!)

I'm going to make sure I'm eating healthily at home and enjoy myself when we're out. Hopefully that'll allow me to maintain.

That sounds like a good plan wreck
Just over 9,000 steps done, but I reckon that’ll be the lion-share as I’m quite tired today.

I resisted chips but had ice cream, still got 156 today plus whatever banked yesterday. Will get 15k steps as on 14100 now but got nearly 18yesterday.

Am I half a stone lighter yet?!

A slice of cake fell into me today - the box said 330 cal per serving, realistically it was a generous serving ..... other than that I did OK. 3.5 mile run, didn't eat until 2:30, swapped out half the pasta for roasted courgette, tomato and mushroom and avoided a trip to the pub.

I left 5, yes a whole 5 calories behind. But hey, it’s progress after 8/9 days over my 1668 limit. Some days I probably did double that, actually more likely most days
A bit over 11,300 - that’ll do.
Fingers x’ed for the half stone life - totally deserved after all the self restraint😉