Lose 7lbs/3kg per month - its August!

[cricketmum84]

Hey folks! Link to last months thread here Lose 7lbs/3kg per month - July thread! http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weightlosss_chat/3955008-Lose-7lbs-3kg-per-month-July-thread

A friendly welcome to all returners, lurkers, regulars and newbies. Regardless of how much or little you want to lose. What diet you are following. Exercise regime. Etc etc. We are all in this together!

Our target is 7lbs off per month and this month I will make it! Will post stats tomorrow but I am ohhhhhhh so close to my next big milestone!

See you tomorrow my lovelies for August check in! ❤️

Hi all. I am getting back in the zone. I had such a good week planned earlier this week but that was all scuppered by a cough and kidney infection. Luckily it wasn't Covid and the antibiotics have kicked in. I have a Pilates class tomorrow and yoga on Sunday and I stuck to my calories yesterday. I have really struggled to get in the weight loss 'zone' recently but I am desperately trying to make better choices and be healthier.

I swear I must have sweated out half a stone today. It's sooooo hot here! 30 degrees on my living room and I can't open the window in case baby kitten escapes.

Me and DD are trying out the quorn peppered steaks tonight with side salad so should be a reasonable healthy meal, no chips or garlic bread for me.

Just found out we are locked down for at least another week. Feeling thoroughly pissed pdf with everything right now. I can actually feel the frustration rising inside me! It's stressing me out way more than it should be but I just don't know what I can do to ease it! No swimming still either :(

Hello, can I join you?

Starting weight is 11st 11 (07.08.20)
Target weight 9st 7 (27.11.20)

Can't wait to lose the lard and get my energy back. I'd settle for 9st 10 too.

Drawing up a meal plan, my fave books are:

The Doctors Kitchen
The Quick Roasting Tin (everything is prep time 10 mins!)
Healthy Every Day by The Medicinal Chef

I don't recognise any of those @Vavavoovoom, I will have a look. Off for a very long (and hot!), walk today, but then out for lunch so we will see. Planning a sensible breakfast to keep me going and lots of water.

cricketmum84 wow, that’s so frustrating about lockdown. The uncertainty of it all must also be really hard to live with. I hope the quorn steaks were good at least.
I found the heat really hard to cope with yesterday and was feeling really irritable but am going to try to have a good day today and ignore the stubborn scale.

Morning all. I'm now 12st 1 which is a 2lbs loss so far. I am reducing carbs for a few days to try and kick start the weight loss a bit. I have a Pilates class this morning and yoga tomorrow.

Morning all and happy weekend! Am on the naughty step today after having garlic bread last night and a Neapolitan choc ice before bed! Gained a pound overnight! Boo!

Plan for today is to really up water intake as I've been a bit rubbish with this recently. Nowhere near enough water intake. Then 2 low fat microwaveable poppadoms later with a little bit of lime pickle (my guilty pleasure!). Dinner is a spicy bean burger (no bun) and a portion of my point free red cabbage coleslaw. Might make that this morning, it's really lovely with the grainy type mustard and I really need to get this red cabbage used up!

Good loss @NerrSnerr! Well done!

@Shedtheload I also have a very stubborn scale! It needs a good talking to lol!

@Vavavoovoom I've just done our weeks meal plan too. Sad I know but it's my favourite job of the week! Grab a cup of tea and sit down with my books and a notepad. My favourites are the Miguel Barclay £1 meals, we have the vegetarian one and the vegan one and Jamie Oliver's veg book. I'm always on the lookout for new recipes :)

Hi all, just checking in. Still in the 11s. Still freaking out about the schools going back next week.
Overdid the yoga at the start of the week. Every back, hip workout that is supposed to help actually exacerbates my hip problem so I'm grumpy, hobbling, too hot and in pain. No idea how that will impact my food choices today but I think it might affect my alcohol choices later ie I will have lots of G&Ts.

Morning all

My son was at his dads last night and is staying there till tomorrow - first time ever he's had him for 2 nights so we'll see how that goes!

Meant I got to the gym last night and this morning so I'm feeling very smug haha. Meeting my social bubble at the pub this afternoon (the one and only benefit of being a single adult during the apocalypse!)

I bought some stuff from Primark last night. I had to buy a small in it all (equivalent of size 10-12) which was insanely bizarre but a huge boost!

Hope you're body feels better soon @JessJonesJumps. I'll be joining you for a couple of gins later! @WhatALearningCurve how lovely to be buying size small- you've done brilliantly. Enjoy the pub later. @cricketmum84 hopefully that one pound will come off easily.

I have done my Pilates class and feel happier for it, unfortunately I'm always one of the last in as I have to drop my daughter at the kids club beforehand so I'm always right up by the mirror which isn't good for my self esteem!! I keep telling myself that this is the biggest I'll ever be and every time I look at myself in that mirror I'll be a tiny but smaller!!

Happy Sunday all! Back down to August start weight with a big whoosh so I'm hoping it continues!

OMAD today, we have a quorn roast for Sunday dinner, will have a very small portion of mash but plenty of green veg and some carrots in gravy.

Hope you enjoyed the g&ts @JessJonesJumps. I participated in a couple of vodka and diet cokes in the garden which definitely improved my saturday!

Thanks @NerrSnerr You'll definitely get smaller doing Pilates. I attended a few classes years ago and couldn't believe how much I ached after it.
In the end, we spent yesterday wrestling our new paddling pool into position. It's amazing how getting soaked, by your DH with a hose, can lift your spirits. I'm sure the neighbours must hate us 🙈 but it was great fun and just what I needed. Last night we ended up rearranging DS' gaming room again so I didn't get any G&Ts in the end but I'm glad you managed some vodka and cokes @cricketmum84 It makes me feel like I had alcohol vicariously! Finalising all school 'stuff' today so I will definitely have a G&T tonight.

Hi, hope you're all enjoying the nice but slightly cooler weather that we have here

DH has cooked on the bbq for the last 2 nights so my diet has been easy to stick to. Meat and salad.

@cricketmum84 sorry to hear about the extended lockdown. Well done with your whoosh.

I am so looking forward to finally going swimming tomorrow. They only had fast or medium lanes bookable so hopefully I will be quick enough for the medium lane. I would have chosen slow. I have booked for 3 times this week.

I've had a very hungry and bloated week, which was really getting me down, then TOTM arrived a week early and it all made sense.

RIGHT....! Back to it tomorrow, so worried about weighing myself after 2 weeks of cramming baguette, cheese, steak and seafood into me but it was worth it!

8:16 - 4:20 fasting days. MFP to track 1200 cals a day. Wish me luck! Also I start back to work on Tuesday after 4 months of furlough. I'm hoping it's going to help.

Sorry, I haven't tracked the last few weeks posts properly. Hope everyone's ok .

I'd like to join this thread please. You are all so inspirational.

I think I have around 3.5 to 4 stone to loose but too scared to step on scales.

Just had one of those horrific moments where looking through holiday pics taken by my best friend I didn't recognise the ugly obese bird sitting where I should have been sitting. Oh shit it's me. No wonder none of my clothes don't fit.

I've deleted all dating apps and will use the next 8 months to sort my life out including my weight & terrible unfitness.

I'll do 16:8, low carb, 800-1200 calls tracked with MFP
Ramp up the exercise, water & vitamins
Stop drinking booze, eating sugar & crisps
And check in here daily.

The only way is down. I hope.
I'm seriously shocked, appalled and gutted.
😐

@Ruralbliss we can keep each other in check as we are doing the same thing

PS also don't go too low in calories! It's much easier to keep going at 1200 rather than 800 a day.

@Ruralbliss hi and welcome! Good luck, your plan does sound good. I agree with @Bella444, don't aim for too few calories. You want to make it sustainable. I feel like 800 cals would be setting yourself up to fail, it would be very tough.

Thanks @Bella444 how much are you aiming to lose?

I'm really in a dark place about my shock realisation but putting a brave public face on just now (last night of holiday).
I have a first date planned for Tuesday evening and I'm tempted to say 'I'm so sorry I can't come out to play because I've just realised I look nothing like my OLD photos' but instead I'll go as it's a night out.

I'm no stranger to dieting - yo-yo'd a fair bit when I was younger but this is by far the heaviest and biggest I've ever been. Have been on a two year non-stop eating/drinking fest.

I'm going to write out some trackers in my bullet journal: 'No Sugar', 'No Carbs' 'Drink 2l water' 'Did exercise' etc so I can see how many days I achieve my goals plus the theory of tracking stuff = improvements.

Also instead of becoming obsessed with diet/weight loss/fitness I'm going to trial a whole life reboot Witt better sleep, more time writing/reading/decluttering/managing finances.
I think I've let soooo much slide since I chucked my kids dad (& he abandoned them) but also also have achieved loads (single motherhood, sick kids, special needs, promotion, hoise & garden renovation)

I'm going to see this as a project - non emotional. I'm still a nice, funny person but really want to be a lower weight for health, self esteem & my clothes!

Any hints & tips much appreciated

@Ruralbliss please don't be too hard on yourself, we're all in the same boat one way or another. I've got a couple of stone to go but might be more after this holiday. Tomorrow I will venture the scales!

I think it's great how you are looking at this like a project, just don't be too hard on yourself and deny yourself too much. I found just setting myself to loose one or two pounds a week is (fairly) achievable and still let's me live my life.

Hello all. I have been lurking for a bit and you all seem lovely and inspirational, so I am taking a deep breath and joining in, if I can. Have a fair bit to lose, but will start off by trying to get rid of the stone I gained in lockdown. Will weigh in tomorrow. Aargh!

Thanks again @Bella444

Wise words!

Are previous posters who've lapsed allowed back on the thread?!

I'm still living with my mother since coming here in April and things have totally gone downhill on the diet front. I put on around a stone in three months. It's quite shocking how easily it went back on.

Anyway, having weighed myself again (always a bad sign when I avoid doing this...) I have decided I really have to get things back on track again.

Starting weight: 17 st 8.6 lb
Current weight: 16 st 12.6 lb

When I got here I was just getting down to the 15s, and that's where I want to go!

I'm back on Weight Watchers green plan as it worked so well for me before.

A big hello to all you lovely people. It's so nice and motivating to see familiar names and see your amazing progress!!!

Hello to the newbies @MotherOfDragonite welcome back! I hope you're enjoying living at your DM's despite the scales creeping up slightly. A stone in three months isn't much at all. I know I'd put on much more if I was staying with my DM. It's lovely to see you again

I did very well on Sat with a long walk, and good food, but yesterday in the heat I just ate cold things all day! However I am up, am about to exercise, and I am on it! Hope you all have good days!