Dancing through December

[Octopus37]

Well thought I would start the last thread of the year. Weighed in at 9st2.25 this month, my aim is to end December at a similar weight. I'm not realistically expecting to lose.

Welcome @DangerMouse17. I am a newbie too.
I am keeping quiet this week as I am feeling the effects of my dental treatment and am not able to eat much and to be honest I am not feeling keen on putting anything in my mouth.
I have decided on my 1st goal which is 68kg. I have a curvy figure and I look great in jumper dresses at this weight. I know that is vain but it does give me an incentive.
@IDontMindMarmite that is amazing what a inspiration.

HoneyBadger, I think it's good that we're here for the good, the bad and the ugly...this shit is hard to do and keep doing.

I need this, don't know who else does but:
DRINK WATER EVERYONE

Hi everyone. I hope you're all coping with this cold wet weather. The driving visibility is yuk yuk yuk.

Honeysucklejasmine I hope your feet are happy and sweet-smelling soon.

Welcome Dangermouse!

Octopus sorry to hear about your friend, whatever it was. Hope she's ok.

Heygirl your menu for the day sounds yummy.

I have just splurged a big chunk of my calorie budget for the day on an afternoon snack that I didn't need. All healthy stuff (yoghurt and fruit with honey), but over 200 calories. I blame the weather.

Nellie sorry to hear about your dental treatment. It always makes me miserable. I hope you recover swiftly.

HoneyBadger you are very welcome here, as Marmite says. Personally if everyone on here was always really upbeat and positive the whole time it wouldn't be honest and also wouldn't be helpful. Sometimes I think with food with you it's all or nothing. You report on here when you've had a lot of junk food, or you fast and eat nothing at all. Is it really like that or is it just what you write here? I'm wondering whether a good food goal for you would be to work out more 'happy medium' meals/recipes which are filling and healthy.

Oh, welcome Dangermouse, sorry I missed you there.

Don't worry I'm not either starving or bingeing. I don't post what I eat each day because I don't do calorie counting and personally don't like obsessing about food.

I generally do intermittent fasting and lost about 24lbs over the first lockdown and summer through that and being more active.

Teaching through this madness is hard going but the gym was keeping me sane and focussed. This latest lockdown has been madness at work, gyms closed and a 13yo isolating for a fortnight and home learning.

It's been a tough month and I've missed the gym, struggled to fast and had a lot on at home and work and eaten and drank more in response. It's my life that has been a bit fucked not my whole approach to weight loss which was working fine till the month from hell.

I'm ok with small steps and hoping things begin to improve in life and I can refocus on my weight. Sometimes you have more to worry about than eating

1222 calories in today. 1905 calories out. 17500 steps, 78 floors blah blah. My dinner is rice cakes with PB&J and an apple. Not very exciting but I'm making up for the pizza yesterday. I'm worried about the lack of exercise over the holidays without the school run. Then I anticipate isolations in January due to all the mixing (of others) in the holidays. Luckily we don't go crazy with food or drink at Christmas so although there'll be lots of chocolate the meals don't change much apart from Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
Is anyone else worried about festive fat?

I am not really worried about Christmas. I only have extra people
for the time of the bubbles. We have a Christmas tradition of lobster and chips! I can make a big salad and eat more salad and less chips.
Actually my biggest concern is that I have 3 children in their early 20s and they all want to come home. What do I do?
I hate the idea of 1 of them being alone. If it come to that I will suggest that they spend that they celebrate together so they are 3 households.

Honeybadger Thanks for your reply and I'm sorry I was nosing. You have a sensible approach from what you say. The posts where you say what you've eaten aren't representative of everything you're having, which was making me concerned.

It's fine. I'm a bit snarky at the minute I'm afraid.

Just back from the gym. So good to get back.

Drank more water and moved more through the day. Plus gym. Over 10k steps and 2300 calories burned so over targets for the first time in a week or two. Baby steps.

Glad it's Friday tomorrow and hoping like mad that I don't get an email saying year 9 have to stay out longer. Looking forward to ds going back to school on Monday 🙏

@TheHoneyBadger this awful weather isn't helping. It's so grey and dismal out there. Your goals are good I think and it's important to not overwhelm ourselves with too many goals that need to be reached immediately. That's why I'm concentrating on going back to 15:9 and upping my water. I've eeked my calories down today too but I'm not aiming to be too strict on that as long as I'm sticking to the IF and getting plenty of walking in. My disordered thinking will just take over otherwise. We all need to do what we know is best for us but be kind to ourselves too. For me this thread is about personal accountability and to share the triumphs of sticking to things and reaching my goals, and failures of scoffing the Christmas chocolate stash We are here to support each other and ourselves. You're doing great x

For me right now, this basic goals are sometimes all I can hit and yet again I remind myself how unlikely they were a year ago and I give myself credit. I bought myself some stir in hot choc, 99cals a cup and a dark mint choc (80%) to have as an option. Funny enough don't even feel like it now. Another day I'd eat my arm to get it. Oh well. Into bed I go, same lunch prepped and ready for tomorrow. 14k steps managed.

61.3kg this morning. Have a good day everyone.

Glad you got back to the gym HoneyBadger, fingers crossed that your Son is back at school on Monday, I feel your pain. I dont mind marmite, I will try and drink more water today, ,have been very lax with this recently. Hate the cold weather which doesn't help, even though my steps are quite good. Felt hung over/tired after not very much to drink yesterday, so all I wanted and did eat yesterday was carbs, not great. 9st2.5 this morning, trying to be yen about it and keep posting, cause I honestly feel that if I remain accountable, it helps me reign it in just a bit. Glad its Friday, was going to go out with my friend tonight, but snow forecast and dont really feel up to building an igloo

Yes similar here heygirl. Aiming to get back to 16:8 most days and move more as a first step. It's like starting again but that's ok because trying to go straight back to it wasn't working for me.

Weight not good but hoping at least some of that is the need for a bm and pms bloat. 14:4.2. Didn't want to post it but best I face it and start again from here.

Hopefully fat fast gained = fat fast lost.

Going to take the dog for a walk then make coffee and contemplate my day. Only have a little bit of in person teaching today then my remote classrooms to check on which inevitably means sitting in front of my laptop and losing track of time and not moving enough so I'll watch out for that today.

And must.drink.water!

Sorry mixed up heygirl and festive there but sort of applies to both. It's just one day octopus 🐙

Right I'm going to start my twice a week weigh in from now, so will weigh Mon/Fri as I think it might give me more consistency, rather than 'Oh that's last night's pasta' 'Oh that's because I stopped eating at 6' - this is how my brain works!

Two large glasses of water in here and I'm the same octopus, equivalent of hungover if I don't drink a lot.
Goals:10k steps minimum, 3L water, 10pm lights out tonight
B:porridge on milk with apple and blueberries
L: roast veg and pulses
D: chicken of some sort.

Inset day here so no school run. That's me 5 miles down so I might walk up to my mums.

BM has resulted in losing about 2lbs this week for me as I was bunged up. My period is due next week so I'm hoping not too much gain there.

Well I've managed to drink a lot of water already and have gotten ahead of myself on food. I've just cooked a very substantial tortilla that ds can have half of for his breakfast when he wakes up and some will be there for me when I break my fast.

Going to the gym again later. Seems to have instantly lifted my mood going last night. So pleased that has at least reopened even though we started lockdown in tier one and have ended in tier two. No email saying ds can't go back on Monday so everything crossed that goes ahead.

Bizarrely getting back on track started with having a big bedroom sort out which was therapeutic and a sense of having sorted something I'd been putting off for ages. For me at least weight loss and healthy habits are 95% about how my head is doing. Hence stay sane is always goal one - sane is the baseline and sometimes it's just survival mode. As my mental health lifts I can achieve more and start improving everything.

Sorry me again.

Back from gym and have broken my fast with tortilla as planned. Have drunk over 2 litres of water, nearly 13,000 steps already and 2500 calories burned.

I will eat again later but I feel good for having gotten in a fasted work out and having food at the ready so my head didn't turn to takeaway when I got in.

Excellent water drinking everyone

Doing amazing HB!

Idontmindmarmite lol we are star water drinkers! I'll have another now. Made a yum sweet n sour chicken for dinner with veg and rice. Delish. Finished eating now and a no junk day, thankfully! Off at a conference for the weekend, cannot wait, hotel stay and time in a car alone I have my dark choc and 99 cal hot choc sachets with me. Enjoy weekend all.

I'm hungry tonight. I had a jacket potato with cheese and peas for dinner. Rice cakes with PB&J for lunch, toast for breakfast. An apple and 3 cups of tea. Lots of water. I am over my calories by 43 1250 calories is hard going.

You can get a lot more bang for your buck tho if you want to Fanny.. Rice cakes are a snack really, would you go a bit heavier on veg and protein around lunchtime? And two slices of toast wouldn't fill me either.. I'd be hungry on the same for sure. Greek yoghurt with berries a lovely break and v low cal and at same time filling. I eat 100g of it plus berries and even almonds, it's still not a huge amount.

I usually have yogurt and muesli when doing the whole get less fat thing but forgot to order some. Plus hot buttered toast is much more tempting on a cold morning with a cup of tea. It's homemade bread too so was big slices. I've not done any walking today except around the house so I feel bad about that which is silly. I've still clocked up 40 floors and almost 3 miles though. I was inspired by you HB and cleaned and tidied my living room ready for the tree going up and feel so much better for it so thank you for the push I needed.

I find lunch the most difficult to get right. What I'd love is baguette with quorn ham or red pepper hummus or Tzatziki but I'd eat the whole baguette given half the chance One benefit of having been shielded is that my only food supply is delivered once a week so no nipping to the co-op for a freshly baked baguette. I'd happily live on toast and pizza to be honest. Homemade of course so at least no additives and preservatives. I think I'll make some veggie soup tomorrow. We are going out for a walk of at least 2.5 miles and I'll feel better for it. Sunday is baking day with the dc. Mince pies and cookies. God help me.