A weight loss thread with no boring diet info

[AcornAutumn]

Hi all
I really need to lose a total of about 4 stone.

I'm not keen on the usual weight loss type chats with methods and foods etc discussed in detail.

So I was trying to think how it could be more interesting.

This might be a crap idea but I know I do better when I have interesting things to do. Today I've done my workout, some drawing and keyboard practice. I've also read a couple of chapters of Women Who Kill (!) and watched The Crown, I'm on Season 2.

It was those things that made snacking on a boiled egg less of a shock 😂

So I was thinking, what about a support thread where we don't talk about the details of our methods, but just check in for support, and tell each other something interesting we've done that day, even just a film we've watched.

Is it a bonkers idea?

Aapple I think I posted on your other thread, are you the one that's getting hounded about bread and jam? So sorry!

Have been for my run this morning. Am on target, 20K down! But my blisters are killing me. Actually bled through my socks today. FFS.

Morning all

Weight gain - time of month, water? Once every month or so, Londoners might look up in the sky and see a human shaped balloon....if so, that's me. Do wave!

Blisters - I do find the blister plasters good.

Yes, the other weight loss threads just aren't for me.

Long boring work day full of meetings. I'll be back here later, hope everyone has a good day.

@AcornAutumn my Dad could have photoshopped you in the sky!!

@longestlurkerever I recently discovered sanitary towels as a blister preventative. I stuck one on each heel wearing in some DM boots and it was revelatory. Well done on the running, sounds like a bloody long way!

I felt a bit down yesterday so I have spent an hour and a half on myself today. I have cut and coloured my hair, removed hair, clipped nails, filed feet, moisturised and treated myself to an extra thick layer of tinted moisturiser. I am beach ready 5 months early

My kids have had lots of medical appointments recently and together with trying to work and homeschool, I have been ignoring myself. I feel so much happier now!

That sounds lovely MrsBob. Are your kids going back on Monday? I am so ready to have them out of my headspace while I am working! Dh has suggested champagne to celebrate. I have not said no and am making fish pie to go with it, but I may also cycle down to the testing centre to pick up some gag sticks and the veg stall to get some potatoes. Tbh I haven't really addressed my diet at all. Just hoping that by being a bit mindful about it and posting here that I am trying to lose weight it'll stop me snacking or overeating generally. I will assess whether I need to be more radical in a couple of weeks.

The younger two are back Monday. I. Can. Not. Wait. The eldest is back Wednesday. He is 13 and may well have to wear sunglasses as he enters into the light for the first time in weeks.

I have to try out different approaches to dieting. I have a fairly high failure rate so it's good to change tack frequently

Oh and yy to champers - if you swap it for the fish pie it is practically calorie free!

Champagne has magnesium, zinc and potassium - all very important minerals Never let it be said I don't encourage good health here!

MrsBob Never mind being photoshopped, I've probably been reported as UFO and there's info in a classified file somewhere...

I can't get my head round sanny pads to prevent blisters?

long yes, I took a couple of weeks to figure out what might suit. Being mindful and having a chat here = half a stone down since the thread started, and all without boredom or deprivation.

I've only just signed off work and I'm thinking no workout tonight. Yesterday was weights and easy yoga so I think that's fine. I had a break at lunchtime and did a 45 minute walk.

That's great work! I already took kids out for "the ice cream of dreams" (their words) as their own end of homeschool celebration and did not buy one for me. (Polishes halo) but I am ingesting my minerals now.

How is everyone today?

I'm doing a care visit to mum today.

I have got a painting by numbers kit, it sounds mad but I thought it would help me learn a bit about painting and mixing colours etc. I like to do pastels and drawing but not tried painting before (acrylics).

Friends have said "just buy some paints and mess about" but I don't learn that way. So that will be a chunk of time tomorrow. I was also hoping it might teach me a bit of patience...

But today's plan is mum, then workout when I get home. Rock'n'roll - not 😂

Similar day here really. Did s bubble meet up with mil half way between us. Nice to see her but there's not a lot to talk about really and was quite chilly. Not the healthiest eating day and it's my rest day from running but oh well. Tomorrow is another day

long blinking cold out today as well but perhaps, as a runner, you don't mind?

I'm so pooped after my workout. I thought I was ready to increase the (light) weights I use but maybe not.

That said, they're hard to buy at the mo.

I have got resistance bands but I don't like using them...I could perhaps look for a different resistance band workout.

Forgot to say

I found a photo of me 3 stone ago.

It's a weird psychological thing but I don't feel I look that different. I do, and really it needs excavation to get that face back, and I couldn't get those jeans up my thighs now.

But to me, I just always look the same. Weird. It makes no sense, because seeing my coat hanging up still makes me jump out of my skin as it's shockingly big to me.

It's like I look in the mirror and see my soul instead of a physical me!

It's like you never feel like you're any older than about 25 isn't it? Other people do it to me too though. I had a health scare recently about diabetes and friends were saying "you're not overweight though so you don't have any other risk factors" but I have a BMI of around 30 I think. Possibly more once I get the scales working properly

@longestlurkerever

It's like you never feel like you're any older than about 25 isn't it? Other people do it to me too though. I had a health scare recently about diabetes and friends were saying "you're not overweight though so you don't have any other risk factors" but I have a BMI of around 30 I think. Possibly more once I get the scales working properly

Oh I think I expressed that badly

Even if I look at a picture of me underweight, which I have been, I don't see the real me in the picture.

I do see fat on me now, but I look at the picture 3 stone ago and see me as being as fat as I am now.

I think anything past Kylie size, I just think I'm huge.

Sorry, I explained that badly but I think it's more than 20 years of weight angst and confusion in my head.

long I actually had a friend tell me the doctor was wrong about me being overweight once and she thought I should complain. I now think my friend hadn't shifted the image of me as underweight out of her head yet.

Btw long where do you do your running, do you have a park or somewhere nice like that?

I’ve always been somewhere on a scale between sturdy and obese, and I don’t think my friends see it either. My best friend is a size 12 and has a really great figure, she is hyper aware if she puts on weight but doesn’t see the difference if I put on 3 stone. I think I’m filed in people’s heads as a fat person.
I wish I didn’t want to lose weight. It’s so tiring.

Hi, I'm a bit late to this but hope it's ok to join? Definitely need to eat (slightly) less shit and move my arse (a bit) more. I have no interest in chat about odd diets or being encouraged to enter marathons, I just want to shift a stone and a half of lockdown lard whilst getting on with my life, and remembering there are nice things to do that don't involve the fridge.

It is tiring isn't it? I've yoyoed by whole life. I blame PCOS. All my friends eat like horses and stay skinny but to be fair are exercise friends whereas I nearly fell of my chair when you called me a runner yesterday! I generally go along a disused railway track which is now a nature reserve. It's 5k there and back. There are a few other routes I could do - I used to do park run - but I am a creature of habit. I like being able to say to myself "there's the tree with the hanging doilies, if you haven't died before then you will make it" and can have a rest at the graffitied bridge" or whatever. I do like exploring on my bike but tbh not sure how much sustained exercise I really get as find my psyche leading me away from any hills.

Ditcheed the honey on my porridge for blueberries and figs. Minor win. Going to do massive clear out ready for repainting living room so hopefully that'll burn a few calories, then go for run though feet are still a state

Hop on @PeckyOwl this is a great thread and keeps me trying even when I'm failing!

@AcornAutumn you sound as though you have always struggled with your body image whether under/overweight? As though you can't accept yourself because you've got an image in your head and you will never fit it, no matter what size you are 

@GwendolineWindowlene my Mum used weight as another form of put down. She used to talk about how chunky I was as a very young child, especially in comparison to my sisters. I just believed her and grew up thinking of myself in that way. I was very slim and sporty but she used to bang on about my broad shoulders, big lower legs and how my fat used to spill over my knee socks. I actually was never overweight until late 30s when I took medication that increased my appetite.

I have a much better self-image now and have worked really hard at trying to like myself. I think that is really important in loosing weight, actually liking and valuing ourselves. We are so much more critical of ourselves than we would be of each other. I bet you are all total babes in real life

@longestlurkerever I like the sound of your running, you sound like you have really worked out how to motivate yourself.

When I first met dh I wanted to impress him and we went for runs together. I used to stop and pretend I was going to do some exercises midway, and then he'd join me on his way back.

I literally used to sit down and try to catch my breath then pretend I'd been doing lunges when he came back!!!!!

Welcome Owl

I love owls! I live in the urbs. I haven't heard an owl since a weekend in the country a few years ago, I nearly fell out of bed in my scramble to get to the window....alas, I didn't actually see it.

I dream of living somewhere I can hear owls!

long that sounds good. Must be so liberating to run.

Sorry people are feeling flat, I probably started that with my weird observations. Ignore me, I don't normally start gazing at my navel.

I weighed in today. No loss. But I must admit, I ate dinner yesterday when I didn't actually want any, I could have had a bowl of soup or something. Or nothing, but it seemed odd not to be hungry. I am still leaning how things work for me.

My thighs have much less chunk, my slobbing about trousers are much looser. So the half stone kind of shows.

This is blimp week so I mustn't catastrophise. Onwards!

Acorn I have owls! No kidding, I am as urban as it gets but my house backs on to a railway line and the embankment is all trees, with woodpeckers and owls and bats. We had a nest right behind our house one year and actually saw them fly overhead but we always hear them. Move here!

Looser clothes is awesome. I noticed that when I 2as swimming, even though the scales didn't show much change. I must have been more toned. Ugh my house is a state! Have been at it all morning and is at the stage where it looks worse than when it began. Am chucking small child things which feels a bit sad, especially as small DNs who were here regularly have just moved to Scotland, and homeschool stuff which feels less sad. School belatedly announced they want the books taking in for marking but our "books" are teams of paper with felt tip scrawls over them so fuck that frankly. Am pleased we managed it at all. Dd1 turned stuff in electronically and dd2 can read and write so they can take that as proof enough.

@longestlurkerever

Acorn I have owls! No kidding, I am as urban as it gets but my house backs on to a railway line and the embankment is all trees, with woodpeckers and owls and bats. We had a nest right behind our house one year and actually saw them fly overhead but we always hear them. Move here!

Wow

I have lived all over London and never had this experience.