Mindful March

[Octopus37]

Hi,

Thought I'd start the new thread ready for tomorrow. I am aiming to be 9st1 by the end of March, have decided to be ambitious for once.

Bit of a non event here too Overweight but I'm a single mum - sorry you feel let down by dh - guessing that's worse than it just being a non event because there's no adult to chivvy the child/ren into making an effort.

I'm just in from work having apparently done 36 active minutes and burnt 1764 calories already. So shattered over the last week - presumably readjusting to being back in the classroom. Managed to tick quite a lot of jobs off of my to do list today. If only I could achieve the same at home!

Ds loves Reece's and you're right they are very satisfying - super intense shot of flavour without wanting to eat more.

Tmi but this evening I have been on the toilet every half hour. I'd been constipated and not feeling very well the last few days. Not nice to have an upset stomach but kind of hoping this is why my weight hasn't moved. Also getting lots of flights of stairs in from running to the loo 🙈

I've been out in the middle of the night dog walking. My sleep pattern is a mess. Stomach has settled down but just can't sleep.

No idea what's going on with me but the dog seems happy 🙈

Thankfully I'm not at work tomorrow and just have lots of marking to do but I do need to be up to get ds up and off to school. Very off topic but I desperately need to swim in the sea, watch a sunset and hang out with girlfriends not thinking about being a mum or teacher and not worrying what time it is or when I have to be up the next morning. Please god let us fly this summer 🙏

Hope you feel better today @TheHoneyBadger

60.9kg this morning so that's a nice drop.

Have a good day!

@FlatteredFool well done. @Overweigt hope you are feeling better today, there's so much hype around Mothers Day and we all so deserve to be appreciated, hope you can treat yourself to something @TheHoneyBadger hope you feel better today, bodies are such strange things. Really hoping we can fly in the Summer too, so many of us need a break. Very bloated here, 9st5.5, god knows whats going on. Blood test tomorrow after they messed up last weeks appointment. 10,000 steps already today so pleased with that.

I hope you settle soon Badger. Nice one Flattered! Your overall trajectory is looking good. Octopus - it's all that bloat, horrible feeling. I suppose you've tried Mint tea but we swear by it in this house.

I've met my water target today and then some. Am feeling covid boredom and like you, am desperate for an exciting holiday. I had a week off last week and stayed at home making a dress. it was productive and fun in a new hobby kind of a way but ordinarily we would have been somewhere way more exciting.

OMG everything's so monotonous, how do you cope?

Morning - spent much of yesterday asleep but stomach was settled and headache that I'd had for days seems to be gone thankfully.

I'm 14st1.4 today. Official weigh in day tomorrow. Teaching all over the place today so should burn some calories running around at least.

Morning all. Just checking in for accountability. I was feeling emotionally rubbish all last week, just from all the stress of the past couple of months catching up with me. I finally started to feel better at the weekend. Quite a busy week this week and although I've not been wonderful with my eating I'm getting better at resisting snacking and my weight is back below 63kg which is a relief.

Hello everyone, great PT session this morning...I'm so much stronger than I was at the start. Booked another ten sessions, it's indulgent but I'm loving it...I mean, I don't always love it before the session but I feel great afterwards. On about 11,000 steps for the day already (admittedly my afternoons are pretty sedentary as I'm in the library). The PT sessions are down at the beach and it was lovely this morning, hope this continues.

Weight wise, not so good. I'm 10 stone 2 and just can't seem to get consistently below this, or not by much anyway. I have been eating a bit rubbish this week - eating up the birthday junk food - but still. It's really frustrating me.

Checking in also for accountability. Up and down a bit with calories though planning FAIRLY well what I'm eating.

Up again this morning, as you can all tell, really not in the zone at the moment and my body is doing strange things. 9st6.5. Trying to get back in control. Steps good today so far, 9825 and I'll do more. Well done to everyone else

Look after yourself Octopus, I hope everything's ok.

I've meal planned everything today including snacks and now I need to wait 2 hours without snacking. I'm not hungry, I can drink more water but it's not hunger making me want more snacks now. I think it's a bit that it's been an emotional day (i'm a Psychologist, had some intense sessions, nothing serious) and now i've got to do boring admin.

Any tips on holding out? I could do with a distraction but can't think of anything. I'll put the radio on, that might help.

7k steps (that's high for me), 42 floors and nearly 1800cals burned already. Crossing everything for a good weigh in tomorrow as I'm heading towards discouraged by not losing last week and feeling a bit stuck.

Collapsed on sofa currently but going to take the dog out for a walk soon.

Nutella hot herbal tea to sip? Put on a face mask? Moisturise? Have a bath? Paint your nails? Go for a walk? Anything to switch states I guess. Maybe do a guided meditation?

I'm chilly so a nice hot tea sounds like a good plan. Might be a risky move going to the kitchen though . I do need to moisturise my hands, they're so dry! Thanks for the good suggestions

@NutellaEllaElla thanks, just hormones I think. Hope to feel better soon. Hate the way emotions and food are so linked, like @TheHoneyBadgers ideas for self-care, will manage a bath later. One day at a time. Also have the anniversary of my Mum's death coming up on Friday which doesn't help, even though its been 19 years. Hope everyone is ok

Very happy with having hit all targets by 7pm. Should end up as a good day. I've eaten a tin of beans and sausages. Strange craving that went down well. I've also had a glass of red wine. I'll have fruit and yoghurt if hungry later.

Will aim for better nutrition tomorrow!

I need to do better at self care.

Hope you managed to hold out and find a good distraction @NutellaEllaElla? Well done @TheHoneyBadger! And hope you're ok @Octopus37. Anniversaries are really tough. I'll be thinking of you on Friday.

I'm still annoyed with DH and it's put a bit of a gloom over the week. The long and short of it is that he did make some effort towards Mother's Day, for which I am supposed to be grateful, but it was minimal and he got in a tizzy about a few things, so rather than it be about me for once, yet again it was all about him. And then when I asked if he'd feed weaning DD (why is it always up to me to sort anyway!) he said he'd prefer not as he'd done the previous two days in a row. I had to point out I normally do five! Meh, I'll have to talk to him properly again at some point but for now, I cba.

Right, vent over, thank you for listening! Weigh day tomorrow and after the weekend I've been moderately careful, so I think as long as I haven't gone up, I should be pleased.

Ended up on just under 18,000 steps for the day so I'm pretty happy with that.

Sort of

Overweight - fair enough for having a grump on. He needs to pull his socks up!

Totally legitimate to have a grump on Overweight. Oh didums you've done two days in a row of feeding your own child

Didn't eat more but did have another glass of wine. Over 10,000 steps (epic for me - god knows how you find the time to do 18,000 krypton and others!), 2500cals burned so far, 52 flights of stairs and 50 active minutes.

Crossing everything for a nice weigh in tomorrow because I need the reinforcement and I have so much to lose and need to feel it's happening and it will have made a real difference by summer. It's bloody hard going somewhere where everyone knew you in your 20's as a fit young diving instructor and is looking at you wondering what the hell happened. Err motherhood, middle age, working in the UK, surgery and health problems etc happened. I haven't been scuba diving and kite surfing daily for a couple of decades now and I'm not 23 anymore

Scales are down thankfully. 14st:0.2. 12lbs down in 7 weeks. I'd been losing 2lb a week until last week which was hopefully just a blip.

Now just a couple of lbs left to go to be rid of my winter lockdown regain.

That's amazing Badger! I think weight loss is rarely linear so there are bound to be weeks where you don't lose anything.