Jumping into June

[Octopus37]

Happy June everyone. Here is the new thread. Not sure what my aims are this month, mainly to try and get on a more even keel. I'm up from the start of May 9st5.25 this morning. Hope everyone is still enjoying the good weather.

Intermittent fasting I'd say.

Well yes I did feel guilty, isn't that terrible, and also felt like having more. It's as if I think one dessert messes things up so may as well completely sabotage.. I didn't but it's a pity to be like that. I am very lucky my metabolism is fast so I know I have no problem having desserts every few days but I suppose at the moment when losing so consistently it feels a shame to halt it. I don't know. Anyway I won't weigh today I think.. Will get a long walk in later. Had the best sleep in a long time, 8h straight! Unheard of.

Well done Nutella and flattered and best of luck octopus on that medication. I hope it helps you. Lovely, sunny Saturday here. Enjoy everyone!

I thought intermittent fasting but that would surely be IF, and flattered has said IT twice now, it still could be autocorrect I suppose.

I get it, feeling guilty. When I started increasing my calories to maintenance I was constantly scared and guilty. I was pretty shocked actually, to see that I was still losing weight after increasing by a couple of hundred a day. Then shocked again when I maintained at loads more.

Oh thanks Nutella, that's really helpful and I know this is true. My gain was consistent shovelling of crap so I need to ease up and allow myself the odd treat without ditching the healthy stuff and routine. I really am feeling so, so much better so this is the best way but the isolated desserts etc are absolutely fine, once I can have them and not feel guilty.. Dh has a plan to eat his own home made stuff only, which is probably a good plan. Oh yes sorry re It, I could be wrong so.

@HeyGirlHeyBoy think you are definitely taking the right approach. 9st4.25 here this morning, down a little bit so quite pleased. Would like the sun back

Thanks really appreciate it octopus. I'm probably boring you all with my neurosis but it helps to talk it through. I did weigh and I am 8st 10.5 so all the silly worrying for nothing! Enjoying a lovely Berry and Greek yoghurt breakfast with the obligatory cappuccino. Enjoy Saturday all.

Yes! Happy for you. I think it's a bit of a process where you are learning about your body. You'll hopefully relax when you realise that you can have cake and things in moderation and it won't hurt.

Morning all, hope you have a good day. It's lovely and sunny here so I'm thinking I might make some iced tea. I'm not hungry this morning so just having coffee for now.
It'll be a picnic style lunch, not sure what to do for tea yet, maybe soy ginger chicken.
My daughter has friends round so it'll have to be something nice

Hope your hrt is good @Octopus37

I already have dinner sorted - Thai chilli chicken with cashews. See, takeaways don't break me out in a rash the way the sugary stuff does..probably cos I don't mainline them in the car Love having my weekends back now that course is done!

I've just realised it's almost a year since getting back on the wagon after falling off around March. I was 9st11 this time last year so that's a full stone down despite the mess ups in between. Delighted with that. Right I'll stop obsessing now and go walk!

Well done Nutella 💪🏼

Hi hangover glad you’ve had a nice time. If you’re near or have reached goal weight putting on a few pounds to be able to enjoy a period of excess really doesn’t matter so long as you then cut back and lose it again I reckon. It’s just when you don’t get back on the wagon and it becomes the new normal again.

I’ve still got a shit ton to lose though. Off to the gym in an hour or two and will do treadmill and weight machines for abs, hips, bum and thighs and aim to be ouchy tomorrow.

Scales aren’t playing ball but onwards and upwards

@TheHoneyBadger bet you see a big swing in a day or two, hang on in there

Wondering how stressbandit is after injury? You're some woman for the gym Honeybadger.

Morning all! 63.5kg this morning and that little change is cheering me on to keep going.

IF is intermittent fasting but I think I put IT

Good luck with the HRT octopus, you might feel like a new woman.

That's amazing @HeyGirlHeyBoy! A stone off for a whole year is really an achievement!
Well done on your loss @FlatteredFool

Brilliant flattered and thanks MakkaPakkas, I was originally 10st 4, heavier than I was at 9m pregnant, Jan 2020 so it's a stone and half over a year and a half. That was quickly gained prior to that so I suppose quickly lost but from 9.5st down was more of a push.

It's coming up to a year since I got my Fitbit and I think it was around the second week of July when I started addressing my diet properly. I think I've lost about 10lbs over the year but put some back on recently. I'm
A lot more active than I was and generally more m

Mindful of what I eat though not always. The guilt remains, sadly and I still hate my body.

Ah flattered... that is really hard to feel like that. Isn't your body amazing though, to carry you, I'm not sure if you've carried and birthed babies, to dance, run, climb etc? Our bodies are incredible.. It's very hard to feel like that. Well done on increased activity over the year, that's huge for health long term. I have gained 18lbs in the same time, but I'm not concentrating on that (tho it is mad!)

That made me go check my fitbit - I'm 20lbs lighter than I was a year ago. Sadly still seriously fat though

I've been to the gym and done really well - saw a new heart rate and wondered if I was going to die but all was well Allegedly burned 600 calories which seems crazy but the gym machine and my fitbit said about the same. I feel like I should have lost a pound in sweat alone. Have fasted thus far and drunk a lot of water but now getting tempted to pour a G&T and go and put my legs in the sun for a while. Might have to see if I own a pair of shorts that fit.

Flattered it's hard isn't it? I find it very difficult to accept my body where it's at rather than look in the mirror and go who the fuck is that? If I regret anything it's that I didn't appreciate my body more when I was younger and wasted energy feeling bad about it when I can now see it was great. A friend pointed out that I'll likely feel the same way in 15 years time ie. wishing you'd appreciated your body more 15 years ago itms.

Exactly! I was going to point out the same thing!! Well done on gym and that loss, if we'd done nothing we'd have gone up! My DM had a disease which prevented her walking or having much physical control in her last long number of years. She'd have given anything for any type of functioning body and I remind myself of that often.

True.

On the treadmill today, whilst wondering if I was going to die, I was thinking about how people say exercise doesn't do much and it's all about diet. The fact is that exercise does do stuff and in some ways is the answer (Oh look I have all this stored fuel that I need to burn) BUT the exercise will be longer, harder and more challenging than most people think.

I now embrace sweating at the gym whereas before I was a bit mortified about it. You're meant to sweat and pant and it is meant to be hard.

Of course exercise has a role for sure, really felt that last summer. At the moment, even a 20 min walk is doing well for me, we all do what we can. Also exercise gives you endorphins so you're less likely to comfort eat, I find, plus you wouldn't feel like eating straight after exercise plus, and this probably sounds awful, it takes time, so you've less time to sit on the couch gorging

A snippet of JS' post today.. I need to remember the slow down bit!

*But hungry. Because some hunger is normal and expected when you’re trying to lose fat.

And it doesn’t have to be an awful experience.

But it does suck a little.

And these are a few ways you can make it suck less.

Eat a big ass salad every day. Seriously. If you struggle with fat loss and hunger and being in a calorie deficit but you don’t have one salad/day...you’re doing it wrong.

Water is good for you.

Shocker.

Sparkling water is, too. And the carbonation is Professor Flitwicks favorite way to curb hunger.

Watermelon is magical. And if anyone tells you not to eat it “because sugar” or “because glycemic index” they are, literally, Voldemort so tell them to fuck off.

Stop trying to lose weight as quickly as possible. There is no rush. Zero reason to speed up the process.

Relax.

Take it slow.

Remember.

The more you try to rush it, the more stupid unsustainable shit you’ll try. And the more stupid unsustainable shit you try, the sooner you’ll regain everything you lost.

And thats some muggle shit.*

@TheHoneyBadger 20lbs!! Amazing 😀

Sorry to hear you feel that way about your body @FlatteredFool I think the media/society conditions women to feel that way which is such shite. I feel very neutral about my body, it's reasonable. I have my grandma's hands and that's very cool. Carrying a genetic thread right the way back to mitochondrial Eve. Yeah my back hurts but meh... Anyway hope you get out of the mindset. All our bodies are good and useful in different ways and they're the only home our minds have!