Just over 14 weeks until Christmas, lose a stone with me.

[MrsSoft]

I have decided to try and sort myself out. I am fat, frumpy and so so fed up.

It is just over 14 weeks until Christmas, I am hoping to lose a stone by then. Surely I can manage to lose 1lb per week.

Anyone want to join me, I realise this is short notice!

Well this is flying and I am delighted about that. Congratulations on the graduation @Mum5net and hope the pea based recovery is progressing.
Poor old lady dogs I feel for them too.
Glad that you are doing so much walking @Hartleyhare1206 it does help tone and use energy (by that I mean calories) but also autumn is such a gorgeous time to be walking.
I hear you about feeling better in the morning when I have not eaten crap the night before @roomfulloflove Boo Hiss to the bad ex but feeling stronger and stable in ourselves is a great gain.
I am on 12k steps today and there has been a definite improvement in my step count since we have got a new dog (previous very elderly dog was pts earlier in the year and it's only now what we have wanted to fill the dog shaped hole)
I am doing well water wise too- 2.2/5 liters each day minimum and while I have carb loaded earlier today I ate (a lot) of olives and cheese for dinner and I am not going to over eat tonight I know. I don't quite do the fasting of @Mum5net but at least a 7pm to 8am break of no eating and as we have all noticed the worst sort of eating occurs in the evening.
I hope to sts this week. I think that's a reasonable expectation considering the circumstances and last weeks good progress.
Night all!

On Monday was 65.9 kg today 64.2 kg.

Ooooh well done @Mum5net!! That’s brilliant 💜

1lb Off for me today - puts me at 12st 4.6lbs

Like this part as tantalisingly close to weight starting with the next number down which renews my determination. Find it much easer psychologically than being at the top end of the stone IYSWIM?
On holiday from work this week and have a couple of social things planned which will no doubt make things trickier as it will involve more food/treats 😳
Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend xxx

@Hartleyhare1206 That’s another one to cross off. Well done! Tricky when your routine changes but you can do it. Have a lovely week. Just back from long trip back. More tomorrow when weigh in

Tired after busy weekend. Tried not to over indulge as DC2 graduated. Very proud mum as they also got special award. My go to outfit was too tight and my replacement made me look v frumpy in photos so I am so keen to shift weight. Every time I was offered a drink I went for a half pint instead of a pint etc and ten hours in the car yesterday certainly kept me away from food. But now determined.
Good news is I weighed in 63.8 kg this morns so from last Monday when I was 65.9kg that’s 2.1kg down. Need to keep
this going.

Congratulations @Mum5net and @Hartleyhare1206 on the weight loss. Well deserved.
I am going to weigh in tomorrow as there was a very bad weekend cumulatively ending with an entire tube of pringles. I am full of salty remorse this morning. However I have packed my gym bag so I am going there at lunch.

Great news on the weight loss @Mum5net and @Hartleyhare1206

And good luck with your focus today @BasicMadeira (you've made me really crave some Pringles though!)

And congrats to your dc2 on the graduation @Mum5net, I know what you mean about photos though- it was hen party photos in sept that made me realise I actually had to proactively do something about my weight. I'm really pleased as I have lost half a stone since then which is brilliant. I put most of my weight on my stomach (apple shape with long thin legs- look ridiculous most of the time 🤣) But basically it has all come off my stomach so I feel I can see the benefit every day.

I weighed in this morning again and I'm still just one pound under 11 stone- so I've been mostly stable for 3 weeks which I'm really pleased about as haven't done any exercise, and have run out of healthy food- so am mainly on pasta bread and dairy. Just still not bingeing on sugar- just don't feel like it which is great- and not eating in the evenings.

Listening to my healthy food podcasts again- so need to do another sensible shop, and will fit in exercise if I can this week- will need to be tomorrow and Thursday.

Hope you all have a good week!

Thank you @roomfulloflove and @BasicMadeira
And have a good gym session @BasicMadeira
I agree @Hartleyhare1206 about the psychology of the cusp ; it looks like at least three of us are kicking around the 'next number down' stage where we try our best to stay in the high teen of the lb rather than go back up to the big number or are chasing down to get to the next new lower number.

I'm going with soup all week and avoidance of everything else apart from high protein yoghurt and parmesan plus, of course, satsumas.

@BasicMadeira Hope your new dog is a boy. My in season working cocker is wearing her house pants as she climbs all over my cream settee, barking furiously, while I try to do my work. Will try to post a photo later.

Would love to see a picture @Mum5net
Yes. We have a gentleman dog.
Okay I am .2 of a lb up. That's okay. Totally okay. Gym went well yesterday. I find that once I get there I am fine it's the getting there- madness I know.. I am pushed for time which is good as I can't start faffing around with endless stretches. I actually have 40 mins between finishing work and picking up the DC so I can use that time and go to the gym or a I can waste it and quite often eat or spend money- generally both and I need to do less of both so it's obvious really.
Well as usual I am full of vim and vigor early in the week I just need to make it last until Thursday and Friday!
Hope all well x

Will leave the photo up until tomorrow
Well done @BasicMadeira for holding on. .2lb is a sneeze. Forty mins walking might be the easier alternative to the gym? You must be lightning quick at getting your clothes off and on. I’m only managing 10k steps across the day as legs still v tender. Genuinely the more active the better the losses for me. Officially done with Pea Soup until 2022.

Oh would you look at her! What a little dote- and the room for the tail at the end. Hope she is being a little more spoiled at e moment and NOT being pestered by randy boys.
The walk would be easier in some ways but already walking the dog means my walking skills are already used daily. Also (and more truthfully) it's cold wet and fairly miserable in Ireland in November so I would cry off at the smallest bit of rain (I can cope with cold but the wet, grey, damp weather I hate) so at least the gym is always the same temp and dry.
Eaten a bit too much today but still drinking lots of water and ate a lot of fruit and veg so all okay.

Sorry the below is to @Mum5net

I suspect its still cold, wet and grey @BasicMadeira but hope you are getting to the gym. All that extra effort will get its reward.

After five days' minimal exercise, I've managed to get back up to 13,000 steps a day, still down on my normal 16,000 average, but with dodgy knee I'm not going to be too hard on myself.
Back into 16:8 quite rigidly now. It won't work / suit everyone, but I'm eating two meals a day, noon and 18.30, and absolutely nothing at other times, just water. It is taking all my will power. Even the dog gets three meals. But I'm determined as its the only way my knee will improve. After Monday's decent loss, by Wednesday I leapt back up 0.9 kg, nearly cried but I've kept at it and today I'm 63.7 kg. If I can do more calorie burning that would help, just need incremental exercise to speed it along. Hand washing the floors is a sure fire way of doing 2000 steps on your FitBit arm. My water drinking is between 1 litre and 1.5 litres so that's my next issue to address.
Sounding a huge weight obsessed bore right now. Being good is no fun at all.
How is everyone else @roomfulloflove @Hartleyhare1206 @Keladrythesaviour @PhoenixReincarnated @Mamamia35 ? Has anyone got over half way to getting their Xmas stone off? We all need encouragement.

Thanks for bringing me back into the fold, it has not been going well. It was my birthday this week so visiting family and going out for meals I'm sticking around the 11st 4/3lbs mark, really need to try and shift off that as I feel like once I focus off the plateau I might be able to make some real progress.

Sounds like you're doing great @Mum5net! With those steps and that eating plan you must really be seeing the difference!

I really need to do a good food shop again- my diet has been really poor for quite a while now, and sugar has crept back in this week.

Still sticking to 12:12 which I'm pleased about as that is one change which I feel has stuck.

Have come to the end of my podcast- and it's getting progressively colder wetter and darker. Plus I've had about 3 weeks of increasing stress. I feel ok stress wise right now- think I will do a sensible food shop to arrive on Sunday. Then all I need to do is sneak in some exercise. Although I am doing park run on Saturday (dreading it- but need to kickstart myself a bit more).

Hope everyone is doing well!

Me,too, on healthy food shop @roomfulloflove. Rubbish about the stress, sending big sisterly support. Be kind to yourself. May I suggest a shadow boxing routine in the solitude of the bathroom where you throw silent punches at the causes works a little bit. Have done that myself.
My foods of the week are leeks and lentils.

Oh and good luck Park Run.

Still hanging on to this Christmas wish.
Just keep yo-yo ing. Every time I think I've made good progress the next day I jump back heavier by 0.9kg or 0.7kg, not just a smidge... then it takes at least four or five days to get back to the low weight and begin again.
On Saturday I was 62.8 kg but today, Tuesday I'm 63.4 kg.

Hi everyone, sorry I’ve been a bit quiet. Had a hellish week last week (family stuff) and didn’t know whether I was coming or going.
Didn’t eat especially well last week due to a combo of being on annual leave and having some nice treats (ie way too many Costa Christmas drinks 🤣🤦‍♀️) and just being out of routine and having a lot on my plate meaning meal plans went to shit and was eating the wrong stuff at the wrong times. Somehow managed to maintain and stay at 12st 4.6lbs when I weighed on Sunday which I take to be a humungous win to be honest. Trying to knuckle down and get back on it this week but finding it really bloody tough for some reason. The will power and resolve I was feeling a couple of weeks ago seems to have evaporated and I need to get it back. I know we are rapidly heading towards Xmas and all the food and treats that go with it but I desperately want to avoid piling on a load of weight and feeling crap about myself on my 40th in January.

Giving myself a big mental kick up the arse! Aims for this week are to do 30 mins of brisk walking (minimum) each day, have no Xmas drinks from Costa, and cut out snacking.

Hope you’re all ok and having decent weeks so far?

Sorry about your tough week @Hartleyhare1206
Like everyone else seems to finding it i too am finding it tough now. My mojo has gone. I am walking lots which is good but not being very good re food. Yesterday eve I stayed up internet shopping and ate crap- I do not know why I did it: I stopped ans thought about it and tried to access the why and work around it but I just went a bit mad. Thankfully there was a limit on how mad I could go with popcorn but still I did not even really enjoy it. Better day today. Look even if I only sts it's better than going up but it just seems to take such effort to lose a lb and then it adds on again so easily. It's just very very f**king annoying.

@BasicMadeira I feel you. I can’t believe how hard each lb has been. Looked through my old weight loss record and last year and earlier this year I was comfortably losing 1/2 every 5 weeks. It’s taken me 8 weeks to lose 6.4lbs this time round. Whether it’s age; whether it’s just being so close to target and my losses are just slowing down I don’t know? I’m honestly feeling like I’ll be lucky to break even and maintain over these next few weeks and then I’ll no doubt put that 6.4lbs I’ve busted a gut to lose back on in one week at Xmas🙄🙄

I’m very miserable this morning aren’t I?! Need to get a grip and dig deep.

Did my mini walk on the school run which has added 12 mins to my brisk walking total, and as soon as I’ve guzzled a gallon of coffee I’m heading out for a decent dog walk - have actually managed 45mins walking on Monday and Tuesday so aiming for at least that again today I think. And will stay away from those Costa drinks too 😄😄😄

I also though this would have been easier.
@Harleyhare1206 I have lost pretty much the the same as you 10st 6 - down to 9st 12, so 8lbs
When I lost weight before it was as the clock went forward and I ended up getting up about an hour earlier to take on more exercise. It's so hard doing outdoor steps when it is dark.
But it's proving to me it's a life style change I need to make rather than eating less.
I have to stop rewarding myself with food when I feel sad, or cold or tired. I'm a classic comfort eater.
To hit my target of 60kg for 60 years I've got another 5lbs but truthfully I want to be 9st 3 lbs so 58.5 kg. so a further 4 lbs.
So I've got 9lbs to lose ... 2 lbs a week then.
@BasicMadeira At least we haven't given up

Weighed in at 12st 3.4lbs, so 1.2lbs off for me today and means I’ve cracked the 1/2 stone barrier. It’s taken 9 weeks of me being on this thread to shift that so think it’s safe to say I won’t have lost a stone by Xmas which is 5 weeks away 🤣🤣 but still, it’s better to be 1/2 stone down than up and out of curiosity I put on the trousers I was wearing when I decided enough was enough and needed to get back on the waggon (and join you lovely lot 😍😍) and they are loose now rather than slicing me in two 🤣🤣 so it’s an achievement! Plus, if I’d have carried on eating too much/not moving as much I would have gained weight. So I reckon over all I’m probably actually a stone better off IYSWIM??
Would love to sneak in to the “elevens” by the time I break up from my diet for xmas 🤣🤣🤣 (and that attitude right there is why I’ll never be thin!!!)
Much Saturday love and skinny vibes to you all 😘😘😘

Well done @Hartleyhare1206 that's great.
Definitely any movement down is good. It's just a long slow process. Hopefully we can join up again after Christmas and see how it goes. I get dispirited at the slowness because everything I don't eat is a sacrifice in some way. Although I am not being very strict at all so I just keep need to move downwards slowly.