Lockdown stones to lose thread two

[poorpaws]

Thread two for those losing their lockdown weight

That's absolutely amazing pawpoors! Well done!

gonelululemoncrazy, poor paws, purland hooks Hurrah! Absolutely brilliant! Great boost all round. Well done!

Is anyone still very hungry tonight, I’ve been more hungry today than when we were in the thick of superhuman week. I added an apple for breakfast (to be clear I had my normal porridge, still hungry so ate an apple), half a mince pie and half a jam tart after lunch (only because I had made them and I wanted to see if they were fit to give away) and the rest of my meals have been as they were last week but I’m starving! I wonder if it’s because I know I can eat more.

It’s good to think superhuman week is done and dusted but it will be difficult to maintain and not gain next Monday. As we all know only too well it’s so easy to gain weight and so difficult to lose it. I feel a bit lost tonight.

Hi all,

Skulking in here to ask for your support please!

I’m at the end of 4 months hard lockdown here in NZ (kids just went back to school last week 😵‍💫 - first time since August) and desperately need to deal with lockdown weight gain. I have 2 DC (3 & 6) and a full time quite stressful job and any semblance of self care except eating and drinking gin has totally gone out then window over the last few months.

I jumped on the scales this morning for the first time in months and came in at 79.6kgs/175lbs … I’m only 5’6.

Have been trying to lose the baby weight (DD is 3.5!) since early 2020 and initially did quite well with a keto-ish sort of way of eating but then Covid hit and everything seems to have gone out the window since then. I feel so fat and frumpy and OLD. I just turned 40 in October and have a big party planned for January and have bought an expensive outfit for it that I probably won’t fit now 😑

Anyway time to reverse the trend. My ultimate goal will be in the 60s again (which used to be an easy happy weight for me! What happened!!) but for now I’d like to be under 75kgs for my party in mid January.

It’s going into summer here and we’ll be at the beach which is horrific to think about as my legs look like tree trunks.

I log my calories on MFP which has worked for me before and ironically am quite active - I run 8km 2-3x a week and walk 2-3 times a week. Proof you can’t outrun a bad diet 😂

SW 175lbs/79.6kg
CW 175/ 79.6kg
GW1 165/74.8kg

@poorpaws sorry you're having such a struggle today. Personally I really wish I could lose wait without feeling so bloody hungry all the time. During the day I ate pretty much as I did all last week - but had a much larger dinner and a whole Fuji apple to go with it. And like you I was still absolutely starving afterwards.

After so many stops and start, reversal etc one thing that I have taken from last week is that if I put my mind to it I can do it. It may take me a while to get to where I wan to be but I now feel more confident that I will get there. I'm sure you will get over the lost feeling.

*@Gennz18 * Hi - and welcome
I had a fantastic dinner out - and the only reason I didn't have pudding was because I literally had no room for it! Currently I am relaxing on my sofa stuffed to the gills and resolving to get back on it tomorrow ... Hopefully I can undo the damage by next Monday - in the meantime I shall raise my glass ( full of vintage port!) to the Lockdownstones Ladies and thoroughly enjoy the rest of this evening ...

@Bjarnum 'I shall raise my glass ( full of vintage port!)', damn! I really sold myself short in just having an apple as a treat last night.

Hi Gennz18, I am similar proof that you can't outrun a bad diet, especially if in involves to much & . I Regularly do at least 3 5-8k runs a week and 4-5 walks. I really, really, really hate going to the gym/doing weights, but do try (when I am being good) to do 1-2 HIIT session a week. It must have been tough in lockdown with two DC 3&6 and doing a stressful job. My two are older (9&12) and didn't require so much attention.
Its bloody cold here so can hide in layers of clothing - I'm wearing 4 layers when I go running and that's in the daytime.

Hi everyone and welcome @Gennz18 I am so envious of your summer, it’s very cold here and I hate the cold. Happy to hear your progress but I’m not a good example I’m afraid, I’m queen of the yo-yo diet (which I hate).

@Bjarnum
Good to hear you had a lovely evening, I would have most definitely found space for dessert. Im sure you’ll be back on the healthy eating plan today and for the rest of the week. It’s so difficult making healthy choices when eating out.

I wrote a long post earlier and lost it, I don’t know what I do but it’s a regular thing for me.

So over 4 but under 5 weeks to the big C. How much are we hoping to lose? My original goal was to be 10st 7lbs by then but 10st 9 would be ok.

@gonelululemoncrazy isn’t it unfair? Why???

I went for an 8km run this morning and generally food was good and
Logged everything in MFP and came in under Had a birthday celebration for DS who turned 7 and even made a plate of sausages rolls and didn’t eat any 😇😂

Some new togs arrived (in a masochist clearly) - yikes. I took a picture of the back view and it is confronting. I am actually fat! (I’m not saying this with self loathing, it’s just a fact). Somehow despite the scales and the fact all my clothes are tight or don’t fit at all I hadn’t really grasped this! I think I have body dysmorphia - in my head I honestly still think I’m 27 and 63kgs 😭

Hope everyone is doing well - in a way I envy you the cold weather and the coats!

Welcome @Gennz18! I've been the same with assuming I don't look much different to how I used to. A sure way to remind myself is digging out my pre child jeans!! Well done avoiding the sausage rolls.

@poorpaws and @gonelululemoncrazy how are you finding the hunger now? Weirdly the more I eat the more hungry I feel, so saving myself for an early dinner is working well so far.

Sounds like you had a lovely night @Bjarnum. Wish I was raising a glass back!! Have the scales stayed kind?

I did a sneaky midweek weigh this morning and another lb off since Monday which now takes me sub 11st (albeit by 1lb I'll take that ) !! Whoop!

If I can reach 10st6 for Christmas I'd be very happy with myself, perhaps I'm being a bit unrealistic...! Then again, aim high (or low!)

@Gennz18 the lapsed catholic in me think it must be something to do with what Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Well done on dodging the sausage rolls bullet, it was my DS2's 9th a couple of weeks back and I could resist the temptation of . On the clothes front I better not tempt you by suggesting what @Bjarnum sees as the tools of Satan - I fell from grace a long time ago.

@Purlsandhooks as the days are short and we have the decorators in I cant do any running this week (no way I'm showering with them in the house), so am having to compensate by keeping the calories low. Consequently, am absolutely starving and biting everybody's heads of atm - decorators must think I'm an absolute dragon.

Purlsandhooks I'm not brave enough to find out! I'll weigh Monday and prepare myself for the inevitable ... We now have guests staying till Saturday - they brought all sorts with them. Generous people bastards
@gonelululemoncrazy Ah! a dose of Catholic guilt goes a long, long way - though I think my hefty slug of port is probably more deserving of the hair shirt than one apple. I must root mine out ...

Yup I’ve been hungry since Monday mornings weigh-in. I haven’t increased my calories too much and am already quarter of a pound UP .

It’s so unfair, my DP eats like a horse and although he’s a stick insect already keeps losing a little weight without trying. I look at a mince pie and gain 3 lbs, smell a sausage roll and gain 4.

I hope everyone is doing well. I’m keeping busy baking and everyone but me is eating well 😕

I must take my own advice and stick with it.

Lol at all the fellow lapsed Catholics on this thread! If only the habit of fasting stuck like the Catholic guilt 😂

So I think I’m on day 4 today - weighed in at 78.2kg/172lbs this morning so that’s 3 lbs down. I know that’s water weight but I still prefer the water being somewhere other than on my thighs.

I’m tracking on MFP and every time I do this it works. I consume fewer calories than I eat and I lose weight! It’s like magic!

And yet somehow I ALWAYS forget! and get confused that all of my clothes look terrible, my bras are pinching. I have double chins in any photos (except carefully staged selfies taken from an upward angle) and my arms are chafing when go for a walk or a run (I se the term loosely). I am actually quite a smart woman unbelievably 😂

Somehow my brain has yet to make the connection that no, I can’t have a sedentary job + a few drinks every night, an ice cream with my son at the park after school, 3 square meals a day and seconds, something sweet after dinner, a few drinks 5 nights a week and expect to be 10 stone effortlessly (esp with 10kg of “baby weight” left to lost - which morphed into lockdown weight - as the “baby” is now 3.5 🤣)

This is not a self loathing post by the way! My weight doesn’t stop me doing anything really, I swim with my kids and go for walks and runs etc - in a way I suspect being “active” has been part of the problem as I’ve not really realise how chubby I was getting! I just cannot fathom that I’m 5’6 (on a good day) and 12 stone and the sooner this state of affairs is GONE FOREVER the better

@Gennz18 know exactly how you feel. My lovely SIL, who I am very close to, keeps on saying that she is worried that I have a totally dysfunctional relationship to food. 5'8 and 13 odd stone is not where I want to be, and I just don't feel myself that way. She has gone for the 'I'm just going to enjoy my food etc' but does complain about being 12 and half stone.
Even without drinking (I've only had a about three drinks since the beginning of August) its a real struggle to shift the pounds. The other day I asked my DM how my great-aunt, who lived to be 95, managed it. She replied, '..the woman was a complete miser and ate like a squirrel'.

It’s crazy isn’t it @gonelululemoncrazy I mean I wouldn’t douse my house in petrol and chuck a lit match on it and wonder why it was on fire 😂 And yet somehow I’m completely unable to connect my behaviour to my weight.

In the last 2 years (particularly the last 4 months here in NZ in hard lockdown) I think I have just been feeling completely depressed and nihilistic … nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to look forward to - May as well eat and drink like it’s a competitive sport and get fat(ter).

I had a few drinks last night but logged them all and then had a restrained dinner of chicken, salad, low carb wraps. Usually would use boozing as an excuse to eat a bag of crisps and then order a lardy takeaway.

@Gennz18 Oh, I had to laugh at your remark about "eating like it was a competitive sport" Just so me! I've gone down the rabbit hole and am totally lost. Bloody depressing My guests are now gone and so tomorrow I shall make a grab for the wagon and clamber back on. Then again, maybe not ...

@Bjarnum if you don’t fancy another superhuman week you had better behave!! There, that should sort you out.

Lol the only competitive sport I would truly excel at @Bjarnum

I had a realisation today that I could lose 3 stone and not be remotely underweight. That would take me to 60kgs (last time I remember seeing that number on the scales was 2005) with a BMI of 21.8. That is quite confronting … I’ve always thought oh I’d like to lose a stone but the reality is currently if I lose a stone I’d still be well into the over weight BMI. How did this happen? I am a slim person really 😂 Mentally I mean

Anyway today was a good day, tracked everything in MFP, took the kids to the beach, did a 6km walk, now having a sofa water with lime while DH had his third beer (usually I’d be joining him 🥴) so feeling sanctimonious too which is just the cherry on the cake 😂

Well!!! I just tried on a skirt that I couldn't zip up a few weeks ago. Great excitement, it now fits! Plus I'm half way to my target weight. Just the motivation I needed as I was starting to get fed up.
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend ahead

I am likely to be off grid until the 13th of December for a mixture of reasons. Hospital appointments nothing serious and my phone keeps packing up. Paws has put the fear of God into me so hopefully I will behave! Hopefully see you in two weeks...

Hope it all goes well @Bjarnum
Even if you don’t “behave” still come back! You can’t do THAT much damage in 2 weeks but if you think “fuck it I’ll start again in the new year” it becomes so much harder (voice of bitter experience)
Congratulations @Purlsandhooks!!! I bet you’re chuffed. Halfway to your goal weight is amazing I’d be ecstatic. How much have you lost so far?

I was 15 stone consistently for years before lockdown. I put a stone on at first lockdown, just weighed again and now just over 16 stone. I've ate like a pig the last few days.

I'm giving it another go though now at losing weight.

I just grabbed some old denim shorts out if a drawer to wear to the beach and I can’t do them up. These were the “fat” shorts that I nearly chucked out in 2017 (after I’d lost the DS baby weight but before I was pregnant with DD) because they were sooo huge, surely I’d never fit them again 😩

I’m now wearing a stripey dress… A pic of me looking fat in this dress in January 2020 prompted me to get really disciplined about my diet and I lost a stone in 2 months. Then Covid hit and here I am 2 years later.

I do not want to be wearing this dress (or the shorts) in 2023… I’ll be doing a ritual bonfire when I get under 70kg!

Hi everyone

@Purlsandhooks great news about your skirt, well done. It’s such a great feeling.

Those who were with me at the start of this thread back in June (I don’t think anyone is left from then) will know I had to buy size 16 jeans because I had nothing whatsoever to wear. Later I bought size 14 (posted a photo on here), well this week I’ve ordered the same jeans in a size 12. I think I am being a bit premature and they probably won’t fasten properly but I needed inspiration to get to my goal. They should arrive within the next two days so I’ll let you know. Just for clarity they are M&S so will be a large size 12.

After our lonnggg superhuman week I was doing quite well until yesterday when I fell head first into mince pies, jam tarts and a ton of chocolate so I know the scales won’t be good to me tomorrow but it’s totally my own fault.

@Bjarnum good luck with your two weeks break but do remember a superhuman week is on the cards if you stray too far from your plan.

@Gennz18 oh I’ve done that one several times. I’ve thrown out many clothes because I’m never going to be that fat again, only to re-buy within one or two years. It really sucks doesn’t it. Keep with us, you’ll beat this fat busting eventually.

@TalkToTheHand123 we’re all in the same boat (or on the same wagon), it takes ages to get back into the “zone”. Plenty of support here so you can do it (says she who needs to take her own advice).