Lockdown stones to lose thread two

[poorpaws]

Thread two for those losing their lockdown weight

Hi everyone

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl well done on your loss, I’d be happy to take it whatever the circumstances.
Yes nice here too but still quite cold. It’s going to be full sun 🤞🏻 On Friday and Saturday. All the buds are coming in the garden, I love it when all the plants come alive.

Shopping night tonight including buying the family Easter eggs 🥴 (some for me too I suspect).

Exercise is going well so far this week, long walks and then kitchen cleaning. I can’t believe how long it’s taking me to sort the cupboards out but only one left and then I can do cleaning you can actually see.

Diet is going ok so far this week but it’s only Tuesday so I’m hoping I can keep up the good work (different from last week).

I hope you are all doing well.

I see no-one has mentioned our mini goal of 10 lbs in 10 weeks to Easter 🐣, so how is it going everyone? I hope at least a few of us are going to reach it (?)

@Bjarnum I am thinking of you every day, hoping your SIL is comfortable and Freya has made a full recovery. I hope you are managing to cope with the nightmare you are going through. Sending you strength and a big hug.

It’s raining here AGAIN so I’ll stay indoors and carry on with the cleaning. DP offered to take me to B&Q in the rain, I could hardly contain my excitement 🙄 (then declined).

Hope everyone is well, happy and doing their best.

How did you cope with missing out on a rainy trip to B&Q @poorpaws?! (Very well, I'm guessing!!)

I don't think I'll be anywhere near 10lb, but if I can make a start then I'll be pleased - I have my health check up in a couple of weeks to learn the bad news about my current level of fitness, which hopefully will give me an incentive to keep going. DP's GP told him that he urgently needs to lose at least a couple of stone (more like 10 in total!), so I've taken out a Gousto subscription for a few weeks to give him a head start with healthy meals. He was home early from work yesterday, refused to take the DC to their sports club as he wanted to 'relax' , I left him with all the ingredients, recipe card etc to make his dinner which was only for him, nothing for me or the DC... he CBA and went to the chip shop instead

Thinking of you too @Bjarnum, and I hope things have improved for you since the last time you were able to update us

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl. The last thing I want to be is cruel here, but I think your DP has given up. If he wont take his children to their club and won’t cook a simple meal when he’s heard what his GP has to say about his weight, then in my mind he has totally given up and no longer cares about himself. I think buying a bike would be a waste of money because I’m pretty sure it would just sit in the shed/garage unused. I don’t know what to suggest tbh, it’s so sad for both of you. One positive is that he goes to work (I assume a sedentary job?) where a lot of morbidly obese people tend not to (not everyone obviously and I’m not judging here). I wish I had wise words for you. (a trip to b&q in the rain might make you feel better🤔 , obviously this is to lighten the mood, tongue in cheek, not to upset you. My DP would be up for going with you any time 😀)

I don’t suppose your DP would join a slimming club like WW or SW, or would he go swimming?

In other news Clara, I’ve caught you up and cleaned my fridge freezer yesterday, woohoo! Such joy in my dull life.

I’m doing quite well this week (probably speaking too soon) and I may have lost the 3 lbs I gained last week (which really upset me) so hopefully I’m back on track.

It’s sunny here this morning (obvious mood change) I've got a load of washing folded ready to go on the line and another load in the machine. A long dog walk and then back to cleaning the kitchen. I would think one day I’ll be let out, atm I feel like Cinderella.

I hope everyone is doing well and special thoughts for @ClaraTheImpossibleGirl and @Bjarnum

Only a quick check in for me today, will catch up on the thread properly later.
Current weight is 12st meaning I've lost again this week (although god knows how!) That's 8lb in total since I joined the thread!!!

Hi. I would love to join in here.

I've been trying to lose my lockdown weight.
Pickedforhome

Bit sore from gym and tired from hangover. May have a catch up nap soon.

Hope you enjoyed your nap @TalkToTheHand123 I'm not sure I could cope with hangovers nowadays!!

Well done on the loss @MrsWidgerysLodger

Hope you enjoyed the sunshine @poorpaws, I do hope it lasts, I want to get out in the garden finally at the weekend and do some tidying up! And I quite agree about DP, he can't make the connection between wanting to make a change and actually doing something; it's like he feels all these people who eat healthily/ go to the gym/ do a proper food shop have hours of free time to do these things when he has none. Nope, we all have the same time available, in fact most people have less than him!

I've been looking at 'Atomic Habits' again and finding some of the tips in there useful - plus I'm trying to remember "You can't change anyone except yourself"! That's helped me a lot when I get frustrated with DP; no point getting annoyed, if I want to lose weight and get fit then I need to concentrate on me, not wonder if he'll help/ participate.

On that theme, I'm now on week 2 (again!) of C25K, and am doing a short weights workout every other day - I'm really conscious of needing to improve my bone strength as my DM has osteoporosis. Just need to shed a lot few more pounds, and then I'll be on the way to better health!

I’ve done it again, I don’t believe it but I’ve done it again! I did so well for five days and then last night I totally blew it on ice cream, chocolate, crisps and I’ve undone all the good work. I did exactly the same last week and gained 3 lbs. I just have to stop doing this but there’s always a trigger which I have to deal with. Although it was lovely and sunny all day here I was cold in the evening. I had the heating on high and a heated throw around me but I just couldn’t get warm so I kept drinking coffee and eating chocolate for comfort. I just hope I’m not coming down with something awful because I was shaking with cold. I suppose I’ll try again this evening (it’s always evening, I cope all day).

@Pickedforhome welcome, do join in with the chat/moaning 😀

@MrsWidgerysLodger well done on the loss, I think you are the only one of our family losing atm (I’m certainly not) so well done you.

@TalkToTheHand123 at least youve been to the gym, I think a nap is well earned. I agree with Clara I don’t think I could cope with a hangover (although I’ve had plenty in the past).

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl I agree with everything you’ve said in your post, really we can’t make anyone else do anything if they dont want to. Concentrate on yourself and I’m very impressed with your exercise routine. Remember I bought a hula hoop last year, never used it but I look at it regularly 🙄

@poorpaws I hope you're feeling a bit better about things now? I thought I'd had a reasonably good week - done plenty of exercise, not eaten too much rubbish etc - then according to the scales this morning I've put on 3.5lb I've spent the past few hours eating toast and sulking!

I have a friend doing the Noom weight loss plan at the moment and she said they weigh in every day to avoid this sort of issue - I was a bit about this, having been a strict once-per-week weigher for years, but she said it's actually worked better for her. I'll think about it once I've stopped eating toast

Hope you've recovered now @TalkToTheHand123 and that you're still doing well @MrsWidgerysLodger!

Thank you all so much for the positive vibes sent my way. Quite a bit of good news: Freya's results are back from her op and the tumour is benign, my lung xray was clear but I've not heard about the other tests yet. And it turns out you can do a DIY filling! One of my molars lost its filling leaving this awful jagged tooth which kept catching my tongue - and no dentist appointment for a week (and that was emergency). But DH bought some gunk from Boots and patched it up (so much better) and today I finally saw a dentist and have a more resilient temporary filling and an appointment Wednesday to sort the issue out. We have managed to get the wisteria back on the wall -
at least about 100 feet of it! . The tiles are mostly back on the roof. The greenhouse has been repaired. The diet has totally bombed and I don't dare get on the scales - my MH won't take it. So, I am going to stick to the diet week by week and gather up my nerve after a few months! You all seem to be cracking on - well done. @Clara - You are doing so well coping with a diet at all whilst struggling with your DP. It sounds as if he is depressed ... which is awful for both of you.

I'm so pleased to read your good news @Bjarnum! And ouch about the DIY filling - I can't believe it was such a long wait even for an emergency appointment

That's great about the home repairs too - I don't blame you for having to put the diet on the back burner too, you've had a lot to cope with!

I've spent my day sulking about the weight gain and eating more toast. Then realised it's my health tests next week

Hi everyone

I didn’t post yesterday as like @ClaraTheImpossibleGirl I was sulking because I had gained weight. In my case though it was thoroughly deserved, I went completely off the rails for two days. Strange you should mention weighing daily because I’ve always been a Monday once a week weigher and I read on my Happy Scales that they advise weighing daily so I’ve now started that as from today.

@Bjarnum it’s so lovely to hear from you and thank you for the update. Everything is looking very promising now for you so maybe in a few months you’ll be back with us losing weight (or in my case gaining weight 🥴). So pleased Freya is going to be alright.

I’ve worked out that in 11 weeks it will be exactly a year since I started this thread so I am going to really try now (with the exception of Easter), get this weight gone forever and get on with my life. The other day DP told me I am forever on a diet! I was a bit put out by his comment until I realised he’s quite right. It’s about six years since I met him and I’ve been on a diet since that time, on and off of course, and I’m still not at my desired weight . Anyway I’ve taken my sulky trousers off and I’m going to knuckle down now and get something done about this weight (are you with me @ClaraTheImpossibleGirl, we can do this (if you put that toast down)).

I hope everyone is still on the wagon and trying very hard. It’s a lovely day here today, the sun is shining, and my mood has improved already.

Hi guys, Sorry it's another quick one from me (life has gone a bit mental!) I've gained 2lb this week :( Not actually surprised though as Saturday was a family day out to a theme park so naturally included burgers, chips and ice-cream!
Back to walking to work now I'm feeling better so hoping to smash it again this week.

Crunch, munch @poorpaws - what's that you say? Sorry, can't hear you from under my mound of toast

I feel like I've been on a diet more or less forever I think it started when my DM made (pointed) comments about my 'puppy fat' when I was around 10 or 11, which set me properly on the slippery slope to dieting/ bingeing/ dieting. Ironically my DM has always had a weight problem and I don't know why she felt the need to say anything to me... I look back at photos of me at that age and I'm a perfectly normal weight

@MrsWidgerysLodger hope you enjoyed your theme park trip - sometimes the weight gain is unavoidable/ worth it!

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl PUT THAT TOAST DOWN and join me for an extra push before Easter in 4 weeks. Just think if we don’t do something about it before Easter we’ll most definitely have (a lot) more weight to lose after (and I need a diet buddy 😢).

I'll definitely try @poorpaws, today I have mouth ulcers so that's my punishment for eating too much toast

I'm really struggling to find time to meal plan/ cook for myself though, it takes so long to cook for the DC and DP that it leaves no time for me!

Oh my, I really messed up today, I mean really, really badly! I have such good intentions at the beginning of the week, I am so good for two/three days and then I have a day like today which couldn't have gone any worse if I’d planned it. What the hell am I to do, I have to lose this weight

Sorry to hear that @poorpaws! What happened??

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl oh goodness it was so bad. Breakfast was porridge so ok. We went out for the day and I had a large ham ploughman’s (inc large baguette) with a side of chips and then of course we had an ice cream. I thought that would do for the day until I got home at six and the family had arrived with McDonald’s (large burger and fries with hot chocolate) and a large McFlurry. That was a lot of food in one day but what has really upset me is that after everyone had left and I had eaten a great deal I opened a box of Celebrations and ate a hell of a lot of them.

It’s just that I go into an eating frenzy and I just can’t stop.

It wasn’t so much all the food all day but the fact that I had the chocolates at the end of the day that I most certainly didn’t need, I wasn’t hungry and as I was eating them I knew it was a massive mistake but I just kept on. I am totally ashamed of myself and my gluttony! Today has been better. How are you doing?

It's very easily done @poorpaws (for me anyway!) - I think "oh I've had a bad day anyway so I might as well polish off a couple of chocolates, they all need eating up!" - and before I know it I've shovelled in the lot

Have you had a better day today?

I did w3r3 of C25K, which was... hard. I realised (whilst running!) that the only time I've successfully managed to lose weight was when I had some time to myself - last year for example, when the DC were back at school and I didn't have a job - but now my priorities have definitely fallen by the wayside. Not sure how to change that

Hope everyone is having a lovely Mother's Day!

Mine is - er, ok. DP was out last night (for a 60th birthday, so not his fault, just bad timing!) so it was me doing bedtimes, getting up with the DC etc as per bloody usual - the DC had made cards for me at school but that's it, he hadn't arranged anything oh and DP decided to tell me that DTS2 says I'm getting really fat

Following on from my post above about not having time to myself, I realised that I'm really bloody lonely, and my self esteem is rock bottom again. A friend asked if I'd like to meet for coffee - she works shifts so we could meet during the week when I wasn't working - but now I'm either at work or with the DC, if I ask DP to look after them for a couple of hours at the weekend 'just' so I can meet a friend then he moans to high heaven. I'm trying to think of a dieting strategy with a social aspect to address this - it's proving tricky!

I lost 1 lb after a very trying week. I’m still miles behind what I should be and I can’t seem to get back to my beginning of December weight when I started to feel unwell and put a lot of weight back on. I will keep on though and I’m holding on to the 1stone loss at the beginning of all this. I can’t seem to get much below the 11 stone mark but I need another stone off at least (please let it be soon).

@ClaraTheImpossibleGirl it made me really sad that you are lonely. Yet again I am opposite to you, you say your DP moans! My DP has told me that MY moaning is driving him away. I was shocked because he is extremely devoted to me and has very little in his life other than me! My moaning(!) is because he puts things in the wrong place etc so I simply tell him to do things properly. Anyway if he decides to go (which he won’t) I will not be crying and devastated because I decided a long time ago that no man was going to make me cry again. Its definitely put me off him a little and he knows where the door is. (He did say for my age my figure is quite nice, hummmm “for my age”).

Mother’s Day was a bit of a no-go here too but it doesn’t bother me. My DD was at A&E all night with her young son who was having great difficulty breathing. She’d also been up all night the night before with him when he was non-stop coughing. She sent me a text wishing me happy Mother’s Day and asking me to go round and feed her cat. She came later for 10 minutes but hadn’t time to get me the flowers she had planned but did bring me some very nice shower gel (I buy cheap stuff) so that was nice. I cant say I’m into Mother’s Day/valentines etc and I think shop bought cards are a waste of money and bad for the planet. I do love the kids homemade cards though.

I hope you all have a good Monday. I’ve got a long dog walk planned and then we have to go to a garden centre for compost, slug pellets, plant feed and other boring stuff (keep away from the plants paws there’s no room left in the garden).

Good luck with weigh ins.

Well done on your 1lb off @poorpaws! I didn't even weigh myself today although I did go for a run, I'm on w4r1 of C25K.

I hope your DD and her DS are both ok today, it must have been a very worrying time for everyone?

Men eh... yep, DP told me that I moan at him for not doing things. I pointed out that when I've asked him to do something boring but necessary (give the DC a hand with their homework, tidy his stuff away so we have a bit of space, etc) SEVERAL TIMES and he still hasn't done it, then yes, I will continue asking and he will see it as moaning

DTS2 told me that he's very worried that DP will die soon a couple of his classmates have had their fathers die young (I think both from cancer) and even at 6 he can see how unhealthy DP is. I think I said before though that I've given up trying; I made him a healthy dinner today but as soon as the DC had finished their dinners he was on the scrounge for their leftovers...

Is anyone still doing the lose 10 lbs in 10 weeks up to Easter Monday? There are 2.5 weeks left!

How are you all doing? It’s gone very quiet on here lately. I am thinking about starting anew with something like “Have you failed many times? Please join me and we won’t give in no matter how long it takes”. That’s how I feel atm, it’s taking so long. The problem is loads of people post at the beginning and never bother again. I just need to keep on as I have another stone to lose and no matter how long it takes I want/need to lose it.