LOSE IT! February 2022

[TheRealHousewife]

A Warm Welcome to New and existing Members alike! Fresh new month, fresh new start, fresh new habits. Jump right in to reset & refresh to become a healthier version of yourself.

As no one size fits all, members need to follow their own way of eating. This thread aims to offer guidance, support and a bit of hand holding.

We generally have WOW (weigh on Wednesday) day each week. However post and share your progress as often or as little as you prefer. Do what works for you.

The important thing is not to think of it as a diet (based on deprivation and unsustainable) but more a way of life (sustainable & enjoyable).

I calorie count based on a lower carb Mediterranean diet. I intermittent fasting and eat twice a day.

Are you in😊 What food plan will you be following? What do you want to change and why?

LOSE IT! January Thread 1

LOSE IT! January Thread 2

Useful link for lower carb menu ideas Free Low Carb Diet Plan

• more links to follow.

Hi all and well done @WhatWouldTheDoctorDo!

I've maintained which is disappointing as I was down a pound at the weekend. Feeling the urge to sabotage myself with toast now ... but I will try to get back on track instead.

Good luck today everyone!

@OneSwallow I'm new myself but welcome. You've done it before, you can do it again!

@SunshineCake1

SW 13 stone 2
CW 11 stone 2
Maintained my current weight since mid Dec. No further loss, but no gain either

1lb loss this week.

SW 10st 7
CW 9st 10

Good Morning All

Gosh, the thread has moved on quickly. I’ll try my best to catch up with reading it all today! I’m feeling I’m letting you down somewhat not having been replying to you all but will try harder ☺️

Thank you All for your well wishes. Feeling ok. Usually my migraines last 3 days max but this one was nearer to 5 with a small reprieve in the middle. Scales being proper naughty and unkind. Weight is up up up… so much so my scale did not ‘recognise’ me 😮. In the voice of Catherine Tates ‘Nan’ … “what a f liberty” 😬. On the plus side my hair is becoming noticeably fully and plenty of regrowth showing. I will continue to be mindful with portion control and try to get a bit more movement in.

Menu
Meal 1 - Salmon with salad.
Meal 2 - Mushroom stroganoff.
Tea, black coffee, water. (Also need to include supplements into cal allowance namely collagen & yacult)

Not many days left this month so I’m on it hard 😬

Morning all, well done to those with losses, & a supportive arm around shoulder (or whatever is the welcome equivalent!) to those struggling 🙂

Day 53 - Weds 23rd Feb - 9s 3 & 1/4lb
BMI 21.4
BF 23.9

Coasting along here weight-wise... just got a solicitor's bill for £1300 & my washing machine has died though so a rubbish start to the day, on the upside I'll have less money for chocolate for a while 😀

Just catching up... Well done to those with losses! And hugs to those with struggles, scale based or otherwise.

I'm glad your DD is coming home @SunshineCake1, try and get some rest in the meantime.

I had a last minute meal out last night (realised a voucher was due to expire at the weekend so managed to get out to use it) so I know I was well over my calorie limit, but I was super good all day and going to try and keep on top of it until I weigh on Friday.

Going for a walk with my sister later as well which may not be vigorous exercise, but movement nonetheless!

Happy Wednesday to all 🙂

Morning all. I stayed the same this week, which I’m pretty happy about. I lost 4 lbs last week, so really wasn’t expecting that to continue. I’m just relieved last week’s reading wasn’t a blip 😄

Weighed myself this morning and thought of you lovely people.
Well done on your losses. I think almost 2 months in, wobbles are to be expected. Keep drawing that line but don't let it rule your life either.

I'm another pound down. So 10lb lost so far , 10 to go. I'm halfway but already feeling so much more in control of my size.

I've treated myself to a new bag.

Thanks @buzzofthebumblebee you were right, the STS did lead to a woosh. Now a stone down, which feels like great progress even if there is some way to go. Excited for your wedding though! @RebeccaNoodles listen to wise @buzz on staying the same. Maintaining is an art in itself and the thing we are often the least good at...

Looking back at previous posts and sending love your way @129orbust sounds rough.

Trying to think about how to maintain after this loss. I lost it all 2 years ago and then put it all back on again. When I calorie counted I saw that I was eating about 3000 calories a day - and not unhealthy foods - just a lot of it. I wonder about how my brain was working then - I could see I was gaining weight but I couldn't bring myself to change my portion sizes. I wonder why and how I can learn from this...

Anyone up for sharing their work to change mind set?

Well done @WhatWouldTheDoctorDo.

Maintaining is still a win @RebeccaNoodles. The toast won't magically eat the weight so don't you eat the toast.

Same @buzzofthebumblebee. I would love to have maintained.

@SingaporeSlinky. Good stuff. Well done.

You aren't letting us down @TheRealHousewife. You have to look after yourself.

Well that went well. Weighed in. Up. So all that weight I lost, I'm back to only half a stone lighter than in May 2020. I look disgusting too.

I've walked for an hour on the treadmill, pretty fast, then 1 3/4 hour walk with the dog. Trying to cheer myself up now by dyeing my hair.

@Rewis

I've been doing some reading about weightloss. You know the usual, nothing revolutionary. A lot of them are tips or expressing understanding how busy life is. Like they go on about it. To the point where I get stressed out about not being that busy. Like there are busy days or busy moments. But is everyone so genuinely busy all the time that there is absolutely no time for anything that everything has to be 15min max cause that's all people can manage? I'm really thinking that this talk about busy is making everyone busyer than we actually are

I have to be completely honest here and say that now I'm a stay at home mum with some time on my hands, I can honestly see why I have failed at weight loss before!!!

I've always been overweight and always worked but since going on mat leave a few years ago and then the pandemic hitting, I've been off work for the longest time ever since starting work 24 years ago.

My journey over the past couple of years with my weight has been so difficult, I started Noom in 2020 and then my mum died and that sent me in to an exhausted spiral of grief and just barely getting through the day.
I started again in Jan 2021 and lost 3 stone last year but that was an true uphill struggle, daily battles, losses, gains, the full roller coaster of emotions and blah!! Add my old full time job in that mix and there is no way I would have lost 3 stone last year!

I don't think I'd have ever had the energy to get up at 6am in the morning, bootcamp/swim, come home, be mummy, get little people off to school/nursery and then go do a full days work with an hours commute each way, come home, cook healthy meals from scratch, clean, laundry, life stuff!! I'd be dead from exhaustion and that's with my amazingly supportive DP, granted he doesn't always see what needs to be done, but if I ask or tell him, he does it.

Now as a sahm, I do have some time to myself throughout the day and I can make myself as busy or as unbusy as I like. I can make time to cook a few healthy meals to freeze or try to get out for a walk to up my step count. Obviously this depend on my beautiful little dictator... sorry, I mean daughter and whether she decides she wants constant attention or is happy to play alone for 10 minutes whilst I do something else like cook.

Being at home has definitely helped me have the best success I've ever had with weight loss but that is just my experience though!

Well done to everyone for the losses, the maintained and all the NSVs!!
I stayed off the scales this morning, I couldn't bare the thought of a gain so I'm staying blissfully happy with yesterday's 2lbs loss!

You are all super stars - we will get there in the end even if the scales are being uncooperative currently.
134.8lbs for me today so 0.4 down - it's a start
I am sorry for all the stress people are feeling
Onwards and inwards my chum!

@declutteringmymind that's amazing! Halfway will soon be most of the way!

I just had a very unwise lunch of leftover pizza oh well, I'll make sure dinner is healthy. My injury seems better so hoping I can jog again soon - that is the exercise that really helps move the needle, for me

Just seen a bunch of new updates, sorry. Thanks for the wise words of encouragement. @youdoyoutoday sorry for your loss - 3 stone is amazing, well done.

@Youdoyoutoday Thank you for sharing your experience and I'm glad you've had success!

I have gained weight again. Over my starting weight. I signed up to a 8 week programme with my trainer. I usually think these are...not for me. But I'm basically 0.5kg away from being obese. Which is a really alarming. since I'm very cheap maybe paying someone will give me the kick up the arse.

@RebeccaNoodles thank you

@rewis do it!! I never in a million years I thought I'd be up at 6am to go bootcamping and swimming!! I will admit that I've not had the success I thought I would on the scales but my body has changed a lot and I'm fitter and healthier than I was before so that is all still positives!

I haven't been for a couple of weeks now and I'm missing it but half term holidays and feeling really under the weather this week have stopped but I can't wait to get back to it. Im really enjoying it.

Another thing I've found is that I still have a way to go, I exercise 4 to 6 times a week.

I do not look like I exercise 4 to 6 times a week and I have to manage that self expectation!!

I made a post ages ago about realising that this journey is not going to be easy and that I've had to make peace with that. I will gain, mess up, eat too much, drink too much, I will plateau for ages with no shift but its how I deal with these slips that is important!!

Good luck with your trainer, be honest with him and let him help you.

frustrating weigh in on the scale, i could cry :(.
anyway all want to do is persevere with the status quo and that isn't working.
brings to mind the saying about insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results :(.

Oh @fallfallfall. I really feel for you. I was 14 stone and got down to 10 8. Today I am 12 2. Dh has pointed out I have had glandular fever, poorly over Christmas and not been able to exercise due to a broken elbow. Doesn't stop me feeling I look awful and feeling fed up so I hear you loud and clear.

We can do this. We will try again and we will get there.

I need to make sure I drink enough water. Do not eat after dinner. I do all right then an hour and a half or two hours later I want something. I'll just have it straight after dinner or within half an hour max.

Tomorrow I will go on the treadmill for a fast walk or even a slow run. Saturday I am having my scan then hopefully I'll be good to go again.

I've got you @fallfallfall. We can do this.

Thanks @SunshineCake1, 322 calories for breakfast.

I applaud everyone counting calories. I just couldn't keep it up. Just made Thai red prawn curry with jasmine rice for dh and I. We have opened the chocolates. My plan is to start eating the Christmas and birthday treat stuff. Get it eaten. I'm going to go hard core on nothing after 6.30. My head is in the game. We've got this @fallfallfall.

DD still on my mind. But she said she was fine and she is out doing an activity.

@fallfallfall @SunshineCake1 ❤

@pennysays what's STS?

You don’t look disgusting. You wouldn’t let your friend talk about herself that way. And we won’t let you either. You are the same glorious person whether you weigh 8 or 80 stone.

@SunshineCake1 I feel you on the weight gain; I put everything I lost in 2020 back on between shift work, getting comfortable in my relationship etc. It’s very frustrating and I’m going to have to be careful when I go back to my usual shifts as work gets so busy I skip meals and end hours running on sugar.

Good day yesterday, had about 1200 calories (usual goal is 1500) but prepping for the weekend! We’ve made a plan though that shouldn’t break the calorie bank and my friend is dieting too so hopefully we can stick to it 💪🏻

I gymed yesterday and walked the dog - feeling it today! We’re running this evening and plan to fit in an abs session. We had a very discounted hello fresh box but the meals are around 750 calories which is going to a bit tricky to fit in!

Day 54 - Thurs 24th Feb - 9s 2 & 3/4lb
BMI 21.3
BF 23.7

Happy with those stats. @pennysays you're right - maintaining is an art form in itself, & in many ways the hardest bit 🙂

Hugs to you @fallfallfall

And @SunshineCake1 I completely agree with @pennysays - let's not have any talk of looking "disgusting" - whatever bodies we've got they've kept us alive to this point, birthed children & all sorts besides - we may not be supermodels & we may want to change & hone our bodies but ultimately we're all great just as we are