DIET FAILED AGAIN? Me too. Join me in a friendly, easy going diet thread where we can take our time and see results no matter how long it takes with positive encouragement along the way.

[poorpaws]

My story so far:
I started a thread “Lockdown stones to lose” in early June last year. I had nearly 3 stones to lose and was very determined. At times I did very well and at one point had lost over 1.5 stones.

Loads of people joined and then left and I think only four of us remained at the end. I kept plodding on. Just after Christmas I became ill for seven weeks (Covid related). I couldn’t do much or go out so my weight ballooned. I still kept plodding on. Then one of my dogs suffered an horrendous attack and whilst nursing her I just about lived on chocolate.

So here I am nearly 11 months later, most likely very nearly back to square one. I keep reminding myself that last time I said I would not give up no matter what! Will you join me tomorrow morning? I would love some company.

I like the mini goal idea. I am going to go for half a stone! 10lbs would be even better, and get me into the next stone range but that is a lot in one month for me.

So. Just home from four day break plus two days working and at flat with no scales.
For info... I did not eat madly on holiday.. But did have two pretty surgery cocktails and wine every day. But I got up and did my intensive hiit or weights training sessions every day.
And yesterday and today have been no alcohol and today was under 1000 calories.
Drum roll for weigh in.... 73.9😥
I was 72.2 on Tuesday last week.
It took four weeks to get from 74 to 72.2 and ffs fpur days to put it on again.
I had protein only no carbs at breakfast and no lunch or snacks or ice creams, and then had no pudding at dinner, no bread...
It's so bloody disheartening.
But I will weigh in tomorrow as morning weight might be better, and I'm going to repeat the three week intense training programme again as felt big change in my body pre the holiday.
I had lost 3cm round my waist...

Good morning everyone. Happy June! My mini target is 13st 7lbs. Today I am 13st 12lbs (still!).

I’m going away for the weekend so it’s going to be a tough start!!

Good morning everyone and happy June (my favourite month)

@Theredjellybean I agree it's very disheartening but you might just find that quickly on equals quickly off. You will most likely lose the weight again much, much quicker this time round. 🤞🏻for you.

Has everyone recorded their June target? Good luck with it everyone it would be lovely if we could all reach our target by 30 June.

I had the most dreadful evening last night. Straight after dinner I took the dogs out so that I wouldn't start snacking as I normally do. We had a lovely walk around the lakes and decided to come back across a large field. I checked everything was safe because my dog (the one who suffered an horrendous attack two months ago) is still very nervous.

Anyway long story short just as we approach the field a man let his dog off the lead and it chased my dog diagonally across the field. They were holidaymakers and when their dog got to the very end it came back to its owner who was yelling. My dog knew her way home (across two roads one of which is very busy). So I was trying my best to race across the field yelling her with my other two in toe and I'd got visions of her being splattered on the road. I got home and she was by the back gate thank God. I do not run normally it was very difficult for me and I had a minor panic attack I think. Anyway all is good now but she is even more nervous if that's possible. I'm frightened to take them out now because she will always run home if she feels unsafe.

Have a lovely first day of June everyone, the sun is shining here and I hope it is where you are.

Good morning all! Beautiful day here in NI (makes a nice change)

@poorpaws that sounds awful for you and your poor dog. I'm glad nothing terrible happened, but I'm sure you could be doing without the worry of an even more nervous dog.

@Bigbus Hope you get a better reading on the scales this morning. And what's the secret to losing 3cm off your waist?😊

I'm exercising like two men and a wee lad - as they like to say around these parts. The eating is going well. I've managed to stay off the unhealthy snacks. I'm sure there's more I could do to make my evening meals healthier, but they're usually not TOO bad! It's a nightmare in our house. DP is pescatarian. DS2 is a fussy little so and so, whose already limited repertoire keeps shrinking. DS1 and I eat most things, although he's not keen on spuds. I mean ... does he not know we're Irish?🤣 But there are very few things we all eat together. So it can be difficult.

Anyway, hope everyone else is doing ok.

Crikey @poorpaws !
That’s awful

I hope you and your dog recover. What a shock for you.

don’t know what else to say really. We are hikers ( no dog sadly as we both work long hours- but I do want one when we can) and see lots of irresponsible owners.

Morning all,

Happy June and good luck to us with our mini goals.

@poorpaws how awful! Hope your future walks are calm and helps build confidence again.

Sending hugs to poorpaws pup...
I have a super anxious, nervous pup... So I sympathise.
Today the scales read
73.4..so feeling less overwhelmed.
I was this weight this time last Yr.
But body is different.
Tried on some shorts that were tight in last few yrs and they fitted at waist better.
So trying to not dwell on bigger boobs and back fat...
Definitely going to go for my June goal to get to 70kgs

The cm loss of waist was burn360 metabolic reset program

Just realised I directed my earlier comment at @Bigbus instead of @Theredjellybean! Sorry if it made no sense Bigbus! Weight gain not as much as you thought jellybean which is a plus!

Yesterday went very badly ☹️. My dog was very anxious so did a shorter walk and then my anxiety hit the roof and I just binged all evening. Early days for June goal so plenty of time to claw back the damage. Thank you all for the good wishes for Tilly, she's had such a bad life until she came to us and deserves a gentle stress free life.

I'm off to Ikea today unexpectedly. Last time I went I bought outside seating but forgot about a table 🤦‍♀️ will have breakfast and lunch out so have to choose carefully after yesterday.

Have a lovely day everyone and just keep trying.

@poorpaws sorry to hear you had a hard time of it yesterday. I have suffered anxiety my whole life. When it's moderate, I stuff my face. When it's really bad, I stop eating altogether. I hope you're feeling better today. I dropped DP and MIL to IKEA yesterday. Neither of them drive. MIL came back with a mountain of stuff and FIL muttered away to himself when I dropped her off - something about 'Yeah, I was thinking we could do with a few more artificial flowers ...'🤣🤣

Good morning... work finished till Monday now, so time to put my feet up for a couple of days at least, have a cold (testing covid negative) and need cups of tea and rest right now.

Dd19 home from uni on Saturday for 12 weeks - on and off, so routine will be altered again... Dd21 will be home from hers for a week or so at a time (we have low ermmmm... "tolerance" for living together, love her to bits, as she does me, but we grate on each other, so she flits about with various friends in her holidays and we have quality time together in small bursts).

Still taking it all one day at a time, small changes. We had pizza last night. But went and got it from the Asda counter... thin base, no extras (when we order in there's always garlic bread and chicken bits as extras).

I had a baby in December and i was hoping breastfeeding would lose the pregnancy weight but an emergency section really impacted my milk flow.

I was at a hen do last weekend, it didn't help that everyone else was size 6/size 8 so i looked like a whale but I'm just so much bigger and it's sooo depressing, even with tummy suction pants!!!

I'm taking action now as of yesterday. Fortunately i have a running pram, and the baby is now old enough to be in it (6 months onwards). I went on a run and then a walk in the afternoon. Just feel grumpy and i only have myself to blame really.

I'm also too scared to weigh myself

Bit the bullet and weighed myself after all the moaning in the above post.

I'm 12st 13lb and 5/8ths (i am NOT 13 stone 😂). Urgh this is the heaviest I've ever been, really i need to be around 11st 7lb to look somewhat acceptable.

I'm hoping running will help but the big factor is food. Need to cut it all out and just be sensible. I need to accept I'll look like a whale at the wedding next weekend but hopefully will look better for my holiday at the end of August.

On the plus side i managed a 6.35 mile run yesterday with the pram and a 3 mile walk. Just got to keep at it now

Good luck to all the losers, and would-be losers.

I'm not making much progress at all... my weight is very consistent at 177, though this morning I was down a bit. My back is very bad, I can't stand for more than a minute, and can walk only half a block. I think there's probably a wheelchair in my future.

I can't do much about food - my wife loves to cook, and I can't insult her by not eating.

Apr 18 ... 12.10 (178 lbs)
Apr 25 ... 12.9 (177 lbs)
May 2 ... 12.9 (177 lbs)
May 9 ... 12.9½ (177½ lbs)
May 16 ...12.9 (177 lbs)
May 23 ...12.9 (177 lbs)
June 1 ...12.6½ (174½ lbs)

So sorry to hear things have been hard @poorpaws. I have anxiety too and know too well the urge to eat everything in sight to try and comfort yourself. Hope today has been a better day. Had a couple of reasonable days in June so far as long as I don’t get tempted tonight.

Snap @NatMoz! I've got a little baby (10 months) and a running buggy too so hopefully we can cheer each other on 😉 my buggy is a tank double as I have a 3yo too and it is such a faff to lug about. I only run with it once a week but it certainly is a workout.

@poorpaws wishing Tilly a speedy recovery and some relief for you from the anxiety. Hopefully some time in familiar outdoors and closeness with you will build her back up again. You sound like such a kind and supportive caregiver for her, I'm sure she has such a good life with you!

@ClinkeyMonkey im quite similar with the anxiety eating. When lockdown first hit I lost a lot of weight as I felt I couldn't eat from anxiety (not to mention the tummy issues) and looked ill. However since having baby #2 it has been just at the right level to encourage me to eat eat eat... sigh.

Weighed in at the same yesterday, still at 10st 11lbs so not bad news. Got a lot of cake related events this weekend so really must get my trainers on!

I have some positive news..
Scales today say 72.5kg.
But I have fallen off the exercise wagon.
I'm going to repeat the three week programme but going to start on Monday as got rest of long weekend at work.
@CanadianJohn ...youve lost 3.5lbs.that good, I know what you mean about food when cooking for others, I cook and eat dinner with my dsd who is a recovering anorexic, so it's always hugely calororific, you have to learn to give yourself smaller portions to keep calories under control

Good morning all

It's still not going well here. It started well in IKEA when everyone else had a full breakfast and I just had a bacon roll but by the time we went back for lunch it was very late and I was starving so it all went to pot. I'll try and start again today because at the moment even half a pound off would be an achievement.

Very few plans for today as I'm exhausted after yesterday so hopefully a quiet relaxing time.

I'm guessing it's gone very quiet here due to the long weekend. I hope everyone is having a good time and if you have overindulged we'll all start again next week.

Happy Friday.

Oops sorry it's not gone quiet on here, I didn't update. I'll go back now and read the posts from yesterday.

Good morning, I wonder if you'd mind if I joined you here? My weight has been ballooning for the last 27 years (since I became pregnant/gave up smoking/miscarried/became pregnant/had a baby/miscarried/became pregnant/miscarried/gave up). I've yo-yo'd a lot over the years, but in May 2022, went to see a hypnotherapist, with whose help I managed to lose 15 kg by November 2022 (also with the help of a bad UTI for 2 weeks at the beginning of November!). The diet the hypnotherapist put me on was protein rich and that actually made me ill in the end, so come Advent, I gave up with the hypnotherapist. Since then, I have gained 4kg, despite struggling daily to lose it all, and more. I still need to lose another 20kg, so I've a long way to go and I really don't need to keep going in the wrong direction. I am now trying intermittent fasting combined with the Mediterranean diet and as long as I don't succumb to bread, potatoes, other carbs and particularly booze, I know it works! I just need to stick with it, which is what I find so hard to do!
I'm in my sixties and suffer from a bad back, knees and ankles, so exercise is difficult for me. Fortunately, I have easy access to a swimming pool in the summer months, and I know having a daily swim, if I force myself, is really helpful for my weight loss, once I get in the rhythm.
Well, that's enough about me! Have a good day, everyone!

Hey

weighed myself earlier after my five days in Spain eating and drinking and I’ve stayed the same! Did walk a lot. Like 20k steps plus a day. So that’s helped!

on now with the serious business of getting that June challenge in the bag. I’ll go with four pounds which means about 11.7st. God I would be happy with that. 11.8 would make me ‘normal’ bmi.

got some lovely clothes I’m just too fat for and want to wear them to be honest.

happy weekend everyone 😊

@Jconnais1chansonquivavsenerver welcome, lovely to have you here. One or two of us (me!) are struggling but we keep posting/updating, I think this helps.

Do stay with us, we are a friendly group with different strategies and goals. We've just started an extra "push" for June. We make our own targets and try our best to reach our goal, do join us for that if you'd like to but no pressure.

@Mumstheword2022 great achievement to have remained the same after your holiday👏. I'm sure you'll get the June challenge done and dusted, I have the faith 😀

@triplecheeese don't know if i could manage a double! Today running up a hill i nearly died and my baby isn't even a stone in weight yet!!

Some good news however, i ran to my running club meet up location, ran a 5.5km with the group and then ran the long way home all with the running pram. Managed 7 miles in total and walked the last 0.25miles home. Pleased with this because before baby i was running 7 mile runs on average and it's taken some time to get back to this distance again.

Then i went out for a walk in the afternoon, another 3 miles.

I've never really lost weight on diet alone, also too impatient