DIET FAILED AGAIN? Thread two. Join us in a friendly supportive thread.

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@BeyondMyWits that made me really laugh. I'm not sure any month has enough days in it for all of us here.

I've just found out we're unexpectedly having a day out today. Unfortunately this will include eating out all day so I won't be making my usual healthy lunchtime salad. I find it so difficult in cafés when there isn't just plain salad on the menu. I'll do my best.

I hope everyone is okay and doing well. I'll be back tomorrow to report how I did. It's starting to go a bit quieter on here and I hope that's not a bad sign.

I'm still here, plodding on. Keep up the good work everyone.

Morning all! Starving myself this morning as having an afternoon tea session today and trying to not go back up on the scales.

@TalkToTheHand123 enjoy!

Am stuffed and struggling to stay awake now. 😋

Partner and I have been enjoying a chilli Mac and cheese recipe from our new book, 510 calories and 40g protein! New favourite I think, and very filling.

@daintydaisies sounds like a very tasty recipe.

@endlesswashing it is - it’s in the the book “the slimming foodie” if you’re interested! :)

@daintydaisies thank you. 😊

Morning all.
I failed spectacularly while away.
Thursday particularly was a serious blow out on wine, cocktails and so much food.
Friday was a cesspit of self loathing and hungover jitters.
But I did do exercise both days, one day did tabata class with my daughter who is 22 and a qualified personal trainer and I kept up!
Scales are saying 73
Which was what I was on Tuesday so lucky lucky escape.
Need to be so tough now to meet August goal..
Everyone else seems to be doing better.
@poorpaws.. You definitely need to. Mix up exercises or your body gets used to doing them. Or try some hand weights maybe?

Morning all

@Theredjellybean I think we all fail whilst away, you'll make up for it soon and well done on keeping up with the exercise, that must have felt good.

I failed yesterday on day out and then again in the evening. My August goal seems a lonnggg way away now and pretty hard to hit <sigh>. I think I should be locked in at home because it's the only time I do well. I really need to re-think days out, caution flies out of the window.

Staying in today I think so hopefully can keep within calories, this yo-yoing is so tedious.

Have a good Saturday everyone (danger zone weekend).

Hi, I'm back again, Scales tell me 15stone 95 bloody kilos! Whaat!!!
Feeling hard done by, can't have the things that make life interesting.
Try again Brian.
Still waiting for Cardio appt. June, July, now mid September. 3rd time lucky?

I have found a bit of reflecting helped my feelings of failure.
When we started wayyyyyy back in April I was yoyoimg around 74-76...
I am now yoyoimg around 72-73
So not a huge loss in total figures but of I wasn't even trying or hadn't realised things were slipping I would now be yoyoimg around 76-78...
So just a reversal in the way scales were moving is a victory.
I'm trying to imagine tackling it if the scales had got that far... It would be 8kgs off not the 3 I have now..
For most of us who have stuck with the threads we have at least reversed the upward trend and mostly a few pounds down even if we are yoyoimg like gold medallists.
We are all still doing better than if we'd just said fk it and continued the gentle but relentless upward trend.

Back on the soup detox today after yesterday's afternoon blowout (work thing which I couldn't really avoid so just enjoyed). The two hour walking around Newcastle for the treasure hunt beforehand helping a bit.

Quick gym sessions planned today with a few more next week hopefully to keep me on track.

@Theredjellybean I can so relate to your post. I keep thinking at least I'm in the 10sts now. Ok I am right at the very top of the 10s but when I get on the scales it doesn't begin with an 11, which has to be a positive. I was last properly in the 10s last November and then Christmas happened and I really should have knuckled down but I played yo-yo again. I really need to get in the middle of the 10s now but every week something seems to sabotage my plans (or maybe I sabotage myself ☹️).

I thought I had a clean sweep of a week next week but already we're out on Tuesday which will include food and on Thursday we're having friends over for a cream tea. That's not very slimming is it?

@brianixon Welcome back. There are quite a few of us struggling atm.

Im getting a bit sick of this dieting business but have to keep on as I know just how good I'll feel when this weight has gone (and I am no longer a gold medalist yo-yoer .

@poorpaws The novelty of dieting does wear off after a while 😂.

I have one lb to lose to get me back on track from the 3lbs blow out from Friday's afternoon tea and anything else I shoved in my gob.

A while a go I'd be really struggling to get it off, but a bit more focused at the moment, touch wood. Have some proper soup in cupboard to remember to have for a change also!

No blow out sessions planned in the next few weeks so hopefully can get down a few more lbs this month.

One day at a time though. 😊

Hiya all, the novelty definitely wears off....
Today have MIL coming for lunch. She'll complain its not a full roast dinner, but I'm too hot so tough! (Loving the new menopausal, "dont give a crap" me in some ways) There is roast chicken, m and s potato rosti and a ton of veg.. carrot, cabbage, broccoli, green beans. Pud is apple crumble and custard. I'll have a spoonful, mainly apple.

MIL has dementia... vascular and Alzheimers. She is on the downward spiral end of the disease, so we don't know "who" will come through the door til DH brings her in. (And hence the generally familiar comfort food at lunchtime).

Hope everyone has a great weekend.

Have been doing semi-well the past few days, walking everyday before work and taking healthy(ish) meals to work to save money/prevent binging. However yesterday I had a bad day diet wise 😓 hoping to have a better day today and then weigh in tomorrow.

weighed in the other day @ 159lbs

@BeyondMyWits my MIL (who is lovely) cooks very stodgy food, if I gave her anything like a salad she would be ! Whenever we go round for dinner it's always a full roast dinner regardless of the weather. I have suggested before that we'll take something like a cooked salmon round and she could make (for example) just the veg, but she'd rather do it all. She enjoys feeding people and will always have plenty of pudding available too!

@daintydaisies I'm making a real effort with meal planning to save some cash and be more organised... bought myself an academic diary to plan more from when the DC are back at school too, I should have had a diagnosis of my foot problem by then and hopefully can get back to C25K. Made a fruit compote yesterday from loads of blackberries, I'll have that with porridge and not a scone with cream for a nice breakfast.

Hope you've had a good weekend @poorpaws, we had a family birthday so there was cake - I didn't have much (honest) but probably still more than I worked off pottering around doing housework!

Nooooooo, weighed in and up a pound 15st 11... disappointed, but needed a bit of a kick... getting lazy, both exercise wise and food wise.

I'm chasing the wagon @poorpaws, Hopefully I'll climb back up...

I'm not mentioning the weekend, I'm not mentioning my weight ☹️🙈.
Must try harder!

Good luck with weigh-ins everyone.

Weighed myself this morning as feeling lighter but scales showing 15.0 stones (2lb up from Fri morning). Not too upset as starting to get back into cycling (exercise bike at gym and pedal exerciser dusted off at home yesterday).

Really enjoying the cycling so hopefully will show a difference soon.

Going to try be more strict with myself this week. The meatballs were very nice yesterday as was the bread and the marshmallows (didn't realise how undietfriendly they were) but need to kick into touch for a while. Not too much naughty food in the cupboard which is good.

It'll be worth it soon I tell myself.

I completely forgot to weigh myself today @poorpaws DTS1 was busy having a meltdown again and it slipped my mind...

I need to be stricter with myself too @BeyondMyWits and @TalkToTheHand123 - for me the only way is to be more organised, I just don't have enough hours in the day to get everything done otherwise! Which is hard, as I'm not a naturally organised person and would love to have time to potter round in the kitchen, leaf through cookery books etc - sigh.

Today the DC are with PIL, I'm WFH and MIL has given me a large chunk of cake from a family birthday at the weekend. I'm trying not to think about it...

been for 2 walks today, having a healthy meal for tea in the hopes of undoing yesterdays binge on minstrels and crisps (ffs). the hardest part of this is self control, I have none!!
forgot to weigh in today so will do it tomorrow morning.