1st January start, anyone up for it?

[HimiJendrix]

I can't put it off much longer, I am getting very large and uncomfortable. My eating has become very out of control.

I need to shift around 4 stone, not sure exactly as I am to scared to get on the scales.

Anyone want to join me for a big new start and weigh in on Sunday 1st January?

@JoyPeaceHealthz basically she thinks 16:8 isn’t working for me. Her theory is that I have have relatively high cortisol levels (due to combination of lack of sleep, work stress etc) and that not eating for an extended period of time is increasing cortisol, then exercise increasing it further. Apparently really hard to lose weight then. So she has suggested having a light breakfast (either porridge or fruit and yogurt), and also a snack of 2 kiwis as they allegedly promote sleep (might give some to my 4 year old as she is the main problem!). Reduce sugar, lots of protein and veg, stay away from bread, but eat fist sized portions of other carbs. Also to stick with doing weights as it is the most effective way to drop dress sizes. The scales won’t necessarily show as much progress as with just dieting as muscle will be heavier, but longer term will make it easier not to regain if I fall off the wagon for a week or two.

That is interesting what she says about 16:8 and I'm inclined to believe that it doesn't work for everybody. I also have poor sleep and used to work to deadlines. Work is easier now (changed role) but this is very interesting to me. I'm going to relax a bit now, I'f I'm hungry at 10 am I'll eat.

I tend not to eat til break at work (11 ish) and then had had my dinner by 18.00 unless I was going out. So for years I've had a 17.7 plan and had still managed to get to a BMI of almost 30.

So the great claims made about eating in a restricted window ................... hmm, yes, I get it, don't graze 24/7 and I don't but I'm living proof that 16:8 is no magic wand!

Well done all for keeping track - good or bad - at least we know we're we stand.

I weighed on Thursday lost a measley half a pound.

SW: 96.5kg
CW 93.5 kg

Happy I have managed 3 kilo loss for January close to the half stone, I would take that next month too

Hi all and happy Sunday
I’ve lost 1.4kg this week so I’m very happy. It’s been a week of homemade veg soup for lunch and salad with a protein for tea, boring but it’s working , clearly don’t have much of a social life

Hi all

Well, I've gained a pound this week. I've been on my period but apart from a Galaxy and a small slice of birthday cake on Monday, I have stuck to my plan, been under calories and hit my step target for the week.

It's really annoying but there's always next week.

Well done to everyone. Hope you all have a great week

I was reading about the impact of lack of sleep on weight loss. I think with me it is not just any biological impact but also the craving of high energy food to 'keep me going!'

It is so hard when you are busy though to counter it all.

Just caught up on the thread, I've been awol for over a week but I am still here. Well done to everyone for carrying on, i'm pretty sure the third week of January is the most difficult to keep going!

I've fallen off the wagon the last week or so - had a birthday meal out where I was good and didn't have dessert, then it all went to shit last weekend with cake and wine. I was ok with that and was ready to get back on it on Monday, but had a really rude and aggressive email at work from someone I thought was a friend, and have comfort eaten my way through the week. It's completely taken my focus off weight loss, I've been tired and grumpy and had no energy, and I'm so cross with myself for letting it get to me so much. I haven't weighed myself for a few days, but when I did I was at 12st 11.2, which was up from 12st 9, so frankly the last week has been a disaster.

I have been on citalopram for about 3 years and have halved my dose since the first of January (as I would like to come off it altogether within the next year or so) so it's possible that that is having an effect too I guess.

I'm having a lazy morning this morning and then going to get up and get on with things this afternoon. I need to re-focus and get back into the right mindset asap!

Omg, just weighed myself, still the same 68.4
I was 68.1 on 10th January.
Last week I was 68.3

So I am on a diet, following it well, and putting on weight. I weigh everything, log it on mfp, I even count the milk in my tea (Unsweetened almond milk so not spiking my insulin every hour) only went over 1200 the two nights I went out. The rest of the time I was under the 1200. This is so weird. Feel like my body is defying the laws of science.

But I'll keep going because I don't know what else to do. I do not want to do keto again. I've already cut out sugar. The food I'm eating isn't processed.

@Eggsley a rude and aggressive email from somebody I thought was a friend would have upset me too! You're human.

@xJoyPeaceHealthx thanks, I have been worrying that I'm overreacting but I am livid about it and really quite hurt too, as it was completely unnecessary. I need to find a way to deal with stress without eating though!

@Eggsley i'm the same, the slightest bit of stress and i'm reaching for the comfort food. Only thing is it only makes me feel better for a little while before I need to eat more.

Stayed the same this week, period is here and i'm constantly hungry 🙄 roll on Feb to restart.

I went on HRT earlier this week, so I'm hoping that better sleep and a low dose of oestrogen helps me lose weight. I am sleeping better already since Monday. That effect was immediate. Wow. So here's hoping. Yet another week of weighing everything, logging everything..... with my fingers crossed.

Are you drinking enough water and getting enough exercise?
Does milk spike insulin? I didn’t know that.

@Minnie123456 same here, a couple of biscuits turns to half a packet  I think exercise would probably help but I struggle to find the time and space to do it with the DC constantly pestering!

@xJoyPeaceHealthx good luck, I hope the HRT helps!

I have watched a few videos on weight loss plateau and I'm doing everything they suggest, fibre, water et cetera.
I'm not weight training though.

I've weighed and logged everything.
How many calories in this do you think.

I guessed 450.
The plate is small, it has some sweet potato and giant cous cous but it was mostly broccoli tomatoes carrots cauliflower... there were a few hazelnuts, raisins and small cubes of feta. That is my Saturday treat.

Maybe 550
Maybe underestimating things that can't be weighed. Next week I'll call it 550.

Sorry for all the multiple posts! This is my last I promise.

My strategy is to just keep going for another week. I don't want to lower my calorie intake yet.

If there's still no result next Sunday I'm going to look at that zig zag pattern. Might lean towards that this week. I'm not ready to give up. Not willing to do keto (yet). can't afford lippo so, plough on plough on.

Did you take any measurements at the beginning @xJoyPeaceHealthx? Are they any different? I noticed a shadow of a rib yesterday when there wasn't even a hint a month ago and I'm certainly a lot less bloated. That meal you posted a picture of looks delicious.
I'm the same regarding eating as soon as I'm stressed. I have quite a stressful job (or, at least, I find it stressful!) so that's not ideal.
I've had an OK day today. Sundays tend to be my downfall but, when we had a roast just now, I limited myself to a roast potato and a roast parsnip rather than a mound of both, had about a quarter of a Yorkshire, a normal portion of meat and then piles of green veg. I'm hoping the green veg kick in before the morning so that I'm as light as can be when I weigh in! I had some fresh bread at lunchtime but restrained myself from having any biscuits or cake this afternoon. I was going to go for a walk but it started raining so the only exercise I've done today is Pilates. Whilst it was hard, it won't have used any calories

No! I didn't take any measurements. I've never had this experience of a diet not working before. but I'm not exercising and I don't feel I've had any non scale victories. Apart from the first initial result of jeans being a bit less tihgt.

I'm going to do one more week of 1200 per day and then if I still haven't lost any weight by next Sunday............. argh maybe the hrt will have kicked in the following week I will shake things up. I don't really want to condemn myself to eating less than 1200 per day for ever! so I'll try zig zag, 1450 x 5 and then two 'fast' days of 500.

Hope nobody else is experiencing such a stall.

Well I've finally lost weight on an official weigh in day as I am 11st5 which is 6lbs lightheaded overall, 3lbs lighter than last week & the week before but only 2.5lbs lighter than the week before that ... but still a little over my lightest this month. I can't say it's a stall as I did have two piggy weekends.
My aim for Feb is to get to 11st. Looking at the numbers above makes me realise quite how disciplined I'm going to have to be. I can't yo yo at all.

I overslept this morning and didn't have time to weigh myself. No snacks at work and went for a walk at lunch time. Didn't fancy breakfast and had a chicken cup a soup for lunch. Have had 4 water biscuits and a handful of chocolate buttons since I got in. Trying to switch to drinking water at home instead of Coke Zero. Not sure what's for dinner, DH will pick something up at Tesco, probably a ready meal but as I've not eaten much today I'm sure it will be fine calories wise!

Evening all, congratulations to those who have lost and averaged out the month on a overall loss, well done.

I went to weight watchers tonight, brought my mum along as she's really overweight and I worry about her, so we are going to do it together.

I weighed in at 12stone 5.5lb.

So a loss of over 7lb from my home scales, I don't think I've dropped half a stone in a week 😂 so think my home scales are faulty!!

Still though I'd like to loose 2 stone by August so here goes.

One of those wonderful days when the scales do what you want them to do!
1st Jan - 11st 11
1st Feb - 11st 3
I have lost the Christmas weight and the December weight gain. This is always my plan every January but last year it went a bit pear shaped (well, apple shaped actually) and I never lost 5 or so of the pounds I'd gained over the December/Christmas period.
February's plan is to get back down into the 10s. As long as I'm an ounce under 11st, I'll feel as though I have achieved as I never got below 11st1 at any point last year.

@HereComesMaleficent I meant to say that I found your post really heart warming. How wonderful to show your love for your mum in that way. I need to have a conversation with my dad but would have felt a bit hypocritical having piled on the pounds myself

Ah well done @2023istheyearigetmyacttogether! It is great to see some progress. I had a hectic day yesterday as I was working all day, then had an online class for a course I’m doing from 5pm -9pm, husband is away with work so ended up ordering g a pizza for dinner. Please don’t throw me out of the group 🙈😳😂! Out of interest I weighed myself this morning and I am 3lbs heavier just from 1 pizza! It is obviously not “real” weight gain but it is interesting to see how just one bad meal can temporarily influence the scales!!

Well I've done the stupid thing that I often seem to do by hitting a mini target weight and relaxing and stuffing my face. I've eaten Christmas cake, chocolate and sweets today! Back on it properly tomorrow