A thread for if you can’t keep up with threads but want somewhere to be accountable

[Taq]

Ive tried joining weight loss threads in the past but I always fall off, due to being too busy, getting behind and then feeling like I can’t just post all my crap without keeping up with everyone else’s lives.

So I’m going to be accountable here to myself/any others who join. If you literally just post your daily menu or whatever and then disappear without so much as a by-your-leave, I certainly won’t be the one to judge!

I have 12lbs to lose and I’m the fattest I’ve ever been. I’ve just come in from work and eaten absolutely loads, it’s no mystery as to why I’m getting fatter each day I’m just too bloody greedy.

I’m going to try intermittent fasting and calorie counting. 1400 a day in an 8 hour window. I’ll post my takings each day and I absolutely HAVE to do it this time or I’ll run out of clothes that fit.

It begins now! 💪💪💪💪

Yes please! I'm the same, I find it difficult to feel like i have to get to know people

Well timed too, my weigh in day is Friday so I'll pop back in the morning.

Oh yes, this is me!

I've got about 6/7kg to lose (this time!). Been a yo-yo-er pretty much my whole adult life, now trying to be a bit kinder to myself and working on fixing my disordered eating.

I'm in. And Friday is my weigh day too :-) I need to lose at least 14lb.

Snap,im in the same position,i need to lose 12 pounds too. I just cant motivate myself,i have no energy or willpower,every week is i will start Monday,in the meanwhile i cant stop eating the crap which i dont even enjoy eating,wtf is wrong with me?
i watch all the exercise videos but they just exhaust me watching them!

Count me in.

Hi!!

if it helps anyone I read this last night, and it was spot on for me. The lizard brain bit I found especially helpful!!

www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/never-binge-again/201901/how-stop-binge-eating-in-three-unusual-steps?amp

Hi @Taq and all - ideal timing for accountability thread as have put on around a stone over the last 3 or 4 months and need to lose it for the benefit of my knees mainly.

I weighed 11 stone 0 pounds this morning - and would like to weigh 10 stone or less in 6 to 7 weeks from now.

I will weigh on Fridays.

Cutting out sugar/alcohol/flour from diet.

Finding it hard to exercise at present as unable to walk more than a few yards as my left knee is incredibly painful and swollen - but that is another dull tale!

Morning!

2-3 additional stone has been hanging on me for 5 years now.

I have lost 5lbs since Jan 6 by logging all food on MFP. I'm just calorie counting and never deny myself any food group. If I want chocolate or alcohol then I track it. I'm only 5ft1 so stick to 1300 cals a day. 1200 is my ideal though.

Me please. I’m 54, gone through the menopause, and my top tip is to lose weight BEFORE that happens as it’s an absolute fucker to shift anything afterwards. I could reliably lose. 1 - 2 pounds a week by cutting down. Not anymore.
Im running out of clothes. I live in joggers and rotate 4 jumpers. I can’t afford new stuff. I have to lose this weight. Started this week.
Yesterday I ate
3 slices whole meal toast with Brie and butter.
1 marzipan fruit
Grapes
tangerine
Couple of mouthfuls of yoghurty dip.
loads of tea and water

I’m trying not to eat now until at least 10.
Good luck today everyone

OK, 83kg this morning. I need to get to 70kg, so 13 to lose. Ideally I'd be closer to 60kg, but having got to 65kg a few years ago it was utterly brutal to maintain it (max 1200 calories daily and running 20km, 3 cross training sessions and swimming 3k per week) so I'm aiming for achievable. I got a hypnosis thing which I'm going to start listening to and I downloaded a pilates app to help improve my core strength and an old shoulder injury that's niggling me again. Using mfp to try to keep to 1400 cals. I'm going to go for a swim at lunchtime.

Thanks for the article Taq. Good luck everyone!

This kind of thread is exactly what I need. I like to see weight loss communities but conversely despite what articles say about it being an indicator for successful weight loss, I find getting too involved in online groups actually becomes a detriment to me as it's just another thing in my life to try and maintain, and then as you say, I feel guilty and out of the loop if I don't post regularly.

I have a lot to lose. I've got 3 pregnancies worth of pregnancy weight to lose with some pandemic weight thrown in for good measure. Aiming for 1600 - 1800 calories a day, flexible IF 8 hour window.

Ive discovered this time round that the only thing that truly works for me is on at least most days, cutting out sugar and ultra processed foods.

Oh I forgot to say, I'd like to have lost between 4 and 5 stone by the end of the year, which should be doable provided I maintain a steady loss of 1.5lbs per week.

For once I feel determined and like it's doable. I can genuinely see myself eating the way I am currently eating for a long time. I struggle at points of my cycle and have "trigger foods" which can set off a binge, but I'm keeping a colour coded food journal and seeing all the "green" days is really motivating to keep going.

I turn 30 in October, I really want to see a big difference by then. I have about 7 stone to lose 🤐

Hello all! Well day one has been a success. Thank fuck. I think intermittent fasting helped.

I had a ham salad sandwich in a sandwich thin for lunch with fruit and snacks - 617 cals

Jacket potato with beans, cheese and salad for tea - 466 cals

2 sweets driving home from work - 63 cals

Which makes 1147, leaving 243 with with I’m going to have a skinny whip bar and a cup of tea. So that’ll be 1246 in total.

I feel thinner already 😂😂😂😂

@Taq
Well done
Enjoy your skinny whip
I didn’t do so well today
Homemade Viennese whirl, my god it was exquisite
small spinach pizza
marzipan fruit
smalk bowl of cauliflower cheese
loads of tea and one milky coffee

Never mind, tomorrow is another day!! 💪

Disaster of a day. I was stress eating because I've an exam tomorrow. Breakfast bap, chippie tea and 4 chocolate digestives 😬. I can't bring myself to put it in mfp. To slightly redeem myself, I had a fruit salad for lunch and did a 10 min pilates thing and a swim at lunchtime.

@ThatshallotBaby ,I'm jealous of your viennese whirl, they are my absolutely favourite home made biscuits. Hope you enjoyed every crumb!

@Taq ,you sound skinnier already too 😜

1283 calories today. Somehow 🥳

I definitely think that intermittent fasting is helping! Hope everyone else had a good day.

Perfect thread for me. And lots of what you have all said really resonates.

I've been piling on weight for around three years due to a combination of menopause, lockdown, stress eating at work and empty nest meaning I don’t cook properly for myself and eat junk instead.

oh and going from 7 years of being teetotal to drinking several days a week.

Weigh in yesterday and I was 12 10. Healthy BMI for me is 11 2.

I just got back from a very lovely holiday on Friday hence jet lag waking me up at stupid o’clock so I’ll probably lose a few of those lb fairly quickly but target one is to get back under 12 stone.

I've had success in the past with low sugar low ish carb and lots of veg so will try that. Also I have finally made an appointment to review my HRT and will be going to see a physio about my dodgy knees too.

Disaster of a day yesterday, so I decided to risk the scales this morning to see what damage I'd done in the last few days. And, by some freak I've actually lost 1kg! No idea how but I'll take it. Managed to keep to 1455 calories today and I started week 2 of couch 2 5k and a I did 15 mins of a lower body work out.

Starting weight 83kg
Current weight 82kg
Goal weight 70kg.

Hi can I join you all?

I've restarted 16:8 eating pattern as it stops me from sneaking in a biscuit or sausage roll while making pack lunches and at the other end of the day evening snacking. I'm such a comfort eater!

I'm deficient in some vitamins so while I've been supplementing, I've read lots about optimum time/way to take them so from tomorrow I will need to fit in a more structured regime to get the best out of it...

6AM thyroid meds
9:30 breakfast
12 vit C & iron
1PM lunch
5 Tea with Vit D

Hello PartnersInCrime 👋

I did a very hilly walk with the dog this morning. Managed to keep to 1450 cals today, even with two chocolate digestives and a packet of crisps. Then i went to the gp to get my covid booster and she told me my cholesterol is high so i need to get myself sorted before she repeats the test in 6 months. 😳 Hopefully it will incentivise me.

Hi!!
Busy few days at work so I haven’t checked in, but so far so good!

22/1 - 1699 because I went for a pre-planned meal out

23/1 - 1409

I’ll weigh in a bit when I’m up. But I feel so much better already for not eating crap all day every day!

Any room for me please @Taq ?
I find LCHF works really well for me, I've tried to join in with the boot camp threads on here about 5 times now, but they're so fast paced I can't keep up.
I lost 4 stone doing the boot camp light version, took up running and started HIIT.
Long story short, got some health problems and life got in the way and fell off the wagon.
I've put about 10lbs on, but because I've lost all my muscle tone it's 10lb of flab most of it seems to be on my thighs!
I have a non stretch pair of jeans that I loved when I lost weight, but they barely come above my knees now 😥
I've got a rotten cough at the moment and my appetite is low which I like!
My plan is to ditch all the sweet stuff and processed food, then ease myself back into LCHF.
I'm a daily weigher, I wear stretchy clothes and they are very forgiving of any expansion plus if I weighed weekly and it was on a "fat" day I'd be depressed that any effort I made was for nothing and hit the chocolate 😋

Thanks for the welcome.

Hope everyone getting on the scales are happy. I'm starving but having to wait half an hour before I can eat.

Hello 👋 CherryogDog

I did not make good choices today but I did manage to keep to 1436 calories, only 16 over my mfp target, so I'll take it. Poor choices were partly inspired by weighing myself this morning and being another 0.7kg down (I always lose weight quickly when I start but it plateaus very quickly and goes back on at the sniff of a wispa) and partly being out and about all day so harder to make myself a healthier option. No exercise as I'm really tired - I didn't sleep well after my vaccine booster yesterday, my arm was aching all night. Better day tomorrow 🙏