⭐️LOSE IT! March 2023⭐️Get Ready for Spring Edition⭐️

[TheRealHousewife]

⭐️Open to previous members as well as new members⭐️

Spring is right around the corner so it’s time to embrace a fresh new month, fresh new start, fresh new habits. Jump right in to reset & refresh to become a healthier version of yourself. These threads are for those who’d like to lose and those who wish to maintain whilst eating a healthy varied diet.

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 fast and eat twice a day. Im a long time healthy eater and overall I’ve lost over 3 stone. After having been on the wrong side of 12st Im now hovering around 9st. I had a blip a couple of years ago when my thyroid went wonky but now back on track.

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

Feel free to share your own links, tips & recipes

@Bikechic me neither. Calorie counting is so dull irl amd like you I don't do it

In front of the the dc. I scan and calculate and measure etc when they aren't around and ahead of meals. I also hate people commenting on my weight. I hate any kind of attention in general. Someone commented this week and I never know what to say so when they asked if I'd lost weight I said I didn't think so 🤦‍♀️ and changed the subject. The woman asking is tall and slender and I don't want to discuss my lifestyle change in terms of weight loss with her. It feels a private thing weight. On here it's anonymous and I feel safe on this thread to talk of things.

Thank you for well wishes yesterday. I rode it out, ate well. Resisted wine at a do last night, and woken up feeling brighter. Interesting how you talk about hunger & deprivation Cloudberries. Thank you for sharing.

Good tack to ignore people's comments & change subject Autistic.

Hope little people in the group are sleeping better. Clocks changing soonish will change all that again won't it?

B - fruit and yoghurt
L - chicken soup
D - tuna steaks and oven roast veggies

Happy weekend all.

Hi all, finally stepped on the scales this morning. 66.6 kgs so I have put on 1.4 kgs since before I went away.
not doing that well since I have been back. DH’s issues with addiction are getting me down and I am definately eating my feelings.

i am going to try not to let it derail my health goals. I want to lose the weight I have gained recently and carry on in a downward direction
lunch: poached eggs and avocado toast
dinner: need to raid the freezer

the biggest issues for me are snacking and alcohol. Will try and avoid both!
sorry not to name check anyone but I have caught up on the thread now !
have good weekend everyone

Morning! Jumped on the scales this morning and 2lbs down happy with that. Going to disneyland in 4 weeks with my little girl so hoping to lose 2lbs a week until then. Hope everyone has a nice weekend!

Morning all. I'm sorry a few of you are going through tough times and hope things improve soon. I have every confidence that those who have had a gain will quickly lose it again because you are all so good with your food and lifestyle plans.

58.6kg this morning still. I say still because I expected a slight rise after a big dinner last night. Well, I say big but I only ate one small pitta bread instead of the planned two. 4 falafels, half a packet of coucous and some tzatziki. Things have changed because not so long ago I'd have had no trouble eating 2 pittas and had pudding too. I'm finding my old usual meals are too big now so my actual stomach has shrunk. I need to remember how easily it would stretch should I start eating too much again.

New weekend routine here as ds has changed his swimming day to a Saturday so we get the lovely riverside gorge walk this afternoon.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Thanks for the kind thoughts, I have felt a bit down since I wrote out all that stuff about my family and hope I didn't trigger anyone by talking about my food issues. In future I will clearly mark where I'm going to talk about heavier stuff.

Feeling more positive today and been eating lovely nutritious food and drinks. Off out to meet a friend for lunch in a minute.

Breakfast - 2x rye toast with cheese, tea, water

Snack - coffee, yoghurt, cream, oats, berries

Lunch - pasty or similar

Dinner - pork belly, rice, green veg

Happy weekend!

@Cloudberries123 don't feel bad for writing it down. I would bet there are a number of people on this thread with unhelpful approaches to eating that stem from childhood (I know I'm one of them) and we all have to work through stuff.

Fairly junky day yesterday as I went out for lunch and also promised DS we'd have pizza for tea. But, new day, im not going to "give myself til Monday". I plan to avoid museum cake this afternoon and cook a tasty pad thai for dinner. Have a good weekend everyone!

Hello all!
I can't believe that already we are over 100 posts into the March thread. Good to read everybody else's updates and stories, I continue to find them inspiring.

I have fallen off the bandwagon a bit these past two weeks, and skipped weighing in last week as I did not want to to face reality, but forced myself on the scales this morning and am up 2lbs. I tried moving the scales around the floor in case they were uneven or had glitched, but sadly they did not change.

So now I have to get my act together again, and restart. I think I do know what was going wrong, just eating too much of the wrong things and not exercising basically. Frustratingly, my husband, who decided to join me in losing weight a few weeks after I did, has already lost a lot more than me, without seeming to make much effort!

But I am trying to keep in mind that I have still managed to lose a decent amount since starting in the new year, so all is not lost. I am half-way to my first goal weight, so overall progress has happened.

Hope you are all having a good weekend.

SW: 11 st 6lbs
CW: 10 st 13lbs
GW: 10 st 6lbs

@Cloudberries123 I for one appreciate your honesty and insightful thoughts - I suspect a lot of us have some disordered thoughts about food in some way or another, whether we are aware of it or not, and I am sure that many families, even when meaning well, often get it very wrong. I think it is great that you identify and acknowledge your feelings and try to process them.

Stressful day here. I've given up giving up sweets😬
I'm cooking my homemade lasagne and have had fun calculating the calories in it with homemade sauce too. It comes to 491 which I'm happy with for my favourite meal. I'm going to have lambs lettuce with it and balsamic dressing. Next time I can make less cheese sauce than I did as it was slightly too much but it's the first time I've made it in individual pots. One and a half sheets of lasagne per pot as that's all that would fit! Much needed comfort food today.

I'm reading everything even if I'm not commenting. Sometimes I don't know what to say but please don't think I'm being ignorant because I read every post and have everyone struggling in my thoughts.

@AutisticLegoLover sorry you’re having a bad day. Was sweets what you’d given up for lent or was that something else? Sounds like the lasagne meal was very healthy anyway, hope you have a better day tomorrow.

Meal out last night, a chain restaurant so calories right on the menu. Hadn’t intended to drink but probably had a whole bottle of wine 🤦‍♀️ and been a bit fragile today as a result. Way, way, way over calories but it’s just one day.

Today has been better. Scrambled eggs on 1 slice of toast for lunch, 3 coffees and a kit kat to help with hangover. Light dinner of tuna steak with spinach.

@NatM15588 well done on your 2lb loss last week and the 3st overall is fantastic! Disneyland will be amazing, I loved it. Have you been before? I remember doing a lot of walking!

@LadyWhistledownAteMyHamster @smokeyrabbit @USaYwHatNow how are you all getting on? Hope you’re still with us.

@SingaporeSlinky thank you! Yes we went with my sister and her family before but this time its just the 2 of us. Hope you have had a good week!

Hello, please may I join?

I’d like to start by saying thank you @Cloudberries123 for your honest post. I spend a lot of time wondering how to make sure I don’t pass on my disordered eating to my kids and I could possibly have been heading down the route of not talking about body image at all or correcting them instead of discussing it with them if I hadn’t read your post.

@menomonster my husband is great at that too! It’s very frustrating that he looses weight because I change the way I eat!

My goal weight is 57kg. I weigh once a month and expect to be somewhere around 64kg-65kg

I’m going to try to avoid processed food and cut down snacks or make better snack choices and eat more fruit or vegetables at meal times.

I’m hoping that by reading your messages it will keep me on track.

I forgot to post on here yesterday.
My start weight is 11st 5lb.
1st goal is 10st 7lb.
Done really well for 3 days so far.

Welcome to all the new posters. We are collecting quite a following on this thread and it's lovely to see. Good luck to you all and I hope you find the thread as great as I do.

I've spent some time today trying on pairs of trousers and jeans that were relegated to the crap they don't fit pile. I'm thrilled that they all fit! Some are still a little tight but knowing how trousers go they will give with wear. Still, a few more pounds and some toning and they'll be grand.

I've got a butternut squash roasting in the oven with clementine juice and chilli flakes. I'll sauté some onions and garlic and add veggie stock and carrots then add the squash and blitz it into a velvety smooth soup. Some freshly baked rolls and we've a healthy delicious dinner for a day or two.

Welcome new joiners! Soup sounds delicious Autistic. Hope you got through rest of yesterday OK Singapore. Most importantly, hope you had fun out Friday night!

I've still not weighed since tuesday - as I don't want to be disappointed! A better few days though, and being really good tomorrow & tuesday hopefully will see me back to where I was.

B1 - blueberries & yoghurt
E - v long hilly run (over 10 miles !!!)
B2 - 1 egg & 1/2 avocado on sourdough toast
L - leftover roast root veg (carrots, parsnip, potato, sweet potato) & tuna steak
D - beef casserole with more root veg, greens, beans, & spoon mash
S - 1/2 mango & 5 dates

More food than usual, but ravenous after long run. Plus have been told to up my carbs.

Sending positive vibes to you all. NO SNACKING

Delicious food both of you there AutisticLegoLover and buzz hope you enjoy! Haven't had a tuna steak for years but I love them.

I've been trying to post on here all day and either been called away or the blooming page has refreshed halfway through! Wanted to say welcome to Lionnose and thank you for what you said about my food issues wobble. If I could give anybody a word of advice it would be to keep health, weight, fatness/fitness all as calm and open topics as possible. I've got a daughter too and I do worry about what she is going to have to face eventually regarding society's issues with women's bodies.

It feels like such a long day that honestly I can't remember what I had for breakfast!

Lunch - small leftover pieces of smoked salmon and mackerel, green peas, fries

Snack - coffee and few bites of brownie

Dinner - lamb roast with all the trimmings thanks to DP

Hope everyone has had a good weekend and is ready for the week!

My Dd is starting to show worrying signs of thinking she’s somehow fat. She’s actually slightly underweight if anything, so I don’t really understand it, and still in primary school. I am very careful to not talk about my diet around her, never weigh food or myself around her. She knows I go to the gym and we talk about me being healthy and strong. She has started showing me that she can pinch a tiny roll of fat on her stomach when she sits down - obviously I’ve told her this is skin and ‘good’ fat - insulation etc and that you’re supposed to have fat. I even googled what percentage of fat your diet should contain to be healthy, and that it gives you energy, warmth etc. But she just wasn’t listening. Will carry on talking about it though. Can only think she’s picked it up from others girls at school.

Anyway, lunch today was skyr, raspberries and granola.
Dinner was a bit of a hodge-podge of leftovers in the fridge. Ending the day on about 1100 cals. No exercise today but nearly 9000 steps just from a bit of shopping.

Hey everyone. I well remember keeping my disordered eating away from DDs as a young Mum. I struggled a lot with changing my mindset. Deliberately didn't have scales on the house at all during their childhood.
I'm fed up today. Gained 0.8kg since Wednesday weigh in. Happy Scale has added 10 days onto the date I'm predicted to reach GW. Honestly don't understand what's happened. Diet has been exactly the same: two healthy meals a day coming to around 1200 calories. I'm gonna have to look at reducing calories further.

Any advice on how to get back on track after slow but steady progress, a three day binge? I feel like a junkie on a come down!

@TrollMunter I feel ya! When that's happened to me in the past: drink copious amounts of water. Set a strict time window in which you'll have your meals. And kitchen closes after that. Plan the week's groceries and menu and don't deviate. Brush teeth and have a big glass of water every time you're temped to stray.

Anddon't beat yourself up. There's always a temptation to feel like a failure and throw the towel in after a "lapse". It's honestly not the end of the world. I'm feeling down after a gain this week but it's not always linear.

I've eaten loads tonight. AF due and I think that's it. Tomorrow is a new day and a new week and I'll be back on track. I didn't have porridge for breakfast this morning and I feel like that threw the day out of whack and left me hungry tonight. Let's start again tomorrow for those of us who has veered off track. It's life though and I refuse to beat myself up about it.

Sleep well everyone and here's to a good start to the week in the morning.

@AutisticLegoLover great mindset. I think that's a reminder we all need sometimes