Losing 5st accountability, keeping my chins up and keeping sane.

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I've hit my heaviest, I'm feeling my lowest and don't recognise myself.

Likely to be a combo of intermittent fasting and reduced calories.. Will play about to see what works but the main thing is my weight goes down and my life changes.

I would like to run about with the dc without being jiggly jelly or out of breath, I would like to not think about if things can take my weight or if my butt will fit on the slide... it would change a lot of small details about my daily life if I wasn't so self conscious..and add up to a big picture that I'm happier with.

Hope that makes sense, feel free to join me!

I am crook now! Not Covid - just general shite feeling.
Kept working
Tbh not that hungry either ...

Let's hope for a good result tomorrow

Well it's Friday weigh in day, I was feeling positive because Barr one day where I know I went over my calories. But I've gained another 0.1kg 😓

I measured myself and the tape measure tells me I've lost cm's all over my body, so I don't know why that's not reflected on the scales. It's so difficult to keep going when I don't see the numbers on the scales go down. Should I just ditch them and keep measuring myself to check progress? Had a little cry this morning because I'm just so fed up that I always get stuck in this horrible cycle. I don't know why over the past year this is what my body is doing whereas previously I've always found it easy to lose weight by sticking to a calorie deficit.

Thing is @baubletits, if you’d weighed in yesterday you might have lost .6kg. The fluctuations can be so crazy.

Annoyingly, I’m 2lbs UP this week, despite being fairly on plan, BUT I am on my period and I ate birthday cake yesterday so I’m hoping it’s a blip and will come off next week. Still a total loss of 11lbs in January which I’m very happy with.

I weigh daily and look at the average once a week (sunday) to get an overview of which way my weight is going. The fluctuations day to day can be as much as 3lbs! Particularly around my period. Photos and measurements are a great way to track too though! I'm also doing that - plus can tell the difference just by how my clothes fit. Definitely choose a way of tracking that isn't going to upset you and ruin your motivation x

Thanks guys, and well done @peachgreen on that loss, that's amazing!

I'm still at 5lbs but I will keep on going. I had a pair of trousers I bought just before Christmas that I was planning to return because they were so tight and uncomfortable (I looked like a big sausage) but I lost the receipt so they've just been sitting in my wardrobe. I tried them on and they felt looser and more comfortable (still looked awful mind)

I'm going to make a conscious effort to drink more water as I've really neglected that the past couple of weeks. We also did have a takeaway last night so I'm thinking (clutching at straws?!) that it was probably higher in salt than my usual meals and I could be retaining water? I had a chicken kebab, only with salad and a side of garlic mushrooms (not the breadcrumb type). I did eat the pita bread and the little tub of garlic mayo, because I just wanted to, but I had around 1000 calories left for the day so I thought it would be under that amount so wouldn't be too bad.

I would gain overnight if I had that too @baubletits, definitely the salt. And, for me, the bread. One of my favourite takeaways , so I know! Daily weighing reveals these things. I’d easily be 1-2lbs up after that, at least 1lb of which would be gone by the day after. Definitely up your water intake.

@peachgreen I'm not too sure how bread affects me, I've more or less cut it out the past month as I never eat breakfast and would always normally have soup and a couple of boiled eggs or a salad for lunch, so that pita did taste damn good 😂

If I remember I might do daily weighing for a little while, to see if I can identify any type of pattern. Planning on making a mixed bean chilli for dinner tonight. My kids will not touch it with a barge pole and DH probably won't be keen so I'll portion some off for the freezer. I just need to motivate myself to get up from the sofa, my legs are wobbly from the gym this morning and I want to be my true self and be a lazy git

Got the water bottle topped up 👍

Morning ladies, I've been in a cloud of crapness with January blues, hating my job, getting covid then dd being sick and off school.. I don't get sick pay so not only am I fat I'm skint too.

I'm back on it now. Decided to follow one healthy meal a day and plenty of water - though will be allowing myself coffee with milk even though its a fast because.. well I don't want to be totally miserable!

Well done for keeping at it, it's so hard and the scales going the wrong way is disheartening, I definitely go by how clothes feel and just use scales as a drunk guide who's not that reliable.

Hope you're feeling much better, it's good to have a plan in place!

I decided to keep a track of my weight daily, so far every day I have gained 😑 I'm also going to weigh and track absolutely EVERYTHING I put on my mouth as I don't normally weigh salad or vegetables (excluding the starchy veg) and I can be prone to snaffling a bite of this or that when I'm in the kitchen without logging it 😶

Hope everyone is good, after having good intentions with my water on Friday I realised yesterday the only water I drank was diluted by caffeine, so I've filled up the water bottle and I'm preparing my poor aching legs for the gym this morning

Good morning fat-fighters and diabetes dodgers.

I am sorry I have been missing in action but I have actually been working ! I usually only work two or three days a month ( due to chronic illnesses) but for the past few weeks I have been working a couple of days a week and (gasp) I am working 4 days this week.

This might sound like I am a lazy cow but this time last year I was almost paralysed and was needing full nursing care.

But i digress

i have just been and weighed myself and in the last month i have lost

drum roll

5 lbs!!!!

i think being in a class room/ lecture hall in strange colleges and factories with no access to shops / bringing my own food/ no picking etc and i am busy has helped.

i was starting the no carb boot camp this month but i dont have time - will look at it again next month

hope you are all feeling better soon

Well done on the 5lbs @ColinRobinsonsFart that's amazing! I did low carb for a few years and did lose a lot of weight but for me it wasn't sustainable in the long term (and alas, I then regained nearly all the weight through eating my feelings and my feelings liking chocolate!)

So I weighed myself every day this week as since last week's weigh in day update was another frustrating gain. I went up every single day for 5 days, then dropped on day 6 and dropped some more on day 7.

1.2kg loss this week, thankfully, as I was starting to think my body was broken. I have been focusing on upping my water intake and drinking at least 2 litres of water every day (adding no sugar squash has made this so much easier)

i've also been weighing and logging literally everything I have been eating, which has meant I've cut down on the random schnaffling of bits here and there from the fridge or the kids plates.

And I've more than doubled the amount of veg and salad I was eating, as in, I've been having enough salad and veg to feed nearly my entire family, which has really worked at making me feel full and less likely to want a snack.

Hope everyone else is having a good week!

Hello! Can I join please? I have about 4-5 stone to lose ideally by the end of the year. I am in a mess. I've struggled with my weight and binge eating all my life, I am so fed up and miserable. I spend evey waking moment thinking about food and plotting my next binge. I've tried to limit my snacking this week as my meals tend to be decent it's just all the snacking that is my downfall. I don't want to feel like this anymore and I'm so tired of thinking about food and my weight all the time. I've made an appointment with my doc to talk about it as I need to break the psychology of it but I am trying my best in the meanwhile.

Try intermittent fasting. It's a great way to stop you snacking.

Has anyone read 'Ultra processed people' by Chris Van Tulleken ?

I am listening to it on audible as I drive to and from work. It is eye opening.

I have reduced my intake of processed food and cut out ultra processed food altogether. It is hard cooking everything from scratch but cook twice as much and freeze half.

Nice one on the loss @ColinRobinsonsFart 🙌

My loss is slow but steady. Not seeing huge difference on the scales (around 4lbs off since New Year's Day. But 15lbs off since I started on October 30th). Defo seeing the changes in progress pics and how my clothes fit. I'm going to the gym 5 times a week. Never thought I'd see the day 🏋️‍♀️🧘‍♀️

Hi, can I join please? 35 weeks til I go on holiday so a lb a week would be bloody awesome!

Hiya 👋 How are you approaching it? And where are you going on holiday?!

Greece with dh dc and the in laws! Mil swims regularly and is miles fitter (and smaller)than I am... it would be nice to not be outdone by a 80 year old!

I've been just cutting out the crap and calorie counting. Something feels different about this time round and bough, I'm feeling hopeful!

Hi all hope you don't mind me joining.

I am aiming to lose five stone. I'd still be overweight, but definitely would feel better. I'd be a size 14 at that weight, currently a size 20.

Since 1st Jan '24, I've lost one stone. I've been fasting and cutting out ultra processed food. I have not been calorie counting.

This week I've started to increase my activity. I've started doing a 30 min homework-out before work. I do need to start increasing my walking.

Can I join you all? I need to lose so many stones I don’t know where to start. I’ve always had a tendency to be larger but it’s really crept on lately - a mixture of midlife and stress I think. My problem is feeling so deprived if I don’t have ‘nice’ things to eat and drink and I’m so fat now that exercise isn’t easy.

Do any of you do WW? I’ve had success before but the fact I’ve been so many times and am still considering going back suggests it doesn’t actually work for me.

I’m also considering a therapist who claims to completely change your relationship with food. This sounds more what I need but I’m a bit sceptical.

@Rockshore I have started an online exercise program called the body project. They have lots of free videos on YouTube. I have many stones to use, but finding these manageable. They have a range of low impact routines which are all standing. This may help.

I've also historically had success with WW. This time I am making small changes weekly/daily that I hope will be sustainable. I'm a stone down since the start of the year.

My diabetes blood test is back (HbA1c)

Drum roll....

35

So I don't have pre diabetes anymore!

But am still continuing with my weight loss. Obviously my pancreas doesn't like being pushed to the limit.

@SoftPlayHeadache oh Greece - how lovely! I'm the same this time around, finally feel it's a lifestyle change rather than just a diet.

@youhavenoidea123 you are smashing it! Nice one 👍

Hey @rocksure my sisters both lost on Slimming World (not WW I know) but as they got slimmer they moved to calorie counting as felt restricted in choice with the 'syn' system.

@ColinRobertsonsFart 🙌

I'm another lb down this week. I've been doing this since end of Oct 23 and have lost 18lbs. So a lb a week on average. 2 people have asked me over the last week if I've lost weight which was nice. I've definitely felt it in myself for a while, but it was a little boost to know it was noticeable to others now!

(Just realised my tags don't seem to be working 🙈)

So my week of salads and soups and forgoing cake went really well.. until the weekend where I drank cocktails and ate my weight in kebabs. Then hangover food the rest of the weekend leaves my total loss half a pound. (My first night out for about a year and I get 3 day hangovers now it's so unfair)

I won't be being as strict as I was during the week as, well frankly I was miserable and that's not going to last long term.

Good luck everyone for another week!

Being miserable is definitely not a winner! I hear you on the multi day hangovers 😫 Good luck back at you 👍