DIET FAILED AGAIN thread 6- everyone welcome

[thenewaveragebear1983]

We made it to 1000 posts on thread 5, here is thread 6

@thenewaveragebear1983 how did you do in the garden today? I hope it went well.

I've not had a good day today diet-wise, I've felt hungry and a bit miserable all day. I managed a short dog walk but injured dog really struggled so we came home early.

I'm really fed up because I had chosen slabs for the Phase 2,000 of this bloody garden and now DP says they are far too heavy to carry (27 steps to front door, Devon hills!). I spent months and couldn't find any I liked and the minute I saw the chosen ones I loved them. Back to running around looking at patios slabbing is definitely not my idea of fun and also once I find what I like I'm not one for changing my mind. So of course I turned to sweet sugary treats and I'm still fed up. I wonder if I will ever learn about "normal" eating and not snacking.

How's everyone getting on? Making progress? Putting more on? Yoyo-ing? Just starting out?

I feel like I'm getting there but a lot slower than I would have liked. This morning though, my tummy muscles feel a bit sore and I haven't felt this soreness in a very long time, so I must have been doing something right recently.

I'm trying to totally cut out crisps at the moment. I'd gone a while without then started to have the odd bag here and now again.

My social life in May is pretty much zero so that’s helpful. Down 2lbs and a dress that’s been too snug over the hips now fits again! Can’t wait for my wardrobe of dresses to be wearable again.

I did an “abs killer” work out with dd2 this morning. Just 15 minutes but the plan is 10-15 minutes a day plus 2 days at the gym. Planning a long dog walk today too.

target for the end of the week is to be 11st 9… let’s see if I can hit that.

I have regained a little, took 3 days off as I was plateauing and just felt like it really. Crisps, wine, rye bread, cheese and a takeaway (haven’t had one in months). Going to try and have a strict 10 days before my wedding anniversary and a night in swanky hotel. Have kept my workouts going.

I ran 10 miles today and I’ve had a few extra calories to compensate! I’m really tired now and very glad it’s bank holiday tomorrow and I get an extra day to recover!

we had cheese burgers for dinner and salad, and a mini Oreo sandwich ice cream which is 109 calories and really nice if you like a sweet treat.

I thought I'd lost you.....phew found new thread
I'm ok...dealing with funeral stuff etc.
Been ok ish with food and holding steady at 72.5 kgs...
I need to stop the drinks every night...grief has been an excuse I think.
I am fully embracing marathon training too , starting properly this week.
Sorry haven't read all posts ..but so glad to find you all again!!!!

Hello, Ive just stumbled across this thread and read it through, sounds like a helpful place for me - i am trying to lose some weight, but am in a cycle of being "good" for a couple of weeks, losing a few pounds, then thinking F*ck it, eating anything and everything then despair that Ill never lose any significant weight.
I want to try and find a way to not be all or nothing and just lose little amounts fairly consistently and when i do falll off just gently step back on instead of the dramatic self sabotage in between!

I havent weighed for a few days since my last blip but will weigh in in the morning and hope to get 4lbs off in May.

@Theredjellybean hope you are keeping ok. Don’t be too hard on yourself.

@ettiespaghetti hi welcome. I find myself on that cycle sometimes. I try to remind myself that half a pound a week every week is better than the yo-yo up and down. It’s hard though, a pound a week is a lot for me.

I had a shake for breakfast and walked 4 miles with the dog, then sort of skipped lunch as we met friends at the park, I did have a blueberry magnum and a diet vimto though! I do need to knuckle down, I’m 13.5lbs down now and I WANT my stone award this week. I’ve probably put a pound or two on this weekend but I’m confident a few strict days will sort that out. The bank holiday always throws my body clock out, it’s my office day tomorrow so I need to prep my lunch and get myself sorted. Back to basics this week!

Good evening all, hope you’ve all had a good day?
mine was ok except there was cake in the office, I had one and then afterwards I put it into nutracheck and it was 430 calories! So that’s basically my dinner.
i didn’t work out or run today, I always have a rest day on a Tuesday, and I feel quite tired and bloated from earlier too.

tomorrow, running in the morning. Food will be protein shake for breakfast, salad for lunch, and some sort of mince beef dish for dinner as I have some to use up. I’m not really feeling inspired with food lately, I have loads of veg in but I don’t really feel like it and I feel generally quite bored with planning, prepping and eating.

It's the endless bloody peeling and chopping and thinking
I had cod with white beans Spanish stew tonight...bloody lovely and only an onion to peel.
Marvelous

Welcome @ettiespaghetti , have you braved the scales? What plan are you following?

@Theredjellybean glad you found us, hope you are ok. I am drinking wine again too but do not have your understandable reason.

Things are going awry here. I was 6 lbs from goal a few days ago and was thrilled, felt great. Got complacent and gave myself a break for the bank holiday (wine/crisps/bread) and have carried on with wine and 5 packets of crisps every night since. Made myself weigh and I have regained 4.5 lbs. The only positive is I kept up my exercise. But this morning the cross trainer broke. Looking online a new one could take 12 weeks. Looking into getting it repaired as it’s a software failure I think but the company is being crap. We have a paddock I can run laps around but usually I get knee or shin pain.

Can someone please give me a stern talking too. I am so cross with myself. Do not be kind.

@Sedgwick personally I wouldn’t run laps of a paddock, you will get knee pain on those corners unfortunately as it’s not a natural turn to do a right angle x 4 on every lap. Would you not be confident to run outside? Get a good playlist and go for it, walk if you need to. As for your food, well you’ve had a nice weekend but now you need to remind yourself why you’re doing this and where you want to be in 1 month, 2 months, 3 months time. You can have wine and crisps as part of your plan, but if you eat 5 packets then you know yourself that you aren’t treating yourself with the respect and kindness you deserve. you say don’t be kind, but what would you say to a friend who had told you what you just posted? What advice would you give her?

i’ve had a better day, food wise. Just a crap day work wise. I haven’t really done anything productive at all! I’m hoping to condense my working hours so I spent a fair while calculating the ins and outs of that 🤷‍♀️ I know one day of decent food won’t give me any sort of result on the scales tomorrow, so I am going to assess the damage on my home scales and maybe put of weighing in til Saturday morning. I did a run this morning. I’ve not had my iron tablets for 4 days and I am really feeling it - picked some more up today. I need to drag myself back indoors to make some dinner before dog training tonight but oh, the beautiful sunshine is so lovely I just don’t want to!

Thanks @thenewaveragebear1983 thank you so much for the advice. I will try running outside, I did C25K outside back in February. I know it will be a lot harder but I will just go slowly and pick a flat route. Cross trainer engineer coming out in a weeks time but I don’t want to miss a full weeks training. My thighs are firming up or less wobbly at least, for someone who has never been firm (I was skinny fat) it’s very exciting to see. As a seasoned runner have you found your tummy gets firm and flat eventually or given I am 57 is this unlikely?

On the food front there are no crisps in the house now. I am tapering off the wine. The gorgeous sunny evenings make me want to hold a wine glass! I need to get back into mocktails. Haircut this afternoon which always gives me a boost. I had chickpeas, spinach, tomatoes and a mackerel fillet yesterday and lost 1 lb. Meatballs and roast veg tonight. I think I am back on it. 🤞 Hope you have a good day.

@Sedgwick the only thing really that helps with the tummy for me is hugely reducing sugar, bread and wine. I have a yeast belly! Core exercises helps as well, but only if the bloat has gone. I find running outside a hundred times better and easier than a treadmill, plus it’s so much better as an overall workout because of how you have to judge different terrain, hills, pavements etc. couch to 5km is brilliant and I still recommend it to anyone, I started by doing it all the way back in 2018 and it changed my life.

I’m going off wine, (gasp, shock, who even am I???) but the long break from it had made me really taste the acidic syrupy-ness of it. I feel like if it’s not ice cold dry white wine I am totally over it, and even then, I’m falling out of love with it. This does mean I am running out of drink options though. I do enjoy just a straight tonic water with a splash of angostura bitters and lots of ice.

These are pretty good, 53 and 59 calories per tin. I have tried several alcohol free white wines and haven’t liked any sadly.

My stomach is no flatter despite training for a marathon...

But I second running outside though for mental health, making vit d...plus for us err....more mature ladies ...the cognitive effort needed / proprioception to balance when running outside is super good for our brain function.
Plus I'm sure studies show you burn more calories...though I'm not sure about that one...
I'm despairing of my bigger boobs and loss of defined waist...I know I need to add in weight training..I currently faff about with light weights for 10 mins twice a week...

@thenewaveragebear1983 I'm off wine too....sugar makes it addictive...I literally can gulp down glasses....were by a g and t lasts ages.
I also like a "non gin, gin and tonic"...so basically tonic, ice, lime wedge...

@Theredjellybean i’ve been doing Caroline Girvan workouts on YouTube, each one is 30 minutes long. I’ve been really impressed with the results actually. Would you find something like that enjoyable? It’s definitely helped my running as well, I feel overall just much stronger. She uses ridiculous weights but I only have a pair of 5kgs and a pair of adjustable 10kg and I’m managing fine. You could start even lighter than that.

it’s been beautiful here today. Glorious sunshine! I’m closing up the kitchen on 1400 cals, 142g protein which is great. I didn’t go to weigh in, I did a little spot check mid morning and I have put on a couple of pounds this week (plus the heat bloats me right up) so I am going to go Saturday morning although this does depend on my having a decent day tomorrow.

I’ve been having a protein shake for breakfast, blended with loads of spinach and frozen berries. It’s really nice and filling. Lunch tomorrow is chicken and salad, and dinner will be salmon and green veg - keeping things light! I don’t know if I’ll drink tomorrow night, it will depend on what sort of day I have! I’m running tomorrow first thing before it gets too hot.

I am also running first thing before it gets too hot. Managed an extremely slow 30 min run outdoors this afternoon.

Well done @Sedgwick , it was much too hot for me this afternoon! Did you enjoy it? Ok, maybe enjoy is the wrong word, but you must feel good now you’re done!

@thenewaveragebear1983 it was too hot but I made myself. The best bit is finishing! I far prefer to run outside in cloud and drizzle. This morning was a little cooler. I can already tell my knees would rather I was on the cross trainer, it’s so much kinder on the joints, hopefully I can keep going.

8 lbs to goal. Mackerel, leeks, asparagus, spinach and jersey new potatoes for dinner.

@Sedgwick this morning was lovely, it’s my favourite running weather. It reminds me of early mornings on campsites as a kid, the early hours of a summer day. I managed 5kms today but I did a workout yesterday and my legs were feeling it, I just took it easy.

Good evening. I’m closing up the kitchen on around 1500 cals, 140g protein. I reset my nutracheck to allow some ‘easier days’ which means I’ve got loads of calories left in the pot, but I’m not hungry so I am not going to have them. I haven’t actually eaten yet, I’m going in now to cook salmon, prawns and veg. I was going to open a bottle of wine, then remembered a little gift bottle of rose cava I had for Xmas, so I have opened that and to be honest, that’s enough.

I am still determined to weigh in at group tomorrow but annoyingly, I’ve not had the best week and the heat has made me bloated. I can’t even get my rings on! So I reckon I’ll be 2lbs up- AGAIN. I’m bored of this now!!