Flaming Healthy June!

[Healthstartshere]

June arrives tomorrow. I’m planning a super healthy (but realistic) month and would welcome anyone who would like to join me on 30 days of self improvement.

My aims are weight loss and cultivating a healthier body and mind. I plan to do this by adopting a healthier diet, reducing calories, increasing exercise, reducing alcohol intake, being kinder to myself and enjoying more fresh air and sleep.

I am jotting down a plan of how to do this right now (whilst finishing off the crisps). Come and join me for mutual encouragement of the likeminded, whatever your personal goals for June! 😊

I have 8 weeks tomorrow until my son’s graduation! I would really like to have lost a stone by then!

Not sure if that’s feasible, but I am in!

Yah @nodtik welcome, and congratulations to your son! I think plenty can be accomplished in 8 weeks. Now is the time.

@Healthstartsherefantastic! We have just got back from holiday. So dreading the scales tomorrow.

Aiming for 1200 calories, 10,000 steps and limited alcohol ….. hopefully this will keep me on track xx

I would like a healthy June! For me this includes doing 3 physio / pilates sessions a week, to try to get on top of an ongoing knee issue I've had since before Christmas. As well as eating more fruit and veg. The next 2 months look so busy it'll be too easy to slip into junk food and no physio...

Welcome @Monvelo and I hope your knee gets better soon, especially if you are super busy.
We are already a 3!

Nodtik, your 1200 is a good number for me too..

here is my plan so far:

1200 calories a day, PLUS weekend treats (I’m best being realistic 😆)

General Rules:
1200 cals a day from 2-3 healthy meals and minimal snacks, incorporating:

Plenty of fruit & vegetables
Plenty lean protein
Healthy oils/fats/nuts/seeds
Minimal processed foods
Healthy carbs (brown rice, wholewheat bread & pasta, boiled/baked potatoes etc).

Plus weekend treats =
1 bottle of wine a week, plus
100g salted nuts a week

7 x 1200 daily + 1200 treats per week/7 days =1370 cals per day.

Today I made a meal plan and did a proper food shop, including making snacks for the week which will do with DD tomorrow. Today I had 9 types of fruit/veg! Made a really nice slaw for lunch with apple and cabbage. Currently resisting toast... Although having a weekend glass of wine!

You are off to a great start Monvelo. Can I ask what the healthy snacks are? I’m always looking out for new ideas. I have a teen DD and she is planning to cut out sugar for the month but is a real snacker. She is a fussy eater too, so meal planning isn’t easy either.

I've been saving snack recipes on Instagram. DD picked some things from littleloucooks to make for lunch boxes this week. Cheese pinwheels and banana muffins. ABC muffins are good sugar free muffins, from memory, apple, banana, carrot.

That all sounds nice. I think cheese pinwheels aren’t the snack for me to be in the same kitchen as when on a diet though, very moreish!

@Healthstartshereloving what you are planning. It’s my birthday this week and was wondering how I might squeeze in a couple of wines. You have just shown me, thanks you!!

Good luck to all on this, here’s to a healthier and slimmer June! Xx

Ok, deep breath 😮‍💨

Starting Weight: 11st 10lbs
BMI: 28.2

Almost the heaviest I have ever been 😱

Yes please, I will join!
Had a successful year so far following the Louise Parker method, which is basically healthy eating, exercise, including strength, good sleep hygiene and self care-in whatever form is your "treat for self"-because you're worth it.
Bit rambling, sorry!
Back with my plan for FHJ later.

Morning all. Have a lovely birthday when it comes @nodtik (with wine 😊). Heaviest ever? You need never see that number again, all down from here.

Welcome@Buntyforgirls. (My dear, long passed, grannie used to buy me that magazine) I just looked up Louise Parker, was sorely tempted there, but read in reviews there are no calories shown for the recipes, disappointing. Still might order a second hand copy!
Well let’s get day 1 on the go!

Here are my starting stats, down in print so I can’t kid myself later about what they were:

10 st 7lb
BMI 27.4
Girth 37’’:33’’:40’’ - (taken with firmly held tape so no fudging the figures at end of June)

totally up to everyone they want to post starting points here or not.

My granny did too @Healthstartshere, I loved collecting it from the newsagents every week with a carefully selected, and heavily pondered over, paper bag of half penny chews! 5p went a long way!
Reporting for day 1.
Exercise completed for day. Treadmill and leg weight machines ( probably a correct name for them!)
Having home blended smoothie with apple, pear, banana, spinach, coconut milk, and half scoop protein and collagen powder.
Dinner will be salmon and sweet potato, med veg tray bake.
Good luck all. Let's remember that even a small step is better than no step at all!

I’d like to join. I lost 5lbs in April and put 4 back on in May. I have to be more consistent.

BMI is 27.2 so I’m aiming to get it under 27 by the end of June.

Im going to use my fitness pal and keep calories around 1200 to 1400 and up my general activity. I do strength training 4 times a week so I’m trying to lose fat and not muscle.

DH made me a posh sandwich for lunch, and by my best reckoning it was 800 calories!!! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Homemade bread, homemade slaw, slice of chicken, cheddar cheese, mayo, butter, with beetroot, hummus and a cracker on the side.... Was feeling smug prior to this as walked 5km up a hill!

My goodness @Buntyforgirls you are setting us a high bar with your super healthy menu. Very inspiring! My grannie used to give me chocolate Turkish delight with my Bunty. Trying not to think of that (Sunday afternoon traditionally chocolate grazing time for me 😆).
Welcome to @Champagnecharleyismyname I use MFP too, it’s so good for a free App I think. Good on you with the weight training, 4 times a week must make a great difference?

@Monvelo . The sandwich sounds fab I hope you enjoyed it, it sounds like a lot of work went into it. It’s still only 1st of June, so your plan can start……NOW 😄

I’d like to join you. May has been really up and down, hit my lowest weight of the year so far but also regained 5lbs while away for 4 days. I wouldn’t mind but one of those days we climbed snowdon! Just shows you must walk further than your knife and fork 🤣

in June we have loads of social plans and unfortunately I can’t wait till they are all done. I go on holiday in ten weeks. I have a half marathon in 2 weeks which I am grotesquely unprepared for, and am relying on muscle memory to see me through.

starting weight 159.2lbs (11.5.2)
plan- calorie cycling averaging 1200 a day (yes it’s very low but I have to cut right back to see any loss at all these days), low carb, cut the junk, loads of veg. Loads of water. I’ve devised a 15 min dumbbell workout which I am going to do 5x a week and run 3-4x a week which is my normal anyway.

Day One - slightly over calories, but LOOK at the step count!!

Can I join you all? I felt very sluggish the last couple of weeks and don’t want to slip back in to old bad habits.
Weight loss: I’d be very happy with 2lb gone by the end of June. I’d like to refocus my lunches in particular - they’ve slipped in to me having tins of soup even though I love making my own.
Health wise: maintain my fitness with my daily yoga practice and get out for walks any day I can.

My biggest goal I think has to be drinking more water. I drink decaff tea all day long but have not been drinking anything like enough water, it’s definitely a blind spot in my mind. I read a tip of using a pretty teacup and just keeping it by the sink…big water bottles definitely don’t help me, this might. Today I liked using it anyways.

@nodtik that’s amazing- see, you managed to walk off the whole mega-sandwich! what a start 😄

A big welcome to the Flaming Junes @thenewaveragebear1983 and @Poisonwood

@thenewaveragebear1983 , do you have a plan in place to get through all your social engagements this month with minimal damage? Planning is key I’d think, so you don’t end up in a ‘sheep as a lamb’ abandonment of your plan.

Poisonwood, I always feel better making homemade soup too. It’s like an ‘I’m coping’ litmus test in this house - it’s a healthier week when the fridge is full of tubs of homemade soup. (The I-am-not coping looking like white cheese sandwiches with crisps and an always open Savvie-B).

So, we now have runners, hillwalkers, walkers, weight lifters and yogis in the team. I really don’t think we are starting from a bad place at all. We all know what needs done and how to do it. Yah!

@Healthstartsheremy plan for the football awards x 3 is not to drink (not difficult because they are all going to be at various kids football clubhouse bars). My other social event is Pulp so I’ll be having a few drinks that night but not food and lots of dancing.