Chub Club: Fighting Flab in Aisle Five

[IHaveRunOutOfIdeas]

Right then, here we go!
Me @Obsesetits are throwing ourselves headfirst into the salad aisle and starting the official Chub Club. Our mission: lose a stone at a time (3 in total for me), with full accountability, banter, and possibly tears when someone brings doughnuts into the house.

If you fancy joining us, here are the official Chub Club Rules:

1. All meetings held in Aisle 5 — attendance compulsory unless hiding in the biscuit aisle.
2. Confessions encouraged — especially snaccidents (e.g. finishing the kids’ leftovers “so they don’t go to waste”).
3. Non-scale victories count double — zipping up old jeans = instant promotion to Salad General.
4. Anyone bringing doughnuts to meetings will be banned (or eaten, not sure which yet).

This is a space for accountability, progress (big or small), and plenty of laughs — because if we can’t laugh while eating lettuce, what’s the point?

So… who’s in? Grab a trolley, confess your snaccidents, and let’s see how much chub we can shift together 💪🥦🍫

Have to be honest and say I didn’t really understand a lot of your post (aisle five?) but hello!

5 ft tall, 54 years old and 10st 7, having lost one stone already on a rather loose interpretation of the Fast 800 diet. It took about six weeks to lose that first stone and my sugar and crisp cravings have gone. I was a huge snacker so I’m very pleased with it so far.

I think I have two more stones to go. I don’t have kids in the house any more but cooking for my carb and sugar obsessed DH has its own challenges.

Haha aisle 5 is the veg aisle in my supermarket 😂.

I have considered 800 cals a day, I don’t think I could manage that, I reckon I am around 1200 a day on a good week.

1st down since June, welcome aboard.

Can I join? 5’ 1 and 11’4 at 58. Need yo lose about 3 stone but want to fo it a stone at a time. I can’t do anything too strict or I end up eating everything in sight so aiming to cut out the snacks, look at portions and move a bit more. That all sounds very dull though so holding out for euromillions so I can go to a health farm and emerge as a butterfly in a few months having been pampered and fed delicious low calorie food.

Placemarking. I saw Obsesetits thread yesterday and I am almost exactly the same in terms of height, weight and desire to lose it 😀 I am trying to go for the low-hanging fruit at the moment. Establishing regular exercise and cutting out snacks etc. If I manage to get even a stone off, that will be really good.

Thanks @IHaveRunOutOfIdeas I’m not sure our supermarket aisles have numbers on the signs but then I never wear my glasses to go shopping. I’ll check the veg aisle next time I go!

Looks like we’re all pretty similar here! At barely 5ft I considered joining the ‘petites’ thread that is running at the moment but after reading through it decided its not for me. Over there they seem to be at the younger end, interested in being very slim with starting weights lower than my goal, and while everything they say about the particular challenges of maintaining weight under 5’2” is so relatable so I’m not criticising, I find some of the weights (in the 6st range) and dress sizes (UK 4) being quoted over there quite triggering.

Before this I would never have even contemplated doing 800 - 1000 calories a day but two things - I realised that I maintain significantly overweight on 1200 so I was stuck and I’d never done low(er) carb before. Its so much easier to stay on and feels healthier mentally than the many Low Fat diets that I’ve tried over the years.

So…sorry for the essay! - I don’t want to be extremely slim, as I said on the other thread, I only put weight on in my forties and just want to keep going through life without obesity. My dear long departed Mum was 4’ 8” and although she lived into her nineties she was severely disabled in various ways, largely due to her weight from about 50.

Looking forward to chatting here.

@Midlifeshenanigans A peaceful week at a health farm sounds wonderful, we can dream eh? ☺️

@MujeresLibres Cutting out snacks is hard. I’m a snacker, meals don’t bother me at all, I’m all about the snacks!

I’m a snacker too! At work lunches are thrown down my throat as quick as possible or I go without. I come home and head straight for the crisps and biscuits.

I do weigh daily but only count my Thursday ‘score’, only because this is the only thing that has worked for me so far.

I will take a photo tomorrow, unlikely to share it, and will take photos at each half stone loss.

I want to be in the 10st club by Christmas. 10st 13 will even do!

I can really identify with that. Taking a photo is a great idea, I’ve not thought of doing that.

My thing was frazzles and chocolate biscuits! I also recently developed a terrible addiction to sour cream snack a jacks. I couldn’t understand it until I read that rice cakes have a very high glycaemic index so the more I ate, the more I wanted. I was eating two rolls of the large cakes every day at one point and wanted more.

Thankfully that’s over. Working very (very) loosely from the fast 800 diet today I’ve had a bowl of full fat greek yoghurt, an apple and a cup of tea, and rather than crisps or biscuits I’ve just had a babybel cheese with pickled vegetables as a snack. I’m from a Ukrainian family so I love pickles!

Dinner will be home made Korean fire chicken with DH (who will have loads of carbs with his, I’ll have vegetables) and supper will be another apple and a small bowl of bran flakes with full fat milk. They have a bit of sugar but they ‘work’ better than expensive fibre supplements and they’re filling.

At the risk of TMI the constipation that came with low(er) carb eating was a bit of a shock. If I have wholemeal bread or pasta for dinner I have a hot chocolate instead of the bran flakes.

As a former night eater I’ll never give this up, its what makes this diet work for me.

I weigh on a Monday as I find it helps me not overdo it on weekends - I’m two months in and hoping to hit ten stone this Monday or next 🤞🏼

I may take some pickles to work as something to nibble on with some flavour. I struggle with reflux though but I think most of that was weight issues.

Only one meal today, minted lamb with frozen mash so I can portion it properly, and some veg. Followed by an ice lolly which I know isn’t great but trying to slowly remove all the crap we have. Also had a babybel.

We have got this!

Korean fire chicken sounds amazing!

The recipe is on Adam Liaw’s youtube channel. Its easy to make and the smoked cheese is a must. We have it with rice (or cauliflower rice).

If you like Gochujang paste there’s also a recipe for a fantastic five minute Keema curry which I make with minced pork in Nigella’s book ‘Kitchen’ that we absolutely love.

I weigh the ingredients so I can stay within my calories. I don’t use an app or anything, just the internet and a notebook.

Minted Lamb sounds lush, and the odd ice lolly is part of a normal life. We do indeed have this!

I can see babybels featuring a lot in this thread..

I shall have a look! Thank you.

I couldn’t laugh so loved instead 😂

12st exactly this morning.

I am out this evening though so I know the alcohol will hang around for a day or 3! Also had a sandwich for lunch which was nice as I have avoided bread for a few weeks.

12 exactly, I’d say that’s well on the way to 10.13 by Christmas! I hope you have a lovely night out.

Friday, so a short day at work and then the supermarket, and DH’s Pizza day - I’ve never been fond of pizza so have never joined him in this!

Had my yoghurt and apple and two cups of tea. It’ll be tinned mackerel in tomato sauce on superseeded bread with a side salad for dinner, quick and easy as its a long drive to and from the shops.

Today is my official last day off work, i need to start thinking about prepping lunches for next week.

I missed breakfast today made a small sandwich earlier but have just had 2 poached eggs and a ton of chopped tomatoes on toast. I feel like I need to make sure I am not hungry later as I make silly choices when it comes to food after a drink.

I have also watched the video yoy mentioned, it looks so tasty but so simple. DH loves tinned mackerel, maybe I can suggest an on toast meal once a week.

If you like spicy food its something nice and different from a curry.

Its so hard having to consider the family when trying to lose weight isn’t it? Meal planning has to be one of the worst household tasks ever. An ‘on toast’ day sounds like a really good idea to take the pressure off a bit.

Years ago I worked with a woman who saved up for holidays by having whole ‘on toast’ weeks. I always thought they must have been eating caviar the rest of the month if eating toast got them a holiday!

I have a slice or two of wholemeal seeded bread/toast about once a week, either with tinned mackerel or as a sandwich with watercress, mayonnaise and those fake crabstick things (certainly not everyone’s taste!). The trouble is a sandwich isn’t complete without a packet of crisps.

Even though its not my heritage I find eating a lot of Japanese inspired food is very helpful on the fast 800, as the meals are naturally small and light and easily fit in with the ethos of it. I have to say I don’t really like a lot of the suggested ‘Mediterranean’ ingredients in the books.

Been to Tesco. Really quite hungry now.

🙋🏻‍♀️ Joining you please. Three stone to dispose of. Yet again because I’ve been here before. I’m pretty good at losing weight when I manage to put my mind to it but singularly unsuccessful at keeping it off….

Started yesterday. Will weigh this morning and take a photo when no one’s watching. Plan as usual is no sugar other than a bit of fruit, no white carbs, no snacking and no booze. FUN TIMES.

Ok. I’m working in kg as it masks the true horror. Start weight 20/08 is 86.3kg. First target is 80kg. Then we go from there.
No photo!

Welcome @chalkyc2! my first target would be 85, small wins and all that!

I weighed today… 2lb on since yesterday but I know that’s just alcohol and will be gone by tomorrow or Monday.

I also didn’t do a photo… I am thinking 1st of the month instead.

Hello @chalkyc2 ! Please do keep us updated. That seems to be the plan for most of us here - It seems a much better way to go than the old ‘low fat’ diets, don’t you think?

Food wise today was OK. Yoghurt and apple for late breakfast, a large mushroom and napa cabbage omelette with miso soup and pickles followed by a protein babybel and a square of chocolate for dinner and a small bowl of bran flakes with a cup of ‘proper’ tea for supper. Managed not to snack, which is an absolute miracle for a Saturday with DH around all day!

This afternoon we went for a long walk up a hill to a celtic stone circle (I’m in rural NE Scotland) and signed up to a beginners reformer Pilates class in the city at the end of the month as a reward/incentive to keep going. Its something I’ve always wanted to do but now I’m really nervous, I don’t get out much, and don’t even own any gym gear yet!