DIET FAILED AGAIN - it’s thread 8 (the one where we all lose weight) - all welcome

[thenewaveragebear1983]

New thread for the new year 2026! Everyone welcome to join us for motivation and encouragement, without judgement.

My normal weigh day is Sunday @thenewaveragebear1983 but if we’re going to begin this 6/6 I’ve weighed again this morning for a true start weight to declare. It would seem I’ve gained a pound since yesterday, exactly another pound in one day, but I did eat an enormous amount of banana loaf 🙁.

i’m declaring a weight of 11 st 8.75 lbs (blimey that’s quite a bit higher than I expected). I will try to write everything down for a true record and to try to stop myself over-eating.

does anyone else want to join us? No rules except try hard to lose 1 lb a week for 6 weeks, reporting here daily on progress and trying to move more. I might try to do it for 7 weeks to try to lose half a stone but Bear is on holiday for the 7th week.

grocery shopping this morning so I’ll look for low cal ideas but I find it hard to buy anything new as I’ve been trying to lose weight for so long.

One more thing, if anyone else does want to join us, you are not forced to declare your weight if you would rather keep it to yourself

I'll join in although not holding much hope as I'm out for lunch later. This might give me a kick though.

I'm 9 stone 11 pounds. Bear in mind I'm short at 5ft to 5ft1 ish so it really shows and I'm officially overweight.

I hope to get down to 9 but it's proving difficult in perimenopause.

@Specialneedsnightmare yayyy, it’s always better when there are more of us. In 6 weeks we all have to negotiate meals out, birthday celebrations etc but honestly @thenewaveragebear1983and I have done this a few times and it works well for us. Even if we don’t lose the full 6 lbs, which I hope we do, we always see some loss.

Great. It introduces some accountability which I think is always a good thing, for me anyway! As otherwise i think 'oh well, I'll just have that chocolate bar as it won't make any difference ' even though I know darn well it will.

I will try and be even more mindful of what I'm eating over the next few weeks.

I’m in too! My official weigh in starting weight is 157lb (11st3) but I do bob around a lot. I’m going to try extra hard, I know if I went on holiday 6lbs lighter I would feel so much better (even if I regain it all on holiday eating delicious french bread and salty butter 😋 )

hope you all had a good day. I had overnight oats made with flavoured kefir, and frozen mango with chia seeds. The kefir is nice, it’s sweetened only with fruit and it is very good for your gut health. Yesterday I made a big batch of a sort of Thai noodle thing with mushrooms, peppers, coconut milk, lemongrass and ginger, and noodles. It made 4 massive portions for my lunches every day. I went to bootcamp and it was the fitness test which is always hard work and horrible. I’m waiting until my shopping order comes at 8pm before I can have dinner, but will probably just have something light as it will be late.

Day 1 has gone ok I think. I’m not brilliant at counting calories, but I’ve had a about 1330 which is pretty good for me. My exercise was walking around two supermarkets and a one hour dog walk so that’s not too bad either.

I bought two packs of prawns and divided them into 55 cal, one third of a bag portions. I think they go well with jacket potatoes which as you know I live on and are a good low-calorie protein. I also bought a large watermelon because that is hydrating and a very low cal snack. I am allowing myself one treat per day because if I don’t do this, I know I will fail miserably so this evening I’ve had one packet of mini cheddars which are 117 cals.

I don’t think this is too shabby for day one and I feel like I haven’t broken the calorie bank with one treat.

I must admit that this has really made me focus today which is a good thing, and which I very much needed to do.
Of course the day hasn’t gone without drama in the paws household, a drama can always be found here. My daughter’s boyfriend (I suppose you can call him that but they are both parents so maybe partner is a better word but they don’t live together), has been made redundant this morning with immediate effect. The company he works for have been struggling for a while And if they kept him on much longer would’ve had to have paid a reasonable redundancy payment, as it is he’s just getting one months salary. This is very worrying for the whole family and I’ve been thinking about it for the whole day, such bad news out of the blue.

Anyway, back to the point of this thread, I think day one here is a thumbs up 👍. I watched DP eat two large pieces of cake and I didn’t have any. How are you doing?

My day has been ok. I ended up having a carvery for lunch but I didn't go mad- no Yorkshire pud and only 3 potatoes a small amount of stuffing with the rest meat and veg. I did, however, have a dessert as i just couldn't resist but I didn't eat much later on, only a small pitta bread with half a boiled egg. Breakfast was toast. So will see. I agree 💯 about needing a treat or else it's impossible to stick to.

Sorry about your daughter's partner being made redundant @poorpaws. That kind of thing impacts everyone and is very stressful. It seems to be happening more now.

@thenewaveragebear1983 your noodle dish sounds great!

@Specialneedsnightmare it sounds as if you did a very good job of damage limitation today 👍

@thenewaveragebear1983 I hope you are doing well on day 1.

I have had a good day actually and I’m ending pretty much in my allowance. I have actually increased my allowance, I’m now saying 1600 a day. The reason for this being that I think if I go too low I end up bingeing, and I also can’t do my exercise and feel tired. My Garmin reckons my average is about 2100 a day so that would be a weekly 1lb deficit, so I’m going to try to stick to that.

@poorpawsi am so sorry, redundancy is horrible and especially with such little notice/payout. I hope he finds something. I was made redundant in March as you know, and thankfully everyone I know has now found something, don’t give up hope

@Specialneedsnightmare I follow a few fitness/ diet type people and one lady called Ruth mac tries and tests all the viral recipes and rates them, and very often they are simple one pot type dishes. This was one of those.

@thenewaveragebear1983 sounds really useful. I have to be careful with a lot of food including citrus sadly but I will check this lady out as she might have some options.

@poorpaws yes damage limitation is right, thank goodness.

At today's check in I weigh the same as yesterday, so at least no more! From tomorrow I will put my weight in pounds as I can see changes more clearly. I'm 9 stone 11.4 and it seems the .4 makes some difference. I like to weigh without clothes first thing so I get an accurate picture of what's going on day to day.

Today I'm trying to eat from scratch but my meal is a shepherd's pie. I do better health wise on some red meat but I don't go mad with portions and I'm avoiding too much chocolate just the odd square.

@Specialneedsnightmare so you weigh every day? Is there much fluctuation in your weight daily? I tend to just weigh on Sunday morning (changed to Monday morning for the 6/6 challenge) but if I feel I’ve done particularly well I might have a sneaky mid-week weigh, although I never actually count this or record it.

Today has gone ok. I only had half a banana in my porridge, trying to keep the calories down, but I actually preferred it to the whole banana, which tends to make the porridge quite thick. I’ve wrapped the second half in Kitchen foil, but whether it will be fit to eat tomorrow, I have no idea.

For lunch I had a huge bowl of watermelon because the one I bought was very overripe and it won’t last long, so by dinner time I was very hungry.

this evening hasn’t gone too badly, I’ve just drunk a cup of black coffee to try and stave off any hunger.

I hope everyone is doing okay and keeping on track.

Yes i have been weighing daily as it gives me some idea of whether I'm on the right track. There's usually a fair bit of variation by day although my weight tends to hover within two readings which is frustrating. For purposes of this challenge though I will do the same as everyone else and weigh in on Monday. It will be a good test of patience and to see how much difference, if any, has been made! I've gone down again, so will see.

Well done on your diet .I ended up hungry in the night so I need to eat more for my later meal, which isn't always easy..

First of all the good news, daughter‘s partner has been offered three jobs already. I don’t know any details yet, but it’s a very good start since it was only Monday he was made redundant.

I had more to eat at lunchtime than I normally eat so I’ve been berating myself all afternoon. To counteract this, I had my evening meal a lot later, in fact, I’ve only just finished it so hopefully I won’t have so long tonight to snack.

My exercise was the usual dog walk which we had to do very early because of the weather.

Tomorrow we have to go back to see the physio specialist and I just know my hand is no better so goodness knows what he’s going to say. Once we were back from the hospital, we were hoping to walk the dogs to our café but it looks as if it’s going to be very very hot here tomorrow so we might have to cancel that and just sit in the garden.

I hope everyone is still doing well.

Temperature is picking up here but it isn’t unbearable, just pleasant. I had a stressful day today, I had an electrician this morning and sky engineer this afternoon, plus did 3 pieces of work which I’ve been putting off and not feeling very confident about. Feel a bit frazzled now and tired. I’ve not been sleeping well recently, and realised today that i haven’t taken my vitamins or supplements for a week, I don’t know why 🤷‍♀️ I wonder if it’s the reason I am struggling to get to sleep?

food wise I’m ok but I am breaking even rather than getting a deficit. Today I ended up on 1900 cals. I am still aching after my intense pt on Monday and that’s not helping either but I guess break even is better than over and at least what I am eating is really good quality with lots of veg.

tomorrow I want to run either early morning or lunchtime, I need to get some in before the heat really comes. I am trying to fast 14 hours so will eat brunch/ breakfast at 10, then might skip lunch and have early dinner because I am meeting my friend for a walk in the evening

If it's okay, I'd like to join you all.

I've not been doing so well with losing weight. I know what works for me, it's just getting started and sticking to it!
I really would love the accountability to get and stay on track to lose the 10-15lbs that I need to lose.

@HazelNotHungryLCWelcome, we’re happy to have you here.

if you are interested three of us have just started a challenge to lose 6 lbs in six weeks (we only started on Monday). No rules, do your own thing, but we just concentrate more on losing weight and exercise in these weeks and post daily for accountability. Do join us if you’d like to.

I’m off to the hospital in half an hour, haven’t had a drink because of the journey and just had porridge and half a banana. It’s already baking hot here so I doubt we’ll be going out much later.

I hope you’re all doing well. I managed to claw back my lunch excess in the evening and didn’t snack at all so I’m very happy with that.

Welcome @HazelNotHungryLC, I am totally the same, I know what to do but I don’t always do it.

started my day with a lovely long walk with the dog, we normally do 2 miles in the park but I am sooooo bored of the same old walk so today we did 3.5 miles on the pavements. It’s not hot here yet, cool breeze and it rained in the night.

Hi @HazelNotHungryLC the more people the better so welcome!

Yesterday went ok I think but ive been having hypoglycemia episodes again since being ill so I might have eaten too much to ward them off. I'm not diabetic but I do need to keep my blood sugar stable and not wait too long in between meals as I get v weak and then over eat. It's a learning curve and I'm trying to work out how best to manage this to keep my weight down.

I hope everyone has a good day. It's quite warm here which is a bonus!

Thank you for the warm welcome!
I would love to join the 6lbs in 6wks. It sounds achievable.

A little background on me. I'm 42, starting to go through peri, and I've been dieting since I was a teenager. Especially after years of being told I was fat by my parents and friends.

I've tried low fat, low calorie diets, but I was starving on 1200 cals, hoping for a few more so I could eat just a little bit more.

What works for me is keto/ low carb. I'm not really hungry if I'm eating right, hence my username. Ideally I'd keep my carb intake at 25g or less, per day. I started keto in Jan 2018, got to my goal weight (152-155lbs), looked good, felt amazing, but let some of it back on again starting in 2020, when I changed jobs. I put on about 10lbs in the first few months as it was more sedentary.

I've struggled to get back on track since 2022ish. Hormones really don't help.

So I'm trying this again. Reducing my carbs, again. Sugar is so addictive and is in everything! I eat pretty clean food for the most part (can be difficult as I'm in the US, more additives than back home in the UK). But I cook from scratch, which means planning. I don't always have the time. I just need to make the time though.

Sorry that was a lot!

@HazelNotHungryLC don’t apologise, your post was not “a lot”, it’s lovely to have a bit of background info. I am the most terrible sugar addict. I eat good food, lots of salad, protein and jacket potatoes but if I go anywhere near chocolate I just can’t stop eating it. I gave it up completely for the first three months of the year and lost over a stone (need to lose another stone) but gradually my weight it creeping back up, hence the 6/6. This makes me focus more and both @thenewaveragebear1983and I have done well on this previously. So far since starting on Monday, I’ve been really doing well, trying to keep calories to under 1,500.

my hospital visit was not too successful. The physio says he can’t do much more and he’s now contacted the surgeon who performed the op to say I need a second operation. The first op was on the palm, ring finger and little finger and a second operation is needed on the two knuckles of the ring and little finger. I don’t know what the outcome will be but I’m assuming the surgeons secretary will contact me.

i had a latte at the hospital because we were there a long time but ive only had watermelon for lunch so today is good so far. I’ve already prepared a salad for dinner with the normal jacket potato but I going to try and eat a little later as this stopped evening snacking yesterday.

@HazelNotHungryLC I am the same age as you and I am also in peri, I am On HRT though because I demanded it for a whole raft of symptoms. It has completely stagnated my weight loss. I also do better on low carb but because I am a runner I can’t go as low as 25g, I just struggle to keep any power in my legs. I like to aim for around 50-60g but I don’t always achieve it. Lots of things affect my weight loss and I think they are all largely hormone related- sleep, stress, bloating, water retention…. I can gain 7lbs literally overnight! Plus I do like a nice glass of wine or 2 and that just finishes off any chance of sustained loss. I feel like I can’t do anything for long enough to actually get any loss that isn’t just immediately swallowed up by a weekend slightly off plan. Depressing. I am seriously contemplating wLI now, more providers are offering them for bmi 25, and now there are tablets as well, I am waiting to see if the prices come down a bit and doing a bit of research. I never ever thought I would get to that stage.

anyway enough boo-boo from me. I have done 16k steps today as I walked and also ran, plus I am going out for a walk this evening too. For breakfast I had scrambled egg and a perfect avocado 🥑, cherry tomatoes and fruit. For lunch i had a roll and a chicken breast, and loads of carrot sticks and green apple slices, I was crunching away for ages and felt really full afterwards. Not sure what will be for dinner.

It’s going to be a lovely sunny weekend here, I was going to go out tomorrow with my old colleagues but it’s been cancelled and I’m secretly quite glad. Saturday I am going to blitz my garden, it’s full of weeds and I want it tidied up before we have our beautiful garden room installed next week (cannot wait!) Sunday is a family bbq / lunch as it’s my birthday soon but they will all be away.

Another one in peri. My periods stopped in February so I might even be in menopause! Hormones have completely changed my metabolism as I was always underweight until 3 years ago. I can't exercise due to disability and I have a lot of problems with food sensitivities and histamine excess. I find it so frustrating and my diet isn't going well this week as I feel so weak and have overeaten. I'm sure I'm insulin resistant although I'm not quite prediabetic.

@poorpaws I'm sorry about your hand.

I think today has been the hardest one so far in this challenge for me. I was up before 6 am to walk the dogs by 7 so it’s been a long day.

After the dog walk and breakfast, I did quite a lot of housework while DP was outside trimming the Bay trees. By 3 pm I was exhausted and sat in the garden for a short time. DD texted to see if I’d like a McDonald’s but luckily my dinner was only 10 minutes from being cooked otherwise I feel sure I would’ve accepted and that wouldn’t have been good for the weigh-in.

I’ve spent this evening wanting ice cream or anything sweet really and all I’ve had was an 80 cal small slimming chocolate bar but it really hasn’t hit the spot. I’m going to bed early because I really must be up again before six tomorrow.

I’ve heard from the consultant surgeons secretary and I’ve got an appointment on 20 July so should know more about my hand difficulties by then.

I hope everyone is doing well, it’s getting harder as the days go on but I really would like to get a good lump of weight off in the next six weeks so I’m going to try really hard. How are you all doing?

Hi. Just had some fake sausages. Tasted quite nice and I felt a lot less shame than when eating the real ones! I somehow managed to avoid buying cake or ice cream tonight 😯.