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.

Maybe you are craving salt @poorpaws?

the rain is relentless and there’s strong wind as well. The park is boggy and wet, Maggie is living her best life but yes it is very muddy for humans.

@thenewaveragebear1983 you could well be right about the salt craving but I’d suggest it’s because I used to eat lots of chocolate/biscuits/cake in the evening and now I’m replacing those with the only things “snacky” I have. Evenings have always been my downfall, evenings when I just sit with my iPad wondering what I can eat next when I’m not even hungry.

ive really struggled today, the rain has been relentless and even though the heating has been on high and the dogs have been panting, I’ve been cold all day. I think this is the first day I’ve really craved something sugary all day, not chocolate, but crunchy nut cornflakes. I’m not even sure whether I’m allowed them or not but I’ve not eaten any because I think I could eat the whole box tonight.

weigh-in tomorrow and if it’s as little as half a pound I’ll take it. I know I’m not moving enough but without the usual dog walks and with a house full of people, it’s just been too difficult. I have passed on cake and a cafe visit so I am still trying.

ill be back tomorrow to report any loss at all, fingers crossed tightly that there isn’t a gain.

I’ve lost 1.5 lbs this week, that’s 8 lbs off so far in January. I am delighted and so, so pleased I passed on the caterpillar birthday cake and the cafe visit. It is true what they say about the elation of seeing the pounds drop off being more satisfying than the cake.

the rain has stopped for a moment but is forecast to be back. Have a great Sunday.

@poorpaws 🤩 you know what? You need to stop being so damn hard on yourself because you have totally got this. Think how many times this month you’ve been so hard on yourself, and you’ve actually been totally smashing it all along. I used to have a thing stuck to my fridge which said ‘if talking kindly to plants helps them grow, think what talking kindly to yourself could do’ and that should be your new motto. WELL DONE 👏

I’m 11.2 today and that’s a total loss of 2.5 in January which is good for me and considering the absolute cesspit of a month I have had. I feel like Jan has been a bit of a washout and I really feel like Feb is going to be the new Jan. I’m going to continue with my dry January and also try try try to cut out sugar, despite my grand plans I have eaten sugar every single day in Jan 🤦‍♀️

I need to do a big shop and plan my week, get the house sorted and general things like that, my washing machine has packed up so I can’t do any washing! But I am really noticing that for 2 weeks my mind has been elsewhere.

@thenewaveragebear1983 thank you and yes, you are right I am hard on myself. Last week at the cafe, Jackie said she was so impressed with me (she didn’t even know if I’d lost any weight, but was impressed with me just trying to give up sugar), what was my answer? Oh please don’t be impressed, I never do anything that’s impressive!

I look forward to you joining in no/low sugar in February but I’m pleased you aren’t berating yourself, you’ve had a really bad January. February has to be better for you I’m sure and you must always remember you weigh a lot less than me and you’re taller too.

Thanks for the link on my post @thenewaveragebear1983, I’d love to join you all!

Welcome @familyissues12345 and good luck.
Well done ladies on losing the lbs. I haven't weighed recently, but I do feel a little lighter and a bit more in control of my eating habits. I've been drinking a big jug of carrot drink last couple of days, which seems to be helping quite a bit.

@familyissues12345 welcome, lovely to have you with us.

another boring day in paradise, it’s going to rain!

Im going food shopping this morning with a list so I don’t go off plan. A dog walk planned if it doesn’t rain, which it will. Dd is back from Dorset so she’ll be working from home in the kitchen and we’ll have to be quiet when she’s in online meetings. Just two weeks left then I can get back to my normal life. DP will probably be asleep in a chair which makes me want to kill him 🙄 and I’ll be looking around at all the housework which needs doing that I can’t get to. I think I’m a bit grumpy this morning.

@familyissues12345 do tell us a bit about your weight loss plans and how you’re doing.

Have a lovely Monday everyone, roll on Spring,

Morning! Thanks for the warm welcome!

So I’m 45, size 20-22. No idea exactly how much I weigh, but I’d hazard a guess that I’m about 17-18 stone - I was 16.5 3 years ago. I’ve neglected myself for years and over the last few years I’ve been feeling like I have medical issues that are basically due to my weight - painful joints. However, I’m currently being investigated for high bp and sleep apnoea, and it’s given me a bit of a kick up the bum.

Im fortunate in that I love good healthy food, just unfortunate that I love crap too. So I feel I have the benefit that I’m not needing to train myself to enjoy food that I’ve always hated, I “just” need to train myself to feed myself properly, and not skip meals and end up reaching for junk.

I also need to start doing more exercise, which I’m hoping will be easier once I start losing a bit of timber as my hips ache at the moment! I’ve been researching pools for payg swimming this weekend.

Ive got a weird motivation this time, I think it’s the realisation that I could have medical conditions that could shorten my life unless I do something about it. I’ve never had that before, always been more about being uncomfortable than dangerous.

So here I am!

@familyissues12345 I’m pleased you’re here. You’ll get a lot of support here without any judgement whatsoever and I look forward to hearing your progress.

like you I love healthy foods, eat salads daily, but I’m a chocoholic and that has made me gain 2 stones! I can eat so much chocolate its quite obscene and I never have that sickly feeling other people talk about.

I'm an all or nothing type so I've given up sugar for three months 🤞 to try and at least lose 1 st. It’s slow to come off but very quickly goes on.

i hope you stay with us. Are you counting calories. I find that so difficult but I'm not one to fast either or eat between certain times, so what do you plan?

Hi @poorpaws

I haven’t started calorie counting etc as yet, at the moment I’m focussing on getting my eating habits into a better position, then I’ll work on what I actually eat.
I’ve always been rubbish at eating at breakfast/lunch , so graze 🙄, then end up snacking late afternoon as I’m starving before tea! So my initial plan is to start bringing in breakfast and a light lunch. We’ve just bought a soup machine as I do like soup, so we’ve have some nice soups for lunch already!

@familyissues12345 I’ve got a soup maker and I love it. I make soup every week and have it most days for lunch. I’m a bit boring and stick to parsnip soup (with a carrot in) as I like the sweetness.

im always moaning at DD for doing exactly what you’re doing, she skips breakfast then skips lunch and wonders why she’s hangry at 3 pm. I like all my food planned the night before so I know exactly what I’m eating (and can get food out of the freezer to defrost) but I’m a very repetitive eater so most days the meals don’t vary much.

im trying so hard just now, im in the zone as they say but ive had many months/years where ive not bothered much and played at dieting. I have one pair of jeans which fit comfortably and i wash and put straight back on. I won’t buy any more because in the next size down I have a drawer full and I’m determined to get back into them.

Good evening , I have skim read but will catch up properly later

I had a reasonable day today. I have counted calories properly (ie by scales not by eye!) and I am hungry which always proves to me how much I must eat more when I guess. Tonight we’re having leftover roast pork and veg, and potato smilers 😊

I went to bootcamp in the cold after work but hey, it was light when I left at 4.45 whereas 2 weeks ago it was dark , so spring is creeping in quietly while we are all busy on other things.

I should hopefully have a quieter week, a few promising whispers at work and I feel a little flicker of confidence and hope that wasn’t there before so 🤞 tomorrow is a big day, I am importing into my new system and I have never done anything like this before so it’s time to prove just how much i have learned and how far I have come on this project.

tonight I want a hot bath and a bit of trashy tv

I don’t have a soup maker. I like soup but I just cannot make it nice, and I often end up with a big vat of tasteless mush or weird texture. So I tend to buy mine premade. I did however this week buy a turkey drumstick to make a turkey soup in my slow cooker - according to my friend you just stick it in, add veg and stock, simmer it for 8 hours then strip the meat off and pull out the bone. So I am going to do that tomorrow 👍

@familyissues12345 it might be worth tracking for a week or two, it usually is pretty eye opening. I am always amazed by how much food I can get in meals for my allowance, and conversely how much I eat in snacks, grazing, nibbles and guesses. It’s honestly half my days calories some days. You don’t have to be obsessive but I do think it helps you to start and there’s probably a few really eat cuts you can make straight away.

i like overnight oats for breakfast and I make then screw days in advance, I do oats, chia, protein powder sometimes and milk, with frozen fruit. It’s really tasty and filling, and you can just grab from the fridge. Lunches the same, I often batch cook a roast dinner and have leftovers a few days for lunch. If it’s made already it’s so much easier to just grab it.

my big problem is eating enough veg. My dc don’t like bits in food so I tend to leave it out but then gradually I have found myself eating less and less veg. I like it and I like bulking my meals out but for some reason I just don’t. 🤷‍♀️

Good morning

ive been invited to an “eat all you can” breakfast this morning. I’ve been before and it’s a lovely hotel serving delicious food and I was invited because apart from the cereals, there’s not much sugar involved. I’ve decided not to go because just imagine the calories! There’s a huge range of breakfast food and most people eat more than they should to get value for money. I really wanted to go but atm I need to concentrate on weigh-in and during these planned three months I don’t mind staying the same weight, which I feel is inevitable some weeks, but I don’t want to gain.

how are you all doing and what are your plans for today? It’s raining here again so either a very soggy dog walk like yesterday or the guilt felt when we don’t go out.

DD is off work today and planning a day shopping with dgd. It’s just me and DP at home and I ought to clean the kitchen but there’s so much “stuff” in there of DDs that it’s impossible to keep as tidy as I’d like. I’m counting the days to my life getting back to normal but I suppose I will miss the company, but won’t miss the mess.

have a good Tuesday, I hope you’ve got better weather than we have.

Just to add I completely agree with @thenewaveragebear1983 on tracking food. I was surprised when I started looking at the calories just how much an extra latte and a few biscuits or a thin slice of cake added to my daily total. I hate calorie counting but my guesstimates are way off so at least with the most regular food eaten and sugary extras, it’s definitely worth checking. I’ve ended up cutting out all lattes because one leads onto another and then I crave something sweet with them, whereas black coffee I can just drink without the cravings,

Cake is always the one thing that totally blows my mind calorie wise. A tiny cupcake with icing can be several hundred, and a big slice in a garden centre could easily be 600! Not worth it really.

It’s been wet and windy here today! We’re having bolognese and pasta tonight, with cheese. I am exhausted, we didn’t have a good night last night because dh was disturbed by the storm. Then I had another difficult day at work, just sorting out other people’s crap all the time. It’s so frustrating! But anyway- they’ll miss me when I’m gone eh? 🤣

@thenewaveragebear1983 they most certainly will miss you and it serves them right 😁

I’ve had the most horrendous, frustrating day ever. I won’t bore you with all the fine details but I’ve been trying to arrange a private operation on my hand. With the NHS the waiting list is at least 18 months-2 years. I’ve been with Beneden Health private care for donkeys years and I’ve spent the whole day going between the consultants secretary and a Benenden representative. I’m still none the wiser but I haven’t had time to eat so yay to that. I’ve just managed to eat a packet of low fat crisps and I’m still well within my calories but I’ve also probably lost weight through sweat and tears 🥵

the weathers been dreadful here too with massive floods at the bottom of the road, cars stuck and a permanent traffic jam outside my house since about 6 am. Dd was stuck in traffic for 2 hours and so was my neighbour. I took this as a sign to just stay at home and watch the carnage (whilst dealing with my own phone carnage).

eating wise a good day so I’ll go to bed early before I spoil it.

Hi all

I’d love to join please. I’m 5ft 3in with a BMI of 28.5
sw 11.9
cw 11.9
gw 10.00

I actually got to 10.9 last summer after having a baby the year before but I piled it on over this winter.

My goal plan is to swap high calorie, fat, sugar snacks with fruit/veg and low calorie snacks. This is my biggest downfall, as I snack when I’m exhausted and reach for junk…thinking of making a cute bento type snack box.

Also want to stop eating the kids leftovers! I don’t even enjoy them just don’t want to waste them 😬

Sorry to hear this @poorpaws, hopefully they can sort you out soon.
@MidnightChangewelcome! I used to make a snack box, the 2chubby cubs spoke about it on a podcast I was listening to once. Great if you like to nibble at your desk or in the car.

I trapped my shoulder in the night, it was so painful so there goes my plan to run this morning. Maybe lunchtime if it’s feeling a bit looser. I made my slow cooker turkey soup yesterday, smelled amazing while it was cooking. So lunch today is shredded turkey soup, dinner is lemon chicken (made with a jar of lemon sauce unfortunately but the dc are cooking it so I think it’s allowed!) and rice.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I hope your shoulder eases very soon. Dd has had a really bad shoulder problem since before Christmas and shes been in agony. Whilst in Dorset she had a deep massage and it’s been much better since. It was agony whilst the lady pushed her elbows into DDs shoulder but afterwards she said she felt like a new woman.

your lunch and dinner sound amazing. Whenever I make turkey/chicken soup it’s too greasy and not very nice so that’s why I stick to vegetables.

@MidnightChange a very warm welcome to you. We are a similar height, weight and weight goal so I look forward to hearing your progress. I’m a snacker and chocoholic but since 1 Jan I’ve cut out the sugar and it’s helping me a lot. I actually got to my 10 st goal in 2024 but put it all back in 2025 so I’m starting again with renewed willpower and even if I only get to 10.5 sts I’ll be happy. I’m doing bite size goals, half a stone, fit into the next size down jeans (which I’m still working on), those sort of smaller, more manageable goals.

as I said last night, yesterday was hell for me and I didn’t sleep well either. Today DD has online meetings for most of the day so I’ll stay quiet but hopefully get the dogs out by lunchtime as the rain is coming again this afternoon.

Hi all. I've just been for an unscheduled very long walk. Trying to get a few extra steps in through the day. Currently not weighing but feeling a little lighter. Just bought a bag of carrots. Carrot drinks seem to help lose a few lbs, but plan to go wild and mix the ingredients up a bit.

Hi all. I've just been for an unscheduled very long walk. Trying to get a few extra steps in through the day though. Currently not weighing but feeling a little lighter. Just bought a bag of carrots. Carrot drinks seem to help lose a few lbs, but plan to go wild and mix the ingredients up a bit.