⭐️LOSE IT! February Fitness 2026⭐️

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⭐️OPEN TO ALL⭐️

Following on from ⭐️LOSE IT! January Jumpstart 2026 ⭐️

January has absolutely flown by!

To reach optimum health and vitality (as well as a trim body) we need to focus not only on our food intake; but movement, our mental health and sleep quality too!

Who doesn’t want to feel good and energetic as well looking great!

Get on board to reset & refresh and become a healthier version of yourself.

These threads are for those who’d like to lose weight and those who wish to maintain whilst eating a healthy varied diet.

As no one size fits all, members need to follow their own way of eating. This thread aims to offer guidance, support and a bit of hand holding.

We have a WOW (weigh on Wednesday) day each week. However post and share your progress as often or as little as you prefer. Do what works for you.

The important thing is not to think of it as a diet (based on deprivation and unsustainable) but more a way of life (sustainable & enjoyable) that’s based on several sensible principles including:-

1. Eat a variety of real whole foods such as fresh vegetables, salad, berries, beans, nuts, eggs, lean meat, good fats etc.
2. Reduce sugars, simple carbs, alcohol and UPFs.
3. Plan your meals & log your intake. Also be mindful of portion control.
4. Intermittent fasting - research suggests (Zoe study) that adhering to an eating window of 10 hours can have a positive effect on health, wellbeing and weight loss. I personally have a eating window of approximately 7hrs - 12:00 - 19:00.
5. Stay hydrated! 💧
6. Move as much as able. Particularly strength based exercise. Muscle keeps you strong as well as revs up your metabolism.
7. Get the fibre in! Great for your gut biome as well as 💩
8. SLEEP! Good sleep hygiene and a regularly sleep routine can be beneficial to weight loss. I’m always more hungry following poor sleep.
9. Be mindful about your own mental wellbeing and try not to eat your feelings. We’ve all been there!
10. Be kind to yourself. One or two slip ups won’t undo all your previous efforts. Just check-in with yourself, reinforce your good intentions and carry on.

I calorie count based on a lower carb Mediterranean diet. I intermittent fast and eat twice a day. Im a long time healthy eater and overall I’ve lost over 3 stone.

After having been on the wrong side of 12st Im now hovering around 9st 4lbs.
Are you in?😊 What food plan will you be following? What do you want to change and why?

Any recipes/workouts that have worked for you, you’d like to share?

Gah, I forgot to weigh this morning. Will try to remember tomorrow!

I literally don't have any idea what day it is 😂

Meals today:
L - frittata with beans and a low cal jelly
D - chicken casserole, new pots, broccoli and peas. Greek yoghurt with fruit
S - tea, bag of crisps 🤦‍♀️

Under cals as things are but I'll probably finish the maltesers tonight 😬 really really not looking forward to my weigh in Friday but I'll make sure I do it!

I hadn't realised there was a new thread each month so posted on the last one.
SW: 62.3kg
CW: 59.6kg
And BMI down to 24.5 as a mini milestone.
DHs birthday slowed progress a bit but am still down a little on last week.

Doing dry February as I just don't have the spare calories for wine.

Hello You Lovely Lot x

WOW - I’ll use yesterday’s weigh-in as I didn’t weigh this morning. 1lb down :)

Some great results being shared 👍👏

For those who feel they are not quite off the starting block, don’t worry and well done on still posting 👍👏

Short post as on phone and it’s tricky scrolling up and down x

Morning all!

This is my first weigh in, I’m not very familiar with the acronyms but I assume -

SW (starting weight) - 67.4kg (148.6lb)
CW (current weight) - 67.4kg
GW (goal weight) - 60kg (132.3lb)

In the past when I’ve been losing I’ve aimed for 1kg / week so I am hoping I can be close to GW by the end of March.

I’ve spent about 4 years not quite fitting my clothes properly and feeling a bit uncomfortable but I’ve struggled for motivation with 2 young kids. They are finally starting to sleep a bit better now so no more excuses, It’s time to charge.

Morning everyone.

1lb gain for me today. Expected it to be honest as this week has not been a good week diet wise. But onwards and downwards as they say!

So, I just worked out how many cals in my breakfast (45g of porridge, whole milk, 25g of mixed dried fruit, 12.5g of seeds, 12.5g of nuts) which works out at 550cals which got me thinking about my RMR. I used to be pretty good and intuitive weight loss so don't tend to get too caught up on cal counting but it's been a while since I've done this effectively so I asked ChatGPT -

🔥 Your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR)
Using the Mifflin–St Jeor equation for women:
RMR = (10 × weight) + (6.25 × height) − (5 × age) − 161
Plugging yours in:

• Weight: 67 kg → 670
• Height: 171 cm → 1068.75
• Age: 41 → −205
• Minus 161

👉 RMR ≈ 1,373 kcal/day That’s the energy your body needs lying still all day to keep organs, brain, temperature, etc. ticking over. 🚶‍♀️ Adding real life: your actual daily burn You said your Apple Watch shows 750–1,000 active calories/day from running + walking. That’s very plausible for someone running regularly. So your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) looks roughly like:

• RMR: ~1,370
• Movement/exercise: 750–1,000
• General life / digestion (NEAT + TEF): ~200–300

👉 Estimated total burn: ~2,300 to 2,650 kcal/day

Chat GPT also tells me I should be aiming for 0.5kgs a week rather than 1kg a week so I'll be aiming for about 1800 cals a day and try to keep my activity levels up.

I'd be careful with the activity calories, watches tend to overestimate. I know people often stall completely due to this.

My active calories tend to be made up of mainly walking and running which I record with GPS so it's a bit more exact than 'general' activity which I also find can be inflated. So this morning I went for a 6km run and my watch records about 380cals. If I work that out manually that's about right for my weight.

Plan for today:

L - 3 bean & tomato soup, slice of bread with cheese spread (instead of butter), banana
D - sausage pasta bake with green beans and broccoli. Greek yoghurt with fruit

The above plus my normal cups of tea is coming in at 1260 cals for the day. I'd have gone for a lighter evening meal but I've been awful at snacking after dinner this week so I'm hoping something a bit more sustainable will help. Not sure whether it'll be helpful on the scales in the morning, though 😬😏

I was going to say the same those activity calories seem really high! But for all I know you’re on your feet all day. They say roughly 100 calories per mile I think but of course variation depending on weight etc will come into play.

I am not on my feet all day but I do go for at least one walk (usually about 5km) and also do a run (6-8km). I tend to use 1kcal / km / kg so yesterday I did a 5km walk and a 8km run so that would be 871cals for those two activities and obviously i would have burned a few through normal moving around. Although yesterday I was WFH so i was pretty sedentary aside from those specific activities. If I don't make an effort to exercise my activity calories are very low because I WFH a lot and have a desk job.

STS for me since I last weighed 2 weeks ago. Obvs would rather a loss but given the last week has seen another bout of illness & injury, 2 takeaways and a share bag size of maltesers to myself, I'll take it!

2.5lb down overall since the start of the year. Definitely feel like a snail (in more ways than one 🤣) but I'll get there. Would love to get into the 10s by the end of this month - that's 6.5lb to lose, which is doable if I'm strict and structured 🙏

No gym still as I’ve picked up an injury. My weight thought is creeping down to pre illness weight. January has been a total wash out and thought I would be much much lighter than this now.

I just love Happy Scale! It’s so motivating to look at it and see the trends and the predictions. I had wanted to get to 10 stone for early/mid April for a holiday. Now I can see if I keep as I’m going I’ll be there by early March!

I’d really recommend anyone who doesn’t have it to get it! I’m using the free version just now but have paid for it in the past, both are useful.

Hope everyone is doing well and glad it’s Friday!!

So many exclamation marks. Sorry

Well done @Determinedloser, that’s great! I’ve not tried happy scale yet but there’s so much positive feedback I feel as though I should. Figuring out how to get my past weigh ins onto the app is discouraging me!

We have my in laws staying this weekend plus a nice brunch tomorrow, but I was snacking badly at the end of the week so I’m really trying to keep on top of things and make sensible eating out choices, as I’d like to see a loss come Wednesday, which is not currently the case.

My little win today was that baby DS was up pretty much all night because of an ear infection (poor love - took him to the GP and it’s mild, but you’d not know that based on how unhappy he was) and I’ve still eaten within my calories for the day, despite being knackered. I made space for a Kinder Bueno mid afternoon as I was really flagging, but that was all accounted for.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

Right. Hello. I’m back. I tried to do January by myself but I haven’t lost a squeak. I’d been focussing on UPF free but I think my portion sizes have got out of control.

so, the plan is to fill in my fitness pal. I’ve also listened to a Mel Robbin’s podcast this morning with a focus on 30g protein, 30g of fiber and 3 probiotics. The protein bit really stuck out at me as my hair falls out T a rate of knots so I’m hoping to follow a high protein diet to help rectify that.

So I had Greek yoghurt with chia seeds and banana for breaks fast and that’s only 10g! You’re supposed to have 30g for breaks fast alone! No idea how I’m supposed to get to that.

current weight is 11.2. I desparately want to get back to 10.2 by May.

Today’s food is tricky
B - Greek yoghurt, chia seeds and banana
L - out at a school event so will be a buffet.
T - DS’s meal out choice. He’s thinking Wagamama.

Will be running 8k this afternoon.

@WhitegreeNcandle there’s some high protein granola you could add to breakfast.

Not kept up with tracking or weighing myself this week. I’ve just been eating and living normally which has been a nice break. I’ve tracked religiously for months.

I’ve got a few weeks now where my focus is building stamina and fuelling for a charity race so will probably move to maintaining. Although that’s what I’ve been doing for ages anyway!

I'm going to join you all if that's ok. Big birthday coming up and I'd like to lose a stone by then so I don't go into self hate mode looking at pictures of me.
I've been using my fitnesspal for the last 12 days and lost 3 pounds. Starting weight 12 stone. I'm on 1500 calories and doing 10k steps a day. I was already running a few times a week and going to the gym. Not eating my activity calories back if I can help it but avoiding longer runs for now.
My plan for the day:
Protein pancakes
Wholemeal pasta, feta and peas
Black bean Indonesian Curry and rice
Probably a snack of greek yogurt and a mini baby bel.
Protein should be around 80g.

I'm going to look up the Happy Scale app now!

@WhitegreeNcandle what greek yoghurt are you using? Apologies if I'm telling you to suck eggs but some of the 'greek style' ones don't have as much protein. 200g of Fage 0% gives you about 20g of protein for 100 calories. I tend do add lower calories fruit to it so I can have more yoghurt and more protein. I also recommend the high protein granola in lidl

Protein is a real struggle I find. Are you having the 0% fat stuff? I prefer and use the full fat but probably should be using the 0% and having more of it. Do you like babybels? Two of them is about 8g so you could add that to your breakfast.

I wish I was one of these people who could just mix a scoop of protein powder in with everything they eat but nope! I’ve found a shake I can tolerate but don’t think I could mix it in to any foods.

Morning, weighed this morning and have stayed the same (11st5lb). I had a really busy, stressful week so diet and exercise fell to the wayside if I’m honest. Pleased there was no gain! Hope everyone has a nice weekend

I have swapped any bread and pasta I have for high-protein versions. They’re usually made with add pea protein. I even saw lentil protein egg noodles in Waitrose yesterday! Not sure how well all that fits into lowering UPFs. I have Jacob’s protein sourdough for brekky every day - 10g protein/slice. Two of those and two slices of reduced fat Leerdammer. Over 30g protein for brekky easily x

Good afternoon everyone
Just done another little catch up on the recent posts
All wowsers doing great and love reading all the updates so well done everyone and the tips are invaluable to so thankyou all.
I have had my weekly weigh in at Slimming World this morning 😊
I have maintained this week which I am pleased about as I'm.at the lower end of my goal.
I also got my old weigh book out today ( we had new as Slimming world did a few changes for the new year)
Good to remind myself that the date I started which was Sat July the 26th 2025 I was 10 stone 12 pounds and quite tearful that I allowed myself to put so much weight on and feel so unhealthy .
The determination set in and today I'm maintaining at 8stone 6 pounds and would love to hover around this weight hence I'm continuing to go each week to keep in check and to be accountable at all times .
Plus love the meetings lots of friendly people with real stories and great tips
So good luck to everyone I hope you all have a great week and feel so healthy with all the choices you make
Xx