⭐️LOSE IT! February Fitness 2026⭐️

[TheRealHousewife]

⭐️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?

Good morning all and a new week!

@Determinedloser I am always up on a Monday and again on a Tuesday, I’m planning not to weigh tmrw to avoid the spiral but it’s breaking a huge habit so it will be hard. I think as long as your lower than last Monday the overall trend is then down.

I saw my March goal weight yesterday but then an increase today so I know it’s maybe coming! And four weeks early - I can only hope! I hit the 50lbs mark too and that get quite a milestone.

start of the week for some more good eating and moving I hope 😊 enjoy everyone( at least the sun is poking through although nothing like @TheRealHousewifethat sky looks amazing)

Hello, belatedly OMAD sign in for today. A midday meal at Itsu with DD. We bought doughnuts for after but I’ll try to hold off til tomorrow for mine.

I really don’t think I am going to lose tomorrow due to my increase in calories but it’s a catch 22 because without this amount of calories I can’t hit my protein goal which is really important

Morning! WoW is 67.1kg , around 3kg under goal.

Good luck wowers!

Checking back in after being absent, back in the game hopefully after 2 good days of movement and nutrition!
WOW 79.4kg. Goal 75kg.
Good luck all!

Yesterday I was on target so I’ll use that. Today’s is up up, but I made pizza for dinner so it’s carb/water weight.

Good morning all! I’ve not checked in much over half term, it’s been manic managing everyone - we had a lovely week but I was very pleased for school to start again and to have the routine back. Only two weeks until my maternity leave ends now, which actually I’m feeling really ready for. I won’t quite make my goal of being in the 11s for my return to work unless I have a big unexplained whoosh, but I hopefully will be by the end of March for the nice wedding I’m going to. It was a stay the same this week for me - based on how I ate it should have been a loss, but it’s been my time of the month so I imagine that might have impacted things.

SW - 15st10.5
CW - 12st4

Hope everyone has a lovely day and well done for checking in!

Hi everyone. I had a 0.2kg loss on last week despite being abroad and unable to track my calories properly due to lots of homemade food. I’ve also walked about half my daily steps. I’m happy to see a loss at all!

SW: 102.1kg
CW: 93.6kg
1st GW: 90kg

Hello. I've been silently lurking....2lbs up on January start weight. Trying so hard to stay positive. Will keep on trying. Good luck everyone.

Good Morning 🙂

WOW - 9st 3lbs up a 1lb. It is what it is.

@Determinedloser It’s tough meeting macros within a calorie allowance, especially if your allowance is on the low side. Are you able to cut a few carbs or fat to make room for protein? What numbers are you working with? People might have some ideas for you if you share a typical days diet/calories x

Menu
Meal 1 - Mediterranean omelette & side salad. Mixed nuts.
Meal 2 - Salmon & mixed vegetables/salad. Greek yoghurt, kefir, strawberries.
Drinks - Tea, black coffee, hibiscus tea & water.

Good luck Wowsers!

Morning all.

LW 182.9 lbs
TW 182.3 lbs

Frustratingly still over 13 stone. Hopefully this will be the week I get into the 12s.

Checking in (no WoW over here)..

Starting to build positivity over here 🙏 the blue sky definitely helps, as does some of life's current niggles being dealt with.

Today's meals:
L - 3 scrambled eggs, spinach, pepper & toms, little bit of grated cheddar. Greek yog and fruit
D - spaghetti Bolognese, green veg

All logged on NC so far, and my graph is looking great! Calories well in limit, sugar and fat under and hitting protein. This might be a good lunch on WFH days to stop after school snacking?!

I’m on 1650 cals a day and aiming for 90g protein but the problem is just being full all of the time! I can make it work ‘on paper’ but actually managing to eat it all is another story!!

Well done everyone who WOWed today. 0.4lbs for me so I’m fairly happy with that

Well done everyone who WOW today.
I did have a peak ( tomorrow is better for me) an I was up 3.5lbs since Sunday!! I ate over by 600 calories on Monday so not sure why such a gain - must be some serious water sloshing around inside me 😂 but I’m also the same as last Wednesday as I had a big loss over two days. I think it’s still settling after my medication and the meal out so will weigh tmrw and take that as this weeks figure. I tried very hard not to freak out this morning and just about managed it!

Hi well done everyone on your WOW
Been checking in through the day 🙂
Some good results and lots of positivity.
Hopefully this carries you through the next week
Well done 👏
Have a great week everyone xx

Ooops posted twice xx

@FridayNighFeeling
Good luck with your new venture at the gym hope you enjoy it and it does you good.
No cake as yet its this Friday we are out celebrating.
Looking very much forward to the posh expensive beefburger it's sure to be good ☺
Xx

Happy Friday!!

A little loss for me this week taking me to 10 stone 2.8. I haven’t seen a 2 next to a 10 on the scale for yearssssss!

It’s a lovely day here this morning. Did my first run in the sun for what feels like months. How is everyone?

I’ve done a huge data dump into AI today and it’s picked everything I thought, it saw a sudden change in July which was a move to an office based role from on my feet auditing all day, it’s picked up what I thought about my stalls and the dates and has confirmed what I’ve thought and that im eating too many calories so a tiny deficit at 1500.
my body has clearly adapted to the walking and so I’m cutting back to 1350 for three weeks before holiday, back to maintaining for ten days then re cut for what will hopefully be a short month or two to final goal.
I’ve thought this for a while as all online calculators say 1350 but nutrageck keeps throwing out the higher figure, so I’ll test it! Scales are pretty stable after great losses in January because of the post Xmas diet.
I can’t continue to loose 0.3 of a pound each week so cutting is the only way.

how does everyone else get their calories calculated?

Well done @Determinedloser!

We had a couple of sunny days this week but today was sadly back to business as usual - aka rain…

I weighed in this morning in the 77s which was nice to see - as and when I ‘own’ that weight I’ll officially be 3.5stone down, and with less than 2 to go I think.

Today’s menu:

L - avocado and goats cheese on sourdough
D - paneer, potato and spinach curry

I originally used TDEE calculator then after a conversation with Chat GPT I decided to increase them alongside increasing my steps.

It’s definitely worth cutting yours for a bit to see if it works.

So I haven’t been keeping up. Im currently the same weight I was at the start of February. I’ve had a bad injury and limited movement.
Im now back to the gym on recovery weights so I am doing lots of cardio. Hopefully this will help the scale.
i even managed an exercise class today.
I hate being in my 50s, weight loss is so slow. I really need another stone off my body to feel more comfortable in myself.

Morning all! Joining back in so I can catch the link to the March thread.

February has vanished in a flash and has been a disaster! I tripped up a curb, and hurt my foot, shoulder and back, plus it looked like DH was going to be made redundant (thankfully he has escaped the cull…). So I had to stop walking, stop yoga, and basically sat and stress ate for three weeks 😫

Things are healed up a bit now and I can potter slowly and have restarted some yoga. But I know I’ve put on weight 😫

Will weigh tomorrow morning to get a baseline for march (also can’t believe it’s March tomorrow!) Well done to everyone who has kept going!

That’s awful @LemonDrizzle23 glad to hear it’s all goingbetter now.

Good Morning You Lovely Lot 🙂

Flipping raining again ☔️

Ive been on point with eating etc. I’ve not moved much as in a bit of pain and generally feel very fatigued. I’m not dwelling on it and I’m just doing my best to do what I can.

My Dominique Ludwigs No Nonsense Nutrition arrived a couple of days ago and Ive made the Red Lentil Bagels. I had one topped with goats cheese and a side salad … very nice indeed 😋

Menu
Meal 1 - Red Lentil Bagel & side salad.

Meal 2 - Belly pork (small piece) & massive side salad.
Drinks - Tea, black coffee, hibiscus tea & water.

Ill crack on with getting March’s thread posted 👍