☀️LOSE IT! Motivational May 2026☀️

[TheRealHousewife]

⭐️OPEN TO ALL⭐️ Weight Loss, Wellbeing & Motivation Thread To Support Healthy Habits.

Following on from ⭐️LOSE IT! Active April 2026⭐️

I blinked and missed April 🙃. Apologies for my absence; the month passed by so quickly! I’m feeling a little bit more human and absolutely doing my best to move more and eat well.

Jumping into May LOSE IT! - 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 3lbs.

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?

@ScarletMane i calorie count using Cronometer the free version is good enough for my needs.

@ScarletMane I use Nutracheck too. I don’t use their suggested calories though. I’ve set my own which is a bit higher, and then I don’t eat back the calories that exercise gives me. Otherwise some days my allowance would be 1200 and others 2000.

Certainly no eating back exercise calories for me either.

Thanks @Fellsbells@BreakingBroken&@MeetmeunderthemoonlightI'll check those out and see if that helps xx

@ScarletMane I use free version of MFP - really just as a guide. It set my calories about 200 lower than I aim for. I find that I lost steadily when my daily deficit was about 300 calories a day rather than the general 500 advised... but I also don't eat my calories back as a rule, though if I have a very busy day, I may eat at maintenance level instead, so guess that's the same thing....
Well day 1 again done and happy with it. Gym was good, food was good, hoping that slightly cooler weather and back to routine will help weight stabalise.

How did you get on @TheWayTheLightFalls ?

Good luck and welcome @KnackeredBookseller

It was ok! Though I needed a shower before and after, it was incredibly hot and sticky here.

The one downside to my gym classes is you're sort of supposed to judge the weights etc yourself - and I'm not sure I did enough today. It was an odd exercise and difficult to judge. Oh well, not major.

Did you get on alright today?

Thanks @FridayNighFeeling

I've downloaded Nutracheck so will see how I get on xx

Nutracheck is known to be very accurate vs MFP and better suited to UK brands.
Good choice @ScarletMane

I am also up a couple of lbs but still on my period (ffs!) so I feel quite bloated

just made a rhubarb and apple crumble but using oats and some nuts for the crumble bit and no butter except a dash of olive oil and a mashed up banana to hold the oats - hopefully it tastes ok.

have had a hectic week at work so hoping for a quieter weekend - I always make bad food choices when I’m super busy and reached for a packet of sweets this week and gave myself a massive migraine. That’ll learn you as my dad would say!

Good to know, thank you! X

@TheWayTheLightFalls Yes it was all good, I actually had a sore shoulder, but went very light and it actually made it better than it was going in. It is hard to judge sometimes, but our instructors normally give a guide of one light, one heavy set etc

Day 2 back on plan done and dusted, but probably shouldn't have had some Eton mess... I made granola from scratch, worked out all the maths bits and then worked out portion/calories so feeling well chuffed and I know 30g is a sprinkle on top of my yogurt/fruit not a bowl full!

Hopefully @TheRealHousewife will make a new thread for us. Mid June will be a year since I started my journey!!!

Hope everyone has had a good week. I’ve been sitting at the same weight for 4 days now. Really hoping that I haven’t found my maintenance calories because I can not live on these! Hopefully another week will show what’s going on.

However you’re doing, well done and keep going. It’s so relentlessly hard to lose weight.

Two good weeks of exercise and disappointingly nothing showing up on the scale. But the scale continues to show increase in muscle and decrease in fat all while good numbers on bone mass.
Part of me is disappointed but I know what I'm doing is healthy so I will poke away.
Logging and food choices are going well while maintaining protein and fiber goals.

I’ve spent most of this year trying to get under 80kg and I don’t know what’s changed the last few weeks but things are shifting at last, albeit slowly.
i was expecting a gain this morning and I’m down to 79.2kg.
So desperate to fit into some jeans I have, the ones I’m wearing are hanging off me.

Tried the jeans on and I can get them on, bit tight on waist and thighs - so close!