☀️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!

Possibly the heat @Fellsbells

Give it another week or 2 @Pasta4Dinner hopefully it's too hot for jeans anyway

That's still progress @BreakingBroken

Pleased to report that those pesky 6lbs have gone this morning, so back to -27lbs. So desperate to get the 1lbs needed to 2 stone, but have a feeling my period may derail that. Will see what happens Monday- WoW

I swear I definitely swell up in the heat... This week has been so unpleasant temperature-wise. I feel like my happy day to day summer temperature is about 25-27C. Anything above 30 in England and I don’t want to do anything!

Here you go ladies ⭐️LOSE IT! Joyful June 2026 ⭐️

Where did May go? 😮

@LemonDrizzle23 Im exactly the same. Too hot is too uncomfortable, especially at night.

@TheRealHousewife we were planning to get rid of our aging memory foam mattress for a more natural mattress anyway, and this week of hot nights convinced us to push the button!

Thank you @TheRealHousewife It's cooler today and for all this week ahead with some rain thrown in - hopefully for you too!

Oooh new bed, let us know which mattress you choose @LemonDrizzle23

Having my end of the month check in! We got back from holiday a couple of days ago and actually I only gained 1lb, which given that I didn’t track once for the week feels quite good, and I’m not too fussed. Tuesday is my 1 year anniversary of joining you all, so I’ll check in then too!

I looked back over the last couple of months and I weigh the same as the 1st April and only 1lb less than 1st March, so it’s 3 months now since I’ve seen any significant loss, which is really frustrating as I’ve still got probably 1.5stone+ to go and I was really hoping to be over a stone less than I am now at the moment, but maintaining is better than gaining so I’ll try focusing on that.

@biscuitcat That’s a big win that you’re only up 1lb after a holiday and not tracking 🙌

May has turned out rather like April for me in the end. I really REALLY wanted to try to get to my next goal weight of 80kg for my DD’s first birthday in July but think I might reset that to 85kg. Hmmm.

Excellent idea, you won’t regret it. We spend a third of our lives in bed and that warrants the comfiest bed we can buy 🛌