⭐️LOSE IT! Joyful June 2026⭐️

[TheRealHousewife]

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

Following on from https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/weight_loss_chat/5523585-lose-it-motivational-may-2026?reply=152568153

Here we are with our June LOSE IT! Thread. 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?

Hi all and happy Friday. The key will be not to undo all the week's good work over the weekend.

Today I'm officially -13kg/28 1/2lbs down!!!

Morning! Today's food:
Porridge, yoghurt and raisins for breakfast
Lunch is a cheese and plum chutney sandwich, an apple
Dinner will be a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich I reckon, because we've got to go shopping after school/work and I cannot be bothered to start properly cooking after that. I might have some grapes.

I’m back. I seem to come on once a month and announce I haven’t lost any weight then I get caught up in life and don’t return!

so my weight is still 13st 1/2 lb which is so annoying, it’s been that weight apart from February when I was briefly in the 12s.

I’m still a stone less than when I started weighing myself in October and I started losing weight about 16/17 months ago so my clothes size has gone from 16/18 to 14 now so I’m going to be positive about how well I’ve done.

Today’s lunch will be a home made beany soup and dinner will be a stir fry - I’ve already made the soup and chopped the stir fry veg.

Good Morning All

Well done on swerving the snacks ! @Imthefunfriend 👍

@WhatWouldTheDoctorDo You'll Soon be in Short Shape although I’m sure your already look great in them x

@10kstepsaday Impressive exercise! 👏

@LemonDrizzle23 😅

@HappyLittleTreeFriend Well done on completing your big work project 👏

@biscuitcat Congrats on your loss! 🥳

Menu
Meal 1 - Mackerel Salad
Meal 2 - Chicken & Mushroom GF Pasta
Drinks - Tea, black coffee & water.

Crossposted. Welcome back @stealthninjamum rYou’ve already lost a significant amount of weight 🥳 and further loss will follow once you’re back in your groove 👍

Thanks @TheRealHousewife . In many ways I’m doing well. I’m eating well - lots of fibre and plants and trying to do a long walk a day - but then last night autistic dd didn’t want her dinner (cheesy pasta) and I ate it because I’d made it from scratch. I need to be better at throwing food away.

@stealthninjamum Sounds tough 💐 In regards to left overs, just a suggestion. Could you refrigerate them for another day? Usually cooked food if stored properly lasts 3 days.

Morning all. For anyone who likes a graph! Attaching mine since joining the thread on the 31st May. Down another 0.9lbs this morning. No snacking yesterday paid off. I’ve also upped my exercise and have joined a thread where they share steps, so finding that quite motivating too.

As @FridayNighFeeling said, my challenge will be to keep on track tonight as I usually celebrate the weekend with wine and a shit load of chocolate. Going to limit myself to only drinking tomorrow evening and have got a yoghurt in the fridge if I fancy something tonight.

I weighed today and was pleased that the scales were 10st 12, so the same as before I went away last week.

Today is an easier day on nutracheck and we are having:

B - Greek yoghurt, berries, seeds, sugar free granola and rye toast with light cream cheese.
L - tomato & lentil soup, pieces of chicken for protein, satsuma
D - steak, asparagus, potatoes. There will be wine. But ideally not too much!

Hmmmm... I thought a dry month would mean the weight would fall off, but I'm actually 200grams UP 🫤
Might have to start counting calories after all. Portion sizes have always been rather on the large side.

Todays Update:

Daily Weigh-In: 10 st 8.0 - a small gain today, but aware fluctuations are normal. Especially if I eat pasta the night before 😂

Breakfast: Oats w/ Strawberries, Almond Milk & Flaxseed
Lunch: Chickpea Salad
Dinner: Fajitas
Snack: Apple & Pear

We are having a movie night tonight, I am swerving the snacks the kids have chosen and am having a small amount of dark chocolate with a small portion of almonds.

Exercise-wise just a short 20 minute walk today, and will aim for 10 mins mobility before bed.

@Imthefunfriend Hello from the steps thread 👋😊

CW 168.7 out of the obese and into the overweight BMI category.
long way to go to be within the normal category; 28.7 lbs to shift.

Hi, all.
I have not been posting everyday... will try to do better.
I have been keeping my calories steady between 1100 - 1250kcal per day, drinking at least 2 litres of water daily and my steps at a minimum of 10K per day. I have started strength training about 20 - 30 mins three to four times a week.
I am now in the overweight bmi group!🎉

I’m planning on getting to the overweight group and then staying in it. Which I appreciate isn’t aiming for “healthy” but looking at the loss I’d need, I don’t think that’s where my personal comfortable weight is.

My max healthy BMI is 9st10lbs and I just don’t see it. Nor do I particularly want to, I think it would change too much of how I look if that makes sense!

I’m still obese, but the loss so far has dropped my BMI from 42 to 39, I’d like to get to 32 first, think my “comfort zone” is around 28.

@ChunkyMonkey36 i understand what you are saying, everytime i get to within 10lbs of the top healthy range bmi, i begin to feel that i look fine and loose motivation to go the extra 10-15 lbs.

Hi @10kstepsaday 👋 the exercise some people on that thread achieve is wild!

I’m closing the kitchen. Felt a little deprived tonight as DH has his wine so I did myself a bowl of banana, strawberry and orange. Now stuffed! I keep seeing these videos on Facebook of calorie comparisons where you can eat, say a whole bowl of fruit verses half a bar of chocolate. They are quite inspiring and align to my mindful eating mission.

B - porridge
L - pesto pasta
D - shredded beef and mash

Snacks: fruit

Wonder how the scales will react tomorrow to my massive bowl of fruit.

@BreakingBroken

I think that’ll be me. Part of it probably comes from the volume of loss that’d be. 9st10 would mean that I’d lost exactly 7 stone from my starting weight, and right now that feels ridiculous.

I’ve only lost one so far, so I’ll see how I feel after a couple more and go from there.

The way I look at it, if I settle at just under 12, that would be 5 stone off and despite that still being BMI overweight, might be a good enough achievement for me.

I get the BMI feeling a bit off. I have sometimes been in the normal range, but that is such a strain for me, with my body shape. Aiming for 25, would never get much lower.

Had 1800 cals today and burned off 400 on a 5 mile walk. Meal out tomor so little tricky. Seem to be down 1.4 kg, 10.6 to go..

@ChunkyMonkey36 “overweight” is going to be a big goal for me!
I’m down from a BMI of 36.3 to 31.9 so far. Another stone off will take me to a BMI of 29.

I can’t see myself getting down to BMI of 25 either yet, but maybe slowly but surely over a few years 🤷‍♀️

0.02 down this morning. Will have a total
for the week tomorrow!

B - porridge
L - egg mayo sandwich
D - noodles

Snacks - fruit

Having a glass or two of wine tonight 😬 hopefully won’t pay for it tomorrow (in more ways than one)!

Todays Update:
Daily Weigh-In: 10 st 8.0
Same weight as yesterday, and means only 0.6lb less than 1st June.
My body fat % has gone down though.

Breakfast: Fage, Blueberries, Chia Seeds
Lunch: Accidentally skipped lunch!
Dinner: Homemade Meatballs & Salad (rest of the family had pasta)
Snack: Banana, Apple & Nairns Oat & Honey Biscuits (2)

I did a 1 hour yoga class, and 15 minutes mobility today.

Today I have eaten-
Porridge, yoghurt, raisins
Cheese and chutney sandwich, apple, some strawberries
Veg gratin type thing with frozen broccoli and spinach, a banana.
Some Lidl tortilla chips which aren't actually very good and were pretty unsatisfying.

that made me laugh out loud @DreamingOfGeneHunt
"which aren't actually very good and were pretty unsatisfying"
:)
my food choices have been slightly off and subsequently i'm not always reaching my protein, fiber or water goal. hopefully today is better.
B: oatmeal with strawberries only 10gm protein
L: an open faced chicken sandwich with veggies 12gm of protein
S: ground chicken, green beans and rice 40gm of protein
so i've played with the dinner, i'm at my calorie limit yet only reached 68% fiber, although 101% for protein and for today water will be fine.
okay i can blend in 6gms of oat bran in with my ground chicken without ruining the meal. I also have spinach and could cook some up as low cal and high fiber but i'm not that energetic. the bran will help me reach 72%

i could see myself needing to use my calorie counter more effectively.

Well no that didn’t work well at all; the shear volume of food to reach those numbers wasn’t realistic once on my plate.
Lesson learned plan better using my app.

Had a bit of a calorific day yesterday as had family over for a celebratory lunch, but I wasn’t as over as I might normally would be in those circumstances. I put out slightly smaller plates than normal which definitely helped, I had to really think about whether I wanted a second helping, whereas I would have eaten more if I had a bigger plate. I think I’m roughly on track for the week wed-Tue, so pleased with that.