DIET FAILED AGAIN thread 4 - Everyone is welcome to join our very supportive and friendly group without any judgement. Do come and join us

Another Ice cream thread lurker here 🤣 Trying desperately to forget how good every said the biscoff Lidl 'Magnums' are!

Going to Zizzis tonight. Calories on menu suggest king prawn linguine. Would have avoided pasta though. Any tips?!

I take that back - somehow I missed the salads! 😬

Okay my last post about Zizzi, you will all think I've lost the plot. Found that they list every single item on their website with carbs, protein etc. So useful in helping to choose and just generally to get a sense of Italian menus!

Over and out 😂

www.zizzi.co.uk/propeller/uploads/2023/07/Zizzi-Nutrition-Guide-UK-2023.pdf

Ps @Ledochas the prawn linguine is really nice! Enjoy your evening

@PinkArt my DH is addicted to them... he's biscoff mad. Once I made him a biscoff cheesecake for his birthday and it was so heavy and sweet it put me off biscoff for life. He ate the rest 😂

My gp called today as my test results are back in. I have “subclinical hypothyroid” which I think basically means I have under active thyroid but it’s not under active enough to actually treat with thyroxine. As I have several symptoms of hypothyroidism they would give me thyroxine after a further blood test after 3 months.

I don’t know how I feel really, on the one hand I am actually relieved because I was genuinely worried I had something seriously wrong with me, I guess this kind of is but at least it’s treatable. I’m annoyed I have to now wait in limbo for 3 months, and I guess I’m annoyed that as I’m very near the cut off, even a slight improvement in those 3 months could mean I basically have to live with the symptoms but can’t have any medical help. 🤷‍♀️

I’m sad That basically I am doomed to being overweight, desperately slow weight loss, painfully slow metabolism aren’t I? I’m going to continue with my plan to stop drinking and massively clean up my diet… but I think it’s dawned on me today that, rather than a quick fix to boost me and make me feel better, this is going to be my whole life potentially isn’t it? I’m just going to keep a really thorough diary these next few weeks/months until my second blood test and see what happens but I feel quite sad about the whole thing.

@thenewaveragebear1983
I am a GP...I honestly, hand on heart don't want to sound harsh...but subclinical hypothyroidism is not the reason for slow weight loss.
If we tested everyone in the country at age 40 subclinical hypothyroidism would be detected in a huge number of people.
Its become a bit of a label on what 30 yrs ago we would have said "artefact" as in not what is causing the patients symptoms.
Try not to think of it as...I'm in limbo, if it improves I'll have to live with it, no medical help...
Treatment has become trendy in the slightly at the edges of accepted practice..my advice is for now put it out of your mind as a red Herring... continue on your extremely admirable and healthy plan...try to accept it's what it is...slow but steady progress.
You can of course go online and find a maverick doc wholl tell you mainstream medicine doesn't treat enough people etc etc...but I'd urge caution and consistency in what you're doing and see what's happening in 3 months.

Obviously if you do go see a quack I'll still be your virtual diet online buddy...I'd never take offense.

That’s interesting, thanks for your insight @Theredjellybean.

To be honest, i have already sort of made my peace about the weight loss, I’ve never ever found it easy and I’ve always blamed my hormones in one way or another. I had PCOS diagnosed years ago for example. It’s all the other symptoms that I feel I’m in limbo with- I am having palpitations, breathlessness and am having anxiety attacks, my periods are a nightmare etc, and I just feel generally ‘unwell’ which, after over a year of this, another 3 months just waiting made me feel very defeated yesterday. I’ve slogged away for the last 12 months feeling like I should be feeling much healthier than I am, I eat well, I exercise loads, I’m fit and active and yet I’ve felt progressively worse and have gained weight. 🤷‍♀️ I was secretly worried I had something really really awful wrong with me so I am trying to see this as a good result.

Anyway…. Last day of my holiday today. It’s actually forecast to be dry today, although there is a rather ominous looking black cloud. I’m heading out for a run I think but I’m quite hungover so not really feeling it. My food has been dire this week, I am dreading the scales on Sunday morning. I’m not even going to attempt any form of control today 😂 please don’t ban me from the thread, I promise I’ll behave once I am back home!!!

Hi everyone,

I’ve just had a catch up since I was last on and I just want to say I avoided the ice cream chat 😂

After having had food poisoning since Monday, yesterday was the first time I’ve really been able to eat since and I stuffed myself with a margherita pizza 😂 I felt like I just needed something very calorie heavy in me to make up for fact I’ve barely eaten in 4 days.

That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

I haven’t done any of my home work-outs either whilst I’ve unwell either but I hope to get back on it today.

m I did weigh myself this morning and I’ve lost 1lb since Sunday but obviously that’s because I’ve not been eating.

I expect that will go back up now that im able to eat again and so I will use this Sunday’s weight as my new starting point.

@thenewaveragebear1983 ...could it be peri menopause?

@Theredjellybean i had thought that to be honest. I assumed my bloods would come Back normal and then I would take my long list of symptoms to every gp at the surgery until one of them agrees with me. I genuinely have 20 symptoms of peri… but a lot of them cross over with thyroid. Now the thyroid function has come back as slightly low (high?) I am going to have to wait for the three month retest because I can’t imagine they will consider peri now. I waited until I was 40 to go back for exactly this reason, they point blank refused to even consider peri when I went originally a year ago. It’s very frustrating 😢 i do however feel a bit more stoic about the whole thing today. I was quite upset/angry yesterday that they’d fobbed me off.

FML. I've put back on the same 2 pounds I've been gaining and losing for what feels like forever. To the salad!
@triplecheeese, I accidentally bought some earlier as they were not only in stock, they had something like 50p off!

My focus has been all over the place that last few weeks so I'm fairly similar @PinkArt - up and down around the same couple of pounds. It's frustrating but I know it's what I deserve - had family over for tea last night so that was me eating cottage pie, apple crumble and custard and chocolate brownie.

At least I know why I'm not losing when things like that occur. I'm not giving myself a hard time over it today - I'm just starting again. Another day of logging calories and hoping I don't eat too much. We can do this.

I’m home! Oh man. I feel soooooo unhealthy after a week of chippie teas, scones, and all the wine… I’ve exercised zero restraint whatsoever. To be honest, the first few days were nice. The last few days I just felt bloated and stuffed.

I did my menu and shopping order, going to collect it this evening. I’m going to (try to) do a full round of whole 30 if I can. I’ll weigh myself today and then the scales are going away as well. Lots of veg, protein, eggs, nuts, fruit and good fats. I know I feel so much better when I’m through the detox so just gotta knuckle down and do it!

tonight is the final unhealthy meal! Dh cooking freezer stuff. He’s also feeling crap so it will help to have him being a bit healthier as well.

I had quite a bad day today too.

I had a HUGE roast chicken dinner followed by strawberries and ice-cream.

I haven’t done my daily work-out for 3 days either 😬

I need to get myself back into it again. I feel so happy when I’ve done it, and I actually enjoy doing it, but motivation can be difficult can’t it 😬

Sundays are weigh-in days for me so tomorrow morning should be interesting….

I’d eaten my calories for the day by 1 pm. Dh shopped early and there was warm bread, butter and jam for breakfast. 2 slices was wrong though.It’s so cold.here. Went out with the dogs in the rain and had to have hot chocolate and biscuits when we came in. Had to. Then a crunchie fell into my mouth after a very modest lunch. I did have a very small plate of chicken risotto for dinner, so probably only a couple of hundred over. I’d been doing quite well. Please please let us have a little bit of summer soon.

I also fucked up yesterday. I’m blaming the weather.

I got my x ray results, osteoarthritis of the hip. Got to wait another ten days for GP appt to discuss 😡

Going to try to be really strict today and keep fingers crossed for weigh in tomorrow.

It’s crumble and custard weather!!

It’s conspiring against us!

I’ve lose 1lb this week which is my lowesr
loss but I’m not overly surprised as I’ve done no exercise and in the last 6 days I’ve been out for a Turkish meal, had a mega cheesy pizza and a massive roast dinner with desert 😂

Im getting back on it today!!! I’m off to the shop soon to stock up on healthier foods again and I’m going to start my work-out again this afternoon.

The good news is that my face is starting to look thinner and that was one of my main goals 😂

Less than one week to go before jetting off to Spain. Had hoped to lose a couple more stone but nevermind!

Hi everyone 👋🏼 can I join in? In a horrible rut at the moment where I have zero motivation, the pounds are creeping on and I feel all round shite.

@lifestooshorttodickaboutwithaubergines hi 👋 welcome. I think we’ll all empathise with that feeling! What’s your strategy?

Ive actually had a pretty good start today. I’ve been super-prep queen this morning, I made mayonnaise and did some sweet potato chunks in the air fryer for my lunches, and boiled some eggs also for snacks or lunches.
my lunch was homemade guacamole with 2 fried eggs and a tin of mackerel, with salad. Sounds weird (was declared by my ds as being weird so must be true) and I added too much chilli to my guacamole, but it was really tasty and filling with lots of good fat.
i’ve done a roast dinner, with lots of extra veg so I have some cooked veggies in the fridge as leftovers- I eat very limited veg, not by preference, but by laziness. So having a big tub of pre-cooked carrots, broccoli, cabbage and peas will make it easy to add a portion to my meals.

I do not want to go back to work tomorrow, I feel tired after the holiday and feel a little cheated by the rain and windy weather we endured while away. This is the first time in 10 years I’ve not been working in education therefore have not had the summer hols. I’ve made sure this afternoon to chill a bit, read my book and got myself ready for the morning. I’m going for a run later with my friend and then we’ll have a late dinner.

Have a great holiday @TalkToTheHand123. Welcome @lifestooshorttodickaboutwithaubergines are you staring or kickstarting a diet ? You can share your numbers if you like, expect there will be someone here similar. We have people at 17 stone, 15 stone, 14 stone, 11 and 10. Dont think we have any current 12 stoners. Please correct me I& I’m wrong. I do kilos, butI know whereI am in stones , so that I can celebrate in both!We are nice here.