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

I’m ending today on 1250 cals, that’s good for me. I just don’t feel that hungry today, maybe it’s the heat I don’t know. I had a salad with mackerel for lunch, and for dinner I made a chilli with loads of veggies. I didn’t really fancy much, so I have loads of leftovers to portion up lunches.

I’m at a family do this weekend, I had bought a lovely and flattering dress on Vinted but it’s a bit autumnal looking and now it’s going to be hot so I think I’ll need to reconsider. How annoying!

Thanks, @Zebracat. You're right. It's habits and patterns and I just need to refocus on building better new ones.

Hi all. Had a freezer sort out the other day and noticed a lot of fish fingers so have been living off these the last few days 😊

Hey everyone, sorry I've been MIA for a week or so, I had guests for two weeks and it was hectic. Obviously that did NOT help my diet, although that's of course my own fault. I just can't resist.... especially booze.

Plus I'm weaning DS and honestly seem to be eating half his food.

Anyway back on the bandwagon for the last few days. Last week I gained +0.4lb but this week I lost 1.2lb so overall now 15.6lb down over 8 weeks. That's great but definitely slowed down a lot.

I am 4.8lb away from the 10s and I desperately want to see them, they feel close but yet so far. We are going on holiday to an all inclusive at the end of the month so I have to keep losing in order to counteract that inevitable gain. So my mini goal is 4.8lb off between now and then... that's a bit too ambitious but let's see how where we get to.

Didn't someone go on an all inclusive holiday recently? How was it? Any tips?

@thenewaveragebear1983 love the puppy

@gluttonousgoldbug you made me laugh. Sounds like the name change is undeserved!

Oh I’m in a right funk today. I don’t know what has got into me! I have tried to get something to wear to this wretched do and literally nothing (like absolutely nothing) in any shops, everything is the absolute dregs of summer holiday tat and seriously I am despairing! Combine that with multiple changing rooms with their hideous glaring lights and full length mirrors and I’m just ready to cancel, but I can’t. So I feel thoroughly fat and miserable. I’m annoyed because I have a really nice dress but it’s going to be really hot and I’ll look really out of season!

@thenewaveragebear1983 what about nobody's child in M&S?

@thenewaveragebear1983 what's your overall style? I like Oliver bonas for cool but flattering midis - I had a flowy purple dress from there which I wore with a skinny waist belt (bring back gok wan)

PS im not even thinking about nutrition at the moment. Scales are staying steady so that'll have to do! Just trying to do a sensible online food shop for next week...!

@Ledochas thank you I will look! @triplecheeese hmmm 🤔 I am looking for a slim ish fitting midi pencil dress, floral or patterned, summery looking. Wedding guest ish I guess. I appreciate everyone buys this in the spring/summer and I’m massively late!

@Ledochas thank you!!! I have ordered 4 dresses from nobody’s child to try and can send them back if they aren’t suitable. Thanks for the recommendation

@thenewaveragebear1983 amazing! They are normally really nice so I would feel hopeful. Let us know!

Alas @Ledochas that is a gain of 5 pounds in only a few weeks. (Goes off to google nobody's child and wishes she hadn't spent all her paycheck in the arcade with the kids... damn 2p machines with their tempting teetering towers of tat and ticket dispensers)

I decided today I was going to aim
for a super low calorie day, not fasting as such because I prefer to have 3 meals, but to really keep the cals and carbs low just for a little boost before my weekend of excess (we are having a 6 course taster menu and a flight of wines on Saturday 🤦‍♀️) - so today I had
b- 2 small chicken thighs
l- a punnnet of strawberries and some frozen fruit
d- two pieces of white fish, cooked in the air fryer with a tbsp of tomato and chilli chutney on the top and a bowl of broccoli with a tsp butter.

it felt good actually, I didn’t feel hungry as the protein kept me going this morning. I drank loads of water. I’m going to do similar tomorrow as well. I came in at 950 cals and 32g carbs 👍

18'1 today, so moving back in the right direction and I should be able to get back into the 17s by next week. And then onwards and downwards!

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thread 5 here!

So my dresses came today, they all fit (hurrah!) In fact 2 are too big. One I really really love but it’s desperately impractical and I will literally never wear it again so I’ve decided to go for the one that fits the best but is something I’d never pick off the rails in a shop, it’s a slim fitting, very very very pink, midi dress with a sleeve and a side split and it looks really nice, I bought a flower hair clip and will wear it with pale blue patent heels. So thank you @Ledochas for the recommendation, I’ve never shopped there before and there’s some lovely things on their site

Good Morning all, glad to find you. 96.9 today so up again, .4 kilo. But I was 97.4 at one point so I am on the way down again. I have got my meals sorted and I am much more active , but Dh is filling the house with biscuits and chocolate, and bringing them out with every drink. He’s not deliberately sabotaging me, but he is sabotaging me. I need to ask him not to, even if I look hopeful, and feel I deserve those treats.
I have a problem with my gait after the hip replacement. Without a stick, I am really unstable and walking is exhausting. It can only be corrected through hours of physio, which I am doing. But it would also be more achievable if I could lose 25 kilos, and as I have spent the last 9 months losing and gaining the same 5 kilos, it feels impossible.
My son is obese and just had a blood test. His aic(?) was 9.5, so well into the diabetic range, but If I try to talk tohim about it he says I am rubbing salt in the wound. We need some big changes round here.
Sorry to moan.