Hello, Everyone! Just setting up our new thread to begin tomorrow…I hope all the new members and old friends
will be joining in on this challenge, too! See you all tomorrow 🙂
Allie
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Hi there, I would like to join in please. This will be my first time doing the BSD and my track record of sticking to diets is abysmal 😕. I’m hoping the motivational support here will make the difference! Thanks. Kristen
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Thanks for starting this alliecat. I will be joining but I am going to be busy with the 2 courses I am doing. I am really enjoying the Food As Medicine course and think it will be very helpful. If they blame food for causing our ills then surely it can also cure us, just like we are doing on this plan. See you tomorrow.
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Very happy to have you join us, KristenLouise, and a very warm welcome to you! Try to cast out of your
mind past dieting experiences. The BSD is a completely different concept than the rubbish that we’ve been
taught before 🙂 It’s a lifestyle and not just another deprivation diet, after which you return to eating the way
you did before. It’s life changing, and you will be learning and sharing with a community of people who are at
all stages of transformation. It’s exciting, and we learn something new each day from our comrades!Very best wishes,
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Good morning all,
thank you Alliecat for setting up this week’s challenge.
At the moment, I am finding myself at a crossroad. I knew this week I would get up on the scales based on the fact I have eaten my house down on Friday but I didn’t expect what I saw on the scales.
I have been also saying that I’m to re-read the book, that I’m already half way through since it was delivered on sunday afternoon, and then start afresh.
However, after this morning disasterous number on the scales I feel that I’m climbing a slippery slope…
I want to stick to WOE but it seems the universe is in a way throwing things under my feet 🙁
I am not in a good place in my head diet-wise it seems or my brains have been cooked in this heat or without blaming anybody and anything it’s just me…
I think I’ll give myself this week as a last try week and then would need to walk away and maybe return later but I just cannot get over the monster inside me that sabotages me and my intentions.I hope you all are having a much more positive results today.
Have a wonderful day you all.
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Hi everybody! Im B, I have started my first 8week cycle today and am both excited and scared! I dont want to fail, I’m doing this for me! My health and body image! I am tired of being the fat girl! I want to loose 40kg, and am excited at the idea of being my happy confidant self again! I know that I will not looses 40kg in 8 weeks, but it sure will be a good start to clear out the fat in my liver and pancreas! I am so excited that this forum exists, because I’m hoping that with a little support and whatever I can contribute I will be successful! Thank you so much to everybody here! Let’s DO this!
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Hi skinny to be! I am struggling to get the motivation too, but I just thought to myself, I would hate to be sitting 8weeks from today and thinking, “if only I had started then, what would I have looked and felt like now”? Take measurements they might change as the shape of your body does, not always the numbers on the scale! I also find that looking at beautiful sun dresses and ball gowns on pinterest motivate me! I live by the ocean and would love to walk on the beach with a beautiful summer slip over my swimsuit! Picture yourself in a beautiful piece of clothing in a scenario that you would like to be in! Hope that helps! Kind regards B😀
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Hi Skinny-to-be. It sure is hard to get in the right headspace at times. I once had 7kgs to lose, and struggled, got frustrated and disappointed and hated those damn scales! So I gave up. The result is I now have 26kgs to lose, along with some health issues. I wish I had “kept on keeping on” back then. And I’m sure I will be reminding myself of that a lot over the next 8 weeks! I hope you manage to subdue that monster inside who sabotages you – stomp all over him and shove him in a dark cupboard!
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Hi Skinnytobe.
I am sorry to hear that you are struggling. – I fell off the wagon big time when I started. A couple of weeks in guests staying in my holiday let left behind pizza’s and bread and cake. A combination of my mothers voice in my head lecturing me on waste and the urgings of my carb monster meant I spent a whole week off the wagon. – But it was a good experience. It really convinced me that it was an addiction, but also that while I was craving the food it didn’t really taste better/make me feel better after eating than something none carby.
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Hi Skinny -to-be. I still believe in your name and you can too. Though I appreciate how hard it can be to get in the right frame of mind. Who said a diet/new lifestyle starts between the ears?? At least with this woe we see results quickly and you can again too. What has gone on so quickly can come off equally fast.
Is there a way this week that you can minimise the damage of a possible binge – a good clear out of the cupboards and a tougher approach in the supermarket? Each time that I hover round a packet of temptation online or at the shops, I try to tell myself that I need only say “no” once, and not buy it. Once bought, every evening can become a mental struggle of whether or not to give in. If others in your family want other things, can they tough it out for a few weeks to support you and get things moving again?
Very best wishes to you for a successful week.
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Skinny-to-be in my humble opinion I think you need a new goal. Your last goal was to fit into THAT SKIRT for your birthday. You didn’t quite make that but the world didn’t collapse! You still had a wonderful birthday. You are still here and still ‘talking’ so you haven’t given up yet.
We all go through up and downs with this way of eating, posting and taking part in challenges. Sometimes we need a break, a change but I’m sure that if you leave the groups here you will regret it in the long term ….. you may just not be able to pull yourself up that slippery slope and end up even more miserable.
I don’t know how much weight you need or want to lose but I do know that if you opt out know, feeling the way you do, you may very well, actually, as you predict, not make it back up to the top of the hill. We all have times when we are disheatened and want to throw the whole thing in. That’s life!
So maybe go back and reread some of your earlier enthusiastic posts, if that doesn’t work make a new plan. Even if you plan to take time out …. maybe a few days! ….. then reformulate and just get back on that horse!
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Hello all,
Thank you for all the post where you’ve mentioned me 🙂
Briggs – lovely to meet you. I cannot picture myself in what you’re suggesting as I’ve been visualising and trying a skirt I bought 14 years ago that is one size smaller but it is on a smaller size so in theory it is 2 sizes smaller. That skirt was meant to be worn two weeks ago for my 40th birthday. As you can see it didn’t materialise so I need to find another mental picture But thank you for your kind words. I hope your journey will be rewarding and very soon.
KristenLouise – lovely to meet you too. I hope you don’t get to struggle too much. Good luck on your journey and I hope in your 8 weeks time weighing in you’ll be screaming from the top of your voice with excitement.
JGwen – I hope your words come true because I am within the same period – 2 courses of 8 weeks. Hopefully, i’ll be lucky enough to find my head lying somewhere around by the road and be able to screw it back where it needs to be.
Caronl – it’s not the problem what it’s in the cupboards as it is ok and very much bsd user friendly with some icecream in this heat for my four year old little ‘un it’s the amount of food I ‘need’ to eat. Mozarrella, tomatoes, olives, cucumber, kale, egg salad – yeah, sure, why not, but if it doesn’t come in a bucket then it’s not enough… 🙁
It seems like I am stuck somewhere and cannot find myself. it is very much possible I am tripping over myself but need to find that moment when me, myself and my inner I wake up one morning and are not 3 of us, but just one, Skinny to be.So what I’ve eaten so far is: 10 almonds in the morning (was still stuffed from yesterday), 2x black coffee (coz that’s how I like it), 2x ginger and lemon tea, 5x pint glasses of water and for lunch I had 25 minutes brisk walk about and 5 almonds.
I am having a nice black bean and sweet potato pot I cooked on sunday with some kale and hard boil egg and a dollop of yoghurt on top of the hot black bean pot. I also did 40 secs of the plank this morning so I hope that is some kind of a good day today.Thank you again and enjoy this glorious afternoon.
Hopefully, onwards and downwards for me.
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Dear Verano,
I missed your post while I was typing.
You may be right, the world didn’t collapse or stop for that matter. The skirt is still hanging in the wardrobe because I haven’t thrown it out so somewhere deep down I hope and believe I’m on the right path.
I am on the course Sunshine girl has recommended, the mindfulness, and am also re-reading the book. I knew that ‘bad’ thing would happen after the end of last week because of what was happening but didn’t expect it would be that bad.
So it might be the new week, the focus and eyes on the numbers, writing down what I feed me, how much I feed me and monitor.
I would also need to re-group and re-think my goals, focus on achievements rather than fret about the fails and move on from there.
It’s good you’re still around 🙂 .All my love,
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Hi Skinny-to-be one thing I have found in the almost two years that I’ve been following this WOE is that if you do fall off the wagon and put on more weight than you had anticipated, a lot of it is water weight. Get straight back on that horse, drink plenty of water and within days you will be back to where you were. Yes you have it in one ….. move on!
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Flemmingcomm I guess you haven’t read the Blood Sugar Diet book. If you do you will find that fried food is not the ememy unless it’s carbs like chips. Also there will be no need to ‘detox’ with expensive tea….. just good wholesome low carb food does the trick.
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What do I think? Second post with that link in 3 days? I think you’re spamming the forum post reported.
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Hi MaggieBath, yes I was thinking exactly the same as you, and it is a different user name (I think the other was called Meekme2). Flemmingcomm, I would expect to tea diet to work if you dont eat anything else – tea is not a diet aid. The only benefits are if you drink it without milk and you usually drink 4 or 5 cups of milky tea daily, you will be saving around 100 to 120 cals per day.
I have managed to get back to my original loss of 2 weeks ago (okay missed it by quarter of a pound) so will be just trying to improve on that. I am 77kgs so anything that starts with 76 will do, preferable a 76.0. Blood glucose is still down and this morning was 4.7 on 28 units of insulin. Will let that settle down before I drop further. Sorry to rub it in but I had a swim after breakfast this morning but only managed 25 mins before foot cramps got me. Will do more tomorrow and I am feeling muscles in my arms, and as I said on another thread, my bum is lifting a bit.
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Hi Flemmingcomm – Verano is absolutely right. There is no need to ‘detox’ with expensive tea. You just cannot beat good wholesome low carb food to beat the carb cravings.
I was a total carb addict and I found that the cravings went away completely by eating low carb and especially avoiding the sugary and starchy carbs. I was such a yo yo dieter because I had absolutely no willpower around carbs. The wonderful thing was that once I ditched the bad carbs I never needed the willpower to overcome the cravings because there were no cravings to overcome.
You will be surprised how quickly the cravings go away. I do lots of stir fries in butter or coconut oil. I absolutely love mushrooms and asparagus gently fried in butter with a bit of salt on plus fried or scrambled egg for breakfast. The thing is – if you cut the carbs you do need to increase the healthy fats like avocados, butter, coconut oil, olive oil, nuts etc.
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Sunshine-girl and Maggie – well spotted. Thank you for reporting it Maggie.
Just realised that I haven’t said that I am joining this challenge. My goal for the week is to keep the blood sugars good, keep up the 18/6 IF and lose a little more weight.
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Good evening, friends! I’m a little late to the party today because tomorrow is a big holiday here in the USA
and I was out hauling provisions. Nothing will be open tomorrow! I’m overjoyed to see so many of the gang
here, and new faces as well 🙂Welcome to the challenge, Briggs! I see that you’ve already met some of our All Stars. You’ve chosen a great
thread on which to begin your journey. There is always some special magic that takes place when newbies,
mid journeyers and long term BSDers join forces. You indicated on another thread that you had a lot of weight
that you’d like to lose? I have a very special place in my heart for “ladies who have a lot to lose”, since I was
once one of this group, too. I got rid of 148lbs in 10 months, and have kept it off for 14. I believe that
absolutely anything is possible with this lifestyle, and I look forward to getting to know you. Every success!Sunshine-girl, you did it! Congratulations on turning back the clock to 2 weeks ago. I think we both took a
minor snacking detour, but all is well now 🙂 At weigh in today, I’m down 2.5lbs for the past week, and I intend
to shift the other 2.5lbs during this challenge. Beware of sundried tomatoes!Krysia, a 21″ waist? Brava!!! Not to mention the best weigh in in 50 years? What a svelte powerhouse you
are! What a splendid way to begin your 7th decade 🙂 🙂 🙂NOW, skinnytobe….I don’t think you really want to abandon this program, because you’re still with us. Try
to set last week behind you….Spend a little time thinking about the causes, then self correct 🙂 I know that
you can do this! Are you counting your carbs? Black beans and sweet potato sounds rather high to me,
and might be driving the hunger? Hang in, girl! You know that we’ve “got you”. All you need to do is take
it one day at a time, or one meal at a time, if necessary xxGood luck, everyone!
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Allie – unfortunately I had the 21 inch waist when I was the same weight 50 years ago. Waist now is 25 inches – hopefully it will get smaller as I continue.
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Hi Skinny to be,
So the goal of wearing of “that skirt” on your birthday has passed, – OK. you are not a failure because you didn’t achieve that goal, we all miss our goals from time to time. – I know it was having smaller targets and giving myself a reward – getting something that I could see every day, helped me with momentum. -
Skinny to be I can only agree with the other posters, you can get to grips with this, it’s just getting yourself in the right place!
Welcome Briggs and Kirsten , you have come to the right place, lots of inspiration here from Allie cat and Jgwen and Maggie bath.
This is a great forum lots of advice and I have found that reading about other people’s experiences can definitely help.
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Hi Zinny, thank you for the warm welcome! I feel like I’m in the right place! You have all been very kind!
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Hi Allie,
I want to rejoin this forum to stay motivated. I have been prevaricating for weeks and need to go for it again. I have been following the guidelines and have stayed at my post Christmas weight so a new start tomorrow. KOKO.Kind regards, Jim.
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Hi Allie!
Wow, I am so thrilled for you that you lost so much in such a short period of time! My aunt has been on a weightloss journey using another program and it has taken her just over 2 years to shift the same amount of weight! I just thought, I cant imagine being on a journey for that long, so the fact that you have come down so fast is Very motivational! I am really working hard at getting back to where I feel comfortable by Christmas! I have a beautiful dress that I would love to wear on Christmas eve! I have about 40kg to shift, and on 21 December is my partners 40th Birthday, having all the family and friends over so would really love to look great so we can take some photos together. I have not appeared in a photo other than drivers license (under protest😬) for about 10 years. Its like a gap in my history. Really want that to change! I really appreciate your kind words and look forward to getting to know you too!
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Hi everyone and welcome to all newbies. Lots of help, support and advice from old-timers here. …… as in long term BSD not necessarily in she, I hasten to add!
KrysiaD I am very near my goal now. Originally it was 10 st but then I thought another 3 or 4 lbs would give me wiggle room so I didn’t go over 10st! If that makes sense.
I don’t have diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure or any related issues, but I do have Polymyialgia Rheumatica which is what the steroids are for. And I had breast cancer nearly two years ago so I take tablets for 5 years now for that. I’m losing the weight for all round general health really and obviously this way of eating is so varied and tasty and colourful it’s a joy to flow it really. Bit …. I do like glass or two of wine which although is not excessive (I know, everyone says that) it does mean I am not strictly 800 calories on some days but it just means I am slower to lose the last few lbs which is my own fault! I just have to get over it 😄 -
Maggiebath, thank you for your suggestion of the smaller window. I never used to eat breakfast at all until I got this polymyialgia but needing to take the steroids first thing in the morning meant food, so I started having, porridge, cereal, muesli, toast – variety, not all at once! Now I have berries and Greek yoghurt. Light lunch out of the recipe book, and dinner is usually about 6 – 7 pm and is chicken, fish with salad, a Hairy Bikers chicken and chorizo dish or meat of some kind with salad and maybe a couple of new potatoes. No snacks then nothing til probably 9ish next morning. 15 hrs? Maybe I could try less wine! And I know I certainly don’t drink enough water and I never have but I am trying fizzy water with lemon slices .
When we lived “up north” the water was beautiful but since we’ve moved to Northamptonshire the water is awful. We’ve been here 6and a half years and we’re on our 4th kettle! I often wonder if it’s doing anything to my insides 😬
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Good morning all and Happy Independence Day to all the USofA friends here,
How are you all doing?
I am starting to struggle a little bit with the heat so am hoping the storms that have been promise will materialise.
As much as I like have the washing on the line dried in no time it is now taking its toll as the evenings are very tiring for me. I suppose it’s not being used to the trop temperature for an extended amount of time.
Anyhoo, tried to be good yesterday and made veggie burgers for dinner, which my little girl loves and eats them just by taking in the hand and walk about the house and garden 🙂 and that’s what I had for my dinner instead of the black beans sweet potato pot.
This morning had a smoked mackerel fillet with some tomatoes. Lunch – 6 raspberries with yoghurt and flaxseeds and a teaspoon of double cream and for snacks 15 almonds throughout the day. dinner a nice salad with egg, kale, mozzarella, tomatoes, olives, avocado and cucumber. That should be it as tomorrow is Thursday and on Thursdays I fast completely therefore my next food intake will be on Friday morning after about 35 hours after tonight’s dinner. Will see what that will do to me.
Onwards, downwards and support-wards 🙂 (I just invented a word 🙂 ) with you all.
Here’s to the Friday football match with Sweden. Hopefully, the result will push England further as I think it’s about time they got the good chance to put their hands on that trophy. 52 years has been a long enough period 🙂All the best good people,
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JGwen, my little step is to lose about 4kg before going on hols on 28th July. This is my birthday present from my husband and we’re going to Switzerland. I don’t think that’s too much but have taken your advise and the 4kg would get me to lose about one kg a week. that 4 kg will allow me to hike and breath better and be able to carry on the little girl on my back when she says ‘My legs are tired’ 🙂 🙂
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Hi Tillybud, any window is good and 15 hours is certainly long enough to move your body into fat burning mode. Hopefully your polymyalgia will be improved with the removal of refined carbs as it’s an inflammatory disease. Do you have online access to your medical records so you can see what your inflammatory markers are and how they chart over the years? I believe we all need to inform ourselves as much as possible so as to be having conversations with our GP’s based on facts, not letting them dispense without explanation.
Our water is from the limestone Mendips so we’re no strangers to hard water – drinking water is from a filter jug and as a sophisticated evening drink it’s Pellegrino! Mint and cucumber is good to give a bit of interest. Being positive, with hard water your body will be getting plenty of minerals!
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Hi Skinny, lovely to hear you back to being positive 🙂 And a very happy 4th of July to our American friends from me 🇺🇸
I so envy you going to Switzerland, it is so indescribably beautiful. Have a wonderful time. 🇨🇭
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Morning Maggie,
I will make sure we have a wonderful time. I love Switzerland and for the life of me I cannot remember why stopped going there every year. Last time we went it was about 7 or 8 years back when the exchange rate was much more favourable than it is nowadays. But who am I to complain :-). Mr Skinny to be treated Mrs Skinny to be to a wonderful 40th birthday present (amongst others) and I made a promise to him that as of this year we are getting the tradition on again. Now the little girl is not so little she can start hiking with us. To certain extend I am looking forward to her ‘My legs are tired’ because then it’ll be I who will be carry her on my back. That’s an exercise and a half, hey? 🙂
The hotel has the unspoiled view of the highest peak in the region and is about 3,600m above the sea level. The village itself is about 1,800m high.
Maggie, I’m telling you amongst the stupidest things I’ve done in my life, stopping Switzerland holidays was one of the biggest one 🙂
When we go next year, you come with us :-), I’ll be much fitter next year for any more strenuous hikes 🙂
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What an invitation Skinny! I spent a lot of holidays in Switzerland as a child as I had an uncle who lived near Lucerne and they were absolutely blissful.
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Maggie,
While Lucerne is bang in the heart of Switzerland, we go to Samnaun, which is near Chur in the east corner where three countries are meeting. Austria, Switzerland and Italy. The highest peak of Samnaun Alps is Muttler and although the village is full of hotels there is nothing in front of our hotel (while they still keep building more and more hotels around) to have an unspoiled view. I think if I didn’t have my Swiss watch (that I treated myself to after taking voluntary redundancy after 12 years with my previous employer) I would have bought a watch instead of chocs and cheese there – LOOOOOL. As the village is historically Duty Free I’m sure I find something nice instead of chocs this time around…cheese, I’ll have some 🙂
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Maggie, Not Chur, not sure why I said Chur, it’s near Scuol and Martina which is on Austrian border.
I thought Chur because that’s where we were going a few times for the mineral water spring which was full of iron and even the water was orange-y yet very delicious. The sad thing is if you take any mineral water with you to keep it never tastes as good the following day as the fresh from the spring…
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Very happy to have you back with us, trundlebug!
Hi Jim47! Were you with us about 6 months ago or so? I seem to remember your username? What would
you like to achieve this time around? Anything and everything is possible 🙂 Welcome!!!Allie
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Morning all!
Yup, it is America’s birthday today. Mind if I join your group? I started July 1 and it has been bumpy. Even so, I am actually losing weight, so am encouraged. I am used to about 2,000 calories a day, which included alcohol before and after dinner.I have spent the last 4 years on websites that say I would be damaging my insides by going down to 800 healthy calories a day. So mentally, that is a step to take. I read Mosleys and Steaubs books per your suggestion and am ready to do this 12 weeks to my doc appointment where she wants to increase my statin and put me on blood pressure meds for the first time if blood work and blood pressure don’t look better.
I appreciate all the mounds of advice you gals have given me already!
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Welcome, Violinist! and happy 4th of July 🙂 I’m very happy to have you here with us on this lively thread!
I have high hopes for you avoiding more meds, and what great motivation to succeed. You can accomplish
a great deal in 3 months…. There is also a 4wk thread that will begin again on July 10th, which will have the
word “August” in it. Some of us participate in both the weekly and monthly challenges, and I know that you
will be made welcome there, too. 🙂 Now, let’s just prove your Dr. wrong! Just shout out if we can help, and
one of us will be along with suggestions, experience to share, or a bit of tea and sympathy, if that’s what you
are needing…You can do this!!!!Allie
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Allie, I am feeling so great because of you all!! Doing really well today! Day 4
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Hi could I join you all on this week’s journey? Just started 3 days ago. I am a total carb addict, but have felt ok so far since cutting back. Although legs feel very tired walking upstairs – is that normal? Or maybe just me!! I know approximately what I weigh and was planning on holding off reweighing for a couple of weeks as worried I would be disappointed, but if I weigh at the end of this week will be 10 days which would be a compromise. Hoping the tummy fat will be the first to go as have recently been mistaken for being pregnant 🙈!
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Hi, can I join too please. Just found this site. I’m in the middle of week three, started after reading the book.. I’m hoping to reduce both my weight & my blood pressure pills as I don’t do well on them ( need to carry an Epipen).
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Hi Allie,
I think that’ll be where I join the party, the monthly challenge on 10th July, My 50th Birthday! I started my 8wks plan on Friday 22nd, 90kg a week later and full of salad and Greek yoghurt and I was down 2.9kg. So it’s my second weigh in Friday 6th, I’ll let you know how it’s going.
My tip, whilst a novice, but a determined one, is to have the food you need to be eating, in your fridge…it avoids temptation and takes some of the thought out of the whole process!
Keep being a bunch of losers…;)
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Hi everyone.nice to see some new people joining us. Im late to join this week because I nearly gave up . Ive been stuck in 83kg plus or minus a few grams for 3 weeks Im really relating to you Skinny but Im changing my focus a bit. I joined a gym on Monday and have done a few excersises each day.this is a really big deal for me I continue to weigh myself each day and Im trying to create some more interesting meals.the weather here has been very wet and cold strong winds and generally miserable so comfort foods are really appealing.Im trying to focus on my holiday in Singapore and I have a new silk dress that needs to fit. Im not sticking to plan as much as I want but at least staying on this forum helps me to be acountable.Koko
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Hello yummymummy2be, welcome to the community, and day 4 of a new life 🙂 I can well understand your
aversion to the scales! I avoided them for 17 years, packing on a tremendous amount of weight in the process…
Some of our friends here have made the decision to chart their progress by using the tape measure, and
not weighing until the end of the 8 weeks. I found it helpful to weigh in however, so that I could recognize a
plateau when it occurred, and make the necessary tweaks in my macros to get things going in a positive
and consistent direction, again! Of course, you can always weigh AND measure! I know others will be along
on this thread to share their experiences with you, too 🙂 There have been numerous discussions on which
areas of the body the fat departs from first. The short answer seems to be that that depends on the person,
as well as body type. Visceral fat around our organs poses the biggest threat to our health, of course. My
personal experience was the places I first showed weight gain were the last to go. The important bit
though is that it DOES go. I’m looking forward to sharing this journey with you, and wish you every success!Allie
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Good glorious morning friends,
Butterlover, you just cannot imagine how very close we are 🙂 emotion-wise and weight-wise too :-). I am not out of the woods yet but am following Allie and other’s advise once we step out of here and let the force to take us down the slippery road to climb back to the point where we let go is going to be longer and harder work. I have given myself a target of 4kg to lose (and that’d be preferably from where I was at the ‘lightest’ which was 78.6kg) by 28th July. This doesn’t sound a lot, yet on Monday morning I was 82.5kg(!), oh yes! I tried to be good over the past few days but have failed yesterday evening as it was just too hot. Thank God my little girl has ‘processed’ all of the icelollies over the past week we’ve had in the freezer so I ‘attacked’….wait for it….frozen raspberries we picked at our local farm on Saturday. I knew that the bowl I filled up with them and most importantly ENJOYING added up to my carbs but I have forgiven myself and patted myself on the shoulder for going this way and not my corner shop way to get some icecream for us all. They were lovely cold, did me good and I am happy that I managed to save the ‘pounds’ in my wallet. Just out of curiosity I hopped on the scales this morning and was 81kg, which is -1.5kg (3lb) down on my last weighing in. I think the ‘mental’ attitude of forgiving myself and also the knowledge that I could go to the corner shop but didn’t want to (and without a struggle) may have contributed to the loss.
I fast every Thursdays, which means my last meal was on Wednesday evening which was about 6.45pm, and I do not eat until Friday morning, which usually is about 35-36 hours. I think this day of ‘exhale’ given to my body may also result in a better number on Tuesday morning and if I keep on keeping on with the help of you all I think I may achieve the 4kg loss (from my lightest or if not that from the 82.5kg measured this week) by 28th July.
I haven’t joined a gym as with a 4-year old I prefer to spend the time with her and have a decent sleep than trying to fit the ‘gyming’ and cutting my presence somewhere. I have started 30days plank challenge and this morning I did 40 seconds. I am also toying with the idea of dusting my running shoes off which are hanging on the peg since 2012 when I ran my first and last (so far) half marathon. Getting THAT idea to my head is not forced but it started ‘creeping’ up on me. Who knows, maybe in not so distant future I’ll be pounding the pavements and signing up for something stupid – like another half marathon or even a full one. But lets just not get ahead of myself – LOOOOOOOOOOL 🙂
Come on, give me your hand and we can climb that slippery slope. If it wasn’t for the girls in here and their words since this morning I wouldn’t be typing this, Butterlover.
P.s. I absolutely love your name 🙂Lots of love to you all dear friends.
Skinny to be
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Hi Skinny, well done you for your change of mindset; you’re right, taking the stress and guilt out of the equation will make a difference. Cortisol is a factor in weight control, so being kind to yourself is a weightloss strategy as well as good sense.
Maggie -
Hi skinny,
I’m glad to see you’ve got back on the positive wagon. It is not easy all the time but so worthwhile loving yourself enough to change what makes you unhappy! I always remember that nothing tastes as good as thin feels!
😀B -
Missed out on posting yesterday as we had an horrendous storm and the electricity was out from 4pm until 9am this morning. Upset my diet plan as Thursday I do shopping so on Wednesday I clean out my fridge and make a giant frittata. No electric no dinner and no real fall back so opened a jar of pate and had that on some oat cakes and Ryvita. Weight up by just 0.1 kg so not too bad.
I am really enjoying the course I am doing and there are quite a few Michael Mosley fans doing too.