Thunderous applause DAWN! Weight down 2 1/2 AND 1 1/2 inches off waist! 👏👏well done!xx
Im just sitting having a cuppa and a slice of toasted low carb bread. The slices are very small but satisfyingly nutty and seedy. I think off top of my head a slice is 132 cals,3 carbs. Its very cosy eating tea and toast and listening to the wind howling outside.
Good luck to all Friday weighers ! 👍 X have a groovy weekend and keep shipshape 🙂
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Thanks Yowzer😀
It sounds like you’re having a lovely cosy morning. I am too, I can see the trees outside bending in the wind. Good job DH laid our wooden bird table down flat before he went out to work this morning as I’m sure it would have blown over🌬️🌬️
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Great news Dawn!
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Thanks Verano!
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Well done Dawn, fabulous results!
I’ve been weighing and recording religiously for 21 days now and there’s little movement for me. Since the start of the year I am 1kg down, way better than gaining of course but doesn’t feel like much progress after a lot of effort.
But it feels good to be in a settled way of eating. I find it easier to hold back from snacks etc (even though they would be low carb) knowing that I will be recording it!
I’m averaging 9000 steps a day and 30 minutes of moderate exercise which really helps to keep my mental outlook good.
So far retirement is a dream! I can’t imagine going back to work and always have so much to do.
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Mariet – when I read your post I thought my goodness, I could have written this! Am in exactly the same position, this is my 3rd week of heathier eating and recording and I’ve only lost 1kg too. My step count is a bit lower – I average around 7,000 a day, but some days it’s only 1500 say and another it could be 15,000.
Today and yesterday I started the day with a 45 minute walk, which is around 5,000 steps. I’m at the stage now where I really look forward to my morning walk, it’s starting to become a habit which is good.
I’m happy that you are enjoying retirement so far 🙂 I’m really looking forward to retiring later this year. While I like my job, I’m no longer passionate about it, and feel like I’m just filling in time… and it’s like having to go to work (just 2 days now), it interferes with what I’d like to do! I guess that’s true for most of us though 🙂
DAWN – congratulations! What a good start you’ve got off to!
CATHY – glad your eye specialist appointment went so well! And it’s good your jeans fit – I love those sort of NSV’s.
I’m going to measure myself again at the end of the week, I feel I may have lost a little around my waist/hips as with one pair of my jeans I now need to wear a belt – admittedly they are the size 18 ones I kept from a few years ago, I donated
Most of my bigger clothes when I last lost weight a few years ago, and now so many of my smaller ones don’t fit.
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Hello everyone
I love reading your posts every morning when I wake up. I’m afraid to admit that I haven’t come alive in 2025 yet. I’ve been trying with my fasts and with time restricted eating but last weeks Chippy Tea hasn’t helped at all! The 36 hour fasts have made absolutely no difference to my weight and I remember this happening last year too. I then went to a local eat healthy group and did manage to lose some weight. So I’ve bought a nice little spiral bound note book from Aldi that says ‘productivity’ on the cover and it’s a priorities planner to stay on track of multiple weekly tasks – it says ‘ensure nothing gets missed and achieve better balance’ so I am going to try writing things down. For £3.99 it might help motivate me. I have been out walking and I’ve been eating smaller portions this week but the scales were up again on Friday and I’m blaming the infamous chippy tea I ate on Wednesday and no doubt a surge in cortisol after my hospital appointment!! . Anyway, it’s only week three so back to basics again for me. I’m going to take things day by day for a few weeks. I feel that I’m in a bit of a turmoil . Having my second cataract op on 10th Feb and I feel that may be a turning point. I have been wearing one lens in my specs for months now so it will be good to get new glasses in March and be able to read properly. My niece’s wedding is in June and I’ve got a lovely long slim dress and short sleeved jacket I want to wear. It won’t look good with bulges! I can feel a tyre growing around my middle that feels horrible so the notebook is being launched today- just seen on the first page thet it says small steps each day lead to significant achievement over time. So 2025 can become an achievement if I take things slow and steady every day.
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Morning everyone, just catching up with recent posts.
DAWN well done! I’m really pleased you’re off to such a great start. NOKIE how are you? I hope the shingles are beginning to calm down a bit? What bad timing!
ARCTIC FOX how are you? Any news on your test results?
CATHY so much is happening for you and I’m sorry for your disappointments (and also your treatment by the junior doctor btw). But as you say we are still relatively early in the year so there’s still plenty of time to come alive. I’m talking to myself as much as anyone else as I’ve been a really slow starter. But this week I’ve reverted to two meals a day as I just don’t have time to fit in breakfast and lunch – as I was trying to do – before leaving for work. So it’s a late morning brunch for me – in fact, need to dash and sort that out now!!
MARIET and SUEBLUE keep on keeping on. You’re both getting into great routines and the weight loss will follow. MARIET I’m glad you’re enjoying retirement. I retire in April and now just can’t wait. Like you said SUE, I’m at the “filling time” stage now!
HEIDI how are you doing? Baby steps are good! Every little helps on this journey – we’re in it for the long term not a quick fix. So getting into good habits is one of the keys to success.
Hello to YOWZER, VERANO, MIXnMATCH and anyone I’ve managed to miss (I know – from bitter experience- if I scroll back I lose what I’ve typed!) Hope all is well X
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Hello all
Great to read your posts I am so sorry but I can’t write much at the moment I am in so much pain with my shingles !!😢 I don’t know what to do with myself I haven’t forgotten everyone just feel really bad at moment I will post soon keep going everyone
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So sorry to hear your shingles are soooo bad! Really hope you can get some relief soon.Hello everyone,
Sorry I don’t post much anymore, but I do like to see how everyone is doing.
I am keeping weight where I want it… and diabetes still in remission… so I don’t have much to share…except to say, it CAN be done and I am so grateful to Dr Michael Mosley (😢 that he is no longer with us) and everyone in the forums on this site!
As S-G says… keeping on, keeping on!
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Hi everyone,
Nokie- sorry to hear about your shingles. What an awful thing to have. I’m eligible for a vaccine on my birthday this year, and I think I will schedule it for that day, and hope I don’t get shingles before then. I had a really severe case of chicken pox as a kid, so shingles scares me. I have noted an increase in shingles among younger people following Covid infections, so I wonder if the Covid virus has reactivated the chicken pox virus in some people. There was some speculation that some long Covid was a result of reactivated Epstein-Barr virus, and they are both herpes viruses, so perhaps? Just some speculation.
Cathy – I hear you about the fasting. On one hand, I would like to start it again as it was the only thing helping me to lose weight, but I don’t know if my stomach will allow me anymore. Also, my metabolism seems to have really changed as I now may be in full menopause, and not just peri-menopause. I feel like I have been making some progress this week by just eating lots of veggies and fibre (especially hemp seeds, chia and flax), and going for walks and doing some workouts from my online gym. Probably no weight or inches lost at this point, but definitely feeling more energy.
Dawn – congrats on your discard. That’s a brilliant start!
Mariet – I have been averaging around 7000 steps per day, so you are beating me! I get out for a walk on one of my coffee breaks each day and that helps, but otherwise, I don’t think I have time to do more right now. At least not on work days (I can’t wait to be retired too, but still a ways to go for me!). I console myself that at least some of my steps are very difficult. It is sitting at -6 to-12 C right now. My outdoor hydrant is frozen, even though it is supposed to be frost free, so I am running buckets of water for the horses from the basement bathroom in the house. I am carrying the buckets up the stairs and then about 200m out to the shelter area. That’s about 18kg in each hand while walking, and I am out of breath by the time I get to the gate, so it must be doing something!
DCT and everyone who has wished me well and asked about results – the follow up phone call with the surgeon was a bit disappointing as he didn’t have any new info, just that he was sending the scan to the cancer agency, which he had already told me. I had a call from the agency yesterday to confirm my personal info though, so presumably they are now working on it. The report from the radiologist landed in my inbox this morning though. One good piece of news – the previous ultrasound had identified it as being intramuscular, but the MRI has confirmed that it is intermuscular and does not appear to infiltrate the muscle. It is just sitting in between the muscles in my thigh. So hopefully that means it will be easier to remove, whatever it is.