Hopping back on board the cruise ship for my new Day 1. Had a worrying time at the end of January, when my mum became very ill again, culminating in her being taken into hospital in an emergency ambulance towards the end of February. March was therefore dedicated to visiting her in hospital several times a day to keep her morale up while they stabilised her and then we all waited for the date for the operation she needed. Originally that was to have been 28th March but she got suddenly transferred to Plymouth 2 weeks early and had the operation on 14th March. She has been home now for 2 weeks nearly and is still getting better every day. My weight has been roughly stable through this period, and pleasingly my visceral fat readings are still normal, despite a diet that is sometimes too carby as I try to encourage mum to put a bit of weight back on. She essentially hardly ate anything for nearly 5 weeks while feeling really ill. Now ready to start a push to lose a little more and gain some fitness again, after far too much driving and sitting next to a hospital bed.
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Good to have you back on board ship MixnMatch- I hope your mum continues to improve.must have been a worrying time.
We are all enjoying a leisurely cruise and you’ve got plenty of time to get back into the swing of things. I’ve enjoyed pacing myself this time round and learning to be patient. Two steps forward and three back sometimes but am heading slowly in the right direction. -
Glad to see you back Mixnmatch and I hope your mother continues to improve.
Well done on your results CCathy, a really solid result.
I am reporting a gain for the first time in a while, only 200g so not the end of the world but still a little disappointed as I haven’t fallen of the cruise ship or lashed out on any way. Oh well, maybe make up for it next week 😁
Tomorrow (Saturday) I have two little grandchildren, nearly 2 and nearly 4 staying all day with me, and over night and they will go home Sunday lunchtime. Their parents are going to a wedding and I am glad to help out and give them some child free time but I’m kind of dreading it too! They are dear little kids but exhausting.
My strategy is always to physically wear them out and luckily we have a spell of fine mild weather so we’ll hit the parks and playgrounds!
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Hope your mother continues to improve M&M.
CC, great that you are heading in the right direction.
Mariet, I have also gained this week…2lb…but I think because I succumbed to a bottle of sparkling wine on my birthday! (I stopped drinking regularly about 10 years ago) I suspect I will gain a little more tomorrow, as it is our wedding anniversary, so I will be tempted again! Life is for living..(or cruising!) I had been maintaining well before that…so will get back on board on Sunday! Good luck with the grand children…hope they don’t wear you out first! 🤔😁
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Happy April everyone aboard the Good Ship Lollipop!
MARIET is your older grandchild nearly four now! seems like no time since you were awaiting their birth!Time goes by so fast. Already a quarter of our year long cruise has passed.X
POOTLE happy wedding anniversary! X
Well done MIXIE and hope yr Mum continues to get better soon X
Cant go back any further without going onto another page,so I’ll just say well done to all who have lost,even if just a small amount,and have a great weekend! X
I read this April Blessing…
May the warm sun rise in our souls and illuminate the precious nature of life.
May the gentle winds of change blow through our uncertainty and remind us that we are beings of infinite possibility.
May the newness of spring awaken our hearts with love, peace and the hope of new beginnings.
May we remember our shared humanity and act from a place of love, kindness and peace.
May our prayers rise together for all suffering beings and for the healing of our earth.
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Morning all. Thank you YOWZER as always for your inspiring words. It always feels like spring (in the UK) is a time of new beginnings so here’s hoping!
I’ve been busy with work and life, but am now retired!! Im off to London today to see my daughter for a combined celebration of Mothers Day, retirement, and it would also have been my mum’s 97th birthday this week. So we’re meeting at her flat for Prosecco then going to see a play and finish off with a Mexican dinner! So my reboot (of the reboot of the reboot . . .) starts Monday. I’m feeling positive and hopeful, especially with the better weather and more time to plan meals etc I’m confident of seeing some good progress soon 🤞
Well done to all who are losing. CATHY you are doing really well and it sounds like you are on target for your cruise. And I also love your “one in one out” philosophy. As I think I’ve said before, I’m really trying to cut my clothes right back – ideally to a fully fitting and functioning capsule wardrobe. How are your eyes doing now? Did you ever have the rescheduled appointment? Hope you’re progressing well.
MARIET enjoy the time with the grandchildren. As Yowzer said, I can’t believe your oldest is 4 already! Has all your dental work finished now?
SUEBLUE good luck with getting the rest of the MIL house sorted. It’s such a long slog. And when you do get back to meal planning please share on here as your food always sounds amazing and I’m looking for new inspiration!
MIXNMATCH great to see you back and I’m so pleased your mum is out of hospital and doing better. But it’s such a worrying time. Take care of yourself and I hope that everything settles down now.
POOTLE it’s a time of celebration for you too! Belated birthday greetings and I hope you have a wonderful anniversary celebration too.
How is everyone else? NOKIE, DAWN, ARCTICFOX, VERANO? And HEIDI it must be your birthday round about now? Hope you are ok and that you have something special planned for that. And hello to anyone else reading this too.
OK, must go and get ready now. Time to face the process of trying on all my ideas for what to wear then getting grumpy because nothing fits 😂
Love to you all and I’ll be back raring to go next week! X
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Hi Yowser, my oldest grandchild is actually 6! They go down like steps, 6, 4, 3, almost 2. The girls both tell me that the baby shop is shut, so 4 it is and that’s plenty for me ❤️
DCT, happy retirement! I am sure you will revel in it. Every so often u have friends telling me that they miss work but I just look blankly, I adore being retired. Enjoy ask the opportunities that come your way.
After my steady week last week i’m happy to have had a 700g drop this week, to 70kg! That’s a big psychological barrier for me, I didn’t really think I would get below it again. Next goal is 68 and possibly 65 as a final goal, we’ll see how that goes. -
Hello everyone
How are we all doing? I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks. I hosted book club a couple of Fridays ago and fell off the wagon for a week or so. I am not weighing myself until the end of the month but i can tell I’ve not made any progress. My target for April was only 3lb but I don’t think i will achieve it. I have decided to try something completely different and something I’ve not done for a long time- calorie counting and my word it’s been an eye opener! Things I’ve been eating without thinking are coming up so high in calories! A tablespoon of toasted seeds, crunchy peanut butter, four brazil nuts! I have been logging my food today and it’s been a total eye opener. Usually i eat low carb or keto and just eat what I feel is reasonable. I am going to calorie count until the end of the month as well as stay low carb and see how i do. I will weigh myself on the last say of April and report my score. I have quite enjoyed not stepping on the scales but it’s hard to know how far off target i am.
I hope you are all seeing some progress and look forward to reading your news. Two more weeks to go in April so if we knuckle down we could hopefully be a couple of pounds down. Here’s hoping. When I set my goal for April I felt it was achievable but I didn’t count on falling off the wagon for 10 days! -
CC, I have had that exact experience as well, it’s a timely reminder as I wonder to myself why I am up 200g this week. The extra handful of grapes, the little piece of a grandchild’s Easter egg and all the rest probably hasn’t helped.
I hope calorie counting for the next little while helps for you.
I am still having awful trouble with my teeth 😫 so I am on a liquid diet, apart from the aforementioned grapes and chocolate. I’ve been referred to an oro-maxillary surgeon next week and hopefully he will be able to help me.
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Hi CCATHY and MARIET and all my other shipmates! Happy Easter to all xxxxx
I have lost the plot completely and have indulged in buttery hot cross buns and have already cracked open the chocolate! Its a holiday weekend and Im allowing my Carb Monster to throw caution to the wind until Tuesday.😄😋
Look out 👀 for the Easter Bunny,ive seen him strolling round the deck with a basket of goodies! XX
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Hi Yowzer.
We all need a treat from time to time…and Easter is as good a time as any!v
I am looking forward to my special easter egg tomorrow…(Whisper…husband has treated me to a Hotel Chocolate Dark egg….🥚🍫!!!)
But I am now worried about avoiding the Easter Bunny…🐰😉Will get back to it on Tuesday!
Happy voyaging all.
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Hello everyone
Let’s dig deep for the last week in April- the time is flying by and progress at this end is slow! I ate two hot cross buns over Easter which were calorie counted in and a jam and cream scone which wasn’t! I want to finish April at a lower weight than I started so am giving it my best this week. I know I won’t have achieved a 3lb loss which I hoped for but at this rate I’ll take even 1lb! I spoke to the orthopaedic doctor yesterday and I have asked to be listed for the fusion surgery on my first big toe after my cruise in September . My toes are incredibly painful now and I’m having to limit my walking. I’m going to enjoy my nieces wedding in June and my holiday in August and then hopefully have my surgery. I am mindful that I will not be moving much for about three months so need to capitalise my weight loss now! Am at the eye clinic on Friday so hoping to be signed off to get my new glasses if the uveitis has cleared up. I’m going to defer the retina surgery to next year as I feel I’ve had enough eye ops this year!
I have a few things coming up which might scupper my losing weight schedule so I am going to work extra hard on the weeks when I’ve got nothing on. I’ll post my April result next week and am hoping to be less than 155!!
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Hi everyone. How are we all doing? Hope we all survived the Easter Bunny!
CATHY it sounds as if you have a lot going on! I hope that your eye appointment goes well tomorrow and that you can then focus (pardon the pun!) on your forthcoming happy events before getting your toe sorted out. I think it’s a good idea to defer your retina surgery to give you time to breathe! Good luck with your April weigh-in result. It may be better than you think : I often find that when we are expecting little or no loss it can be more than we think. And sadly vice versa!
No loss this end, but that’s because I still can’t (or won’t?!) knuckle down to be honest. Part of it is that with recently retiring and then the Easter holidays there’s always “something” getting in the way. By which I mean, that I will use pretty much anything as an excuse not to get fully back on board this week, or next, or the one after etc. Be it an event, a lunch out, a family visit, it becomes a convenient focus on why I should leave it till next week to get going properly again.
So earlier this week I gave myself a good talking to (as you do!) and decided for now that I will commit to 5:2. Whatever else is happening, there is no reason for me not to be able to be really strict for 2 days a week. I did one of my 2 days yesterday and did fine, and there is an immediate loss on the scales this morning (water weight I know, but they had been starting to creep up, which I was cross with myself for). And today would have been my first day. back at school so I’m off for a spa day and will allow myself a glass or two of fizz without feeling bad.
Next week I’m off for a country hotel break from Wednesday (my birthday!) to Sunday, so I will do my two days Monday and Tuesday. I’m not planning to gorge myself while away – the food at this place is lovely with lots of healthy options. I’m just in the place at the moment where I need to get back into calorie and carb counting gradually without the “all or nothing” mentality that I tend to fall into.
Once I get 5:2 working well, I will probably increase it gradually to 4:3, 3:4, then 2:5 – ie being stricter during the week but cutting myself some slack at weekends. I’m going on holiday with my daughter at the end of June so hope that by this gentler approach I’ll be able to shed a few pounds before then.
MARIET how are your teeth? I have recently been told I need root canal treatment on one tooth, which is booked in for 21st May.Not looking forward to it. I really hope that the oro-maxillary surgeons appointment helps and that you get everything sorted soon.
Hope the rest of the week goes well for you all, and have a great weekend when it arrives!
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Hello all, thanks for your posts DCT and Cathy – you’ve given me some great ideas and inspiration! I’m definitely going to try calorie counting for a while, and I really like the idea of 5:2 and then moving to 3:4 etc – as I have been behaving exactly the same as you DCT, I just can’t seem to knuckle down!
My husband suggested we have a ‘dry May’ as we’ve both been consuming too many liquid calories so far this year. May is a good time, as apart from Mothers Day there’s no family birthdays or occasions to get in the way.
We’re still keeping up with our walking, we walk for at least 40 minutes, 4 days a week, and sometimes when we’re out on the weekends or running errands we’ll walk 12-15,000 steps a day. So between walking and the upkeep and garden maintenance at MIL’s house, we do keep fairly active. I just need to get serious with my eating. I’ve lost a couple of kilos since the start of the year and have kept it off – BUT I still have a long way to go to get to my target weight! -
Hi everyone,
Apologies, have been meaning to post most days then didn’t get round to it! I’m still not sticking in the way I know I can so haven’t weighed myself again yet. We are heading to Yorkshire tomorrow for a four day break and I know I won’t be able to resist popping into Betty’s shop in York but I will definitely weight myself next Friday. I’m so pleased this is a leisurely cruise which gives us plenty of time to refocus. I will catch up properly with everyone’s posts whilst I’m away.
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Hello everyone
Enjoy your break Dawn . Enjoy a Fat Rascal in Betty’s- I love them! I’ve decided that on the days I am doing nothing I am going to be 100% good and that will give me permission to enjoy the odd luxury when on holiday or eating out etc. I’ve made a note of all my forthcoming events and if I am good in between then I still should be able to see a loss on the scales. My son is coming home next weekend and I’ve not seen him since September and we are going out and I am going to enjoy our meal. So, I’m being good til he comes home. The following weekend we are going to Lytham for a couple of nights so again, I’ll be good before and after!
Sue- I’m glad I’ve been an inspiration along with DCT. I do think being mindful of calories is helping me. I’ve ditched the peanut butter for a start! DCT’s idea of 5:2 is great. I have been so inspired by this cruise because it’s given us space to see what works and to experiment and mix n match. It keeps me inspired to keep trying different methods and because we have time I don’t feel like I’ve failed.
I went to eye clinic this morning. My uveitis has cleared up so I can have my eye test on Tuesday . I’ve got some antibiotic eye ointment for 10 days. My eye is still a little sore. Podiatry went well too. I am booked in for 4 more sessions of shock wave therapy for my plantar fasciitis and he has recommended some trainers for me to try which I’ve ordered – £159 but if they help me it’s worth it! . He said they’ll take the pressure off my toes! I am becoming a new woman!!!
Have a great weekend everyone. Weather is looking good here for the Uk next week. Let’s eat plenty of salad!! 🥗