Was on my way out with previous entry – but also wanted to send you best wishes Yowzer, I hope you start to feel better soon x
And also Cathy – good luck with your birthday goal, you’ve truly been an inspiration this year. I need to channel some of your persistence and hard work!
Am off to a good start today though. In addition to walking I’ve also completed a 30 minute dance/exercise routine on YouTube (it was great fun as was set to 80s music!). I then added a 10 minute hand weight routine. Now it’s off to the kitchen as I need to clean my fridge. Am going to make some veggie soup in the slow cooker at the same time. Hope everyone else’s week is off to a good start 🙂
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Hi,
I hope everyone is well, I will catch up on posts today. We had a lovely week in the Scottish highlands and I maintained my weight but after our daughters 21st birthday celebrations over the weekend the scales showed a 2lb gain when I weighed myself this morning. I’m back on the paid plan today and will see how I get on over the coming month. Dawn X -
Hi DCT,
Thank you for your message last week. I still follow the thread though my head has been all over the place for the last 5 months. Grieving for my husband and my father, and helping to settle my mother into a residential home in the UK has been —– no words really.I wanted, too, to send my best wishes and sympathy to MixnMatch. You are a familiar name from the past, when I went under another username. I am so impressed by your charity work for pancreatic cancer in memory of your husband and wish you well. Such a positive way to steer your grief. And 7lbs is a great start.
I wish I could report such focus and drive, but it is taking time. Eating has been chaotic rather than comfort-driven. And I shall be working on bringing more planning and good healthy nutrition back into the picture.
Congrats to all who are doing so well – particularly Clarinet Cathy. Go girls. xx
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HEIDI so lovely to hear from you, though I can’t begin to imagine all you have been going through. What an awful time for you. Sending you love and hugs, and I hope that knowing we are here is somehow a small help X
MIXnMATCH very well done on your initial loss. That’s great! And for all the walking too. I’m glad you have a good support network around you, and it’s so good to have you back on here again 😊
DAWN well done for maintaining on holiday and here’s hoping you lose the 2lb birthday gain. It sounds like you all had a lovely time. And SUE, keep me posted on how you get on now you are, like me, going it alone. Be interesting to compare notes. I’m tantalisingly close my end of week goal of 150 so here’s hoping 🤞. . . although I am at a champagne tasting event this afternoon so have given myself the rest of the day off plan 😉. Will have to work hard tomorrow to make up for it!
Hello to everyone else reading this too : do let us know how you’re doing X
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Hi everyone just a quick check in to say I am finally below 150lb. Only just! 149.8 to be precise. But for me it’s a significant psychological milestone. I only climbed into the 150s last year but since then have seen my weight continue to increase which made me fear it was inevitable I’d regain all the weight I’d originally lost (I started at 175 back in 2017). So I’m relieved to be making slow but steady progress in the right direction and I hope to report a further loss this time next week 🤞
Hope that you all have a positive weekend, whatever that means for you right now. X
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Hi everyone
Just jumping on quickly to say well done DCT for your significant milestone achievement today. What a fantastic achievement. It’s great to be back in the 140s! You’ve got this! I am 140 lb today and I think it’s going to be impossible to get to 138 before Monday. I did dip to 139 but I can’t seem to keep there and eat! I am not overthinking it. I am very happy with where I am and to be fair I have kept moving my goal so i if I can maintain under 145 I am happy with this.
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Congratulations DCT! It would be lovely to be under 150lb 🙂
I’m focusing on getting back under 200lb, which is still about another 12-13lb away. I did shed another 1.3kg this week, making a total of 7.3kg since the start of the year (or 1st 2lb).
I think the loss this week (and last week) has been helped along by the fact that I’ve had far less wine than usual! As well as changing my meals around. I was having 3 meals a day on the plan, where often breakfast was only 150-200 calories. I’d often be hungry mid morning as I’m usually up at 5.30am and walk from 6.45am till about 8am, with breakfast around 8.30 to 9.
Anyway the last few weeks I’ve been eating a bigger breakfast (400-500 calories sometimes), this keeps me full until early afternoon when I’ll have a light meal or snack (rice cakes with cottage cheese / veggie soup / yoghurt and berries / salad), then dinner at around 5 or 6. Fingers crossed this approach will continue to work for me 🤞
With drinking wine – as both myself and my husband are both retired now we’d got into the habit of having a few drinks in the evening (say 3 times a week), as well as a few on Saturday night. Well my husband has had gout for the last week and hasn’t been drinking at all, so I haven’t. I had also cut down last week as well, having sparkling flavoured water instead, so I think that has definitely helped. I haven’t even really missed the wine tbh!
I have my eldest daughter coming this weekend, it was her birthday last week but she was away so we’re having a belated celebration. I’m just going to be sensible – and having a few drinks once a week is certainly a lot less than what I had been doing! Hope everyone has a good weekend!