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Shed half a stone in March challenge!

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  • Leothecat
    Leothecat Posts: 1,492 Forumite
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    leo the cat - im from Bangor :D Just off Robinson Road area. Although in Liverpool at the mo. I love home :)

    Hi LilMissEmmylou! Gosh it's a small world. I'm a town centre girl - Princetown Rd (the poor end ;) ) and am currently living behind the Abbey.
    2 of my best friends here are Liverpool girls, married to Bangor men.
    Anyway, been off sick yesterday and today - feeling crap so no excercise :o.
    Weighed in this morning and have 1 & 3/4 lbs off so yay but dont know if this is just cos I havn't actually eaten anything. I suppose the next few days will tell.
    I hope it's going well for everyone. Keep going losers! :p
  • tara747
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    I'm 61.4kg today, a whole kg heavier than on Monday! :( But I am not going to dwell, will just keep up the good work and see how I get on.

    I am such a greedy pig this morning, I have eaten 2 slices of wholemeal bread with jam, 4 cream crackers, a large handful of grapes and 2 oatcakes already!!! :eek: On the plus side, I walked to work via a longer route which added up to over 5,200 steps. The sky is blue here, I am tempted to go walking at lunchtime instead of gymming if it stays like that! And I'm going for an hour's walk this evening to return a DVD.

    Good luck today peeps!
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  • LilMissEmmylou
    LilMissEmmylou Posts: 1,721 Forumite
    its such a lovely sunny day today here :) I do have to get a lift into uni though which is a shame because I would really enjoy the walk in this weather :( But I shall walk home when I have ditched all the heavy books :D Might even take DD on a walk to the park at dinner time depending on how dark it is and if the weather stays nice :)

    Fluffy im envious I would love to love veg/salad and fruit lol - enjoy ur bike session and 40 cals drink isnt bad at all! I try to go for a 100cal cereal bar or a 40 cal ice lolly if im crumbling (can see the ice lollys getting really popular for me in the summer lol)

    plzhelpme - ive just realised your 7lb aim this month does for u what my 5lb aim does for me haha who would have thought we would be happy to be "overweight" LOL. But I see it as a huge milestone. Not just weight wise but healthwise - woohoo we r getting there :D

    taffy - doh re the mini chocolate bars BUT is it better than the choice you would have made before? less than before perhaps :) If so I still think you did well to cut down and well today is a new day so make it a good one :D

    Leothe cat - i have come accross loads of Bangor people on here lol. Once in tech help the only people who answered me where 2 blokes both from Bangor! And I met another girl at a carbootsale from on here that was interested in cloth nappies lol. Great stuff. Bangor is the centre of the world afterall - all the best people come from it... Snow Patrol, Zoe Salmon.... us :D

    tara i do hate to say this - but do u think that perhaps ur desire for weight loss is a bit futile? I think the reason you yoyo around the same weight is because its your bodies natural healthy weight to be. If I was you I would concentrait on just staying healthy as 9st 7 is not fat or overweight by any streatch of the imagination. I don't mean that in a nasty way, just you always seem down when you have gone up a lb or 2 but a day or 2 later ur back down again to what u where (which is perfectly normal to yoyo around a weight when ur maintaining) and I don't think you need to be so hard on yourself.
  • tara747
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    EmmyLou, I get what you're saying but I am not just maintaining, I have gained 1.5 stone in the last year and a half or so. And (crucially) a lot of it has gone on my middle, which is very bad for your cardiovascular system. I've never had a belly before!! :eek:

    I know I am within the normal BMI range, but losing a stone would still keep me within it, just towards the middle/lower end rather than the upper end. I was around 8 stone for a long time and I know that my body is quite happy to be that weight. If I'd always been the weight I am now I'd probably doubt that I could get there, but I know I can. Also, my weight gain was due to two major factors: eating larger portions and too little exercise.

    I used to be fit and eat sensibly! And I let that go for a while (novelty of coupledom and domesticity with OH etc :o ) and now I'm just trying to get back to the way I was before - not a diet, but a lifestyle.

    Again, I know it will be harder for me to shift the weight as I am fairly close to my 'ideal' weight, but I look and feel very flabby and I know that I need to lose weight to look and feel better. I assume (hope) that by adjusting back to my previous active lifestyle it will happen naturally.

    My target to lose half a stone by the time I go on hols is just my way of giving myself some extra motivation. The first couple of weeks of going back to the gym were super hard, my body just did not want to co-operate! The only thing that dragged me there was thinking about wearing a bikini on hols. :rotfl:

    Now that I've been back at the gym for 2 months, I'm motivated by other things as well - the endorphins, the feeling of wellbeing and the extra energy. :D I can start an exercise regime with weight loss in mind but the other benefits are what keep me coming back.

    Sorry for the super long post!!! :o And thank you for your concern xo
    Get to 119lbs! 1/2/09: 135.6lbs 1/5/11: 145.8lbs 30/3/13 150lbs 22/2/14 137lbs 2/6/14 128lbs 29/8/14 124lbs 2/6/17 126lbs
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  • nickynoo08
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    Hiya everyone,
    welcome to all the newbies, you've come to the right place:D
    Well done on your loss so far icequeen, it definately helps to have goals to work towards.
    Came across a site called netdoctor.com last night, they have a weight loss plan on there (4weeks i think) and it looks really easy to follow so think i may give it a go. I'd put a link on but dont know how to do them:o
    My legs are killing me today, i did another 20min jog and 15mins of yoga last night. Thanks for the tea ideas tara, i eventually decided to make a big batch of pasta salad so i can have the rest for my lunch tomoro.

    Today.....
    B- porridge
    L- either left over casserole and roll or soup and roll and yog
    T - pasta salad, banana
    Snacks - small bag of crisps, babybel
    Ex- 12000+steps and 30mins on wii (if i have time before work)
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  • littleemmie
    littleemmie Posts: 256 Forumite
    Dragon - I didn't realise you had a shattered ankle, poor you!!
    Plshelpmesave - well done on resisting temptation! I'm so glad I've stopped buying rubbish because if it was in the house, even hidden, I'd go hunting for it!
    Tara - don't worry about it! I'm sure all the walking and stairs you are doing will burn it off in no time anyway!

    I've been really bad today and just had a tube of smarties :eek: In my defence, I had to go up the shop to buy lunch as my kitchen is still taken over and I needed something to make up my spend to £3 so I could pay by card. Hmmm, rubbish excuse I know. My sandwich was a healthy one though and I will have cycled 8 miles in all today so hopefully I'll burn off the smarties!

    I'm thinking of getting an exercise DVD so I can do some workouts along with aerobic exercise stuff on the wii fit. Can anyone recommend any? (Do they actually work!?)
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  • Horace
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    I hate to say it but I skipped breakfast - I can't get into the habit of having it:rolleyes: Lunch was a sandwich (wholemeal bread) wafer thin ham and some beetroot. Did eat a small chocolate thing (its a marzipan thing from Lidl so I ate half and half is left for later or even tomorrow.

    Had to go to the post office earlier and its about half a mile from my home so I walked there and back.:j
  • tara747
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    Horace, are you at home during the day? I find it hard to have breakfast first thing but always have it within half an hour of arriving at work. At weekends and on hols though, I could happily skip it so that may be why! It doesn't have to be huge, even a few nuts would do. HTH.

    nickynoo, thanks for the info on that website, must check it out!

    littleemmie, the cycling will defo burn off those Smarties, well done you! Everyone here raves about Davina McCall's DVDs, I don't own any so can't recommend one but you might want to check out the exercise vids on the video library on this site, they are great and progress with you:

    www.rte.ie/ot

    I had a huge salad for lunch. And I went for a 45-minute brisk walk instead of the gym (weather just too gorgeous and my legs are feeling the effects of the extra run yesterday!). I'm over 10,000 steps for the day already and should double that later. I don't use my pedometer every day at the mo, as I am at the gym rather than walking 3 lunchtimes a week. But I thought it would be handy to use it today. :D
    Get to 119lbs! 1/2/09: 135.6lbs 1/5/11: 145.8lbs 30/3/13 150lbs 22/2/14 137lbs 2/6/14 128lbs 29/8/14 124lbs 2/6/17 126lbs
    Save £180,000 by 31 Dec 2020! 2011: £54,342 * 2012: £62,200 * 2013: £74,127 * 2014: £84,839 * 2015: £95,207 * 2016: £109,122 * 2017: £121,733 * 2018: £136,565 * 2019: £161,957 * 2020: £197,685
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  • hethmar
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    Oh I wish I could do this. 3 years ago I was a size 10, Im now squeezing into a 16. Got sciatica and couldnt go to gym or dance classes any more and I packed up fags. Im now about 3 stone more than I was and just cant seem to get the mind set to lose weight.

    Its hard when you get older and your joints are dodgey - I did ok yesterday, mueli for breakfast, just one yoghurt for lunch, a peppered mackrel and salad for dinner plus a weight watchers pudding. BUT today is my birthday and one of the boys girlfriends gave me a big box of Thorntons :(
  • iluvjohnsarg
    iluvjohnsarg Posts: 167 Forumite
    Sorry I'm a bit late, but can I still join?

    Current weight 10st 10lbs
    Height: short-ar*e lol

    I need all the incentives, forums and appetite distractions I can get!
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