Lose weight 27

margaretclare

Hello, can I join this thread?

Weighed this morning - 77.8 kg. That means 2 kg lost since the beginning of May and I'm now below 78 kg, which I've been longing to get to. It has seemed so sloooooow but maybe I haven't been doing it properly. I decided yesterday to take it by the scruff of the neck and get serious about this whole weight-loss thing - after all, I want to lose 1/3rd of my body weight and get down to where I should be for my height, approx 8 1/2 stone. I had my 74th birthday on Monday and it's now or never.

Someone mentioned exercising at home - yes, it's possible. I have a pair of Reebok dumbells and also stretch tubing, with which you can do all kinds of exercises. I also go to a fitness class weekly at a sheltered housing complex. Mainly 80+ people and the fitness instructor puts us through a very vigorous workout sitting on chairs!!

Dinah93

You all seem to have really accurate scales! Mine are analogue ones from Ikea at a cost of £3 and the dial is so small I have to get my OH on his hands and knees to read it as I can't even see it when I'm stood up.

Brighton_belle

Dinah93 wrote: »

You all seem to have really accurate scales! Mine are analogue ones from Ikea at a cost of £3 and the dial is so small I have to get my OH on his hands and knees to read it as I can't even see it when I'm stood up.

It's becasue we sooo need encouragement tht every .25lb really really counts (but only when going down:D)


Some great losses peeps - a 4lb holiday gain isn't too bad granny: hopefully all thatwalking with have muscle built which means you'll burn this off quicker now.

Victory - great to hear you have privacy now in the garden.
Still maintaining well FFM:T
Really sorry not keeping up with you lovely newbies enough - my brain seems to have reached capacity to cope at the mo! Trying to enforce myself to have a whole day off the computer: well til 7pm at least... twitching already:rotfl:
A not very good 2lbs on for me please fred. Def TOTM and 3 really bad nights sleep are behind this(more tired = eat more), but I must get them off as it means I am 2 lbs over my absolute acceptable upper limit.

Great to see you back Tagz :T- well done on the piltaes: I did a class this summer and it is suprisely hard work isn't it but very satisfying.

Bananasplit

Dinah93 wrote: »

You all seem to have really accurate scales! Mine are analogue ones from Ikea at a cost of £3 and the dial is so small I have to get my OH on his hands and knees to read it as I can't even see it when I'm stood up.

We have some of those fancy body fat ones. It can change between lbs, kgs and st&lbs. It always does the body fat too. Which can sometimes be a bummer when you really don't want to see that :rotfl:
They were expensive though :rolleyes:

Dinah93

Might have to look about for a reduced pair of fancy ones, body fat would scare me though! My OH is on loose weight mission too, we both wanted to loose a stone by the end of September. Really annoyingly he's 1lb ahead of me and still has biscuits for lunch, ice cream after tea, and loads of full fat coke!

sarymclary

Welcome MargaretClare, and you have joined just by posting!

The weekly chart goes up every Wednesday evening (today), and we post our losses/STS (stay the same)/gains in bright bold colours, so that it's easy for the chart compiler to notice - Fredsnail is doing it this week, but Grannynise is going to continue again from next week, having returned from her holiday.

It sounds like you've got a good amount of activity already included in your weeks, and with a steady loss since May, I don't think there is any reason why you can't reach a target weight you feel happy at. The people contributing here offer a tremendous amount of support, and advice along the way, so I'd recommend contributing as often as you can to keep that feeling of not doing this alone. By supporting others, and encouraging them to do well, you feel encouraged to do so yourself I find.

Victory - I imagine your backgarden must feel like a lovely haven once again now. We have a rather noisy new neighbour, who lives a couple of doors down, and my BF and I were saying only last night that we may put up some fencing to screen them off a bit more in the future. Isn't it a pity that certain people simply do not respect another's need for peace, or solitude, even in their own living space? In our case it's a rather rough single mum, who clearly has found herself a group of other rough single mums, and their offspring (why is it they breed so effectively, but can't seem to do anything else, and parenting skills are sorely lacking?). My BF calls them muppets, and says that complaining to them is pointless, as they cannot even comprehend what they do, and how they behave is inappropriate, or affecting others' negatively. I probably sound like a right snob, but I'm not, I'm just an ordinary mum, and don't like seeing children being screamed at to 'shut the f_@k up' - surely that's inappropriate to any child, but to one who's only about 5 or 6!:eek: I've had my own share of challenging children, but I've never resorted to screaming and swearing at them.

Oops, sorry rather OT.... anyway, I've been a big brave girl and weighed in this morning, and was rather pleased to see a loss of 2.5lb, which means I've lost more than I gained last week on my hols - yay!:T

Dinah - I got some rather fancy digital ones from John Lewis when they were on offer, but even then I think I paid about £40 for them!:eek: The digital ones seem to be for sale almost everywhere now. Argos do a digital scale starting at £9.99, and a digital body analyser one for £14.99 (which does body fat, BMI, water %, etc). I'm sure somewhere like Argos, Tesco or Instore would do something similar too.

BB - at least you recognise your maximum upper limit. I have one of those too, and I reached it last Christmas, and realised I was back where I had been 2 years previously. It's like the line of death, I simply cannot cross it, and so from there I drew my determination to lose. What I need to do now is to realign my maximum upper limit, and in some ways I have, as I've not gone further than 5lb over my loss so far this year. In fact, just typing this has helped me decide that! Thanks! I'm the same as you with tiredness making me want to eat more. Having had a bad night's sleep on Monday, made me want to eat more, and I was really battling the urges yesterday.

BF is feeling much better today, so I'm going to make a lovely beef hotpot for tea (stewing steak on offer in Sainsburys on their fresh cuts counter at £4 p/kilo). Off to do that now, so that it can slow cook all day.

Missy™

Granny - there ya go Nearly halved already!

Bananasplit, you're so lucky to have such a small gain at TOTM time! Mine is anywhere from 2.5lb to 4lb and always starts 7 days beforehand I'm dreading Friday's weigh in, it's the first TOTM-affected one since I switched from weekly to monthly weighing I suppose all the next few will be, until it gets out of sync again. Or perhaps I should cheat and change my weigh in date :rotfl:

Welcome Margaretclare, congratulations on your weight loss so far and good luck with getting to your target! Belated birthday wishes too!

FFM you've been quiet lately - hope everything is OK?

margaretclare

Last Wednesday I weighed 78 kg, today it's 77.8 kg. That's a loss of 0.2 kg. Or, half a pound if you prefer it that way.

How do I make it bigger?

The main thing, for me, is that it's on a downward path at last and I am absolutely determined this time that I shall make it work.

This site is very helpful: https://www.weightlossresources. co.uk

victory

granny :j:j:j:jwell chuffed for you:D

sary:j:j:j:j:j my neighbours, the mum shouts and screams more than the kids do and the other day when they would not do as they were told she told them to get up the f......g stairs you pair of wan..... lovely:rolleyes: 4 1/2 and 2 they are:rolleyes:
You don't sound like a snob at all, you and I did not bring up our kids that way or in their case drag them up, I mean who lets their kids camp in the garden (fair enough why not?) but then at 6.05 am let them get up, scream and shout in the garden waking every neighbour up on a sunday morning? or actually let one of the kids bellow, I mean from the bottom of the lungs for no apparent reason for 20 minutes without saying a word? who lets a 9 year old drink beer for me to hear her boasting about it to her friend in her garden? I could go on...:rolleyes:

dinah mine were 70% off at debenhams, all singing all dancing they tell you the body fat/water/BMI weight everything you need to know, my sis got some too, they are just perfect rather than having to go to boots scales once a week and pay 50p for what the ones upstairs can do, salter they are.:D

TOTM so when I weighed on sunday I was 3lb over and today for the chart I have lost 2lb and still 1lb over so declaring for the chart 1lb gain for me this week:D well chuffed with that:D

When I saw the gain I got out my food diary, the measurements, the weight loss, it is all there, turns out my waist is 1 inch less than last time, legs same, hips same, boobs same, food same, just 1lb gain so that made me feel all better plus I put my black trousers on and walk around in them to get me back to being determined, they were a size 18/20 so they look like clowns trousers now the kids think it is hilarious:rotfl::rotfl:plus for added boost I had a wallis black and white dress that I absolutely loved, too big ,sold it on ebay, then got another size off ebay, then too big and now finally third same dress off ebay and it fits, love it, makes me smile just putting it on:D

I was really lucky to get some fab clothes at the boot fair on sunday, some next shorts 50p each, lovely, tommy hilfiger shorts £3 fab and the best of all a beautiful coral colour blouse from monsoon for £3, it is just the loveliest piece of clothing you ever did see, have nothing to go with it but put it on last night around the house so fab:D

mc welcome:D

victory

margaretclare wrote: »

Last Wednesday I weighed 78 kg, today it's 77.8 kg. That's a loss of 0.2 kg. Or, half a pound if you prefer it that way.

How do I make it bigger?

The main thing, for me, is that it's on a downward path at last and I am absolutely determined this time that I shall make it work.

This site is very helpful: www.weightlossresources. co.uk

look at the top of the message box and it says sizes and A for font colours, pull the drop down and it goes from number 1 down to 7 put it about 4 and it should be big enough:D