Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 2

Blue_Doggy

Good evening everyone 
 
supersaver, Cranky, Izadora thank you all a better day, nothing much done, but no grumps or dumps. I hope you avoided the dumps, too. 
 
supersaver Very well done on your loss 👏 and moving into the new zone👍
 
monnagran  rather unsafe footwear though, those herring boxes. Take care how you go, don’t fall into the water. You’re right about the miserable weather, brrrrr.
 

Cranky alcohol is very deceptive, and a false friend, which always lets one down in the end. Well done on getting back to exercise and how good that it makes you feel so much better.
 

Izadora I hope getting back to C25K will work the same magic for you.
 
When I started losing weight in 2017 (lost 2 stone between February and June🥳) I weighed myself everyday, and wrote it all down, every up and every down and every plateau. It turned out, much as monnagran said, that the weight oscillated about a point, and as long as I could drive that point down over time, the odd upswing wasn’t significant. In conjunction with a food diary, then as Cranky observed, you can see what foods or treats you can consume safely and which are to be avoided. (As well as the ones you can go back to when you want to stabilise your weight.)
 
Well, a better day’s menu:
B : porridge and 2 choccie biccies (Senior Doggy wakes up very early, and sometimes I can’t get back to sleep)
L : hm celery soup, oatcakes with Marmite; apple
AT : 2 scones with crab apple jelly (1 teaspoonful)
D : baked cod with using-up of cheese, a solitary cherry tomato, the remains of the fennel and some petits pois 
S : 2 more choccie bix (not quite back on the waggon, but running alongside it holding on for dear life) 

Brambling

I'll catch up tomorrow guys, the tablet stole my post absolutely nothing to do with me hitting the wrong button  and it's time for bed 😴

sillyvixen

snowbird20 said:

my mother-in-law turned 103 two weeks ago and she started mentioning her birthday a Month ago.  Lol.  Sadly, with quarantine, no family could visit but her carers are very kind to her and had a nice little celebration.  

Wow! Hubby's granny is 101, and lives in a nursing home 3 1/2 -4 hours away - i have sent a card to her yesterday reminding her that we are thinking of her even though we can't visit. She has family close by who can't visit but speak by phone - but she does like a card or letter, she loves wildlife so I chose a card with a field mouse on the front. After it has been read to her she will treasure the picture on the card, she will ask staff to re read it to her but the picture will bring her pleasure when she is alone.

snowbird20

Brambling said:

I'll catch up tomorrow guys, the tablet stole my post absolutely nothing to do with me hitting the wrong button  and it's time for bed 😴

if you hit 'ctrl' and the 'z' key at the same time, you can re-caputure what was accidentally erased.   My son was so computer smart...just one of the many things we miss.

Molly41

Thank you for all your kind comments - you are right I am currently scared stiff of the scales mind you Im frightened of a lot of thing atm  - Im having a very bad time of it but will try and think positively  - you are such a kind bunch of friends x

supersaver1000

Thank you Sirens, Cranky40, Izadora, Blue Doggy and Monnagran.  I will definitely bear in mind what I’ve eaten before weigh-in.  And you're so right - being 2lbs below feels much better with that bit of wiggle room from the 13st point – I am going to work along those lines in future.  I now need to get the long target in sight and try not look backwards (no rolling eyes here, grateful for every bit of encouragement 

 

Molly41 – Your op must have knocked you a bit, and I imagine it takes time to recover.  And I have never liked other people weighing me, in fact I even gave up myself for a long time.  It was only when I started exercising and realised that after a while I had lost a pound or two I took it up again.  I've had more bad days than good days over the past few years, but I'm going to keep on keeping on with everyone's help

roundtuit

Morning xx
Molly - Hugs xx We are living through frightening times for any sane person. I find the world a frightening place at the best of times so now it's terrifying. I've said to colleagues 'now you know how I feel most of the time' - and I've shared my 'ommmms' and 'fok ummmms' (coping strategies  ) with them. Some are too posh to 'fok ummmm' but it makes them laugh. 

Another lesson learned - I haven't been posting as I assumed you'd all be trotting along on your   wagons whilst I was limping along with my  . I've just caught up with the wagon train and realise I could have (a) offered support to others and (b) received support. I'm an !!!!!!. 

People keep giving me food and I keep eating it! At work this week I was given a packed lunch each day - sandwich, crisps, apple, water - which I can now factor in to my eating for the day and is ok now that I don't also eat my own pack up too; I was also given a Tw!rl, a crème egg, a large brownie with peanut butter on top, and a box of tissues. I must have had something else too as I remember the crème egg sitting on my desk screaming 'eat me' until I caved in and then felt sick as I'd overdosed on sweet stuff - I remember: a slice of home made chocolate cake with a melted chocolate covering and a cherry on top. Does the cherry count as one of my 5 a day?  I didn't eat the tissues by the way  

Anyway next week I'm going to take sandwich bags to work with me so that I can bring the treats home for DS as I seem incapable of saying 'no' to gifts. 

And I have curtailed what I eat at home in the evenings as I'm sick of food by then - can't believe I just wrote that but it's true. Not the healthiest way to go about things but I've WI and managed to STS. 

New month. New start. 
and hugs to everyone.
Rxx

Molly41

Thank you for your very kind comments x
Im now on the horns of a dilemma as my GP has prescribed medication for my Mental health which cause weight gain as I have a morbid fear of gaining weight Im reluctant to take them. I know I must thought I would start on Thursday when I WI as then I can track the weight gain better x

CRANKY40

Good morning all, 

sorry, I realised this morning that I should have weighed in yesterday. There was a man building a fence in the garden so I was a bit side tracked. I've stayed the same anyway. I don't think the new exercise regime has had time to help in any way yet. I dropped some stuff off to my aunty this morning - half a banana loaf  (the rest has been divided into calorie counted portions for me, 108 cals per slice so not as bad as I'd thought), some home made ginger biscuits and a few other bits. My aunty has COPD so is isolating. We acquired my uncle and some dogs and did a few socially distanced laps round the park over the road from their house so that's todays exercise done. 

Molly you're being way too hard on yourself. Your body is amazing to have survived illness, treatment and a major op. I hope I'm not being rude but you always seem to me that you feel that you're letting yourself down. Most people having to cope with what you've been through would have either given up or be rocking quietly in a corner by now. Give yourself the credit that you're due and that everyone else can clearly see that you deserve.  If I were you I'd weigh today, start your medication today, wipe your records clean so that you don't have to declare a gain and set a new (probably lower)  target for this challenge. This is our "weight loss club" remember, we don't have to follow the complicated rules of the paid ones. That way you can stop dreading getting on the scales and focus on positive stuff instead. You're doing a great job and I wish that you could see yourself as others do. 

The same goes for the rest of you. You're still out there trying your best. What you achieve may not always fit with what you wanted but dwelling on what went wrong could stop you moving forward and making progress. A lot of us have valid reasons for using food as a coping strategy and times are strange indeed just now. Keep looking for other coping strategies but be kind to yourselves as well. 

Take care all of you  

roundtuit

What a lovely post Cranky xx