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Molly darling, your mental state is far more important than the number on the scales. That is just a number, what is going on in your head is YOU. Take the pills. If your weight goes up a bit just remind yourself that it is the pills talking. Give yourself a bit of leeway on the weight front. The pills might put on a pound or two but it won't be stones and we will be here to hold your hand and keep you safe.
roundtuit brilliant thinking! If you are given these goodies eat them and enjoy them, relish every mouthful and think of the money you are saving by not having to take your own packed lunch. However, if you are determined to wear the hair shirt, bring the goodies home for your DS and eat your healthy stuff. It's a bummer being sensible isn't it?
And yes, you are an idiot, (I'm guessing that you called yourself something ruder,) even if you have nothing to say it's nice to know that you are still around.
That's as much as I can remember of everyone's news, and if I go back to refresh my memory I will lose this. Thanks for the tip snowbird, I will bear it in mind, but I also have to remember that my tablet has an evil disposition and delights in not doing what it should be doing, sniggering behind its hand as I sob.
WI today but have to report a STS. Actually I have lost a few ounces, but in all conscience I can't call it a pound. No matter, if I can do the same this next week it will be another pound next week.
I believe that friends are quiet angels
Who lift us to our feet when our wings
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Hi reporting one pound lost, hope I never find it again, so can now hopefully start dropping to a lower range :-) I think this was discussed in the past week, and my weight always have varied up to 3 kg across a year, and so it slowly snook up.
So I'm 12st and 9lb but in metric terms the first magic number is getting under 80 kg in the next few weeks. My end goal is then somewhere around 11 st but thats the long term goal.
I am mainly working on my evening meal portion sizes as I think this is the biggest and easiest pit to climb out of as well as the obvious ones like bread and alcohol. Confession I love carbs!
Loving this thread stay sane and at the moment I think sts is no. 1 for everybody, at least fro me I am moving a loss than normally except for exercise.LBM Jan 2019 - £25.928/Active debt £14253, 54% sorted
Housing fund Jan 2024 £2000/6000 36%
EF Jan 2024 £0/1000 0% Emergency fund is for worn out things like vacuum cleaner, dish washer, and washing machine.7 -
monna - I've just remembered the nuts and cheese snack, and the sticky toffee puddings that I was given too - although DS did have one of the puddings. I knew there was more than I'd already listed. I didn't know I'd used a bad word - I thought it was a sort of donkey. I'm sure they are in the Bible!!!! I should have known - I live near a steel town called Sc!!thorpe (try getting that through the censors )
Breakfast - variety pack box of Rice Krispies with skimmed milk - seems a long time ago. Fish finger sandwich for lunch methinks
Rxx
IT ONLY TAKES SMALL DAILY ACTIONSFOR MAGIC TO HAPPENRosemary Ikpeme9 -
Thank you Cranky and Monnagran I will WI tomorrow and start the tablets - I wasn't thinking straight xI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. When it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
When the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.9 -
Afternoon All
Molly, Cranky and Monnagran are right, as usual, the meds are much more important, the weight loss will come once you are feeling more yourself xx
Well today has not gone to plan at all, came downstairs to dd making chocolate pancakes, I had a couple as I didn't want to hurt her feelings. Lunch was a sandwich with a bit of smoked cheese followed by a handful of jelly babies 😗
I currently have the afore mentioned chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven, once they are done I shall take myself upstairs to sort through some draws and my yarn stash, I feel the cookies and I will benefit from some distance.
tonights dinner will be spag and meatballs with lots of added veg.'You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose' - Dr Suess
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roundtuit we do real life here. It's not like paid for club which always has someone who swears they've eaten 5 takeaways, had 2 bottles of vodka, 10 pints of beer, all the kids easter eggs and has still lost 3 lbs this week Maybe that's just the ones that I've been to although my sister in Cork complained of similar as well.
Most of here struggle a lot of the time. I am 5 ft 1" tall and have had hormone problems with a side dose of polycystic ovaries most of my adult life. Eating properly should be enough to lose weight but most weeks I lose a half pound or a pound at the very most. I did the couch to 5 k and discovered that running (or what passes for running in my life) at least guaranteed a pound a week loss. Then I hurt my knee.....I never want to be 18 stone ever again though. That was in my thirties when I was having treatment for infertility. I never want to be 15 stone again either - that was before C25K. So....I keep plugging away at it. I've also had to accept along the way that while some people can eat and drink what they like and still be skinny I will never be one of those people.
Molly well done, WI tomorrow, reset the counter, take the tablets and you don't have to set a target at all you know. I went through one whole challenge with my target being to lose anything, no matter if it was only a couple of pounds.
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Good evening everyone
Lots of wise words in most of the recent posts. We are all doing our best, and none of us is either all nor all but somewhere in between, which is human, with all the fallibilities and inconsistencies which are part of humanity. We are just trying to be the best humans we can be in trying times.
Congratulations to all the STSers. 👍👍👍
Best wishes to everyone who’s struggling. Stay brave, stay strong, watch that star (it’s still there, even behind a cloud ⛅️ )
Food today was:
B : bacon & eggs, plus the last 2 slices of aubergine
L : pilchards with salad (rocket, tomatoes, cucumber); apple
AT : 2 chocolate bix (that’s what you have to do when you eat two scones yesterday!)
D : pea & asparagus risotto (from bag in freezer + some extra peas); skyr with cinnamon
S : 2 chocolate bix“Tomorrow is another day for decluttering.”Decluttering 2023 🏅🏅🏅🏅⭐️⭐️10 -
Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2020 - 2nd Quarter
01/04/20 - 30/06/20
Imperial (lbs) please let me know if you want me to add a kg list as well
Black_Saturn 3/14 /
Blue Doggy 1/14. STS. / / / STS
Brambling. 3/10 STS / / /
Cranky 1.5/7. STS / /STS / STS
ditty1234 -3/5. / / /
Dumpling 0/14 /
Frith -/21
Honeythewitch - /5
Izadora +1.5/14. / / STS /
Jules81 6/20. /
Molly41 4.5/14 / /
Mistergazpacho -/7
monnagran 3/6. / /
Roundtuit -3/3 STS / / / STS / STS
SIRENS 2/14 STS / /
Short_bird +0.5/6
Snowbird20 12/30 /
Supersaver1000 2/10 /
tigheningthebelt 4/10. / /STS / /
Zafiro1984 5/20. /
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin10 -
It's wonderful to see how much support there is on here just to remind you that there are no rules to say we have to log our weight or targets or weekly losses or how often we post 🙂 the only rule is being kind and not judgemental to others and especially to ourselves, we are so good at the first and not always so good at the second .
Going cold turkey on 'treats' worked for a week, my reward for losing weight was to eat 🙄 talking to one of my sisters last night I said I'll be happy if at the end of this I break even any weight loss would be a added bonus which helped to put things into some perspective for me, maybe I needed to give myself permission. I've a fridge full of healthy food so as long as I use that to counter balance the not so healthy it should be ok. I been eating too much bread hence the achy joints and will probably mean a gain next week because wheat and I aren't best buddies, but it's done now and can't be undone (we won't mention the small loaf currently in the kitchen 😐)
Snowbird I'm not sure my tablet has a ctlr button for me to ctlr Z 🙂 it does have a user with fat achy fingers 🙄Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin10 -
Brambling said: talking to one of my sisters last night I said I'll be happy if at the end of this I break even any weight loss would be a added bonus which helped to put things into some perspective for me, maybe I needed to give myself permission.
Roundtuit Target 1 = lose the 3 lbs I gained in April
Roundtuit Target 2 = then lose another 3lbs to make me a stone lighter than I was on 1st March.
No 'by such and such a date' on either target. Let's just concentrate on me getting me through this 'historical event' (I never did like history) in what passes for sane at this house.
monna - hair-shirt is now under lock and key along with your hob nailed boot
Have a good day
Rxx
IT ONLY TAKES SMALL DAILY ACTIONSFOR MAGIC TO HAPPENRosemary Ikpeme9
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