Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2021 - 2nd Quarter

lantanna

Happy belated birthday dumpling, line drawn and back on track here. So bored being overweight!

monnagran

Just caught up.  Happy Birthday dumpling.  I'm glad that you have had a lovely day, you so deserve it.

Wow Brambling!  Have you had an awakening?  Isn't it funny how you can suddenly have a moment when your thinking changes and you can start again.  I swear that dieting is all in your brain.  If your head is in the right place you can do it.  If it isn't you are never going to win so you might as well give up the unequal struggle and settle for damage limitation.

Sometimes damage limitation is as good as it gets.

Brambling

Totally agree Monna if my head isn't in the right place it's usually the same few lbs recycled round and round.  Not sure if I'll stay on track this is a battle I've been fighting all my life but there is the incentive that I can't wear lounging pants with baggy T shirts to the office 😬

ditty1234

Hi @Brambling for tracking as always and about planning. I am back to report half a lb lost, I am almost back where I was at some point, and hoping for a downwards sloping trajectory. 
Have a great week everybody. 

LittleVoice

record since last weekly weigh-in
Thursday    1518 cals     7 veg/fruit 
Friday         1503 cals     7 fruit/veg
Saturday     1780 cals     6 veg/fruit    (quarter Easter egg = 50g dark chocolate)
Sunday       1831 cals     6 veg/fruit    (quarter Easter egg = 50g dark chocolate)
Monday       1815 cals    6 fruit/veg    (no chocolate today! but apple pie & cream)
Tuesday      1855 cals     4 fruit/veg   (quarter Easter egg - but other quarter given away)
1717 cals - daily average since last weigh-in

newlywed

Usually only weigh on he first of the month but had a sneaky weigh as I’ve been eating off plan and wanted to know what 2 weeks damage was.... about 2lbs by the look!

Am suddenly more motivated as we haven’t binged or been terrible! Hope I can get back on the wagon now.

Have been for a walk every day for the last ten days - each a minimum of 30 mins and have been trying to increase my speed on the shorter walks too. Managed to go from an average of 2.9 mph to 3.2 mph, so will keep tying to increase that one for as long as my lungs can cope

even if I do put on weight on my official weigh in, hopefully my backside won’t have increased too much 

Frith

OK, something needs to be done...

today:

LO quiche and jam tarts
2 Belgian buns
Flatbreads with pesto and goats cheese (an incredibly rare meal out and they were very disappointing)
Bag of fudge
Bag of cookies
Baked Camembert with lots of focaccia 

If I wasn’t in bed watching tv, I’d be in the kitchen making Welsh cakes. 
Its actually made me feel quite ill. 

victorygardener

Hi Everyone,

This is my first MSE post, may I join you? My goal weight loss from now to 30/06/2021 is 12 lbs (~one pound per week). I plan to weigh each Sunday morning and then post my week's results. Here's hoping for success. 

Brambling

welcome Victorygardener 👋 you'll find us a friendly supportive group 🙂

Frith you've been doing so well with your amazing 2.5 stone loss so you're allowed a occasional blip I imagine you are feeling ill as it's a big difference from your normal healthy BSD meals I'm sure you will be soon back on track. I will admit to just checking the baking cupboard for Welsh cake ingredients, I'm easily led astray so I'm about to follow your lead and go to bed 🙂  

Newlywed I'm also feeling more motivated this quarter, just as well as I have a lot to rectify after last quarter where if it didn't move I ate it 😬. 

monnagran

Frith, It's called a balanced diet.  Weeks of iron discipline and a controlled, healthy eating plan, followed by a few days of indulgence when you furiously stuff down everything you have denied yourself in the past and make up for all the goodies you intend to deny yourself in the future.
Welcome to the club of YoYo slimmers.

Once I included a question of what consistuted a balanced diet in an exam paper.  One 11 year old answered "50% healthy food,. 50% nice food."
She wasn't far wrong.