Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2022 - 1st Quarter 30 December 2021 at 10:56PM edited 30 December 2021 at 11:02PM in Old style MoneySaving 509 replies 14.3K views

EskarinaWeatherwax

Thanks Brambling I hope so!

I have masses of food in the house at the moment, all gifts - chocolates, biscuits, and tons of interesting savoury bits. I’m planning to combine meal planning for the grocery challenge and frugal living with the weightloss challenge to parcel them out over the next many months. The hope is that eating ‘gift’ food will make it feel a bit more special.

Lovely walk along the coast today. 405 cals burned, possibly more if it ‘cost’ a lot to go paddling! 

Brambling

Welcome back Cranky 🙂 I've added you to the chart 

Its_time

I've just eaten a lovely curry made with chicken, mushrooms, onions and mayflower curry sauce with rice so low on calories.  I've managed to get 2 extra portions into the freezer to have if I am struggling.
Day three of the 'diet', I am feeling incredibly hungry tonight but considering what I have just eaten I can't be so it must be cravings, or habit or something else, either way I am NOT hungry.

CRANKY40

Brambling said:

Welcome back Cranky 🙂 I've added you to the chart 

Thank you. 2021 was food chaos. First I was too ill to eat then when I was fixed I was too tired to cook due to 6 months of not eating properly. That led to takeaways and junk food which led to exhaustion and being too tired to cook. The doctor insisted on blood tests and prescribed vitamins in November so hopefully I'm on the way back now. I've been cooking meals with veg for the past 10 days or so and I do feel better. 

Brambling

Sorry to hear you have been poorly Cranky  hopefully the vitamins will work, it sounds like you were caught in a vicious circle last year 

I hope the HT is doing well at college 🙂

General_Grant

I haven't weighed myself today but expect I've put on a couple of pounds over the past fortnight, though that will still put me in the middle of the healthy weight category. 
However I do need to lose some weight to be comfortable and I'll aim for a 7 lb loss for the quarter and that should get me to where I want.  
So I'll try to remember to actually get on the scales tomorrow morning for a starting point.

Brambling

Hi General_Grant 👋 I've added you to the chart 🙂

millicent

Could I join in please - I have been actively trying to lose weight since October and have managed 2st 3lb with quite a few more to go! 

I have done well over Christmas and managed to resist the roast potatoes and too many Yorkshire puddings😬 and am -1lb🙂

 I don’t have trouble avoiding the sweet things or chocolate but do need to cut back on portion sizes with the savoury things (and red wine😬).

I like to try and do low carb as that seems to work well for me.
Aiming for 14lb for the challenge but hopefully more 🤞
Weigh in day is Friday.

Brambling

Over 2 stone since October is very impressive Millicent 👏 I have added you to the chart 

LilacPotato

Happy New Year!

Thanks for adding me to the chart already Brambling, I'll set target as 12lb although I haven't yet checked what the Christmas damage is! A job for tomorrow I think. 

Good luck everyone!