Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2022 - 1st Quarter

Brambling

Welcome BookWorm  looks like you are doing great 

Glad to see you back Jenny hope you had a good holiday 

Take it easy with your back Cranky 

After a couple of weeks off work getting back to the laptop came hard today, luckily it has been mainly catching up on the emails

have a good week 

marrob

Brambling said:

Welcome marrob 👋 I've added you to the chart, wow 7 stone you've done fantastic so far.

@Brambling

Thanks for the welcome and for adding me to the list. 

It's not been easy losing that amount of weight.  I don't want to go backwards now, need some motivation.

Thank you for running this thread, I'm sure it will help.

marrob

catfree

Hi hope you’ve all had a good day. Good today was
B. Overnight oats 
L. Mug shot and a tangerine 
D. Homemade vegetable chilli (loads of veg and kidney beans) with mashed swede and potato from yesterday, an apple.

I didn’t do any exercise though . There was very heavy rain this morning. I’m going to get on top of the walking ,especially as everyone else is putting me to shame. 🙈 🤣 I’m not promising it will be tomorrow though cause I have my granddaughter for the day. 

EskarinaWeatherwax

Evening all

Another four miles walked today. I’m fortunate to have a really good friend living next to me who also wants to walk so we go together and it really helps. I added an extra walk this evening to collect prescriptions and post a return. Very nice!

Today I’ve had…

chocolate oatcakes and a banana
salad (celery, cucumber, carrot, tomato) with puy lentils and some of the Xmas goats cheese
dinner will be a cheese and chive omelette and more salad
snacks - apple, 2 satsumas and the big treat is 150cal worth of Xmas chocolate… 💖

Suffolksue

Is this the first weight recording week or the baseline ?
just weighed myself and -2lb for the week and -3 from 1/1 
what do you think Brambling ?

Brambling

Suffolksue said:

Is this the first weight recording week or the baseline ?
just weighed myself and -2lb for the week and -3 from 1/1 
what do you think Brambling ?

  I'm thinking if you've worked hard to lose I'm happy to add you on the chart with 3lb - it's worth shouting about  but let me know if you want your   

Personally I got on the scales the first time in 2 weeks this morning  it was not pretty and I'm going to use it as my base line and must do better this coming week.  Maybe not weighting in until today was not my best idea 

Its_time

I just posted my weight loss but it is nor yet Thursday!! Sorry I have another day to go so deleted my post sorry Brambling.

Brambling

Its_time said:

I just posted my weight loss but it is nor yet Thursday!! Sorry I have another day to go so deleted my post sorry Brambling.

I'm glad it's not just me who has no idea what day of the week it is!!   

Brie

@CRANKY40 - are you making your own guac or are you buying ready made?  If so what do you recommend?? I like the sound of the corn cakes w guac for breakfast.

@EskarinaWeatherwax I also love the idea of a Xmas goat!!!      (but love goat's cheese even more!!!)

@marrob - I'm going to add a wow for the 7 stone!  I'd love to know what couple of things you did to achieve that - we can all use a bit of inspiration, but me especially.

Which leads me to my WI shame.....(I know we don't do shame here but you know what I mean)  I was vainly hoping to start from where I was before Christmas at a zero mark so that I only had a half stone to lose this quarter and had set me goal at 7 pounds.  Unfortunately festive feasting has taken it's toll and I'm going to start off with a 5 pound gain.  I'm hoping that a return to good practices of lots of fibre, lots of water and no alcohol will allow a quick couple of weeks getting me back on track.

Also trying to be inspired into exercise....as others have mentioned it's a bit difficult when WFH and this is so obvious to me as the days when I am in the office I do double what my garmin tracker expects me to do.  So need to get my lardy butt off my chair and move around a bit more.  And to not forget to put my garmin watch back on before I do - I tend to take if off when working as it gets in my way and irritates my wrist.  

CRANKY40

@Brie no, I'm not making my own although I do have some avocados in the fridge.....it's either Asda or Sainsburys own from the chilled department. I was just so fed up of toast but I do like something with a bit of crunch hence the corn thins which are also from Sainsburys. I don't do my regular shopping from Sains but there is a small one near where I drop my looked after person when I finish work so I had a quick mooch round last week.