Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2022 - 2nd Quarter

Gingerlily

Hello

Well done on the losses.

Weigh day minus  - 2 1/2 lbs please Brambling.

I managed 2 hilly walks,1 swim and some resistance training this week. In addition to all the blummin weighing and tracking I’ve been playing with timings of meals to see if that makes a difference.

Onto week six and the plan is: find my yoga mat, rescue the rebounder from under the clothes mountain, try to eat breakfast a tiny bit later each day and push my main meal back a tiny bit to eventually loose the supper. 😱 I’m not sure how I’ll get on with that, my head doesn’t like it when I say I’m going to do intermittent fasting! I’ll start slowly and perhaps it won’t notice.

Todays plan

Breakfast: yoghurt, fruits of the forest and too much peanut butter; 1 coffee with cream and 1 with a little milk
Main meal: peri peri halloumi, roasted peppers and zucchini, feta crumbles and a side salad
Supper/ dessert: sf jelly and yoghurt

basketcase

Hello all - especially @Brambling

I've been following this thread for the last month and was going to wait until the beginning of Q3 to join - but what the heck!  Please could I join now?

I'd like to lose about 3 stone altogether.  (I'd like to lose it all in Q3, but perhaps that's a tad unrealistic... )  Like many on here, I've got an underactive thyroid, so it can sometimes be a challenge to lose anything at all.  So I'm going to take a fairly laid back approach and aim for maybe 1-2lbs a week?  Even with dietary wobbles (I already have plenty of the other kind!) that would mean I can hope to be in reasonable shape by the end of the year.

So maybe -6lbs by the end of this quarter?  Then 15-20 lbs each in Q3 and Q4?  Anything over 15 would be gravy (low-fat, of course!)

I did well with Slimming World, but then lockdown.  On the downside, I put a fair bit of it back on.  On the upside, I'm still just over a stone lighter than when I first went. Of course, I could go back but I'm not working now, so the fees would be a stretch as the cost of living starts to rocket.

My motivations are a BIG birthday next year, which I'm hoping to celebrate with a BIG holiday, and a picture of a suitcase.  I went on holiday to France with DD in 2019 and we shared a suitcase.  When we got to the airport, she took the case because she said it was too heavy for me.  I was horrified when it was weighed and I realised that the amount by which I was overweight was more than the suitcase I had trouble handling!  It still is - just!  So... SUITCASE!!

Frith

Brunch - prawn curry

Tea - veg chilli

Then some flapjack?!

otb666

Back at 11 stone 7lbs seem to be fluctuating up and down at the moment. Stopped eating crisps  and replaced with home made cheesy spuds as they are cheaper for snack attacks

Brambling

Welcome Basketcase 👋 smaller clothes also means a lighter suitcase 🙂 there's no reason why you can't follow SW on your own, I don't think it's changed 

well done  Leftatthetrafficlights and Gingerlily good numbers this week 👏 Gingerlily just 1/2lb left for target 👏

-3lb loss for me this week  I'm pleased after a couple of not so good weeks 

Frith at least flapjacks are oats!

General_Grant

Another STS.
Amazed not a gain given a holiday where I had cooked breakfasts, packed sandwich lunches and 2-course dinners (always with calorie-laden desserts).  It was, however, a very active holiday.

basketcase

Wow! there are some impressive numbers here!  Not sure I'll be able to keep up - but as long as I get there in the end I'll be happy.

Well done on the STS @General_Grant .  On holiday food, I'd call that a win.  (And, if it was a very active holiday, maybe you've gained some muscle, which weighs heavier...)

Thanks for letting me play, @Brambling - I've dug out my old SW folders and some of the books.  I've also updated the weight loss spreadsheet I invented on Excel.  I'm discalculic, so it's probably far more detailed than most people would want, but it means that I can track my progress more easily.

I've got the figures for:

• Current weight
• Weekly loss/gain and Total Loss
• Steady weight loss figures at 1lb, 1.5lb, 2lbs
• Interim Targets: Body weight %ages,  BMI (with a formula to change it as weight drops)
• Progress against targets

Plus I highlight things like the months/targets etc differently so I can see where I am more easily.

It sounds complicated, and it probably would be overdone for most people, but my perception needs all the help it can get!

Yesterday:

• Breakfast - Cereal, 50ml SS milk + 200ml Cashew milk, pot of tea
• Lunch - Smoked salmon, boiled egg and green salad with FF French dressing
• Dinner - half portion of lemon chicken with steamed rice
• Snacks/treats - none
• Drinks - diet Coke/water

basketcase

otb666 said:

Back at 11 stone 7lbs seem to be fluctuating up and down at the moment. Stopped eating crisps  and replaced with home made cheesy spuds as they are cheaper for snack attacks

@otb666

Ooh!  Crisps and cheese are on my 'Downfall List'!

Is there a recipe please?

General_Grant

basketcase said:

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Well done on the STS @General_Grant .  On holiday food, I'd call that a win.  (And, if it was a very active holiday, maybe you've gained some muscle, which weighs heavier...)

Thanks for letting me play, @Brambling - I've dug out my old SW folders and some of the books.  I've also updated the weight loss spreadsheet I invented on Excel.  I'm discalculic, so it's probably far more detailed than most people would want, but it means that I can track my progress more easily.

I've got the figures for:

• Current weight
• Weekly loss/gain and Total Loss
• Steady weight loss figures at 1lb, 1.5lb, 2lbs
• Interim Targets: Body weight %ages,  BMI (with a formula to change it as weight drops)
• Progress against targets

Plus I highlight things like the months/targets etc differently so I can see where I am more easily.

It sounds complicated, and it probably would be overdone for most people, but my perception needs all the help it can get!

. . . 

Thanks for the encouragement @basketcase.   Activity included prolonged steepish hill walking.

I understand your tracking process.  I use tables in Word to count calories and macronutrients (using the sum formula function) and transfer those totals to an Excel file and then average over rolling 3 and 7 days - so I can go over target some individual days without beating myself up about it as the colour coded averages alert me to problems and I can cut back or increase (eg for protein or fibre if I'm not having as much as I aim for).  My BMI is actually OK (22.1) but I want it to move a little further south.

basketcase

Presumably your tracking's more tailored and/or sophisticated than FitPal or similar?

What would you like your BMI to be?  It sounds like you don't have too much to lose.  From previous experience I start to look a bit haggard if I get below 21.5 - my face becomes a bit skeletal, even if my hips don't!