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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge- 1st Quarter 2023
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@Brie, I had seen Mr Brie is unwell and if you can get a little comfort from something nice to eat then I'm all for it.
Sending you both good wishes and hoping for a speedy recovery. XMFW - 01.10.21 £63761 01.10.22 £50962 01.10.23 £39979 01.10.24 £27815. 01.01.25. £17538
01.03.25 £14794. 01.04.25 £12888
01.05.25. £11805. 12.05.25 £9997 05.06.25 £8898.
01.07.25. £7975 01.08.25 £6968 01.09.25 £5956. 01.10.25 £49795 -
Hi everyone, it's great reading back on all the successes and the temptation hurdles being faced 😀 So it's a sts for me this week, and a bit of a roller coaster to be honest.
I was in Paris Tues to Fri last week and had to face the temptation of lovely hotel breakfasts. Then the temptations of 3 nights of delightful restaurant dinners with free drinks. In addition, buffet lunch was laid on too - 😲 😱 I feel like I have been tortured by many temptations and succumbed to many.
However travelling home Fri evening I didn't feel too good so then spent the weekend in bed with some weird, horrible lurggie type thing. Still don't feel good today but I did weigh in this morning and I'm just the same as I was on the 14th. No surprise as apart from hot drinks I haven't eaten anything since Fri breakfast.
Good luck my weight loss buddies !7 -
Checked weight yesterday , 84.8kg, 1.6kg loss from the first week, I’m really pleased 🙂But I need to be careful. Protein shakes are quite filling, but sometimes is nice to eat “normal” food and it’s easy to overload.4
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Type your commentOld Style Weight Loss Challenge 2023 - 1st Quarter
01/01/23 - 31/03/23
Imperial (lbs) please let me know if you want to raise in kilos
Barole -/10Black_Saturn 6/14


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Brie 2/8
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Candiii 12/42










cazann 3/14

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Cuddlymarm -/14
Clutterbug07 1/10
Ditty1234 -/6
EskarinaWeatherwax 1/7
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FreetodoasIlike +1/11
Frith -/28
General_Grant -/4
Gingerlily +1/14
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Izadora -/14
Jennystarpepper 8.5/10




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JingsMyBucket -0.5/9
LLM2018 1/14
Landgirlinthelittlecity 6/28




Leftatthetrafficlights 1/14 STS /
Miss_Behaving 1/7
Pennyrounder -/18
Pixie_Cosmo +1/14
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PurpleJay -/14
Shabbychic12 2.5/14
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Suffolksue 1/11 STS /
Sunfl0w3r -/10. STS
TornErse 5/14

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Van_Girl 1/12
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BlackandGold_2 (Wicked_Lady) -/7 STS
Zafiro1984 -/14
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Ej22 2/30
Lanky-Larry -/10
LilacPotato 3.5/10

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Smudgybunny 1.5/7
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= 1/2lb gain (or kiloLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin5 -
Van_Girl unfortunately healthy eating or buying good quality is often not cheap I not sure if they are still this cheap but i used to think there is something wrong when you could buy four chocolate bars for £1 or a packet of biscuits for less than 30p . I like to cook from scratch and have benefitted from being taught home economics in school where we were taught budgeting etc i think growing up poor also helped as I learnt at a early age 'at my mothers' knee' although not always healthy as my mum liked to over use the frying pan especially if using left overs!Van_Girl said:
Food prices have gone up again I noticed! Getting the balance between financial budget and calorie budget is not easy at the moment is it?
Amara well done on your first WI you will see i have added you with 1.5kg you will need to carry over the 0.1 to next week as I only work in increments of 1 or 1/2 units
TornErse I hope you have recovered I suppose if you have to be ill after a indulgence few days in Paris is the right time
Jenny it's always good to aim for something although with me it tends not to work

Brie - I hope all is ok
Pixie hopefully the cough is now gone, mine took over a month to shift
SBunny all you can do in challenging situations is eat healthily when you can and otherwise make as healthiest choices as you can, dieting away from home and out of control can't be easy
Lovely to see so many halos on the chart
personally i'm hoping the weather will get warmer so i will feel less incline to go into hibernating mode and eat 
Have a good week
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin5 -
Hello
Well done everyone.
Weighday STS please Brambling.
Mildly irritating I didn’t loose any of the weight I gained last week. I managed a few days with carbs at just one meal not both and I’m sure my portions were smaller overall. Movement and exercise was similar to last week.
This weeks focus is on nourishment. I’ve planned lots of homemade soup type meals. I’ll get my mat out for gentle stretching exercise and maybe a couple of walks out in nature if I’m up to that. I’m reducing carb intake right down this week to get over the cravings and back to calm. From past experience I know I won’t be up for much exercising as I switch from carb energy to fat energy. Hopefully that’ll see downward movement next week as I’m really not wanting to get the food scales out and start logging again.Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2025
1st quarter - 17.5lbs 🥇
2nd quarter - 6lbs 🥈3rd quarter - 16.5lbs 🥉
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-1lb for me please @Brambling - quite pleased as had family over at the weekend and ate rubbish!! 🤦♀️😂'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Weight loss challenge 2024:
Start weight: 9st 13.1lb
End weight: 8st 13lb
Weight loss challenge 2025:
Start weight: 8st 6lbs
End weight:
Nov GC: £34.46/£350
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'2 -
I think you've missed my halo off for this week @Brambling
£12k in 25 #14 £15,140.07/£18k 24 #14 £15,653.11/£18k 23 #14 £17,195.80/£18k 22 #20 £23,024.86/£23k3 -
Reporting a STS here @Brambling which I am taking as a win since I was away for a fully - generously catered - weekend!Grocery Challenge
January Grocery Challenge £167.05/£180
2023 mortgage overpayment £460/£60002022 mortgage overpayment £4488.59/£3000
Weightloss Challenge Q1 1lb/8lb3 -
i had to get some new scales this week looks like i've sts but havn't really stuck to diet4
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