Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 1st Quarter 2024

karenccs67

New Years Day Dinner is JD Seasonings Chinese Beef Curry. I had to tweak it a bit because it has a strong aniseed taste & im not that keen but it was lovely in the end 😋

flamingo747

I wonder if the sort of high sugar high processed modern diets led to more women storing weight in the midsection 

suzeesu2000

weighed me this morning and.....OUCH!! Much worse than expected but thats a bigger incentive to work hard to rid myself of the weight.

Good luck to everyone and happy new year

kazwookie

My starting weight has been done, all logged down, ready to do 1st offical weigh in next Monday

Best wishes to all

Brie

Glad it's not 2024 yet as I still have chocolates to get rid of.....

karenccs67

Tonight’s dessert is rice pudding with a chocolate orange slice, it’s warm comfort food 😋

Brambling

General_Grant said:

I'm old enough to remember when a size 12 waist was 24".  I think overall women have become thicker round the middle, whatever their size/weight.

I think I read somewhere that a size 12 in 1950/1960 would now be a size 6 or 8 

Brie can I assume you are using the Chinese new year this year? 🤨 I've used the logic that just having a banana for breakfast (tablet needs to be had with food) means I had spare calories to eat a stollen slice with my 4pm cuppa 🫣

i e eggs which need using so hard boiled a half dozen this morning two were had with a toasted muffin (no butter) but a tsp of light mayo for lunch.  A search for slimming recipes founds chicken curry i could tweak for dinner.  I just need to avoid the evening mouth hunger due to boredom evening snacking is my downfall and i have lurking Christmas stuff which I need to space outttttttttt

suzeesu2000

Day 1. Very much nearly fell off the scales this morning. REALLY bad. Heaviest I have ever been BUT…it’s the start. 

I’ve been concerned about the evening munchies so I have a few jobs planned for the evenings. 

This evening, I emptied out medical / toiletry storage and transferred to new, better storage. Good opportunity to check dates and stopped me thinking about what to eat. I also now have my 1st item of the year to sell. (Also doing 24 for 2024 challenge & frugal living 2024 challenge). 

Tomorrow is back to normal so I plan to, as DH says, Get among it! 

General_Grant

Brambling said:

General_Grant said:

I'm old enough to remember when a size 12 waist was 24".  I think overall women have become thicker round the middle, whatever their size/weight.

I think I read somewhere that a size 12 in 1950/1960 would now be a size 6 or 8 

. . .

Using the TU website size guides, the comparison would be:
                   bust   waist   hips    size
TU now       33.5    28       36       8
FatFace      33       25       36       8
1960s          34       24      36      12

I think that is "vanity re-numbering" and to make us feel better.  And it shows the waist thickening in relation to the bust size, particularly for TU.

Brambling

suzeesu2000 said:

Day 1. Very much nearly fell off the scales this morning. REALLY bad. Heaviest I have ever been BUT…it’s the start. 

I’ve been concerned about the evening munchies so I have a few jobs planned for the evenings. 

You've made the difficult decision to get on the scales 👏👏 one meal at a time now

i also need to combat those evening munchies the knitting or crochet will need to come out again easy peelers aren't the same a chocolate