Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 2nd Quarter 2025

Soontobeoap

I am amazed! birthday week this week with another meal out and several treats. I am swapping treats for meals so if I have cake That is my lunch
 I have also had a cold.and it has definitely.made me hungrier but I have stayed strong
. Feeling so much better for it.

- 1lb for me please Brambling = 11 st 11lb

Slowly but surely I will get there. I have until Christmas to lose the other Ist 9lb

Food luck everyone and thank you for letting me join your journeys. Without you all I would have given up but knowing that I need to report is so far keeping me on the straight and narrow

jennystarpepper

STS for me.

Haven't exercised as much due to knee and ankle pain, will try again this week.

I've been eating Lidl onion and chive cottage cheese in and aim for more protein it's 115cal for half a tub which is good and making the post of strawberries while they are in season.  I have a chicken so a couple of big chicken salads might help. Will see if I can drop 3lb by the end of the month.

Have also been craving chocolate, which is not like me, (probably hormonal and cruddy sleeping patten), I have 3 huge bars left over from Christmas and Easter, but I'm determined not to touch them until I feel as if I've lost enough / back on the right track. 

Have a good week everyone. 

Brambling

Well done guys 👏

Belated happy birthday soontobeoap I'm you managed to lose this week

i hope you feel better Charlies_tribe 🙂

I've re discovered cottage cheese Jenny, I've found it adds something wet to salad if I don't want to add dressing and as you say more protein, it does pair well with salmon or seafood stick salads

katejo

So frustrating! I will have to say STS his week. I was down 3/4 lb yesterday so thought I would be able to say minus 1lb today but no. I did a dance class on Monday and walked 10000 steps yesterday but.... 

General_Grant

Another holiday "under the belt" and a STS is the best I could do.

Surprised as, though I enjoyed hotel breakfasts, I had generally much less to eat than my companions.

I hope to be able to report better situation next week - especially as Q2 looms to an end.

Pixie_Cosmo

Brambling said:

Well done guys 👏

Belated happy birthday soontobeoap I'm you managed to lose this week

i hope you feel better Charlies_tribe 🙂

I've re discovered cottage cheese Jenny, I've found it adds something wet to salad if I don't want to add dressing and as you say more protein, it does pair well with salmon or seafood stick salads

The only cottage cheese I like is Longley Farm - it's so morish! I find other cottage cheese is sloppy and 'urgh' in comparison. Lovely on oatcakes or rice cakes, with cucumber, olives or tomatoes. Or apple slices. I'm hungry now 😂

@Brambling thanks for my medal! Am really pleased to hit my target for once. Next quarter will be the test, trying to lose the next 7lbs. That's the hardest to work on I think. 

Gingerlily

Hi

Weighday - 0.5lb please Brambling. 

I’m now just slightly under where I got to before I went off the rails in q4 last year so 6 months to loose what took less than 3 to put on! 

jennystarpepper

@Brambling and @Pixie_Cosmo, I just about tolerate eating it. Pixie you are right about the sloppy ones, Longley farm is usually sold out when I go to buy, so that's probably why.

Brambling, will have to remember that, must admit I do put a thin scrape of low cal salad cream on a Ryvita before eating to, kill the taste a bit, but I'm eating it, £1.39 for a pot that lasts 2 lunches is a win. 
I will admit, it's either the Cottage cheese or Ryvita that's having an effect on me but it's a mini hurricane some days.   

Pennypincin

The longley farm cottage cheese is nice, I also prefer it to other cottage cheese.
I've a 4pound loss this week.
I seem to have hopefully turned a corner.
Hopefully it continues 

Brambling

I'll keep a lookout for the longley farm cottage cheese.  I do add cottage cheese to the eggs and veg when I make a crustless quiche, it makes the eggs go further and adds to the protein 

lovely loss Penny 👏👏 and everyone else 🙂

just a half pound loss for me this week, at lease I'm back to a minus number even if just