Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 3rd Quarter 2025

IzzyBee

Brambling sorry you are feeling like that don’t be to hard on yourself you have just had a major operation and you won’t be getting around as much as you were but you will get there I think we all know how comforting carbs can be you will get there take care 

ditty1234

Good morning peoples, I am proud to report a 2lb loss this week, so almost back at the start :-)

Have a good week, I won't be checking next week as away for the week.

catz4m8z

I think we all have off days (ahem...months!) at times @Brambling. There is always tomorrow though!


Had another one of 'those' moments at work today. Colleague who hadnt seen me in ages knew I was working and was looking for me....whilst I was standing right in front of her! 
Im sure at some point people will stop doing double takes and recognise me!!LOL

Pennypincin

Please be kind to yourself brambling, we all have of times, plus you are recovering from an operation , so it's more tricky for you at the moment.
I'm going to weigh in tomorrow.
I've had a couple of off days on the past week, so am hoping to at least maintain.
I even spoke up twice last week about not wanting to eat out due to eating healthy.
I'm sure I've mentioned it to him before though, and stopped trying to do slimming world and eating healthy because I'd mentioned it to this 'friend' before I was doing slimming world or trying to eat healthier and would have invites out.
Especially sprung on me and at places it was tough to eat healthy and be vegetarian.
The person (supposed to be a friend) claims he isn't bothered about my size, but I've put on about 4 and a half stone since we've become friends.
Partly with issues with disordered eating, plus struggling to either say no to eating out and socialising more. And this 'friend' likes to eat out at least once a week, if not twice a week.
It went poorly and I've already mentioned to him about eating out and I'm trying to eat more sensibly due to arthritis amongst other health issues and reasons, plus I end up coming home triggered and raiding the cupboards plus struggling to motivate myself.
It got to the point I was asked Sunday if I wanted to go for a carvery during the following week, so I said no thanks, to have said guy be persistent until I stood my ground and said as loudly and firmly as I could 'i don't want to go for carvery'.
I've been giving slimming world another go, especially as I did so well previously and reversed pre-diabetes.
I weigh in tomorrow evening.
Apologies for the long post and the rant.

General_Grant

I'm now back to where I was on 1 July.  This means a half pound loss over last week and zero for the 8 lbs I wanted to lose.

General_Grant

@Pennypincin - Your friend claiming not to be bothered by your size.  To me that sounds like someone who is a friend and is saying your size is not what is important about you, it is the person inside who he is friends with.  If I said something along those lines to a friend, it wouldn't mean that I did care about the potential health effects of their size, simply I was their friend come what may.  However, because I have been so overweight myself, I would never press another person to eat what they didn't want.  Perhaps your friend has not been in that position themselves.

Enjoy your Slimming World session tomorrow.  (I've never been to that sort of dietary help but if it has helped you in the past, it can do so again.  Your anonymous contributions to this thread may also help as you can see your progress on Brambling's list.)

CRANKY40

Give yourself a break @Brambling. There are some life events that just aren't conducive to weight loss and I'm fairly sure that major surgery is one of them.Take the time to get healthy and mobile again and maybe instead of focusing on weight loss concentrate on healthy food that will help you to recover?

Having said that I'm fairly sure that the only thing that got me through a c section and the first 6 weeks of motherhood (almost 21 years ago) was the regular bags of doughnuts that the late MrC was expected to fetch back home every time that he left the house 😄

Pennypincin

Thank you.

katejo

During my Stockholm trip, I didn't worry about what I ate but walked over 100000 steps. Result STS. 

Pennypincin

Ive weighed with a 5 pound loss.
Will double check due to the consultant leaving everything except the old scales at home.
It was interesting weighing in, although I'm pleased, am going to need to take it steady with the weight loss and being careful not to lose motivation and put on.
Especially this week after 2 good losses.
8.5 so far on my weight loss journey after putting most of the weight back on.