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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 4th Quarter 2025
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Welcome Taft and good luck.Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin2
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Morning everyone hope you are all staying safe in this wild and windy weather Brambling I’ve managed to lose 1 pound it’s a start5
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-1.5Ibs this week.
Its a good start for the quarter. Now I just have to keep it up!7 -
Good morning.
Today is a -1.5lb please. I think i need to look at meals today. We are all so fed up of the same things.LBM in April 17 - Starting card debt £33554
Mortgage@1 June 18 - £76350
Total debt @june 18 £102311
Debt Jan 25 £8282
Mortgage £51215. Total debt now £594974 -
Hello, can I join (again LOL), ideally would like to lose 24lbs this quarter.
LGForever lost somewhere in the past, dreaming of a traditional, sustainable, self-sufficient(ish) handmade life
Frugal Living Challenge
Monthly Grocery Challenge : £159.58/ £250
Fashion on the Ration8 -
Welcome Landgirl 👋 and good luck.
Will done Izzy, Catz and Charlie nice to see some some losses to start the quarter 👏👏
I spent the weekend at my eldest sister in Dorset where the small family afternoon tea turned into about 26 of us with a couple on in-laws popping in to collect OHs. Lovely to see everyone and over a dozen different types of cake etc both my sister and niece make fabulous cakes and my niece is a trained pastry chef although now retired. Lovely to see everyone but I'm now trying to get back on track. My sister is a good cook but it wasn't a healthy eating weekend and I needed indigestion tablets when I got home!I hope everyone is having a good weekLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin8 -
Half on for me, but that's ok, hopefully getting back to old patten. I swam a bit more last week and had a walk on the beach, cut my calories a little as having a day out this week, trying to save for a treat, guess the body is just trying to play catch up.MFW - 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 £4979
01.12.25 £28997 -
1/2 pound off please @Brambling - disappointed but it's in the right direction.20*25 for 2025: 489 / 5008
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STS for me this week - no surprise as I'm feeling pretty bloated - I had a couple of pretty rubbish lunches which included white bread and my body really doesn't react well to it 🙄🤦♀️ I will avoid from now on and hopefully start to see movement in the right direction 🤞'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £0/£100
DNF: £0/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
'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'6 -
Hi
Weighday +1lb for me please Brambling.
Well that’s not a good to start on my new plan! I tracked calories and was supposedly still in a deficit with the increased movement. I enjoyed the extra carbs though.Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2025
1st quarter - 17.5lbs 🥇
2nd quarter - 6lbs 🥈3rd quarter - 16.5lbs 🥉
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