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Old Style Weight Loss Challenge - 2nd Quarter 2026

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  • catz4m8z
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    -1Ib for me this week.

    I know weight plateaus are a thing but is there such a thing as a 'weight seesaw'?

    I feel like Ive been losing and gaining the same couple of pounds this year!😂

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    edited 19 May at 7:53AM

    So I'm back from my Spanish holiday and am hiding my weight gain today because it is so bad. I'll get on the scales again tomorrow and promise to be back to report the damage.

    Whilst we did a fair bit of walking, I also had Danish pastries at breakfast (as an addition to cereal and bacon & egg) and had generous pasta dishes on three evenings and salads on just two and with a bottle of wine between four of us each time. I avoided lunch.

    ETA A 4 lb increase.
    (In kilograms it was slightly down from yesterday's result, enough to record a lower increase than I would have done then.)

    So
    General_Grant +4/5 👿/😇/ STS / STS / STS / 👿 😈😈😈
    Oh dear

  • Pixie_Cosmo
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    Urgh 1.5lbs back on… away with work plus eating out with friends. I have been exercising but not enough lol! Two weeks before hols so I need to keep going!!!

  • Suffolksue
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    I don’t think I recorded a weight last week but weighed this morning and I have

    STS please Brambling

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    +2 this week - I had 4 days in Paris with family members. We walked miles (even on the day it rained) but we also ate a lot of cake and coffee.

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  • katejo
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    Despite eating more while in Spain, I still managed to lose a 1/2 lb. I did do loads of walking though.

  • General_Grant
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    edited 21 May at 11:10PM

    Back to Thursday weight reports.

    A loss of 2 lb

    So
    General_Grant +2/5 👿/😇/ STS / STS / STS / 👿 😈😈😈 /😇😇

  • Smudgeismydog
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    Morning all,

    Reporting a 2lbs loss

    Thanks

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  • catz4m8z
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    +3Ibs this week.😭

    Thats it…Im done. Think I might have a few weeks of the weighing scales, its just depressing me!!🤣

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