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Thank you for sharing and for the fabulous tips and surprises. I’m curious how you settled on your maintenance weight and I how much range you allow your weight around it (and in your previous maintenance periods). Am so happy for you. What you’ve done is extraordinary. I particularly like the way you’ve kept on the right…
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Loving catching up on these super NSVs. I’ve been wearing clothes this week that I bought or was given in my late teens. While it’s great that they’ve lasted (I’m now mid-40s) I find myself very thankful for conservative taste as a youngster and the inevitable recycling of fashion styles! I absolutely could not have…
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Congratulations on turning 40! I have to say that my 40s have been soooo much better than my 30s so far, and I’ve just turned 44. Everything just feels so much calmer. Ok, stuff isn’t always easy but I know how to handle stuff (if that makes sense). The kids are older, I’m that few years more confident, and I am absolutely…
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The best thing about having lost 15kg is the look in my husband’s eyes. I feel genuinely pretty when he looks at me like that.
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44 and honestly finding it just as easy to drop weight now as my 30s. I have the knowledge behind me of what worked last time (and the time before that 😏). I have pictures and milestones which are familiar and which I can look forwards to as I lose. I even have clothes in all the sizes! Part of it is being brutally honest…
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For me it’s the nearly instant feedback I get from my belly when I eat more than I want to or something with too much refined carbs/sugar. When losing weight or eating well I feel great inside. When gaining weight or eating to maintain myself at overweight I get used to feeling rubbish and forget how it could be. So if I…
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This one is huge for me. There’s this denim skirt I have as my “I’m thin enough” marker. When it fits, I’m an ok weight. Having got into “healthy” BMI last weekend I finally plucked up the courage to try it on. It wasn’t even tight.
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Hi there, 44 and nearly 3 months in from my heaviest ever weight (well, not pregnant weight!). Will send you a friend request. Happy to cheer you on and chat through some ideas I’ve had on this particular round of weight loss. Am doing it a bit differently and hoping that this time it sticks!
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This week I cycled my commute three days out of 5. That’s 120km on the bike in glorious sunshine. Making it more wonderful, I’ve managed to do it without going carb-crazy and eating the house empty. Happy happy happy.
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First post in this thread… and I’ve read ALL of them for inspiration over the years. My NSV is that I’m finally, aged nearly 44, learning how to eat only when hungry and stop when no longer hungry. Previously I’ve relied on willpower and restriction to lose weight. This time feels different. Better. I’m also learning to…
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Hi. If you can, try to focus on what you are doing rather than the results. Every time you choose something healthy over the worse alternative then your body is that little bit closer to your goals. Celebrate it as a win when you finish a day where you got closer (and not further) due to the choices you made. Like everyone…
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Searched this clip up on YouTube and watched the whole thing. Am reminded of why I didn’t entirely hate chemistry at school. My brain and waistline both thank you for sharing! My takeaway. We gain mass in a form which stores excess energy for future use. When we don’t take in sufficient fuel our bodies metabolise those…
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Fair questions. I’m 75kg and 167cm. I’ve created recipes on MFP of meals as we cook them and that gives me an idea of what a serving is. Once I’ve measured and weighed something then I tend to repeat how I prepared it and copy forwards rather than measure every time, so it’s not perfect and certainly not mega accurate. To…
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Thanks for the responses. Couple of questions to answer. Food-wise I’m eating much as I ever did, just cutting out biscuits and not taking second helpings etc. MFP says it’s pretty consistently around 50% carb, 25%protein and 25% fat with fluctuations. That’s what’s so weird… I’ve not changed my eating choices but am…
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>> And for the sake of you and hubby get a quiet scale would you? how loud is that thing to the point that he wakes up? :) Lol it’s an analogue scale so you can hear it. Problem is I can’t read it in the dark. Also I refuse to weigh in front of him. It feels private even after 25 years! I don’t even tell him when I’m on a…
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Clicked specific diet plan but may have misinterpreted what it meant. I do track calories, though not very precisely. It helps me keep portion sizes in my mind. I do seem to do well using Intermittent Fasting or my own version of it. Only lunch and dinner, then STOP. No snacking, just meals. All foods are allowed, though I…
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You made me laugh. I (actuary and maths teacher) have a very similar spreadsheet set up) and fully agree with you that only by taking regular measurements can we see the trend clearly. I use weighing in when I arrive home for 3 reasons. 1. The scale is in the bedroom and I leave the house before my husband wakes up. 2. I’m…
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Well, yesterday rather kicked my *kitten* in terms of eating control but the scale was down again today. I was slightly celebrating unexpectedly passing the last module for my teaching qualification so it’s all over now bar the paperwork. On the upside, my body is still back to feeling good so I’ll take it. Still think…
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One day… that’s all it took for my body to feel better again. Scratching my head now and wondering “am I crazy”? All I did was pre-log everything I ate. 1kg of bloat gone and I don’t feel sick and flabby. I think what this shows is that it’s all in my mind, not my body…
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I so know how you feel. The only thing I can say is the thing getting me through this blip on my latest trip. I need to live like the person I want to be. Slim, healthy me does sometimes eat dreadful foods, but the next day she doesn’t. And she doesn’t kick herself about it either as she knows that it’s the every day…
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Hi all, well it’s been a pretty shoddy month for me… I think being back at my uni weight and officially “healthy” has done my head in. Since half term a few weeks ago, I’ve eaten and eaten and eaten. Last week I was even back into binging territory. I’ve been so scared that I’d bounce back (as always in the past) and am…
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Hi folks. Well, half term we started with loads of cycling which gave me the hunger! I ate like a horse for the whole week and somehow managed to regain 2kg in a week. Probably water weight as it’s gone a week afterwards. Maybe it’s nice to take a break from rigorous control of the diet, but I’ve been nicely reminded how…
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Hello you lovely lot! Lovely to hear from you and welcome back @Gold6767. I definitely feel you on the stress at work. One day for me until half term and I'm taking the first weekend off! I've had a lovely experience recently weight loss wise. Even though I've not been particularly disciplined, weight has continued to drop…
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When I first started this journey I thought it was about my goal weight. Now I know that it's much more about my goal lifestyle. When I first started this journey I thought the faster the weight came off the better. Now I know that I am happier, kinder and significantly warmer when it comes off slowly! When I first started…
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Tonight I ate *half a pizza*, stopping when I was full. Only 2 months ago I'd have finished it for the salty joy of keeping on chewing. I'm still having difficulty believing I did it.
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30th October 2020. Sitting in my bedroom, borderline obese. Realised that I had wanted to lose weight for a long time now but not actually done it. Feeling disgusted with myself. Was I really so weak and out of control? Gave myself a day to decide whether I give it a sodding good go, or give up. If decision was to lose…
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Today I wore a pair of trousers which I'd avoided for years because of the painful way they cut into my waist. They were comfortable and loose. There's nothing in my closet I can't wear now... the choice is dazzling.
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I keep coming back to this one. Wow... this was me. I'd forgotten how I felt when I first wore an ex-boyfriend's t-shirt for the day (it had previously been a nightshirt) because I didn't have any others that fit. And refusing to buy new clothes because I was going to lose weight, no matter how painfully tight (and…
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The look I sometimes catch on my husband’s face sometimes when he’s looking at me.
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Jedi mind trick... “these are not the foods you are looking for”! Seriously though, I don’t want to impose my own food limitations on my very healthy and active family. So... there is food in the house that I simply don’t eat. It’s not for me. It’s been seven months now and I genuinely don’t even really notice the biscuit…
