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  • Challenge Start Weight: 137 Challenge Goal: 132 Week 1: 136 Week 2: 137 Week 3: 134 Week 4: 133 Positive thought: Swimming! I can use my dodgy arm/chest muscle well enough to swim properly without it feeling weird, finally! I did 20 lengths on Sunday and it felt good! Healthy snack/meal: I’m really bad at this one, it’s…
  • I’m in the UK where you can get the shingles vaccine on the NHS if you are either 70 or 78 (very precise). Chickenpox vaccination isn’t one of the childhood vaccinations here, so nearly everyone gets chickenpox as a kid (my class at school got down to 2 when I had it!). I’m not allowed live vaccines with my medication…
  • Challenge Start Weight: 137 Challenge Goal: 132 Week 1: 136 Week 2: 137 Week 3: 134 Positive thought: I think I may have experienced a ‘whoosh’! After several months of bouncing up and down between 135 and 137 I finally feel like I am getting somewhere with running again, the new medication is starting to kick in (I can…
  • Challenge Start Weight: 137 Challenge Goal: 132 Week 1: 136 Week 2: 137 Positive thought: Finally got a diagnosis for my joint pain (it is rheumatoid arthritis as we suspected), and have started on some medication. Also had a steroid injection as part of it which I am blaming for the 1lb gain. It’s nothing to do with the…
  • Challenge Start Weight: 137 Challenge Goal: 132 Week 1: 136 Positive thought: Going down again! Actually saw a lower number on the scale but that was ‘unofficial’ Healthy meal: carrot sticks & hummus for lunch Effective workout: couch to 5k week 5 is in the bag!
  • This challenge has reminded me just how poor my ability to stand on one leg is! The doc suggested a couple of years back that I may have hypermobile joints - she asked me to do a one-leg squat, demonstrated it in her sensible mid heeled dr shoes. I completely failed in my trainers and have never been able to wear heels…
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Challenge Goal: 132 Positive thought: New season, new start. My numbers are an copy-paste of the summer challenge numbers and this time I WILL do better. But much as I would like to shift 5lb, my main goal for this season is to finish C25k (again).
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Weigh-in #5: 137 Weigh-in #6: 136 Weigh-in #7: 136 Weigh-in #8: 136 Weigh-in #9: 137 Weigh-in #10: 138 Oops, forgot to post last week. Hugely disappointed in myself for ending…
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Weigh-in #5: 137 Weigh-in #6: 136 Weigh-in #7: 136 Weigh-in #8: 136 Comments: Another week without seeing a change. Need to tighten things up a bit more, stop going over my…
  • I had a clear out a couple of months ago... not lost enough since to do it again!
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Weigh-in #5: 137 Weigh-in #6: 136 Weigh-in #7: 136 Comments: My sister came to stay this week and I went a bit off track (eating out, wine). Pleased to have maintained!…
  • I went for a run! Well, week 1 run 1 of couch to 5k. I’ve also almost convinced myself that I will rejoin the gym once the small person is back at school. Almost.
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Weigh-in #5: 137 Weigh-in #6: 136 Nothing interesting to report... Not feeling spectacularly motivated and grumbling health issues are preventing me from getting to grips with…
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Weigh-in #5: 137 Back to my start weight for this session! Tried quorn for the first time in ages this week, made mince into chilli with lots of different sorts of beans…
  • Week 4 Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Weigh-in #2: Weigh-in #3: Weigh-in #4: 138 Back from holiday. I set my calories to maintenance with the best intentions...but there was wine, and pub dinners, and saffron buns, and scones, and clotted cream, and…
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Weigh-in #1: 136 Positive thought: Down a pound! Healthy snack/meal: Not sure. It’s mostly been family-friendly, the usual things we eat, nothing stands out Workout: Got a new bike! Only taken it a short way, enjoyment somewhat marred…
  • I’ve planned all our dinners for next week. I’ll take lunch & snacks to work with me, so although they are not planned as such, there’s a pretty limited range of things I take. Breakfast is always the same during the week (one of three high fibre cereals, depending on what’s in the cupboard). And then on Saturday it’s…
  • Last month I was doing a good job of planning meals, but more for reducing food waste & being economic than in terms of calories. This week has so far been planned in so far as I went to the posh supermarket on Tuesday and bought food for 3 evening meals (tues, weds & thurs). Then tonight I had no plans, so we went out for…
  • Starting Weight: 155 (I think) Challenge Start Weight: 137 Summer Challenge Wt Goal: 132 Comments or thoughts to begin the session: Last week I went to Florence (Italy) for a conference and ate all the things. Pizza, pasta, gelato, antipasti... yum! So starting this session 2lb up on the end of the last session. I’ve got a…
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Weigh-in #8: 138 Weigh-in #9: 136 Weigh-in #10: 136 Weigh-in #11: 137 Weigh-in #12: 135 Comments: Hurrah! Ending this session below my goal. I’m now…
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Weigh-in #8: 138 Weigh-in #9: 136 Weigh-in #10: 136 Weigh-in #11: 137 Tough week last week. So busy at work that I didn’t manage to get out for my…
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Weigh-in #8: 138 Weigh-in #9: 136 Weigh-in #10: 136 No surprises there! I am losing slightly slower than my Fitbit calorie balance would predict,…
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Weigh-in #8: 138 Weigh-in #9: 136 Whoooosh! Finally seen a drop on the scale! Randomly woke up on Sunday morning with a really painful toe (one of the…
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Weigh-in #8: 138 Positive thought: I have been 137 ALL WEEK, but had an active bank holiday weekend and am a bit achy, so water? Healthy snack/meal:…
  • Happy Scale is iOS only I think. Libra (mentioned above) is the Android equivalent. I am not sure yet if I like it or not. I think the fact that my scales only weigh in whole pounds makes it less nuanced.
  • I usually weigh myself a couple of times during the week just to keep half an eye on progress. I weigh in with whatever it says on (usually) Tuesday morning, but have just started logging all of them in happy scale. Before I would just log the ‘official’ weekly weight.
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Weigh-in #7: 138 Positive thought: Threw out my old leggings that were baggy and bought some new ones. The new ones have a really wide waistband and sit very nicely…
  • 5/7 days again, total steps 84,095! So I did beat it, but not by a very big margin, percentage-wise.
  • Challenge start weight: 143 Challenge goal weight: 136 Weigh-in #1: 142 Weigh-in #2: 140 Weigh-in #3: 140 Weigh-in #4: 139 Weigh-in #5: 139 Weigh-in #6: 138 Positive thought: 20lb down since last July, and a stone since the new year! I am getting close to my pre-diagnosis weight now which is a good feeling. Healthy…
  • I hit my goal (10,000) on 5/7 days last week, with a total of 80,346 steps. I’m up for the challenge of beating that this week! I spend most of my working day sat on my backside (unless I have a meeting in another building), but do get around 2000 every morning taking my son to school, and try and get out at lunch for half…
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