Onwards & Downwards January 2016

[AB Editor]

Good morning everyone!

Sorry to be sort-of-late again :)

Here's last month's thread: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Weight-Loss-and-Dieting/Question1462706.html

I'm glad some of you stayed the course over Christmas (and secretly even happier for those who strayed with me!)

How is 2016 faring so far? Did you bin the nibbles?

Here's me:

You wouldn't believe how fat I was after Christmas. I don't think I've ever been so heavy.

It's a good motivator though! I've been running every day, sometimes twice a day, this year - and I've cut back my calorie intake to between 900-1400 a day.

I don't particularly feel hungry and I've dropped 4kg/8.8lbs already. Some of that is obviously salt and water from January 2nd.

Anyway, I feel like I'm on track.

One helpful thing I'm doing is redefining what a treat is, and what "off the rails" is.

Oh, and no beer.

What are your rules? What do you do to keep yourself on the slimming track?

[bednobs]

i weighed last night and had lost a further 1.5 lb - still the same flippin size!
that is 25 pound now - i just do not get how i am still the same size

[ummmm]

Can you see a change in your shape, Bednobs?

[bednobs]

nope

[xstitcher]

Hmmmm bed knobs. That is a big loss and good for you. Usually it is the bra size that is first to go down, or you are using other hooks.
Were your clothes too tight or too loose? Have you tried on any clothes is a size smaller? My advice would be to try on a pair of trousers, skirt and top in a size smaller and take it from there.

[bednobs]

depressingly, i went clothes shopping on sat, and had to buy the same old same old size :(

[xstitcher]

I'm mystified bedknobd. What do they say at your weigh in?

[AB Editor]

That's a mystery bednobs.

[bednobs]

perhaps it's coming off my big toe. Or perhaps im so enormously fat that 25 lb is merely a drop in the ocean

[xstitcher]

Good morning all,
Down just a little under a pond, not much but I'm pleased. It's given me the hope that I needed.

[Old_Geezer]

That's good to read.
Even if 24 hours earlier than expected :-)

[xstitcher]

Well thanks for putting me right on what day it is OG. WHAT AM I THINKING,

[Old_Geezer]

Probably keen to pass on good news.
I'm dreading checking what the weekend did for me, later today.

[Old_Geezer]

Well down 0.8 lbs since last Wednesday.

This is amazing since there was an inexplicable jump upwards Saturday morning, that wiped out the weight loss since the previous Saturday; and then a horrendous, in terms of input, weekend. But the weekend seemed to have no effect on the weight ??? and I've dropped again since.

[Old_Geezer]

So x early, everyone else on holiday :-)

Just to announce that due to a drop over the last 24 hours I've finally dropped back to the stone value I was before Xmas. Time will tell if that is an anomaly that'll correct tomorrow or whether it'll continue further.

[xstitcher]

Good for you OG. I'll bet that has put a smile on your face.
I don't know if your PC/iPad sometimes doesn't show the word and then boom, it all comes at once. Maybe our weight does that too at times.

[Old_Geezer]

Sure did :-D

[wendilla]

Well done xstitcher and OG every little no matter how little the right way counts . I completely forgot yesterday and have not weighed today so I am hoping for a loss next week .all,the Xmas goodies have gone .so no excuse now .

[xstitcher]

You should do well next week Wendilla, no temptations and have skipped a week......fingers crossed for you.

I'm still down about 1 1/2 stones from my weight last year but the "fantastic" spurt I had a this time last year was early symptions of my illness and I've put back all of that weight....had to as it was loss of muscles.

[xstitcher]

I forgot to say that I'm down 2 sizes.

[Marijn]

Well done on being 2 dress sizes smaller, Xstitcher. Have you got your muscles back to how they were before you became ill?