Let's lose a bit of weight

[kirsty b]

Boo is getting a dog coat on payday too - as long as I get enough left over once bills are paid.

I do worry about it being too much for her, but she has come out with me on every single walk I have done so far and seems to have coped ok. She loves being off lead so she can stop and sniff/trot along at her own pace alongside me, but as soon as I clip lead on she acts as though I have hung a ten pound weight on her neck!!
Todays walk was along roads, so she would not have been off at all and she would be knackered.

Today I did the route on link below in exactly 3 hours! I set an alarm so I stopped every hour for a drink of water, a snack and a bit of a stretch before setting off again. Started at 10.45, arrived ome 13.45 - well chuffed.

Camps/Bumpsteads - Haverhill, Suffolk, CB9 8, United Kingdom Running Route created by ksparrow - A Google Pedometer

Am now going to have another stretch and climb into a hot bath cos I'm all sweaty and yukky!!

[Two_Sheds]

Kirsty, that looks like a lovely route. Do you have an iPod, or do you enjoy the birdsong?

[kirsty b]

Not much birdsong today - just the rumble of cars, vans and the occasional lorry!

Did start flagging a bit at the start of hour 3, so put my phone music player on and let AC/DC help me along a bit. The tunes with a bit of a beat much better for walking than the slower ones!!

[Two_Sheds]

I had half a pack of HobNobs last night (pre-menstrual sugar craving). Didn't feel like exercising, but forced myself to do 15 mins of dance DVD before dinner. Felt better. Veg curry for lunch, veg stir fry for dinner. No snacks, no alcohol.

My legs are already starting to firm up

[mcsee]

I guess I have been spoilt here, but I own a GPS Mobile Phone and have installed on it 'Sports Tracker' which does all the calculations and tells me when I've finished how far I've been and how many steps, speed etc, plus draws a map of the route.
I don't always use it, unless trying a new walk, but I found the pedometers unreliable at times.
I try and walk for 60 minutes of a morning and try and get 45 minutes late evening if I can.

[OverWyreGrower]

Afternoon all!!

After being told on Friday that I have e-coli in my bladder and compromised kidney function, I am having to eat very healthily!

Dr's have said that I should just drink water (or very diluted cordial) for the time being, and try not to put extra strain on my insides until they work out what it all means.

So, today I have eaten:

Porridge made with 1% milk
Dried raspberries
Small handful of brazil nuts and dark choc buttons

I've had a pint and a half of water as well.

Got homemade minestrone soup for dinner and some cherry tomatoes for a snack too!

Got my first Graze box today (hence the raspberries and nuts) and I like very much... shame I'm only on 1 a week though!!

[Two_Sheds]

OWG: sorry you aren't well, but what a brilliant opportunity to detox (silver lining and all that) xx

[OverWyreGrower]

OWG: sorry you aren't well, but what a brilliant opportunity to detox (silver lining and all that) xx

That's what I'm thinking!! I'll be a skinny-minny in no time!!

[annacruachan]

My weight loss has been temporarily clobbered. The arthritis has flared up in my knees and hips - possibly from the driving which is painful after a couple of miles - and my legs have swollen. Going down now, thank goodness, but they still feel like two tree trunks! However, I am still on Atkins and still in ketosis. Not going to let anything stop me reaching 10 stone.

[Glutton4...]

Fingers crossed for you OWG. I had a dicky tummy last week, which is most unusual, as I am known for 'cast iron' innards! I was on boiled water for a day or so, then built up gradually. I've left Coffee alone for a week, as it seemed to go straight through me, but I had one today and it was fine. I've replaced it with mineral water, and am surviving so far!

Hope you feel better soon, I looked at it as a de-tox too, and actually feel much better now.

[JanieB]

When I first saw this thread I ignored it. I decided to read through it yesterday and it's taken me 2 days.

Don't know what to reply to first so I'll just be incredibly selfish and tell you about me.

I stayed the same (approx) weight from 14 til 47, give or take 3 children.

Then I met Brian. We both loved cooking and were good cooks. I cooked what I'd always cooked using fresh meat and veggies. He added cream, butter and so many bad things you wouldn't believe. He made me feel guilty if I didn't eat it after he'd spent so much time over it. I think once or twice a month would have been ok, but this was every other day.

By the time he was ill I was size 22 and nearly 17 stone. I'm only 5'2".

Since he was first ill, I have fended for myself. I don't "diet". I eat what I want, when I want. Sometimes I go out with friends and family and eat in restaurants.

I have now been losing weight slowly, slowly for 4 1/2 years. When I weighed myself yesterday I was 11 stone 10.

I suspect that I'm just gradually going back to my natural size. I've never been particularly interested in biscuits, cake, chocolate or puddings. I drink too much. If I didn't I would probably have lost more weight faster. I've never been able to take sugar in tea and only in coffee if it's particularly harsh/strong. I find living on my own, even the smallest carton of milk goes off before I can use it, so I drink jasmine tea in that case.

I garden, walk and as I look after a shop, shift boxes.

[Two_Sheds]

I was size 22 and nearly 17 stone. ...I have now been losing weight slowly, slowly for 4 1/2 years. When I weighed myself yesterday I was 11 stone 10.

Brilliant. You show that it can be done.
OH goes on a diet expecting to lose 4 stone in a fortnight I tell him, it took you 20 years to put it on, it ain't going to come off just like that

[annacruachan]

Brilliant. You show that it can be done.
OH goes on a diet expecting to lose 4 stone in a fortnight I tell him, it took you 20 years to put it on, it ain't going to come off just like that

Men do seem to lose weight more quickly than we do though, darn 'em! OH is keeping off the choccies and after-dinner nibbles and I know he's going to have lost half a stone by the end of next week, whereas I..... Grrr!

[Hilary B]

Men do seem to lose weight more quickly than we do though, darn 'em! OH is keeping off the choccies and after-dinner nibbles and I know he's going to have lost half a stone by the end of next week, whereas I..... Grrr!

Men have a less efficient metabolism. If a man does nothing, he still uses 1½ times the calories a woman would use also doing nothing. Life just ain't fair!

[Two_Sheds]

I had a brisk (it was cold) 12 mile bike ride, healthy food and no booze. Haven't got thin thighs yet though