March Challenge anyone?

[Quak]

Well done Yam, good loss for your add a meal week,will definitely be using some of your recipies when I get there next time.

Myr - still 2lbs off, esp TOTM makes it harder. Well done.

Bren xx

 

[dawniesvan]

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 14 lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 9 1/4lb to go - 3.5 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost

 

[justgina]

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 14 lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 9 1/4lb to go - 3.5 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost

 

[jessie40]

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 9 1/4lb to go - 3.5 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost

 

[Quak]

Well done Jessie, you must be chuffed with 6lbs this week!

Dawniesvan, don't get disheartened, it will start coming off again I am sure.

Bren xx

 

[deedee1]

The challenge sounds like a great idea will give me something to work towards. Well done all.

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 9 1/4lb to go - 3.5 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost
Deedee1 - 14lbs - 14lbs - 0lbs lost

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Another 1.75lb. No cheating, no meals, seriously unimpressed. At this rate, 'add a meal' is going to have to be curtailed to a weekend...

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 7.5lb to go - 5.25 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 8lbs to go - 0lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost
Deedee1 - 14lbs - 14lbs - 0lbs lost

 

[Quak]

2lbs for me this week - BUT the bigger news is that I am now "overweight" as opposed to "obese"

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 7.5lb to go - 5.25 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11.6lbs to go - 2.4lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 6lbs to go - 2lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost
Deedee1 - 14lbs - 14lbs - 0lbs lost

 

[Yambabe]

Another 1.75lb. No cheating, no meals, seriously unimpressed. At this rate, 'add a meal' is going to have to be curtailed to a weekend...

Don't sweat it. Like we said on the other thread, could be any number of reasons for it.

• Are you approaching TOTM for instance?
• Drinking enough water?
• "Going" OK?
• Maybe like me you just have a fairly sluggish metabolism anyway?
• Had your thyroid function checked recently?
• Measured yourself - are you losing inches even if the scales have slowed?
• Checked your body fat - weight may not have changed much but if fat has gone down and water/muscle increased it's swings and roundabouts innit?

It could just be your body & metabolism adjusting to the reduced calorific intake, that happens. You have mentioned feeling hungry a couple of times this week, have you had something (flavoured water, seasoning on soup, sweeteners in drinks?) that may have pushed you out of ketosis? Your add-a-meal week might give it a boost and kickstart it again, or it may happen naturally. May be time to factor in a little more excercise perhaps?

Don't despair. Tis one small loss in the overall picture, and you're still going in the right direction.........

 

[Magggie]

Another 1.75lb. No cheating, no meals, seriously unimpressed. At this rate, 'add a meal' is going to have to be curtailed to a weekend...

Oh Miss D
I know how you feel
:break_diet:

could you add just half an hours to an hours walk in per day & see how you feel/if that works
just this week? if it doesn't work, ditch it?


and don't skimp on the water
for some reason it aids weight loss, daft as it seems
(I think thats where my furry tongue comes from on a monday after a weekends not as much water drinkage)
I weighed myself yesterday morning, I expected a 4lbs loss
but...
I had been skimping on the water at the weekend
and today
*ahem*
lets say I must have been a bit bunged up, and my water intake at work is usually good, and it must have "loosened" (sorry) me up
just a thought
I will probably have now lost that extra lb
[\graphic bodily function material mode off]

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Cheers all, am not too downhearted about it, cos in the grand scheme of things etc... However I did 'allow' myself to get a bit grumpy about it (which I felt was temporarily justified) in order to not bottle it up and get it out of my system this morning. however just as a review:-

• Are you approaching TOTM for instance? Depo Jab - not had one for years.
• Drinking enough water? During the week, yes - possibly not at weekends.
• "Going" OK? Had to reach for the pharmaceuticals this week, but system should be flushed out by now
• Maybe like me you just have a fairly sluggish metabolism anyway? I think my metabolism is somewhat 'variable'.
• Had your thyroid function checked recently? Been done before, not recently. If it continues, I'll decide whether to drag myself in front of a patronising GP or not
• Measured yourself - are you losing inches even if the scales have slowed? I'll do that later.
• Checked your body fat - weight may not have changed much but if fat has gone down and water/muscle increased it's swings and roundabouts innit? Quite probably. Been meaning to pick up some of those magic scales. Will be near an Argos on sat, may do it then.

As for exercise, between work and housey stuff, I'm bloomin' knackered by the time I get home, but will try and work it in somehow. I like going for a walk, but I don't have much of a lunchbreak and I start running out of daylight by the time I get home. So I'm still working on that one.

The hunger tends to coincide with particularly stressful days, and even if my ketosis is a bit weaker than usual (and therefore may be giving rise to the hunger) I don't understand how one can still *not* lose weight on 600 cals a day, ketosis or not. It's the lack of cals that makes you lose weight, the ketosis is a byproduct of that fatburning that just makes you feel better about it. I'd really like to do some decent reasonably in-depth reading on the fat burning/ketosis relationship and mechanism, but most stuff on the net seems to be a bit lightweight. It tells you what it is, but not the nitty-gritty of why or how it occurs If anyone can point me to something scientific, referenced and preferably peer reviewed, I'd be grateful.

Anyway, moving on... I'm fine peeps, was just having a grumpy five minutes.

 

[Magggie]

:grouphugg:
aw Miss D

I have been feeling it this week a bit more too-staring at crisps in the cupboard, sniffing the glorious salad my team leader eats, looking at the choccie biscuits in wonder that the manager bought us

But I sit here now, and I am OK, not hungry,

one thing that I found interesting is my new scales (from Home Bargains, £7.99 )
measures everything
including BMI
it does the muscle, fat, water
and also at the end of it tells me the Kcal intake I should be taking to maintain that weight

now its only 1600kcal

so I am on 600kcal per day
so my deficit of 1,000kcal will make me lose an average of 1lb every 3 days
(3,000kcal = 1lb weight loss)
so I am on track really, as I seem to roughly now settled into 3lbs a week
to increase my "burn" I could increase my muscle (currently approx 29%)
something to think about?

I am with Yambabe on these scales, they put it all into perspective
wish you lived closer, you would be welcome to stand on my scales

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Now that's a damn clever gadget for £7.99. Score.

People keep popping to the shop and asking if I want anything. Today it was 'are you sure you don't want afternoon chocolate??', which I really had to go some to decline. Some people don't like taking no for an answer.

My 'I'm off dairy at the moment' excuse is going to start wearing a bit thin, eventually.

 

[Magggie]

Home Bargains Store
Queensway, Bletchley

53-55 Queensway
Bletchley
MK2 2DR
Tel: 01908 377360

About 12 miles

Opening Times

Mon: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Tue: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Wed: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Thu: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Fri: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Sat: 9.00am - 6.00pm
Sun: 10.00am - 4.00pm

 

[Miss Demeanour]

Cheers, I'll see if we can pop up on saturday afternoon after having another poke round someone else's house

 

[jessie40]

Quak - I was seriously chuffed!
The only problem is none of my clothes fit me.
I had to wear a suit to work today and I looked like I had borrowed my grandads!!
Not sure I can be bothered to buy another one as I am shrinking away and it wouldn't fit for long.

 

[rosie kate]

Only 0.6lbs this week. Lost an inch and a half off my hips tho...strange.

Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 7.5lb to go - 5.25 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11lbs to go - 3lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 6lbs to go - 2lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost
Deedee1 - 14lbs - 14lbs - 0lbs lost

 

[Magggie]

aw never mind Deedee
at least you know what it does to you

 

[Arwen]

7lbs lost here
Yambabe - 14lbs - 12.25lbs to go - 1.75lbs lost
Lou1978 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Chris405 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Mush - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Jessie40 - 14lbs - 8 lbs to go - 6lbs lost
Miss D - 12 3/4lb - 7.5lb to go - 5.25 lbs lost
Myr - 14lbs - 12lbs to go - 2lbs lost
Rosie Kate - 14lbs - 11lbs to go - 3lbs lost
justgina -- 8lbs - 5.5lbs to go - 2.5lbs lost
yummymummy - 14lbs - 10lbs to go - 4lbs lost
Red77 - 14lbs - 14lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Arwen - 7lbs - 7lbs to go - 7lbs lost
Chuffy 29 - 12lbs - 12lbs to go - 0lbs lost
Dawniesvan - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lbs lost
Quak - 8lbs - 6lbs to go - 2lbs lost
PinkyEyes - 8lbs - 7lbs to go - 1lb lost
Deedee1 - 14lbs - 14lbs - 0lbs lost

 

[jessie40]

Well done Arwen!!