The FastDay Forum

Hello MaryAnn thank you very much for starting a new challenge. I have stayed the same at 12 stone 9 lbs this week which is very frustrating after three fasts this past week. I would like to reach 12 stone or even better half a pound below that to break the 12 stone barrier that I seem to have had for the last six month

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My weekly weigh -in confirmed my suspicions. 1lb heavier.
Pft.......I slacked and I know it. Slap around the face with Wet fish needed.
Ho Hum....
Next week.

My weekly weigh in on Friday showed me up 2 lbs! I was really not expecting that. Been doing 5:2 since Jan 1 and I'm up a bit over 2 lbs for my efforts. Getting a bit discouraged, truth be told. I do a strenuous boot camp workout 3-4 times a week and have just about constant sore muscles somewhere, even though I've been doing boot camp for 2 years! We're always working our muscles in different ways. Anyway.....I know the sore muscles cause some water retention, but COME ON!!!!!!!!! I really thought I'd post a loss this week as, to my eyes, I look smaller and was feeling quite trim. I'm not giving up......just coming on here to whine a bit, I guess.

Can I join please? I seriously need to get back on track after Chrimbo. Last couple of weeks have been a bit crappy at work and I've not done great at all. I was 10 stone 1lb - nearly at interim goal - (10 stone) just before Christmas and have shot up to 10 stone 6, so hoping if I have a good week a good chunk of that might come off. For this reason I'm going for a 10lb loss. Might be bit ambitious, but I'm confident I can lose this 5lb of Chrimbo weight quicker than my usual rate of loss.
So my target is 9stone 10lb by 21st March.

Good luck everyone and thanks to @MaryAnn for hosting.

Hi - I'm a it late to the party but will join in regardless!

I have had a rather large gain since early Dec which doesn't want to go away so currently weigh in at 14st 10lb.

By my calculations we have 9 weeks on this challenge so I would like to be at 13 stone 7lb by the end - I know 2lb/week is quite hard going but I am going to give it a go!

Thanks to everyone who joined and to those who updated their progress already! I think I'm all caught up, but if I missed something, please pm me.

Good luck, everyone!

Thank you for adding me in MaryAnn I have added number 22 to my signature. I am still struggling to mentally get back into a sensible routine of doing more exercise & eating much less on my eating days. Looking back I had a rather disappointing 2014 weightwise with many ups & downs in gaining weight because of holidays & family celebrations which slowed my overall loss in weight. I have many happy holiday memories & in April/May will become a grandmother for the first time & this year would finally like to crack my overweight problem to get down to my goal. I feel quite daunted at the prospect of having to continue losing weight & this challenge I hope will keep me focused because getting below 12 stone still seems to be such a mental barrier. I do realise writing it down that it seems quite silly!!
I'm going to take it one day at a time to try to lose some weight this week. Good luck everyone!

Hi there! I just thought that I said what my goal was but didn't actually state my starting point. At the beginning of this year I weighed 12:7. After week 1 I was 12:3, now after week 2 I'm 12:2. I guess its going down in the right direction...slowly!

Ok here goes, can I join in please??? My goal, well I don't weight myself ,it works for me so my goal is.........another round of Insanity. It's a 9 week programme an hour a day. It helps my lose weight, I enjoy it ( even though it makes me cry). I have ATM no idea how much I weigh ( broken scales) I'm no good at "I'm gonna lose blah blah by whenever" I have discovered that for some reason it sends me into a mild state of hysteria and I'm not good with hysteria. So a realistic goal for me is this! So please can I join in???

Hello@MaryAnn I am very late signing up to the party
Please sign me up for maintaining between 123 to 127 lbs.
Thanks very much for leading this challenge
See you all soon.

Hi there! I just thought that I said what my goal was but didn't actually state my starting point. At the beginning of this year I weighed 12:7. After week 1 I was 12:3, now after week 2 I'm 12:2. I guess its going down in the right direction...slowly!

Miss Bean ... wow, go you, that's fabulous bean progress!

@nursebean, So I have you as starting the challenge at 12st3 and losing 1lb at the first weigh-in. Is that right?

Hi @MaryAnn - can I please join? I will weigh tomorrow morning and let you know what I would like to get to.

with thanks,
cheers,
Maggie

First weigh in for me and I have stayed the same this week 9st 9 .. I'm ok with that as I had a very naughty birthday lunch on Saturday which I may have just saved myself from by having 3 fasts last week.

So onwards and downwards now as nothing social planned now till hubbys birthday lunch on 21st Feb

I've somehow gained 1.4kg! I suspect (hope!) most of it is related to back injury inflammation.