Onwards And Downwards Continues In January 2014

[AB Editor]

Onwards and Downwards Continues in January 2014

Happy New Year,

Welcome to this month's Onwards & Downwards. We welcome anyone serious about losing weight and we offer support and kind thoughts - not magic fixes, just sensible help.

I hope you all had the Christmas and New Year you wished for, don't know about you but I over-indulged (and it was yummy).

Let's get back to basics what are you favourite and most helpful diet tips? Things that have worked for you.

Don't forget your weekly weigh on Wednesday and remember we don't judge! Here is last months thread

[xstitcher]

I always cut down on my central heating in the summer, but have seen no effect on my weight!

[xstitcher]

So true, maybe that's what they mean.....

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There is some very strange reading at the moment:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2544502/Could-berry-mean-eat-junk-food-guilt-free-Lingonberries-halt-effects-high-fat-diet.html

[Old_Geezer]

Not read it but surely the issues with fat blockers are well known, and are folk planning to eat these berries all their life ?

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Just before a visit ti

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Whoops, don't know what happened there.....ipad typing is not for me and now I forget what I was going to say!!

[Marijn]

Xstitcher, your memory is like mine at the mo. :-) I forgot to report on myself this Wednesday. Anyway, I've put a pound on :-( I must try harder.

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Marion...what are we like eh?

[wendilla]

You and I both Marijm.

[Marijn]

:-) Have a good weekend all. If you can't be good, be careful.

[xstitcher]

Thanks marjn......don't want to be good or careful but after today's lunch out with "the girls" I had better be both.......booooring.

[AB Editor]

Morning all,

I can see you are doing a great job, well done so far in what is probably one of the hardest months :-).

As you are all probably aware it is getting on for February, the month of love, so does anyone have any ideas they would like to share for next month's thread?

Please answer on here and I will pick it up on Friday morning when I do the new thread.

Cheers

Ed x

[wendilla]

Thanks ed for keeping up our monthly posts . Yes January is the worst month . Let's hope we do better in February .

[xstitcher]

Thanks ed. I shall put on my thinking cap.

[boxtops]

Well, as you know, my weighing morning is this morning, not tomorrow - I can't report a loss this week, but no gain either, I am exactly the same as last week. I can put this down to indulgence on Burns' night, and a couple of sneaky Malteser Easter bunnies over the week.... :-)

I'm not downcast, it's still a 6lbs loss since Jan 1!

[wendilla]

Well done Boxtops just think that is nearly half a stone .

[xstitcher]

Easter is not until April...The 20th to be exact. How naughty of the shops to be pushing their Easter goodies at us all ready. The next time they push them in your face just think....there are 3 more months to succumb to their marketing and I won't fall for it yet!!!

[Maydup]

Morning all, no change for me either this week. My heart tells me I've tried hard to keep on track but my head reminds me of the dessert i ate on Monday evening ( extravagent) and the biscuits I've been nibbling in the evenings.

Ed - talking of hearts and desserts, one idea is to share our suggestions on how to combat the sweet tooth during February.

Chocolate, cakes and biscuits are so often our downfall, it would be good to think about what we can turn to instead, in our moments of weakness.

[wendilla]

Maydup it is very hard but my motto is If you don't buy it you can't eat it . But that is not easy if you have a family. If I have any sweets or choc left in the cupboard if my grandson has been here it will worry me that it is there and 9 times out of 10 I will eat it .
I have stayed the same this week and all I can say is that I am lucky.