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Hey girls! Can I join you I've piled on about three stones since having my DS. Iwas 77kg when I got PG and now I'm nearing 100!!! Needto take some serious action.
I lost 2 stone a few years ago and only put it back on when I had ds, I am losing weight at the moment and I am nearly back to my goal weight of 7.9. For me the only way that works is to lose weight very slowly, I only average about 1lb per week but it does stay off. In the week, I eat very sensibly - smoothie for breakfast, ryvitas or jacket with low fat soft cheese for lunch and chicken or fish with vegetables for dinner, I only eat carbs after 7.00 pm on one night of the week. I do usually have a glass of wine most nights. At the weekend I eat whatever I want, I eat out a fair bit mainly thai or italian and I cook that sort of thing as well. I always have a bar of chocolate every Friday & Saturday, and 1/2 bottle of wine on weekend nights. The only thing I am strict on is desserts, I hardly ever have them as they are loaded with calories. When I reach my goal weight I will increase the amount of carbs that I eat in the week. IMO the only diets that work are the diets that you stay on therefore don't be too strict as it is difficult to stay motivated.
there's a new diet in the Times today from Australia. It's called the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet (TWD). Like Atkins but low fat and a moderate amount of carbs.
cannot believe that "new" diet -- loss 21lb is 12 weeks -- mmm less than 2lb per week.
It is based on eating fruit and veg and cutting out crap and resticting calories to about 1400 a day -- and people are buying this book in droves -- WHY WHY WHY -- it is a bog standard diet -- eat less and you will lose 2lb a week on any diet!!
Argh -- diet book writers make money hand over fist!!
hi dabihp
would love to start on the 1st of sept its a date so we can keep in contact over mumsnet how much would you like to loss out of intrest? ive got to loss 2 stone minimum !!!!!!
hi ladys so happy that you all want to join you are all more than welcome of course !!!!!!
i am thinking that the 1st would be better if thats ok with everyone, but i do love the idea of having a day and time ie the morning,aftrenoon when we all weigh are selves. please let me know what you all think as we are in it together now !!!!! xxx
Cods link is a good one, my DH and I have lost about a stone each by following our own made up version of the OZ diet. Lots of veg, lean protein every meal and no bread potatoes or cakes!
We do still do the odd bottle of wine but not weekdays and if we go out we eat what we like. We dont feel like we are dieting at all and the weight is slowly falling off
The only thing I have ever found works is to give up alcohol or at least cut down and to be more active.
I hate the gym so for me this means walking instead of using the car and going for bike rides.
I've never really been able to change eating habits. Got a sweet toooth and find it a real drag to go without, so I tend just to cut down and not eat puddings.
Eat slightly smaller portions too!
Having said all that, I lose weight VERY slowly.
my dp left me 2 months ago, and i have lost 2.5 stone!!!! have 3 more to go, i have been eating healthy and respecting my body more, have had lots of salad, and i eat it on a small plate so it looks like more,
and obviously the stress has helped the weight fall off, every cloud has a silver lining!!!!
sorry to hear that i hope you'r ok join us in are healthy eating thingy if you want we are all staring on the 1st. you have a 2.5 st head start but we will let you of xxx
yeah ok, i guess i do cheat a bit though as i have a slimfast for breakfast, during the times when i couldnt eat anything at all because i couldnt swallow it, my friend suggested i try slimfast as at least i would be getting some vitamins, and i have continued having it for breakie, lunch i have makeral or tuna or chicken with salad and chilli ketchup!!! then tea time i normally have small amount of what girls are having, then in evening ill have a pack of seasons,(crispbread things)
I feel so much better for losing the weight and i know i will get to my goal of 12 stone, cant wait for the satisfaction of saying to my ex look at me now... he has already comented on the weight i have lost!!!!
Sanchpanch - you wait til everyone else starts noticing, that's when DPs/ ex DPs really pay attention cos everyone else is! It'll do your ego the power of good and give him more than a little food for thought! Go girl!
I know i cant wait, i want to be the size i was when we met, i have been getting weighed at work there is a group of us doing it and our weigh day is a thursday morning.....
Cool that ties in really well as thursday is the 1st and thats when we all have the dreaded weigh in
i will be fantastic to start feeling good about myself again,i feel so positive about it this time i'm sure that i can do it and am so glad of the suport that i'v got hear on mn xxxxx
ok ill post my weight on thursday,
At work i have 2 shelves by my desk on them i have stuck small strips of paper that symbolise the pounds i want to lose ( 38 ) then each week i pull down whatever i have lost....
hi everyone i,m almost ready for thursday,looking forward to it really.that,s a good idea sanchpanch the piceces of paper,i think i will fill a jar with pasta & take apiece out each pound i lose.When my ds starts school i am going swimming so that will help.Good luck to everybody taking part.
Hello ladies. I'm new to posting on mumsnet (though have lurked for a while!) and would love to join you. Have been trying to lose weight since having dd3 last year but only started seriously in June. Doing weightwatchers online and have lost 16lbs but I feel the motivation running low and think joining you would be a big help.
hi katef
weightwatcher on line !!?? i didn't know you could do that do you still have to go to meetings and all that ??
so happy that you are joining us well done with your 16 lbs x
No meetings just log your weight each week. The tracker and all sorts of useful stuff is all on the site plus message boards which are useful. I recommend it but do miss having a "gang" to help keep motivation up. Can't get to a class here as would have to take at least 2 kids with me!
sorry sweetbean, had to go out in a hurry! I have 3 dds aged 5,4 and 1. They are lovely but lively iykwim therefore not a good plan to take them to weightwatchers
I'm still around sweetbean. Is it Thursday we are going to weigh ourselves? My ww weighing day is Monday but I don't mind having another day. I think I will just post how much weight lost rather than actual weight though!!
hi everyone i'm still hear !! i have to say that im a little nervous about tommorrow!!!!!!! i'm off to boots to get my self weighted on there scales and find out my "ideal" weight and then try and aim for some where around there. have we decided if we are posting are actual weights ??? or just what we want to loos? good luck for the weigh in tommorw andf i hope that you can all post your goal weights just remember that no matter how heavy we are on the scales tommorw it's ok cos thats where it stops and its down hill from then on *good luck* xxx
Weigh in tomorrow? I don't mind whether we post weight or amount to lose or whatever... perhaps we should do whatever we individually feel happy with. It's support we can help with the numbers don't matter I suppose. What do you think?
I've done WW before and it really works if you do point everything or stick to the Switch thing. I'm going to start there I think so just healthier eating, tons of water and a smaller plate. Last time I found that drinking water (at least 2litres) a day had the biggest effect. I just need to practise what I'm preaching, unfortunately when it comes to food I don't find it easy. Theory: A. Practical: Crap!
Good morning
how are we all today ? ive decided that i want to post my weight because by doing that i hope to make it a bit more real to me,even my other half won't know what i weigh just me and all of you so am off to boots in a mo anyway as for the deit thing im going for the calorie control and some tips from gillian mckeith ie taking aloe vera suplements to aid food absordsion and to ginsing to pep me up well good luck everyone and i will post abck shortly with my weight.
im 11st 12lb and acording to the scales at boots my ideal weight is 9st 4lb so ive got a bit to go but i think i will just aim for 10st to start with as thats what i was before i had my daughter *GOOD LUCK EVERYONE*
Hi, can I join too. I'm 10st4 this morning. Was about 9st4 before got pregnant with ds 2 years ago My problem os overeating when at home all day and not doing enough exercise. I've decided to cut out carbs at lunch time and have salad and fish instead. It worked on the lead up to my wedding!! Although I was younger and much less saggy then!
ok, here goes...
I was 15.7 this morning. - I blame pregnancy! So i guess I am here for long haul too, I would like to be 10st (ideally 8 but lets be realistic) First goal is 13.7 by Xmas, I figure its 15 weeks away, so 2lb a week.. I am gonna do somehting ba\sed on weightwatchers switch, but i am guessing that anyhting that doesnt included copious amoutns of chocolate a day is gonna be a big help!!
rosemary conley`s fat free diet works brilliantly and theres so much food to eat..too much to be honest!! and recently i did a detox for 6 weeks, cutting out all wheat and sugar[fructose..fruit sugar is allowed] and could eat what i wanted otherwise and lost weight without really trying and felt a lot more energetic and cleaner , i`m convinced its the wheat so i`m trying to keep off it anyway as it makes me feal sluggish after eating it ..
hello i'd like to join too. i have just weighed myself for first time since booking in with midwife and baby is now 4 months! i am 14.5stone aaaaargh, should be 11 i think. i have no willpower whatsoever although i did have some half fat cottage cheese for lunch.
Can I join too? Same as Sweetbean today - 11 stone 12. Boots machine said I would be 10 stone 12 if large build or 10-3 if medium build, so have about a stone/stone and a half to get rid of. Got down to 11 before but never managed to get under that since birth off DD. Used to be 10-7.
right..im always last in the Q..so today has been 'whatever'..so...tomorrow...
i would like to do G.I..i have a lot of knowledge of S.w, but just dont want to try it again at mo..so if anyone needs any recipes etc
EvesMama-don't feel like that love. Forget what you ate today and just start tomorrow (but don't pig out all evening!!). Every time you have a bad day just start again and you will get there. I ate loads of birthday cake on dd3's 1st birthday a few weeks ago and felt really ashamed of myself but I did manage to get back on track the next day.
today when i woke up i had(one of my many down falls) a huge bowl of mini bix(honey & nut) and a pint of s.s milk with nesquick banana milkshake powder.
then about 10am id popped to tesco for milk and bread..so we went into cafe and i bought a cheese and sausage panini..felt very sick and unwell all day after that
next had half a garlic baguette and a ready meal for tea with a orange 2 finger kit kat.
lastly..sat with dd before bed and munched some grapes with her.
dp just been to shop and asked if i wanted anything about 6 times and each time said no..but i 'DO'..and i dont want to 'want' all this crap
thing is thought, ive been telling my gp for months now that i am being 'GREEDY' with food for about the last year and although i love my food, i have never 'wanted' it as much as i do recently..i cant say no
ok, see what you think of this(ill be doing it..no pressure for anyone else too)
im gunna do antoher thread..am gunna 'introduce' myself and hopefully shame myself into knowing that anyone lurking can read how obese i am..then each week...ill (hopefully) be able to change the weight..i also want to do it so i can log my food each day and didnt want to bore people on this thread if they are not wanting to know
i will still be here, but need to set up my little eating diary to help me
Hey - ease up on yourself! I don't think you should be ashamed, at least you're willing to do something about it. Would dp join you on a diet? Mine has reluctantly and although he's a bit hit and miss he has lost half a stone.
think he would, but he really doesnt need to..yes we all need to eat healthilly, but he just needs excersize i think..he just has a paunch and dd's nick name it Tin Ribbs so she's got his genes thank god!
well i have always wanted to lose weight, and be the size i was when i met dp, (size 14), then he left me 2 months ago, so i guess that has spured me into much needed action, i no longer want to live my life this size, so i have been eating healthy and trying to respect my body for the first time in my life!!!!
And it will also show him what he is missing!!!!!
the 'thing' that hit me other than the scales, was looking at old piccys at my mums last week..she's big now and aslo has diabetes because of her weight..but when she was my age, she had a 28 inch waist..why cant i be slim now when i should be and put weight on like she did late on..yes i know i should stop eating crap, that'd do it..but i am fed up of picking up clothes from Evans and saying..oohh, these havent been made properly..very skimpy..have to get a bigger size!
My mum has yoyo dieted as long as I can remember. I do not want my girls to see me doing that so the fat has to go now for ever. I was shocked into starting this diet when I saw myself in dd3's christening photos. Wish I could have her christened again with me looking nice
Hello! I'm v late but have been trying to be good happy dieter all day. Weighed in at a glorious 14st 7lb! Can't believe I've piled on over three stones in a year!!
EvesMama - I feel shitty too but I keep telling myself that this is the last time I will write down the weight I am.... next time it'll be less. And I mean it! Felt starving loads of times today but just kept drinking water. I've never weed so much in my life!
Went to a meeting yesterday about my diabetes and confessed to everyone that I'm a greedy trog whenever I'm left alone (Basically I become as one with biscuit jar) I got the impression they all thought I was a proper fatso sad case! Won't see them now until 29 Nov by which time there will be a whole lot less of me. If there isn't then I hold you lot responsible! I've got to get a grip.
Don't know much about the GI diet but my friend is doing it in conjunction with ww and getting good results. It works well for her diabetes.
I have just had my porridge with skimmed milk and am going to be good all day.
GI is *excellent, both for weight loss and as well as being exceptionaly healty, full of fruits and veg and complex carbohydrates, low fat. There is a thread in it if you want more info.
I went on it and lost loads, fell off it, put the weight back on with myself!
I'm back on it this week and have lost 3 pound in as many days
hi everyone
i can't beleve the responce that we have had on this and am thrilled thats so many people have joined in and all been brave enough to put down your actualy weights your all fantastic!
i hope that Dinny and Hondadreams are still out there as would love you to join in to !!!!!!
welcome to compo, fishie nopearls and evesbigfatmama im realy happy you have joined are gang so we are all in it togther now and i know we can do it !!!!! xx
right, i've ordered a gi cookbook - can share recipes then, very fond of lentils etc so should be good. dp has day off, so going for a swim while he and baby wait in carpark (am bfing). then supermarket and try not to buy anything naughty.
OOH, DO SHARE RECIP[ES, I STARTED A RECIPE THREAD TO GO ALONG WITH THIS.. iT IS SOOO COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT OTHER PPL ARE GOING THROUGH THIS TO, ITS SO BLOODY HARD! ooops just realised have caps on, cant be bothered to retype.. does typing burn calories...????
Hi Everyone..
had an okay day..still no idea about g.i eating, so just ate less..not exceptionally good..but less
ordered a g.i book from library..told girl it was a matter of urgency..she could see why
and bought wholeweat pasta, ryvitas and everything 'no fat'! at tesco's
and dya no what..i havent felt hungry(like i said..havent been a n angel, but a pleased with the fact i havent gorged myself all day)
not a good day here - started off well with cereal and fruit, but then had cheese and coleslaw sarnie for lunch followed by huge piece of carrot cake. Then curry for tea followed by more cake and sweets, and 2 cans of cider
not done too badly on the food - mackerel for din, v healthy, teeny lunch with fruit, but weighed self on baby clinic scales (don't own any too depressing) and was more than i thought, 94kilos / 207lb. so am set back before i'd even started never mind, have bought some lovely low fat things. is smoked salmon good or bad?
i just had a moment of poetic abandon..not a good one but neverthe less
and had to lift my gut of my legs, so thought id share it..not my gut...although..hmmm...ive got plenty spare if anyone wants some
That was fab hun but i can't help feeling that you are beeing to hard on yourself!!!
Nows the time to embrace the inter you and forget about the shell,cos you will be a thin sexy babe in no time,i know you will do it this time
As for me im not finding the diet to bad but i have come to relise that i am an alcholic i can't give it up so i realise that this might serously hinder my weight loss so i must try harder
hi not too bad ,yesterday was good today went to kfc,tonight i,m going to have some wine!!going to asda after football so i,m going to get some slimfast,just doing it for 3 days.going to stock up on fruit & veg .hows everyone else?
not too bad here. took sandwiches to the woods, had a bit of muffin rather than whole thing. don't 'feel' any thinner tho ifywim. i think lack of exercise and low activity levels generally a big problem for me, but difficult when spending most of day on sofa wth baby.
oops sorry edgetop, bathtime. i am trying to eat less and reduce fat intake. i might have to be more drastic though. misery and inability to eat is the only thing which has ever shifted any weight before, but (sadly for my waist) i am perfectly happy
well i have been baking and cooking all day! not somehtign i normally do!
made cheese scones for kids and dp and i made buternut squash bread (u r wot u eat) which was very very yummy, which dd loved too, and a very very healthy veg and chicken soup. so far its all so easy... how long will it last...?
lease please post the bread recipe - I love butternut squash. I have had disastrous day as went out tonight to use Whitbreads vouchers I won in school raffle. had v. lovely meal and actually couldn't manage much of the pudding but even so.......
Oh well I havn't been out since Christmas so I will just have to have a fruit & veg day tomorrow!
with myself!
