My diet starts today...... please help me stick to it.

[Kayleigh]

I have put on about 2 stone in the last year. None of my nice clothes fit me and I hate myself.
I am fed up being miserable because of my weight.

I am going back to slimming world today. But what can I do to stop this becoming just another one of my two to three week diets. I really need to stick at this for the long term.

Please help ....

[MummyToSteven]

You looked lovely tho when I met you at the Summer Party. Tho snap - I'm starting a diet again too. I think if you look at it as a lifestyle thing - healthy eating, more exercise, more fruit and veg, and a family thing, rather than just a starve till I lose weight and fit into my clothes then give up thing. SW/WW are good tho coz it makes you focus on your eating habits and breaks off the cycle of stuffing yourself with junk food

[tinyganghq]

I don't know if I can help, but I can certainly empathise. Yep, today for me as well and around two stone too - or since two days away with dh, more like 2.5 stone; how did that happen!!?

I too am sick of my clothes either looking awful or not fitting at all and I'm just not prepared to keep buying bigger sizes. I'm tall as well so the problem seemed to get absorbed by my height for a while. A couple of really bad photos made me stop and think - my face looks so podgy and that's one bit of me that never seemed to put on weight before.

I think it's more about a frame of mind - trying to focus on the overall outcome than the feeling of being denied nice things. Easier said than done though.. I keep thinking how fantastic I'm going to look wafting into a Christmas party all slim and gorgeous - but in the short term, come Friday evening the call of a takeaway and a bottle of wine will be agony to resist.

I find being a SAHM makes losing weight incredibly hard - children are always heading towards the next meal all the time, so that means I am too - either that or a glass of wine.

[Fio2]

Kayleigh i am exactly the same and I am so annoyed with myself because last year I lost nearly 30lb with weighwatchers and has 3lb til goal. Now I reckon I have put on all that I lost. i am going back to weightwatchers when dd starts back at school.

I wish you lots and lots of luck xxxx

[Kayleigh]

Thanks, it is so good to know you're not the only one. MTS you are right about a lifestyle change, I really do need to do some exercise as well. I am the laziest person I know. I will drive around a car park three times just to get a space nearer the entrance, when I could have parked further away and walked to the entrance in less time.

tinyganghq, it was the photos that finally shamed me. We were at a wedding this weekend and I was trying to get ds1 to stand in front of me as he is taller and would hide my stomach. My ds2 insisted on standing in front of me and all I could see was this vast expanse of hip and tummy above his head . Thank god for digital cameras - i deleted that one !

fio2, I also lost a lot after ds2 and have put it all back on. I have just been and got weighed and it is nearer 3 stone I have to lose. I could cry.

[tinyganghq]

I'm not a big fan of exercise either but this time, instead of just trying to be so strict about what I eat and making myself miserable and obsessive about calories, I'm going to try REALLY hard to get into some sort of exercise too.

Dh does lots of exercise and seems to eat the same as me but is very slim. It seems to me that there could be something in this execise thing after all if it means you can eat reasonably too. I just love food and cannot live on ryvita (yeuch) for long before losing the plot after a week.

It's just the thought of getting started..I've got this idea that everyone will be having a good laugh (as though anyone'll be remotely interested) at my first few attempts .
It said on the radio the other day that it takes around 3 weeks to break a habit or start a new one, so I guess after 3 weeks of puffing red faced and wobbling on a run or whatever - it'll feel like second nature

Lots of luck everyone xx

[myermay]

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[fairydust]

Hi Kayleigh

well i'm back again i tell you were as bad as each other with starting n stopping SW but this time we will do it - i need support and i;m sure you do so together and anyone else who wants to join we'll beat the fat.

right then your first aim is to loose 1stone by xams that's roughly 1lb a week....

CAT if you want Kayleigh i'm always around...

bewst of luck hun

[Kayleigh]

hi fairydust. yes, we can do this together. Thank you for the realistic goal. I was already setting myself unrealistic goals and then i'll be upset when I don't make them. I would be more than happy to lose a stone before xmas.

Let's do this !!!

[Titania]

hello....i am trying to lose weight too and find it very difficult to stick to things.....I am 2 stone heavier than prebaby, and would love to lose even just a stone. Can I join you on here?

[Kayleigh]

Of course you can Titania. How old is your baby ? What diet are you following ? Do you exercise ?
Questions, questions !!!!

[Titania]

i have 3 children aged 4, 2 and 6.5 months....i dont have much time to exersize!!! I have joined the online slimming club, but not finding it that good. I cannot afford WW or SW.

[fairydust]

titania - do you still have the guide line material for either sw / ww - could you maybe do it from home then say weigh your self at boots once a week (you get the proof on paper then)???

[codswallop]

hey fattie! :)
do you want me to be harsh or kind?

[Kayleigh]

hey fattie yourself, coddy Be kind or i'll cry.

Titania, I have a spare s/w book I could send you if you want to follow that with us. Fairydust and I know all there is to know about red and green days. We will be your virtual group leaders !!

[codswallop]

Kayl;eigh i am sorry!

[Titania]

Faurydust i dont have any material from them.

Kayleigh that would be great....thank you.....i will pay you for it.

[Kayleigh]

Titania, I really don't want any money for it. And (shushhh) I'll post it through work so it won't cost me postage.

Will contact you via CAT.

[Titania]

ok thank you

[fairydust]

my biggest down fall is lunch time i struggle so much what to have -want something easy and quick but most of all filling so any ideas

[Kayleigh]

fairydust are you at home (access to oven etc) or at work ?

[fairydust]

always at home pretty much - i'm a SAHM

[Kayleigh]

Fairydust, some lunch ideas:-

green days :- jacket pot & beans/cheese , pasta, quorn sausages & jacket, egg, beans & s/w chips (my fave!)

red days, salad with cold meat, salad with tuna/mackeral, toasted cheese/ham/tomato sandwich

either, cheese & mush omelete, cheese on toast, scrambled egg on toast

These are all pretty basic, will try and think of some others.....

Titania - book is in post.

[Titania]

what are all the red and green days? im comfused!

[Kayleigh]

Titania, the book will explain more. I think this has already been written on a thread, so I will try and find it for you. If not I'll write out the basics for you...back in a mo....

[Kayleigh]

right found what I wanted (thank you crunchie!!)

OK Here goes, Crunchies definative guide to Slimming WOrld.

It is not food combining, it is 'food optimising' if you want to believe the hype. Basically it has Red and Green days and they work as follows:

Red Day

Free Food - eat as much as you want cooked without added fat (also trim all fat off before cooking, although you can leave skin on poultry, just don't eat it)

• All Red Meat
  
• all Poultry
  
• all Fish
  
• all shellfish
  
• Bacon and some sausages
  
• eggs, very low fat Cottage cheese, VLF natural yoghurt, VLF Fromage Frais, Quorn
  
• all vegetables, excluding potatoes, sweetcorn, parsnips
  
• all fruit, including bananas
  
  Healthy Extras - measured quantities of foods designed to give you added calcium, vitamins etc. You can choose one milk option, one cheese option and two others.
  
• Milk, for instance 250 ml of semi-skimmed
  
• cheese, approx 28g of most cheeses or more of low fat ones
  
• bread, 57g of wholemeal bread (2 slices of SMALL loaf, or small roll)
  
• breakfast cereal, 2 weetabix or approx 30g of lots of high fibre cereals
  
• 8oz potato (jacket), or 7oz new potatos (in skins)
  
• 2oz of wholemeal pasta
  
• various different crispbreads, cooked fruit, soups etc.
  
  Lastly SYNS
  EVerything else has a sin value and you can eat approx 10 sys a day
  
• 1 small glasses wine (5 sins)
  
• mini choc bar(4-6 sins)
  -2 tbls helmanns light 4 sins
  
  Now you can try Green days, BUT YOU CANNOT MIX THEM IN ONE DAY!!
  
  Green Days - Free food (cooked without added fat)
  
• All Fruit
  
• All Veg, inc potatoes, sweetcron, parsnips
  
• All Pasta (dried not fresh)
  
• All Rice
  
• All Grains like couscous, polenta etc
  
• Legumes like Kidney beans, lentils etc
  
• eggs, very low fat Cottage cheese, VLF natural yoghurt, VLF Fromage Frais, Quorn
  
  Healthy Extras - measured amounts as before, milk, cheese, cereals, bread PLUS
  
• 3oz red meat
  
• 6oz chicken
  
• 6oz prawns
  You can have one milk choice, one cheese choice and 2 others such as cereal and a 'protien'
  
  Syns
  As before everything else!!
  
  
  Thats the basics. However on top of this load of free food there are loads of other things that are free like Baked Beans on a green day and certain susages on red.
  
  Lastly to help you understand I will give you a red day and a green day
  
  RED DAY
  Cooked breakfast of bacon, free sausages, eggs, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes (remember ketchup/brown sauce is sysn, a good dollop is about one syn)
  2 Slices wholemeal toast - from small loaf.
  Lunch - Large salad with Tuna or Prawns or chicken, with dressing made from yoghurt and lemon juice, or low fat dressing (about 2 syns)
  Supper - Huge steak or roast chicken with small jkt potatao or new potato, loads of brocoli and carrots.
  Snacks
  Muller lite yoghurts (free)
  Low cal jelly (whole pack 2 sins - serves 4)
  Wine - small glass 5 syns.
  5 laughing cow light triangle cheeses (healthy extra)
  Milk for tea/coffee (healthy extra)
  Total syns - 10
  Ketchup - 1
  Salad dressing - 2
  Wine - 5
  Jelly - 2
  
  
  Average Green day
  Cooked breakfast - Quorn sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, grilled tomatoes, fried eggs (fry light), home-made hash browns (grated potato/onion/spices - fried in fry light)
  Lunch
  Massive Jacket potato with cottage cheese or veggie chilli, and salad
  Dinner - Pasta with vegetable sauce, parmesan as healthy extra
  Snacks as before
  could add in meat or chicken into pasta as Healthy extra or have Tuna in luchtime jacket. Or have Ryvitas and low fat cream cheese as snack
  Syns
  2 glasses wine or small pack low fat crisps (5 sins) and 2 jaffa cakes (5 sins)
  
  
  Have you all got bored yet??
  
  Does it make sense??
  
  Go buy the magazine which gives a week of red and a week of Green menus and more ideas!!