The wibbly tummies' new thread - (not so) round two...

That's why it's worked for me in the past, crazy - I had to actually NOTICE what I was eating, and tracking does help. Using the online tools at the moment as I always have my phone on me, so it's nice as simple.

"I mean it's obvious, but it's different when you're knackered and in the thick of it - I could always justify stuffing something else in my mouth. " THIS IS EXACTLY IT!

madmonkeys I'm doing weight watchers. there's no hocus pocus jiggery pokery; over the course of 2 pregnancies and interim breastfeeding I had simply forgotten what sensible eating looks like.

I'm resisting eating off ds1's plate when he doesn't finish his food (he has no problem with portion control ), limiting treats and eating measured portions. weight watchers is so handy for showing you that everything you eat counts. I mean it's obvious, but it's different when you're knackered and in the thick of it - I could always justify stuffing something else in my mouth.

I have been hungry a lot but that's easing now, and it's so worth it when I climb on the scales and see half a stone has just disappeared!!!

oops sorry double post

I seem only to remember this thread after I have stuffed my face with chocolate. Oh dear. We've had lots of rain just recently and it's hard to do any exercise when you're stuck inside with 2 LO's.

I seem only to remember this thread after I have stuffed my face with chocolate. Oh dear. We've had lots of rain just recently and it's hard to do any exercise when you're stuck inside with 2 LO's.

That's inspirational Crazy :)
I'm logging into WW online - can't get to a meeting until next Tuesday, but I think will sign up for the online thingy and get the app today. Christ knows I've been putting it off long enough, DS is 9 weeks now and I may as well make this supposed magical BF metabolism work for me! :)

What is your secret, Crazy?

I was a pound down on weigh in day, hooray! today another pound but I'm going with weigh in day weight and hopefully next week I'll have lost more which will be exciting. losing weight like this is just amazing - never ever managed it before! very excited.

Weighed on we'd and stuck at 57.1 kg. am just glad it hadn't gone up. This week is turning into a bit of a disaster. the four month sleep regression makes it so much harder to stick to healthy eating...

And today I weigh.... 69.1kg, half a kilo less than last week. Hurray, I'm losing weight! Slowly, but that's ok, I'm happy with that!!

yw 12lb!! well done you! it does put it into context when that's the weight of a whole actual person I've lost 8lb so far which is more or less ds2's birth weight, hurrah!

my usual sneaky mid-week weigh and by some miracle I dropped 2lb overnight! may have had something to do with ds2 feeding constantly leading to dehydration (god I'm tired) but it means I've broken the 11st barrier and am 10st 13lb!! my misery is achieving something!!

it's so hard when the weather is so cold and shit, but I'm trying to remember it won't always be like this(right? right???) and at some point I may actually be able to peel off a few blessed fat disguising layers. the thought of that is occasionally keeping me on the wagon.

Well between 1 and 1.5 lbs off this week - I'm happy with that after a lazy weekend and half a bag of poppadom crisps last night - whoops! My clothes are getting baggier and I'm 12lb down from where I started - not long and I'll be a stone down! I never used to be any good at visualising weight loss but DS is 12lb and he feels like he weighs a tonne so am tres chuffed! :-)

Hello Blackcurrants. Welcome! I lost a massive 600 g this week I'm ok with it, I thought I could well have gained this week. I got into such a tizzy this week and just pushed food into my gob to push down the stress! Stupid but I just went with the flow to be honest and some days it's like that in my house!! I will be slowly slowly shiftinmg this weight and thats ok with me so far.

Nothing bloody well fits comfortably that (you would think) should be incentive to shift some wieght quicker but doesn't always work for me!!

Go righmanpoorman, the wieght will fall off you when you start up your crazy exercising! I'm proud of you for having the energy to go do it! I'm sure you will fab at the end of it (when your fitness picks up).

Madmonkeys you seem to be doing pretty well, bar the cake/roast, we gotta have a few treats I think otherwise it's all slog slog slog.

utopian - you can do it, how old is your LO now? still quite small if I remember rightly. Just little bit here and there of trying to be good or better than terrible is what I've been doing :)

Can I join you? ebf 8 week old DS 2, I'm at home with him and yet to do more than a dog walk! and I can't stop eating! and craving sweets!
low carb has worked really well for me in the past, but I've heard it's not advised in the early months of breastfeeding, and thoughts?

Are people doing ww? that has also worked for me, though it is irritating and expensive... I have a huge amount to lose, 55lbs. It's such a depressing amount I don't know where to start. and I am hungry and tired! and dispirited!! someone say something encouraging about bfing and weight loss being possible?
I made a big batch of veg soup which will help me this week. what is working for everyone?

Monday again? Already?

Weighed in today- 10st 1lb, so basically back where I was before I went on my holiday beer binge (although I can now confirm that there is truth in the thing about beer being good for milk production). Watching the Killing III in the evenings, so that helps me stop snacking as DH refuses to pause it so I can run to the fridge and get chocolate.

Got my crossfit introduction next weekend. Idly wondering if I should try to do some exercise before then in order to prime the cogs, or if I should just unleash hell on myself on Saturday. I really think this is the answer for me, but problem is that I'm going to have to do an 8pm class twice a week which is going to massively suck. I'd actually rather do the 5am one, but DD is really unsettled between 4-6am so that's not going to happen for the foreseeable.

Dye and Crazy Keep the faith. Just keep on keeping on and you'll get there. Year 1 of motherhood is such a rollercoaster. It is bloody hard trying to lose weight when you are getting broken sleep and are bf'ing. I have a LOT of help (all childcare here is FT, live in, so I have my "nanny" even on my 2 non-work days) so my life with 2 kids is pretty easy by UK standards...and I still practically run to the fridge to get wine at 7pm. Whenever I have a "poor me" moment, I give myself a swift boot up the backside.

Hi everyone, someone said no food tastes as good as being slim feels. I keep trying to remember that whenever I see a cake... Have been much more restrained recently but had a bit if a family do yesterday and couldn't help eating a BIG piece of cake... And we had a roast for tea, that can't be good although it was very nice. Straight and narrow now though, weigh in on Tues to see if I've actually made any difference - that will be the first time since my initial weigh in on the new scales last week.

I've had a terrible week crazy too. Tiny amount of weight lost has gone back on. I'm sick of maternity clothes.

Next week...

I'm really struggling to stay on the wagon lately. I just want to eat what I want and actually feel full!! I'm a bottomless pit and I just want to stuff cake and chocolate in my face.

feeling a bit miserable. weight not moving atm. boo.

Hairy dieters jalfrezi has blown me up.

Lovely.

Of course I did get back on te scales the next day to level off at 11 6 I knew it was so kind of fluke, but a 4 lb loss is more than acceptable in my book. So am still really chuffed.

Just put my hairy dieters jalfrezi together for tonight, with chapatti rather than nan.

Your walking sounds brill yw I try to walk as much as poss, sometimes into town and sometimes at Windsor Great Park. I love it.

Welcome Rowing and well done Sophia - that's an amazing week.

My weigh in tomorrow - not sure I've done very well but DH has been off work for half term and I may have drunk a lot more booze every evening than usual....

Oh lord every week recently I have been having a bad week and rreading weigh in, sometimes the stress wins out and I can't think about what I'm stuffing in my face as I don't know what else to do in that moment. Things will hopefully calm down again soon. DD1 is such a handful though.