Who else is sitting planning their new healthy version of themselves while eating pringles and drinking wine ?

[Howlongtillbedtime]

I am !

I have bought a shiny new notebook.
I have been searching pintrest for bullet journal ideas.
This includes couch to 5k (for the 3rd time)

I really need to sort my health and fatness (not a typo) out .

So if you need a partner in crime to give you a nudge or a kick then please come and join me.

More importantly if you are one of the few miracles out there that day feeling like this last year and actually succeeded please come and tell me your tales.

All welcome.

I had been good up til today pretty much, but I've eaten far far too much rubbish today, I don't know what's happened to me. Nothing to do but start again tomorrow!

Pat & Need I'm the same as you. Stuck to under 1,200 calories since the 1st and all I want to do when I'm watching telly is snack. I think that will be my hardest habit to break. I've associated food with relaxing in front of the TV for too long. I may have to ban all food items from the lounge.

Well today is my first weigh in.
I know I have only been doing this for 4 days but bloody hello 1.5 pounds off is a bit disappointing.

I am however not going to do what I would normally do and drown my sorrows in wine and carbs.

I am going to go and do wk2 r3
I am having another veggie dinner.

I will weigh again this time next week and be lighter!

The weekends are tougher than the weekly routine so well done everyone who is keeping on .

Well I had a disastrous day yesterday and a terrible night's sleep as punishment. I just couldn't control myself, I ate so much crap.

Today: it's my rest day from running/workouts, few jobs round the house getting ready for school etc. Nice roast chicken for dinner, loads of veg. Lots of water. Hopefully back on track

Howlong well done, 1.5lb in 4 days is a great start!

I’m pissed off.

Was perfect yesterday, until I accidentally had three (three!) gin and tonics which led to:
A pack of mini cheddars (horrible)
The last mince pie (stale)
Two Bonne Maman madeleines that I bought to make Christmas trifle with but never got round to it. (Pointless and full of crap).

Why do I do this to myself? I’m on holiday in less than a month. I’m going to feel like shit, yet there I sit, shovelling in the crap.

Why? Can anyone enlighten me because I give up

Howlong I think 1.5lb is great -Well done!

I feel rubbish about yesterday too. Lindor balls for breakfast were a bad start and my food intake didn't exactly improve. I went out for my 3rd C25k of the week but couldn't do it - think maybe I hadn't warmed up enough but my ankle really hurt so I hobble walked it.

Today I shall be making soup and trying to plan my workday lunches better as I was starving on the way home last week which leads to train station temptation.

mawkish don't give up - it was just one day! I'm the same when drinking too though, always with the carbs...

1.5lb is almost a kilo - in 4 days that's pretty good! You'd know if you were carrying a pound and a half of sugar around. That's a chunk less weight for your knees to carry.

I find weighing myself every day is really good. It was anathema to do that when I started thinking about weight - I think it was associated with eating disorders. But I find my weight doesn't fluctuate in any difficult way - if I eat a lot it goes up like a bloody gazelle if I eat less it slowly, reluctantly goes down. I keep better control with less stress by checking daily.

I've enjoyed bullet journaling this week, I'm spending less time looking at my phone which is much better for mental health.

I've decided that I need to start running but the only way I can do this is if I get up at 5am. I know it's a case of just getting up and doing up but I can't find the motivation right now.

I've had a good week food wise at work. Lots of healthy vegan food, but I've let myself down at home this weekend. I've inhaled a whole box of fancy m&s chocolate biscuits. Sigh!

Sunday is my cheat day. I have stuck to 1,200 each day and been extremely good so I think I do deserve a day off. Don't worry I won't be going crazy with pizza for breakfast and chocolate for dinner. I just won't be logging or counting calories.

I have found today that I cannot actually eat a lot. The low calorie meals are obviously smaller than usual so I get full quicker as I'm getting used to the small portions.

And I haven't been drinking my calories either no useless 200
Calorie drinks throughout the day. I don't know why I drank stuff like that before? Water is perfectly fine and if I need flavour I can just add juice or have a Diet Coke. I must have been drinking around 1,000 of my calories before this. No wonder I've been putting on weight.

Howlong 1.5lb is great! I'm going to weigh in on Tuesday, in the middle of horrendous AF though so we shall see.....

Do you find bullet journaling useful sock? I haven't decided whether they're worth the extra money yet - I already have a Filofax and barely get the time to write in that! - so although they look lovely, I'm not sure if I'd get time/ opportunity to use it before the DC pounce and use it as a scribbling pad

I'm the same with drinking too mawkish - just want to snack and snack - I do enjoy a glass of wine but my willpower dives afterwards.

Enjoy your day off Vanilla!!

@RubySlippers77 yes I do find my bullet journal helpful, not only is it helping me with my mindfullness through the medium of being arty and creative. It's helping me get organised, everything is now in one pretty notebook instead of a diary and multiple notebooks.

Thank you all . I managed not to fall off the wagon yesterday which I am pleased about. Now it's a weekday I will hopefully find it easier . Have booked myself on an evil legs bums and tums class tonight. I have only done it once before just before Christmas and I was hurting for 3 days.

Meal plan and shopping is sorted for the week which also helps to keep me on track.

I am loving my bullet journal so far. I am a prolific list maker but they are normally all over the place. This is great because everything is in one place.
I am not artistic so mine isn't pretty but I think it will help keep me on track with everything I have to remember.

Good luck to everyone for today.

I was super strict yesterday, had a smug weigh in this morning, and have promptly collapsed a bit today. I'd made a lavish lunch for my inlaws [feeder alert] and had lots of leftovers which I've now eaten too many of. Rubbish. Got to stop inviting people over as an excuse to cook/eat loads of food.

Weighed in 68 freaking kilos!!! WTF.... still logging my food and did body pump so making small in roads.

I’m muchly inspired by the journalers...I’ve just started and I’m finding it much better for my anxiety and getting my shit togetherness ....

I've finally made a start (waited until after 12th night!). Ate salmon and veg no potatoes for lunch and told the chef at school (a bit of a feeder) what I'm trying to do. Leftover chicken with lentils and veg for dinner. Had one glass of wine and now there's none open. Did not eat any sugar and am drinking herbal tea. Drank LOADS of water.

I am a reading the new Fast 800 diet book - very interesting...

A better day today.

21,000 steps.
Davina DVD.
No sugar or snacks.
Did have two bottles of beer with dinner, but I’d had some dreadful news from the vet about my dearest old dog, so I forgive myself (and at least I didn’t dive head-first into the biscuit barrel afterwards).

Well done to everyone who's sticking with it!

Weigh in day for me tomorrow so fingers crossed. I'm feeling a bit lighter but still need to do my measurements too... on the plus side, the DC are finally back at preschool tomorrow, which means I can tidy up the house (my goodness but they can make a mess in no time at all!) and continue with my plans of being super organised. I'm making fridge/ freezer/ store cupboard lists to try to waste less food and do more meal planning.

I'm sticking with my Filofax for now sock till I can get to a nice stationery shop (none in my town!) to look at bullet journals. Plus I would want to keep it away from my DC's little grasping hands, I think I would cry if they scribbled all over a beautiful notebook!

My pens have been delivered but my new notepad has only just been posted I can't wait to catch up with the dairy logging and stuff. 2 litre water bottle and my fake Fitbit gadget will be here sometime next week. I stupidly didn't find a seller based in England so they're taking ages to be delivered.

A weigh in today showed some movement on the scales - a grand total of 1.9 pounds. I have achieved the loss of 1% of my weight loss according to my net diary.

1stmrsF I've just read that book, I've done the original blood sugar diet for years but the 5:2 version sounds good. We have a long running support thread if you do decide to try it
Blood sugar diet thread 13 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/fasting_diet/3437086-blood-sugar-diet-thread-13

averagebear Thank you, I'll take a look. Am experimenting with a sort of hybrid of the low carb Med diet and time restricted eating at the moment. I think the new 5:2 might work for me.

My son bought me a massive toblerone for Christmas and I had forgotten about it.

Someone else needs to eat I now :(

I hope everyone is hanging in there!

I'm feeling very virtuous. Did W4R4 of C25K yesterday, and have lost 1.5 lbs in the last week. And then DH is out tonight, which is usually my excuse to have takeaway pizza and wine. But no, I cooked chickpea and paneer frittata. It was completely tasteless, despite the Hairy Bikers assurances otherwise, so I won't be doing that again - but it wasn't pizza!

Howlong every time I go past Poundland I have to stop myself buying their knockoff Toblerone

Mixed week for me; got on the scales and had lost 4lb!! Was astonished really pleased (admittedly I first weighed during AF, which probably skewed the results a bit!). Then today I was pottering around doing dinner, supervising the DC doing some drawing etc and crashed over on the kitchen floor - DTS2 had left a clear plastic sheet lying around, I stepped on it and my foot went from under me. I'm now really achey and feeling sorry for myself. Kind of hoping I get some impressive bruises to show for the pain!

ruby that sounds scary. Hopefully by tomorrow you will have a good purple bruise to show off.

But yay for the four pound loss that's brilliant!

I am still plodding along. I didn't have a great day food wise (I succumbed to a triangle ) Couch to 5k later . I am doing it on the treadmill for now so will do more gym stuff afterwards.

Good luck to everyone weighing today.

Howlong, how are you finding doing it on the treadmill? I'm finding it SO much harder than the first time I did it, and I wonder if it's because the treadmill is making me run faster. Of course, it could just be that I'm more overweight than last time as well. But either way, I'm a way off being able to do the 20 minute run, even though that should be next week for me...