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

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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.

Well done to all the losers and Happy Birthday howlong! I hope things have settled down a bit now with your DS?

Things are tricky here too, thankfully my toe hasn't been too bad since I stupidly dropped the shelf on it, although I suspect I'll lose the nail at some point - DP's gout has been really playing up however and there isn't much he can do apart from rest his foot as much as possible. (Usually not an issue as he could win any 'sitting on your arse for hours' championship!!). This weekend irritatingly I'm having a very heavy AF, can't go far from the toilet, and we have two very lively toddlers which need exercising (think like puppies, but more bitey and less cute!). I did this morning and thankfully he's taking them to the ILs this afternoon as I don't think I can go out again. I'm just exhausted - sitting here surrounded by shopping after a massive supermarket trip yesterday, but no energy to put it away or cook anything with it.

Also trying to think how best to deal with the very lively DC over the next few weeks - MIL is back in hospital and unavailable for childcare, and half term approaches! - I need to have things booked/ planned and keep them busy, or they're unbearable. They are much easier separately but I have no-one apart from ILs to have them during the day.

Aaarrgghhh! I feel like throwing myself into a vat of chocolate at the moment!!

Oh dear. I can tell I'm hormonal, currently sobbing at the Who Do You Think You Are? episode with Danny Dyer.....

Good morning.
I hope the hormones are being kind ruby

I am really fed up with myself. I am right back where I started because I have fallen off the bloody wagon again !
I know what I need to do and I even quite enjoy it when I am doing it but I just keep sabotaging myself. I have had a busy few days which is really not unusual but I have found myself with my hand in the crisp packet and my booze intake is up.
I don't want to be this fat so what is stopping me just sticking with it ?

Aaarrrggghhhh!!

I hope the rest of you are having a better time of it.

howlong I'm exactly the same. Exhausted after a long day yesterday: takeaway pizza and wine for dinner. I give in far too easily. Doesn't help that DH is in training for a sporting event so he can actually get away with the extra carbs
Oh, and I'm sick again and AF due any moment. Happy February!

I haven't dared to weigh myself howlong in case I'm back at square one too! Just so flipping exhausted and lacking in time/ energy to cook properly, meal plan etc. I have a big Iceland shop arriving tomorrow though and am looking at Hello Fresh, Gousto, Muscle Food etc for some deals. We're going to have more fridge & freezer space soon which will hopefully give me more opportunities to plan.

I hear you Whose - pizza and wine would have been brilliant last night - as it was DP looked after the DC for an hour or so whilst I had a nap, then I had drive thru McDonald's

Did anyone watch 'This Time Next Year'? It was quite inspiring as I ate it whilst scoffing fries

I haven't been good this week. I had a work night out last night, I hate forced fun at the best of times. I had a vegetarian dish to be healthy then promptly ruined it by eating pudding and having a mocktail.

I have another night out tonight, I haven't put for nearly two years and now I'm out two nights in a row. I'm currently scouting the net for a good 2 for 1 deal which will of course be a fatty load of carbs.

I have to admit that after a good January, February hasn't been so good. But looking at the positives, although I've put a couple of lbs back on, I have managed to avoid midweek drinking, which was a definite issue before Christmas.

I just need to get back to being organised - if I take lunch to work and menu plan for our evening meals, I'm actually pretty good diet-wise. It's just too easy to not do either of those things, and end up buying a salad for lunch (which is supposedly healthy but is actually about a million calories) and then realise I've got no food for tea, so we end up having takeaway.

Back on it next week. Honest!

I'm with you diamantegal. This last week I've been incredibly tired, no energy to meal plan/ cook, which in turn means no healthy meals (DP just buys a takeaway!), which means less energy..... and so on. Currently eating some French fancies

On the bright side, we have tons of healthy food in, I just need to cook it!

A big area we fall down in is snacks and I'm really finding it tricky to make some to take with us. All I want is some flapjacks/ cookies etc that I could bake and keep with us - we do get hungry running round after the DC! - but everything seems to be full of sugar or sweetener. I'll keep looking.....

Major fail on my behalf today, my lunch got delayed due a tedious meeting so of course I got the munchies. I ended up eating a quarter of old fashioned sweets and a packet of crisps on top of my lunch. I'm also ridiculously dehydrated

I used to hate it when people brought cakes/ goodies to meetings sock. I know they were only doing it to be kind but it was very hard to get through a couple of hours resisting someone's home made cookies or similar!!

I'm feeling much better now AF has finished, don't think I'll get time to go running again before half term, but will plan to continue afterwards. I have a meal ready in the fridge and two low fat cakes baked, all is going well (although it needs to as I think I ate enough for our entire household last week!)

I have ordered a lovely new notebook and pen to write down daily food intake and exercise along with daily tasks.

My 2 litre bottle of juice water is in the fridge and ready to go tomorrow and I am planning a long walk and a low calorie meal.

I desperately need to get organised and I am hoping a daily list of tasks will help me visualise what needs to be done instead of being easily overwhelmed. Anyone else have a mental list of what needs to be done and end up in mental chaos on a Sunday night once you realise you have done virtually nothing from the list?

Vanilla I'm a bit like that, so I started a very very basic bullet journal. I use the front for day to day lists, and the back for ongoing 'wish lists' and planning of longer term or less immediate things. My to do page is simply a straight list, and it's amazing how much I get done now, plus I pick 3 things a week off my long term house list to do each week, anything not done is transferred to the next week etc. I don't do all the creative bits, it's literally a list, but it's very helpful.

How is the organising going Vanilla?

I use an app for my to do list but am so shattered at the moment that nothing is getting done! The DC aren't sleeping well, I'm exhausted from being up for hours with their coughing/ temperatures/ general faffing around and that means I don't have the time/ energy to do my meal prep in the evening. It's a vicious circle and means I am still fat

Organising is going pretty good. I've had a slow day today so I decided to do a 'reverse to do list' where I write down what I have managed to do. That way I'm still managing tasks but I'm not putting any pressure on myself to get X amount done.

On the diet front, my 2 litre water bottle hasn't left my side, and I haven't left the toilet

Uhm, guys? Am I going to have to join a different thread?

I'm here! I rarely get time to do anything these days. I've actually just asked my husband to book a day off work in the next few weeks so we can spend some time together planning. I definitely mean planning, he probably read as a day of bonding whilst the child is at day care.

Things to plan include dividing up house hold tasks, renovating the house and taming our jungle aka the garden.

I was thinking of starting a new thread called 'Weight loss for the permanently knackered' Vanilla

Seriously, I am so tired at the moment. Between massively hard work toddler DC and trying to keep the house reasonably tidy over half term, I'm shattered. DP does try, but he just has no idea that you need to calm children down at bedtime, rather than winding them up and up and up and hoping that it exhausts them. It doesn't.....

Once the little horrors are finally in bed, I have about two hours to tidy up, sort out washing, do meal prep, make any snacks we need, get stuff ready for the following morning etc etc. Weight loss is coming a poor third to my desire for and at the moment!

If anyone has any tips I'd be really grateful. I get hardly any time to do things during the day as my DC will be fighting if I take my eyes off them for two minutes