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.

5 stone? Are you sure @VanillaSugarCookies? I would look terrible at 8 stone but I suppose it depends on your age and general build. I'm 49 and "big boned" as they say and look better at 10 stone.

Are you quite petite? I'm only asking because I'd hate for you to be over estimating how much weight you "need" to lose 🙁

BMI - 29.2 with a 38" waist, high blood pressure and a couple of autoimmune conditions. And approaching 50! This needs to change.

I have a beach holiday in just over 6 weeks so that's my first target. I don't expect miracles but I could lose a stone by then couldn't I? Just cutting back on the alcohol will help (considering I've had a drink or 7 every day since 23rd December).

Couch to 5k wk2 r1 done
I haven't eaten yet but that is because I haven't been hungry rather than anything else.
My plan food wise is to eat my my usual meals but no snacks.
Now I will tackle some housework for an hour then have a shower and some lunch.

I agree with gimme vanilla that sounds a bell of a lot .

Welcome everyone else and good luck !

@vanillasugarcookies have you considered switching to weighing yourself in kilos? I found that oddly helpful (years ago now) as I had no 'history' with the numbers involved and it all seemed more neutral. I wanted to die at the idea that I was 16 stone but 104 kilos just didn't have the fear factor. Then I set a goal for 2 kilos at a time, and these days I'm down at 88 kilos with the ultimate aim being for 77 kilos which would JUST put me inside the healthy BMI bracket.

We can only start from where we are.

I must admit I succumbed to the evil msg laden pringles this winter. A couple is fine but eat nearly the whole tin! What it does to your insides grim.

I'm chastising myself now with lots of whole grains and thick brown rice 😁

I've actually eaten less this Xmas period as I was recently diagnosed with Coeliac disease so I've definitely been limited in the amount of cakes, stollen and mince pies I normally eat. However, nearly all alcohol is gf......

So far, so good. I am doing Veganuary, had a nice lentil cottage pie for lunch from Sainsbury's, quite filling too.
We are having a new kitchen and the builders are not back until next week, so we struggle to make decent dinners with the equipment we have, but I am hoping that will change now we have an Instant Pot.

Zevitevitchofcwsmas - what does msg do to your insides??

Me too! Had a baby 3 months ago and so ready to sort my diet out.

I have issues with my hips stemming from pregnancy so I need that sorted before I can get fit, at the moment I can’t walk more than 20 minutes without pain. Starting with an osteopath tomorrow and have booked a gp appointment for hopeful physio referral.

Water consumption at work: 1 litre
Total number of Fitbit 'active hours' due to legging it to the loo every 30min? : 8

Less good on the eating front. Dull AF lunch supplemented with a sneaky reduced price sarnie on the train home

C25K-ers are you running every day or day on/day off?

How you're right, I will never see that number again!

Gimmie Before I had a baby I had a tiny frame so the higher end of my healthy weight bracket just made me look really untoned and wobbly. Although Since having a baby my body shape has changed so I may feel comfortable at the higher end of my bracket, maybe the weight will suit my frame better like it didn't before. I think you are right, I will focus on being a healthy weight before I focus on being a goal weight.

I'm just about to cook and I have 417 calories left to use. I stupidly didn't plan and bring out anything healthy today so I ended up with a meal deal shopping has now been delivered though so I have no excuse after today. I have walked a fair bit today though so I feel less bad about it.

First day of slimming world complete
It's been fine but I need to crack on with some exercise but I've come down with the lurgy today and I'm struggling to breathe sat on the sofa so it may have to wait a couple of days.

DS goes back to Uni tomorrow and we had big family dinner tonight so I pushing back my healthy start.
Having said that I read OP post while eating salt and vinegar kettle crisps and drinking wine.
Just said to my DH that healthy is going to be a shock as I am snacking indulgently for England...

I can do it!!!! tomorrow

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I'm in...I don't have a fancy journal but I'm going shopping tomorrow and psoerchase is calling...I have put on about 4lbs over Xmas, which is a lot for me as I am 5'3" so it shows, I was running loads up until October when I did a half, no idea what happened but just lost motivation, lots of stress at work and I just gave up a bit. I'm doing boot camp on the 15th, I lost a few lbs doing that last time but I'm just mainly aiming to get back into running, cut back on the booze as I have drunk every single day since about the 20th of December till yesterday 😲 and I've been eating carbs like they're going out of fashion. Low carb suits me, my IBS settles right down and I feel so much less bloated, but although some habits like not eating bread or pasts have stuck I just cannot get shot of my sugar cravings.
I've got my 30 day shred dvd ready, I'm going to make myself do it as in reality getting out for a run is nearly impossible with my DH working till gone 8 pm most nights and living in the middle of nowhere. So Gillian Michaels is going to be my new best friend for the next month!

Doing badly so far. Eaten loads. Haven't drunk anything, so at least my Dry January is ok. So far....

Day 1 of new healthy me went okay. I didn't snack, I didn't drink, and I'm about to go to bed before midnight - all vast improvements over the last few weeks. Meals were maybe slightly carb heavy, but one thing at a time!

Did day one of the shred, now having a mint tea before bed, I'm determined to get up 30 mins earlier to do it every morning, as a kick start to January. I say this every year....maybe this will be my year!

I did another Davina dvd.
Didn’t drink.
Went to the cinema and avoided all snacks - had a Diet Coke.
Small meals.

Still haven’t managed 10k steps though.

Day 1 went ok. Got off my train early, had a very light lunch at work (apple, cheese, FF yog) then chicken, leeks, green beans and a bit of mash (skin on though!). No booze even though dp was drinking. No chocolate. No leftover Xmas cake.

My favourite jeans are still appallingly tight. Having nothing in your wardrobe that fits comfortably (even my pjs are snug) is a good motivator! I will do this though - I'm so tired of being flabby and lethargic.

Did you want a success story from last year still? Last December got told I was overweight and pre-diabetic (ok hmm was only just overweight at 26 but pre-disposed towards diabetes with a family history of it). I was 66.5kg or 10 1/2 stone at 5" 3.

Since then I have logged all food on mfp and had to stick to 1200 calories who h was really tough and I started running more (I'd all ready done c25k which I mistakenly thought have me permission to eat everything going). Since then my Bmi is now down to 19 and I weigh after Christmas 50kg about 7 1/2 stone. I've done 2 half marathons in the last year and feel the best I've done in years and turned 45 recently.

You really can do this.

Food going ok so far logging with MFP but exercise is more difficult now i’mback At work. Think I will go for a weekly target of 70,000 steps and try and make 10,0000 a day whenever possible but not give up if I don’t make it some days. I’m very good at giving up as soon as I have a blip and I need to find a way of just keeping going

Grey I'm totally with you on giving up too easily. And I've just 'fessed up to MFP that I had pizza, xmas pud and brandy cream for dinner last night. Unsurprisingly that took me over my limit!?!
But.... thanks to a friend's persuasion I did W1D2 of C25k. And no booze apart from the pudding

I was thinking the other day, what is the downside to exercise? I mean, I know the downsides to booze - snackcidents, vile hangovers, weight gain, crap sleep, rubbish skin, embarrassing behaviour occasionally - but I still persist.

And yet I give up exercising after a few weeks, when I can find no downsides. I've only been doing a little DVD for three days, and it's had a huge effect on my mental wellbeing. I just feel better for doing it. If I do it for long enough, it makes me slimmer, more toned, more energetic, raises my libido...and yet I pack it in after a few months. Every time.

Where's the logic?

I'd love to join you. As with PP the thread title really caught my eye. White wine and jelly beans for me!

Been gaining weight steadily for years. The shock of motherhood and sleep deprivation followed by sticking my head in the sand and not making any time for my own health and nutrition, plus loving food and drinking a lot of wine has resulted in me weighing 14st 10lbs (gulp) at 5'3''

Now the DTs are 9yo I think I'd better get my life back on track....

But, vanilla your post really resonated with me. It seems overwhelming.

I would like to eat less carbs and sugar, drink less wine and exercise more. I think what might help me is making time for other treats like a bath or pedicure or just time for myself.

My goal for January is to focus on making exercise a habit. Luckily I have kept exercising (sporadically) even as I've got really big, so I am not scared to go to the classes I've enjoyed in the past. I've signed up to a 6 week block of one class, and the other begins again next week.

I'm also going to reduce drinking by having 2 dry days and 2 days where I have just one glass of wine. This will reduce drinking by 1-2 bottles

I will also take small steps towards reducing sugar and carbs (planning carb free breakfasts and dinners, avoiding pudding - it's hard for me at lunchtime as I work in a school so get delicious free school dinners ) but I'm going to concentrate on alcohol and exercise first rather than try and change everything, as this has set me up for failure in the past.

Thank you for the success stories - they are really helpful. If anyone has anymore please post - I'm finding it really inspirational to think that next January could be very different.

Me. I'm the biggest I've ever been outside years I've had a child. I know it's making me miserable. I know I don't feel great. And I knows it fixable. And yet I've just eaten Half a chocolate orange. WTF is the matter with me???