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I need to lose this weight

18 replies

StealthPolarBear · 30/04/2019 23:17

I know how. I just need to bloody stick with it. I have a binge pronlem which is 80% under control.

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Charles11 · 30/04/2019 23:23

I’ll join you! I’m determined to lose weight and know all the various info.
Just need to Stick to it.
How are you going to do it?

ChrisPrattAteMyHomework · 30/04/2019 23:24

Me too :(

Really badly

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StealthPolarBear · 01/05/2019 06:15

Hi both, sorry you're in this situation too.
In the past I've lost weight with my fitness pal and the 30 day shred. If I can get organised I'll do that again.
What are your plans?

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DinosApple · 01/05/2019 06:52

Me too, I've 2st to shift gained slowly over the last 2 years.

I'm stopping the snacks and starting some exercise. I've done the shred and C25K before pretty successfully, but by God I hate running! And motivation in the evenings is hard to come by.

FannyFeatures · 01/05/2019 06:59

I'll join for a bit of moral support too.

I lost a lot of weight following SW but haven't been able to get to group since January because of one thing or another and reverted back to comfort/boredom eating.

I can be fine most of the time then random binge for no reason whatsoever which is bloody frustrating when I thought I had it sussed.

I don't get in with logging everything so im debating going back to SW tomorrow and just trying to structure my time better, I'd like to do C25k too.

FannyFeatures · 01/05/2019 07:00

Oh, and is like to lose about 2st.

HalyardHitch · 01/05/2019 07:02

I'm in. Three pregnancies in three years. Boys are now one and two. I'm ready to try and get back. I'd like to lose 2st.

I started slimming world a week ago. Blowout over the weekend but I'm hopeful that will be cancelled out by the rest of the week

keiratwiceknightly · 01/05/2019 07:06

Oh Stealth, me too! It's just so hard since I hit mid 40s - I fight my body for every lb off and one big meal later it is all back. I'm in decent shape thanks to yoga and walking but it's a shape that is a couple of inches wider than I want it to be on every measurement.

Charles11 · 01/05/2019 07:45

I’m going to delay breakfast til 11 and not eat after 7. (16:8 way of eating) and focus on low carb and lots of veg.
The worst thing I can do is eat toast for breakfast. It somehow turns me into an eating machine for the rest of the day.
I need to lose 2 stone but I’m focussing I’m losing 1 right now. 14lbs. How hard can that be, right?

SauvingnonBlanketyBlanc · 01/05/2019 08:00

I've started mfp again and only eating non processed food.I binge if I eat my favourite foods so cant even have them in small quantities.

HarveySchlumpfenburger · 01/05/2019 08:05

How have you got the binge problem 80% under control? I think I need to work on that before I can tackle the weight issue.

troppibambini · 01/05/2019 08:05

Gah I'm with you. I'm so so sick of starting sw/16:8, exante..... the list goes on and failing.

sniffysnifferson · 01/05/2019 08:47

I signed upto team rh in march and i haven't looked back. It has taught me accountability, nutrition and has kept my binge eating under wraps. Its a no nonsense attitude from the coaches.
You will find the group on facebook.

FannyFeatures · 01/05/2019 08:59

Are all the team RH posts similar?

From what I've seen shared and from speaking with followers on SM it all seems quite aggressive and arrogant, sneering at anyone who dares follow a different approach. I've looked a few times but always find the same.

FannyFeatures · 01/05/2019 09:03

Not all RH followers obviously!

OddestSock · 01/05/2019 09:13

What has really worked for me is hunger directed eating. It's massive on Instagram right now.

I've dieted for over 20 years and basically ended up at the same weight as I started at. And I figured that dieting was miserable, and I would just eat what I fancied when I wanted it rather than banning foods.

It stopped being about weight loss and just about changing my attitude towards food. As soon as I start a diet I want to eat all the food I've decided is bad food, and it leads to inevitable binge eating.

HDE is a scary concept at first, I thought I'd just be eating chocolate and cake all the time, and didn't see how it would help me at all, but diets make me miserable and I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to lose weight.

As it turns out, when I can eat what I want, when I want, I eat far less! I don't need to binge eat chocolate because I can have it whenever I want it. I don't think about food and my next meal constantly, I eat whatever the hell I fancy. Sometimes that's fruit and vegetables, other times, it's chicken nuggets and chips, but I've learned to realise that food shouldn't be bad!

Incidentally, I have lost weight (about 2.5 stone), and I'm at a size I'm thrilled to be at, and I know I can maintain it because my attitude towards food has completely changed. It has been liberating! No weighing food, no treat days, no calorie counting, no syns, no spending hours in the supermarket reading labels because I need to make sure I get the bread that has the lowest calories per slice...

ComtesseDeSpair · 01/05/2019 09:18

Don’t underestimate the importance of exercise in weight loss. Yes, people are correct when they say it’s 70/30 diet to exercise - but the effort you put in to the exercise is a great motivator to not want to undo all that effort and hard work by eating rubbish. Plus if you add in something which focuses on building muscle like lifting weights, you’ll really start to see results in your body shape more quickly.

Mummyoftwo91 · 01/05/2019 09:31

I'm in, need to loose 2 stone have 2 events in June and would like abit gone before then! I don't have any plans I don't have a clue what I'm doing 🤦🏻‍♀️

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