To dare you to tell me how much weight you've put on!?

[ClementineKelandra]

10lbs and it's not even new year yet!!!

I weighed in this morning and stayed the same as last week when I had a 3lb gain because of my birthday.

3lbs, so back on the low carb I go! I have a knee injury and now a chesty cough (I'm asthmatic) so I haven't been able to run it off!

I've put on far too much recently I think it's time I started doing the dreaded exercising and cutting back on the junk.

Forgot to add, it's just under a stone that I've put on

Loads. Can't do my jeans up without looking like they are someone's else's. I look awful and I am small sound normally slim so I look like a badly stuffed sausage.

I plan to buy lots of leeks and make a big soup, walk lots and stay away from biscuits and cheese, potatoes and bread.

I will have to do sit ups as well, or buy some smocks. Even dh has noticed and it's the first time he has commented! My cs tummy is looking particularly revolting:(

In defence I hurt my leg before Christmas and couldn't walk, but it's sort of ok now.

5.5 lbs my Slimming World consultant gained 9 lbs though so that made me feel better!

None. Thanks noro virus!

5 fecking pounds! All my own fault but its still a pain to deal with. Have been doing slimming world for 3 days but nothing shifted as yet. Am going to M and S to get control pants tomorrow for my Hogmanay dress! Bah!

Too bloody much.

DH has been in hospital though since the 16th Dec and the boys and I have been eating on the run between visiting times.

I have got a small online shop coming tomorrow and I have lots of extra fruit on the order - strawbs, raspberries, mangos, kiwis and some 0% total yoghurt which I will have for breakfast. Am going to be cutting out carbs. Have also ordered some of those prepared Mediterranean vegetables in the foil tray and I am quite happy to eat those on their own for lunch, so I reckon a good week of eating like this with no extras then I should be ok. I need to get back to the gym and hopefully when DH comes home my normal gym regime will continue.

I have just booked our August holiday and we will be going somewhere at Easter too so definitely need to be looking slim. Every pound shows with me as I am a diddy 5ft nothing.

I never quite understood why people put on weight at Christmas.

Surely if you just eat when you're hungry and stop when you've had enough, you'll stay within a reasonable limit?

I can't imagine eating more than I want, or can, just because the food is especially nice iyswim. How do you fit it in?

I'm 39 weeks pregnant and haven't put any on in the last few weeks, which is a bit odd in itself, mind you since being pregnant I've put on about 2 3/4 stone. I have a lot of water retention though, you can see about an inch indentation when I take off my socks

Hope that post didn't sound insufferably awful. It's a genuine question.

Rooney, I do SW all year round but at Christmas I'll have chocolates, biscuits, crackers, pate, cheese, alcohol, all unmeasured and without restraint. Because of this I'll put on weight.

However, went to SW today and got weighed and have managed to lose 1lb and therefore get my target of being lighter at the end of 2012 than when I started it. I celebrated with a pasta and sauce

Half a stone! I came on to start the same thread after weighing myself then doing the shred, I am genuinely sick of the sight of sweets and rich food now though.

None - thanks to contracting the Noro virus on Boxing Day. Ugh

I'm the same as you Rooney, if I'm not actually hungry then I don't see the point in eating...infact I don't think I could actually eat if I wasn't hungry? I might swipe a chocolate from the tin if I'm passing and fancy something sweet, but it probably would be one or two at the most.

We're all wired differently though as human beings. My best friend for example will eat when she's bored/because it's free/because it's there/because it's nice/because she's fed up etc. But as a direct result of over eating, she's morbidly obese and has been trying/wanting to lose weight for over 20 years.

Different strokes and all that.

Had SW weigh in on 27th, first time since 12th, and have gained 2.5lbs in that time. My overall loss for December was 0.5lbs off. Not great, but not as bad as it could be. Am back on plan now, but probably have a day or two off for NY

RooneyMara But people simply don't just eat to hunger - there are other reasons, the big one at Christmas is for reward. Drugs that make the brain happier are sought out (Caffeine in Chocolate, Alcohol in wine/beer/etc.) and you get the calories that come with them seperate from the hunger mechanisms, and the brain also triggers the reward system after the consumption of very sweet and high fat goods. (Probably a relic to less calorie available times when they would've been particularly valuable to an animal, it's common through most omnivorous animals.)

So chocolate which is sweet, fatty, and caffeinated is a very rewarding food - it's also why as you get a taste for chocolate you tend to go for darker and darker chocolate (favouring the extra caffeine over the sweetness)

Understanding why you eat (and the reward system and hunger aren't the only ones) an what the palatibility and satiability of food is would think would help a lot of people. Rather than just telling them to "eat less" or have "5-a-day" or whatever.

worra I used to be like your friend but after losing two stone I'm getting better at reigning myself in and saying enough is enough! Now to get rid of all those sweets, where can I put them haha!

That makes sense, Autumn - thanks for explaining and sorry if I sounded really rude.

Oh sorry x posts - thanks Fred. Yes people are different - my family orders massive portions they know they don't really want, then complain about being full, and try and finish regardless.

I can't bear it. I do live on chocolate a lot of the time though. My eating is well screwed up - I think at some point I realised I could have the nice stuff as long as I didn't force myself to eat the healthy things as well.

I might be slim but my cholesterol is probably sky high.

Not rude at all

sponge I think she needs to shift her focus from food to something else...though that's far easier said than done. I've known her since we were kids and her family were always very food orientated. All 4 siblings and her Mum are obese though strangely her Dad has always been thin.

It's just horrible to have seen her battle with her weight all her life and still get nowhere with it

Her DH is lovely though and loves her inside out no matter what, though sadly their only child is obese too and has fertility problems the same as her Mum.

RooneyMara There was a recent study that showed encouraging people to eat veg actually increased the total calories they consumed - the very low satiety of most veg just increased hunger so they continued eating satiating food in addition. Not really surprising as something like a carrot soup isn't actually that healthy, so not surprising it doesn't satiate.

An upbringing that focused on "cleaning your plate" during food shortage time is another powerful motivation on eating beyond hunger, seen quite commonly in children who grew up during particular food shortages (e.g. 2nd world war)

Rooney/worra I can't keep eating once I'm full and don't pile my plate with food but I find at Christmas there are lots of snacky things about so I'll have some cheese and crackers, some cold meats, some crisps, some chocolates, biscuits, a mince pie, oh and there's cream in the fridge so I'll have some in my coffee. Glass of wine with lunch? Why not, I don't have to be anywhere. Cup of tea and christmas cake. Dinner. More wine. A post dinner drink. I don't eat much more in quantity but consume tons more calories.

Better now I'm back in my own home though, a lot of the eating/drinking is social for me and I don't have puddings at home or drink alone so calorie consumption vastly reduces.

Big meal with friends tomorrow and then I will go back to my normal pattern of three (mostly) healthy meals a day, few snacks, little alcohol.

I don't think my weight has vastly increased but I feel a lot flabbier and unhealthy.

I never put on weight over the Festive as I have to walk lots. We live rurally and the nearest place to buy milk etc is nearly 4 miles away and I dont drive. Our bus only runs once a week over xmas/ny so we have no choice but to walk as taxis are ridiculously expensive and really not worth it unless you've done a massive shop. Unfortunately it was impossinle to get an asda delivery for the last 2 weeks so we've been eating out the freezer which thankfully I keep stocked with a couple months worth in case we get snowed in. Also dh has eaten every last scrap of christmas fayre in the house and I have barely had the chance to eat anything naughty