I'm 5foot 2 and weigh 14stone 8lb

[TellysAndWellys]

How did this happen. I am so, so ashamed of myself. I used to weigh in 13 stone, then overhauled my whole diet and got down to 9stone 8lb.

But I've put it all back on. And so much more. This is shameful and I cannot believe I have let it get this bad. I've even had to buy some size 20 tops. I have tried slimming world but that didn't really
Work for me. So I'm back to calorie counting. And 5:2. From today. I've got to stop making excuses. I am going on an amazing holiday in January with my 2 best friends and. CAN'T be the size I am now.

I am sick of feeling tired, uncomfortable and just plain shit because of what I eat. I've taken before photos (won't post them as they would scar you forever) and have stuck a photo of myself at my smallest when I still thought I looked fat on the fridge for inspiration. I can do this!!!

Morning ladies.

Today is a total disaster so far - I've had an unplanned brekky of mini cheddars.

I felt fine and then suddenly very sick and after 15 mins hiding in the loo I decided I needed to eat something stodgy and that was the best option from the vending machine.

I made a cake for a colleague last night and now everyone is eating that so there's a good chance I'll have a little piece later if I feel better.

Lunch will have to be soup!

And Wagamama for dinner, if I can stay awake that long!!!

Thanks Camden, my weight is on my mind constantly so it's like a constant knot in my stomach

Morning Iampert. Are you feeling better? Mini Chedders are the perfect sickness cure. I'd say just concentrate on getting yourself through the next few weeks and do what you need to do to help the sickness. If it makes you feel any better I had a double chocolate cookie for breakfast I totally blame the person who's birthday it was with their tempting treats!

I had a pizza for dinner with a Coke. We went to frankie and bennies for a team lunch out. Ate a full pizza but I did skip the chips so that's not too bad is it... just trying kid myself again.
Soup for tea with one slice of whole meal bread so I'm going to estimate 1300 calories for today with tha pizza but that's a massive guess

I meant Evening Iampert, not morning

@TellysAndWellys im so jealous- F&B is my favourite, in fact I ate there three nights in a row recently 😬

@lampert I hope you’re feeling better, I had horrendous morning sicking during all four of my pregnancies and I think what ever you can keep down is just the way to get through it, even if it is mini cheddars at 8am ☺️

My day was good right up until dinner time (or tea time if you’re up north 😊)

I always have porridge for breakfast, had a very late lunch - 3:30, of soup and cracker bread. Then I ate a funsize crunchie and fibre one bar, chicken salad for dinner but I scoffed a handful of potato wedges as I was dishing up for everyone else, just had a mini milk to finish.

I’m finishing the day on 1100 calories but I’m cross with myself 

I find I need to plan in advance what I’m going to eat and certainly avoid the carbs at dinner time.

I’ve walked the dog with dh and will get another good walk in when I take my girls to guides, other than that I’m not great with exercise.

Hope everyone else has had a good day!

do you mind if I join?
I'm 4ft9 and 12st! 😭

Today hasn't been great- two slices of toast for breakfast, mini quiche and chips for lunch followed by lemon pudding, popcorn with dp and ds for games night and noodles for tea.

I got down to around 9.5 st before ds and it's all piled back on

Welcome @BillywigSting!

@TellysAndWellys that sounds like a fun food day to me! And 1300 isn't bad at all!

I am feeling much better this evening thank you. The mini cheddars worked very well and I felt much better after them. Unfortunately I also ate a jacket potato with cheese and beans, a slice of cake, and then a Wagamama ramen for dinner, which I ate about 2/3 of. Prob more food than I ate I the previous two days combined! And omg the carbs!!!! 

Thanks @CamdenTownie I'm just gonna get through the next couple of weeks and hope my normal healthier food habits return sooner rather than later!! Why are you cross with yourself? 1100 is a great day?! x

Unsurprisingly, my day of stuffing my face with carbs has resulted in a 1lb gain today :-(

Welcome Billy!

How is everyone doing today? I have had a banana and some rice cakes this morning, taking my Grandma out for tea today at morrison's so have worked out my calories will end in 1000. Then really trying to stick to 500 tomorrow then HOPEFULLY we'll see the numbers going down on the scales come Saturday.

Glad you're feeling better Iampert. Do you think it might be better to stick to weighing yourself once a week a set time. Because look how upset I was the other week when I weighed myself on a Friday afternoon and the scales said I'd put on weight. When I weighed myself the next morning at my usual time I'd actually lost 3lbs. Weight can fluctuate so much even during one day

Home from tea now. My poor grandmother is suffering from dementia and I love her dearly but wow, I need a glass of wine now. Took every single ounce of willpower I have, which let's be honest isn't much, to not buy chocolate and crisps to eat at home. I'm still thinking about it now and I'm in my pjs and ds is in the bath!!! Tried my size 12 stuff off again and look hideous so that spurs me on slightly. Hope everyone's having a good day, thank god it's Friday tomorrow

Hi all.

That sounds tough re the dementia @TellysAndWellys, it's such a horrible condition.

I have not been great today. I've had baked beans and a baked hash brown this morning (which although a bad food choice worked a treat, I haven't been nauseous at all today), spinach and ricotta cannelloni for lunch, and a chocolate digestive.

I'm just about to leave work and if I'm honest I don't think I will bother with dinner. It'll be 8.30 before I'm home and I will prob get into bed and read my book. (In the nicest possible way I am soooo glad DH is out tonight!!!! x

Sorry to hear about your Gran @TellysAndWellys I know how you feel, I only see my grandma once a year (she lives 260 miles away) and this year it was really obvious that she’s struggling with her memory.

How are you feeling @lampert ? The early days of pregnancy are simply exhausting, I remember them well, I hope you get to rest over the weekend.

Another busy day today, finished work an hour late, went shopping and popped into B&M to browse but ended up spending £30 on Christmas stuff

Had the usual porridge for breakfast with a grated apple and cinnamon
2 satsumas crackerbread and dairylea for lunch, made a shepherds pie for dinner but I didn’t have the mash as I’m thing to cut down on the starchy carbs, so basically had a bowl of mince I enjoyed it though!

Was feeling a bit rubbish this morning as I weighed myself and I’ve stuck to 1200 calories or less everyday and only lost 0.25 of a pound - seriously!

Hi @CamdenTownie I am feeling good today! As in I'm not nauseous at all. I am however completely exhausted, like I've been hit by a train! All normal I guess but I wasn't prepared for this!

I don't want to confess the following because I am horrified and embarrassed with myself. But right now I am eating a ginormous portion of supernoodles. (Oh yes, those proper rubbishy junk food crap things that I haven't eaten since I was a student?!). I have no idea what possessed me but I stopped at a shop on my way home and bought them. I just don't know what's come over me, I just don't eat stuff like this. I'm normally an everything fresh, cook from scratch kinda girl and the last 3 weeks it's just all gone out of the window.

So after my last few days, in all honesty I think I deserve to be kicked off this thread. I am the ultimate pig!!!!!!!

I'm hoping an early night tonight and a quiet weekend will give me the energy and willpower to sort myself out.

I am 5 foot 2 and was 12 stone 9. That was in January. I am now 10 stone 12 pounds. I decided in the NY that I wanted to end the year lighter and fitter. I was putting on weight all the time. I felt and looked like shit. I knew I could not diet so I decided to take the long term view and ate 2 meals a day between 12 noon and 8. I ate what I wanted for those 2 meals. Upped walking - I have done 10,000 steps every day - and sometimes much more when the time/energy allows. I have the occasional slice of cake and drink wine 3 nights a week.

Before I was eating lots of chocolate and cakes - with minimal exercise. I quickly got in a routine and this has been very slow weightloss. I feel in control and no longer want the sweet stuff. I have not had any chocolate since Xmas but in the summer I took a small Twix out of politeness. I hated it. My tastebuds have changed. I knew I could not diet, I could only make positive choices and I truly believe my bad eating days are gone. I don't eat as much because I can't eat as much. My life has got so much better - my confidence has sky rocketed.

I still want to lose another stone and at this rate it will be sometime in the summer! But I don't care, I will get there. As far as I am concerned healthy eating and exercise on a permanent basis are the way to go. Diets don't work in my view. You go on a diet and obsess about food, and then you go off the diet. A cycle of deprivation and then excess.

Hey everyone- TGIF!

@lampert - how are you feeling today? Hope the morning sickness has eased off a bit and your rest last night helped 

@TellysAndWellys hope all is well with you and you get to enjoy a restful weekend

I had some bread for lunch which turned into a bit of a carb fest, not great just before the weekend!

I’m going out tomorrow night to the o2 which will certainly mean eating out, I’m thinking Nando’s for chicken and salad to try and limit the damage...

Hi everyone, just a quick check in as I'm just about to step into the black hole that is Ikea (I need candles!!) but will have a read of the posts later. Hope everything's day has gone well

I was doing ok (628 calories) then got to IKEA and scoffed a portion of chips, veggie hotdog and a donut :( ahhhh I don't know why I do this to myself. Hopefully the calories won't be absorbed until tomorrow! I do this EVERY time I come here, I can't resist. 2 quid for all of that, it's begging to be bought and eaten. Anyway, it was lovely and I enjoyed it so that's life. Weigh day tomorrow. Anyway, my mother is giving me daggers because I'm holding her up but I'll be back later.

Happy Friday and for Iampert

1lb off. Which is ok. At least I haven't put on. Having too many 'oh well it can't hurt moment'. Need to get a grip.

Well done @TellysAndWellys! 1lb off is perfect. What's everyone up to this weekend?

I haven't weighed myself yet but am expecting a gain after my really bad two days earlier in the week.

I've got my early private scan at 12 so will find out when whether this baby is real and doing ok. I'm so nervous I've been awake since 3.20!

Wow good luck Iampert!! I'll be thinking of you, hope it all goes well

Thank you @TellysAndWellys. Somehow I stayed the same weight so that was a small miracle!

And I saw my little bean and it has a heartbeat!! 😍 I am so relieved!

Aww @lampert that’s great news, so exciting

I weighed in this morning- Saturday is my official weigh in day but I just can’t help checking - 11st 2lb so I’ve lost 2lbs this week and 5lbs last week which is ok! Just need to keep going!

Haven’t had lunch yet so I’m waiting on some quorn fishless fingers which are in the oven and I’m having a ton of mushy peas and a spoon of tartar sauce, can’t wait as I’m starving.

Aaaawww Iampert I am so glad, brought a little tear to my eye. Seeing that heartbeat on that teeny tiny little dot on the screen is so amazing

Camden that's really good, that's half a stone off already so keep it going

Oh and I've had
-massive stack of pancakes for breakfast
-half a grab bag of maltesers and a small popcorn at the cinema
-a large ice blast

And for tea it's...... chippy!!! So absolutely excellent day so far, really healthy. Gwynneth Paltrow and her special, micro-biotic diet has gone nothing on me

Haha @TellysAndWellys your post made me chuckle! You have clearly had a fun day!!

@CamdenTownie well done, that is amazing progress. Great work!

I have been to a posh Japanese restaurant tonight. Couldn't eat the starter as it was sashimi but had delicious black cod as a main. Yum!! I did had leftover pizza for lunch so it's not exactly been a good day overall, but nevermind! On the plus side I haven't felt sick all afternoon which is nice!

Tomorrow we are out for a big lunch with my DH's family, so that will be yet more pretending to sip a glass of wine, bit at least it should mean only one proper meal tomorrow. Having said that I am eating biscuits most days to try and ease bouts of nausea. Not good!!

Hey everyone

Could I join the group please?

I want to lose weight as I am not happy with the way I look in clothes or just the way my body is with the extra pounds. I had my son 16 months ago and breastfed for 15 months so I have not had chance to lose ‘baby weight’ yet ( although I’ve been meaning to lose weight before my last baby but never did!)

I am 5.9 in height and 13.2 stone! I want to be at least 10 stone ( the weight I was before I had kids and I have 5!)

I only started dieting on Monday so my weigh in day is Mondays. I am trying to do the one meal a day thing that a lot of you have mentioned in this thread and I have been having porridge and fruits mixed in but temptation is everywhere and I’m struggling to fight it

Morning everyone. I'm writing this from my comfy bed, need to drag myself out of bed soon but I'm desperately clinging onto the only lie in of the week. Although it breaks my heart that 8.15 is now classed as a lie in, a few hundred years ago I'd just be climbing into bed to sleep off the night before!

Sounds lovely Iampert, fish is really good for you. And leftover pizza is always an excellent idea, not something I have very often though. Not because I don't like it, there's just never any left over ha. I'm
Really pleased you haven't felt sick as well, Hopefully you've escaped the worse of it. Good luck with the pretend wine sipping Have you told anyone in real life?

Welcome Darkcloud! Of course you can join. Porridge and fruits is always really filling and I really enjoy it when I have it, but like you say temptation is everywhere and I'd rather be eating pancakes (evident in yesterday's post). Have you been drinking a lot of water? I am trying to drink 3 litres a day so when the hunger strikes, I guzzle water and it always passes. Also, if I really really can't stop thinking about that bag of crisps/cake/chocolate etc, I tel myself if I still want it in a hour, I can have it. I'm a mindl as eater and will snack and snack without thinking about it and before I know it, the whole pack of what I'm eating has gone. I can't even say I enjoy eating it, it's just automatic. So if I say to myself I can have it, I don't crave it as much and if in a hour I still want I (which 9/10 I don't) then I have it. Enjoy it, log it on MyFitnessPal and move on. So maybe try that? That way you aren't denying yourself