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I am at my highest weight since being pregnant 10 years ago. I am 14 stone and 5ft 6.
I just couldn't stop eating/ bingeing and saw myself go above 12, 13 and now at 14 stone. All put on in a year - a stressful year.

I've resorted my fitbit, got the app and walked 5k yesterday and today with an aim to eat 1200 calories. But food is my mental comfort. Gah
I need new clothes now I'm too fat for everything I own.

Today I was 9st 7lbs before kids - doubt if I would be able to get to that again but ideally I want to get to 10st. Would be happy with any loss though! What are you aiming for?

I’m fine during the day, my downfall is in the evenings I just binge and can’t stop myself. Going to try and just take myself off to bed if I’m tempted to binge but I don’t know if that will work.

Thanks - pleased everyone is here that can understand why/ how I've managed to put on 3 stone in a year (again).
I've lost it before and so I can again.
I would like to be 11 stone. However, I look normal at just under 12... Just want to see a 12 on the scales again to be honest and then I can feel like it's achievable. At the moment 3stone seems so far away!

Can I join please? Have never done calorie counting before and today is my first day!
I lost nearly 7 and a half stone doing old weight watchers points and I hit 9 stone 9lbs just 5 weeks ago. Since then I've lost the plot, binged horribly and am now 11 stone 5lbs.

I'm giving calorie counting a go, starting off on 1440 and hoping to lose a stone and keep it off, rather than entering another horrible starve/binge cycle.

How is everyone getting on today?

Omg! So happy to have lagertha on board! Vikings was just about my favourite TV drama

Amazing work getting to 9st 9lbs. You can definitely do this! May I ask how tall you are? I didn't have time for lunch so I'm just having some tomatoes and saving myself for dinner .

This is a recent name change I was trying on for size (pun)

I would say i'm 5 foot 5, although i'm actually 5 foot 4.7" - so precise! I liked the way I looked at 9 stone 9 but it was really really difficult to maintain and I was starving and dizzy a lot of the time (healthy!) so I think i'd be happy at 10 stone something. We will see.

I am also eating tomatoes! I've eaten so much over the last few weeks that my stomach thinks my throat has been cut today.

How often is everyone planning to weigh in? I go a bit nuts if I do it every day so I’m thinking Mondays?

I've always just weighed once a week. For me there's too much natural fluctuation in the week to weigh daily.

Hello from the deepest darkest West Country, where the internet is patchy (such a relief) and the food/walking/swimming is plenry (mixed positives there!).

Lovely to see some more people. We all have similar tales and amounts to lose.

I promise to regale you all (well, the 2 people who asked) about the great Slimming World Ban of 201 when I get back at the weekend.

In the meantime I'll try and keep up but will be in full contact on Sunday.

Wh

Disclaimer: a bit pissed and typing dodgy.

Can't wait for weekend now, need to hear about this SW ban

Oh yes - I'm looking forward to the great slimming world ban story!

I was thinking weighing twice a week at first just to keep it fresh in my mind otherwise I fall off the wagon thinking that I'll just make it up later in the week every time.

Morning peeps,

Well I bloody well managed to eat a house yesterday, it's like the switch in my brain that says "you are full, you don't need this" is stuck on OFF and I was scoffing everything in sight!

Anyhow, I am now determined to get a grip on this monster, and see if I can just focus one day at a time. I think I will weigh in on a Monday too, and try not to weigh everyday (like I used too, but became obsessed with it).

Today, I'm planning on keeping busy having a good tidy up and clear out whilst my kids are at a club. It's my week off and I need to have a good tidy up. The house seems to be a reflection on my mood, Ive let it get a bit cluttered so hoping a good tidy up will help me somewhat.

hope you all have a great day!

Great idea Fern. That was me on Sunday - except I ate 4 flakes and 2 crunchies after dinner.

So so disgusting. Yesterday was hard but I already feel stronger today. So best of luck and keep going.

I have that switch in my brain too Fern. It's been off for the last few weeks, hence my epic binge and weight gain! Hope you have a good day today.

Can I ask a question? Does everyone count the calories in veg and salad? I'm used to doing weight watchers and veg/salad being 0 points so it's strange for me to be putting things like onion, green beans etc. into MFP and seeing it come up as 40 calories for half an onion! I used to have a big salad with tea (dinner if you're posh ) but it seems like I could be using up to 100 calories on a bowl of lettuce, cucumber, onion and radish. Not sure I like it!

I used to do MFP too and I added everything religiously! Yes, I was surprised at salad stuff, but my feeling is that 100 calories from salad is better than 100 calories from biscuits.

Managed to drive past those Golden Arches twice today and did not quench my desire for a Big Mac (my guilty pleasure). Will knock something up nice for lunch and carry on with the cleaning!

So far, so good!

I could really manage 100 calories worth of biscuits right now. No, I don't mean that, I mean I could manage 100 biscuits

Ah well done for avoiding the Golden Arches Fern! Just had my boring vegetable soup and hummus flatbread for lunch and now it's back to the grindstone. I am thinking about tea already

Well done everyone for sticking with it. I have not had a great food day as I ended up out for coffee and dinner but I made sensible choices, not snacked at all and walked 13,500 steps roughly 9.5km. so I feel ok and think overall I had a decent calorie deficit.

Anyone else panic about going out when dieting? It's hard enough in doors but if I go out I find it impossible. I'm seeing a friend tomorrow and cannot say no to cake. This is mainly because I cannot handle anyone knowing I'm dieting as the judgements start. So I'm likely to not have any lunch and do a double dog walk so I have the cake.

Can I join please? I'm 5ft 6 and 13st 2lbs. Have been this weight for a year (perimenipause, but mainly eating crap) and constantly starting diets and then going back to old habits.
I've started again today on MFP and am determined. I have to shift the weight. Can't bear to look at myself in the mirror right now.
But I'm feeling positive and 'in the zone'. I think it's about 14 weeks till Xmas and I aim to be at least a stone and a half down by then. Slinky dresses ahoy!

Welcome whodares 😀 Good to have you with us!
14 weeks you say? My goodness that's so close. Hopefully I can also have lost a stone and a half by then.

Good morning everyone from the West Country. Hello to the new joiners and everyone's stories are resonating strongly with me. Why is food so complex for some of us? I am literally disgusted with myself and how I look but can not seem to flick the switch to get me in the zone.

We are still on holiday and I would like to say I am making sensible choices but my 'fuck it I'm on holiday' attitude is firmly in residence. Even the swimming marathons and walking we are doing will not counteract the pasties, fish and chips and wine. Hey ho.

I am back on Saturday so am planning to weigh Sunday and start with calorie counting and walking. Are we all weighing in on the same day? Sirry if I missed the post about that. I'm also going to do a monthly photo diary (shudder), so I can see in real time my journey. A bit naff, but I need a record of what I look like so I don't go back again.

I haven't forgotten about the SW story - just need to be on my laptop rather than phone or it'll take me yonks to type!

Well done everyone who is resisting, walking, or just trying to find a way to break old habits.

Enjoy your holiday Thrownmuse. It's important that you feel like you had that time.

We all seem to be weighing in on a Monday so we can post losses/ gains/ plateaus here if we like with absolutely no judgement. After all, this is support and knowing we are not alone in our bingeing until almost sick/ excess weight gain / psychological dependence on food.

It's incredible how I'm thinking about not eating almost every few minutes. I must not eat comes into my head and then....what if I just have.. no no I must not eat.....wonder if I could have that.... Etc ad infinitum.

How pathetic. I'm on day 3 and I'm being dominated by food

Thanks, Today. I will...and we've all just played tennis and even though every part of me aches, I refuse to let my size stop me from joining in. I think that's one of my strongest motivations.

Monday weigh in it is.

And well done - you are doing it, one day at a time, but doing it. It is hard, we have a long way to go, but you're right, with support from each other we'll get there.

I need to not drink tonight, it's just a spiral to eat crap.

I've had a good day so far! Smoothie (unsweetened soya milk blended with some blueberries) for breakfast and scrambled egg, toady & tomatoes for lunch. Dinner is chilli with jacket potato and some light mozzarella.
Should end the day just under my 1360 calories. AND I've been to the gym!
Just need to keep this up now...

Gold star Who!

Well done!

Hi everyone! How are we all doing? So I had cake instead of lunch...but counted the calories and factored it in. I have had 900cals so far and having small jacket and beans for tea. Then doing my 5k walk and then probably have some melon.
All planned - no deviations!!!

What's for dinner for everyone else?