Losing weight whilst TTC-ing. Diet thread if anyone fancies joining me :)

[spamanderson]

Well as the title says :) I've chosen the worst time to get my act together and start my diet (again!!) I'm well overweight, in fact in classed as obese so I need to lose a tonne of weight. I know I need to be a healthy weight to conceive so there isn't much more of a motivator than the hope if a BFP :) I'm just counting calories until Christmas Eve (when we have our traditional Xmas eve meal of good old McDonalds!) and then back on track on the 27th when I will be returning to Slimming World.
If anyone fancies joining me, or even just to give me a kick up the arse, feel free :)
Spam x
Weight loss goal 6 stone 11lbs (95lbs )

Good luck to all those of you starting tomorrow.

I'm looking for some cheap easy breakfast ideas. At the moment it's just oatibix or porridge with fruit but I'm finding it a bit dull and tasteless and wondered what others are eating?

Can I join?!

Ideally, I would like to lose 2st and get my BMI back into the healthy range (currently 30). Very annoyed - managed to lose 2.5st doing WW back in 2012, but since then, I have had 4 miscarriages, which have been anything but good for my weight! DH and I love good food, but my problem is and has always been portion control and snacking, as well as my very sweet tooth... And I've been really slack with exercise in the last few months, so the pounds have piled on.
My first goal is to lose 1st 8lb until March, which is when we will be going skiing - really need to do that, otherwise I won't fit into my ski pants .

The new/old regime started today - I use My Fitness Pal to count the calories, as I don't want to re-join WW at this point (although tentatively considering SW). Went for my first run in 10 weeks today - it went OK, but I took it very easy. The aim is to go for a run 3x/week, do Bodypump at the gym 2x/week and I want to try and do some yoga at home with a DVD 1-2x/week. Aiming to lose 2 lbs/week, which should be possible, as long as I can stay focussed.

lake Eggs are good for breakfast, they fill you up nicely! Scrambled egg with wholemeal toast, and you could try and add things like tomatoes, spring onions etc to the egg for more flavour.

I saw that recipe for breakfast muffins - basically egg with other stuff baked in muffin tray - means you can make a batch of them!

I tend to have special K or bran flakes with a banana and an actimel. Or fruit salad with yogurt poured over...sometimes some chopped dried fruit or nuts too...

I try and have a big, carb free brekkie (I still have veg/fruit), seems to set me up for the day....... Avocado and bacon(any meat really), smoked salmon and eggs, Apple slices with peanut butter, nuts. As long as it's protien and healthy fat I'm happy and full until 1pm and I make good choices at lunch. If I have a carb brekkie (even porridge) I'm hungry and craving 'naughty' things by 11. Spent the last few years noticing how I react to things, sugar is my big thing..... I have pcos too (maybe that's why)..... Hope you're all doing ok!!! Off to have black pudding and eggs ;) xx

I'm going to try to be good again today :/ yesterday I started off well but we had to go to tesco and my aversion to certain foods and 'oh my god what is that smell, I must eat whatever is making it' has started. Tesco had these amazing flavoured loaves of fresh bread in. They looked and smelled so good I was practically salivating. Ended up buying 2 small loaves (and I mean small) and ate one for my dinner. They had some christmas cupcakes reduced to 38p for 2 and dd1 was crazing for them and pack of donuts :/ I had a bite of the cupcake, couldn't eat any more, had a bite of a donut and again couldn't eat more than a bite. We even had chocolate out and didn't even touch it, normally I practically inhale chocolate I stuff it in so quick. So maybe this pregnancy is going to be what I need to actually lose weight ;) Clearblue digi shows me at 4-5 weeks pregnant now :D
Got some lovely yogurts in and tonnes of posh salad leaves and stuff that I can't wait to eat today.... Although there is still one of the small loaves left in the kitchen calling my name! Must be good today Spam!
Well done to everyone sticking to their healthy eating a tonne better than I have!

Morning all. I know its not the 8th yet, but we have lots of different start dates and i first weighed myself 7 days ago. So....

-8 and 3/4 lbs!

Brilliant honey!!! Wowza.

omg that's amazing honey !!! How have you managed that!!

Thanks ladies!

I do slimming world style Jelly and try to avoid any syns at all. Lots of salad for lunch and lean meat.

Plus, I am very heavy!

Wow honey that's an amazing result! Well done you

That's brilliant Honey!!! Do post any recipes/meal plans!

I actually lost 3.5 lbs over Christmas but have had lots of people staying and parties over New Year, and I feel like it has gone back on!

that's fab :) i should try out slimming world! is it good?

I will post some recipes later on when I am using the computer, so its a bit easier. But I have to say avoiding bread like the plague has been good. I am addicted to it so going cold turkey is good. There for cracking lunch and breakfast was hard. As I wasn't at work it was easier to cook something, but work starts again tomorrow so not sure. (I am a self employed "contractor", I get a timetable today of where and when they need me, start at different times each day.)

Also, as mentioned, I am vaguely intolerant to eggs so if I try to eat them every day I know all about it!

I am going to make some slimming world style ketchup today, as it is so sugary from a bottle. And make some jelly for a sugar fix in the evenings.

Jelly its great for me because I struggle with portion size, so I love having free foods which I can eat until I burst! I did it years ago so have all the books etc. But general rule is lean meat, fresh fruit and fresh and frozen veg are free, along with rice and pasta etc? Things which are limited are fibre and dairy, and things which will cost you "syns" are sugary and fatty.

I do eat a lot of bread and pasta. It's hard to cut out when DP cooks pasta bake for dinner lol!

Pasta is all good Jelly, tuck in! But bread is pretty limited (2 slices from a mini loaf and no further fibre e.g. cereal unless you use syns).

Just had breakfast. Had two quorn sausages (free), 2 rashers of bacon with all fat cut off (free), one egg (free) fried with fry light (this is syns I think...it was in the past 1 syn per spray, but might have changed) one mushroom (free) and baked beans (free)! So yeah, if I had poached the egg instead of frying it (my poaching pan is in the dishwasher) then the whole meal would have been free. Which means I can scoff the lot, as much as I want!

That's all free? And you can eat as much as you like? Blimey! Sounds very generous!

I heard baked potato and beans is free? Is that true? They are quite forgiving on what you can have then!

Yeah of course! That's why it is so easy to do. You just can't put butter on the potato, and if you put cheese on it is only a small amount you are allowed.

Wow well done honeysuckle
I'm very heavy too so weight comes off pretty quick at first which is a great motivator :) I've lost 3lbs since I weighed on the 2nd :) How much do you have to lose honey? I struggle with portion size too, hDH and I are both big, thankfully our dds aren't the same! Dd1 is perfect, dd2 is a right skinny minny! We eat good food but we eat far too much of it :/ carbs are my biggest downfall :(oh in my online things, fry light was still syn free so I'm going by that ;) my freezer us chocca with quorn sausages, I prefer them yl normal sausages so that's one plus fir me at least ha ha!
Yep jelly jacket with beans is free, then you could use cheese as a healthy extra if you wanted it or add it as Syns :) I had a massive plate of sakad, a jacket & baked beans, drenched it in balsamic vinegar and it's all deliciously free :D

mmm sounds nice. Might do that today! My work canteen always has jacket potatos and beans, £1.50!!!

Oooh syn free? Brilliant! When I was a member even stock cubes were syns and I know they changed that too. Brilliant!

Spam I need to lose 110lbs! 7st 11lbs! Still, almost 9 down, I'll be in double digits this time next week hopefully!

My BMI is just under 30, to get to a healthy BMI I need to loose about 3st (or roughly 20kg). I did the fast diet and lost 6 pound in a week but whilst TTC I think I will give that a miss!

Oooh you're not too dissimilar to me then honey. From the start I had 96lbs to lose :( this is the biggest I have ever been. I was 9lbs lighter than my start weight when I went in to have dd1 :/ I'm hoping I can lose a little during pregnancy, obviously I'm not going to be able to lose as much as I'd like as I gained just over 3 stone, and just under 3 stone with my pregnancies. As long as I don't get any bigger than this, I'll be happy! Least SW is one of those 'diets' that isn't really a diet so you don't miss out on anything :)
Here's a picture of my plan on the laptop. Stock cubes and fry light etc are free :)

How's everyone doing? I've been back on plan (S/W) since Friday and dreading weigh in on Thurs! I really hope I've pulled it back to a small gain or maintain!