Anyone want to join me in a very easy peasy diet?

[Wolfgirl]

Im on hols in June so that is my incentive. Beginning of December I went of a cut down diet. All I did, was after my main meal at night, I ate.... NOTHING. No picking... chocolate, biscuits, popcorn (dont we love our popcorn on MN? , crisps....nothing. Oh and no pudding!

I lost nearly 1/2 stone just by not picking.

I ate what I liked during the day, biscuit, chocolate... what ever I liked, but just stopped at night.

I have to say, I did go to bed a little bit hungry, but felt so gooooooood the next day, especially as by the end of the first week my stomach had gone down considerably, and by the second week my clothes felt looser.

Who wants to join me? anyone?

Hi there suedonim - Ive gone back over your emails you sent, and double checked the figures you gave me, and I dont think I gained you weight. do you think I filled out the SS wrong?

the stats you sent were:
27th march /start weight: 9st 12lb
Tues 15th - you said: I was dead on 10st this morning, yay!! I did send in my weight last week, Delyth, I was 10st 2lb

22nd April - 9st 13lb
29th april - 9st 12.5
6th May 9st 12lb

so was your start weight wrong? Im confused, help! what you sent to me on Tues 15th april was confusing. I shall return the mail to you so you can see. I think this is where I may have gone skee-whiff.

nappybaglady - hi there, thanks for asking. Yeah I get low sometimes, but luckily low times are short lived, and usually associated with TOTM.

but isnt it strange when our moods fluctuate with TOTM - we become scratchy, moody, snappy and have hateful thoughts. And the world is bleak and miserable and you think this is your life. I can never ever get a grip and say.... whoah, this is not how things really are.... slow down, count to 10 and walk away. Its no big deal, let it go. Oh no! Not I! its like my eyes flash thunder, my face changes into some contorted twisted shape like a gnarled tree trunk and I spurt out - no wait..... shriek out angry remarks. My cubs and dh hide under the duvet giggling. Or not. depending on how nasty Ive become.

and then.... it lifts, and phyco girl has gone... and the sea is calm.

I do take a multitude of vitamins, and they really do help. I would dread to think what I would be like without them - divorced probably, with SS on my door step taking LOs away for safety LOL

But, worry not about me being low. I guess I have problems, or worries more than being low. Cant always get a direction on things which then make me worry.... but things work out in the end.... iykwim

MNersanon.......stay away from the pudding.

I find it helps if i remind myself that i can have a nice big breakfast tomorrow. Also, we should try going to bed!

Hmmm. maybe you all have.

NotABanana - spooky, I mailed you about the same thing. I was confused, but am free again and thinking properly. Yes you can have the better weight of the two.. Of course you can, heck.... I would LOL well done NABs!

OK ladies. You need to go out and buy yourselves a….

Hoola hoop! OH yes, the warm weather is here, and there is no excuse!

I have to say, I dragged ours out of the shed today and was absolutely useless. But I kept going et voila! It just happened! And I did it round my neck LOL

So, I got to thinking that this is just great fun outdoor exercise. If you haven’t got a hoola hoop, go buy or borrow one. And then you need to practice or hoop for min. of 10 mins a day

What do you guys think?

Lol and where do you think I can find a hoola hoop, WG! I'll just do some extra swimming, I think.

oh dont give me that old tosh suedonim - if you cant get a hoola hoop - you pretend you have one

ha ha ha ha.... can picture it now LO very L

Dang! You've seen through my cunning ploy to avoid hula-hooping!

he he

well, I really must shift up a gear ladies! Im sitting in my garden... no wait... lying on the sun lounger with my skimpiest of bikini's and the roles of fat are just horrible. and I have red hair... so you can imagine how white I am - which just adds to the horror! (alhtough I have been slapping fake tan on for the last few weeks, so maybe not so bad!)

I guess I'm not as horrible as if I hadnt lost the 7lb I have.... but it is not an ironing board stomach Im looking at any more. and when I sit up! eweeeeeee.

Only 3-4 weeks to go b4 my hols, so I ought to work hard before I play hard on hols

Hoola hoop.... here I come!

I'm not in a bikini wolfgirl bu I had a conversation with DH about why I wouldn't walk to TESCOS wearing shorts. I'm sure I probably don't look that bad but I feel like I do.
I have been feeling vey nibbly today but have tried to nibble on things like tomatoes and gerkins.
I also discovered that ice lollies only have 45 calories and no fat (well the one we bought today do)
So could they be a low calorie after sinner summer treat?
We are talking basic lolies here not magnums or solaros.

I had a fruit pastels lolly today, so glad to hear it is so low calorie LOL also, it seems this is a good way of getting liquid into my little ones.

Lidl are doing the FP lollys 100% free, go grab a bargain

spooky you saying about the shorts, cos I was thinking the very same thing this week. Would I wear short shorts to the shops or not? answer: NO! but shorts to the knee.... yes.

we are out for a curry tonight, so completely blowing a weeks worth of good work. I do have to step up a gear.... cos still feeling flabby and fat - OK LOs finished tea, best go

have a good evening ladies

Well I lost 1.5lbs overnight....would love to say it was the diet but I had dreadful heatstroke yesterday from playing sport for 5 hours in the heat and was very sick in the evening!

Horrid at the time but let's hope that at least the 1.5lbs stay off!!

Hope you are all having lovely weekends.

Hello All!

On the shorts debate...I did venture out in mid thigh shorts at the beginning of the week and then caught sight of myslef in a window. Needless to say I will not be doing that again, well at least not until I have a tan. Isn't it amazing how much better your wobbly bits look when they are tanned!

Have not been so good this weekend. Far too tempting to have a glass of wine in the sun (with Chinese takeaway at friends house yesterday) and had 2 glasses of pimms when visiting other friends today. Just about to try to redeem myself with half an hour or so on the exercise bike. Then will pull DD's hula hoop out from under the sofa and give it a whirl.

Boo to sun stroke, Mrsanon but hurrah for weight loss. What on earth sport were you doing for 5 hours

Wolfgirl - lol to the white fat in the bikini - I do think ladies who have lovely tanned skin manage to look better if they have extra pounds than us pasty types.

Unfortunately I'm allergic to a key ingreadient in fake tan!

MOrning ladies - OK, I just have to compete wrt to 'blowing' it. So, Saturday night a friends 40th - it was held at the local village church hall, and man!!! what a display and set up, wonderful. Started off with 2 large glasses of PIMMS.. MmmHmmm! gorgeous! Food - curry - like loadddddds of it, followed by puddings galore to die for. I hadnt eated much all day in anticipation of the curry, and was famished by the time we sat down to eat (9pm gone) so ended up having seconds of the curry. So i get to talking to myself and saying.... no, no puddings. Did I listen to myself! NO> big fat chocolate roulade pudding - biggest slice I could get me hands on! with strawberries on the side too.

Then had friends over for lunch yesterday, not so bad food wise, cold roast chicken with beetroot salad and fresh crusty bread, followed by.... yep! more puddings. Then coffees and mints.

so im dreading weigh in tomorrow. And there me saying I have to step up a gear.. Oh very funny wolfgirl! very funny

what is the diet?

Hi Kitson, the OP explains it pretty well, but I'm sure our lovely Wolfgirl will be along soon to prompt you

I, too, am not looking forward to weigh-in. Had a drastic week with what ended up as a 3-day migraine, took all kinds of sugary crap to overcome. Please, please don't let me be back to where I started!

Hello Kitson08 - well..... the thread title says Easy Peasy diet... but several weeks in, I think we can all say.... actually its quite hard work. First few weeks everyone is exicited and lose a few pounds, then you just mark time, then you put a pound or so on.. then stay steady... then lose a pound. So to keep the weight loss steady, you have to be really strict with yourself.

Results can be slow... yet sure.

The idea is that you stop picking in the evening. We stop at 6pm! You can have your main meal after 6pm, but no picking whilst waiting for your meal iyswim?

You can pretty much eat what you like during the day... although in moderation. We suggest an exerise per week and a food elimination.

This weeks coming exercise is the hoola hoop. And Ive not yet thought of a food elimination

Any ideas anyone?

If you would like to join you can start this week. I will add you to the spreadsheet and my circulation list (goes out on a Monday night). You can see from the spreadsheet your progression and how things are going generally.

I have set up a spreadsheet, and once a week - Tuesday morning, you weigh yourself first thing in the morning, no clothes and no food (always feels better too), then you send me the stats.

I need:

Your current weight
Target weight
Incentive.

You can CAT me (if you subscribe) and I will mail you back when I have your details. OR you can just leave your emal addy here, something like

janice @Imonadiet .co.uk

hth

cake?

have we cut out cake yet?....i'm a sucker for cake.

....or how about butter and cream, as we're going into strawberries and cream-tea season?

strawberries and cream-tea season eh! so where do you live Cadders, and whens the cream-tea for us all?

Personally I dont eat cake vm. in fact rarely. So it would be an easy peasy week for me.

How about cakes and.... ... BISCUITS! aaaarrrggghhhh.... I've been putting this one off since we started, as this is my downfall.

Chocolate, cake, fizzy drinks, alcohol.... I can cope with cutting out.

Biscuits.... is another matter I love them, they are my friends!

Hmm, i guess the cream tea mention was a bit of a give-away.

How about cider then?

Oh, no, biscuits is good, i can do biscuits....

OK! biscuits it is.

can anyone suggest an alternative for me, to have with a cup of tea. especially at work in the morning. Man, Im going to crave them!

An oatcake with a teensy weensy swipe of chocolate spread, or jam or whatever.

Oatcakes have that whole "low GI" thing going on, and i do find they keep me going for a good while without thinking about food.

I don't go near any of the diet products, and especially the low fat products, cos they're often full of sugar and you need to eat heaps of them to feel satisfied.

that's a tough one....biscuits and tea are meant to be together!

What about a single chocolate button?!