A small corner for changing my life

[Honey2006]

I don't think I've ever started a thread here, but I wanted a small safe corner to post about my weight loss journey. I find it incredibly therapeutic to post online and track my progress, but the site I used to use (43 things) has long since gone.

I weight 268 lbs today, or 19st2. Five years ago, I lost 150lbs + to go from 350lbs down to 192lbs. I held on to that weight loss for a year or so, but met the love of my life and the weight started to come back.

I've managed to hold on to 82 lbs, but it's creeping back on faster, and so after dabbling with 5:2 and Paul McKenna to zero real effect, I am going back to the programme that helped me to lose the weight, namely Slimming World. I am doing it online (that helped last time) and I'm going to use this small corner to write what I'm doing and how I'm doing. Hopefully that will work for me :)

Next Saturday is going to be the first weigh-in, so fingers crossed that I see a 2-4 lbs loss. I think I should be able to do that without too much problem, but we'll see.

Eeeeek!

KP86 sorry only just spotted your post. I am really enjoying SW during pregnancy and some ladies definitely don't gain until the end! For me it's been a case of damage limitation. I've gained 17lbs at 27 weeks but I know it would have been much much more without SW. My midwife gave me an estimate of about 2st which I'm hoping to stick to. I get married 8 weeks after my due date so I'm hoping it'll come off quickly this way! The plan is really flexible and you get an extra A and B choice which makes it even better.

Today's plan:

B: poached egg and plum tomatoes on toast
L: jacket potato, baked beans, cheese and salad
D: lasagne, broccoli and carrots
S: quark, chopped fruit, mini magnum, hot chocolate

Had a blow out yesterday of full afternoon tea at Valerie Patisserie (sandwiches, scones with toppings, cakes and coffee) but kept the rest of the day nice and healthy to try to minimise damage.

Sat:
B: coffee with 120ml SS milk
L: afternoon tea
D: turkey breast steaks with swede chips and steamed speed vegies
Snacks: strawberries and raspberries with a mix of quark and vanilla Muller Light. I was attempting some sort of cheese cake mix but as I was beating it I realised it was futile as no fat = won't get stiff and fluff up.

Sun: SP day
Brunch: coffee with 120ml SS milk, apricot, plum and peach
D: bunless burger with speed salad
Snacks: fruit, fruit and more fruit! Plus muller light if I want one (not SP but I can syn it if I really want)

Weigh in tomorrow, and it will only be five days between groups so I'm hoping to lose between 0.5 and 1kg (1-2lb).

You've done well to keep on top of weight gain during pregnancy. I didn't have the worst morning sickness the first time, only about three weeks of feeling hungover 24/7, but I was absolutely ravenous and wasn't making the best food choices. I hope that this time (if it happens) that I'll do better. I also expressed and bottle fed enough milk for twins (!!) and donated excess which meant my huge appetite afterwards didn't mean I gained a lot, but when I stopped expressing but still ate a lot I did regain quite a bit.

I have all of my fingers crossed that this is the very last time. I know it won't be, I just look at cake and get a bit fatter, but I'm really looking at changing my life around. Just need to get DH on board as he also needs to lose 20-30kg and is as bad as me in the laziness and junk food stakes. It's classic, but I want to not be an embarrassment to DS and I also want to have the fitness and energy to keep up with him. Plus, I want to look hot, lol! I haven't ever been slim as an adult, and I want to be. I want to wear short shorts and maybe even a bikini one day and not be worried that I look like a fool.

How did you get on with your weigh-in, KP????

Struggling today for the simple reason that I'm off work and my partner wants to go out and do stuff, and I am weakwilled. Let's review though:

B: magic porridge, tick
L: in a cafe, nothing especially helpful. I had roast beef on a panini with a salad - the dressing was drenched in oil and the panini was fatty
Snack: strawberries and icecream with a cappuccino. Okay, I should have had JUST strawberries and an Americano.
D: left over pasta from yesterday with a big salad.

I suppose that's not too bad written down; I do tend to have all or nothing tendencies and if I'm not 100% 'good' then what's the point etc. Which is why I want this small place to write about stuff and to be honest and accountable to me at least.

700g (1.5lb) loss this week, in five days since my last weigh in. And a couple of big non-plan days, too, so I'm happy.

Today's food (bearing in mind I tend to fast a little on weigh in days )
B: 3 pieces speed fruit, coffee with SS milk
MT: black filter coffee
Late lunch/snack: more fruit, lean ham, 2 X peanut hifis (HexB and 6 syns)
D (post group): SW tikka curry sauce with prawns, SF soft drink

Normally on group day I would have a sweet treat for dessert but I don't think we have anything here! Might just have to have a muller light instead.

I've still got 3/4 of the curry sauce tub left, so might have that with chicken for lunch tomorrow, along with some green vegies.

Oh well done KP, that's a really good result, you must feel pretty damn good about yourself!!!

I am!

2kg to go until Club 10.

And if I can keep up at 1kg-ish/week, I will be at target before a big holiday in Oct/Nov which would be beyond fabulous.

Feeling good about myself, I'm glad I started this journal like thread for me, it's a good place for me to have a place to talk about my journey. I hope it's a long journey to goal. Can't believe I came so far a few years ago and let some of it slip away. Not all of it though, and that's good. I still kept off 83 lbs, which is almost 6 stones.

So today has been okay, I weigh in daily and the weight seems to be coming down. The plan so far is:

B: magic porridge
Snack: skinny cappuccino
L: pasta and salad
Snack: fruit
D: this is a bit hazier, I have so much to plan today, and I'm tempted by having something easy.

I love the fact that this is so simple, and that it is about healthy food. I feel good eating lots of fruit and veg, and I want so badly to lose this weight. I definitely feel committed, in a way in which I didn't. I kept getting tempted by the apparent simplicity of 5:2, but although it worked it's not long-term for me, I need rules and restrictions. Paul McKenna didn't really work for me either, I need something again to work at.

Fingers crossed that this will be a good day for me.

Hmmm... off plan day here. But I'll just pretend that it was in place of last night's perfectly OK meal after group. I usually have a Monday night blow out, but last night I did not.

So tonight we had pizza. It just feels like a weekend to me and I couldn't be bothered with cooking!

B: coffee with milk (1/2 HexA)
L: eggs and ham on wholemeal toast (HexB)
AT: loads and loads of speed fruit salad, 2/3 Alpen Light bar (2), small pack pork scratchings (6)
D: whole medium pizza from Papa Johns. Damn their 2 for 1 Tuesday offer. The bastards sent me a text this afternoon and that was that. I also had a SF ginger beer with bourbon.

In better news I did go to the gym and do some walking today, so it wasn't all for nothing.

Tomorrow is another day :)

Well, just setting off for the big wedding this morning, so won' t be around till Saturday. I'm going to continue to TRY to follow SW all week, but it's not going to be easy and I'm not kidding myself about that. Still losing so that's good, and maybe I can remind myself of this goal. But there will be a four hour drive there, a night before meal, the actual day and then the breakfast and drive back. And because it's a hotel in the country I don't have a huge amount of choice over what I have

Back on Saturday :)

Enjoy your trip away. And good luck staying on plan as much as possible!

Wedding was amazing and perfect, and I think I must have put on every lbs I lost due to the copious amounts of champagne!!

Saturday was struck down by a nasty vomiting bug, which has really wiped me out. Not so much about what food I'm eating, but just not been eating anything since then. I'm going to have to be off work for a few days this week until all ahem symptoms have cleared up. Gah!!!!

Glad you're back but not for the virus. Eek, indeed.

We are on our holiday as well, two weeks away so I'm also hoping I don't regain everything!

First couple of days haven't been great...

Thanks KP, hope you have a fabulous holiday, are you going away somewhere nice???

Still feeling dead rough, but great for losing all the weight I've gained over the wedding last week!! I'm not really following anything at the moment, my diet is trying to be very much about 'white' food that will stay in my system. So lots of soup, white bread, and no fruit/veg. It's not much though, but it it frustrating. Still, I do feel committed to SW even though my system won't let me do anything much at the moment.

I'm going back to work tomorrow so fingers crossed that it's not too bad. I'm definitely better but feeling really weak, so even washing my hair is making me feel sweaty and faint. Gah. Rewatching old episodes of Sex and the City which is definite the equivalent of comfort eating. Love it! Although the people seem horrible in it now, very self-centred and mean. But I love Samantha, she really seems to stand the test of time!

Also looking at holidays, and I so want to be lovely and slim for our next holiday together - which might be either Venice or Japan. So much to look forward to!

First full day back on SW after quite a rough week. So today:

B: magic porridge and grapes
L: rice / tuna
Snacks: apples / low cal jelly
D: tomato soup and bread

I know that the last one isn't right but I'm still not up to a full meal as such. However I have meal planned and am all ready going forward. Weight has come right back down, so all in all pretty good : )

Yay for eating again!

Really good day today, I feel back in the swing of it!

B: magic porridge and grapes
L: SW wedges + salad + soup
D: mushroom and bacon risotto
Snacks: fruit

Feeling good at lots of little victories. I avoided falling into the cakes at work, I feel I'm really getting somewhere with my eating, and it's the ease I like more than anything. I feel GOOD eating lots of fruit and veg and avoiding over processed food. Psychologically, this is a great diet for me to follow.

Send my lovely partner out shopping and have meal planned next week:

S: steak and stirfry
S: chicken and rice
M: away
T: prawn curry and rice
W: pasta and sauce
T: pork and carrots
F: SW corned beef hash

I feel better when it's all planned out ;)

I agree completely! I love how good I feel eating so much fresh fruit and vegies.

Not getting that on holidays at all (hotel continental breakfasts and fast food lunches, casual pub/restaurant dinners) and I miss my greens!

I actually can't wait to get back into it, which is about 10 days away.

Awwwww KP enjoy your holiday and be good when you get home!

Great weigh in today - I'm down 3lbs to 260lbs. This means that I've lost the weight I gained last week so it's actually a 6lbs loss in total, but I'm not counting the post-wedding increase.

So week 2 and it's 3lbs down, 8lbs in total from 268 to 260 lbs. And in bigger totals still, that's 90lbs down from my highest ever weight. Looking forward to getting the 100lbs loss back again.

Next week's goals - lose another 2 lbs by next Saturday to be 258 lbs or 18st6. Feeling good about life.

B: toast
L: risotto
D: steak and stirfry
Snacks: fruit and wine

Yay :)

Well done. Every lb down is another you'll never have to carry around again.

Thanks KP!! Except for my history of regaining! Never mind, keep at it :)

Struggling right now - it's 5:30 and I feel out of sorts. I want a treat dammit! My partner is playing computer games, I can't really get into anything and I want wine and crisps on the sofa lol. What are some things I can occupy myself with that don't feel like a task? Hmmmm. Shall go and make a list that usually cheers me up....!

Sunday here and I'm feeling good about the weight loss - more than that, I seem to have calmed down a lot with overeating, I'm in quite a tranquil place right now, it's hard to explain but it feels good. Feels good, and I'm optimistic about today. The things that knock me off balance though aren't the day to day stuff, it's the exceptions. The meals out, the weekends away and so on. I'm going to try to do some thinking about that this week.

Today's plan:

B: two slices of toast and jam
L: potato wedges and salad, and either soup or omelette
D: chilli chicken + rice + salad
Snacks: fruit

Going to the gym as well today after a bit of an absence, so feeling good about that.

Good luck. My hubby and I are starting tomorrow. We both have about 4st each to lose, We have done the big shop and I am looking at planning our 1st weeks meal planner today, I will keep you posted.x

Would you ladies mind if I joined you? I have been overweight for 20 years but have recently got into a really good frame of mind, and have lost 11lbs in about six weeks. I can feel it slipping a bit though and really need somewhere where I can write stuff down, and also get some support (I don't go to class).

Today has been bloody awful because I was hungover, so I had two slices of toast with peanut butter, a mug shot, minestrone soup with two slices of bread, about 3 mini milky ways, a couple of handfuls of chocolate raisins and some flapjack that went wrong so I was eating it by the spoonful!

Tomorrow I will have melon and banana & overnight oats for breakfast. Then I'm going for a 5k walk with my four year old. Lunch will be tuna jacket spud and lots of salad. Evening meal will be 1 burger, bun less with pasta salad and a green salad with some gherkins and beetroot. Only Syns I plan to have are the ones for the mayo in the tuna and the mayo in the pasta salad.

Hi everyone. You all sound like you're doing really well on SW. Me and DH have been on it since 01/06/16. I'm 1/2lb from 1.5st while DH is 3lb off 3st.

Today we've had overnight oats with Muller Light yogurt, raspberries and banana, root veg, chicken and bacon stew from the freezer for lunch AFTER we walked 3.7 miles and then tonight's dinner is balsamic pork steak with baked sweet potato and steamed vegetables.

Tomorrow is our 18th wedding anniversary, and we have the day off. We're going to Lincoln Castle to see the ceramic poppies that were in Tower of London with a SW inspired picnic. Please fingers crossed for good weather in the East Mids

Weigh in on Tuesday so we don't want tomorrow to cause us issues as we really want our milestone certificates. I started at 17st12lb and DH was 25st5lb so plenty more to lose!!!

Hello to all the newbies! How nice of you to join us, lots of ideas to go around when I'm back from my trip next week.

At this point I'm trying to minimise the gains. TBH, anything less than a stone (in two weeks) would be pretty good!

But, whatever goes on will come off again. I know that so I'm not too worried. I will be disappointed in myself, lost opportunities and all that, but the plan works and I will get it back.