Am going to stop eating crap and lose 4 stone. Want to help me stay on the straight and narrow?

[SparkyMalarky]

That's it really. Need to lose 4 stone, have failed at every diet I've tried so am going back to basics - 3 low fat meals, 2 healthy snacks, 2 litres of water, more exercise.

I have to do it - on a serious note, have two gorgeous DCs and I want to be fit for them - this weight is not good for me and I know that I'm putting myself at risk of heart trouble, diabetes etc etc - and what's more, I want to wear a size 12 again - instead of size 20 for fuck's sake.

Have failed on all the summer weight loss threads so am hoping that starting my own will spur me on! So anyone with me? Or just want to come and shout at me when I want a chunky kit kat?

giraffes - I am tempted to take you up on your offer as I am basically nosy. However, it sounds like it might be very gross and I will be repulsed but I fear that it still won't make any difference and I will continue to eat them yet at the same time being disgusted.

The box however, remains sealed and closed so at the moment it isn't necessary.

How long will it last?

Right today is a new day and I am going to do this thing .

I am going to drink more water today
I am going to make healthy food choices .

I am not going to eat any shite .

Honest

Do you think if I keep repeating this to myself it might work ?

Travelling - It will work! If you keep saying it out loud to yourself, your mouth will be too busy to eat.

I have decided that I am going to invoke the 80/20 rule. So long as I eat healthily 80% of the time then I can afford to eat something less healthy 20% of the time. That way, if an After Eight did stray passed my lips, for a hypothetical example, then it wouldn't be a bad day, it would just me indulging in my 20% and I wouldn't have to feel bad or feel that my healthy eating plan (I will NOT use the word diet) had gone off course and I needn't bother trying for the rest of the day.

So far today I am doing OK foodwise. I do need to go to Tesco's and I was going to go first thing so that I could get it over with and get on with the rest of my day but then I decided to have some breakfast first so that I am not tempted by the chocolate croissants they sell there. Now though, I have refocus my motivation on getting off the computer and out of the front door before the lunchtime hunger kicks in which isn't easy because I have now got sucked into other jobs.

Travelling - cove Niecie's idea of repeating your mantra so you can't eat! My DS never stops talking though, and he still manages to shove a few biscuits in his mouth!

Giraffes - I am basically nosy too and am wondering if hearing about your after eight induced nausea will help put me off chocolate. Go on tell!

Niecie I think the 80/20 rule sounds like a goer. With a hungry DH and two small people in the house, there is no chance I can rid the place of treats completely, so it think I just need to learn to ration it better.

Ok - off to do the washing and have a big glass of squash (that counts towards my 2 litres today right?)

Hello - can I join please?

Only just found your thread Sparky - only read the first page so far. I am 5' 8" and not sure what I weigh - probably between 16 and 16 1/2 stone. Would ideally like to get to 13 stone. Gave up bread last year and lost loads of weight with not too much difficulty, but a turkey sandwich at Christmas sent me off course and it has all piled back on. Down to one pair of jeans and they are tight. Plus I am menopausal so that probably doesn't help.

Want to lose it for my joints' sake. My knees are knackered.

Two words. Bloody Haribo.

Of course coatgate - come on in:) Are you planning on cutting out bread again? I'd fall foul to a Xmas turkey sarnie too - did it have cranberry sauce in?

Giraffe - forgot to mention your extreme willpower with the biscuits - well done.

Diet going okay here, have looked at so much food and managed to resist so feel like I should have lost at least a stone by now . I lost 3lbs last week, said I wouldn't weigh myself but did. I weighed myslef on the wii and the sad thing is I was 3lbs heavier than I thought/was at the dr's!

looneymum I also bought a wedding dress in the sale! It's a size too small, can just about squeeze into it... ALso no date or venue but it will be at the end of next month when we elope in Vagas!

sparkyMalarky Haribo have no fat, they can't be that bad.......

Welcome Colgate - You sound like you will fit right in. Thankfully none of us are size 10's fretting about how we will lose 4lbs in order to get into our size 8 party frocks in time for Christmas.......well not this year anyway. Maybe next year!

Sparky - I did kind of assume that Travelling would have put aside the table manners of her youth and not talk with her mouth full. However, you have now planted the thought of a grown woman spraying biscuit crumbs across the room whilst she is chanting. At least it has put me off biscuits for a while!!

going - well done on losing 3lb. May it be the first of many!

Still walking, but I've had a bad eating evening...seem to be walking 6k daily atm, but I am planning on getting up to 10.

I've had a rubbish few days with a long day out and about for work - if I end up sitting with my laptop in cafes it's fatal. Also have had a cold and been feeling in need of energy boosts. Enough. Today is the start of getting back on straight and narrow. I weighed myself and have gone up from 13 to 13'1. Not a huge deal, but I really want to be under 13st by the start of October - that's the target I set myself when I started way back in July. So I need to be strict with myself.

Hello coatgate. Just wanted to say that I have had a knee problem for ages now - well over a year which was part of my motivation for wanting to lose weight and although I have only lost 12lbs (now 11!) so far, it already feels much better. So that's a definite incentive to keep going.

Hello all , a good day here so far , it is bloody boring though . I am at home a lot at the minute so the temptation of eating my way through the day is there . I really need to start getting out in the morning when I am child free for a good long walk .

Oooh, it's been quiet in here today.

Good day so far really - although I did finish the haribo and have a chocolate. But had prop lunch and brekkie, walked for an hour (nowhere near solo's achievements though!) and will be doing the ironing tonight so will be harder to shove food in my gob!

Still not exercising enough though. Anybody want to give me a kick up the arse on that score?:)

Hi everyone, had a good day today - not sure how I managed it. There should be a law about having bakeries in supermarkets. My local one was baking hot cross buns when I went in and I was just about on my knees but I resisted and felt really noble about it Had chicken salad for lunch and a jacket spud for dinner. However going away for weekend with friends so much alcohol will be had and lots of grub... Must be good, must be good - 'repeat ad nauseum'

Done well so far - cereal for breakfast. Tinned mackerel and salad for lunch. One small 50 cal biscuit and one plum and a load of carrot sticks. That's it. Am now absolutely ravenous, though, so DH better be cooking something healthy for tea.

I've been a bit under the weather (cold) and so did not feel like exercising today but did the Shred DVD during my lunch break (I work at home!) and felt so much better for it. Sparky - I hate getting started exercising, but almost always like it when I do. Maybe you should try doing something a bit more intensive that's over quickly to supplement the walking? I'm a recent convert to exercise DVDs, but love the way I can get up at 6am and be done by 6.45 when DD1 gets up.

Have to fight to get on-line these days as i killed my laptop (it jumped off my lap i swear), the computer is my partners, and he is basically glued to it, so although it looks like i am barely on, i always be here in spirit.

So i have been pretty rubbish, but i have been eating a lot less, even though none of it has been good, aside one evening meal of jacket potato, and a smidgen of cheese.

Hey ladies!

Well, today my legs were really painful and I'm worried I'll have an M.E knock so I didn't walk today :( I have to be realistic though because I can't afford to not be able to get out of bed, so hopefully, it's a temporary setback. I'm going to attempt at least one return trip tomorrow.

Eating? today I've been ravenous; I even had two rounds of sandwiches for lunch, but I've not been really bad.

Must start my diet outine soooon!

Sounds like everybody has done OK today foodwise. I have been pretty good too. Not much exercise but then I have to expect that for the next two weeks until I have finished my OU course.

But I am bloody starving at the moment and it is not good.

I can hear those After Eights calling 'Niecie, Niecie come and eat us.....'

I think I might have to have an apple or I will go and make the boys sandwiches and before you know it a slice of buttered bread will have disappeared without touching the sides.

Well done everyone - good days:)

Dotty - I read you post as that you'd done the Shrek DVD! I already look like princess Fiona!

Solo - take it easy - you don't want to knacker yourself out completely.

Am up too late, and the biscuit tin is calling so I'm off to bed. I may try and do shred in the morning!

Still here! Niecie - what are you studying? How have you found the OU?

Sparky - think yourself lucky if you look like Princess Fiona. I look more like the man himself!

LOL at all the Shrek talk!

I had bread for breakfast which was a mistake as I iknow I'll be starving by 10 - couldn't resist the home made bread though!

Bread is the work of the devil. I could never do a low carb diet as I could never give up all things bready.

Sparky - I am just finishing the last module of my MSc in Psychology. Not sure what I am going to do with it as it isn't practical in any way but at least I can add 3 more letters after my name.

Anyway, for the next 2 weeks (oh no, less than that now) I will be desk bound, or should be. Actually, probably will be except that I get too easily distracted by MN and FB and all other interesting things on the internet that have nothing to do with cognitive function in Alzheimer's patients.

Hello all , scrambled eggs again . I have started having just fruit in the morning and then have eggs about 11 , snack about 2 or 3 and then trying to have an early dinner . So far so good . I wasn't eating dinner before till at least 8 o clock which is just silly . It also meant that I pinched small peoples leftovers .

Bread is indeed the work of the devil Niecie , I did low carb a while back and the weight did just fall off but as soon as I had a slice of toast I put pounds back on .I am trying to only have it once a day and that seems to be wroking so far .