I WILL lose a stone by Christmas - who is joining me?

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I've been putting off losing weight for too long - I've kept saying "Yes I'll have another chocolate/bag of crisps/Magnum , and I'll start the diet tomorrow/Monday/next month"

But this time I'm going to do it. I've got zero willpower so I am counting on the wonderful world of Mumsnet for support!

Now for the facts:

I'm 5'8" and this morning I weighed in at 14st 5lb !

Aged 17, I weighed 9st 3lb . Now I'm not saying I want to go back to that, but I would be very happy with 11st 7lb, taking me into a healthy weight range, and 10st 10lb as my goal weight.

But for the time being, I just want to get out of the obese category .

ALL TIPS AND ADVICE WELCOME!

hi all! tobermory, i am still here!

tho not sure i deserve to be, as i'm still stuck at 10 stone 13!! though, given my knackered back (which is finally getting better at long last) and the amount i've been eating recently, i'm actually quite surprised i've stayed the same and not put on! would really love to get down to 10 stone and a single digit for christmas!

and hi to fpsake, welcome!!

Toomuch, good to see you, thought this thread was dead!

This weekend wasn't great, lunch out, some vodka and a packet of maltesers! but the scales didn't look too awful this morning. I'm doing well, have lost 21lbs so 1.5 stone so far which I'm really pleased about. I'm feeling so much better in myself.

Hello, everyone, I had lost another pound and was feeling quite happy to be so close to 12stone, and then put a bit back on. Ive been quite energetic and stuff lately and exercising more although not really taking too much notice of what Im eating, darent weigh myself now...has to be done first thing in the morning, but I will weigh in tomorrow and am hoping to be down a bit, keep going everyone...how many days until Christmas anyway? x

not enough days woah!!! snow has come, and brought with it serious carb cravings!! man, i could MURDER a scone with butter and apricot jam right now!!

well snow stopped me from getting to work for my weighin so i have no idea how i'm doing.

calories in = hot chocolates, soups and stews to keep warm

calories out = snow shovelling and towing a 4 year old up hill on sledge several times

i hope i've done enough exercise to work off the hot chocolates!!

i weighed on sunday and was 12 st 3 so the same as before, however, i dont feel bad, i have been working out so much, i know i am fitter, my jeans are falling down bad and i think i must have put some on in muscles and thats without really doing f all diet wise. its all swings and roundabouts with me at the moment. On Sunday I went swimming, did 2 x davina workouts, but today i ahev just pigged out and done no exercise. I have been crazy hungry today, is it something to do with the cold do you think. Im going to be careful with my eating tomo and go swimming. Its such a pain though because Ive such a lot of work to do at the moment so cant do as much working out as Id like, also when I do sitting down work i get the nibbles ssss badly. Oh and my boyf has chosen now to start cooking, he made a massive lovely dinner tonight!

I've lost 2lbs this week, so 23 lbs altogether.

Really pleased about that but it is getting harder. The steely determination I had to not have anything 'off diet' seems to be slipping away!

hello ladies! made it into work so got weighed, one pound lost, so now 10 stone 12.
so that snow shovelling did help!

tried on last year's strapless LBD tonight and it is falling off me, even DH said "you can't wear that, its huge!" so i'm chuffed - such a visible difference from this time last year.

does mean i now have a week to find something to wear! hopefully in a size 12 if ii'm lucky! don't really want to spend the money for one night out but can't risk a strapless black dress ending up round my knees! (not with my stretch marks!)

tobermory you have done SO SO amazingly well losing all that baby + weight, well done! hang in there, 3 weeks to go!!

hi woah, how are you doing?

Thanks toomuch. how much have you lost and how long has it taken?

I am ridiculously proud of myself, having thought about the need to diet for so long while the number crept higher and higher - baby didn't help! So a couple of months of dieting successfully leave me feeling really positive and much happier about myself.

Have lost 1.5 lb this week, 3.5lb to go to my 2 stone mark - really hoping I can get there!! Have a works Cheistmas party at the wwekend, hopefully if im good thr rest of the week might see another loss or at least not an increase next week.

Hiya tobs, (getting casual now!), do you think we are the only ones left???

I was 12 stone 3 at the start of July when i decided to get healthy. I followed (roughly) the Shape plan from Top Sante magazine and got down to 11 stone 1 by mid Sept. Was feeling really good but then "rewarded" myself with the odd treat or two ... and started going the wrong way back up again ... i joined the thread in mid Oct at 11 stone 2/3. So the first stone came off in 2 months Jul to Sept, fluctuated Oct, then taken another 2 months to mid Dec to lose another half stone (nearly!). 19 lbs in total since July - weigh in tomorrow!

I bought my size 12 little black dress today for the party tomorrow night! Was a good feeling. It fits well too, not squeezed in like a sausage! and i am very pre-menstrual too (joy).

hi again, sat weighin and down one more pound to 10 stone 11. so 20 pounds in total now. how is everyone doing?

Toomuch, it is looking more and more like we're the last ones standing!
I'm down another 1lb, 25.5 lbs in total. Really pleased with that, Christmas do on Friday, meal out Sat and chocolate on Sunday and was fully expecting the numbers to have gone up.
Almost admitted defeat, 2.5 lbs to go to 2 stone loss but don't think I'll quite do it by Christmas!

Hooray!!

I've done it, am now 2 stone lighter than I was when I
Started!

Tobermory that is totally fantastic! well done, how did you get that last couple of pounds off? well my last weigh in before xmas i was still 10 stone 11, so my total was 20 lbs since the summer. quite chuffed, going to enjoy xmas/new year and then aim for 10 7 by end of January!

if you fancy starting another thread for that in jan, i'll be there!!

well done again. and hope santa was good to you!

I have put on 10lbs in a month! Wow, what a complete loser I am, not in a good way. Fat whale I am. Im going to start a new thread.

toomuch haveput on 3lbs
not great but my punishment for copious amounts of quality street and mince pies!
Back on the wagon and need to find a new thread!

hey tobs, that's not much really, i put on 4lbs over xmas and new year but 2 has come off again already. i know the feeling, you work SO hard to lose every pound, and then it goes back on so easily! no fair!!

see you on a Jan thread i hope!!

cheers for your contributions and good humour!