2010 Weight Loss Club : The Wannabe Winter Waifs

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

Piste is busily plumping up the cushions and making a space for Blondes to dump the naughty step.

Here we go! Let's see 2010 out in style my fellow Slinkies!

Well done to Blondes, Bebe and Pretty. Piste - 3lbs on during a week away is not bad at all. Actually, I'm impressed at how restrained you obviously were! You know you'll be able to lose that again relatively quickly.

Bebe - maintaining IS hard. I used to fluctuate within half a stone or so depending on where I was in my cycle, how much I'd been going out and I tended to know when I needed to lose weight according to how my clothes felt rather than the scales.

I've realised that if I can lose 5lbs this year, I will have lost a stone and a half this year which I think is pretty impressive (well, it is unless you're Bebe!) so that will be my new short time goal.

Have a good weekend. We're off to a bonfire party tomorrow but I'll be looking out of the window at the display across the road from us tonight.

maybe you have an infected spot/gland/pore bebe? and blue veined cheese wants to make me heave!!!

murtette - come on gal, you can do it - 5lbs till xmas :)

Not sure about the lump is about the sizer of a pea but not red or anything I got the bits that hold the glasses on your nose (don't know the proper name) rammed into the top of my nose/corner of my eye by DD headbutting me (accidentally) yesterday. Eye feels a bit sore too! :(

Come on Murtette you can do it!

I never in a million years thought I'd lose what I have lost in a year! But I really did have it to lose!

Blue cheese is my nemesis.

Bleuugggghhhh
Worse still than egg custard/ rice pudding/ Turkish delight/ anything wobbly. Bleugh

Sorry you got a crack on the nose BB, when DS was a similar age he caused me to have to have my forehead glued back together ( like stitches!)

It's Friday so I'm going to be bad bout with girls for pizza and wine :)

have a fun night all

blondes here's that article www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1326447/Weight-Watchers-Pro-Points-plan-A-new-approach-dieting-success.html

thanks for that gg

not sure how new plan works and tbh it would throw me having 49 treat points a week

so i shall carry on as i have done before

I have made a decidedly non diet Banoffee pie! It is technically my birthday treat, so I shall not be feeling guilty () about eating alot a little bit of it! :o

GG - that article is interesting but it does make WW seem even more confusing

Walked to Tesco in the rain this morning & hip is now agony, was a stupid thing to do I know, but just needed to get out!

GG: I also found that article very interesting. It is also instinctively the type of diet I have started consciously to try following, ie not to stint on fruit and veg but also to up the maount of protein I have. A sort of "healthy" Atkins

I have done Atkins in the past but had concerns about the strain it put on your kidneys (especially since I had had "leaky" kidneys whle I was pregnant). Last time I successfully lost a good amount of weught quickly was following India Knight's diet (high protein, low carbohydrate but still allowing plenty of veg): dh was away for nearly three weeks on his Master of Wine course and subsequent tour of the vinyards, so I was able to concentrate on it and lost a stone!

pretty - I just spent ages trying to work out what 'maount' was...my brain is not functioning yet today!

I definitely know I should eat more protein that I do. Trouble is it all has too many calories! :o

Piste you have done very well just putting on 3lbs on a weeks holiday, I'm sure you will lose that in no time.

Murtette yes you can do it, I'll join you I'll be very happy losing 5-7lbs before Christmas.

Prettybird I will try and have at least 2 if not 3 wine free days this week.

Well done to all the losers and all those who sts

I stayed the same this week, not surprising as AF came this morning.

I made some bns soup yesterday, it was delicious, I make mine extra spicy with crushed chilli, coriander & cumin, next time I will add red pepper as well.

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1stone 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 11 lb - Wt loss 22 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st 7lbs, Current Wt 10st 7lb, Wt loss 4st 8lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 4 lbs, Wt loss 16 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.8 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 8lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5; current weight 12st target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 14.5lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 10.5lbs Wt loss 10.5lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Traget wt 10st 5lbs ; Wt loss 16lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 5 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 12st 13lbs; wt lost overall 6 lbs;
Liz Abbott: Start wt 15st: Target weight 11st
Huffythethreadslayer: start wt 14st 9lbs: Target wt, 13st
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 22st 9.5 lb weight lost: 4.5 lbs.
DespicableMe - start weight 14st10lbs. Target 11st6lbs; wt loss 2st10lbs
Shivermetimbers - start weight 27st3lb. current weight 22st5lb. wt lost 4lb
Smokinpumpkins - start weight 13st 9. Current weight 12st 3.
Sandstorm - start weight 12st 4. Current weight 12st 4
Amygeorgina - start weight 20st. Current weight 20st. Target weight 15st initially, 5 st to go!
Smalline - start weight 13st 1.5lbs. Current weight 12st 6lbs wt loss 8.5lbs

smalline - well done for sts :)

i really dont understand the new ww :( how can i eat tons of bananas/grapes fruit etc as all sugar and always been pointed before

surely if i eat as much fruit as i like then will be eating like 30+ p a day so no way will lose weight

blondes is puzzled :(

I think the point is that you are not likely to eat so many grapes, bananas etc as they are not "empty" calories (like alcohol or Mars Bars): as well as the fruit sugars, they also have lots of fibre which will fill you up. Also the fructose in them (the "natural" sugar) casue less of a glycaemic high (ie the reaction from your pancreas producing the inuslin to deal with it) so you get less of a rebound - and so fewer cravings for more sugar.

That's also the point with the protein - your body uses up more energy in porcessing it and it also doesn't casue the same highs and lows, so yuo feel fuller for longer.

Hi all I am thinking of joining ww again to get all the literature about the new diet, it looks like what I did anyway. I must get back on track and nothing seems to be motivating me

Blondes, I think after eating 2 apples, a few grapes and a banana I would be feeling pretty full and not reach for the naughty stuff, like I have been doing with left over halloween chocolate, etc

Looking at the sample menu in the article - that would work for me, with quorn subtituted for the chicken

smalline - well done for sts

so basically its how good you can be ie eat fruit and not chocolate /crisps

hmmmmmmmmm - not sure thats gonna work for me - i like crisps

out at bbq and fireworks tonight - will have a burger and salad

Have a good time. I'm off out to a fundraising do for the local hospice - no alcohol allowed as it's in a methodist church hall, my friend says she's smuggling in a hipflask!

i have been known to smuggle in booze ,,,,,

Changed my nickname again, just checking to see if it works.

Not sure if I like it that much, it'll do until I can think of another one.

i like getting trimmer

What about...GettinFitter or GettinFaster (in honour of your running?) or GettinFestive (seeing as it's nearly Christmas! :))

Ate waaaaaaay too much banoffee yesterday definitely getting a hint of Nigella's 'inner thigh wobble'! Back on the soups & ryvita from Tuesday! Need to focus in the run up to the big blowout Christmas! :o

Happy sunday ladies. Sorry I have been AWOL, but been mad busy this week, and next and the next one after that, it's a mad time fr me at the moment, so please forgive me if I dip in and out every now and again

I put on 1lb this week, which is OK, I have my AF and I had the WA meal and things in the meantime, so I deserved it, trying to be good now (apart from the Krispy Kreme donut last night atthe fireworks )

Disenchanted3:start wt: 13 st 7,target wt 10st 5lbs,current wt 12st 4lbs - wt loss 1stone 3 lbs.
Blondeshavemorefun;Start wt 13st 5 lb,target wt 11st,Current Wt 11 st 11 lb - Wt loss 22 lbs
Bebejones: Start Wt 15st 1lb, Target Wt 10st 7lbs, Current Wt 10st 7lb, Wt loss 4st 8lbs
Murtette: Start Wt 13st 6, Target Wt 10 st 6, Current Wt 12st 4 lbs, Wt loss 16 lb
RatherBeOnThePiste: start wt 14st 2 current weight 11.8 target wt 11st wt loss 2 stone 8lb
Trimmer:Start wt 12st 12.5; current weight 12st target wt 10stone 10lb; wt loss 14.5lb
Jodie - Start wt 11st7 Target wt 10st,current weight 10st 11.5lbs Wt loss 9.5lbs
Poohbearsmom: Start Wt: 15st 4lb, Target Wt: 10st, Wt Loss 1st 9lb
Laughalot: start wt 13st 4lbs; Traget wt 10st 5lbs ; Wt loss 16lbs
Prettybird: start wt 13st 5 lbs; Target wt 9st 13 lbs; current wt 12st 13lbs; wt lost overall 6 lbs;
Liz Abbott: Start wt 15st: Target weight 11st
Huffythethreadslayer: start wt 14st 9lbs: Target wt, 13st
Hecate - start weight 36 stone . current weight 22st 9.5 lb weight lost: 4.5 lbs.
DespicableMe - start weight 14st10lbs. Target 11st6lbs; wt loss 2st10lbs
Shivermetimbers - start weight 27st3lb. current weight 22st5lb. wt lost 4lb
Smokinpumpkins - start weight 13st 9. Current weight 12st 3.
Sandstorm - start weight 12st 4. Current weight 12st 4
Amygeorgina - start weight 20st. Current weight 20st. Target weight 15st initially, 5 st to go!
Smalline - start weight 13st 1.5lbs. Current weight 12st 6lbs wt loss 8.5lbs

How is everyone?

long time no see- hope you had a lovely wa - and the lb gain will be off next week

i like getting festive :)

i was sooooooooooooooo good at fireworks and afterwards - had a burger and onions - think about 6p and then when we got home hubby ordered chicken friend rice and curry sauce and ate didnt have any!!!!

having roast chicken, new pots and veg for lunch

Wasn't good yesterday: had duck confit for dinner (made last Christmas, clearing the fridge out to make this year's batch), followed by one of M&S's melting in the middle chocolate puddings (served with double cream of course), and shared a bottle of red wine with dh, as well as the glass of Cava I had had in the afternoon (finishing the bottle we had opened the night before). Oops

No exercsie either to counterbalance it....

Still, it is the first time I have gone over my "maintenance" level of calories since I starte back on FoodFocus on 6 October, so I'm not going to get too discouraged :)

Back in to the zone today.

pretty - we all have bad days :)