Nothing tastes as GOOD as SLIM feels part 2

[thedogwalker]

Well here we go, New Year and NEW US. Wishing everyone good luck and sending lots of happy vibes so that we can all reach our goals

just on to tell of my trauma!

i live at the top of a hill and had to ski all the way to the school this morning, was very scary as no grip and had my 2 and 2 nieces and my ds was in his pram. We eventually got there in 1 piece but coming back was another story! i had to eventually phone a taxi to take me about 3 streets away as its all up hill and me and the pram were sliding backward into traffic and i couldnt stop myself! was very scary!

and breathe.

will be shredding on wednesday and might do wii dance tomorrow, i nkow i need to exercise but i need some motivation as im crap when its cold, i just want to snuggle.

Sounds scary indeed thinbride.

We get icestorms here and a few years ago had one and I was reversing my car into the garage which is in the basement. Thought better of it and put car back into 'drive' instead of reverse and then suddenly I felt the car just go. I slid all the way down backwards holding on to the steering wheel for dear life. Thankfully I was in 'drive' and could brake as soon as I got into garage and thankfully I had opened the garage door!

I have Wii Dance too. Must get it out. But not today as cleaner is here! And DS and he will laugh.

Buda ? I?m liking the sound of tough talking. I?ve never been good with people being nice to me, a kick up the bum is just the stuff I need. In return ? don?t make excuses woman get the wii dance out! Do it with your son, make it a competition, laugh together (laughter burns calories too).

Thinbride ? scary stuff. I think it?s time for some new shoes, I call my trekking shoes my ?4 by 4s?. Either that or some ice skates

I think the top is going to go back. I love the colours and it?s a bargain but it?s not much good if I?m going to feel self conscious wearing it. I will zone and treat myself to something new at in Feb if I?ve shifted half a stone.

Arrrgh! Just typed a long message and lost it. Will check in again later.

dinky, I'm a newish member. New on here but on the whole site used to be hystericalmum but didn't like the name so I changed it!.

Have 20lbs to lose as of today. Started proper at SW class this morning.

Welcome back Buda, I'm quite new to the thread, started in October and I'm finding it really good, very motivational, especially Dinky, she keeps us on our toes and gives excellent pep talks

Well I have shredded again today and now I'm knackered. Started on 1/2 kg weights as they were the only ones I had but went and bought 1kg weights today and it certainly makes a difference having the extra weight. Hopefully will help with the bingo wings . thinbride and buda, get out those shred dvds and get it done, 20 minutes and its all over, you've got nothing to lose but the weight .

Hope everyone is staying in the zone, take care x

hi Buda! I like the tough talking approach too. I know everyone biffs (like that word!) from time to time but I would love it if someone gave me a proper talking too when I do. I know its almost always down to laziness for me and a lack of organistion 9and of course lack of willpower).

Thinbride that sounds awful! hope you've recovered.

I had a good day today. I think I stayed under 1200 but its hard to judge when you eat at work. I only had small tomato soup, a tuna salad and a low fat yoghurt. I guessed it was around 350.
I resisted left over xmas chocolates and someones leaving cakes

I have just shredded. I've done day 6.

Hi Shaxx!

And everyone else! Nice to see a few people around. I remember this thread got very quiet a while ago.

iluvcake - glad you are still here too! Well done.

Right. Day 1 went reasonably well. I say reasonably as I went to a friend's for coffee and she had made flapjacks specially. I had one small one.

Didn't drink enough water or green tea so need to improve that today. Dinner was nice. I had left over roast pork to use and I did a sort of stewy thing with chickpeas. Tasted it at one point and it was a bit bland and lacking in taste so added a dollop of mango chutney with ginger and some chili flakes and that made a huge difference. Twas very tasty. I had a big portion but will gradually reign in the portion sizes. I figure a larger portion of a healthy dinner is better than being hungry later and picking on crap. Had 3 white wine sodas so about a glass and a half of white wine in all. DH's fault!

Have just been to shop on way back from taking DS to school and stocked up on fruit and yoghurts and rye bread. Have had a slice of rye bread with peanut butter and a banana for breakfast. Lunch will be carrot and lentil soup. Snacks will be fruit, yoghurt and oatcakes with low fat Philadelphia today. Need to plan what to have for dinner tonight and rest of week.

It is cold and damp and foggy and dank and miserable here today. Am hoping it will lift soon and i will take dogs for a walk.

I will also do one of the following:
20 mins on cross trainer
20 mins Just Dance
20 mins Wii Fit

Dinky - meant to ask you - are you still in your rented flat or did you get back to your house?

Morning all. Shaxx - am impressed at how virtuous you're being: you can be this week's poster girl for the thread

Buda - good memory! Still in rental flat (all those stairs up to the flat are a good work out) - house renovations continuing apace. Should (fingers crossed) be back in there sometime mid April. Glad day 1 went well - your dinner sounded lovely. We had seared scallops (with a splash of teriyaki sauce) and veg stirfry for dinner followed by some total 0% greek yoghurt with a scattering of walnuts and splash of honey. Yummy.

If you can access BBC iplayer and its still on, I'd really recommend watching the 10 things you need to know about losing weight program. Made for really interesting viewing. There was a lady on there who was eating healthily and they tracked what she thought she ate and what she actually ate - she thought she ate around 1,400 calories a day whereas it was over 3,000 - and that was down to portion size! Was quite an eye opener. Other good tips on there (exercise, having soup and protein to fill up, a little bit of low fat dairy in diet as a good thing etc) discussed up thread too.

Hi Dinky - we are about to start hour renovations (well they have started) and we are still overseas. I was thinking of you for some reason the other day when the builder checked out our dining room floor and they discovered that it has no damp proof course and is just laid on builders rubble! I am just grateful that we are not there and that we should have enough time for it all to be done by end of July when we move back! Glad yours is going OK.

I can't access BBC iPlayer unfortunately. Even though I have a fully paid up TV licence which is a pain!

Well. Guess what? I just did Shred! And discovered that I am even more unfit than I suspected!

Hi all

Buda, don't be too upset, I did my first ever shred last week and had the exact same thoughts, but by this week, I'm already feeling much better .

Carrying on Dinky's theme of watching what you eat, I am amazed at how much sugar is put into low fat options of food, so just because it is low fat does not mean that it is good for you. Worse still the manufacturers hide the sugar they put in, with fancy names, so you really need to read the labels, fructose, sucrose, glucose, dextrose and syrup is just another word for sugar which will pile on the pounds just as quick as the fat. Furhermore when the liver has stored all the sugar that it can, the excess is returned into the blood in the form of fatty acids. These fatty acids are then stored as fat in the most inactive areas of the body, such as the buttocks, breats, belly etc. Too much storage and heightened risk of diebetes.

All I'm saying is just keep an eye on your sugar intake, in purchased food along with natual sugars in fruit, it all adds up. Natuarl sugars in fruit = good, refined sugars in processed food = bad.

Lecture over, hope not to offend, but everyone is always so mean to fat and never on sugar.

Take care xx

thedogwalker - no offence taken! I avoid low-fat stuff in general. I avoid as many 'franken-foods' as possible. Reading labels is a challenge here as they are mostly in Hungarian! I got low-fat Philly as it was the only plain one. I clearly remember a friend who had gestational diabetes telling me that her blood sugars spiked after a wholegrain tuna roll. She couldn't understand until she realised that her mother had used low-fat mayo.

And I understand what Dinky is saying about portion sizes too. I am relaxed on portion sizes fro the first week though. I think for me it is more important to get back to eating the right foods. I know that if I limit my portions to a point where I am hungry I will get to 4pm and eat everything in sight!

Generally what I am doing works for me. Usually! When I stick to it. And I don't feel deprived and I feel I have lots more energy.

One of the things that put me off WW years ago was the realisation that you could exist on crap but once you stayed within your points you were OK. Of course staying within your points eating crap just leads your body to cry out for REAL food. Nutritious food. I have a theory that the less processed food you eat the better your body likes it and the more likely you are to lose weight as your body is nourished by real foods.

I agree Buda, there is a limit on how much the poor old liver can do. So the less processed food you eat the easier on the liver, which means it has more time to get rid of any fat you do eat instead of taking up all its time with the toxins in processed food. The liver will always clear toxins first so if there is any fat or sugars in your diet then it will store them as it hasn't got time to process them. So the more naural /organic the better

I'm also the same on reading labels, I live in germany, and they don't have to list everything in the foods, plus some of it I just can't understand as they like long words over here

Just watched trhat programme on the iplayer, very interesting! I will definatley be eating more soup, low fat dairy and having protien at breakfast this week and will see how i go at next weeks weigh in.

I also read labels carfully and try not to buy low fat/ no fat (altho i do buy the low fat mayo) as im aware of the hidden sugars (saw a programme on it), but we hardley ever eat proccessed food and i never buy ready meals.

Budda im following WW and im aware you can eat crap an still lose but im trying not to think that way and im eating healthy, so are the rest of the house as i dont cook seperate meals so we all eat the same (with the exeption of me and dp having a curry as the kids dont like it).

Getting weighed tonight so will report back with the results. Scales keep reading different each time i get on them so i really dont know what the outcome will be.

thinbride - I think the new WW plan is different in that it seems to encourage healthy eating.

I also try to read labels and avoid low fat products except sometimes. I have bought laughing cow light cheese and the odd weightwatchers dessert. Generally I try to avoid aspartame.
I really prefer to give my kids home made treats like cakes and biscuits (and they get to enjoy helping me ) but I find it them so hard to resist.

I've stuck to my cals today eating healthily and said no thanks to someones birthday cakes (thornton ones too!)

Good luck with weigh in thinbride!

Hi everyone,

I have been ok today after a not so good start to the week. I went to a wedding on the weekend and spent most of Friday trying to find something to wear which didn't make me look like a beached whale...nothing like a 3-way mirror to give you a bit of a kick about your real size .

I have ordered the Shred DVD .

Resist! Resist! Resist!

Thats to me as dh comes in eating crisps and sandwiches whils my friend has dropped off some chocolate cake!

Had my weigh in and lost 4.5lb! really pleased and determined to keep it up!

Oh well done for resisting the cakes shaxx, its really tempting when people put yummy things in the way of temptation.

Budda, ww pro points is better than the old way as they take into count protien,carbs total fat an fibre.

Guitargirl i hate the mirrors in changing rooms as they always make me look dreadfull! thats why i buy and try on at home.

Woohoo! Thats brilliant thinbride! well done!

I just had one of dh's crisps and one mouthful of my friends choc cake (I just find it hard to resist in the evenings!)
Then I brushed my teeth and made myself some herbal tea so all is good.

Guitargirl Shred will make a real difference!

Good weigh in there Thinbride! Well done!

well done thinbride!

well done thinbride - fab result - keep it up.

thedogwalker - thanks for the advice about sugars. I've been guilty in the past of eating packets of marshmallows and gummy sweets to get a sugar hit whilst thinking I was being good (sort of) as they didn't contain fat. Talk of fatty acids and my poor liver has really given me something to think about.

Buda - you've given into the power of the shred - you must do it again tomorrow. I ached like buggery last week after my first session for a while. I couldn't bring myself to do it the next day, still ached the following day but I did it and the aching actually got better I played netball last night instead of shredding and I ache again - must be different muscles being woken up. I've motored through the pain to do day 7 of the shred tonight.

Some of my exercise goodness has been undone by a baking session this pm. I made fruit buns with the dcs but we split the mixture to make half "normal" size buns and half "mini" size. I've swerved the biscuit tin all day so i allowed myself a mini one - it was good.

Had roasted butternut squash filled with roasted veg and a smidgeon of goats cheese tonight - was delish & filling.

So... so far so good this week.I'm soooooo hoping for a loss or I warn you I'm going to be a miserable moo next week.

Well done on that loss thinbride! We'll be calling you skinnybride soon!

justaminute - i used to do the same. And eat things like pasta and rice as there was no fat in them. I think the low-fat craze has a lot to answer for! Low-fat is important but we need good fats both for health and as they fill us up for longer. It is the saturated fats we should be avoiding. And sugar is almost as bad as fat. Look at the huge rise in people with diabetes over the last few years. I am sure a lot of it is to do with people eating low-fat foods but not realising the damage the sugar was doing.

I also have a theory that the more processed/junk/low/fat foods we eat the more we crave. Either because they are designed to get us to want more and more or because our bodies are crying out for real food and nutrition. Think about low-fat yoghurts. You are hungry so you have a low fat strawberry yoghurt. It is gone in a couple of minutes, doesn't fill you and you are hungry again shortly after. Whereas if you have a handful of actual strawberries with some natural yoghurt you feel like you are actually eating something, it fills you up more and is SO much better for you.

Well I don't ache today. Which I think means I didn't do Shred properly! I won't get to do it today as my cleaner is here. May try this afternoon when she has gone! I will walk dogs though. Which is worse than Shred in some ways! If I walk them both together I get pulled in all directions and if I walk separately, well I get twice as much exercise!

Food wise I was OK yesterday. I did have some Xmas cake though. The last piece in the house. Just had the cake and one bite of the marzipan and icing. Couldn't bring myself to throw it away as I made it myself! Tis gone now. Still have lots of junk around but stuff I find easy to resist.

Dinner was fajitas. I had yoghurt on mine instead of sour cream, no cheese. Added to peppers to the mix and probably ate both as I think DH managed to avoid them! He is not keen on peppers. I love them.

Still have carrot and lentil soup in fridge so will have that for lunch today. Dinner will be sausage and lentil casserole.

Buda - you need to shred AND dogwalk today to make up for the xmas cake transgression and Justaminute - shred for you for the mini bun (which I am sure was worth it though) You'll probably find you ache tomorrow from the shred - or later today.

The shred is a good exercise dvd but my big issue with exercise dvds is that you have to really push yourself to do them, and motivate yourself to get the most out of them - that's why I prefer a pt session or class, as there is someone else there yelling at you to make you push yourself that little bit harder. However I've set myself a target of being able to run 10k at some point this year so that is what I'm going to be pushing myself to achieve. We'll see how it goes.