Nothing Tastes As Good As Slim Feels Part 4

[knottyhair]

Whoops. Managed to fill it up again! Hope it's OK to start a new one. Let's keep going everyone - big zonetastic push up to the festive season!!

Thanks Knotty - forced myself to do circuits this morning as penance for biffing last night and my it was hard. Definitely need an early night tonight. On the plus side, being asleep should stop me biffing....

I'm good for nothing this afternoon. I went for a short run last night, then this morning in an attempt to get back on track with the Shred I did Levels 1 and 3 - ouch! I have to admit my effort level was poor for the second session. I've also undone the good work by polishing off the remains of birthday cake. Oh well at least it's all gone now

Ugh, I really cannot be arsed. Felt knackered and hungry all day yesterday and today- Kept on the straight and narrow, but an't be arse with nice clother or hair or make up either. I reckon my system is just getting used to getting up in the dark and being cold. Hope you all have more oomph than me!

JAM - that's alot of exercise to kick start your exercise sessions again! You definitely deserved that birthday cake.

BelleEnd - change of seasons often starts people feeling lethargic and comfort eating. You'll adjust soon - till then keep on the straight and narrow...

Morning all - hope everyone is feeling better today. Have been dosing myself up on vit c and echinacea so hoping my cold will wane soon.

Morning! Hope you're feeling better soon Dinky, try to rest if you can (although I'm sure that's an incredibly stupid thing to say!). JAM, anyone who does 2 Shreds together deserves cake in my book . Belle, hope you're feeling more positive today. I agree with Dinky, the change of season can definitely affect energy levels. But if you're hungry, for what it's worth, I'd say you could eat a bit more and still lose weight. Have you got lots of healthy snacks around?
Just done L2 6W6P - definitely the hardest routine I've got of Jillian's but I managed to up my weights to 3kg and I kept going! Got spicy chicken soup for lunch and leftover prawn cannelloni with salad tonight. Have a good one x

Hi all - Hope the colds are staying at bay and Belle hope you're feeling better and happier

Well my back is still not too good, spent over £300 at the chiropractor and still having problems. Went to see a physio, paid for by the job, who i going to get me sorted. I have still felt peed off the last few days because of the constant pain but I have at last been good with the food. So starting to feel better as eating crap food was also getting me down, vicious cycle .

AF visited this morning, so the feeble attempts as ttc with my DH last weekend didn't work. Have only 7 weeks until DH goes away for 6 months and he is only here for a few of those weekends, so we'd better get our act together, literally, if we want to have DC 2.

JAM you have my complete respect for 2 lots of shred back to back, you deserved every morsel of that cake. Sorry can't comment on everything as my post would be so long, but hope you are all well, and I promise to be a bit mroe active now that I feel more human again.

take care xx

Oh dear I think we are all falling apart. TDW - the back sounds painful (and expensive!), Dinky did you get your longed for early night? Belle I can sympathise I'm having a can't be arsed kind of day today.

I think I overdid it yesterday with my double Shred madness . I also got my CV sorted and applied for a job . Today I've shredded (just the once) and eaten biscuits for Britain . I have loads to do between school runs but today I don't seem to have a plan in my head as to what to do when iykwim. Consequently I've watched a lot of TV and eaten crap. I'm out with the girls to Pizza Express so I'm wiping today off as a bad one and will get back to it tomorrow.

Hi JAM - well done with sorting cv and applying for job. Keeping my fingers crossed for you too. Got to bed by 9.30 but then stayed up reading new book till 10.30 then DH came in and woke me up so not particularly early night in the end. Ho hum. Though did manage to eat dinner (soup and bread) at 6.30 as finished work early and didnt pick through the evening as I normally do so claim a victory of sorts...

Did pump today at lunchtime and ouch, my glutes are still in pain. Had virtuous ITSU detox 7 veg noodles for lunch then undid all good work with the yoghurt covered rice cakes and chocolate covered edamame beans my period made me buy. Aargh! Oh well.

TDW - poor you - your back sounds like agony. I had a terrible back after my pregnancy with DS1 - the only thing that really sorted it was a chiropractor combined with lots of pilates to strengthen my ab muscles back up. I feel your pain. And sorry about period arriving. DH and I have been half heartedly ttc for about 5 months now (I dont tell anyone as it is very much a case of if it happens great, if it doesnt well dont want to have got anyone's hopes up) and it is quite depressing everytime your period arrives and you think oh well, not this time then isnt it. My advice - dont stress it and just enjoy the practicing while DH is around...

dinky You cannot feel guilty for eating rice cakes. Even if it had butter, treacle and choc sprinkles on it. :o

TDW Sorry about your back. I, like dinky am only too familiar with that horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach when AF comes along- We had just been allocated a place with a fertility specialist when DS2 came along. I am not a stressy person but I was beside myself with worry at that time. He was actually concieved when I thought "sod it, I'm not getting pregnant, I may as well start having sex for fun instead". :o

knotty Your exercise regime is so impressive. I don't exercise at all- It's so easy to go for walks and swim when it's warm, but I can't face it now. Which is stupid. I must get myself a coat. :o

I am feeling better today. I made the effort to have a long shower and wash my hair properly this morning, wore my nice jeans (which are, wonderfully, a bit big on me!), put some make up on, and tidied up the house a bit. I felt far better after all that. I also decided to chill out with the food, and, somehow, my calorie intake was under 1000 cals! I reckon it's because I had a good lunch (cheese on toast) and a piece of bread with a slim-a-soup at about 4, so I wasn't eating loads of crackerbread as I usually do before dinner. Made soup with carrots and turnips which my grandad has grown in his field for dinner, and a slice of homemade bread. So I've had a lot of bread today, but it's filled me up.

Hope you're all feeling well, ladies.

Knotty - just had your prawn dish (had mine with salad leaves to make up for earlier biff out - DH had it with big bowl of rice too - and has licked the bowl clean!) and it was delicious. Chucked in loads of harissa and yum yum yum!!!

Glad you're feeling better BelleEnd! And hurrah for loose jeans Sounds like you've had a souptastic day today too - the best thing about winter is the opportunity to enjoy lots of delicious soups!

TDW, sorry you're suffering so much with your back. I've had a lot of problems in the past as well - tried osteopath, chiropractor, physio, nothing really worked in the long term (Osteopath was the most helpful but I couldn't afford to keep going). But to be honest, my back is so much better just from doing regular exercise. Not sure if my abs have strengthened a bit which help support it maybe? Anyway, hope you get some relief soon, and good luck with TTC, and to you Dinky. JAM, hope you enjoyed Pizza Express. What's the job??? Belle, glad you had a better day and thanks for the nice words about exercise! I used to be such a couch potato, half-heartedly going to the gym every so often, or doing Davina very occasionally. I know it's a cliche but it was finding something I really enjoyed that motivated me, and the fact that I can do it at home in the warm appeals! Plus as the workouts are pretty short, I can make myself do something nearly every day. Plus I'm such a pig lover of food, any extra calories are welcome.
Just did a L2 Shred (squat thrusts ). Italian bean soup for lunch, not sure about dinner yet (box inspection day ) but something involving runner beans. Oh the glamour of my life .

Morning all
Back feels a bit better today after the physio had a go at it and doing my strengthening (sp??)exercises.

Knotty I think it is all down to strength or lack of it in the abs/core muscles. Didn't realise after having my LO last year just how weak my abs had become. So am now endeavoring to rectify this and hopefully get rid of the dreaded back pain.

Did have a laugh yesterday though when the male physio asked me on a scale of 1 to 10 how much pain was I in? I said I would prefer to put in context with real pain so I then explained that during labour I had no pain relief whatsoever, not even gas and air and yet for my back pain I was on a concoction of very very strong painkillers, brufen etc. His face was a picture .
Not looking forward to weigh in tomorrow but I have at last reacted to the kick up the bum you all gave me lat week and I'm now back on the straight and narrow and tbh I feel much better for it. take care all xx

Without wishing to sound pervy these tales of trying to conceive are interesting. With dd both dh and I wanted children but neither of us would admit to it being the right time. However after one drunken unprotected night along came dd 9 months later. With dc2 we discussed and planned but it took months to conceive ds. So my advice for those ttc is relax and crack open the wine .

Today I braved going along to a running club. I amazed myself at being able to run and chat, usually breathing alone whilst running is an effort . It was a small group of like minded ladies and a friendly encouraging instructor. Bit of a warm up session, some sprint training and a 3.25 mile run along lovely country roads... the hills weren't so lovely! Carb loading on pizza last night obviously gave me some oomph!

Knotty - the job is a school bursar I suspect I am over qualified as the salary is much less than I was on before but I like the sound of the role and it's school hour friendly. If nothing else it has forced me to do my CV and maybe I'll get some interview practice, just keep them crossed and hope for the best.

Dinky - I agree with Belle you can't feel guilty for eating rice cakes and raisins (even yoghurt coated ones) are one of your 5 a day

JAM good luck for the school bursar job, sounds good with it being school hour friendly. I too will keep my fingers x for you.

I take the hint on the ttc and now that I can start lowering the pain relief I may allow myself some wine this weekend

fingers crossed for the school bursar job JAM - sounds great. And well done for going to the running club - sounds like you had a great time and enjoyed it. And 3.25mile after sprint training is pretty impressive!!

TDW, glad you're feeling better today. JAM, good luck with the job, sounds like a good one. And sounds like the running club will be a good thing for you!

Getting a bit twitchy about the weigh-in, I've been over (slightly) my allowance nearly every day this week! Not sure if it's early PMT but I've had the nibbles all the time. We shall see... Hope everyone's having a good day x

Well I faced the scales and oh boy, 3 lbs on , back up to 9 st 9 lbs. I am not disheartened, I have been on an eating binge since my last weigh in on 18 August, so I should be happy it's not more than 3.

Onwards and downwards (on the scales) for me. Hope everyone has a better result than me today take care x

Have weighed in, 1lb on, not impressed with myself. I felt I was going in the right direction last week, my running efforts feel in vain as I've blown it all by eating packets of biscuits this week. I need to get my head into gear and stop being so half hearted about this weight loss lark. I WANNA BE SKINNY! Rant over hope you all have a better WI.

Am sulking. Have put weight on not off - according to the scales am 10 stone 7,5lbs today. Grr. Have set myself the target of 10 stone for my birthday on 6 November and will now be focusing hard on the goal. JAM - join me in the challenge!

Half a lb off, which puts me at just over 11st. A bit disappointed as I've worked really hard this week- I had NO food at children's party BBQ last night- But I see that we're all finding it difficult this week. I am going to start a rumour that it's more difficult to lose weight in the autumn/winter because the body sensed that the harvest will soon be over so it's keeping fat reserves... I sound quite plausible, don't I? I so should forge medical qualifications and write a crappy weight loss book... :o

Genius BelleEnd - you're a published author too so you're crappy weight loss/gain book will be a best seller in no time at all

I aim for the Richard and Judy book club! :o

Bummer that we are all having a pants weigh in. But good for you Belle being our weight loss girl of the week , so don't be disapointed off is better than half pound on.

I will join you in that challenge Dinky and Jam. It is my birthday on the 4 November and I want to lose the weight I've recently gained. Don't think I'll get to 9 st but I want to lose as much of the 9lbs that I can. So you're on Dinky. Challenge set, now thinking how soon can I get back to doing some physical activity, hoping back holds out.

Belle Just write a book about the antics of slimmers like us and you'll defo get a best seller , the ups, the downs and the laughs along the weigh way, sorry couldn't resist.

Ah TDW - 4 November is my DH's birthday too!

Is there a swimming pool near you TDW. If so, may be worth checking with chiro if ok for you to swim and get some swimming in. Otherwise find out if local pilates class you can make (hopefully in the evening so your AP can keep an eye on little one while you head to it) as really did work wonders for my back.