New Mum seeking new body by Christmas!

[CoraBear]

My baby boy is 6 months old and I am quite overweight. Ok, I'm alot overweight (takes deep breath) I'm 15 stone. At 5 ft 7 this is waaay to much. I am sitting here in the one pair of trousers that fit me and my DP's tee shirt because none of my tops fit properly. Basically my stomach looks like a deflated paddling pool and my thighs are so big that I'm fairly sure that if I sit down too much longer they will burst open.

After I had the baby I took the very grown up approach to weight loss and I hoped that if I ignored the problem it would go away and somehow I would have a body like posh spice-because all new mothers lose all the weight instantly don't they? Turns out they don't, and surviving on mini aero's didn't help. I weigh more now than when I gave birth.

I have a serious lack of motivation but I decided to see if I could lose some pounds before Christmas, as I'll be seeing people I haven't seen since I was pregnant and want to look casually fabulous. So are any of you interested in holding my hand, kicking my arse and generally helping each other to stay on track? I really want to do this but I know if I'm not answerable to others my resolve will slip.

I have my first weight watchers meeting tomorrow, which I'm dreading as it will mean that the leader will weigh me and know what a tubby fecker I am. So, if any of you weight watcher followers or followers of other plans would like to come and join me and share stories of jogging up and down while eating maltesers so the points are being eaten and burned off simultaneously or just have a rant about how unfair the world is when you're hungry, you are welcome.

Right, I'm off to remove all the biscuits, chocolate and sweets from my house before tomorrow. That's right, when I say "remove" I do of course mean "eat them".

I'm glad to hear your little girl is getting better, it's dreadful when they are sick.

I had my first sort of compliment today regarding my weight loss. I was down in Mums with the kids and she asked how ww was going so I said I'd nearly lost a stone and a half.
She looked me up and down and said "really?" in a high pitched voice and then said "how much do you weigh?" slight pause"Oh my God, how much DID you weigh?" in a shocked tone. It was all I could do to not hit her with a cushion.

I know she meant well, but for fucks sake!

Hope everyone is getting on well.

Well it's the weekend and this is when my diet goes out the window. Will have to try my best to stay on track although I'm cheating a bit and have decided to give myself a "treat night" once a week. Also, my dp has started baking cakes just to tempt me even more!! In 8 years he has never baked a cake once, last week was his first so of course I had to eat some and he's doing another tomorrow. His cake was amazing, I swear he's sabotaging my diet.

Hope everytone else is getting on ok :)

Treat day is the way to go. Mine's on a Tuesday because that the day I do my weigh in and the day furthest away from my next weigh in. That's sweet that your husband has gone baking mad, what has inspired him? Can you steer him towards recipes for cakes that you don't like?

My day yesterday was ridiculous. We had to go to MIL's for brunch-first time ever-and she forgot that I don't eat meat, so I got handed a plate of biscuits because there was nothing I could eat. I only had 2. Then I had to do the weekly shop on an empty stomach, never a good idea. It was 3.30 pm before I got to sit down and I have to say I scarfed down 2 bags of crisps (hangs head in shame), but I was starving. I just trawled the internet and pointed everything and turns out I only ate 27 points yesterday, so not too bad.

Hope everyone else is getting on well.

Confession time - despite my pledge to lose 7lbs in Jan, I have actually put on a lb. So, I am officially back and will be posting and weighing in on Tuesdays.
Plan today:
Bfast: mini croissant and latte (6 points). Banana
Lunch: no points soup. Pear.
Dinner: chicken stirfry (8 points)
Snacks: options hot choc x 2

Cora - I think 27 points is pretty good when faced with biscuits for brunch!

Hi Choos,
Glad to see you're back. It's hard to stay motivated isn't it. I think posting regularly will help you stay on track. It always makes me wonder if I want to eat something bad, knowing that I'll have to post it here. Are you keeping a diary of what you are eating and pointing it all up? I am really nerdy about it. I bought a Madonna notebook in the pound shop to log everything, I wish I'd bought a plain one because it's so un-subtle. So, my tip to you is to get a plain one unless you want people to comment every time they see it.

My scales is wobbling just underneath 14 stone, if I get into the 13's I would be thrilled. Dread to think how grumpy I'll be if I don't lose weight. Weigh in is tomorrow, eek!

Hello everyone,

I did lose weight this week, a whole half a pound. How sodding depressing is that? Half a pound!!??? I am so unimpressed. But this not the time for wallowing in my fatness, I am lowering my allowance down to 26 points per day which is the minimum. I haven't had the time to exercise because my son isn't sleeping at all during the night and I'm exhausted. So less points is the way to go.

So my weight this week is 13 stone 13 and a half pounds.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

Haha Cora, I lost half a pound too!! Ah well, least we never gained any I suppose. If I'm honest I wasn't really surprised, I was eating really well during the week but my treat day at the weekend ended up as a treat weekend so it's my own fault.

Must do better this week. Just wondering, what do you all eat for lunch? I normally make soup but I'm fed up of it now so I've mostly been having things like tuna / chicken mayo wraps but that's not really the healthiest so need some more ideas.

MTS-my lunches are usually very thrown together affairs. I buy veg for making soup, but soup can be a depressing thought so I sometimes make a stirfry or chop up the veg and add it to cous cous. Herbs and spices stop everything becoming very boring so I try to make things spicy. The odd time I have a brunch thing, with rashers, sausages, mushrooms, scrambled tofu with wilted spinach and nutmeg (oh my God I'm starving) and that fills me up. I like to try and get as much food as possible for as little points as possible, so I always try and have a ton of veg.

I'm not a big fruit eater but I'm going to buy a few pre cut fruit salads this week to try and keep the points below 26 per day.

Are you doing ww? Stuff like kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils are all low points and filling. I put them in my meals to bulk them out too. I don't buy the ww stuff,it's way too expensive and the portions are tiny, but I have a huge appetite.

Congrats on the half pound!

Thanks, I'm going to try some of your ideas as I'm getting a bit bored having the same thing all the time. I'm not doing ww, is it easy to follow? Do you have to go to a lot of the meetings?

I really need to watch my portion sizes, I eat the same amount as dp and probably don't need it. I do love fruit though, I was in the mood of chocolate earlier and instead had some strawberries, very proud of myself haha.

I just weighed myself again and I'm a pound lighter!! Hope it's right and I don't just have dodgy scales.

Well, day one at 26 points wasn't too bad until my DP made popcorn last night. It smelled delicious but I didn't even have one piece. It took a lot of self control and apparently I was giving him evil looks while he was eating it but I got through it. Day 2, I'm not even hungry yet because I ate my dinner so late so optimism is high.

Well done on not eating chocolate (and losing a pound). I have to say ww has been great for getting my portion sizes under control. I was eating way too much pasta and rice at a meal, so weighing it all out now really helped me. I went to 4 meetings, the first two to get all the books and then 2 more to start me off. After a month I was in my stride so I felt I didn't need the classes, and childcare was an issue for me as the class was at the same time as my sons dinner so it was a bit of hassle.

I wouldn't be a huge fan of slimming groups as they are such money spinners for the company but I like ww because you can eat ordinary food. The internet is also brilliant for looking up points so you don't need to buy any of the eating out or food shopping books.

Oh.My.God. I am so hungry. I don't know if it's psychological or the fact that we have naff all food in the house so I can't fill up on veg, but I am so hungry. I'm only on 3 less points per day, but it actually making me obsessive and starving. I hate being hungry. Roll on Tuesday!

Have been asked to go to a zumba class on Weds. Has anyone been to one? Are they any good?

Looked up a video of a zumba class online, they look terrifying, I'm in 2 minds whether to go now. I'm not a great dancer and everyone seems to know what they're doing and I think I might be a bit Monica from Friends when the music starts.

Still hungry but I seem to have lost a pound and a half so far. Roll on weigh in.

I have a confession to make, I have done my weigh in today. My son is due at the paediatric cardiologist tomorrow to check on his heart condition and if any day has called for chocolate it's today. I am such an emotional eater and I'm getting very anxious about tomorrow. Most of today's points were gone by about noon. I'll go back on ww tomorrow, depending on how things go, I'll definitely be back on it by Thursday.

So now I weigh 13 stone 12lbs, I lost one and a half pounds. It took alot but I think it was worth it, I'm just glad to be firmly in the 13's.

I met with a friend of mine who is also doing ww and had to listen to her regale me with exploits of her over-indulgences and how she had eaten way beyond her daily points. She reckoned she had eaten/drank an extra 10-15 points per day and still lost 7 lbs in a week! I think she was bullshitting to make me feel bad. Cow!

I hope everyone else is getting on well.

Hi, it's MTS with a new name. My computer is broken so I'm using my laptop, couldn't remember my password so I've just made a new account. I needed a new name anyway since I'm not mum to just the one anymore :)

Really hope everything goes ok tomorrow Cora, I don't blame you for the chocolate. Anything that will make you feel a little better has to be a good thing! And pay no attention to your friend either, I doubt she lost 7 lbs by eating and drinking loads so don't let her make you feel bad, well done on the weight loss this week. I sneakily weighed myself today too and I'm still the same.

HI SayHello- love the new name. Staying the same is good. It's when the scales creep up there's a problem!

All went good yesterday, my little boy's heart is on the mend, so one less thing to worry about. However, we all now have the flu and I was up for 2 and a half hours last night with the baby. I am exhausted. Going to get back on track with ww today and I'm back up to 29 points per day because a week at 26 was more than enough.

Hope everyone's getting on well!

Glad you got some good news yesterday, not so good about the flu though. Hope you both feel a bit better soon.

When do you weigh yourself? If I weigh myself in the morning I'm at least one pound lighter than before I go to bed. I just go with my night time weight but now I'm thinking I'll use my morning one haha.

Sheepishly signing in to report no weight loss, life very hectic at mo, but will be back!
Cora - such good news for your little one - am delighted. Also congrats on the 13's and ignore your friend.

SayHello - Morning weight is definitely the one to go for!

Always weigh myself in the morning. In my pj's so my clothes don't weigh too much. I am a fan of the early morning, empty stomach weigh in.

Hey Choos- glad to have you back.

Facing a bit of a challenge this week, and the answer is to hope to stay the same on the weight front. I am going out for dinner tomorrow night on a date with my DP, it's been about 3 months since we went out. Then Saturday I'm baking all day for a children's birthday, then Sunday is the party. I forsee a weekend of chocolate and tasty party food.

Hope everyone is doing well but I have to confess that I'm not!! Went away for a long weekend and had so much to eat and drink I dread to think how many pounds I've gained. I had a brilliant time though and it's not often we get a child free weekend so have to make the most of it.

Another one here who spent the weekend stuffing her face. I had a fantastic weekend, filled with food and booze and more food. But never mind. I don't care, it was delish. All I did was stuff my chubby little face.

Where did you go SayHello?

Ah well, at least we enjoyed ourselves then so it's worth a pound or two :) I was in Manchester (I live in scotland) and haven't been before so was a nice weekend and I bought myself some new clothes too.

I weighed myself this morning and I'm still the same weight but I don't think that's right, my tummy feels bigger!!

Me too! I had an excess of pasta and prosecco and it was bloomin gorgeous.
Low carbing from tomorrow.
Well done on having fabulous weekends :)

Quick post before my Valentine's dinner of indian takeaway arrives. We all had the same plan it seems for the weekend. I think time off from a diet is good, I'm kind of looking at this as the way I'm going to eat from now on (following ww I mean). My weight loss has slowed alot, but I'll be able to stick to it even if there's just a pound a week, I'm looking at every loss as a good thing from now on.

I hope you have a nice evening and you're all getting on well.

Ah weight loss, it's a funny old thing. I have completely lost my motivation for weight loss, I am considering becoming one of those chubby people who resigns themselves to only wearing black, shapeless attire and eats whatever they please. And then I remember that I am only 31 years old and it's coming in to summer. I love summer clothes. Nothing is nicer in summer then a dazzling white cotton fitted tee-shirt, when I put that on I immediately feel summer-y. Or a long length vest top with 3/4 length trousers... Pretty sun dresses...(Stares off wistfully thinking about my once toned summer body)

But here's the thing, summer is still far enough away for me to realise my goals. I dread the thought of the weather warming and having to dress myself in the clothes I am wearing at the moment because I am too embarrassed to show any skin. I have an image in my head of how I want to look. It's realistic, all I want to be is a small size 14. And by that I mean that I can pull on a pair of 14 jeans and there is no muffin top, or slip on a summer dress without worrying about lumps and bumps.

So, here's my plan: it is lent a few days time and although I couldn't be less in to it, I am going to use it as a way to focus on ww. I will follow the plan to the letter for the length of lent (try saying that 10 times fast). I need a motivational tool, something to keep me on track. I cannot fail if I want to look good for the summer. I'm also picking up my friends wii fit today so hopefully I can fit in some exercise.

So in the coming weeks I will be a ww guru, devout follower and general points calculating wizard. And in the summer I will be a fitted white tee-shirt wearing, size 14, 31 year old who has not resigned herself to being chubby.

I hope everyone else is getting on ok.