Right, here we go again - losing weight because I need and want to. Come and join me.

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I am at the age where it is just a matter of (short) time before I develop a health problem relating to my weight - joints, Type 2 diabetes or even a heart attack. It really is that serious.
I am sick of not having any "nice" clothes (don't want to invest until I lose weight ).
I did it in summer, stuck to it for ages which is something I have never managed to do. I CAN do it again.

So here's the plan. Back to foodfocus as of tomorrow. No days off (logging, although I may choose to eat more than I am "allowed". Everything must be logged.
No excessive competitiveness with myself. I truly believe this is part of the reason it all went wrong.

3 or 4 lb to lose every week. Might sound a lot but it's easy when you're big - I'm sure I could do it by just eating 3 normal sized usual meals a day. So pathetic if I can't.

Coming back here to report on progress. Caring and supportive thread but not accepting bullshit excuses!
Anyone want to join me?

well done to you all! I will start tues as i previously said, and will do a full run/work out. today i am nursing a massive champagne hangover... :(

Doing well so far today ... smoked salmon with fat free philly on rye bread this morning, pumpkin and ginger soup with rice cakes for lunch ... but we always have foie gras and dessert wine with walnut bread on NYE (we don't go out). This is my cheat meal which I reckon is OK but I have real problems getting back on the wagon after a cheat. Might need a kick up the bum tomorrow morning....

I'm using MFP and working to 1200 calories a day. DH has just started too and loves the app. He keeps asking me what's in food and what's best to eat - I love that he's such a girl about this!!!

Happy new year everyone - here's to a continually shrinking 12 months!

Wow! There's quite a few of us now.

I've downloaded the coach to 5k podcasts to my phone, bought some running shoes, joined SW online and have just cleared the fridge out of the beige bad stuff and filled it with lots of colourful healthy stuff.

Oh, and I've told everybody what I'm doing so there's no backing out or rubbish excuses for me now!

I didn't eat very healthily yesterday but it wasn't as bad as I usually am which is a start. I'm going to be good until I go out to my friends tonight and then I'm starting properly tomorrow.

GettinTrimmer - my problem is in the evenings too. I like to veg out on the sofa with something savoury and watch TV. I'm going to do the couch to 5k running straight after the kids have gone to bed. Then I can treat myself when I get back to one hour of TV before going to bed. I find it's much easier to stay on track when I'm not tired so I've got to make sure I go to bed early enough.

I'm glad too see that there are other oldies on here. I'm 48 and its so much easier to put on weight and harder to loose it than it was years back.

too true lilibet, i am 44 :(

Well I am not doing too badly so far. Not great and still plenty of room for improvement. Had prridge for breakfast instead of toast and a healthy lunch. It will probably go down hill this evening wine and nibbles but I'll try not to go overboard.
Thatsyou I'm going to do the C25k too. I'm dreding it though. I will feel too self conscious to go out in daylight so will either go early morning or evening when there are lesss people about
I can feel my determination slowly rising, especially since I posted my weight/measurements up here there is no way I'm coming back next week to post without any change.
Happy New Year to everyone

3 days in and so far so good. I have stuck to under 20g of carbs per day, the waistband doesn't feel any looser but I hope to have lost 2-3lbs by day 7. I am missing chocolate, I made a low carb hot chocolate that was foul so only managed a mouthful. Good luck to all those starting tomorrow/next week.

Game on! First day of weightwatchers today. Had my husband take some frankly terrifying pictures of me from every angle in my undies this morning... I am shocked at how I actually look. I had no idea I was this big. So the denial is over, the Christmas biscuits are in the bin and I am ready to rock. I even have enough points for some bubbly! Happy new year all. The year of the new and improved thin us!

Can I join you? I think I need to document somewhere that I am trying to do this! Really need to lose some weight, so I took up an offer and joined Weightwatchers Online 2 days ago.... but since then have had 2 days of totally blowing it and just eating everything in sight Feeling a bit down today for some reason, which hasn't helped and also we still have loads of leftover Christmas chocs and treats in the house. It's a lot easier to resist temptation when you haven't got anything "bad" in stock!

For some reason I am reluctant to tell DH about it, not sure why? He might be good moral support, but then if I feel like he is "nagging" me about food it makes me very irritable (he can have a tendency to be the "food police", especially about eating lots of veg), which sometimes has the opposite effect from what he intended as I get huffy at being bossed about and just want to eat more...

Hopefully it will get easier for us all once NYE is out of the way and less treats lying around. Beamae I should probably do the "Before" photo thing too, bet that would be a good incentive!

Welcome mynmeis . Think a lot of is are finding that we are logging out and slow to get started. Also relate to what you said about dh, I don't want anyone monitoring me, or making any comment if I cheat. To be fair, he is very good.

Wishing you all a happy and HEALTHY new year. 2012 will be the year when we will all lose weight - some of us will reach our targets and some won't but we will all be happier and on the way to where we want to be. We will all reduce our risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, joint & mobility problems. We will set good examples for our children and reduce their risks of a lifetime of obesity and its problems.
Here's to 2012 (now pass the chocolates for the next 36 hours ONLY)

Happy new year everyone, this last drink signals the start of my booze free January

ooh. After tomorrow (NYD party) think I may join you. Cuts out calories and helps with the healthy thing.

Hear Hear Stealth.

Happy New Year to all - I will start Tues :)

Happy New year everyone.

Can anyone join in on this thread?

I've just recently realised that I no longer qualify as curvy, endearingly cuddly or even just a wee bit plump or any of the other comforting bullshit I've been feeding myself along with the chocs.

I'm actually just fat.

I'm fairly tall and carry it well, I still have a clearly defined figure and waistline, and the excess weight has gone on pretty evenly all over - which has helped me deny my fatness. But I really am just a fatty. It is quite mortifying to have to accept.

I have recently seen a deeply unflattering picture of me tagged on facebook. I had no idea I looked like that from the back I hastened to de-tag and disown my bulgy blubbery rear-view, but the image has stuck with me and initiated my fat-crisis.

It prompted me to get on the scales for the first time in years in a while, and I realised just how much weight I have gained. I am now a pretty whopping 220lb

It is only eight years ago that I weighed 110lb - okay, I was probably a wee bit underweight back then, but still - I have doubled my body weight in less than a decade and that is just not cool.

Over Christmas, it was discussed with my lovely in-laws that we would take a family holiday this summer in July. At a lake, where there are lots of lovely spots to sunbathe and water-ski, and swim...

Well crap. I don't think my flattering jeans and floaty tops will carry me through that. Oh no, I think swimsuits and shorts and horrid stuff like that might be in order... or I will look very odd indeed

So uh, getting 'beach' ready by early July? That isn't impossible is it? I don't have ridiculous expectations of somehow returning to 110lb and stepping out suddenly looking like Gisele. It would just be nice to not feel like the Michelin man in a swimsuit. Especially as 3 out of my 4 SIL are very much on the attractive, healthy size 10/12 side of things, and the remaining one who is just a little bit smaller than me has got the 'excuse' of having 4 kids and being 12 years older than me :(

I was thinking of aiming to lose 45-50lb by early July, which I think sounds pretty achievable, and although that won't take me down to my ideal weight, I think it would get me to a point where I won't feel so bad.

I have never really dieted before, as the excess weight has really just sneaked up on me slowly and been ignored until now so I am not really sure what I am doing to lose it yet. But I'm here to commit to doing something this year to curtail my expansion before it goes beyond not liking the way I look and gets into serious health issues... and hopefully to find some people willing to deliver a hearty kick to my over sized posterior whenever I try to weasel off on a wine and cheese binge.

Good luck everyone.

Happy New Year one and all

I have started this morning, put batteries in the scales and weighed in at 12 stone 10 (and a quarter!)

So my first goal is a kick start and to get rid of the 10lb (and the quarter) in January. We are, however, going away for a weeeknd which may be a draw back, but with effort I can do this.

Thisisi the year when I can stick to a diet, when I will happily have my photo taken rather than be the photographer all the time

Beamae You brave, brave woman!

New Year Weigh in - 13st 13lb. Oh dear. Will aim to do 1 hour a day exercise to get rid of xmas podge.

I'm still here but haven't started properly yet cos i am broke and not doing a proper food shop til next week. That means we are just using up the xmas crap we have.

Anyhow, my starting weight is 11 stone 11lbs which is the heaviest I have been, including when pregnant.

Hoping to get down to 9 stone.

Have just done my first Ripped in 30 and boy was it tough but in a strange way I liked it. The fact that everything is only done for 30 seconds means that I dont wimp out part way through the hard bits like I did with the shred.

Hello all, Happy New Year!

I've managed to lose 1kg over Christmas and I'm keeping to my calorie amount on MFP so fingers crossed it continues!

Oooo tell me more about Ripped in 30....sounds my kind of thing

What is Ripped?

Well done Cother.

Hello! I weighed in at 12 stone 12 this morning. Horrifying- thought I was about 12.7, ugh, at 5ft that is v bad. In fact, my diary entry reads v v v bad

Got my old WW stuff out today, day 1 has gone well. Hoping to lose 2lb p/w.

My motivation is holiday on 16 Feb, that's 6 and a bit weeks, so if I stick to it 12lbs off is theoretically possible! Not that 12st feels like a very thrilling goal to start with... but getting to 11 will prob make a big difference, looking forward to that!

No exercise yet, it was too cold/rainy/sould destroyingly grey out there.