TUESDAY weigh in !! Anyone want to join me for a weekly weigh in ?

[Ditsydotty]

So whether you have a little or a lot to lose, join me for a weekly weigh in - we could even have a slimmer of the week.

Just add your stats (don't be scared) - but I think it works if you're really honest.

Ditsydotty
Joining Date: 3rd Jan
Starting weight: 11st 1lb
Target weight: 10st 4lb
Why: Just want to be more comfortable in my clothes that are a bit tight & I'm going to be 40 later this year.
Method: Mainly low fat with a vague eye on carbs

I hope there are some others out there, who are up for a weekly weigh in & some mutual support & tips.

Didnae get a chance to post yesterday. Just another miserable lb. Is it too much to ask for a wonder week where I could lose something like 5 lb

rootietootie
Joining Date: 8th Jan
Starting weight:11 st 12lb
Current Weight: 11st 8lb, Total Weight loss 4lb
Target weight: Around 10st 5lb.
Height: 5'9
Why: Want pre baby body back,
Method: Healthy eating, Weekly exercise and gonna try those xls medical fat binder pills.

This is rookie btw thought I'd try my hand at this name hanging business hopefully I should be a few lbs lighter tomorrow as had a appt with a mean dentist this afternoon hoping I could grab lunch after but atm I resemble a stroke victim (no offence
Intended) and don't think I'll be eating anything for the rest of the day or maybe I should be

Hi everyone,

Ditsy would you mind if I hopped aboard your thread? (Sorry I'm late!!)

Am very geeky and love stats lists, so couldn't resist.

I've been dieting on/off for about a year now. Really stuck to healthy eating and exercise in the run up to my wedding and managed to lose about 25 - 30 pounds, which I was really happy with. But since the wedding, I haven't really bothered to stick with the diet at all, and I've gained a bit of the weight back, so I now want to make sure that no more creeps back. Still got some to lose too.

So here's me...

NoMoreStilton
Joining Date: 10th Feb
Starting weight: 168 lbs
Current Weight: 168 lbs, Total Weight loss 0lb
Target weight: Around 145 lbs.
Height: 5'10.5
Why: Clothes don't fit, am fatter than my DH, and I definitely look older with this weight on me
Method: No junk/fast food, no sugary snacks, more veges. Vaguely monitoring calories. Sit ups with small weights. Gym eventually.

Will weigh in this Tues :) Hope everyone is having a lovely Friday.

Hi Stilton congratulations on losing all that weight, and welcome to the Tuesday club!

Bit of a meh week this time - lost 1lb taking me to 9st 3lb. Still progress though. How those that had discouraging weigh-ins last week have better news today.

I'm off work today and tomorrow and am hoping that some super vigorous housework will give me weight loss boost! (am also going to go out for lunch twice though so we shall see!)

Morning Ladies

Here is my Tuesday weigh in .......

Babysbreath
Joined: 17th Jan
Starting Weight: 10st 3lbs (first weigh in 10th Jan)
Current Weight: 9st 10lb, Total Loss: 7lbs
Target: 9st
Why: I want my clothes to fit me better and feel more attractive & healthier
Method: Paul McKenna

Finally! I've broken 11st (just!).

2lbs off :o I'm pleased with that, despite my abject failure last week, because it's period day tomorrow.

TobyLeWolef
Joining Date: 9th Jan
Starting weight: 11st 3lb
Current Weight: 10st 13.5lb, Total Weight Loss 3.5lbs
Target weight: 10st
Why: I'm definitely too fat for my height (5'3"), clothes are getting uncomfortable and I'm going on holiday at the beginning of April.
Method: Basic cutting down/vague calorie counting/keeping an eye on carbs. And exercise -- Shredding, various DVDs, being more active in general.

Congrats Baby and Toby!

As for me, I've lost 4lbs in my first week :) Really happy with that. Very aware, however, that the first week is often the time that you lose the most, so not getting my hopes up for next week.

NoMoreStilton
Joining Date: 10th Feb
Starting weight: 168 lbs
Current Weight: 164 lbs, Total Weight loss 4lbs
Target weight: Around 145 lbs.
Height: 5'10.5
Why: Clothes don't fit, am fatter than my DH, and I definitely look older with this weight on me
Method: No junk/fast food, no sugary snacks, more veges. Vaguely monitoring calories. Sit ups with small weights. Gym eventually.

Hello everyone

I weighed myself on saturday and broke the 11 stone sound barrier - I got down to 10 stone 13! However after a weekend of wine and song I went a bit nuts (lots of champagne consumed) and put some back on. But still am only 11 stone 2, so a 2 lb loss from last week.

Am back on the diet wagon now. Oh GOD it was so lovelt to eat carbs for a treat.

GetOrf
Joined: 4th Jan 2012 (first weigh in 4th Jan)
Starting weight:12 stone 3
Current weight: 11 stone 2 Weight Loss: 15lb
Target weight: 9 stone 12 by end of June.
Height: 6 foot
Why: Looking best for holiday in July. I look terrible at this weight and after a horrible illness getting fit and healthy is my prime aim.
Method: Alternate day method. Walking and low impact weight training.

Missed SW last week as DD was off school sick. Went this morning and 1.5lbs off. I thought I'd be under 11st this week.

Still, onwards and downwards as they say!

YourCallIsImportant
Joined 4th Jan 2012 (first weigh in 4th Jan)
Starting Weight: 11st 7lbs (I was 11st 12lbs in September )
Current weight: 11st 0.5lbs, total weight loss 6.5lbs
Target weight: 9st 7lbs by end of April
Height: 165cm / 5'5"
Why: because I want to, and I've to be a bridesmaid at the end of May and going on holiday in June.
Method: Paul McKenna / Couch25K / Davina / SW.

Well I weighed myself yesterday and haven't had a loss. But I had that thing last week where the scales said 12stone 11, then 12 stone 8 and I wasn't sure which was right and went with 12stone 8. Well still 12 stone 8 but I'm ok with that, I've hurt my back again so haven't been exercising.

vivalebeaver
Joining date: 6th Jan
Starting weight. 13 stone 1.5lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8lbs Total Weight loss: 8.5lbz
Target weight 11 stone
Why: none of my clothes fit, I have a fat stomach, think it's making my backache worse.
Method: eating less, MFP, more exercise.

:( no weight loss this week and am cheering myself up with a big bag of peanut crisps and turkish delight choccie biscuits. Will promise to jump back onto the band wagon tomorrow.

:(:(:(

Stupid period. Weighed myself this morning (I know, I know!) and I was 11st 2.5lbs. That's almost where I started.

I truly suck at this.

Hello everyone.

I was really annoyed with last week - I had such a binge on the Sunday and Monday of last week that I ended up putting weight on and it wouldn't shift. I was really strict this weekend, really watching what I eat and discarding starchy vegetables and keeping off the yoghurts (in my mind I can eat limitless nuimbers of Muller lights but that is not actually true ).

Anyway, despite weighing in at 10 stone 13 on Saturday 11th, those two days of eating bastarding snickers bars and cheese on toast (and all the alcohol) means that I put on weight to 11 stone 2 last week, and I am still only 11 stone today. Depressing. I am not falling off the wagon again.

Hope everyone else has done well this week - it seems that there are only a few of us stragglers left.

GetOrf
Joined: 4th Jan 2012 (first weigh in 4th Jan)
Starting weight:12 stone 3
Current weight: 11 stone Weight Loss: 17lb
Target weight: 9 stone 12 by end of June.
Height: 6 foot
Why: Looking best for holiday in July.
Method: Low carb, Jillian Michaels and 30 mins cross trainer every day.

Mind you - my binge was a binge.

Probably the best part of 2 bottles of champagne on the Saturday, and cosmopolitains. A steak and chips and cake and some truffles.

A macdonalds AND a KFC on the Sunday whilst driving home from the party.

2 snickers bars, 3 bags of skips, cheese on toast, half a pizza and a nandos on the Monday.

It is a wonder I didn't put more weight on.

Jesus Christ GetOrf that is an epic binge! I have been very much of the "in for a penny, in for a pound" school of thought this week as well and ate an entire trial run birthday cake for DD over about 36 hours. And I discovered Betty Crocker frosting, and ate about a quarter of the tub. With a spoon. And it's her actual birrhday this week, and we've got ILs staying, both of which will mean more cake and more boozes. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to stay motivated - if only I had some big party or something to go to at which I wanted to look fabulous. Might need to work on orchestrating something.....

Anyway, put 1lb this week. Must do better blah blah blah. Current weight = 9st 4lb.

God and it's bloody Pancake day. I don't know how I'm going to get to Wednesday without consuming my own body weight in maple syrup and Nutella and golden syrup

lol at you eating an entire cake. And that was only a trial. So there is more cake to eat.

I know. I entered it all in on my fitness pal and then deleted it

I had to eat it all as I had a monster hangover which lasted 2 days. I too had the in for a penny, in for a pound mentality.

Hence why I am overweight in the first place.

I don't like pancakes, luckily. Thank god for that.

But easter eggs are in the shops, and I love easter egg chocolate. Why is easter egg chocolate SO much nicer than normal chocolate. I am far from being a chocolate fan, and never really eat that much of it (snickers binge notwithstanding) but I always go nuts at easter.

I was thinking of giving up on this thread, seeing as I weighed myself this morning and have put back on the 2lb I lost last week. But I feel better knowing that you're all struggling too, which makes me a horrible, horrible person!

I'm so pissed off about it. I'm still basically where I started and it's depressing me. This week was period-week, but that's no excuse. But it's not like I've eaten any differently this week, I've still been exercising and I'm under 1600 calories every single day without exception, but it's just not shifting :(

Anyway, here is my pathetic update. I am the worst person on this thread:

TobyLeWolef
Joining Date: 9th Jan
Starting weight: 11st 3lb
Current Weight: 11st 1.5lb, Total Weight Loss 1.5lbs
Target weight: 10st
Why: I'm definitely too fat for my height (5'3"), clothes are getting uncomfortable and I'm going on holiday at the beginning of April.
Method: Basic cutting down/vague calorie counting/keeping an eye on carbs. And exercise -- Shredding, various DVDs, being more active in general.

When you say vague low carb - what do you mean? I started off doing that and just eating what I thought was low carb, so I would have a spaghetti bolognese, but instead of pasta I would have a massive bowl of peas. I thought being green that would be OK, but the bastarding things are full of sugar.

I also ate a lot of spuds and carrots and parsnips. And also loads of muller lights.

I ha ve found that (apart from my binge craziness) since I started actually doing low carb properly I feel I am losing more weight (forgetting about the first 2 weeks when I expect that most of the weight I lost was steroid bloat and water).

Have a look at the low carb thread - there are some great tips there. I would also say perhaps cut down the cals to 1200 on My Fitness Pal, and looking at the carb content or summat.

I have ordered some books from Amazon which were recommended on the low carb thread - Neris and India's Idiot proof diet, a book by John Briffa called something like escape the diet trap, and the atkins recipe book. That hopefully will give me a bit of guidance because I evidently know bugger all going by my eating kilos of peas for 2 weeks and not actually seeing any benefit!

Don't give up Toby - you still show a net loss anyway.

It is bloody depressing though when you are static or going up.

When I started this I was very strict with the low-carbing, with the help of MFP. I tried for high protein every day, looked at some of the low-carb threads and was pretty strict about it, tbh.

But even at the beginning, I wasn't really losing weight, despite shredding every day, running a couple of times a week at least, drinking plenty of water etc etc. And it made me miserable. I really, really love carbs!

So I decided to cut right down on the 'white carbs' instead. I eat barely any bread of any description, eat wholemeal pasta maybe once a week, rice maybe once a fortnight, baked potato maybe once a fortnight... It hasn't made much difference either way, and I'm no longer feeling deprived of carbs.

I think that the worst part is that I don't look fat! I know you're shaking your head, GetOrf, being the same weight as I am and 9" taller :o
But honestly, I don't. I'm a bit squishy, for sure. But I don't have a double chin, I'm a comfortable size 12, sometimes a 10. I'm the first to be critical of my appearance. I had a serious eating disorder from the age of 11 until I was about 18. Trust me, I know if I look fat!

Even my mother, who is very quick to tell me and my sisters when we've put on weight, tells me that she thinks I look great and that I don't need to lose weight. She never pulls any punches when she talks about weight. She seems to think that perhaps I'm the weight I ought to be.
And DP, who is infinitely more attractive than I am, thinks that I am the most gorgeous creature he's ever seen. He is under strict instructions to tell me if/when he thinks I'm fat, but it's like the poor man is blind.

GAH! It's so frustrating. Thanks for the tips, GetOrf. I won't give up. I'll try 1200 calories instead. But I do feel like a bit of a twat on this thread :(

Perhaps you are at your optimum weight then if you are finding it hard to lose weight. Especially as you don't look fat. I think it is dependent on far more than height tbh. You are probably just built totally differently than me - my SIL is shorter than me, weighs more but looks thinner!

It is strange then that you haven'ty really lost that much weight from low carbing - I find it drops off. It used to be brillianr when I did a ketosis diet (so not more than 20g carb a day) but I can't do that now as my kidneys are weak and I don't want to piss about and get ill.

But I think crucially perhaps you don't actually need to lose weight. You are exercising every day (I love JIllian Michaels and It hink her workouts do increase muscle mass, so perhaps that is it) and you sound very fit and healthy.

My kidneys are also shite. I didn't know there was a danger in really cutting carbs. Every day's a school day.

I refuse to believe that 11st is my optimum weight! Nobody believes me when I say that's how much I weigh, but I do. So I shall redouble my efforts until my holiday and see what happens. There's a 50/50 chance I'll return from Cyprus knocked up anyway, so that'll be my cue to let myself go again :o

Thanks again for the advice. I feel a little better now!

Oh no, I don't think it is dangerous per se, but I was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome (where the kidneys are crap at filtering) in Novembner, so I just need to look after them for a bit until they get to optimum strength (they still don't have 100% filtering capability).

If you go into ketosis I think it makes the kidneys work hard and filter stuff more than usual, if you have normal kidney fuinction it is fine, but if you don't it is perhaps not the best idea.

I did read something somewhere about it once

OOH good luck with conceiving. You may as well get pregnant, 9 months of eating for 2 and all that