Size 16 to size 10, thats my plan and i'll do anything and everything to get there..

[MilkshakeMaker]

I shall be starting tomorrow and will post 1st thing my starting weight and if i can find my measuring tape my measurements too. Feel free to join in, add tips, abuse me if i'm not doing well and general support(I offer the same in return)

I dont have a certain time frame but i do have a wedding in august so would like to at least started be on my way by then...Hopefully!!

Hi I've been following the threadbut not posted much as my weight loss really slowed and I'm struggling to break through to the 10stone something.
I wanted to offer egg some encouragement, I spent 8weeks doing shred level1 post baby, but by the time I got brave enough and fit enough to do level two I only did for 2weeks now I do mostly level 3 :) I do it 2-3times a week and its really toned me up and helped me to lose weight. keep at it as it really does get easier I promise! I was bright red puffing tomato face at the beginning and could only do half of it :o

Ok I'm still a bright red puffing tomato face but I'm 33lbs lighter than I was when I started :o

That's a fantastic weight loss ssmile. Well done. I can't wait to be trying to get in the 10's club. Right now I'm excited to have hit the 11's. :)

Well done socks :o
I am dreaming of the 11st club!
Lol at neck measurements, while I've struggled to get my clothes on I've always managed to get stuff round my neck
Having said that I stopped wearing my watch last year as it was tight and pinched, now it spins round :o
Going to shred tomorrow - kids go away a wweek on saturday so then I'll be able to do it no problem, so I just need to make time each day between now and then to actually do it

I had half a bottle of wine with dinner last night (it was date night), but had homemade semi skimmed milk carbonara instead of takeaway, and I cycled to work and back and had a brisk walk to brownies, so still ended 280 below my calorie target.
Today I have blood donors, so I will at least lose a pint of blood, plus burn calories with the 80-minute walk round trip. I had better weigh less on Tuesday (although knowing me, I will have put on yet more muscle and somehow weigh more).

well done IMST. You're still entitled to a biscuit after giving blood BTW.
Well, I am back up to 12s6, despite sticking to my cals for the last 3 or 4 days. Grrrrr this is what you want body - you think if you hang on desperately to the weight I will think sod it and feed you chocolate. YOU WILL NOT WIN.

I can't weigh but I'm sure I've put on, had curry and wine last night and cream cakes the day before, I'm back on it again today though, planning on eggs for lunch and chicken and veg soup for dinner also planning to ride to work tomorrow and shredding tomorrow sat and sun night then dying hopefully have at least have maintained, we shall see..

Well done socks

That's the spirit Stealth!

I think you're entitled to the after giving blood biscuit too IMST.

I went to the cafe this morning after enduring a dull end of year assembly, but I had 2 cups of black tea (2calories) and no cake
I will have pasta with pesto for lunch, to give me the energy to get to blood donors though.

Hi eightytwenty I've hovered between 10.13.8 & 11.1st for the last 4wks. To be honest I was well happy at that and think I can maintain at this level but GP told me I'm still too fat so I need to get to 10stone, my original goal was lose 40lbs by my 40th birthday then I could go snowboarding for first time since kids (6yrs), so only 6-7lbs to go but I've really plateaued after six months of steady losing :(
I'm trying to remotivate by planning the holiday now :o was checking out budget flights to Geneva yesterday. I had hoped grandMa would have the girls for 3nights so we could have a break minus kids but that's not gonna happen now so we are thinking of just making it our main 2013 holiday taking them too and just assume might only get 1day boarding each, do other stuff with the girls. and then camping in Aug to balance out the cost :)

Oooh sunshine is here yeah! :o I find it SO much easier to be good on calories when the sun is shining, hope you having gdays too

Well done IMST.

ssmile can you put your dds in ski school? They take them young. My niece and nephew did it from a very early age and both loved it. You'd get more time on the slopes for yourself then.

Thanks ssmile - day 3 of Shred Egg Level (for egg shaped people like me) completed. It was marginally easier today but I am still a red sweaty mess.

I only realised today that both women are doing level 1 - I thought the shorts girl was level 2 . I put on 1/2 lb at weigh in today however the small amount of exercise makes me feel so much better and I have more energy. I'm going to keep trying and hope that I lose by Monday. 33lbs is amazing, well done to you.

Thanks for the MFP advice Tato.

Well done egg I used rice pudding tins for first month as weights, then bought some cheap adjustable leg weights from Tesco which I hold that go upto 1.5kg. It's my arms that have seen a big difference and I have a waist now :)

TheHair our youngest will only be 18mths when we go but all the packages with childcare are very very expensive and we don't want to put them in care for 6-7days doesn't seem fair to them, but I've found a place that has a highly rated French village creche so we may do that to get couple mornings to our self :)

Red kidney bean tins here ssmile

Trying to remember when I was last naughty. Are you guys naughty every day? I don't think I've bad any day this week. But then today I have blown it. I ate cottage pie at Costco. And I am sitting her with dh, celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary, and am currently drinking my 3rd ( yes , THIRD sad face) glass of rose. I haven't drunk for 2 weeks, and then I really blow it.
Do you guys do that?

Yup. I was really good for three weeks, including a weekend away with dh, but this week I've had a bottle of wine, a Chinese and today a chocolate bar. (ds2 left play group so I was feeling teary)

I feel it has gone to pot and I can't get motivation back. I'm going to the Lakes next week with my best friend and my dcs. It's an annual trip which always results in too much wine,nibbles and chocolate. We said we would be restrained but I know we won't.

Part of me thinks sack it until we get back but I do want to be good.

Ooh happy anniversary! Yes I eat bad things all the time and for much less than anniversary. Have had 300cal worth of chocolate today, and am still trying to eat around my 1200. Weekends I don't cal count, allowed treats but try not to go mad or binge. Often do :( but Tbh one day or even 2 of bingeing I tend to find is fine, the danger is that you never quite get back in control and restart all the old bad habits (i easily used to eat prob 4-500g of choc a day)

Nooo just call the diet off while you're away but not before.

Hair be strong, how about trying to build in some walks to "earn" your blow out? The lakes are great for walking, and you'd feel better for it

Hair, cut yourself some slack. What's the point of a bloomin holiday if you don't have a good time? Enjoy. Eat lots. But maybe some days reign it in a little, and walk alot. And know that you will start again with avengence when you get home.

Yes I have bad (naughty, depressed)moments in every day. I have just had a pint of cider and DH and I are sharing a port. I feel very despondent, as i have a family wedding in 21 days- no [counts] 24 days and I just really wanted to look good in my dress, as that side of the family are all very petite and keep telling me (for my own good, apparently) that i need to do something about the baby weight now that DS2 is 2. I have been fantasising about being 9 stone 7 for this wedding ever since they announced the engagement- now if I could only be under 10.7- 10.5 I would be ecstatic,. looked up waist cinching corsets today.

Does anyone else find that if you have a tiny slip that you start to hate yourself? I have been hating myself for my weight (ranged from 7 stone 4 to 14.7 stone- I am barely 5 ft) since I can remember. It is all so debilitating.

My WI is tomorrow. And I kind of think, what the fuck is the point?

sorry for complaining. Feeling low. Maybe there is a universal Thursday pm low?!

Reading back... maybe that cide/port hit me! Sorry- I am just complaining. I shall pull myself together. :)

Hair- you are going on a lovely holiday! (And I am going to a lovely wedding.) :)

I had a bit of a wobble earlier when I weighed myself after blood donors and weighed exactly the same , I know I should leave it a week, but surely after 3 days, no slip ups, 1500 calories below target so far (based on 1200 baseline on MFP) I should have lost something ?
I thought weight was supposed to drop off at the start of a weight loss program.

No, it's o.k. Chips. I TOTALLY get you. I have known that ds1's holy communion was end of this month, for months. I PROMISED myself that I would start dieting at 7 weeks. But I didn't.
And here I am, at 1 week away, still a size 14, still nowhere near under 10 stone. Nearer 11. I should be 9 !!!!!
F**king depressing, quite frankly. But keep on going. You know you can.