size 16 to size 10 and anything to get there: whether you have eaten lettuce and ryvita all weekend or worked your way through a munchy box and a dairy milk get over here for MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY

[StealthPolarBear]

Rules of Motivational Monday:
The weekend is the past. You start from now. If not, you'll end up here in a couple of weeks and a few pounds heavier so do it NOW
MM involves healthy eating and some exercise. Your excuses will not be tolerated here.
MM is when we all get back into control and back into the swing of things.
Welcome all and best of luck. :)

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Ooh I like pepperberry but this season all the dresses had no sleeves which I'm really not comfy with. But I did just walk into town with vest top&skirt on today I would never have done that in last few years :) shred has really toned my arms up.

I don't like sleeveless either but I have a few cropped cardis that I put on with anything sleeveless.

I convinced the DCs that they wanted a wii balance board, so I bought a second hand one today with their Christmas money and lugged it home (a 30 minute walk, not counting the errands I ran as well). I will be most disappointed if these accurate scales weigh me heavier than the Tesco value ones after all that walking.

Damn it. Just actually measured my height. I have for years been labouring under the delusion that i am over 5 ft. I'm not. I am a full 2 and a half inches shorter than i thought I was. (My estimation of my height has been people looking at me and saying 'umm... i thin you would be about...' stupid huh?)

That just tips my BMI up into the next category.

GRRRRRRR!!!!!!

chips I did just the same. When I did the "global fat scale" I measured my heightby poking a pen into a door frame behind my head and measuring up to it. I had my height correct in metric (1.53m) but thought I was 5'2" (I'm actually 5'0")
When everyone's so much taller, people rarely challenge your erroneous height beliefs.

Sorry but :) at you two not knowing how tall you are. I am 5'8.5. I do not need to measure in case the same thing happens to me.

Those ryvita, cucumber and black pepper are lovely. I feel as though I've been let into a secret!

It's not how tall we are, it's how short we are

I had ryvita, hummus and black pepper for lunch, inspired by this thread! Didn't have any cucumber though so had to leave that out.

ssmile thanks for the code - I got paid yesterday so off for a browse!

I am SURE I used to be taller. My feet are bigger since having the DCs- could it be that I lost height as well? (hopeful).

Flip- the global fat scale. I was Kazakhstan on that before. Now I am....Ecuador, and am 'above average' for women in the UK.

I am going to get DH to measure me when he gets home, in case his tape measurer is a little more generous accurate.

On the plus side- I am glad you are enjoying the ryvita Stealth!

Sliced egg with salt and pepper on ryvita is my current favourite. :)

OK just checked La Tasca and logged it all for Saturday and best guesses at the food brings what I'd order in at 900 cals, and that includes a bottle of wine. The others are having a party menu, but because I'm vegi I'll be ordering separately which means I won't be able to have any of their starter or dessert. I'm sure they'd let me but I will use this as an excuse to resist :o

in fact the food is 400cals an the wine 500

Think Thin Thursday

I have to keep telling myself that today, I was quite tempted by an ice-cream earlier but have resisted.

I'm going out in a min to get dd from nursery and will probably end up walking miles as I try to detour round the torch relay route. And I have a stack of ironing to do tonight, that's gotta burn a lot of calories right?

My reasons for 'dieting' at the moment are of course to lose some fat and look better and feel better, but really I want to find a better way of eating and get off this yo-yo diet cycle. I want to find a healthy way of eating that I can share with my girls so they don't get into this awful 'diet' culture.

well done socks. I agree with that - ironic given I am doing the crash diet thing at the moment. I know pepole say lose the weight slowly, but I just want to get to where I need to be then work on a plan for maintaining.

I SO understand you on that Stealth about losing the eight and then maintaining. That is exactly how I feel.

What are people doing for dinner? I feel that if I eat another bowl of soup I will poke my eyes out with a toothpick. I really want to gather up the DCs and take them to the beach with fish and chips. But I just know I will go wild.
I need some low cal guidance. Could do smoked salmon, and devilled eggs though. That might work.

I agree with you too, socks. I really do not want to leave a legacy of food fear with my children. I want them to eat well, and healthily.

My plan for dinner is to bbq some tuna steaks to have with a big ol' salad, not sure about pud yet, maybe strawberries and ice cream.

I weighed myself on (our new) wii fit and came out as 13st 4lb, which is 84.5kg. On my cheap scales this morning I was 86kg. Wii really has made me feel fitter!
I also beat the DCs on the ski jump game and have a wii fit age of 28 (I'm 33).
DD (8yo) has a wii fit age of 33, and was asked if she trips over a lot when she walks.
On the minus side, it made my mii super podgy with skinny legs, no boobs and a spare tyre. Can I fix it so the weight is distributed more realistically? The DCs call my mii "the fatty bumbum one"

DS (10) is cooking tonight, so his choice:
Reduced fat homous
Pitta
Red peppers
Sausage meat disks

Not the lowest fat meal ever, but not bad for a 10yo.

I'm having pasta and vegi bolognaise. not low cal so will need to manage portion size. Oh and garlic bread. I have 850 cals left though, so should be fine as long as I weigh my portions and resist the wine i know DH will suggest :o

Hi Losers
Decided to go out for the day so went to Puxton park, and OMG its HOT!!!
Went to have lunch, all they had was sandwiches and hot food. You would think with the weather like this they would have some sort of salad going...but no .

So I had sandwiches and a bag of crisps which all together came to 700cals when I counted it up after .

I also needed wanted badly to have a ice cream because I was baking so thats another 100.

Leaves me 100 cals for dinner

I'm thinking soup because i'm actually not that hungry and a bit headachey from the sun.

IMST Get the Zumba for the Wii. Gives a good workout and kids can join in too :)

Well done everyone who has had good days:)

My reasons for losing weight???
Well, ds is 4 and I have never got back down to my 10st I was pre pg. I was very happy and confident at that weight.
Dh is very anti fat, which I hate but its the way he is skinny bugger eats all sorts of crap and is still the same weight he was when he was 18 . It pisses me off but in some sense he is right. Overweight people are not healthy. I am not healthy at the moment, I feel like I look awful. I am 24 so would like to have some of my 20's feeling like I did when I was 18. I need some of my confidence back, atm I don't have alot.
Dh is quite a slim build and only 5'8 so next to him sometime I feel huge :(
And to top it off we may very well go on hoilday next year for the first time and I would very much like to wear a bikini and not want to run away in case someone see's me.

And you'll do it bonkey :) stick with it

OK, my motivation.

I'm 22, and 5 foot 2. I am currently just under 13 stone, and I know that's bad. So, I'm taking control and doing something about it. I want to marry, I want to have kids one day. Both of those will be easier, should they happen, if I'm a different shape other than round :)

I have a wonderful supportive family, and a boyfriend who respects my decision and supports me, although he thinks I'm fab just as I am :)

Right, now, confession time. I wobbled. Badly. Erm, 3 scoops of lovely Thorntons ice cream, because it was so hot.

And me and said boyfriend went to Pizza Hut.

BUT, BUT!

I had one of the pizzetta things, that are all under 500 calories, and lots of salad.

I've logged EVERYTHING into MFP, including my hour long tortunre session on the treadmill, and I have 17 calories left.

Do I feel guilty about today?

Sort of, but I enjoyed what I ate, and actually ate less than I normally would, so although it's a wobble, I've moved on from my shove a whole medium pizza into my mouth habits! Although I wanted to kill DBoyfriend, sitting there with his BBQ meaty pizza with it's stuffed crust He even offered me a slice and I said no!