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. :)

Oh Bonkey, try not to be too down about your jeans! Keep them as a reminder of why you're doing all this weight loss. I'm a snug 14 too so I know what you mean - I don't want to admit to myself that I'm actually pushing a 16.

Hi Greenwich, have you been on a weight Loss drive for long?

Well I had an okay day food-wise. We went to Legoland and had a picnic lunch which I'd prepared, then had dinner in one if the 'eateries' - pizza and salad, and I had much more salad than pizza, which was much better than it might have been. We were there for ages, from 10 a.m to 7 pm, so I hope I burned up done calories walking round all day! I'm going to the gym tomorrow afternoon too, which I am really looking forward to -it's my 'me' time, and time for my favourite music - I love putting together gym playlists on Spotify and 'saving up' all my real fave music for the gym. Hope you all had a Super Saturday!

IMST I don't think I could get away with stars , everyone would be asking why I have a sparkly crotch

That and the fabric is to thin from the fecking rubbing that I probably couldn't get them to stay put anyway :(

And @ your jeans!

greenwich i hate it when you see people you haven't seen for a while!

I'm living in 3/4 length jeans at the moment because none of mine fit/all have the inner thigh worn away :(

And the stupid, lousy, rotten, gym showers have given me a verruca. Not impressed. Going to invest in shower shoes.

The stars are just denim on denim, no sparkles. I used a cookie cutter as a template, a much better use for it than making and testing cookies

Good morning, what kind of Sunday is it? My DCs are watching a film, the one we have sleeping over is still asleep, but I did catch them awake at midnight!
Next week will be a challenge for me, DCs are going away, and me & DH will put on a G&S show over the week, which means eating out 3 nights in a row. It will also mean a lot of physical work, putting the set together then taking it down the next day.
I may well end up ok on calories but over on fat, and not much chance of vitamins.

Morning everyone

honkey bonkey that sounds like a miserable day, but, on the bright side, at least you weren't parading your thighs and crotch around too obviously without realising . I have 4 pairs of trousers that do up, none of them fit properly though and one has lost its button and the zip always pulls itself down when I walk but I still wear it . I long for the day to feel good about myself when trying on clothes

Well, I wasn't too bad with what I ate yesterday, just about in MFP range for calories but ohhhhhh so hungry most of the day. Had soup for dinner and couldn't take the hunger in the evening so had a low fat yog, bowl of muesli and some soya nuts . Still, at least even if I did have too much there it wasn't terrible choices . I'm either off to the gym later or off out with DD and DH to some gardens - will have to lunge around the gardens and do sprints or some such to make it into a workout when no one is looking as I'm so desperate now to lose this weight. Weighed myself yesterday and I was nearly 2 lbs heavier than I was the day before - how does that even work?!

IO genius there with the stars on jeans

greenwich I actually made up an excuse to not meet a couple of friends last week as I didn't want them to see me with all this extra weight - they haven't seen me since pre preg when I was 4 stone lighter and one of the ladies has made unintentionally rude comments to me when I've put on weight in the past which has really upset me so I didn't want to put myself in that situation again. Feel really bad about it though.

Oh stealth I'm too scared to sit in my parents' garden chairs should I break them

lollipop grr to the gym showers. I keep meaning to buy flip flops for when showering in ours but never quite getting round to it as when you think about it it's a bit icky your feet are in someone elses used washing water.

What sort of a Sunday is it? I ahve had 2 days off, put on 4lb in that time and I need to get back to it!!

For me it is Start Again Sunday

:( Stealth. Glad you're starting again though and not giving up. Use today to get your head in a good place, shop so you are prepared and I bet you wake up full of determination tomorrow.

By the way good morning everyone. Sorry if I don't reply to things people say but by the time I've caught up with the thread I've only got the last post in my head. I'm really bad at putting my thoughts down. Plus it takes ages for me to type.

:) Ikwym!
I don't understand it though - is it possible to put on a pound every half day? Really??

Start Again Sunday for me too, Stealth. Yesterday i accidentally managed to drink too much wine and eat Chinese takeaway followed by 2 hotdogs as I was STILL hungry!

I am going to point it out on WW so that at least I am being honest with myself.

It was date night with DH and we had a very nice time.

No, Stealth it is not at all, I am sure. Seriously, I bet tomorow you will be back where you were, or close to it. I find a blowout really shows.... something to do with a full stomach, maybe retaining fluids if you ate salt etc. But I bet if you go back to normal eating today tomorrow you will be much happier with what it says on the scales.

that's good - at least it was for a good purpose :)

What is everyone working towards now? I am going away for a couple of nights at the end of August (24th) and the wearing of a swimming costume will be required. I would love to be around 11 and a half stone then

thanks chip - youve inspired me to at least stick to it today and see what happens in the morning
Should be an OK day too - kids back so can go to park etc and also having chicken (quorn for me), potatoes and vegetables tonight. Yorkshire pudddngs for kids. So they'll eat healthily, DH will eat a meal he enjoys, and I'll eat something I can control and that can be very low cal

Did you miss them Stealth?

Chips glad you're putting yesterday behind you and not beating yourself up over it.

I was 11st 9lbs last Monday. I would like to be as close to 11st as possible in two 10 days! Going away and will also need to wear a swimsuit. I will be happy to be 11st 7lbs in reality. We'll see.

I did - so good to have them back :)
Good luck with your goal, what's the actual deadline, sorry?

I'm within shouting distance of the 12 stone club (13st 1), it would be nice to be 12 something. I would also like to get my BMI under 35 (with a view to eventually under 30) for health reasons.
At the moment it feels like every week I have a social eating engagement, and there's no healthy choice.
My day to day eating is pretty good, but it appears I'm too popular to be properly thin. I'll settle for being popular and not fat.

Going on the 14th for a week. I'll know at weigh in tomorrow how much I need to lose to get to 11st 7. I still get a thrill writing 11st something. How sad is that!

Well done IMST. You'll be there this time next week.

no, I'll be thrilled when i can do that (and be confident it's not going to change in 24 hours time!)

I am working towards.... well not sure really. I found that focusing on the wedding next week has depressed me terribly as i am still more than a stone off my goal weight. So I am trying to stop the crash dieting, stick to the WW plan, and lose steadily. The problem yesterday was once I gave myself permission to eat I binged- the old story! So for today i am going to focus on really healthy eating, and sticking to the 26 points. I will make a batch of veg soup again, maybe splash out on smoked salmon and cream cheese ryvitas.

Just chatting to you lot really helps to motivate me and remind me why I'm doing this - I feel a lot more in control of it again (you know when you're right in the middle of dieting and it becomes easy, but then you stop for a while and just completely lose interest?)

Oh yes, this thread helps me immensely also. I do not feel so alone!

me too chips - when I had a day off I binged.
Not helped that we went out for lunch, I ordered dessert and when the DCs' ice creams arrived they had 5 scoops each! So we all had to help with their ice creams as there was no way they were allowed that much ice cream

I bloody hate that Stealth ! There is no way a a kid child eat 5 scoop of ice cream! You did the right thing!

It actually really passes me off when I say 'can I have a small scoop on a cone for ds please?' . He normally ends up witj a ice cream as big as his head .

IMST You will get there, you are soooo close! :)

chips Try and stick to your points rather than crash. It really is heather and more sustainable.
I used to crash, then I would have a biscuit as a treat and somehow or another end up eating the whole packet and anything else that I could find in the cupboard!
I haven't really had my binge urge at all yet forgets the bead roll disaster from the other night
Good luck you can do it!

in fairness we didn;t actually ask for child ice creams but, given the 5yo and 3yo asked for them themselves I thought they may apply some common sense . One between them would have been loads, and my kids eat a lot of ice cream