The NO EXCUSES, Now or NEVER slimming thread

[Youcanringmybell]

This is a thread for those who are pig sick of over eating and binging and have decided enough is enough.

There will be no excuses on this thread...no 'oh but I was due my period' or 'oh but it was left over so I finished it' etc

IF you need to have a nice meal as part of a celebration DO IT but no more excuses - have the meal and move on.

This is a thread for the brave.....this is a thread for the serious. Join at your peril.....

Monday mornings are weigh in - so that we cannot binge on the weekends. I am deliberately being hard on myself and if you want to do it to please join. Even if someone wafts wine and banoffee pie under my nose I will not have it - even if the world is going to end I WILL NOT HAVE IT

weigh in Monday morning and post here

Oh and drink some wine and eat some choc while you still can because on Monday you will be in hell

fuckity - I like your style.....
kaytola - I have kicked your backside and we are going to do it. Psych yourself up, it is gonna be a shock to the system but well worth it.
electric Fb photos are the work of the devil - they have revealed to true you and now you are going to smash it and make a new you!! Well done

Good strong advice there Buggy.....keep it up!

High Five Clatty (with a cheeky bum slap as well)

12 stone sounds good. A good decision made today well done.

We are going to SMASH this next week ladies...

I will except no less than a decent weight loss and a POSITIVE mental attitude.

No one has to give up any food except FAT food -

No choc, chips, cake, fried food, takeaway etc

WE DO NOT REQUIRE IT ANYMORE

I don't care if you rock yourselves to sleep having withdrawal sweats and peeing yourself....FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION THIS TIME

Flippin FB photos are evil. You want to know whats worse though. Picture the scene.

I'm sitting in my chair minding my own business surfing MN. I like a fool click new tab to go to another site. For a split second the screen is black and someone with 5 chins is looking back at me. I didn't recognise this image of myself and I don't like it.

Moral of the story, eat less and never EVER leave MN.

'I don't care if you rock yourselves to sleep having withdrawal sweats and peeing yourself' Lollerskates

'For a split second the screen is black and someone with 5 chins is looking back at me' O god, that person is looking at me as well. She is evil and must be sent away

so anyone got any healthy meals planned for Monday all ready

I've been looking at the Hairy Bikers new book, might go with Chicken and Mushroom Risotto (317 calories) cos it looks quites filling and I'm working 5 - midnight on Monday :/

I must avoid the chip butty goodness that will be freeely available at work as well :(

Sorry YouCan I WILL shift this weight!
Positive Mental Attitude and no cake

Snarkle That wobbly five chinned person appears on my black screen too. How very spooky - I am sure it isn't me (because I have more than 5 chins)

I decided yesterday after one of my customers at work asked if I was pregnant again that I should do something about the excess.

Problem is I work in a farm shop that has all manner of tasty stuff, I think I need to get some blinkers to enable me to work and diet simultaneously.

orYouCan could you come to work with me?

buggyrunner "so anyone got any healthy meals planned for Monday"

My meals are generally pretty healthy - DH cooks lovely healthy stuff (mostly), it's just the portion size that's my issue with meals. I've dropped my portion size down this week so hopefully that's an easy fix there. I'm finding i'm actually no less satisfied with a smaller meal.

My big problem is snacking. I snack when i'm bored/tired/stressed/socialising/treating myself - you get the picture, it's all the time. Although I generally get my 5 a day I add on cake/biscuits/choc/ice cream. This I pretty much have to go cold turkey on - I've done a week of reining it in and think it's working.

I also think I'm so disgusted with what I see in FB photos that I actually don't want to eat. I just hope that disgust sticks around and does its thing.

carrotcake I have just discovered that a rice cake topped with houmous will fill the void that cutting out snacking leaves...and coffee.

Not entirely sure that is a healthy way to diet but hopefully it'll give me a kick start!

Your username is making me hungry though could you change it tocantmakericecake for the purposes of this thread

Kampakat I just can't eat rice cakes. Toddler DD ears marmite rice cakes - she loves them but I just can't go there.

This week I've taken a pack of oatcakes into work - a couple of those (dry) are so dull but filling I'm just not getting that urge to eat more. Once I start on sweet things it's like breaking the seal and I just want more. If I can hold on until mid afternoon I'm relatively safe.

Lol at my username - I'll see if I can change it to CantEatRiceCakes next time I'm not using an app :-)

Carrotcake I know I know they are the devils own foodstuff, I can't even bring myself to let my DD eat them!

Have you tried corncakes - a slightly tastier version of rice cakes, they are a bit more buttery but regretably still have the texture of corrugated cardboard.

Am going to have a bad day tomorrow, we had a pork belly in the fridge that needed to be used so it is in the oven slow roasting in cider....it smeeellllllsss so gooooood!!!!!

I've never even seen corn cakes - I'll look out for them though. If I don't like them DD might.

Pork belly in cider sounds yum.

I just had some Lindt choc and a glass of red

Heeey now that's more like it ladies....Lots of positive stuff here!!

Now - although we are all here for support I did think a tougher thread is required for the likes of me. So if I were to put (after Sunday that is) "sorry everyone I had a choc bar and a bag of crisps today" I do not want anyone to say "poor you....never mind"......

We need to get tough - you need to berate me!! I cannot be 'nice' to myself anymore - NICE GIRLS COME LAST LADIES!!!!

These chins will not shift themselves...

Now we are ALL going to be going withdrawal symptoms soon, we are going to wonder if we have what it takes, if it is worth it, a cheeky bag of chips won't hurt blah blah blah

DONT WANT TO HEAR IT! We have all told ourselves that crap for ages - hence us getting into this mess.

MOVE IT AND LOSE IT

Now then people - get some sleep.

and don't have nightmares....(said in Watchdog style).

I'm coming to join you. My name is Jo and I have been overweight since I had dd1 13 years ago. I was doing well at SW in Jan and Feb but then fell pg so gave up on it and ate crap, then mc in April so have been comfort eating ever since. It's time to stop that and eat healthily again. A new school term seems like a good time to make a new start.

I will stop eating crap.

I will eat healthy meals at regular meal times.

I will exercise at least twice a week (I want to do more but not sure if I'll get the time)

My target is 12 stone for now, will reassess when I get there. (You aren't expecting me to reveal my actual weight now are you?)

I'll see you all on Monday.

Clatty, sorry for your loss too. It's shit. I think I would have done this earlier if we were trying again, but dp doesn't want to as it had been a surprise pg that wasn't exactly well timed financially, so that's one more excuse for comfort eating that I'll have to stop using.

More recruits?
Hello Jodidi - welcome and well done for thinking positively.
In a few weeks you will feel like a new woman.

Now I cannot make anyone put their REAL weight if they don't want to. However - I am. I think the point of having a TOUGH thread is that we CONFRONT what weight we are on Monday morning and work from there.

Putting it down and admitting and owning up to that weight I think is CRUCIAL. This is anonymous - there will always be people slimmer than us and people bigger than us. I think here is the place where we do not need to feel judged.

I for one will take positivity from the fact that the weight I put down on Monday will be the heaviest I am ever going to be and every week I WILL be SLIMMER.

I'm in!! Re-starting SW on Monday, I did lose almost a stone there earlier this year but have put it all back on and then some. I now weigh over 13 stone and am only 5 foot 4 so that is ridiculous. I know my health is suffering. I can literally only fit in a few of my clothes, and in photos I look like a real tubster (in fact, I almost always delete photos of me so there are hardly any in existence!). I am an emotional eater and am under a lot of stress at the moment, yesterday I ate a piece of cheesecake with my morning coffee, then a bag of crisps, then a cheese sandwich with lots of butter, then a tunnocks wafer...and so it goes on. I actually felt nausesous last night so I think my body is trying to tell me something. This has to stop - eating the crap does not make the feelings go away. PLEASE feel free to shout at me and bully me if I waver!!

Teenyweenytadpole - You sounds LIKE ME

I am over 13 stone now and eat everything when stressed. My husband is going away for 6 months and family stress has given me the need to eat. However, I now have panic attacks after a binge so IT HAS TO STOP!

TEENY- WE have NO MORE EXCUSES.

Eating does not make it better - it makes it worse. About time we recognised that. WEIGH IN MONDAY

you see I eat a bit of something then the lot! I can't have 1 I have to eat the packet.

I eat melted cheese on a plate (a lot)

Yes - i think that is why i have had to say on this thread NO EXCUSES for even a little bit because a binge eater won't ever stop at one.

We have to say NO MORE of it. We have to finally accept that we cannot be trusted around food and therefore take it out of our own hands. We no longer eat foods that are not nutritionally helpful to lose weight.

GET USED to HUNGER IN BETWEEN MEALS - it will be our friend (not endorsing anorexia here )

WE are going to SMASH a weight loss out next week....

I'm in - I need the tough approach...

Currently I'm around the 12st mark and have never been this heavy even when pregnant. I've got no energy, feel pants in the morning when I wake up and need to lose 2 1/2 stone. This is the same weight as the massive bag of dog food in the cupboard under the stairs