The NO EXCUSES, Now or NEVER slimming thread

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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

hi all- I'm going no where tortoise!

went volley ball last night and have a run tonight (just need to ensure I don't chicken out) here are my excuses that I need all of you to not accept-

it was raining
I've just had a wax/ hair cut
I didn't eat enough so no energy.

I will run tonight!!!

I am so proud of you ALL....You lot really are doing it!!

Nothing can stop you now

I am not looking forward to de-toxing again on Monday. Think I will have to go back and read my original posts.

Buggy - NO EXCUSES.....this is your new life!

Morning everyone, hope everyone has a good/ish day.

Hello - reporting back in (though note no one noticed me sneaking in upthread so hope is ok am joining in) - now at 72.9kg and feeling like am getting in the zone. Hope you enjoyed our run last night BuggyRunner.

Morning, felt really miserable and hungry all off yesterday! I think I need to eat more regularly, small and often to keep my energy levels up. What do others have for lunch? I'm getting fed up of soup/stir fry!!

Well, I am feeling brighter. Landed up cycling to a meeting yesterday - which nearly finished me off, but I did it. Still shattered, but have been using the enforced down time to work on the computer doing myexcitingandabsorbingnewbusinessidea. Every cloud.

Have also resisteeating the kids' sweets...

howevah, today's uncontrollable urge is to weigh myself.

This is Not A Good Idea for the following reasons:

I've only really been watching what I eat for 2 days.

I am a bit of a weigh addict, it's not helpful and I'll only start obsessing and standing on the scales before and after a pee.

I change shape faster than I lose weight - so I should only do measurements and not scales.

If the scales aren't kind, I eat to cheer myself up.

Hold me back, I'll mess it up before I've even gotten started....

nanky -

STEP AWAY FROM THE BASTARD SCALES, there really is no need to weigh. It is not about weight anymore. It is all about a NEW ATTITUDE to eating. We do not need shit fat food. We eat healthy nutritious food in moderation. Small amounts to provide energy not in order to fill some empty void.

Food is a NON issue now so DO NOT WEIGH. Your changes will show soon enough. Just weigh once a week to check you are going in the right direction.

Nanky - can you focus on something other than weight, maybe reducing body fat percentage (particularly if you change shape faster than you lose weight) so you can still see results?

Thanks, guys, top tips! yes, dinky, I think I'll aim for being a size smaller by November when DH has a Big Work Do that I have to go to. That way, if I am TWO sizes smaller I will feel amazing and fair fancy myself.

You are right, it's habits like this that stop me from making any sort of real change.

Scales will be put away, out of sight this afternoon. The scales are evil.

I love that food is a non-issue.

why has no-one ever told me that before?

Afternoon everyone,

I was very bad yesterday and had a McD's, near enough all my calories in one go I won't be doing it again tho, I was bloody starving last night but didn't eat anything else because I didn't want to go over. Lesson learnt! (and it was fucking manky)

Back to work this evening, and tonight is the night I can do loads of stocking up so will get a work-out lifting everything about :)

I need ideas for Friday - food wise. I need something to fill me up all day with very little calories because I have a quiz evening with fish and bastard chips provided :/

Oh dear fuckity.

I haven't had a healthy Lunch, chocolate spread sandwich. Having bad period cramps today which is not a good excuse but I couldn't find anything else.

Haven't thought about dinner yet!

Veggie soup and crudites for Friday Fuckity?

Nanky - glad I could help. My fat percentage goes down before the scales do so I find it a good motivator.

Having a pants few days disease thanks to a lost wallet, huge car bill, possible chicken pox child and a compete lack of willpower. Planning stuffed tonight to try and get back on track but struggling..

Disease= food wise
Stuffed=stir fry
I hate predictive text!

went on my run after work - glad I did it and also going to do abs n arse tonight.

a few conquests today- fruit n fibre for breakfast

penguin bar x1 (actually gutted I had 1 but it would usually have been 4)

noodle salad for lunch and rieces pieces (far less calories than sandwich)

corned beef n pitta n carrot for tea
(need to do a food shop)

Hi guys. Everyone is doing so well!

I'm also a weigh addict, but I find it actually helps to keep me motivated as the scales go down. So I allow myself a weigh every morning. In fact I've just been and bought some new fancy scales that weigh in increments of 50g.

I'm a bit of a weigh addict too but I am fighting it. I didn't have scales last time I joined SW and that was a good thing because it meant I couldn't weigh more than once a week. I did notice the nice changes in my size though. I'm already feeling better in my clothes this time round and I've only lost a couple of pounds (my size 18 trousers now do up without cutting me in half)

I've still been eating healthily this week. Yesterday was banana on toast for brekkie, king prawn noodles followed by fruit for lunch then low fat sausages, potatoes and veg for dinner. Today I had cereal (chocolatey cereal but a very small bowl) for breakfast, chicken salad sandwich (no butter, no salad cream) followed by fruit for lunch and I'm planning a stir fry for dinner when dp comes home.

Goldidi, this is exactly why I joined this thread, my work trousers wouldn't do up but losing just a few pounds saved me from a whole new size up.

Struggling tonigh, dd told me about christmas conversation at school where parents spend mega bucks on dcs. Dd was laughed at as I cannot afford much (lone parent), feel tearful/shit!

Tschiffley don't feel bad about not spending mega bucks on your dd!!! Kids don't need loads of money spent on them!! I was a lone parent for 7 years with dd1 (her father has no contact at all) so she never had much money spent on her but she LOVED her Christmases no matter what I managed to spend on her. One year I sold loads of stuff on ebay (the sort of stuff people with more money send to a charity shop because it's too much effort to sell it) and that earned me £25 for dd1's presents. I managed to get quite a lot with that thanks to car boot sales and ebay, and I got all of her stocking fillers from the cheap shops, maybe one or 2 things each week. She had a wonderful day even though I was really worried about not having much to be able to give her. How old is your dd? It is easier when they are young but you have my sympathy if she is a bit older and can tell if things are second hand/cheap.

Oh tschiffey it is hard isn't it. How old is she? We are about to move NYSE and will have £50 to send a month after shopping and bills... fuck knows how we are going to manage that one...... Bit more home tutoring I think!!!!
letlove I have polished off my whole packet of cheese but only one slice a day as a snack, satisfies my cheese urges....
A still on the soup for lunch, my best one for filling me up is a tomato and three bean ne from Sainsburys, it is about 50p per tin and properly fills me up.

fuckity how about rice, kidney beans, chilli with peas? Filling!

Am shattered, have a poorly DD2 for a change and have had a manic day so before I get tempted t eat anything I am off to bed. After watching Dallas...

move house

Have 2 teens, "christmas" teen was just regaling convo at school, not narked about lack of cash here but it made me feel sooooo bad - me, lone parent = smothered in guilt.

been talking to second teen about homework etc, offering advice/help etc, was laughed at .

Apologies for complete self indulgent posts but this is the sort of thing that makes me think BOLLOCKS TO BEING GOOD, WHAT IF THE F*ING POINT. WHAT WILL IT CHANGE/MATTER IF I AM THE SIZE/WEIGHT I AM.

Teens do understand about lack of funds though. Speaking as a former teen in a house with no money I was never ever narked or worried about not getting the same as my friends at school. It was just the way our household worked at Christmas. We had our traditions and other people had theirs, it really didn't occur to me that our tradition of a family board game followed by a walk on Christmas afternoon was because we had cheaper presents than other kids (it was- my parents arranged our day so we didn't notice the lack of presents). I know my parents felt very guilty that we didn't get all the things our friends had though.

It will change your confidence level and your health. Those are important things. Feeling good about yourself is worth far more than calories.
I am a complete hypocrite as I'm eating pizza due to chicken having gone off