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

By the way, is anyone else having unfortunate side effects from eating lots more fruit and vegetables? I fear I may have gassed year 8 this afternoon as I wandered round my classroom trumping like a trumpy thing (but it's ok, I carefully selected likely pupils to stand behind as I trumped so they would be blamed not me )

I'm a lone parent too with 4 dc. 2 of which are teens. They are used to getting 2nd hand presents and have learnt that they may get more that way. For example and xbox game for £40 vs a game plus other items for less if 2nd hand game. They really don't mind and are happy with whatever they get.

Tonight has been ok. I'm feeling a bit low but I don't know why. Tired too so will go to bed soon.

Goldidi That made me lol! I've actually noticed the opposite! Previously very gassy but less so since cut out all the crap.

tschiffey don't despair, I feel like that sometimes, that I am kind of past recovery, but I have lost three pounds now this week and have decided that at, ahem, my mid (and a bit) 30s I need to actually stop shitting about and set a good and healthy example to my two DDs.

Not sure what you are at mo, but I am almost 15 stone and am medium height so a size 20. We are all in the same ish boat, and you re worth it!
Hug.. In fact, bear hug!!

Oh missed your post Gold!!!! I have the diddy ones so it is even easier to just join in the post lunch waft!!

Hi all
Sorry I've been awol, had a manic week and been so tired.
Well done all on staying with it! I got weighed yesterday and have lost three pounds! I need to exercise more, but by the time DD is in bed and have eaten with DH, sorted pack lunches for next day etc I'm ready to fall into bed.

Planning on going for a walk at the weekend, and I will do longer on exercise bike...

Poor kids Goldidi

Thank you all for listening and understanding my rant (and the hug, boy do I need hugs right now). I am just battling the teens I guess, and coming off pretty badly.

I know I need to do this for myself. I'm not massively overweight so there is light at the end of the tunnel just feeling a little low at the moment. Onwards and upwards I guess.

tsch - I wouldn't be at all surprised that the food you are eating atthe moment is what is causing your low mood. You have no idea how much you sound like me. Life gets on top of me so so easily when I am eating well that I give up and just say
"Who cares - I may as well get it over with and get really really fat"
Now we are saying something else -
"Who cares - I may as well get it over with and get really slim".

I came on to see how you are all doing and you have got everything in hand.
Well done xxx

I'm feeling really tired today. Got to go and help out at the charity shop in a minute and all I want to do is go to sleep! I think I slept ok last night! Lol.

Hey there...new to the MN diet scene...

May I join you?

Oh looking back I started dieting the same time as the thread started....had a post birthday mid-life crisis...anyway...so I started at 13st 9lb. My target is 9st 7lb.

I have been dieting for 2 and half weeks and am now at 12st 13lb.

Today I particularly need yelling at support because yesterday was the day I got new scales (you know ones that work rather than giving a different answer depending on which foot you put on first...). Unfortunately this has caused a rescaling of the problem (due to previous scales under-reading massively) and my real weight now is actually more than my fictional starting weight was....so I feel like I have been dieting for no gain.

Obviously this is crazy talk but I am so dispirited!

I also have a quick question for anyone who knows about dieting....when does the weight you are losing stop being just fluid and starts being actual lard?

Icbineg welcome. You've made a hood start.

So far today I haven't eaten much. 2 special k red berry bars, half a can of peaches and an actimel.

No idea what's for dinner. Got to walk DDs up to the sports centre in a minute.

Hi all. I am going to join if i may. I have made soooo many excuses for my love of cake. Breastfeeding, contraceptive implant (a little to blame. I think) stay at home mum, i use all these as excuses. But i love sweet stuff! I need to get tough! I will fit into that handmade 1950's dress. I paid too much to never wear it!

Oh tiggy you reminded me I have a dress I have never worn due to excess lard....god I want to be able to wear nice clothes (without worrying about back hamsters and the like) so badly it hurts!

Gosh I think you may have gotten me over the scales depression all in one comment!

Ha ha "back hamsters!" never heard that one before!!!

Urgh horrible dinner tonight. 2 burgers and 6 hash browns. Normally the sort of meal I would love but it felt so fatty and my mouth feels really weird!

Ha ha back hamsters!! Love it.
Well I've been doing slimming world since Monday and I'm sure I must be doing something wrong... It just seems to easy! I guess the scales will tell me on Monday whether it's working!

Its a new day and I'm finally in the right mind set to shift this lard after a few days blip (it turns out I can't have any in the house as i I eat it all at once!). I will shift this blubber in time for my dress fitting...

Morning all.
Friday again which means Monday weigh is getting close!
Just need to get through the weekend! My 18 yr old brother is coming to live with me for a while. He's arriving tomorrow morning from Turkey where my parents live. He wants to start a new life back in UK. They moved to Turkey when he was 11.

How exciting tortoise! Will be lovely for you to spend some time with him.. No chance he's a budding chef with a healthy mindset? ;-)

Hmmm have discovered a new problem with scales that work and are accurate to 0.05 kg. Before it wasn't worth weighing myself very often as you needed to lose a lot before you could be certain anything had changed...now I could plot my weight hourly throughout the day and get accurate data...

This is NOT a good thing. I need to find a way to stick to weekly weigh ins.

Tortoise it sounds like you are getting used to a lower fat lifestyle...I had heard such things were possible but it hasn't happened for me....still craving the banned substances here!

Ok my first full day since joining. I had an apple instead of a biscuit mid morning. And my fave dinner which i share with my 19 mo. We have cheese and ham slices with olives and chutney and share it. Today i did her her own plate and on mine i added and extra slice of lean ham and much less cheese. So swapped most of unhealthy for the more healthy thing on my plate. Still had a little taste of cheese so don't feel like i'm missing out. Gonna try this evety meal if i can. Does anyone have idead for low fat breakfast cereal? I eat lots of jordans granola with nuts type cereal and it's not low fat!

Nooooo i just spoiled it! DD didn't like feta and i ate what she left, totally cancelling out my big idea and infact ate more coz of the extra ham slice!!! Homemade veg soup for tea though so should be ok.

Afternoon :)

I've munched on toast about 11 so hopefully that will keep me going until fish and bastard chips this evening. I'm about to go on the exercise bike for a bit so I can have a snack if I need to.

Desperatly trying to find my clever brain for the quiz tonight though :/ Just listened to a little music quiz on the radio and I was rubbish!

I really want to weigh myself today, but I am determined not to because I am hoping for another nice surprise on Monday morning. My belly is definitely reduced but thts probably due to stopping all the fizzy drinks so I am not so bloated anymore. It's all progress though :)

Back hamsters...tee hee, luuurve it. I also have oxter hamsters

Right, I have successfully NOT WEIGHED MYSELF! I realised that this only makes me feel like shit. aNd, when I feel like shit I eat to console myself. So, it is illogical to weigh myself eleven or twelve times a day.

In fact, it is illogical to weigh myself every week - such is my addiction to wibbling around trying to influence the dial (scuppered since getting digital scales, but jump on there six or seven times in a row and you might drain the batteries enough to convince yourself that you are thin as a sitck) that there is little point in weighing myself weekly...monthly would be good.

Might ust go for measuring.

So far, there is a slight reappearance of some sort of bone structure in my scone-like face. No cheekbones, or chin yet, but, a bit more of a face, less of a daud of dough.

I am taking this as a victory - and evidence of at least 2lbs weightloss.

Will Not Stand On Scales.