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

hi Guys- Im slowly on the way to recovery and i having a very odd problem of having to force myself to eat! Normally i can polish off shameful amounts.. Today i have managed a big bowl of cereal, round of toast, piece of short bread and a toddler sized dinner :S. Today was my first day without heavy painkillers as i had to be able to drive to collect DS from the childminders as my DH is working away again. Luckily i was in the house alone as i was not in a pleasant mood. Beginning to get cabin fever so its been lovely to read how everyone has been doing. Im finding this thread much more practically useful than a night a week a ww :)

Hi resi glad you are on the mend!!

Can I ask someone to pm me the new thread as I reckon it might tick over a thousand while I am off the radar!

Whoa there tort sorry missed your post.... I would go to the teacher and ask to speak to her after school tomorrow, that is not good... boys can often have scuffles at playtime but rarely in the classroom unless there are severe behaviour issues with one or more of them. If you don't get a decent answer then you can email the head. Give the teacher a go first though, she might have it under control. Your poor dd, horrid for her to be scared.

goon - Goodluck getting the ole' broadband sorted.

Hope you settle in well

Goon Hope you are back online with us soon .
I will speak to the teacher in the morning. I don't know her, shes new to the school and newly qualified. She looks about 12 lol!

Resi Glad you are feeling better. It will talk a while to get your appetite back.

I of course meant take a while not talk a while lol!

Tort definitely talk to the teacher tomorrow. Your dd needs to know that the teacher has it under control, and if she doesn't have it under control then you will need to speak to the head so she gets some support.

Goon That wait to get broadband sorted seems to last forever doesn't it? I can't really remember how we got by without it even though it's not that many years ago that we were still on dial-up.

resi glad you're feeling a bit better. Hope your recovery is quick.

Re exercise: I know realistically that I shouldn't be jogging but I am attempting to do the c25k running thing so am 'running' twice a week and am really feeling it in my hips so I might have to stop and change to cycling or something so it's less stress on my joints. I'd like to go swimming but the times I can go, our pool has kids lessons so I don't get to go much. I do take the kids swimming fairly regularly at weekends but when you have a toddler who refuses to wear armbands and clings to you there isn't much exercise going on. I do have a wii but rarely use it because it's in the living room and I don't want dp watching me go bright red and wobble about trying to do some of those exercises/dances .

Goldidi swimming does sound a good idea if you are feeling uncomfortable running. My friend used to put her baby and toddler in a crèche linked to the health centre and go swimming. I
She said it was so therapeutic. Could you put your toddler in the pram and do a bit of power walking?
Tortie hope your dd's class gets sorted out, it must be a worry for you both.
I'm hungry! Even ate a bit ds's sandwich when I was making it - at least someone will eat it, because he probably won't!

Hi all

So I have been on holiday essentially since I joined this thread....my plan for the holiday was not to try and continue to lose weight but to keep thinking about what I was eating and avoid blowouts....which was hard enough...especially when the baby got gastroenteritis.

So enough with the excuses...two weeks after my first thread weigh in and I have lost 1 lb (am now 12st 12lb). But the fight is now back on! I will try and get synchronised with monday weigh ins...

Just caught up with thread a bit....well done everyone on the weight loss! Youcan, you are damn right it isn't easy, although I have realised even more that this whole business is about being in the right mental place to get it done. I just had a year of wanting to lose weight and getting nowhere and (last weeks holiday blip excluded) now I can suddenly lose a couple of pounds a week. What changed was passing some sort of recovery threshold from pnd.

In order to lose weight you have to care about yourself and want to improve your chances of living longer. I only had one blowout so far in this last month and a half of dieting and it coincided with the day I didn't even care if I ever woke up again let alone lived into my eighties.

Sorry this is probably terribly naive and obvious to everyone already...but I thought I'd mention it as it helped me understand what goes wrong and why, and most importantly that being overweight is a mental not a physical problem, so you basically need to fix your brain up before you fix your body :)

welcome back ICB - Good to have you. Well I think you deserve a medal for LOSING weight on a long holiday.

Well done!!
You are completely right. Bingers have mental fixations with food. We are all trying to overcome feeding demons in order to lose this weight.

WE ARE STILL DE - TOXING. we are at a delicate point ladies. We have all lost a bit and feeling slimmer - this is where I can cave in and think - it is ok......I have LOST WEIGHT!

WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE BURN NOW - just as in running we may be hitting a mental wall. SMASH THROUGH IT .

Goodluck for another day all of you

The absolute worst thing is thinking: Yay I lost weight I should treat myself! And then having absolutely NOTHING to treat yourself with that isn't food related.

Seriously...I can't think of anything I want more than food.

Actually maybe this 'no excuses' crew could compile a list of non-food treats...I personally would find that very helpful...

Morning all.
Still feeling really really rough .
Popped in to see DD2s teacher this morning. The head is speaking to the class as a whole today and parents of pupils involved will be called in to speak to the head too. Hopefully there won't be another episode but i'm not convinced of that!

icbineg i feel exactly the same about a treat for losing weight, like you everything i would like is food !
My daughter has promised to buy me a new book for every half stone left bless her,it was one thing i would enjoy that isnt to eat

half stone LOST of course i meant.....

The ONLY think that sometimes stops me from going back to food is craft activities. My hands and eyes are busy and so I cannot eat unless I take a break. I can get engrossed in sewing, knitting etc.

I MISS BAKING...I love baking cakes. I cannot do that now x1000

Hi, haven't read all the thread (38 pages!) but can I join for some moral support? I'm, 5'2, 40 and 11 stone 5. I have been trying to use weight watchers online as i have used it sucessfully in the past, but it's not really happening this time. I lost 10 lbs, down to 11 stone, then put 5 on during the summer holidays.
I need some ideas on how to not snack. I have 2yo dd at home, which makes exercise hard to fit in,though I do have 40 minutes walking on the school run every day. I would like to be floating between 10 and 10 stone 5. I found it helped if I ate breakfast after the school run, and dinner at 5. Any ideas on what works for you greatly appreciated.

Rum

Sorry know to well that hurts looking at what your child can't do

I tend to go to bed early and read so am away from the kitchen and temptation to snack

There must be some low fat cake recipes on the net?
I still bake for DC to eat and to put in lunch boxes. So far, not been a major temptation although i did have a couple of cookies yesterday!
Think i will do a bit of googling see what recipes i can find!

Rum, that does sound tough. I can barely imagine how that would feel. It's not comparable, but I get a taste of that with DD having 'faltering growth' due to selective eating and putting stuff down on paper is so disheartening.

Re treats, the best I've found is to run a bath and read my book for an hour - it's a bit decadent and it takes me away from the kitchen. Other than that I'm a bit stumped other than maybe a new bag/shoes/accessory (non-weight-related things) - I'm trying not to buy clothes until I'm a better weight.

Youcan, you asked a last night how much I'd lost in total and it's about half a stone. It's tipped me over a threshold I think from looking uncomfortably overweight for my height/build to just 'overweight'. I'd like to get to a 'normal' weight though.

Today I'm doing battle with an incredible urge for a Waitrose triple chocolate muffin. I WILL NOT GET ONE!!! A BANANA WILL DO!

Rum ds3 has Sn both a developmental delay and physical disabilities so if you ever want to chat just yell can remember how shocked I was and appoients always worse when you have to focus on what they can't do

Treat wise for me it's knowing what I'm not spending on crap and junk food is going away towards holiday next year

I'm having such a bad week .
Had 3/4 of a cadburys bubbly bar earlier.
Huge plate of sausages (x4), mash and veg for dinner.
I seem to be turning to comfort eating to make me feel better. This cold has wiped me out. Feel so so rough.

Hope you feel better soon . Winter and being I'll ate enough make anyone want comfort food

Hmm what about if you did a quiet midweek check Not that I do that when I'm struggling of course would that be enough to get you back on track