NOW or NEVER, NO EXCUSES weight loss part 2

[Goldidi]

We've nearly grown out of the last thread here so i started the new one.

We're all doing different things but we're all here to support each other on the journey. We kick each other when we need it and offer sympathy when that's more appropriate.

oooh i like the first ones :). had an ok day today, been relatively good except for the glass of wine

Having a me day tomorrow, shopping and lunch so i dont anticipate being very good :S

Ycrmb i am doing 1500 a day and always use the calories. If i have any left at the end of the day i find a snack. I do 20 minutes quite vigorous pedalling on my exercise bike at night, in front of the tv (subtitles on, otherwise can't hear it) I find i get quite hungry the day after.
I'm not sure i will be able to continue dieting at the moment because we are having fertility treatment and i have read that dieting isn't recommended.

Goon i like the funky or quirky. The strange retro baseball player curtains would be great with some astroturf and a hammond organ at half-time.

Goon

When we moved in here last year we lived on takeaways and with paper playes for at least a week .moving stressfull enough without worrying about dieting

Oh and the first ones

Ooh good choices, don't think John Lewis are going to come up trumps this time! tiggy google fabric inspirations for the most amazing materials, trouble is I don't think they'd be strong enough for curtains.
resi have a lovely day!

HELLOOO Goon!!! welcome back to the grind...We are all doing very well. We have merrily got off the wagon for a day here and there but overall we are al still losing or staying the same. I feel like as long as we check in here regularly we keep it up.
I do think about this thread and all you wonderful ladies everytime I want to jack it all in and it HAS stopped me!

Will check out fabric.....my laptop crashed last time I clicked on the linky.

well the first fabric is beautiful!! i will have a look on there myself because I am looking fo some fabric to back my daughters patchwork quilt I have almost finished!! Are you going to make curtains yourself??

Thanks ladies on the cals advice...do not feel bad now for having between 1000 and 1200 cals...

Oooh, I really like the first fabric goon

I have a little problem, I make quite a lot of christmas shoebox parcels (this year they are heading to Romania) and I have bought lots of things, including chocolate and sweets and I have just discovered the bags of mini lindor chocs best before date is in March which is too soon for the charity to accept. I now really, really want to eat them I have had a few already, at 28 cals each!! I need to get them far away, I will eat an entire bag in one sitting

loving the curtain fabrics!!

had a horrible day yesterday...meetings, AF and then my toddler had a bit of nappy rash and just would NOT stop trying to claw my eyes out while her dad was putting the cream on. This was Very Bad for my mental state.

This is precisely the sort of thing that will cause a wagon detonation...so I am clinging on desperately today. On the plus side I forgot to eat my lunch (due to meetings) and refused to go down for dinner after the eye clawing so actually ate almost nothing yesterday. On the minus side my brain keeps trying to tell me that this means I can stuff my face with chocolate all day today....oh and why bother dieting coz life is shit and you might get hit by a bus tomorrow...blah blah blah.

i like the first one too goon

ICB - your postmakes me want to binge!! jesus life is shit and I might get hit by a BUS???? Where is the cake??? [SHOCK]

Just try and hang on to the wagon and I will too.....I am feeling desperate but will cling on until lunch.

Is anyone else finding the branded diet foods a big con? I got ww hot chocolate coz it's on offer. Normaly it's twice the price of cadbury's options sachets. But when you look on the back, they have the same calories! Also on offer was the go ahead chocolate thins which i bought. Says 73 calories on the front. Thing is, when you look, thats per slice and theirs two in a pack! Who is gonna open a pack and only eat 1 then leave the other to go soggy! No one. Grrr rant over.

ooooppps...sorry didn't mean to feed the binge demons...

can I pass this off as a (failed and pathetic) attempt to raise awareness against the binge demons voices and there 'I can't believe it's not logic' and hence render them impotent?

Yeah Tiggy - some of the products are a complete con...I just buy value hot chocolate as it is fine and a quarter of the price.

I am only buying ww products for dinners as I only really have to cook properly for myself at the moment and it saves me lots of time and helps me with portion control!!

their...damn it

okay damage control!

So the flaw in the 'might be hit by a bus' logic is that you almost certainly won't be!

If we do this thing and do it properly we don't just win being healthier and happier in our skins every day of the rest of our lives, we win:

a) humiliation free shopping
b) looking the mirror and smiling
c) higher energy levels
d) all the time we spend feeling guilty, or arguing with ourselves over whether or not to eat more chocolate back for more more constructive activities
e) the self confidence of knowing we achieved a really damn hard thing

and most importantly

f) the relegation of food and eating from a massive all consuming emotionally loaded running battle, to the mere necessary provision of fuel for life.

Hope you ladies have had lunch now

Icbin

Well done running for chocolate think that kind day would had me in the biscuit barrel and then feeling crap as spilt diet then eat because I spoilt it

Hi all,
Tiggy i recommend poundland for diet stuff, they di cadburys highlights 40 cals a cup for £1. If you put in a spoon of coffee it is an ok mocha with a lot less cals.
Also recommend the weight watchers caramel marshmallow wafers 55 cals each, so even if you have 2 it's not too bad.
I'm still not sure if i can diet so am doing maintenance weight calories for now. Poo!

goon loving those fabrics, makes me want to change my house (neutrals everywhere)

icb sorry you had such a crap day yesterday but glad you're fighting the binge demons. I had a crap day and am so angry with myself. I have doing so well until yesterday.

Mum and brother came for a visit. I never get on that well with them but bought some nibbles, because i thought I was strong enough to resist. Brother, who usually eats like a horse, announced he was on a diet and wouldn't eat them. So I munched through about 700 calories of nuts and crisps. Couldn't say I was on a diet because I have had years of them saying I was fat/ had a fat arse/ messy hair / horrible clothes. My mum used to say 'if I don't tell you the truth no one else will.' both have mellowed and are a lot less critical of me (I learnt to answer back) but 30 years on and I can't talk about my feelings to them and to say I too am losing weight would've led to a critical discussion of my clothes, weight etc.

The only positive thing is that I only ate 700 calories of crap, and probably left 700 calories of crap. Probably two weeks ago I would've eaten all of it!

Lunch today was a salad with a teeny bit of chorizo to flavour some white fish (yum) and then having a casserole tonight with a teeny bit of lamb and lots of vegetables.

johnny I understand completely why you cannot talk to your family about real things/ feelings. It is none of their business what you choose to eat. 700 is not going to stop you from losing weight this week. We ALL need to relax and have break every now and then. It is a constant battle for most of us on this thread not to rip open the cupboards and devour everything.

You are doing brilliantly just as you are... well done and damn the family being critical of you!

Johnny my olds are terrible too. They have never said i'm proud of you. Ever. My dad once said- you havn't made a good career, you havn't been a good mother, you havn't been a good wife ( went through a bad divorce that was not my fault!) what have you done thats worth owt! They cancelled the deposit for my wedding, refused to come when i did get married and gave my son a puppy, then took it back to the breeders while we were at school/work!!! But i still keep trying to be right with em. The stress def makes me eat more. Anyway, i took kuds to the sweetshop today. I was not good we will say no more. BUT i will not stop. Will do some excercise on the wii later and try and burn some of it off again!

So sorry to hear how people's families have treated them .

The worst I have ever had is my mums comments while shopping which were only things like don't wear red because you have ginger hair, and do wear things that accentuate massive boobs (both of which statements are crap advice btw), and the fact that my MIL used to say how well I looked like every time I saw her and then one day just ....erm...stopped.

Actually last time I saw MIL I had to tell her I was dieting because she kept trying to feed me flapjack....but she was bullied by her father as a teenager about her weight so I knew it was safe territory.

Well no mind....we are all safe here!

Yes ICBIN we are safe. I felt a bit weird when I couldn't log on for a sodding week because sky and bt are inept but I feel ok again now so I know I was missing my gang. Also I ate a right load of shite. Am going to go and weigh somewhere tomorrow and start again as I have a feeling it will not be pretty....

It's my Friday today so I have a friend coming over to drink wine with me!
Hugs to all!
ps do we like this one?

Thanks, I am feeling so much better. And enjoying the lovely smell of casserole. Put in lots of spices to make it a Moroccan style casserole. I have never really looked at calories before but I love the way you can just add a ton of mushrooms, pepper, carrots to anything and it's so low in calories and fat. Tonight I added a sweet potato too, not sure how that'll casserole but I love experimenting. I have just bought hairy bikers book too so am going to start on those recipes too.

Ps to tiggy so sorry to hear about your family, mine seem like saints in comparison. I'm sure it makes you a fantastic mum because you are a different, more encouraging parent!