Getting healthy and losing weight through the power of MOTIVATION

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Motivational Monday - where we are motivated to stick to our diet and exercise plans for the rest of the week.
Progess logged on Kato's spreadsheet (if you want to of course)
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Glad you're back IMST :)
Hair, yes that's exactly it, you shouldn't be denying yourself a mince pie at the concert! I suppose the issue for me is that I'll take the fact that I've over indulged as a reason to further over indulge :o

I intend to keep myself absolutely on track on the days I'm not doing something special and hopefully minimise the damage. I think it's almost going to be like the 5:2 thing I suppose.

Morning, its bloody chilly!

hair Mince pie is a must at a christmas concert!

I'm plodding along. I actually can't remember the last time I had a hot meal . i have a horrible feeling I'm going to be back at the docs on Monday.

On the plus side - I am now a registered business! I am officially self employed!

DH is off tomorrow so I did Friday's weigh in today...
10st 12lb
BMI 29.89 (the wii didn't say "too high" in that squeaky voice, it said "...oh!")
Today (and all days henceforth) I am not an obese person

Hi all

Norks I am easily confused when it comes to nn changes

I've decided over the festive period not to go too mad on anything but also not to expect myself to be perfect - so I'll have a bit of cake and richer than normal food. It's a treat and we've earned it. I'll aim to just not over indulge too much. That's the plan anyway.

Hair you need one mince pie. Just to get in the spirit of things though you understand

Hi IMST maybe it was our enormous virtual will power that kept crashing it for you! And well done non obese person!!

Bonkey to you still being off colour. Hope it clears up before christmas for you. Your fb page always seems very busy with lots of things being added btw - can't think where you get the time - I've done a teeny bit of jewellery making before and I was very slow.

GTG bleach the hall floor - it seems the buggy rolled through dog poo and it's all over the floor

Imst well done!
Reastie, good plan, that's what I hooe to do toounfortunately today has not been good :(

IMST Congrats! In the 10st club!

Reastie Didn't realise you were a 'fan' My ds is at school so I have the daytimes to myself and dh works a few eves in the week so I do some more then. Couldn't do as much otherwise, ds is attracted to shiny pretty things .

Five Make tomorrow a better day!

reastie :( for the dog poo.

Tomorrow is a new day Norks. :)

Huge well done to IMST who is looking slim and no one in their right minds would have put her at obese. Stupid Wii.

Anyone seen Kato? Hope she's ok. I wanted to know how the house move is going.

Hi all, sorry went awol for a bit. Still sticking to the diet but haven't had time for mumsnet (what is the world coming to?)

Hi Lardbean glad you're still with us. :)

Going to watch ds2 sing carols this morning. He's only four so tissues at the ready.

Good luck today's weighers.

Hey guys! Well it's completion day, just waiting on the phone to ring!

Oh, and another pound off despite no excercise and plenty of festive flake cakes... 10st 9!!!!

Ooh good luck Kato hope all goes smoothlyand :o at 10s9, that's fantastic

Good luck kato , and well done! :)

Fingers crossed for you Kato and well done 10s9 is fantastic!

Putting it all down to stress! We get the keys in half an hour!

Hope we stil like it haha!!

I'm sure you will!

Well done kato and good luck!

I've not weighed this week as I've not been in work. Still doing okay though I think. Christmas will be a big test for me too. Yes, one mince pie is fine but it's stopping yourself carrying on to eat the rest of the pack. Do feel quite determined at the moment though.
Still, am very at all the mentions of 10st. Well done all of you

Happy weekend everyone.
Hair and me went out last night, it took me 4 hours to drink 2 small glasses of wine. Great conversation though. It was tough staying under cals with a cinema trip (homemade plain popcorn).
Today it's a lot of ferrying the DCs between things, should keep me busy. What are you lot up to?

Well I'm finally going to get a Christmas tree today. Going to the cinema and Christmas markets tonight. I'm out on Monday too. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to manage because I still haven't caught up with sleep from working over Thursday night. Needless to say I think Monday will be a gain.

Tomorrow will be taken up with sweet making for teacher presents. The children are really looking forward to that.

Good night last night IMST but I'm feeling it now.

IMST and Hair glad you had a nice time .

I spent the afternoon cooking for the freezer ready for christmas. I'm in charge of christmas eve so I made a humungous butternut squash lasagne and we had some for our dinner tonight (for quality control purposes you understand ) and also an apricot and mincemeat streusel. Lasagne tasted delish but has heaps of full fat cheese in sauce and olive oil to fry the veg in . I didn't add extra butter to the cheese sauce though to try to cut back a little. I've been so good I'm not used to 'normal' food - it tastes so nice! I feel very guilty now as I'm bound to be way over calories with that, but putting it in perspective it's just one meals in a few months . Really hoping I can keep the will power up over the festive season now and keep losing.

Kato hope the move went well and you are nice and cosy in your new place

North I'm of 10 stone talk too - I'm around 13 stone 11 at the min so it seems like a long way to go!

LArd no time for MN?! How can this be so!

It's quiet on here lately, is that a good or a bad sign?
Hopefully we're all doing so well we don't need motivating.
People are now starting to tell me to stop losing weight, which is a bit odd as I'm still almost 2st above my "ideal" weight, and a few pounds still to go on my target weight.
I assume at some point my weight loss will tail off and I'll just need to maintain, until then I'll just keep going as I am it seems to be working somehow

I'm here!

Dh was giving me a cuddle this morning and said "Ooh you have a waist!" Good with the compliments isn't he.

Have started eating hot food again! Have had two hot meals in as many days which is a massive improvement so I am hoping I'm on my way back to normal!

How are you all!

IMST You keep going until your comfortable! My ideal weight is 9st . I was very happy and confident and thin when I was 10st and can't realistically see me getting to 9 and staying there! What is a ideal on paper isn't always ideal in rl iyswim!
You are doing really well! Be proud! :)

Hi Bonkey glad you're eating better. Hopefully you've seen the back of it now.

IMST I think a lot of that is to do with the fact you've lost so much. People don't usually have that will power so they may be worried you won't stop. It's also jealousy because let's face it, people are comfortable with someone else being overweight and you look absolutely fab now! You really, really do!!!

Well done eighty it's great that people are noticing. It gives you a real boost to carry on I think.

Well I don't know how but I've managed a 1lb loss which means I've finally joined the 10s club. 10st 13 yay!

Hope everyone else is ok.