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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Hi babyweight. Love the name.

We're a friendly bunch and all weights are welcome here. You don't have to post your weight if you don't want to.

Jump right in and we can give you support, ideas, encouragement, a few recipes or a kick up the bum if you need it.

How much do you want to lose?

Oh and happy birthday to your ds. :)

Bonkey, it's our 11th anniversary.
Off topic but it's got me worried:
DS has been having blank moments lately and I started a thread. Pretty much unanimously folk mentioned absence seizures so I booked a Drs appointment for next week. Someone suggested looking on YouTube for footage of absence seizures, and I watched quite a few. I wasn't too worried before, but they looked exactly like DS's spacing out.
Serves me right for looking on the Internet I suppose.

IMST I've finally found your thread. Have commented on there.

thanks, hair

Brief summary:

A generous 4.5 stones overweight (which I realised, is the weight of my nearly 9 year old daughter. I keep picking her up in disbelief, Shurely Nawt?)

Long history of emotional eating. Assorted flirtations with eating disorders. Complete loss of all rational thinking, been and done every diet possible, manage to lose about 10lbs every year or so, put it all back on with some friends to keep them cosy.

Now, high bp, high cholesterol, bit of a fright with some chest pain - all cleared, but really, the fact of the matter is, I Am Too Fat.

Used to be quite fit (though, fat) and I do quite like exercise. I joined the gym on a 12 day pass before Christmas, loved the first 6 days, then the kids got the assorted bugs...

And, there's the rub. One of our kids has ongoing admissions to hospital. DH is lovely, but a little acopic with drama. I get lonely. So, I eat.

To be fair, I also eat to celebrate, because I'm busy, because I'm bored, because I'm tired, because, becasue, because.

Anyhoo - have made myself a "portion plate" at the ceramic painting place.

Am going to fast 2 days a week (rather like not having to think about it at all!)

Am going to do an exercise class x2 a week, increasing as I get fitter.

Am going to be kind to myself.

Ah. Summary not so brief, it seems...

Hmm, struggling to actually find a nice dress for not much money :(

Have a thread in Style and Beauty so hopefully someone will be along soon to advise me.

My friend loves vintage stuff so if I was to find a vintage dress she'd be thrilled!

It sounds like you're organised and determined this time babyweight. The philosophy on here seems to have developed into having a bad day or week does not mean give up. It means get back on it. :)

Lollipop style and beauty scares me but I'll try and find your thread. Try and forgive me if I don't post though.

Well, that's a philosophy that will help me enormously.

Or rather, help me not be enormous...

Frock, lollipop have no idea. Hours and luck in charity shops/ebay? Dressmake?

ooo I quite liked doing that 5:2 one..could only manage it when fast days were work days, and not the same days that I rode to work or i'd feel weak and dizzy by midday. May have another go at it now i've been reminded, Thank you!

Baby that certainly sounds like an ambitious list and I'm a soppy git but the most important is the last one

I think as long as you do very little in fast days your ok.

Try and do anything to strenuous and you will feel it quickly and be more.likely to grab the first thing you see and shiver it in your.mouth without thinking!

I thinkvthe key is to work out you 500? call sensibly

OK, sharing something motivational for a Think positive Thursday - I tried on one of my pre preg dresses this morning, as I do periodically to see how much more I have to go and how much I've progressed. Last time the dress went on but only half did up. Today it only blinking well did up the whole way . I feel on top of the world. OK it was way too tight to actually wear but it shows I'm getting perilously close to actually wearing some of my pre preg clothes.

Yay Reastie! Just think, next month that dress will be a bit loose.
NSVs are great!

Well done reastie. That's brilliant. :)

NSVs?

that's brilliant reastie :)

NSV=Non Scale Victory: an achievement not measured by reduced mass, such as fitting into smaller clothes, or running for the bus without getting out of breath.

Hi
well, managed 3 days so far, not brilliantly, but have avoided the grazing and snacking which is my undoing.
Every time I walk into the kitchen I nibble. NOT ANY MORE

but yesterday I was Soooo hungry all morning, tummy growling, simply starving. I had had a good breakfast, so couldn't understand why. Met my friend for a coffee and she offered to buy my lunch. This is a rare treat so I said yes and we had a lovely pizza lunch. Mine was with rocket and it was like a salad on a pizza and lovely. I am hoping it wasn't too disastrous.

Smaller portions seem to be OK too (well except for the pizza). I am not feeling hungry during the evening (to busy on the computer) so that is good.

reastie, everytime I read your name I want to say roastie
love the idea of trying on old clothes periodically. I have a beautiful long black dress that was tailor made for me when I lived in Asia. My goal would be to fit in to it again, but I would need to be a small 16 and now I am size 20.

Thanks IMST.

Don't beat yourself up about the pizza steppemum just keep going from today. I still get days when I just feel starving and then it comes down to making good choices to try to fill yourself up. Try an egg then. They are brilliant for making you feel full.

I love that I almost sound like I know what I'm doing. It's all because of this thread really. The first week I started I almost had a complete melt down over half a chocolate digestive. I've allowed myself to relax a bit about things like that and the whole thing became less of a trauma. :)

Bravo reastie! And IMST great news about the size 10, not so great about your son, but here's hoping its nothing serious.

Had a positively angelic breakfast of mango, orange and grapes. Today is my first day at home by myself so I'm constantly reminding myself not to snack. Hopefully when I get on the scales on Monday morning they'll be kind and provide some motivation to get through next week!

IMST I meant to say I hope you get some answers, must be very worrying in the meantime. x
I am doing so well but today feels like a binge day. Hmmm.

Happy to have found this thread. Am "fasting" today - but was really, genuinely hungry at breakfast so had some yogurt, a banana and some nuts - and an obligatory cup of caffeine.

Now STARVING! But, I've got a heap of emails to do and then some chores out and about. Then, about 5, I'll have a really nice lentil soup thing I made with proper stock.

Have decided some aims:

I'm setting up a small business, I do a bit of stand up comedy and am using that with my job as a physio - and have applied for a venue to run it as a show in this year's Fringe.

Now, who wants to be a bloater on stage? No one.

So, in Feb I have an interview thingie hoping to land a corporate event.

In March there's a big comedy competition I've entered.

In May there's a womens' health conference that I'm hoping to get a gig at.

Fringe show in August.

So, that breaks down some aims for me - easy squeezy?

If I lost four pounds a month (would hope for more, but I need to forget that sort of thinking - I've tried it for 20 years and am now accepting that It Doesn't Work) then I'd be at least a dress size smaller by May.

I can do that. I think.

Really, I don't want to be as fat as this in August. Practice what you preach and all that.

Morning.

SPB If you need a day off, then have one but think before you act!!!

Blood tests for me tomorrow which means a fast from 8 tonight.
appetite has completely gone again in the last day and even though I am shattered I can't bloody sleep! I think i got 4 hours last night :(
I am hoping that with the snow on the way it will get cold enough to kill of all the bastard germs!

Well done Reastie ! :)

Sounds like everyone is doing well!

oh Bonkey I hope you get some answers tomorrow. You have really suffered.

mybaby, i thought your posts sounded...funny..can't think of a better way to put it and that sounds like a really stupid thing to say!
What's the women's health conference if you don't mind me asking? I work in a related field and so might be able to wangle a visit and see you (not just that though - it might be relevant/useful)

Well done reastie. Such a good feeling when clothes fit better.
I went out for a meal last night and had extra veg with a chicken dish, rather than potatoes so felt proud of myself and so much less stuffed afterwards.
Today's been good so far.
SPB it helps me if I plan what I'm going to have, including protein snacks between meals (eg carrot sticks & hummus, an apple and a few nuts). Keep the faith!

SPB - it's midwifey thing

It's actually not that expensive to exhibit, but, I'm fond of my brass neck and am hoping they'll let me do something for no cash on the basis that there's no one else stupid enough to have one of these

be careful, it's a graphically birthing crocheted doll

props to demonstrate what a prolapse actually is...

Looks like a really good conference. Though, it could do with some scatalogical humour, mind, most things could IME.

northender - that's what I'm missing - discomfort from being stuffed. I rather like it still!