NOW or NEVER, NO EXCUSES thread Part 3

[CheckpointCharlie]

Ooooooohhhh, that's exciting, and a bit of an honour, I feel like the Leader!

Good point, I like your thinking, but I don't like those people!

Tortoise today is another day

Do you think Yiu went for that because was hungry ? And it's just easy to grab tea time /evenings are my hardest struggle I'm tired and had enough by then I taken to going to bed away from good a d reading my kindle

Checkpoint

That's what I miss is cheese !! How long till April when will have . Hope dd is feeling better

Icb

Yes that must be tough being at someone else house and not in control of what's eaten Ideally I like to loose 2 stone by Easter

Yesterday was a bad day for me too. Started really well with chicken salad at lunchtime then ate cheese, pâté, lots of bread, jacket potato and Xmas pudding!

I'm finding it so hard to get back to 'normal' pre Xmas food. Only four days til weigh in, need to focus on that.

Gah! I have such a massive sugar/salt hangover! Either that or I am getting someone elses new years eve hangover....

Oh well I had a sneaky weigh in this morning and am back down to within a couple of pounds of pre-xmas so it wasn't the massive pig out it might have been, and was mostly the salt/water bounce.

Honestly, my DM knew I was dieting but insisted on not just one but two cooked meals every day we were there. I am not good at only having a bit...I am losing weight by strictly eating certain things that I know are on budget - I have not yet mastered eating the right amount on autopilot (and am pretty certain this may never be possible). grrrr

Sugar / salt hangover. I just had a chocolate so I'm in no danger of getting one of those yet.

I find it hard at other people's too icb. When i'm at home I give myself small portions and i feel full afterwards. But when I'm out I still want to eat everything on the plate. I am getting better, on Sunday we went to a restaurant and I only had about 1/3 of a portion of chips so that was one highlight in a fortnight of greed and gluttony.

I try to set myself targets at restaurants, in my head, 'you can only eat one piece of bread' or '4 chips'. Sometimes it works or I may go a little over (and sometimes i eat all the bread) but i do find it helps me to focus. It's terrible I feel like all my friends have control built in to their system and I am inwardly rationing myself - I could never tell them!

Icb/johnny

It's only way I can do it is to be in strict control of what I eat and weigh everything .

Once I get there then will loosen up a bit but don't want to derail self at the moment so will keep on track till April when will have few days of I also find this resets my metabolic rate to

Johnny

Think all the yummy Xmas food left over is so hard to advoid

We doing Tuesday or Mondays aa weigh in ?

So far today I've had a strawberry and yog cereal bar, pain au chocolat and a can of minestrone soup.

I had pasta Bolognese and veg for dinner tonight. Burnt my tongue on the broccoli!
Had a bowl of mint choc chip ice cream after to try and soothe the tongue. Helped for a little while lol.

Trying not to think about food at the moment. Fighting the urge to raid the cupboard.

Oh are we changing weigh day?? I quite liked Mondays...it has that whole "you can't afford to screw up over the weekend" feel.

I went swimming tonight and am still sneezing chlorine snot out of my face. On the plus side I swam further than ever before (nb still only 250 meters) and knocked 15 secs off personal best for 25m (nb when you start off taking more than a minute this is easy). also on the plus side, no Miranda style events either - although a random block kept trying to talk to me which was odd....now I know all about his back problems and have absolutely nothing to do with the information.

On the minus side I am fecking STARVING....

Icb I'm sticking with Monday weigh in .
I'm hungry too. Snacked on an apple instead of raiding cupboard.

Really should just go to bed. I have a headache and feel so low and grumpy.

oh and well done on the swimming . I love swimming but no pool nearby that I can get to.

It is possible I meant bloke not block, but then again...

swimming is a very expensive form of exercise...particularly when you can only survive for 250 meters or so.

It's at least 2p a meter more expensive than jogging...and on that note I am really going to bed.

Jogging would kill my knees, swimming wouldn't!
I'm in bed but can't get to sleep. My tummy is rumbling!

Monday weigh in for me too. It makes me eat better on weekends.

I finally had a good day. Just had one chocolate and half a biscuit and then salad and soup. I have also discovered mini babybels do a cheddar version (always found the normal one a bit plasticky) so I had one of those as a treat. 70 cals so a lot for something so small but normally I'd eat hundreds of calories of cheese.

Impressed that you went swimming icb, I'm sure you looked fab to have a random 'block' chat you up!

tortoise good willpower. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

Monday here to was just not sure if people did Tuesday or last week was a just a start day

Icb

Swimming makes me Seotember hungry and glad no Miranda events

Tortoise I find sometimes drinking pint if water fools my stomache . I often go up bed early then away Fron food and temptation .but it does get easier first couple of weeks ate the hardest while your stomach shrinks down

And I should obviously have coffee in morning before posting sheesh typos and auto correct not good combination

I drink lots of water throughout the day already . Finally got to sleep around 4am! Gave in and had a pain au chocolat at 3. Will count that as breakfast and not eat till lunch time. Will have 2 boiled eggs again I think.
I don't know what to have for dinner though.

Hello, yes let's leave it as Mondays was just because of new years eve this week.
Am feeling positive today, the sun is shining, dd slept through the night and we have some friends coming over later for fajitas (low fat sour cream!) so all is good. And DH is off work so I can find lots of jobs for him!

Stick to it everyone, the weekend will be tough but we are in in for the long haul!!!

2 eggs for lunch. They are in date but tasted slightly weird compared to the 2 week out of date ones I had the other day. Also had some new cracker crisps.

Dinner will be a really exciting WW ready meal

oh god I am so hungry....

Still pizza tonight! I have 2/3rd of an sburys italian spinach and riccotta clocking in at 600 kcals. Not bad I think given you feel full of pizza all evening :)

DD has the other 3rd and DH has one to himself. This is helping to maintain the me lighter than him state of affairs!

Gosh that is very restrained! DH is two stone lighter than me, and he is 6ft 3 I am winning though, had baked potato with half a veg pot and salad for lunch. Am getting hungry now though so might go and eat some fruit!

Will be having wine later though!

Only thing I can say is it bedtime yet !! not hjngry just tired and coffee and or water does not seem to help with it in same way I'm sure chocolate would

Restrained on pizza I'm impressed

I've had 2 bottles of Budweiser and a little bottle of French lager . In my defense, dp was here and he's much more of a drinker than me but got me a bottle when he got himself a can (i bought some Guinness for him to drink when here over Xmas but he's only been round once).

Ooh pizza, hope you enjoyed it icb 600 cals isn't bad for a filling meal.

I had a really good day but am now hungry so in bed so I might have a banana. Managed 1300 cals but mainly through healthy food apart from 4 squares of bournville chocolate and 2 bits of shortbread for breakfast veg soup, carrot and cucumber sticks, hummus, salad etc.

checkpoint fajitas sounds yummy, think I might do that next week but without a lb of grated cheese added . I love hearing what you're all eating, makes me excited about food again.

oh poo, I've just eaten 3 caramel rocky bars .

Out shopping with dds tomorrow so lots of walking and will not buy food out for me.