So.. the time has come to stop stuffing my fat face and getting pissed!!!

[Runnerlegs]

I havent just gone wild this Christmas, I have gone wild since November!!! I am now heavier than the days I gave birth.

So, it STOPS now! I am off to Centre Parcs with the kids in 8 weeks and I CANNOT expose the general public to my 'exploded sofa' body!

Going to aim to lose a stone in 8 weeks... please please will you support me and put up with my ramblings about wanting a takeaway and wine?

Thanks Lizzy, well done on getting a good healthy shop in- whilst getting my shopping this week a multipack of galaxy ripples 'accidentally' fell in my trolley...and I had to eat them (not all in one go- I'm not that bad )

Runner.. Happens :). Back to it.

Smoking cessation advice is (I think): Never give up giving up. I think dieting is the same. Last yr I did MFP -restricted food & increasing exercise to earn a glass of wine etc. I lost slowly -lb a week? I felt like I was constantly restricting food and fighting urge to treat myself.

I'd have one lapse and lose only the lb and feel I should have lost lots more which demoralised me more.

The slow loss demoralised me so much that I'd decided I can't lose weight

Although I'm only just into the overweight part of BMI chart I'm 2 stone more than I'd like to be.

Drew a line this Christmas. Pigged out without worrying and then started last Monday. I'm using slim fast which I'd always thought of as cheating but tbh is really helping. Two shakes a day which fill me up and then a meal. It's stopping me snacking. I seem to get my head around no bad snacks with no food. Evenings are worse time for me.

Runner, had to laugh at drunk you trying to fool sober you!
Cabbage, I am really loving mfp, but I do know what you mean. I think the key is finding what works for you. We are all different, different lifestyles, eating triggers etc.
Am feeling like I have my head on the right place re. Eating and exercise for once. Prob just the fear of turning 40!!!

Lizzy- turn 40 next year and really don't want to be a fat 40! It isn't even like a dose of stress would help me as I have enough of that to make me a size 0 for life...sadly stress makes me eat! Eeh it's a bloody hard life!

I desperately need to exercise! I just feel too ashamed to start at a class!

Fear of turning 50 here

Struggled today. Felt hungry when I woke. 2 shakes, one soup & salad later and DD has brought chocs home from her dad and is offering to me Give me will power or her speed of eating please.

Bad day here too.

Right, am starting in earnest tomorrow. Had a lunch booked Sat so knew I would be naughty, and have been busy finishing off xmas chocs, but all gone now and back on to mfp in the morning. Anyone who has lapsed, get up, dust yourself down and get back on the bike in the morning! We can do this!

I've lost 5lbs I think since starting. Hard to tell as scales are dodgy and I took my boots off (might have been wearing first time?). Like Sandwitch I anticipate a slowing up now. First week is often good as your body reels in shock and after Christmas it's really reeling!

It's motivating me though.

Friends over tomorrow night. :-/. I always do nibbles and crisps and wine.... Or cake and tea. Will need stiffening resolve to fight that.

Could you have a small spritzer and some pretzels? Well done on your loss so far!

Anyone done the couch to 5k thing?!?! I am thinking that I need to lug this fat old body around a bit as I now look like a chair let alone sit in one a lot!!

Does it work/kill?

I've done couch to 5K and then progressed to a 10K and a half marathon. Looooooooooved running. Really loved it. I can't now due to childcare and injuries. My recommendations are get good proper running shoes (v expensive but worth it and get fitted in proper running shop) and build slowly. Don't try and run too far or too fast. C25K is great for making you do just that.

I toned up but didn't notice huge weight loss - having said that my shape trimmed down a lot.

I am excited then... although I am sooo out of shape I think that I will struggle with the brisk walk at the start!!! Wish me luck, start tomorrow

Enjoy! iPod, gloves if its cold and away you go.

Hi everyone, wow! some of you have been busy with the weight loss

I had a great weekend, but as expected I was more than a little bit bad I did my best to limit the damage (did not touch the canapés!) but plenty of wine and fine food to keep me entertained

I have decided not to weigh myself until Wednesday so will see how the week has gone as a whole.

Am writing this on my new Nexus 7 - I think I am in love

Morning!
Have lost 1lb this week, so 4lb in total. been exercising like a bastard and really sticking to diet so was a bit about just 1lb, but hey ho, all going in right direction.

I used to run a lot and found my bum and thighs really trimmed down. Must get back to it!

Well done Lizzy. These things usually go in fits and starts, but it all adds up. Weigh in day for me on Friday. Hoping for a couple of pounds, haven't been an angel this week but have definitely cut back. Just back from a long walk with the dog - its minus 4 out there - surely that has got to kill some fat!

Well it is my weigh in tonight and I am not excited about it at all. The drunken hiding of crisp packets will no doubt humiliate me on the scales! I've been tea total since though so even 1lb off will be a blessing!

Well done to all of you LOSERS so far! [finger sign L on forehead]

Good luck Runner!

You have been working hard Lizzie - agree about you should have lost more. I haven't lost anything further which is a bit disappointing but that first week was unlikely to continue. I've been struggling in the evenings. Famished, bored and tired. Dangerous combination.

A bottle of red shared with a friend over the weekend but nothing else.

Jeans are looser

Hope weigh in went well Runner

I've just weighed myself and taking heavy fleece with phone in pocket and boots off I've lost 2lb.

Well done on losses everyone. Not looking forward to weigh in this week

Hope your weigh-in went well Runner.

Well done Cabbage ? 2lb loss is great.

2lb loss for me too. Not bad considering that the weekend was so bad. I really need to get some exercise in. Thinking about doing C25K ? am going to download the podcast this weekend and perhaps have a go on Saturday?

Need to stay focused this weekend

4lb loss here.... there is a God!

Already panicking about the weekend as a new curry house has opened in the village that DH is adamant we try!

Dry tikka anyone?

Well done losers!!!
Drunken crisp eating for me this weekend then!!
Tikka/tandoori with chapatis are what I have at curry houses (when being good!)
Normally washed down with loads of booze though

Well done runner and sandwitch. Struggling again tonight. The nights are my worst time. I know you shouldn't weigh daily but it's keeping me going motivation wise - even if I don't lose, I can see what I have lost. There will reach a time when I cannot take off anymore clothes to make the scales shift however

I'm away next weekend and will have one day when I cannot avoid eating 'out' at lunchtime and evening. Bit worried that I'll lose the ability to restrict my food if I have one day off. I know what I'm like. Starving gets easier the longer I do it I think. (Having said that I'm fighting the urge to scoff left over choc biscuits and crisps in the cupboard)