MOTIVATION through the power of non scales victories

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All welcome :) losing weight and being healthy through the power of motivation (particularly on Mondays)

Also, I wanted to see if any of you guys would be interested in some pairs of M&S 5 pocket jeggings in size 14? I only wore some a handful of times! I'd say they are a bigger 14 but I'd love to give first refusal to you lot, free to good home, maybe just pay the postage?

Ohh kato I'd love them if no one else here grabs them. I'm a size 16 though so not sure if they'd be too small??

Reastie I'm sure they'll be fine, I'm now a 12/14 and they are very loose around the bum and thighs, I can get a whole hand down the back! They have a lot of stretch so I'm sure they'll be fine, if not they will be soon! PM me your address and I'll try and get them sent this weekend! x

Just pmed you kato . Wowsers to the gym person saying you're very fit.

How is everyone else doing? Haven't been able to workout since Tuesday as having all our windows replaced and the whole house is upside down with mess and dust and I don't really fancy doing my workout DVD in front of the workmen doing the windows

I'm back from the land that Wifi forgot, glad to see you've been doing well in my absence.
If I'm lucky I will have maintained on Monday, lots of cake/pie/crisps/wine but also lots of walking up hills etc to balance it out.
I have a great tan, which is more than I expected from a week in the Conwy Valley.

Got my family up this weekend for my grandads birthday (he's 90) Big celebrations tonight....I'm so weak....will struggle a maintain this week.....

Happy motivational Monday everyone. I notice I'm the only one to have logged my weight the past 2 weeks. Come on peoples, don't let me be the only one!

1lb down this week.

Finally got a compliment from DH yesterday. He called me a 'little wifey' and that I look very good at the minute. Not an amazing compliment but from DH this really is something!

dr how did the birthday celebrations go?

IMST walking up hills burns loads of calories so hopefully you'll be fine, and IMO you need to have a bit of a relaxed attitude to everything on holidays anyway. Glad the weather was good for you. We went to Wales a few years ago and it rained ALL week

Sorry, I was away last week, I'll log this week later (once DCs are at school).

Ok, weighed, 8st 13lb!
Those 10 mile walks up and down hills were worth it then.

reastie caloriffic!!! put the diet on hiatus for the celebrations so expected to gain, but maintained. Will have to work super hard this week and get back on it.

Hello, had to pop on with my good news NSV today. Got at least 4 comments on how nice my skirt was (it's an old pre preg one) and at least 3 'wow, you've lost lots of weight' or 'you're looking very slim' comments too [happy] . Hurray! However, whenever I tell people (only if they ask) I've lost over 5 1/2 stone people seem to look at me in disbelief and say they can't work out where I hid it as I look like I've lost weight but not that much IYKWIM. So, I'm debating whether I somehow hid all that weight better than I thought or if I still look bigger than I think , or maybe they're just being nice...

dr excellent work on the maintain

IMST it's amazing how many calories you burn walking up hills!

wow reastie bet that put a spring in your step.

It's a pb for amount of compliments in one day dr

Where is everyone??? Word seems to have spread around work about how much weight I've lost, I had one of senior management actually stop me to talk to me about it today (she usually ignores everyone!). Am loving the compliments which for some reason are coming thick and fast at the minute. I went on the global fat scale today and have gone from fatter than Tsonga (is that a country or a tennis player? I'm not sure but you know what I mean - the heaviest country in the world) to a few countries above UK. I'm nearly average for my age woop woop. Still a stone until I'm healthy BMI though.

Gosh, sorry that sounds a bit self boasting and I really don't mean it that way, just nice to share here. Hope everyone is doing well.

IMST I see the book is nearly ready to go. How has the feedback been?

kato can I give you any money for the jeans?

wow reastie

dr how are your doing this week after your party last week end?

Not so bad. kept within my allowed calories attempted running (yet again) I'm glad I stuck with it though it's definitely getting easier.

Well done DrD,
Reastie, feedback on the book is great, I got the finalised book cover design today, it's perfect!
I wore a red polka dot fifties-style dress today, and got lots of compliments on it from various sources. I haven't done the global fat scale for a while, I was fatter than 99% of the world back at the start of my weight loss, last I looked I was fatter than under 50% of the UK (which was nice).

Thanks imst I bet that dress looked fabulous!!! and your book, how exciting!!!! never done the global fat scale (though I do know I have an arse the size of a small African country ), might try it.

Well, I was Tonga, am now Samoa so I suppose that's progress of sorts

Dr that's fab progress. I was like IMST - off the scale and bigger than Tonga. to your comment on your bum comment. Not true anymore though

IMST love the sound of your dress. I heart fifties style dresses. Did you make it yourself? Glad the front cover is all sorted on the book. Did you do it yourself or get someone to do it for you?

Bit of a rubbish day. Have had IBS and headache today and generally feeling low in motivation. Eating far too much chocolate and no exercise. Hopefully being good the rest of the week will be enough for at least a maintain this week though [hopeful] . I still find it weird that I'm now 9 lbs lighter than my wedding weight but half of my tops still don't fit me. Maybe my rib cage has expanded and never gone down from pg or maybe it's just my huge belly overhang that won't shift

Reastie, hope you're feeling better. I found when I was losing weight it stayed on my chest for ages then all seemed to come off at once.
The dress is from Dorothy Perkins, it was in the sale then another 20% off so I got it for about £20. Not worth making it when I can buy that cheaply.
I spent yesterday weeding the hedge at the scout hut. 8 hours of pulling up and burning ground elder and horsetail, then a well earned onion Bhaji as a reward! I'll weigh in tomorrow, see how it goes. Hopefully a maintain.

Wow IMST fab dress bargain . Well done to the weeding, 8 hours of that has got to burn alot I think.

Well, another lb down this week . Actually, this morning I was 11 13.5 - can't believe I'm nudging into the 11 stones. I actually had to double take as I thought for a second the scales were doing a malfunction sign I hadn't seen before . I'm counting 12 stone 1 as my official weigh in weight though as that's what I've been in general the past few days, so I'm thinking the 11 reading may be a bit over zealous.

How are the weigh ins going?

8st 12 today, still pretty much maintaining (though I lost 1lb this week, I'm sure it'll be back next week). I now love how I look in clothes, and enjoy choosing clothes from the front of the display rails instead of the back. If only my clothes budget could keep up with my need for clothes that fit my new shape. Hopefully my book will keep me in enough pennies once I upload it!

Got my weigh in in the morning..... eek. Have been really good this week though.
Congrats on the results so far.