Two stone by Xmas!

[Tweenangst]

I really need to lose four stone but thought would start with a realistic amount to lose in this time frame. Anyone up for joining me? I am sure it will be easier with others.

[redwellybluewelly]

DH decided to surprise me with a treat after my week with roasted KP peanuts and an ice cold budweiser.

It's going down a treat! I can only have two.

I also managed to do a swift weekend shop at waitrose and didnt buy any snacks. At all.

All this talk of takeaways however. ..

[2children2cats]

I made chocolate brownies for the party at the weekend and had to try one to make sure they were nice, they are but I want another!

I have also somehow managed to eat 3 bags of mccoys during the day (I am blaming dh as he bought them) so all my not eating yesterday has been negated. I find weekends so difficult to manage.

Well done on the Waitrose shop with no snacks, that is impressive.

[Vickibee]

Oh no just had two large chocolate cookies with my morn coffee and regret it

[Mum2Fergus]

I'm man/child free this weekend!! Shopping this morning was snack free...lots of fruit and veg...still carb and Diet Coke free, that's 6 days now! Still get cravings but not answered to them weigh in tomorrow...not anticipating as big a loss as week one, but can live in hope!!

[2children2cats]

Aaarrrrgggghhh my inlaws drive me mad! That is all.

[Mum2Fergus]

Wk2 weigh in and am 7lbs down in total

[2children2cats]

That is amazing mum2fergus, well done! Very jealous.

I've just done the race for life with friends and they were taking pictures- I am the fat, ugly one in all of them and they are going on Facebook.

[BitchyHen]

Afternoon everyone. I weighed in this morning and have lost 2lbs. However there is a doughnut in the kitchen that keeps calling me. I bought a pack of 4 & have been trying to feed mine to dc but no one is hungry. How's everyone doing?

[2children2cats]

Hi Bitchyhen, well done on the loss. I can't pluck up the courage to weigh myself after the weekend but I am waiting for the shopping to be delivered and it is full of healthy stuff so hopefully I can rectify the damage.

[obrigada]

Hi all, haven't read through but would love to join you all, I would like to lose 2 to 2½ stone by Christmas, weighed yesterday at 12.13lb, the heaviest I have ever been. Strangely enough I have weighed between 12st 7lb and 12st 10lb for the last 10 years regardless of what I eat but now I can see it creeping up and it's time to do something about it.

[oscarwilde]

Joining too. I need some moral support before I resort to putting a jar of mayonnaise on the radiator overnight. 2.5 stone of baby blubber to lose and stopped BFing on Saturday. Seem to have put on two lbs in two days which is not going in the direction I was hoping for. I even skipped pudding and almost all booze all weekend ? WTF?
2 stone by Christmas or I'm off to bootcamp in the spring. Might book it anyway....it would be utter hell on earth if I went in my current condition.

[Mum2Fergus]

Thanks 2C2C a good weekend diet wise (did help that DP and DS were away for a 'boys weekend')...no snacking and loads of water. Smoothie for breakfast and lunch today...have made up fruit and salad jars for lunch this week

[Rugbylovingmum]

Hi all,

after a great (5lb) weight loss last week I should be feeling really motivated this week but I can't stop nibbling - I had kept it to fruit but today I started on the cheese. It doesn't help that I'm really tired after staying up until 2am writing a job application but I still can't understand it. It's odd, I always said that I thought I could lose a stone by myself but I'd never get any further which is why I joined Rosemary Conley. Now that I have the first stone off (I've lost 1st 1.5lb so far) it's like I'm looking for excuses to give up . I've been obssessing about excess skin and thinking that I'll still look awful even if I lose the 4.5 stones I'm aiming for.

I need a good hard kick up the bum please and a reminder that the health benefits and showing my girls you can be the size you want is more important than a wobbly tummy!

[worley]

Hi.. Can I join in please?
Last year I lost three stone and this year have been completely off track since Xmas and put a stone back on :( really dissapointed with myself now. Brought so many clothes last year and cant get in them now!
Have half heartedly been using mfp on my phone and started a couch to 5 k 6 weeks ago.. But weight is static so really need something like this to boost me up on my way again.

I did look at the carb boot camp but really couldn't get my head round it all..

[FattyMcFatty]

Well done Mum2Fergus and BitchyHen!

I weighed in today and I've lost 3.5lb in my first week. Would have liked a tiny bit more in the first week because its always the easiest week - but it's well on track for 2 stone by Christmas so I'm pretty happy :)

[Mum2Fergus]

That's fab Fatty (though we need to see about that name!)...what are you doing differently?!

[FattyMcFatty]

Thanks! I joined Weight Watchers, and a gym. And, I actually managed to attend both (actually attending is the part where my plan usually fails!)

[obrigada]

Diet went well yesterday, went for a walk in the evening. Going to try and post on thread every day to keep myself focused. How is everyone else getting on?

[redwellybluewelly]

Well all was well until Friday and then Saturday, Sunday and Monday I fell right off the wagon. Its true that once you fall there's a temptation to just keep on digging downwards! Now rhe weather has changed as well I'm finding it much more difficult to drink enough water rather than tea or coffee.

However my nice new shiny scales have turned up this morning which DH ans I ordered and I've decided to try and start the C24k (couch to 5k) running programme to try and improve my fitness. A friend has also asked if I want to start a pretty intensive aquafit class as of September which I think will be brilliant for toning - itd certainly done her the world of good and she looks fab.

Now both children are asleep and I'm researching cakes for my DC1's birthday on Sunday! Torment!

[2children2cats]

Things are not going well for me, really struggling to ge in the right frame of mind. I'm similar to you redwelly in that I am normally über controlled in the week and then binge at the weekend thus negating my good work. Unfortunately this week I am struggling to be good in the week, today I have eaten a bag of kettle chips instead of lunch .
I'm wondering about signing up to slimming world online but can't really afford it (2 lots of nursery fees from September!) and I'm not sure if I would just lie to myself. I need to do something though as I seem unable to just eat healthily.

[redwellybluewelly]

2c2c I hear you. This afternoon went veey seriously pear shaped. Ive come to the conclusion that the reason I simply cannot diet after a baby is because the thought of sugary lovely sweets and desserts is quite frankly the only thing which gets me through the day.

And the baby is the easy one out of my two the three yr old is a bloody menace at the moment. I wvwn poured myself a glass of this evening because I was so damn wound up.

I do find planning foood for meals and never having nice things in the house helps. I went so far as to defrost a scone today in desperation and ate it despite it still being cold. Whoch was stupid as it was horrid!

[Titsalinabumsquash]

I've just confronted the scales.

10st 13. In 5ft for goodness sake! That 13 needs to go for a start.

I'm not sure how but for now I'm going to cut the crap and eat 3 meals a day, no ice cream, muffins, chocolate bars.

Can I join you all please?

[gintastic]

This all reads like I could have written it!

I'm 5'9" and currently weigh 13.2 needs to be more like 11.2, and doing it by Christmas would be fab! Am doing Weightwatchers, I was 14.2 so have lost a stone already, I got down to 12.12 but have had a couple of bad weeks and put some back on :-(

My major problem is the kids leftovers and stress eating! But am still bf my youngest which helps, although returning to work September, so ideally would like to be 12.7 or so by then... I've had 3 kids in 5 years and am fed up with feeling fat and lumpy all the time!

Need to dust off my running shoes, I think!

So yeah, I'm in...

[Rugbylovingmum]

Argh, I'm off to my RC class to get weighed in. Shouldn't really be going until tomorrow night but I've had a horrible week eating-wise so I've decided to get it over and done with a day early then draw a line under this week and start fresh tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed it's not as bad as I think!

[Rugbylovingmum]

Thank goodness, I've only put on half a pound. Much better than I thought it might be (although I think that the woman doing the weigh in was a bit shocked about how happy I was). Back on with it properly this week!