Chiefs Randalling on to svelteness

[Lizzylou]

Hola.
Thought we needed a new thread
Last day at work for me

Well done Bssh on only gaining 1lb holiday weight, am hoping to emulate this!

Well my DH has just said I don't look scrawny or gaunt at all, nor tired-looking (which is my biggest fear). So perhaps I'll soldier on... Besides, I'm bound to put on weight at Christmas so it should all balance out.

Randall you look fantastic. Agree, so pretty. And curvy in all the right way. And I also have to pause for a moment in awe of the amount you lost.

Seeing as how we're veering towards a more serious tone at the moment... Chiefs, when and why did you put on the weight? In my case, it was being stranded in a new country in a difficult relationship with my DP, not working (no work permit) and feeling lonely and isolated with my DS. No friends, no landline to even CALL my friends, stuck in a ghastly White Mischief, ex-pat, frankly racist world of coffee mornings and tennis games. I cant say life is a picnic now but I am perpetually grateful for how much better things are for me now. And you?

XDH and I separated when DS was 4mo.
That was 2 years ago this December.

I wasn't in a very good place for the first year.
I was a size 14 anyway but that's when the worst of it piled on.

I'm still not in a good place tbh but I'm not fat anymore so it's a start!

I'd always been around 11 stones most of my adult life. It's the weight I felt most comfortable at. I love food, love eating and have surrounded myself with similar people. I rarely weighed myself - sometimes for many years. Then after DD was born and I returned to work, 11 stones crept up to 15 stones. Simply a love of eating, in my case - simple as that.

Thanks for the welcome, people

Randall, I have to say those pictures show an incredible difference. Good work!

Bssh - glad to hear someone else is an evening eater. I know all that stuff about breakfast being important etc etc, but I just hate eating in the morning. And the evening is my problem time (settled on sofa, marking to do etc) so it seems to make sense to keep calories for then.

How did I get this size? I've always been around a 12 /14. Then when I was 27, I passed my driving test. A lot crept on. Plus I developed an 'I want it now, so I'll have it now kind of attitude', and that didn't help. Plus staffrooms tend to be quite food focused - sharing cakes things people have brought in, commenting on each others lunches etc.

I was always a bit on the fat side I suppose. Bad eating habits, shared houses etc post University. Put on weight with DD. But it got a lot worse around 5 years ago. Stressful job, really long hours, bullying boss, not very happy - too much food and wine for relaxation and connecting with the nice people in my life. Have now changed job and taking control. Slow progress but I'm happier. All of us taking positive steps to deal with stuff should be proud even if we're not quite where we want to be yet.

To be honest i just didn't really notice.

I was 199lbs the day after DS4 was born and felt big then.

I lost about 50 lbs for our wedding.

I put some back on.

On the superficial side, I really like cakes, beer, wine and didn't move enough or eat enough protein. I live with 5 blokes who can eat what they want and I can't.

On the deeper side. I didn't really think I was capable of size 10 I guess. My 20s and early 30s I was in an abusive relationship - I stopped doing things I liked, like sport, and concentrated on surviving. This last 8 years has been about getting me back. And the exercise was the final piece in the puzzle. I now prioritise me, my food and time to myself to exercise. And I've discovered I am a size 10 and I love sport. and I like cake and beer

Chiefing gave me focus and support.

I'm baaack...for good this time! Finally have Internet, it's bloody slow but will apparently be up to speed in a couple of days (not sure I believe this bit it's a million times better than no Internet).

Tomorrow I will catch up with the thread.

Hope everyone is okay, I have missed you all very much. Motivation has slipped a little bit still hanging in there. However may not hit target by next month but won't be too far off.

In answer how did I put the weight on.....for me it was something that happened while trying to conceive,getting pregnant and miscarrying. Each time I put more weight on, then when I was pregnant with dd I was so scared to move that I put on a lot of weight. Tbh I only managed to get my head around losing weight once I had finally accepted there would be no more babies. Finally I'm in a pretty good place with it all.

Going to weigh tomorrow as I haven't for well over a week. Back onto the Chief wagon with a vengeance!

It's good to be back

Welcome back SDP!

Welcome back Sylv, good to see ya

Yo Sylv

Oh dear.....5lb up. How could this happen when I've had the lurgy for the last 10 days? Still I can shift that with 3 fasts this week. Strict portions and weighing everything commences today.

Just shows how much I need MFP still. Can't be bloody trusted on my own!

So off I trot to mfp now. Any new chiefs add me please (SDPouncer) and feel free to whoop my ass.

Hey SDP
I too have some internet issues, bloody BT.

Randall you look amazing, what a transformation. You star.

Hope all are ok, have got back on MFP, stopped drinking vino and am fasting today. Got into some very bad habits due to move. Wine is for weekend only. No more cheese and biscuits. Enough cake!

Hope everyone is ok.

Well I've only been eating better 2 weeks and I can already fit into my 'short shorts' :D

One bad thing though... constipation! I think eating so healthily has been a shock to my system, GP says so anyway. Had to see him today as I've been in AGONY. sorry tmi but...

Fasted today but think I blew it with 2 slices of pizza when I finally got home. When I picked up dd she was running a temperature and after a meltdown at the Dr surgery (and several attempts to get her to do a wee sample) we have antibiotics. BUT whoever made them aniseed flavour needs their head read....how many 3 year olds like aniseed? Now waiting for results to come back on Friday.

So it was takeaway pizza for dinner as it was so late, ds hadn't eaten and was unbearable. Could have been worse though. Had dd not been sick over me I would have eaten more.

Sorry to hear about the blockages strumpetron. Plenty of prune juice for you I think!

My Internet is still slow lizzy, I just don't have the patience to talk to BT at the moment. Total crapness.

Right, off to log on mfp and see the damage...

SDP great to see you!

I put on 3lb over half term but that was from my absolute low. I've been coldy and headachey and haven't felt like dieting for the last week, so my mojo has gone a bit. DH and I have also been out a bit, away for half term and then ferrying kids about this weekend so exercise fell by the wayside a bit - though made my swimming lesson on Thurs and managed to keep up.

In answer to why am I here... Fat child, put on diets on and off, lost lots of weight at 11 and was roundly praised for it, whacked on loads more as a teen, lost shitloads at about 16 and became anorexic (though was 7.5st at 5'7", tbh there are plenty 17yos that size although I do have a very large frame and very visible cheekbones, collarbones and ribcage so poss looked worse than it was, anyway, had to have outpatient treatment for a bit).

Recovered, although i developed a terrible bingeing hanit in the process which is not uncommon in recovering anorexics. Went to uni at 10.5st, met DH and picked up his real ale and junk habit, went up to 16st, graduated, back down to 12st where I stayed for 8 years through playing sport and vaguely calorie counting. Although still with the bingeing habit and the odd throwing up session on top (sorry if TMI).

Got married. Got pregnant. Let rip on the cake. Whacked on 4 stone (16st OMG) lost 1 stone, got pregnant again, put on 1.5st (16.5st OMG OMG), lost 1 stone. Started chiefing, lost about 10lb.

It is going. Slowly. But my body and mind are sick of all this and so I have to be so careful as it's very easy for me, at the merest hint of deprivation, to slip back into the binge-get fat-diet-feel deprived-binge more cycle. Yet basic physics dictates that to be thinner (as I need to be, to be healthy) I need to diet to some degree. This is why I had to give up on 5:2, although it is a totally brilliant diet if you aren't a complete fuckup like me

Congrats to anyone who made it through the above me-me-meing, btw. The chiefs have been a brilliant support, and even though I'm not very good at dieting any more, it's made such a difference to have you all here

at the aniseed antibiotics for 3-year-olds btw SDP I feel your pain as I was given syrup of figs (figs, cloves, other spices) for my nearly 3yr old DD. I'm sure it does work, but...

Lizzy are you straight yet in the house?

Strump congrats and on the short shorts

randall those pics are amazing. I must say you carried 15st extremely well, but there is no mistaking that you have lost shitloads so away with your talk of fat ears. Fat ears my fat arse. You look stones and stones thinner as indeed you are. Swit, and indeed swoo.

Oh Buzzy, I had no idea of what you had been through.
I really don't know what to suggest, it is such a fine line between dieting and being healthy and becoming obsessed isn't it? I briefly did the throwing up thing. The skinniest I have ever been is as a student, smoking 20-40 Marlboro lights a day, drinking shedloads and throwing up my one meal of the day. I have always been taller and broader than my friends, naturally more sedentary and bigger really.
As an adult, I am very much feast or famine, pretty much always trying to get the quick win and lose weight fast. Since discovering exercise I have found it easier to feel better in my own skin.

Buzzy have you ever tried Slimming World? I lost loads on that post dc (I put on c4/5 stone with each child, another reason there will be no more babies here), found it easy and very much non stressy once I had my head round it all.

Blimey buzzy, I know you've mentioned before that you'd had ishoos in the past but bloody hell. You are one strong woman to come out the other side of all that and be able to talk about it so objectively.

I can definitely see why 5:2 wouldn't be good for you. I think if you're in any way prone to the binge/purge cycle it would be very easy to use the feast days to overly splurge then use the fast days to punish yourself.

I think slow and steady is definitely the way forward for you.

(Thank you for the compliment btw, I've been building up the courage to post pictures for a while but kept chickening out!)

How's the house feeling Lizzy, still dreamy?!

Just to add to the chorus buzzy - wow, I had no idea. We're all Chiefs together: Go Chief!

I bought a size 8 Dorothy Perkins mini skirt today. Chuffed is an understatement. Size 18/20 to size 8/10. Loving it!

Hello :)
I have just this morning downloaded the mfp app. I only have 1/2 st to lose ASAP but am struggling to lose it. The app has calculated 1210 cal per day, does that sound right? I put in everything i ate yesterday and it was just on the daily limit. Hope you don't mind me just jumping in here and asking stupid questions

just realised my name might look odd here - i was brafullofcrumbs but got awarded slimjimbra when i was on the sw thread where i lost 3st 10lb. Am finding it hard to stay at target following sw though, and an extra 1/2 st has snuck its way back on. am hoping something new will kick start the losses again.

Welcome SlimJim! If you're fine eating at 1200 cals then go for it - several Chiefs have eaten that amount (including the very successful Randall whose lost more than 5 stones in less than a year!). The main thing is that you stick to it and don't feel deprived then fall off the wagon.

1200 was too low for me (I tried it for a week then weeped with failure). So I increased my intake to 1800 and successfully lost weight so stuck to it. I do 5:2 fasting now as I find it easier than daily logging (so 500 cals twice a week and 2000 cals the rest of the time).

My before and after pic is on my profile. I've lost 5.5 stones in total with half a stone to go.

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