The 'Avoid The Quiche' Quiche- Part 2!!!

[HenriettaPye]

Hi all!! (waves!)

Cant believe our last thread filled up so quickly!

For those of you who don't know us, the 'Avoid the Quiche' Quiche is a group of people who all want to lose a substantial amount of weight (no coming on here complaining about the half a stone you desperately need to lose, thanks very much!) We all have different personal goals and reasons for wanting to lose weight, whether it be for a special holiday coming up, to aid fertility or to be healthier. This thread is a place to share your highs and lows, talk to like minded people, get encouragement and offer support to others when they need it!

Official weigh in day is Wednesday- Slimmer of the week will get a virtual bunch of flowers, woohoo!!

I personally am aiming to lose 6 stone. It wont be easy but i've got a great bunch of ladies behind me keeping me focused and for that i'm very grateful!

Welcome Herdy
Don't think about your goal in terms of 6stones. How about a stone before Christmas? You could achieve that!
Have you thought about weightwatchers online? It costs about £3 a week, and you get an app for your phone/tablet so you get into the habit of logging everything. Nothing is banned on WW so you don't feel deprived. For instance, I have 2 packets of crisps and a dime bar very day. But it's alongside plenty of fruit and veg and lean meat and fish, so included in my daily allowance. You don't have to buy WW products as they have a database of foods that runs into thousands, including chain restaurants and takeaway sandwiches so you can safely navigate every situation.
Here's to a slimmer you at Christmas!

Hi all and welcome to IsThat and Herdy

yellow well done on your run and beating your own goal and IsThat hope your race today has gone well.

I'm don't know if I'm entirely sure where my eating issues stem from. I think I have always been overweight. My mum is overweight now but she often tells me whilst making me feel even more bad about myself "I was never as fat as you are at your age though" . I do remember when I was younger I used to make tea for myself quite a lot and I how it was mainly convenience crap. I binge eat terribly and am a secret eater and use food as any excuse whether sad, happy, reward etc.

Anyway, yesterday I sat in KFC with my sister and our DC and only ate a couple of chips so was very pleased with my will power. Instead I came home and made myself a healthier tea of Southern Fried Quorn, whilst my DP decided to order yet another Chinese takeway .

Well done on fitting into your skirt clarinet even if its not suitable for public viewing!! I have so many old clothes that I saved over the years for when I eventually slim into. I have lots stored at my parents out that I need to move in the next few days. I dread to think of some of the crimes against fashion that are in there

Herdy - I have found taking it a stone at a time best as that is more achievable than trying to think about the whole picture IYSWIM. I started with 6 stone to lose, have lost 2.5 now, my next target is to have lost 3 stone by christmas which I think should be doable.

I think my eating issues started when I was 15 and had a knee injury and glandular fever at the same time so was really limited to what exercise I could do (I did no PE in school in years 10 and 11) and because I was feeling so shitty i turned to food and the bad habits both food and exercise have stuck with me until now.

I was sorting old coats out recently and found my winter coat which I got last year drowns me now :) when I went to empty the pockets before sending it to the charity shops they were full of sweet and crisp wrappers and that really did make me realise it was no wonder I was so big!

Thanks misselodie my run was great (other than a boob leaking incident where I had to walk for a while as running with that letdown feeling was awful. But I did it in 1hr 2minutes 47 seconds! I'm really pleased with myself as its 2 minutes faster than I've ever done 10k before.

My running app says I've burnt 1000 calories. :) woohoo.

I hope everyone is having a good weekend

Welcome to IsThat and Herdy.

I wonder how many other people are lurking on this thread following our journey.

APPEAL TO ALL LURKERS: Please join the thread. The more people we can support and the more people who can support us the easier it will be.

Hi, Herdy and welcome.

I am having the worst weekend, food-wise, that I've had for months and months. Last Wednesday I was one pound short of my goal. Well I certainly won't make it this week. I seem to have been doing definite self-sabotage - so near and yet so far. Yesterday was a planned treat day, which was fine. Ate what I intended to eat. Until the evening. For some reason I convinced myself that it would be a good idea to buy a box of 'breakfast biscuits' a few days ago, as an occasional morning treat. Stupid idea. For reasons I don't understand, I ate the lot yesterday evening. I have all the strategies for not going off plan, I know the scripts to say to myself, but I decided not to do any of that and pig out instead. So I was about 1300 calories over plan by the time I went to bed (feeling slightly sick because my tolerance for bingeing on lots of simple carbs is not what it was!). So this morning I got up telling myself that today's a new day, back on plan. Then I ate six pieces of (wholemeal, not that it really matters) toast. OK, I said to myself, that was then, this is now, start again, stay on plan the rest of the day. So I had a reasonably healthy lunch, omelette with lots of veg. And then ploughed my way through the best part of a 350g packet of cheese as it was the only thing resembling comfort food to hand. Worst of all, I stopped and thought about it, thought about deploying all the strategies I've worked on over the last year, and decided to go ahead anyway. I sometimes do not understand myself at all.

Well, it's a bad weekend. Now I have to get back onto this. I'm not really beating myself up about it, but I'm watching myself with a kind of amazement that I made so many bad decisions when I know how not to. The only thing I can think is that I'm self-sabbing because I'm so close to reaching a goal I never thought I'd get to.

clarinet when I self sabotage no amount of 'stopping and thinking' will help as while I'm merrily shovelling food in, I'm thinking 'I really shouldn't be eating this, I'm not hungry, I should stop, definite self sabotage going on here' and yet I just carry on.

I hope you can pull yourself together to start over tomorrow. And remember 'it's only food' nothing really bad will happen because you've eaten a lot.

That's great IsThat (apart from the let down incident) well done I really admire those of you who run. The only running I do at the moment is when I'm going up and down my stairs although I have been consciously trying to do it faster and powering my arms as I do - only a very small thing but its something!

Fab shout out Mia! yes come on you lurkers - the more the merrier

clarinet :( I know it is easier said than done but try not to be too hard on yourself.
One day, or one weekend has so little impact on our weight over the course of a lifetime. Put it behind you and make a plan for tomorrow.

I wonder if the weather is having an effect on some of us. I know that when it suddenly turns cold and rainy I find it much harder to resist comforting, carby foods.

Welcome Herdy :)

We've had a lovely weekend, and I've eaten a fair amount! We went to a vintage car rally yesterday and it was freezing so I had a huge lunch of sausage and mash in a yorkshire pudding with loads of veg. And then we got fish and chips on the way home - ate half and was full so the rest went in the bin and then nothing until breakfast at 10am this morning.
By no means a low calorie weekend, but I walked miles yesterday and have eaten far, far less than I would have done in a similar situation a few weeks ago. So I'm not unhappy.

clarinet don't look back. How much have you lost now? This weekend was a mere blip. You KNOW you can do this!

Thanks for all the welcomes everyone! I've been wanting to join in for a couple of weeks now but food is such a difficult subject for me. Anyway I'm glad I've taken the plunge.

Following the advice here to break it down and just take it one stone at a time. If I could lose just one before Christmas I'd be very happy.

LayMizz I did WW about 10 years ago and did lose some weight. I gave up after I'd lost about 20lbs though. Not sure why now. I know it's changed since then to ProPoints. Just wondering if you can still get bonus points for exercise?

Herdy, yes you can earn extra points for excercise. It works for me personally because of the ease of recording everything I eat, on my phone.
Plus, with WW now you can have unlimited fruit and veg. Much easier to plug a hunger gap!

Welcome Herdy, I've said it before, but just taking the plunge to admit to other people that you want to lose weight can make a big difference to how you get on.

Hello everyone! Hope you've had a good weekend.

Last year I really wanted one of those garish knitted Christmas jumpers but couldn't get them anywhere for the month of December. So I seem one today and bough it!

In a smaller size though so I MUST be good so I can fit into it

Henrietta I saw your post on bargain thread about the jumper, I'm as I'd like one and also for you you got a smaller one.

Hello herdy

Have been lurking recently. Haven't been too great on the eating front, especially today - I did my first insanity max hour long workout today and it was hard work! It's made me so hungry I've been eating all the time since so feel like I've undone all the hard work, but if nothing else hopefully it's helping make me a bit fitter even if I'm not losing weight.

I caught a bit of 'the biggest loser' on some crappy TV channel earlier and got suckered in to watching the whole episode! Can't believe how many of them lose 8lbs or more a week over so many weeks . It can't be good for you surely? I wonder whether when they went back to thir RL after the show how many of them maintained/lost more

They are so tacky reastie but I love them! £12 in primark, Get one quick cos if its anything like last year they will all sell out!

I need to get myself back into doing the shred. This weather just isn't suitable for exercise motivation! Actually this weather is curl up with chocolate weather.

Wanted to start running but think that will have to wait until the weather improves!

I have sky+'d a whole series of 'a year to save my life' think you can get them on catch up TV. They are very inspirational.
nice to see you Hen- thought hey had kept you in at the Zoo for a minute there!

A comment upthread made me look up the biggest loser finalists.
Most have done really well.:

Biggest Losers: where are they now?

Theres hope for me yet.

Even though I have been doing this for about 6 weeks, (7th August or therabouts) I have been weighing myself in pounds, because I wasn't ready to see how much I really weighed. And its not that easy to convert lbs to stones without a calculator.
Today I took the plunge and worked it out in stones and then in kgs.
So my original weight was 118kg or 18st 8lbs. And it is now 17st 8. or 112.4kg
Thank God I didn't check exactly. I think I would have given myself a heart attack.
Now working towards getting the other side of 17.
Small targets are definitely the way forward. 8lbs seems much more achievable than 6 stone...

Can't get rid of me that easily LayMiz! Lovely day at the zoo, walked loads and stopped at the cafe at the top and had a diet coke and resisted all the nice cakes!!

Wasn't London Zoo was it? My DH works there. His office overlooks Penguin Beach. don't know that I would get any work done if it was me, I would be too busy gazing at them all day!

No LayMiz, Belfast zoo! It's fab but all uphill- no easy feat pushing a pram around!

Would absolutely love to go to London zoo, definitely on my to do list if I'm ever over there!

Welcome Herdy, it's lovely to have another person in the quiche. We all need each other, come on lurkers, as Mia says, join in!

I have been reading what you all say about where your food issues come from and it is really interesting. Sooo much about parents. I have been thinking about my own issues (eating out of stress and / or boredom, which covers most eventualities! as well as using food as a reward). My parents are lovely but did use food as a treat. My father was in the army so we moved a lot and I was always the new girl, would just make friends and then it would be time to move and start again. However, I wasn't overweight as a child but that changed at puberty. I had a quite early puberty and that made me very self-conscious. I think I withdrew into food a bit. My parents never commented negatively as i gained weight but nor did they ever suggest that I might not need to eat toast (between meals, btw) without an equal weight of butter.

Well, I've been slogging along this week. Hard to count calories this weekend as I have been cooking from scratch (eg made chicken soup today from the bones of a roast chicken - no idea!) but mostly keeping away from the snacks. I have given up crisps, including low fat crisp-substitutes, as that is a habit I really need to break.

I had a realisation today when running a bath for DS. I haven't had a bath in the whole 4 years we've lived here, and very rarely in the last decade ( I do have showers, btw!). And that is because I can't bear to see my stomach grinning up at me. Ug. So my motivation for today - enjoy a bath!

Night out yesterday went well. I budgeted for 3 vodka and cokes and I had 4. I resisted the thought of food on the way home, no greasy kebabs or pizzas. I did however have 2 small slices of toast when I got in with a large glass of water. I was over my points but not by much so happy night out
Binge day today but I did manage to curb it. It feels silly to be so strict all week then go mad on Sunday so am limiting it to a chocolate bar and a savoury treat

Is Wednesday weigh day?

I must admit I weigh myself morning and evening every day. I'm slightly obsessive, I know. But I like to know my bodies patterns. I know I put on between 3-5 lb throughout a day. I use it as a tool of 'knowing where I'm at'. I don't panic or feel demotivated if it goes up slightly. As I see the natural curves and I know as long as I use more calories than I eat I will lose weight.

Writing that down still looks pretty neurotic tbh.