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!

I took my twins to dance class today and hadn't been before so didn't realise the mums have to join in with some of it. Oh dear god my bloody bingo wings - especially while doing the waving hello and goodbye song -the sight of me prancing around . Still the kids had a good time so we'll be back again next week so I can make another fool of myself!

Birding how did you get on with avoiding the snacks today? I've eaten quite a lot of crap today actually but managed to stay within my calorie allowance - just! Lets hope the teeth aren't as troublesome tonight

I would like to lose another 17lb in time for Christmas, that will take me to the 2 stone mark. Last Christmas I was 38 weeks pregnant and still weighed less than I do now!

Hope you feel better soon henrietra. Flu is horrid

Sorry to hear you're poorly Henrietta - get well soon

MissElodie, I was 100% good on snacks! Not a single Pringles passed my lips. Nor anything else. However, I have a suspicion I may have gone over my calorie allowance anyway as I had homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch (I was generous with the noodles and the home made stock was v rich) and then a healthy dinner but large portion. Oh well, at least I am resisting the snack habit. Good for you for prancing about with your twins too, I am sure it made htm happy.

I would like to lose 18 lb by Christmas because then I would have crossed the magic line from obese to overweight only to cross right back again, no doubt. Bloody inevitable tin of Celebrations . It might be a bit of a stretch but I feel more motivated than I think I have ever been.

Dear Santa, I want to be overweight by Christmas!

hen I hope you feel better soon.

I'm hoping to be at 10st 7 by Xmas which is another 15/16 lbs.

Henrietta, I hope someone is bringing you hot drinks and hot water bottles. Get well soon

Get well soon Henrietta - hope you manage to sweat off some lbs with the flu

Get well soon Henrietta.

Get well soon henrietta

I originally set an aim of 3 stone by Christmas, which was ambitious, but worked out at about 3lbs per week, which is the rate I have lost at so far. If I keep it up I will be thrilled, but anything over 2 would be good, so another 18-20 lbs.

Hope you feel better soon Henrietta [wonders how many calories are in a Lemsip.]

I had a terrible weekend on the eating front. I did something I haven't done for absolutely months - by Sunday afternoon I felt so bad about how much I'd already eaten I decided to stop caring and went to Sainsburys for bagels and chocolate. On the plus side, it was only two bagels (in the old days it would have been four) and a single 150g Milky Bar where in the old days it would have been the Milky Bar plus a four-pack of Mars. So I suppose that's progress of a kind!

However, I got back on the wagon yesterday, and I'm back to plan now. Hopefully having eaten properly yesterday and today the damage on the scales won't be too horrendous tomorrow. Dreading it a bit though.

Morning everyone.

I had a good day yesterday, I actually wrote down what I planned to eat and stuck to it. Definitely need structure in my eating.
I tend to overeat in the afternoon, an hour or so after lunch and sometimes in the evening. I've decided that after I've had my supper - I live alone now - then that's it. The kitchen is closed for the night. It made it easier the last couple of evenings just having that rule.

I'd like to lose 1st by Christmas. I'm happy to take the weight loss slow and steady. I know that if I try to be too strict with myself I'll blow it!

Ah thanks all, you are a lovely bunch!

2 bagels and a Milky Way isn't that bad! Don't know about lemsips but I remember from doing slimming world that soothers are alot of syns, and I've been eating them loads for my sore throat!

Up and at it today! DH took yesterday off to look after kids but had to go back today so I've no choice but to get on with it. The joys of being a mummy.

Henrietta I hope you're soon feeling better.

Oh dear Henrietta, hope you make it through the day okay.

Clarinet, your slips weren't so bad! And they may slow you down but they won't stop you getting there if you put this weekend behind you. You are nearly there!

I have just tried on the byooootiful Hobbs coat that is too small for me (bought just before I got pregnant 2 winters ago, was a bit too tight then so never worn) and I can actually do it up! I wouldn't say it is wearable - I only had a thin top underneath, not my proper winter garb, and the arms were a bit too tight to do the YMCA but I reckon it will be a great fit by Christmas if I can carry on. Very motivating!

Maybe for once I WILL actually slim into something I bought as incentive!

Well done on the coat Birding. I find clothes fitting better to be much more motivational than the scales. Scales tell lies - well mine do anyway . Our clothes don't.
I've got a few that I'm hoping will fit better by the end of October, just a bit tight and uncomfortable at the moment so I don't wear them.

Hello everyone.

Weird couple of days here, I had a really upset stomach on Sunday night so didn't eat much yesterday morning but then was starving later on so ate toast, chocolate tiffin
Today I am fasting, so just had an apple so far and then will have dinner later.

Henrietta I hope you feel better soon, looking after children when you are poorly is grim.

Birding that is great news on the coat. I love it when you can feel a difference in your clothes, so so motivating :)

clarinet sorry you've been struggling, hopefully today will be a better day and set you back on the right path.

I would like to lose another stone by Christmas, which would take me to 12 stone 2lbs going on this morning's weight. I haven't been that weight since I was 21. Which depresses me, frightens me, and excites me all at the same time!

Ope you're feeling better soon Henrietta. Being ill sucks.

I'd like to lose at least a stone by christmas. I think I can manage that.

I have been so strong today. My mam invited me over for lunch today but I had to decline. She had made quiche and chocolate muffins. Her quiche is to die for, but I knew it would be a huge portion (she doesn't do small) and a chocolate muffin would have been forced upon me. Instead I had a ham salad wrap . Would have much rather had quiche, but quiche is the reason I am like this.

Well done lego!

Well done, Lego - and I hope the ham salad wrap wasn't too grim!! Glad you're able to be up and about Henrietta but please try to look after yourself and not do too much too soon if you can avoid it.

I'm having another hard day. Self-sabbing seems to have well and truly taken hold of me at the moment. Just to clarify, the bagels and Milky Way on Sunday late afternoon were just the finishing touches to a weekend's over-eating - plenty had gone wrong before that.

So yesterday I managed to more-or-less stay on plan. In the evening it was so cold I had three packets of cup-a-soup, but they're only 95 calories each so I decided that wasn't too bad, and my day still worked out at about 1400 which was a big improvement on the weekend and I was happy enough with that. Today I ate all my lunch and afternoon fruit before 11.00 and went out and got... yes, more bagels from Sainsburys for lunch. I would have got Milky Bar as well only they didn't have any, so I got an apple instead, hooray. By 3 in the afternoon I was desperate for chocolate - luckily couldn't actually get away from work, or I would definitely have gone and bought some. Now I have to try not to buy anything on the way home. I can use a route that avoids all supermarkets, but I can't avoid shops entirely. My goal therefore is to get home without buying anything to eat, then have an early night. Tomorrow's weigh-in is not going to be good news.

It was ok actually, just grim because I would have much preferred quiche. Had a dairylea dunker as well.

Best of luck on your way home Clarinet. Hopefully your WI tomorrow won't be too harsh, hope for a loss.

Oh clarinet, it is so hard when you get into that mindset, isn't it? I hate it when I get like that, as I know I shouldn't be doing it, I don't even really want it, I just can't seem to stop myself. Is there a particular reason why it is happening? Sometimes I just get into a cycle of self-sabotage, feeling guilty, then eating even more as if to punish myself. If it is something like that then maybe you need to give yourself a break, allow yourself to eat whatever you want for a day or two, before getting back on the diet in a couple of days. Yes, you will put on weight, but stopping the guilt cycle might help you to end the self-sabotage a bit earlier. Just a thought, may not be applicable to your situation.

You may be right, Lorelai - I'll see how I go this evening, and maybe take a couple of days off if I need to, and re-start. It could be that I was so close to goal that whatever bit of me believes I don't deserve to be slim and healthy kicked in. Or it could just be the weather - we seem to have gone straight from summer to winter where I am, bypassing autumn entirely (having bypassed spring earlier this year so perhaps there's no surprise there). And now I think about it, I suppose I've been very strict with myself since coming back from holiday in mid-July, and maybe I've just overdone it and gone into deprivation mode - I was very careful for the whole of last year to give myself complete 'indulgence' breaks every now and then, but I haven't had one for two months now. I thought I'd be able to get down to goal without another weight loss holiday, but maybe that was too high an expectation. Or am I simply justifying wanting chocolate??

Be kind to yourself. You have done so well, come so far, you are allowed to slip a little occasionally. Even if you do just want some chocolate, then that's ok. Punishing yourself for wanting it will only cause more harm in the long run. You will still get to goal, it may just take an extra week - what's that in the long term?

Hen feel better soon

I'd love to lose 10lbs for christmas, but I'd be happy with 5lbs.

Feeling as was due to do some exercise today but came home with a headache and exhausted and couldn't bring myself to

Clarinet never having chocolate ever again is impossible! Having some every now and again won't do too much damage and the important thing is to keep on it. Mid July is a long time to have been very strict, wowee!

Lego now that's willpower - ham wrap not home made quiche!

Birding excellent goal (the hobbs coat). You will do it!

Echoing clarinet's feelings of self-sabotage this week. I have not been as bad as I might have, but this weather has been making me reach for carbs. I haven't been tracking much this week either - always a sign that I have something to hide. And it's been so long since I posted on here that this thread had dropped out of my 'threads I'm on' list.

Tomorrow's weigh-in could be carnage. But tomorrow is a new week, a clean slate and a chance to make amends.