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!

Yellow your dad is a wise man. I think I will write that out and stick it on my fridge.

Was supposed to say - sure as hell.......

Sirzy, no, I didn't. I should have. I was kind of doing it by stealth to begin with because I thought I'd fail really early on like I have done so many times in the last ocuple of years. (This thread is a life saver really)
I'll get my friend to do some tonight, might keep me motivated.

2.5lbs off for me

Start weight 13st 5 (down from 15st 9)
Current weight 13st 1.5lbs

Aim is to be 12-something at next weigh in!

Well done on the great losses everyone :)

Well, I went for a run, came back and went to the loo, and I'm half a pound lighter!! TMI sorry

So I'll leave it to our esteemed and sickly leader, Henrietta, to decide if I should count my weigh-in as a pound or a half-pound gain!

Actually, when I went to enter my weight on my MFP progress, I can see that I've lost 7 pounds since we started the first thread so that's in the right direction, even if slightly zig-zagged

Well done Alibaba - you've come SUCH a long way - you must feel great.

Well done all you other shrinking violets too - and Mia, glad to see you've shifted off that plateau - what did you do differently this week?

1.5 lbs off

i might be a size 12 by the time I'm 70

Well done all - there are some great losses

clarinet and cq I'm glad you are both back on the wagon. Its so difficult when the self sabotage mind set kicks in and so hard to stop. I'm glad you're not being hard on yourselves - its done now and it happens to us all - well done on getting back on track

LayMizz are you disappointed in your weight loss this week? I know what you mean - its going to be a looong process for me too but at least we are doing something about it and we will get there....eventually!

I lost 1lb this week.

Start weight: 16st 9lb
Current weight: 15st 11lb

Don't forget we are in this for the long run so some weeks weight loss will be slow, or even go up, but as long as the pattern is a downward one overall then it's good.

We are changing mindset and making big life changes - the odd blip along the way is to be expected the important thing is that we get back on track after!

LayMizz 1.5 is really good. I'd be really happy with that week on week, I'm sure my 2.5 is only because I've just started trying to lose again having been on a plateau and gained a little over the last 6 months.

If you carry on with that you will lose another stone before Christmas :)

Well done everyone, losers and those who have had a 'rest' but are back on it!

I love this quiche, you are all really helping me. It's so inspiring to see how far some have come already, and also that we will ALL have some bad weeks but that we can get back on track without giving up at every blip.

And I need that reminder because I have just eaten half of the baby's lunch (after he had rejected it, I hasten to add!). No real harm done as I have confessed to MFP and can still come in on target today, but i will now have to forego a planned chocolate treat. Hopefully lesson learned (though doubt I can ever walk away from cheesy mash... )

Oh, and this week won't be so good anyway - it is DS's first birthday on Sunday. It will be buffet-tastic and if I am going to spend several hours days making a Hungry Caterpillar birthday cake, bread, pie etc then I am jolly well going to eat some of it.

Also, at the party my parents will meet DP's parents for the first time. They don't have a lot in common so it could be excruciating... Siblings will be there too to enjoy the spectacle. I will no doubt hit the Prosecco...

Argh!! I have just seen my mum for the first time almost 5 months (they live abroad) and within 30 minutes of seeing her she has already referred to my weight ....TWICE .

I was in the kitchen and she heard rustling (me clearing away from the sandwiches I'd just made them) and she shouted "stop secret eating Elodie". Then she told me that she had seen the professional wedding photos from a wedding I went to a few months ago and that she only saw one of me but it was awful as it was like this - she then mimed my huge belly . I've got to admit it is a pretty horrendous photo but I have convinced myself that it is because the wind is billowing my dress out which is a small possibility.

I've not told her I'm calorie counting and trying to lose weight because the response will be along the lines of - yes you are the fattest you have ever been/ its about time/how long will you stick at it this time etc etc. It is unlikely to be supportive or positive .

Sorry for rant - just had to offload

Gosh missElorie on your behalf, that sounds really upsetting/miserable. You need support not negativity. Are you OK?

Birding can you post piccie of the caterpillar cake? (I love these things). Hope the bday buffet goes well.

Some great losses this week, well done everyone.

Lay love the comment about your size at 70!

Oh misselodie no wonder you need to rant!

Oh Elodie, how mean of your mum :( Chin up chuck, you can be smug and skinnier next time she visits.
Well done everyone on the losses.

I was in a rush this morning and thought I'd be good and get something from M&S for breakfast and lunch as had no time to fix something. I am gobsmacked that there are 9pp in the granola square I ate, that's like almost a third of my daily allowance! Not impressed, but still well within my points, will have a salad for tea with some chicken.

Another 1lb on
WW leader has asked me to write everything down so she can go through it with me next week. I can see the odd treat I shouldn't be having but I tend to count them in and stay around my daily points allowance. She is swinging towards my coil causing this but we're not sure how to deal with it. I think I will just continue with the plan for a few more weeks and see what happens. It doesn't make sense to jack it all in because it is tough, if I do that I will pile on the pounds again

Oh MissElodie, that is awful. That sort of comment would be horrible from anyone but the closest people can hurt us the most. I would feel quite crushed. Is your mum staying with you and if so, for how long? I totally understand not telling her you are trying to lose weight, that could just open the door to more of her thoughts on the matter! I hope you manage not to be too derailed by the need for subtle dieting, iyswim.

Rant away whenever you need to, we are all rooting for you!

Hi everyone! STS for me this week which im annoyed about as I have tried hard, except for the pizza last night. Debs- im blaming my coil. the sooner I get it out the better. The doctor agreed with me its whats really sabotaging my weight loss, i went over with her exactly what i was eating and the exercise i was doing and she said its definately the coil which is making it bloody impossible to lose weight. So the sooner they find the blooming thing and get it out, the better! It also makes me a moody, emotional, hairy, irrational beast.

Aw CQ we will give you the half off we need all the half guinea pigs we can get!

Well done to everyone else on the losses, you are all doing fantastically! And i WILL get slimmer of the week sometime! when this devil coil is removed

MissElodie, thats very mean of your mum, sometimes these comments hurt more when they come from people we love. I can understand you not wanting to tell her. My mum often makes comments on how awful I look because of my weight but as I've said before, she has never had weight problems so she really doesnt understand how hard it is to lose weight. I think she thinks sometimes that im like this through choice!

Happy birthday to your DS birding! We have little ones around the same age, DD has just turned 13 months My parents only ever see DHs parents at my kids birthday parties too. It can be interesting at times. I would love to see pictures of the cake though.

Speaking of cake... I got an email to say ive been selected for the cadbury pebbles product test. I really shouldnt have entered it but the thought of winning a £250 john lewis voucher swayed me! It would come in so handy coming up to Christmas. So I have to make something creative using them and send in a photo. Time to get my thinking cap on. I should make something i know i wont like, to stop me eating it. Problem is there isnt very much sweet things i dont like

I know, I know; better off than on. But I have been so strict for the last few weeks, and I have another (seriously) 182 lbs to go to my ultimate goal
I know this will be a long road, but 4-5 years?

LayMiz if you aim for 3lb a week if will take you just over a year to get to your goal!Some weeks you may do better than that, some you wont get as much as that but trey and use that as an average. So if you do that, by next christmas you will be at your ultimate goal.

Thanks everyone for your nice comments - my mum really can be so mean sometimes. I do often think does she actually now how hurtful she can be?? I have spoken to her in the past and asked her not to mention my weight when she sees me but even then she can't always resist and just the look on her face says it all .

I feel really shit tbh and stupidly I just want to binge which obviously isn't going to help things. In fact I had already started on the chocolate when my potty training DD saved me shouting she needed a wee so I abandoned my binge but I still have the feeling inside me - argh I hate that I am such an emotional eater!

My mum isn't staying with me (thank goodness), she's here for a few weeks and then I won't see her until around Christmas so I'm hoping by then, like you say Lego I will have lost a bit so she might actually say something nice .

Debs well done for sticking to it and ploughing on - I'm sure if you continue then you WILL start to see the weight coming off.

Henrietta that you've been selected to test the Pebbles - oh dear that's going to test your will power! Good Luck for winning the vouchers!

I'm only having a whine! It's just a lb a week for the last few weeks despite ABSOLUTELY NO cheating has been pissing me off.
If I hadn't started this campaign and gained steadily, I probably wouldn't be here in 4-5 years, So I know I've taken the right road !

LayMiz, it may help to imagine how you will feel when you are just halfway to your goal. I doubt you will feel as though it 'doesn't count' till you get all the way to your goal, you'll just feel so much better anyway! Imagine how much easier to move, greater choice of clothes, already making a huge dent in your risk factors for lots of nasties, feeling less self-conscious...

I am not thinking about perfect weight at all (by which i mean middle of the healthy range for my height, probably 9st something). That does seem a long way off and I am not sure I actually aspire to that as a long-term weight. Maybe i will shift my goals as I go. For now though i know i will feel brilliant if i drop two dress sizes and that is a tangible goal. And if that is all I have achieved by this time next year I will still think it is a good result for the year rather than creeping the other way.

Cross -post, glad you don't feel really fed up LayMizz.

Henrietta, have you actually hot an appointment yet for the missing coil?

MissElodie, I am the same and in your shoes I would be shovelling chocolate. But afterwards I would really wish I hadn't so resist at all costs! Don't do what Birding would do.

No birding, still waiting