Hello and welcome, Laurely and Donkeyok. Good to have you on board.
Henrietta, I don't think I ever congratulated you on being slimmer of the week. Have some belated
. Hope this week is also going well.
Sorry to hear you had bad food days, Lottie and IsThat - today's a new day and the wagon is waiting for you! I sometimes find when I've had a really bad binge day and need to get myself back on track, then a day at or close to my calorie needs (as opposed to a 'light' day of 500 or more calories less than I need) is a better and easier way back to good food choices. Would that work for you? And remember, over-eating doesn't make you a bad person, nor will feeling bad about yourself be a sustainable incentive to weight loss. You've done brilliantly so far, so just remind yourself of how far you've come and where you want to be, and get back on it.
Sorry to hear about your uncle, Phantom.
Hope things are getting a bit less frantic, Yellow. I completely get the thing with routine. But you've had such massive changes in your life over the past few months it's bound to take some time to establish new routines and habits. It'll come, don't beat yourself up about it. Meantime, are you able to make some healthy food in large quantities and freeze it? At this time of year I make huge batches of soup every couple of weeks, so there's always some to be defrosted if I need something hot and reasonably filling in a hurry. Don't know if that works when you've got small children, though, having to work around their needs and wants. The other thing is that you lost a huge amount very quickly. Maybe your body is getting back in synch or something? I don't understand the science of this at all, and maybe what I'm saying is a load of old codswallop, but my own addicted body behaved in some very unpredictable ways throughout the process - some weeks there was a pretty textbook correlation between calories in, energy expended and weight lost, and sometimes there really, really wasn't. I wonder if, for those of us who are/have been seriously overweight, there are complicated things going on physically as our bodies recover and try to get back in equilibrium, so that sometimes we lose weight and sometimes we don't. Others on this thread have also said they've continued to lose inches when they haven't necessarily lost weight. Have you tried doing that? It could be that you are still losing (inches rather than weight), and that might help get you motivated again.