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[TheOnlySevenSleighbells]

I have just worked out that to reach a healthy BMI of 22.5 I need to lose 5st 7lb. I've been fat for 20 years (I'm 27) and I've had enough of it, this is my year to stop moaning that my clothes never look nice and do something about it.

Is anyone with me?

[goldie81]

Wow! I think I really need to jump in here please! Put off weighing right up until sun as I knew the weight had piled on! Def need to loose at least 5stone! Just started mfp - think way forward as then you have to see what eaten!

[Noodles32]

Hi all, Welcome newbie's - come join the marching band Lol.

Even though some of us have struggled at times, I think just being aware of the fact that it's been a bad day is a positive. As what I now would consider a binge a few weeks ago would have been a normal eve.

I can eat fairly normally during the day, but hubby works nights an once the kids go to bed I can be out of control.
Every evening was a binge, plus cos I am alone it was easy to pretend it had never happened - until of course I got bigger an bigger.

I don't feel I have self esteem issues, its just that my life style has changed and I have become lazy an stuck in a cycle.
I'm home on my own a lot more now and just eat.

I dislike how I now look and feel uncomfortable in my own skin. My hubby is very supportive but just dosnt understand how my size can make me so unhappy an yet I do nothing (until now) to change the habits that have lead me here.

So just by being more aware of eating habits has to be a positive step to a healthier future.

So very sorry - rant over xx

[TalkinPeace]

Noodles
There is a chap on the 5:2 threads called BreadandWine who had the brilliant idea of a " The kitchen is closed " sign that he put on the door of his kitchen after supper. It worked. It stopped his evening snack habit (almost) completely.
There is something about actually having to walk past a sign that makes the breain bring itself under control.

Also do your level best not to buy snack foods at all : if you want them at the weekend, buy them on Friday afternoon
as then its much harder to eat mindlessly
and easier to start eating mindfully

[ikeaismylocal]

Noodles what you said really made sense, just acknowledging what I eat is a big step forward!

Evenings are also my downfall, I eat because I'm bored, I had a big portion of veggie curry for dinner ( vegetables were 0 points so it was lots of food for not lots of points) but I still wanted to snack all evening! I had a mango which was also 0 points and 3 cups of herb tea.

I'm thinking of starting to do an evening trip to the gym, I am so tired by the end of the day all I seem to manage at the moment is sitting on the sofa watching the biggest looser.

[Noodles32]

Thanks Talkin peace I'll deff check him out.

Ikeaismylocal The evening's are the worst arnt they?
Sorry if I've missed your earlier thread but I'm guessing your on Weight watchers ?

As for the exercise I do actually enjoy it but without making excuses the weather puts you off going out in the evenings, you can hardly walk the pig,goats or cat when its chucking it down. I'm going to stick to the marching an maybe a exercise d.v.d till it warms up a bit.

I'm sure I've got a d.v.d lurking in the back of the cupboard sum were, I might have to dust it off tomorrow.

Thanks all, I find this thread so helpful xx

[MissVic101]

Morning all, thought I would check in early and try abd set myself up for the day leaving yesterday's snack fest behind. Have a busier day today with baby massage in the morning and then visiting a friend, she is on the wagon also so will ve all brews and no biscuits if you see what I mean! Have stuff for a stew tonight and going to do it with mash and cabbage, the evening meals I am making are not particularly diety but im trying to use some sw principles like having at least a third of the plate fresh green veg and removing visible fat from meat. Also keeping in check in the day should give me a bitmore leeway in the evening which I think many of us are identifying as a danger zone. But as Noodles points out what counts as a binge yesterday would have been standard behaviour a week ago, so definate improvement now to psych myself up to qalk to baby massage!

[MissVic101]

Oh and seven hows it going with the Beck book? I had a look after you mentioned it and ordered it myself as it sounds up my street, mindful eating as talking would put it. BTW I cant for the life of me figure out how to make peoples names appear in bold, im using my phone, any pointers?

[2whippetsnobed]

Aaaarrrgh! Had a sneaky weigh in this morning and I am two pounds heavier!!!! Aaaarrrgh.
But it so hard not take this as a big knock. Need to keep trying.

I can't remember who posted about logging everything on mfp when on a binge. Now I have never been brave enough to do that but I think I need to man up and log every bite instead of thinking it will be okay.

[TalkinPeace]

2whippets
Two pounds as a percentage is trivial.
Its one of the great myths of the weight loss industry that you will lose weight steadily and then maintain.

I "maintain" - that means that my weight fluctuates by up to 3lb either way during the week and I weigh myself once a week.
"Maintain" does not mean stay the same.

Also, unless you weigh yourself at the same time relative to bowel movements and wees and sleep your weight WILL change by anything up to 5lb - without the fat cells increasing in number.

Also, try to think about Non Scale Victories

• doing up a skirt that was too tight
• running up the stairs not walking
• a compliment from a stranger

because weight and size and leanness and health are linked but not very tightly.

Hang on in there. You'll succeed.

[ikeaismylocal]

Also weight can fluctuate depending on menstrual cycle.

I weigh myself every morning and I have gone up and down 1.5 kg all week.

[StickChildrenTwo]

Hiya all, how's everyone?

I am still puzzling over people walking pigs and goats?!

Anyway, not going too bad so far here but I've just seen Paul McKenna on Loose Women saying that 90% of diets fail and 70% end up bigger than they were before they started the diet. Figures like that have made me feel a bit deflated. I feel like I have so far to go. I don't want to feel hungry forever! I'm not starving myself in any way but I feel so hungry because I am so used to eating CONSTANTLY. Definitely some emotional eating going on with me. Food has always been the thing I turn to when I'm bored or fed up, celebrating, commiserating, you name it, I turn to food. Such a hard habit to override.

On Friday I weighed 16 stone 1. I am aiming to be under 16 stone this Friday. I need to shift this flab now.

[TheOnlySeven]

Well I'm signing off the thread. Found out yesterday I'm expecting DC4 in September. I'm still doing slimming world to make sure I only have a healthy weight gain, and still expect to lose for the first few weeks. I wish you all the best of luck with what you need to lose, but it doesn't look like I'll be loosing 5 stone this year.

[TalkinPeace]

Congrats theonlyseven

Actually there is nothing at all to stop you slimming while pregnant.
And certainly nothing to stop you toning.
If you try to eat healthily, the real you will lose lots of weight so that when you have the one night weight loss event you'll be a ready made skinnymalink.
There are ladies at my gym who keep exercising and eating healthily right up to ... and start again straight after.
When I had DS I was back in pre pregnancy jeans after 4 days - because I'd carried on pilates until I was overdue.

Stay with us and see how long you can keep your weight the same while the baby grows

[MissVic101]

Congratulations

[TalkinPeace]

tombakersscarf
I know its aimed at older people but there are lots and lots of seated workouts on Youtube - and upper body stuff and pilates - a lot of which is done lying down.
THe baked bean tin routines are easy to pick up and will help boost your system as you shrink.

[ikeaismylocal]

Awwww, congratulations theonlyseven!

Hi tombakerscaf Happy birthday, see you tuesday :)

stickchildren I have that problem too, I am not hungry, I am just used to wondering to the fridge and snacking all the time.

I just found out that 3 slices of ham is only 1 ww point, this has made me a happy person!

Is it weigh in tomorrow?

[TalkinPeace]

I just found out that 3 slices of ham is only 1 ww point
That very, very much depends on the ham.

If I remember right, the maintenance WW weight loss points when I did it was 18 a day - 1800 calories ie 100 calories a point

weigh the ham and check it on the MFP list and see how many calories it actually is ....

sorry to be a killjoy but Sainsburys deli counter is often 150 a slice ...

[ikeaismylocal]

It is actually pro points which we are following, that is more like 50 calories a point. I can have something ridiculous like 39 points a day (more because i'm breast feeding) but I aim to stick to 29 points.

the ham was 110 calories for 100g, the pack was 120 grams with 8 bits of ham in so 135ish calories divided by 8 x 3 is around 50 calories so I think it is right.

Very tasty too! :)

[TalkinPeace]

Ikea
in that case enjoy, enjoy, enjoy
shows how long ago I did WW - pro points was invented long after I stopped darkening their door
BUT
the fact that I can still remember parts of the points book 12 years later shows
a) it works
or
b) I'm a sad numbers muppet

[ikeaismylocal]

It really does seem to stick! A small Ikea meatballs meal is 9 points, I think that everytime we go there, even when I am not doing ww!

[Noodles32]

Congratulations 'The only seven

What wonderful New year news xx

How is everyone else doing today ?

[Noodles32]

P.s ikeaismylocal I think you should be on approximately 34 points, check out your other thread as I've put a site where you can check xx

[ikeaismylocal]

Oh thank you noodles :) I forgot I posted that!

I thought 35 too, but I seem to be doing ok on 29, I eat tons of 0 point fruit and veg, I think I might take too much advantage of those! So maybe I fill up enough on those :)

I think I will reconsider my points if and when I start to feel hungry :)

[Noodles32]

Well as I said I think its 34 but not sure what they would add on as your breastfeeding, if your content on 29 then that's fine as there's no point eating for the sake of using up points.

But if you change your mind and want to know exactly then I can ask my W.W leader when I go on Fri