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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?

Welcome new people :)

Well done on all the fabulous losses.

Last week was a total fail, my heart just wasn't in it and I put on weight :(

I decided enough is enough yesterday. I went to the gym for the first time since September and I didn't go over my calorie allowance. Day one (always the hardest for me) is done :)

I'm on MFP too if anyone wants to add me pm me. I have a few people already on from last summer.

Hi all, hope things have been going well for you all.

I have had a completely shit week I had a good weekend but on Monday I fell off the wagon.

I saw some chocolate in the fridge that hubby had left in there for later, an ate the whole bloody thing - all of it!

An instead of making up for it Tuesday, I didn't and still haven't !

I do this every time, have a good week or so an then sabotage my hard work, I'm ment to be weighing in on Friday - I really want to stick to my diet an feel so much better when I do. Im stuck in this cycle.

I'm soooo angry & frustrated with myself, I've let myself down. I have to get things back on track tomorrow.

I no exactly what I need to do, but I don't maintain anything long enough to make a significant change.

So sorry to be so depressing, I feel under so much pressure to loose weight.
I can't say anything to anyone in RL, they just don't get it xxx

Oh Noodles I know what's it's like to fall off the wagon. It's so discouraging.

Don't think of making it up and don't dwell on the bad day. Draw a line under it and mark tomorrow as a new day.

One chocolate bar doesn't undo all your hard work. It was just one bar and one day.

Look ahead to all the days coming up when you will stick to your diet plan. You will get to your goal. And that bar and that day will be insignificant x

Hello there. I am back with my tail between my chubby thighs. it was all going so well and then husband bought pizza for tea one Saturday and the digi scsles I bought were faulty and had to go back and excuses, excuses, excuses. Anyway all hell broke loose. Stopped reading and posting here. Stopped reading the beck diet (which I think is really going to help in the long term btw). Binged a bit. Felt really guilty. The whole cycle it seems we are all pretty familiar with. Crazy isn't it?! Anyway Im back if you will have me I have read back and sounds like there has been some great progress and honestly reading about other peoples wobbles makes me think im not alone. We are in this together. I really like the idea of next year being able to pick up the weight I have lost in a rucksack carry it up a hill and just leave it there. Ive been carrying it for so long. Its only going to get heavier if I don't do something.
So plan as before 3 healthy meals no snacking. increase my activity levels. Also on mfp as missvic101 if anyone wants to add me.
Good luck one and all, keeping my (double) chin up and heading bravely into tomorrow

Noodles I am feeling the same as you. I had a good day today and then binged on a mountain of crisps. Hang in there, we will have another good week!
I gained 1lb this week :/

Those of you binging please don't see it all as failing. When I was calorie counting I regularly had 3000 calorie Saturdays and/or Sundays (not really due to binging per se, just that we eat out a lot on weekends). I simply adjusted my calories during the working week. Nowadays I intentionally undereat during the week so I can enjoy my weekends. Take the weekly view and adjust accordingly; that way you will not fail.

[Those that don't know me, I lurk, and have posted upthread about my story; 6 stones gone and now 0.8 lbs away from goal].

I'm doing good. 6lb down in 11 days.
I will not be fat for another year.

Good to see people coming back and trying again.
Never give up
The wagon will wait for you

BsshBossh's profile pictures will show you why its worth the effort.

Tomorrow is another day
and even if you only manage to control your eating for a few days a week, it will have a positive effect.

Eyes on the prize.
What do you want to do when you are leaner?
One lady on another thread plans to windsurf.
What will you do when you succeed?

Thanks TiP .

Looks like a couple of us have had bad weeks, makes me feel a little less shitty for going over my calories twice this week! Monday I ended up working an insane day, and 15 hours in I caved and scoffed 2 mars bars and a packet of crisps :( Then yesterday I had a works do, first time I've actually totted up the calories of a night out drinking, and it was shocking this morning putting it all into MFP and realising I'd consumed 800 calories on booze alone! I was really proud of myself for turning down (free!) dessert as well... :/

I've jumped straight back on it today and resisted the temptation to scoff on pasta and bacon (my usual hangover cure); and I've kept under my calorie allowance for today. Baby steps, but I'm not holding out much hope for weigh day tomorrow!

Well done Fanny for losing 6lbs! And thanks for the snacking advice, TiP, I think I may need to change tactics for when I'm working away - I work on boats so they're not great for preparing food, might need to start pre-preparing stuff to bring with me?

Good work resisting hangover food. Always does for me. As if the booze wasn't bad enough it makes you crave carbs and grease. Cruel and unusual punishment I say.

I want to do a parachute jump toward the end of the summer.

I have cut down big style on food, no snacking at all.

Porridge fir breakfast with skimmed milk, homemade soup for lunch & fish /chicken with salad for dinner.

I'm a night owl so have supper later which is a wholemeal crackerbread with lightest Philadelphia on it.

Aiming to do Cambridge in a month or so.

No idea if I'm going about it correctly but tried and failed with weight watchers before.

Really struggle with numbers so anything involving points, counting things etc just stresses me out.

Lost 3 stone on Cambridge a few years ago, but then pregnancy ruined all my hard work.

Hiya Fanny, if you can't be bothered with numbers have you looked at slimming world? Once you get your head round it then weighing and measuring is minimal really coz the bulk of what you eat is unlimited, fruit and veg, lean meat or quorn, pasta rice and cous cous, very low fat dairy products like cottage cheese or muller light all only limited by your appetite. I found it good coz there is always something you can eat.

Question for the mfp users out there. Anyone reckon they dramatically overestimate the calories burned through exercise? it reckons I have burned 600 cals pushing the buggy for 2hrs and 300 for a yoga class. Also I have added breastfeeding as an exercise. Do you reckon ebf a 15 week old 400 cals is about right? im not planning to eat all these cals back but I am liking keeping track. Good weekend for me so far. Hope your all on track. Still reading the beck diet day by day and the thing today was to make a commitment to only eat sitting down - this may change my life! it has stopped me snacking twice today

MissVic - I thought it overestimated rhe calories lost... losing 250 cals on heavy cleaning seemed unlikely to me...

I am struggling a bit after gaining 1lb... I don't know why. On a night shift tonight and feeling unhappy, which is just making me want to eat. I am putting today down as a mistake and I will do better tomorrow. I deliberately avoided buying crisps in this week's shop, so that's a good start I practically inhale a multipack!

Me too :(

Sorry just read beggining I have about 5stone to loose too :( can I join u plz

for Fanny and all those who hate numbers

the basic rules of weight loss eating ....

• no snacking, ever, for the rest of your life you will only chew two or three times a day
• no "diet" foods ; much less of the old fashioned products are better for you
• if you think you are hungry, you are probably thirsty first so drink a pint of water befire eating anything
• breakfast is for the food industry, not you : if you can, hold off eating till as late in the day as possible

and as for measuring success ...
tie a ribbon round your waist.
it will tell you all you really need to know

Morning all.

Sorry to read lots of you are struggling. Draw a line under it and start again. You can do it :)

After a rubbish week last week where I gained, I weighed in this morning and have lost 4lb. Really happy with that as I usually lose 1-2lb a week.

Hope everyone has a great week.

Hi not sure if I joined this thread. I don't have 5 stone to lose but I have about 3 1/2. It sounds like there was something in the air as I lost 3lb last week (weigh day is Friday) but on Saturday we went for a walk and it started to rain so jumped into the pub (nice family orientated pub) and had a few beers got home put little man to bed and we drank wine and spirits :( had a very bad hangover yesterday so eat like a pig feel very guilty. It was my 1st hangover in over a year and a half.

Now this week I am playing catch up. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone xx

well done bafney! I am half dreading half excited about weigh in Wednesday. Though I definitely feel less bloated a sneak peek the other day showed no loss grrrr. Making a beef and ale stew for tea tonight, husband will be rooting for beef and ale PIE but its like an extra 1000 cals!!!! Crazy. Think this is the only way I am safe to consume booze. The hangovers seems to be scuppering everyone!

Thanks MissVic :)

Feeling less bloated is great. Good luck for Wednesday!

If I want a pie, I use a Hairy Dieters recipe which uses filo pastry and it's so good.

I've had to cut wine out totally, or else I'd end up having a glass of empty calories almost everyday I'm saving alcohol for special occasions now.

Talkin that's basically what I'm doing.
I'm 8lb down when I weighed this morning. Seems to have mostly come off my stomach which is definitely not as bloated looking.

Porridge this morning, though I had bought those specialK ones as on offer and it was pretty rank.
Had carrot soup for lunch and having a homemade spicy bean burger and salad for dinner.
I want to get a couple of stone off before I up the exercise, though walking a lot more I'm not ready for gym or classes yet.

Fanny thats fantastic! Well done you!!!

Banffy thats a really good idea with the filo. wish I had seen it before I went (walked - Brownie points ) to the shops. Have heard good things about the hairy dieters books might have to treat myself to a book seeing as I am staying on track. But gonna stick to the stew with slimming world style roast potatoes to appease the man in my life snd broccoli. just waiting for my mum to turn up and take over cooing at this baby and I can get it in the oven! !

Bad food week. Dreading Wednesday weigh in

Over did it with the food and it's only the second week!

Who knew 4 Fish Fingers were 700 odd calories

Tomorrows going to be a hardcore workout day and me going easy on the food.