The Crap Dieters Thread

[Nancery]

A place for those of us who regularly fall of the wagon, to gently ease each other back on, or at least to put the second creme egg back in the box...

Following a previous thread, it appears I am certainly not alone in not sticking to anything which will help me shift the extra blubber. Young DC's and hectic lives make quick fixes, or large glasses of wine after they've gone to bed, far more important (at the time) than sensible meal planning or finding time to devote to working out.

Howevet, I am going to Cornwall in April and want to use that as a starting point for feeling less ghastly this summer. If I don't lose much weight, at the very least I don't want to put any more on!!

Hi RunningKatie, you are pretty much in the same position as me with both weight that needs to be lost and why I am not shifting it! I have been bloody awful this week as it's the week DH is away, I had flashes of good intentions and was even going to try and 5:2 it (or at least 1:6!) but a teething baby has scuppered that.
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Hope the teething is over soon Nancery, my ds is awful at teething poor boy.

Is your DH away every week? Mine is off from Sunday, my mum is coming to stay which is a blessing but we'll see how it goes!

I did a long walk today, then am planning to go to the gym on Saturday and Sunday. I've laid off the weekend wine tonight as we've had a takeaway so am polishing my halo (for now!).

Evening all, it's been weird reading your posts as my DH has also been away this week, which I am blaming for my terrible week, food-wise. It's stupid really as eating rubbish actually makes me feel worse, more tired and sluggish, but that doesn't stop me. Hey ho. Start again on mon...

Oh please can I join you?

Ok, time to face hard facts.

I'm 31, just under 5'5" (have shrunk slightly - back problems) and after Christmas I was 13stone 13. I'm down to 13 1lb.

But last night I was so tired I ate almost a whole loaf of tesco muesli bread and a ready meal

I'm on the verge of falling off the wagon spectacularly.

I was 9 3lbs in 2009. And I need to lose weight urgently - my sisters wedding is in May and I want to be under 12 stone.

It's not achievable, is it?

Welcome ohfour! When in May? Do you have an outfit for the wedding already?

My weight loss has taken an unexpected turn today as enroute from the gym to home i developed a gippy tum. Rather took the edge of my little run!

Thanks Katie!

It's at the end of May (Sunday of the second bank holiday weekend) and I'm sodding matron of honour. So I've not only got a dress to get into but if I look a bugger then I don't want to ruin my sister's wedding photos. I've got until the beginning of April, then I've got the first fitting

This probably isn't going to help you feel better at all, but hopefully a gippy tum might help with weight loss! Has your mum arrived yet? Hope you're being looked after

Gippy tum contributed to a pound weight loss.

I have just inhaled two pancakes i made dd for breakfast as she wanted them and then refused to eat them. Grrrrr. I really didn't need them but i hate food waste. DS doesn't care for them and i can usually rely on him to hoover up excess food.

I've joined myfitnesspal to try and track calories, i know i eat too much so being honest and realistic is the first step.

Am feeling inspired to do a fasting day tomorrow - summer feels like it's not too far away and I don't want to be hiding under layers.
Good luck everyone for this week!

it's amazing how a bit of sunshine makes it feel like summer is around the corner!

Well, I've managed to break to 13 stone barrier! Please god let me keep this up!

Well done! Luckily this early taster of summer is giving us all a bit of a spring and hopefully enthusiasm, and the real flesh baring summer is still a while away!
Today I started a fast day and also downloaded My Fitness Pal, as I've heard it recommended. Subsequently, the fasting has been curtailed somewhat and I am now having, hopefully two, days where I try and keep cals as low as I can and also logging everything I eat on all days. This will hopefully mean I curb the mindless eating and make more of an effort not to snack on things like cheese.
I also have an incentive as I am lighter than I thought at 12.1 - I thought I was at least 12.7 or even worse, so can hopefully soon be in the, week, 11's!

Flesh baring? Oh dearie me.....

I'm using myfitnesspal too, i find it's a bit generous with exercise calories but it's helping me stay honest about what i'm eating. No weight loss yet but i'm feeling better so hoping my body will catch up soon!

I dream of being 11 stone at the mo still 12.11

Flesh baring?

Not sure I could manage that!

How are you both doing with mfp? I've downloaded it but haven't actually used it......crap dieter? Moi?

How is the fast going?

Can I join?

Just got weighed and am officially the second heaviest I have ever been in my life :(

I love that with mfp i can zap barcodes of food packets ohfour - rather than sitting entering data. It's an eyeopener too as to how many calories things contain.

I'm not using the graphs or anything yet, but at some stage i need to look at how balanced my diet is. I suspect still carb heavy.....

PS. welcome dusty

Said hello and instantly fell off wagon! I am officially crap dieter . I have had an exciting time and am officially working my months notice to start a new job April. So going to set myself small goal of my 4 week notice period to get a bit fitter and eat better! (Motivation also is my good work stuff is all size 10! No chance of being in it for a while but I know it is possible)

Hello to all everyone - will catch up with news after I have got off arse and been to gym - I have 2 days leave so no excuses apart from the huge to do list I have!

hiya, my name is Eddas and i too am a crap dieter. please may I join you all!!

I started on yet another diet last monday and am doing well so far. I seem to be following a trend on this thread, at the start 12st12 and at 5ft 4 this is not good!!

I am as of yesterday 12st 10 so going the right way, dieting just seems such a slow and dull process, no wonder we all fall off it so easily!

I am trying to stick to 3 good meals a day, and no snacking apart from fruit and to drink a lot more water. although last night I did buy some wholemeal crackers which I hope will suffice instead of crisps should the urge occur!! I'm not going to have alcohol unless i'm out for a night out too, which is not too hard for me as i'm not a massive drinker, unless i'm having a night out I decided I need more fibre in my diet so today started on fruit and fibre in the mornings, mmm yummy! but needs must! someone once told me that in order to lose weight you need to go to the toilet more often as it all has to come out somehow so this is my attempt at visiting the loo more often than a potty training toddler

and I have signed up to a gym, which I did 3 years ago and quickly gave up! i'm aiming for 2 or 3 times a week. I am booked in tonight for my first class and I am going to the gym afterwards for a run or if the machines are full i'll go on the bike/crosstrainer for a bit. I'm aiming to do 2 hours ish per time twice or three times a week rather than an hour 4 times a week, as I struggle to fit multiple visits in (2 dc aged 6&9, work school hours mon-fri, various kids clubs, reading etc etc, usual 'mummy' stuff! and husband v. keen cyclist so need factor that in too)

This all sounds pretty good but in reality i'm a massive chocoholic with very little willpower so I suspect, as usual, i'll still be a 'massive fattie' come summer (anyone else watch 'fat families' that guy is v. annoying!)

Hi everyone! Well, am on day two and found that as I started yesterday as a fast day, even though I went over the 500 cals, it meant I was nearly 300 cals under my daily allowance which was nice to see!
Am finding writing everything down is helping hugely too.
Slight minus, I thought I need to lose about 2 stone but, according to the NHS website it's actually 2 stone 10lbs. Bugger! Rather more daunting than I originally thought but will try and think of it in little stages as, as Eddas said, it's such a long and dull process.
Good luck today everyone!

It turns out the mirrors in the fitness studio are like those hall of mirror ones at a fair . I can't possibly look like that!! I was sat quietly doing my pilates thinking about what to have for dinner when I looked up and saw my reflection. Ewwwwe. Almost made me cancel dinner plans forever! Certainly a good motivator

Urgh. Vodka is my weakness.

Nothing else to add

Espresso vodka is good! less calories than wine too

I think my wakeup moment was seeing a pic of me at a friends birthday party. Helpfully tagged on facebook for all to see. I had to ask dh if it was me. I looked huge.

I'm finding using mfp is making me exercise more too, i hadn't realised quite how lazy i'd become.

This morning we're off to softplay, ds has been up a lot in the night so i need an easy activity plus coffee on tap.

I'm quite partial to a vodka or 2. Current fav is vanilla vodka and coke mmmm.

I just worked out I'm on day ten of my diet. I've done one evening of exercise. Surely I should've lost a stone or 2 by now

I almost had a blib today. I was ravenous at lunchtime to the point of feeling sick. I bought some snack a jacks and that seemed to work! Am planning a larger breakfast from tomorrow as I know I shouldn't get to that point. Fruit and fibre followed by eggs. Either boiled or scrambled. I think scrambled tomorrow with some spinach. I best get up slightly earlier. I'm not a morning person at all so that could be fun!

Had a semi blip! My mum came over and we went out for cake; I had a third of a brownie. However I showed restraint re the coffee and had a normal one rather than my usual latte.
Got 700ish cals left today so want as tasty but low cal a dinner as possible so I can have wine!
My fitness pal is showing me that my diet isn't quite as good as I thought I thought I consumed far more good stuff than it now appears when it's written down

Well, no vodka (in fact, no anything) for me tonight. I managed to scoff huge sandwiches (from a platter, including blt, egg mayo and smoked salmon with cream cheese) AND crisps today. I now feel bloated and huge and bleugh.

I've stayed at 12 13lbs since Sunday and nothing else is budging. I really do not want to resort to exercise!

Gosh, it's a long time till tomorrow, do you think you can last?

Am currently hiding in the lounge while DH cooks dinner. As we are both doing MFP we are having lots of lighter and more veg heavy stuff, which I'm enjoying. Tonight it's honey mustard chicken skewers, (from a 5:2 recipe book I downloaded on Kindle) and an aubergine and tomato stack (except its courgette as have no aubergine) which is from this site We have a white cabbage salad from last night to use up too. Don't normally go for quite so much veg, or rather if I do I also include something like potatoes or other carbs, but I like the idea of eating loads of low cal stuff instead of less of higher cal. I am terrible at waiting though, hence why I'm in here, and struggle not to pick when hungry - which is where something like pitta and hummus or cheese would normally come in.

I also suspect I will want to be more relaxed over the weekend but will try and create room for more calories by energetic dog walks (not possible during the week as with DS so DH walks her instead) rather than simply going over my 1507 cal limit. If I do that I suspect I will tumble off the wagon...