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 everyone, I recently finished a 9 day detox called Forever Clean9, put together by doctors and I lost 7lbs and felt amazing. Has anyone else done this?

I am watching Secret Eaters. DH can't get his head around how people kid themselves what they eat. I can!

Haven't exercised today, feeling a bit grumpy about it but I needed to do stuff this evening and I don't want to be sat on the laptop playing catchup at 10pm.

No, Denos, tell me more!

Just had a bit of a Google and am a bit

I've not google'd it, but i'm highly suspicious!

I've had no chocolate for days, i want some. Might have to purchase a bar and share it with the bambino's when we walk to the toy shop.

A little bit of what you fancy Katie!

Had a nice dog walk in the sun today while DS was In nursery. I added it on to MFP but I underestimated because I kept stopping and just admiring the view, honestly wasn't because I was tired, so I didn't want it to knock off a lot of calories when I haven't probably burnt off that many. I also had a massive salad for lunch as I'm trying to cut down on the amount of bread Im eating which was great apart from the adding of a bit of chorizo and Parmesan shavings. We are due a big shop tonight so we haven't got much in, and I didn't really fancy tuna and that was all there was. I know it's only very early days but I do feel a lot better watching what I'm eating, and not eating a lot of convenient to grab stuff, such as bread and sandwiches.

How's everyone else doing? I am having a quandary about weighing myself again. Obviously not this week but wondering how often I should do it. I know if I've not lost very much I'm going to get really annoyed, so maybe I'm better not weighing at all. However if I dolose a lot, I want to know because it will keep me going! Saying that, I also think weighing yourself can lead you into a false sense of frustration or security. It's not always reflected what's really going on in your body, but I bet it does feel wonderful watching the scales go down. I say this in theory as unfortunately this has not actually happened to me yet...

I went for it, we walked to the toy shop and came back via m&s so had to go to the cafe. Dd is potty training so we needed to check their toilets

I had a gluten free chocolate brownie, not that i am gluten free or anything but i couldn't see much else chocolatey.

Beautiful day for a walk nancery, i don't blame you for taking it steady and enjoying it.

I might possibly have accidentally stood on the scales today, lost a pound so i'm averaging one a week which is fine and dandy. I am wearing a top and jeans combo which is particularly unflattering in the podgy tummy department , it's things like that i am hoping to sort. As much as i want the scales to show a loss, i also need to do a lot of toning work on the excessive wobbly bits.

Gym tonight, dh is doing dc's bedtime then hopefully cooking me a nice, healthy meal.

Well done Katie! I agree that a pound a week is good, and it's going in the right direction. Slow is better too anyway because it's actual fat, Rather than just water. Where do you carry most of your weight? Mine is round my middle and also my upper arms (ugh)

My weight is carried between my knees and my neck! I have large thighs, a very wobbly tum and thick waist, and then years of being pregnant and breastfeeding haven't done much for the chest area either.

I am having a takeaway tomorrow eve, it's usually chips on a friday and dd loves going with daddy as a special job. I need the least unhealthy option, probably just a pickled onion then

I was really good today - approximately 100 calories by 8pm, going for a mega low calorie day.

Then I got home. I have fucking had enough.

Chinese and vodka.

One more day ruined

I would guess that chips as a one off won't be too damaging? Hopefully not anyway! I am being a bit more lax already, not gone over the MFP allowance yet but not being as anal as DH who is weighing things, I'm just guessing and hoping for the best! Should still be going down rather than up I guess, certainly not any bigger, but it will probably take longer than I'd like (which realistically is about the course of an afternoon!)

My tum also has the delightful 'c section overhang' which is more pronounced on one side than the other, so subsequently I'm wonky as well as overweight! My DH is a very lucky man...

Ohfor - you mean you'd only had 100 cals all day?!

Yep. 95 calories in a salad (although I did have 3 cups of tea with a tiny drip of semi skimmed in each, so probably just over 100 calories).

But now I've fucked it up . I am fat and bloated and nowhere near pissed enough

I have no idea what the calorie content of a Chinese is! Did you mean to eat so little in the day or did it just work out like that?

Tomorrow's another day...?

I was really trying

Then I got home and read an email to DH from one of his friends (DH was pretty upset about it) and I blew a gasket and my resolve went out the window.

Based on how utterly sick and bloated I feel this morning (I've been awake for hours with heart burn) I consumed approximately 1.6 million calories last night.

Urgh. I'm never going to eat again.

On the plus side, does this make me a bona fide crap dieter?

ohfour, it sounds like the chinese was needed. You cannot have the crap dieter award until you buy all the easter eggs in tesco.

Hope you're feeling ok today. 100 calories was really low, what were you going to eat for dinner?

Nancery - your husband is indeed a lucky man, you're being positive about it and making changes.

I watched my dh carefully weigh out the rice for our dinner last night, he did far too much and still i ate it. Meal was delicious though.

I am contemplating doing a 3k fun run with a double buggy in a month's time. I miss running but i know i couldn't do the 10k on the same day as i'm not fit enough. Also dh is away so no childcare, i figured it was a gentle intro pushing toddlers and doing a short distance! Am i mad?

So far today I've been crap! Piece of toast, some leftover crunchy nut cornflakes, then half a piece of DS's fruit toast (we went to soft play) a cheese toastie and 2/3 a pack of Pom Bears (friends daughter had some, so he wanted some and I didn't want him eating a whole packet!)
I must NOT let today get any worse!!

Will reply to other posts later. Bloody knackered so snoozing while DS has his afternoon sleep

Thanks everyone

Well, the plan had been to have a little bit of smoked trout and salad for dinner (as I say, I was going for mega low calories!) but fuck it, I'll have that tonight. I need to compensate for yesterday!

Nancery your DH is a very lucky man - stop putting yourself down. It's so awful when we do that - we look at ourselves or think about ourselves and if we feel a bit shit we forget to pull ourselves back up again. So it gets worse because of a tendency to overlook the positives.

Kate 3km? Run? Sounds like chuffing hard work, but if you fancy it then good on you! Targets never do any harm!

Thinking about hard work, I'm contemplating starting the 30 day shred. But I don't know if I'm brave enough lazy lard arse

I am shredding ohfour, well sort of, either that or gym'ing but it works well for when dh is away. I'm on level 1 at the mo but planning on going to level 2 on monday.

There are gingerbread men cooking in my oven. dd decided she wanted to make them, i will have to quality check them before letting my little darlings eat them.

It would be irresponsible parenting NOT to sample them - quality is a hugely underrated concept IMHO!

How much does the shred hurt? Honestly?

Am relaxing, finally with a well needed glass of wine. DS has a horrid dry hacking cough (it's going round nursery) and every time he laid down to sleep he had a coughing fit, I also suspect it was starting to hurt him as he started an awful heart wrenching waily cry and got inconsolable. Thank god I had some Ashton & Parsons powders (they are incredible) which we mixed in Calpol and managed to get down his neck. Five mins later he's asleep in my lap and I'm breathing a sigh of relief!

Kate, the running sounds ace, snd a relatively manageable distance too - go for it!

Both me snd DH have gone through stages of Shred. I found the biggest issue with keeping motivated was not getting bored, no matter what I tried (well, replaced music) it didn't quite work and we ended up having more off days than on after a while. Bit crap considering it's only 25 mins I know! (But it's actually far more when you consider getting changed first, and showering after!)

Shred doesn't hurt exactly, it's just quite intense, but just as you think you might die she swaps to another move which is, kind of, a form of relief.

ohforfoxsake thank you for the kind words. I guess I find my current appearance leaves rather too much to be desired at the moment so it's hard not to notice things, especially when they weren't there before!

Have got 700ish cals left for today, not inc this wine. Bugger! Especially as DH has made home made burgers for tea !

I am having wine too, I have gone over calories today. I tried shredding but ds was joining in, when he decided to sit on my face whilst I was attempting stomach crunches and his nappy was ripe I stopped.

I'm enjoying shredding. Mind you, last time I tried I only did day 1, and this time I've managed to get to (drumroll please)... day 6.

Day 6?!! Impressed!
DS awake coughing so typing this in bed with him on my arms; it's tricky!

Hi everyone - dropped off the radar for a bit as have had a very stressful few weeks - tac meeting for ds with sn plus other extra meetings with a teacher who couldn't seem to grasp that ds was tired because his anxiety was bad and not because I don't have a bedtime routine. Very frustrating!

Anyway despite this I have lost four pounds in last three weeks so am very happy. My mantra is 'a pound a week' repeated over and over as in the past I have had too high expectations.
I have been doing slimming world but just keeping a rough track in my head as I haven't had time to look things up. Seems to be working!
I have also realised that it would be cheaper to take out a membership at my local swimming pool for me and the kids as we are now going twice a week so am going to set that up and then I can swim a few times a week too.
Hope all of you are doing okay - feel strangely motivated at the moment, just hope it lasts.

Welcome back! Sorry you've had such a stressful few weeks. But well done on losing the weight. I think I'm probably going to lose it along the lines of a pound a week too, which is frustratingly slow considering I need to lose £34 in total but I suppose it is more sensible. I just wish it wasn't such a slow boring process. Swimming is excellent exercise so great news there.

In a bit I'm taking the dog out for walk but I'm going to mix it up with running. My sister, Who is quite a lot bigger than me (possibly around 14 stone) is also going to come with me. I'm thinking if we mix up walking and running we should be able to keep the dog out for long enough to meet her needs but also shift off more calories than we would if I was just walking. It would also be nice to have company. While I have weight to lose, I do actually keep quite active when I can - God knows what we'd weigh if I didn't have a dog! Since the arrival of the baby it's been a lot harder to fit these things in but I generally am the one who does the dog walking at the weekends. Plus around here it's very hilly so there are no easy walks. Hopefully this will all help!

I went over my calories by 300 yesterday but I'm hoping to get back on track today. Good luck to everyone else!