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!!

Wow ohfour, that's brilliant loss. Not brilliant about your back though, hope you're ok soon.

Neck is still rubbish, how can rolling over in bed do this much damage? I'm using my bike a bit but really nervous of anything aerobic.

Talk to us nancery, today's a new day and you're going away soon.

Dh goes away on saturday, i am in denial as the last trip was hard, this is even longer. I will be turning to chocolate so got to get exercising to minimise the damage that could do.

Tonight i am having my hair cut shorter, that should help with the weight loss!

It's surprising what damage everyday things can do. One of my worst was sneezing whilst bending to sit on the loo - instant agony

How long is DH going to be away for Kate?

Come on Nancery, how is today going?

Hi all, sorry for the delay.
I guess I've been rubbish as a) it's easier and b) once you start gradually slipping it's hard not to stop! I haven't gone totally the other way, ie binging, but am struggling to maintain enthusiasm for 1500 cals a day. (Currently been more like 2000/2500 at a push and a guess.) I've also been quite stressed, although last week that meant less cals rather than more, but now I seem to be back on the bread and easy to grab stuff.

I also feel like it's such an uphill struggle and I may permanently have awful things like my stomach (delightful apron effect, but also wonky) and as I don't feel massive I kind of kid myself I don't look too bad.

I need to kick myself up the arse don't i? Fucking hell.

ohfour I am SO impressed! Well done!!

He's away saturday to saturday ohfour. Dd missed him terribly last time, it was heartbreaking telling her that we couldn't make him come home.

Have you stood on the scales nancery? With those calories you've probably stayed the same for a bit which is pretty good.

when stressed i eat huge amounts - i've never been one for going off my food. Are you managing to do your long walks too? It is a long slog, i find my motivation comes and goes through the day, especially when it's grey and miserable out, it seems so much easier on sunny days.

I think my stomach will be the last area to tone up, just because i have so much to do and i hate stomach crunches etc.

Hi everyone can I join please?

I started slimming world last week, I am just about to go to a weigh in and I havnt lost anything I havnt followed it correctly as I've had such a stressful week.

The last weight loss thing I did was fasting 5:2 and I lost 8lbs and then put it all back on!

Now I am considering 5:2 and slimming world at the same time

All I can think of is biscuits at the moment!

Nope, not doing scales! I doubt I've put much, if any, on but don't think I've lost either. Re the long walks, that's a weekend thing; I am mainly with DS in the week but tend to be the one out with the dog walks at the weekend while DH and DS spend time together. At the weekend I am generally out on the hills for two hours or so (I have a border collie, she doesn't do strolls!) which is great (mentally too) but I can't really in the week as DS can't come so DH takes the dog and can usually sort-of work at the same time.

Hi Positively9something and welcome to our quiche! I tried the 5:2 but struggled with the second day; fasting Monday was fine but finding another day, even with the option of moving them about, proved tricky. Slimming World and 5:2 could be a good jump start, and perhaps will mean you can be a bit more flexible with the SW side of things

Can I join? I reckon is be really good at dieting of dh would listen to me and stop buying the sweets alcohol and icecream for me that I never buy myself and wouldn't eat if he didn't come home with it!

I am truly a crap dieter - I haven't dieted in any way, shape or form, all week. I've eaten 2 easter eggs, mr kiplings lemon fancies, crisps, had enchiladas for dinner etc, and not done any exercise whatsoever!!

Ho hum - one day I will find the energy to stick to something. For a few hours at least!!

RunningKatie if it makes you feel any better, I ripped a tendon in my shoulder a few years ago - by brushing my hair!! was in absolute agony with it, and ended up having to have physio! Still plays up every so often if I am at a desk for too long.

Good luck with slimming world positively - I have tried that twice in the last year, but I just don't eat enough fruit and veg to make it work!!

Good work Coldfeet.

I have had chips for tea tonight, a freddo frog chocolate and I am on my second glass of wine.

My mum did similar to her shoulder, falling off a bike which is why I feel a bit paranoid about my neck, I'm self-medicating with alcohol tonight.......

I did slimming world about 15 years ago 15 years? where the chuff did that go?, I took the whole eating unlimited amounts to extreme and did lose weight but couldn't sustain it.

Hi crap dieters! I'm about to have a lovely takeaway curry, one from a restaurant a few miles away, it was too good an opportunity to say no to! I am also on my first glass of wine and it will probably be one of several!

Back on the wagon on Monday?

runningkatie I still think the 90s were 10 years ago...!

I had a healthy dinner of fish in a bag, new potatoes and steamed veg. Followed by double chocolate fudge cake and double cream. I have also had a bag of milkybar mini eggs today - oops! Although my saving grace is that I am on pepsi max, not wine or baileys! haha

however, a few mums at toddler group have commented on my weight loss lately. So I must be doing something right!! lol

I couldn't take to slimming world. I need to either count everything, or count nothing. Unlimited amounts of pasta etc just doesn't work for me - I need portion control!

The 90s were more than 10 years ago? Noooooooo

I still look at the dc's and wonder where they came from, I forget I'm not about 21!

We went out for dinner before DH left, I had a burger and chips, and chocolate pudding. I really haven't quite got the hang of this healthy eating malarkey at times.

I haven't got the hang of it either. I think I need a personal trainer to come and make me exercise every day, and someone to cook all my meals. I might stick to it then. Failing that I shall have to be locked in a feeding clinic, where I have no way of accessing any naughty stuff!!

Morning everyone,

I agree the unlimited food thing can also be taken too far I ate so much food last week and was still having naughty things too

Morning! My food yesterday was pretty crap but will try to get back on it properly tomorrow. This may sound odd but I stretched in front of the mirror yesterday and from a certain angle (ie straight on, back arched, arms up) look quite good - curvy rather than flabby and round. Will aspire to look like that when not at a funny angle!

That made me smile nancery

I have been up since 4.42am with ds. It's raining here but i think we're off to a park and animal farm with wellies and waterproofs. I hope the cafe opens at a civilised hour.

I was going to do a yoga dvd this morning but dd woke up. Got to increase my exercise somehow, i've not been fitting it in but the dodgy neck appears much better at last!

have been doing good but it's all gone to shit this weekend. the boys been a nightmare so ended Friday and satuarday with Malibu and lemonade x3 and half an Easter egg grrr went through loads of my clothes and hardly anything fits but am skint so it's either slim and fit in it or stick to the limited things that do. how are you all doing? still enjoying the lemon water and now I've run out of lemons I'm actually missing it! not doing so well with the fruit things are less structured when the dc are off school.

ohfourfoxache well done - fab weight loss!

Was pleased with my weight on Fri am (another 1lb off - that's 12lb now) but have been v bad since then. School cake bake on Fri, lemon tart yesterday, hot cross buns today. Arghh.

positively the same thing happened to me on 5:2 - I lost about 8lb but then didn't lose any more (even though I was still fasting). At the moment I'm not following any particular plan, just trying to cut out snacks and reduce portion size.

12lbs is great headoverheels.

We went to the park, it did not go well. The dc's are missing dh and he's away for ages yet.

Going to login to mfp and see just how badly astray I have gone today.

Went out for dinner today, following a lovely spa day. I thought I made better choices for dinner, as I had jacket potato instead of pasta/pizza etc (we were in Frankie and Benny's). But it looks as though carbs are not my friend. My stomach (top of my abdomen) was swollen when we left the restaurant. I thought that this only happened to me after eating too much wheat, but obviously not. I wasn't as bad as usual today (I can swell up so much after meals sometimes that I look 6 months pregnant again!!), but most definitely swollen, only a few hours after my mum had been saying how my waist was smaller

So......low carb it is!!

Had a massive shock to the system today - I looked in the mirror! I mean I really looked in the mirror, and I was gobsmacked! I was taking my measurements, and struggling to get a waist measurement; I was trying to measure around my belly button, but I couldn't get the tape to sit right, as it appears that my "hips" are coming further and further up! Of course, they aren't hips, they are "love handles", and they are hideous. My frame is totally wrong, and I don't know when that happened!! I always registered that I was bigger round the belly than I should be, and obviously post baby my belly is also flabbier/looser than it used to be. But I really didn't notice the fat on my sides!!! What the hell have I been focusing on to not notice that????!!!!!

There is a silver lining though - I have lost my appetite a bit today! I have only eaten 1120 so far today. I may have a low cal hot chocolate / glass of milk to go to bed with, but I still shouldn't go over 1250.

5 weeks and 5 days until we go on holiday. You think there is any chance of me dropping 2 dress sizes in that time? lol

Hello ladies. I am a very crap dieter. BUT I WANT TO BE HOT.... BEFORE I'M TOO OLD....

I got down to my target weight 6 years ago after 3 kids and just as I turned 40. I had all in all gained and lost 4 stone. It took a long time including 2 months of Lighter Life (DID I REALLY ONLY SURVIVE ON SHAKES/SOUP AND WATER FOR 2 MONTHS???). Anyway put a tiny bit back on. Then the DH turned into a complete and utter b@stard and I gained some (he had been nicer when I was fatter!!). Then some more. Then DH buggered off with a friend (turns out he had a penchant for my friends - usually the vulnerable needy ones) and the weight piled on further. In a complete and utter despair my only joys were food, drink and fags. I finally joined a gym to discover his bitch was a member - not good (she's like a skinny boy in figure - seriously) but I persevered. Did Cambridge Diet for 2 weeks - lost 11lbs. Then had a hip problem which halted that. Then I gave up the fags - for my lovely kids. How I miss those cigs - hunger suppressants, escapism, talking to the fun people outside, and just shoving something in my mouth that was not food. So more weight on. I hate myself and yet I love clothes - just not the ones in my wardrobe. I would be such a clothes tart if I could and yet I am a disgusting blob. I want a nice hot man and my confidence is lost. OK I meet men who are interested in sex but I want a relationship. Started WW 3 weeks ago which I think quiet honestly is the best way to eat and lose weight. First week -6lbs, second -1lb - this week I'm not going (ok Im looking after other people's kids but I would've found another meeting if I had stuck to it) and also trying to get to gym at least twice a week. I need that inner child to get lost when I am wanting to binge and eat rubbish stuff and think about me - my health, my looks and my kids. But how?? Wow I think that rant should've burned at least one calorie.

Coldfeetwarmheart (not sure if this actually ties to your reply as I am new and possibly quite moronic at Mumsnet).

That is all I want - a clinic. Preferably on a desert island where you have to do yoga, pilates, get shouted at in a masterful way by hot sexy gym instructors who then massage and stretch your sore mussels after that and only feed you tiny amounts of nutritious stuff whilst providing CBT and hypnotherapy to reporgramme those bad habits, so when you go home you are fitter, healthier, slimmer, toned and more mentally sorted to live the rest of your life like a goddess. So simple.

Hi RobbieRobs - well done for joining weight watchers! How to get rid of that inner child? Ideally we would all be offered free CBT or something. Being realistic, I think we just need to think things through and consider the consequences (yes, MUCH easier said than done!!). e.g. as we head for the biscuit tin, rather than the instant hit that we get, we need to think how about how we would feel when we step on the scales in a weeks time to see a gain, or in a years time when we are still the same size, or worse still, when our health starts failing prematurely and we can't do as much as we want to?
I think this is something that we all struggle with, and there isn't really the help out there from NHS/weight loss groups like weight watchers/slimming world. They tell us what we should be eating, what keeps us fuller for longer etc. But, in my experience, they don't really give us any tools to deal with things like binging/emotional eating and other life-long bad habits!

These clinics do exist - unfortunately I cannot afford £1000+ per week!! (And that's ones in the UK, not a desert island in sight!)