New Mums still seeking new bodies - this time we'll do it.

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So a new thread, a new more motivated state of mind.

We will be skinny. No more excuses.

Oh Toes, your poor DS. Has been feeding much? Can you get someone to drop you in 7 million packets of nappies, wipes and washing powder? I hope he feels better soon.

That's so good that you've lost 2lbs, you're right, as long as the scales are going down it's a good thing.

Well diarrhoea hadn't kicked in yet. In fact, he hadn't pooed since yesterday morning. But then he's eaten next to nothing yesterday. Or rather he threw everything up except last breastfeed.

Today he managed half his porridge but he has no appetite at all. He just wants water but I'm scared to give him too much in case he throws up. So we're giving him little and often and so far nothing came back up, so fingers crossed... He's having another snoozy feed at the moment.

Little and often definitely the way to go. How is he now?
Try 5mls of fluid every 15mins and gradually build up.
ie 10mls then 215, 20 and so on. Have you got any diorolyte which has electroytes in so better than just giving water.

Just a quick post to ask to ask if I should get this thread moved to Weight watchers forum or something?
Dealing with teething baby with a bad tummy, have only managed soup so far today as I've been doing tons and tons of laundry and changing endless dirty nappies, oh the joy!

It looks like it was just a quick passing thing after all - DS stopped vomitting the same day and only had some quite soft poos, but not runny. He had very mild fever and was very grumpy, but he's also teething...

So I've weighed myself today and as predicted haven't lost anything. I guess I should be pleased I haven't hained any either. Need to get back to being good this week!

Not gaining is a positive Toes. I hope your DS is feeling better, teething is horrible.

I've been avoiding snacks, chocolate, crisps and carbs. It is not easy and I'm hungry a lot of the time but needs must. I have been feeling very down about my appearance of late but motivation and the will power to continue have been seriously lacking. Hearing that we're only 12 weeks to Christmas has spurred something inside of me. That's 12 Fridays. It's no time at all. I desperately want to be a size 14 heading towards a size 12. Actually, if I'm being entirely honest, a size 14 would be just dandy as a starting point.

So, I'm going hardcore. Soup and a low-carb dinner (lots of veg and quorn) in some sort of a light sauce to make it tolerable. I'm thinking of doing a veggie version of the James Duncan diet that I read about on another thread, it's very low cal and high protein. I was also reading about detox tea. Apparently it, ahem, makes you go to the toilet a lot (seems to have a laxative effect). But you lose a ton of weight.

I'm going to have a Saturday night off for some wine and a few tasty snacks in front of the telly. But during the week, all bets are off. I want to be a size 14 for Christmas, I have a pair of jeans that make my legs look amazing and I want to trot around in them.

C'mon who is with me? I've found my motivation and it wasn't in the end of a bag of crisps or in a packet of biscuits. It was hidden under the shame and embarrassment I feel when I see my reflection or see myself in photo's. It was in the frustration I feel when I try to put on a nice outfit or go shopping.

I am so sick of self-sabotaging and then feeling like shit when I see my true self. So I'm done. It's go hard or go home time. And I've run out of excuses. So let it begin...

I've worked out a bit of a meal plan for the next few days.

Breakfast: Coffee and bits of croissant crumbs I'll lick from the kids plates

Lunch: Soup. Soup. Some more soup. Then a bit more soup. And then possibly a bit of soup. It doesn't have to be points free, but it has to be without bread.

Dinner: Veg in fajita sauce (no fajitas). Lentil bake (basically all the veg and sauce from pasta bake with lentils, chuck it in the oven and pray for tastiness). Aubergine and mushroom in red pesto with parmesan on a bed of shredded raw carrots. Vegetable and lentil curry, no rice. Chickpea curry, no rice. Vegetable and quorn chili, no rice.

Snacks: Zero points soup. Coffee. Detox tea. Diet coke (to banish the headaches). A cup of low-fat hot chocolate.

No, it's not exciting, but hopefully it will work. I find myself standing in the kitchen sometimes thinking that if no one is looking I can have a biscuit or two, but then I think about the cost, how shit I will feel because I will put on more weight. I can't ever have one biscuit, they come in sets of two (four, six, eight...)

Anybody got any more meal ideas? I could do with some inspiration.

Did you ever just have one of those mornings?

I am having one of those mornings.

Stole some croissant for brekky off DH (I regret nothing, it was lovely).
Putting on my trousers after my shower I felt a weird "tug" in the material but TinySol had a nappy explosion so thought no more about it as I was distracted.
Up at DS1's school and I can feel a very fresh breeze blowing around places it shouldn't and when I look down I see i have an enormous hole in the inside thigh of my trousers. Lots of pale flabby flesh hanging out to complete the look, it was dreadful. No cardigan in the car, nothing to tie around my waist so I have to "walk" in to the school like a Geisha ensuring that my naked thighs cannot be seen.
TinySol promptly voms on the floor and I have to do a weird kneel-down-while-clenching-my-thighs-together move in order to clean it all up. I swear to God it must have looked like I was bursting to go to the toilet.

And the worst bit is that these are my only clean pair of trousers, thanks to pukey TinySol, so I may have to sew them up or collect DS1 in my pj bottoms. I really don't want to spend money on clothes that I am going to be too skinny for soon (hopeful emoticon).

On the plus side I weighed myself and I'm a pound down since Monday, so silver linings and all of that.

Off to "enjoy" another bowl of zero point soup. Oh so gross!

Sol - what a morning! Good luck with pick up. If its any consolation, I ma sure the other parents were so busy with their children that they won't have noticed.

I am very impressed with your new found motivation and also with your lb.
I find myself still with 30lbs to lose (will they ever go).
12 weeks til Christmas? I am hoping to lose a stone at least.
My plan meals will be:
Bfast- either yogurt with small amount of granola or porridge
Lunch: Soup, veg & Hummus, Tuna salad/Ham salad, Omlette with sprinkle of cheese and tomato
Dinner: Fish/meat with veg or salad. Really boring but it works...
If I desperate in the afternoon, will have some grapes/melon.

Could you do a veg curry? Chilli? (no rice of course though).

Gosh Sol what a morning! But well done on that lb!

You are a veggie as I understood? Do you eat eggs at all? Omelettes are low carb and quite nice...

If not then maybe grilled veggies with some nice spicy salsa (if you like spicy food), stir fry with tofu (without noodles of course) or fresh salad and one of those quorn thingies. Also low fat yoghurt for breakfast or lunch or as a snack?

Hello Toes - hope all well.

I've been having a lot of roast veg as well - you may already do this though.

I am a veggie Toes but I make omelettes out of silken tofu that's all blended up. It looks a touch slimey but it cooks up really nice. I can't bear eggs, I used to love them but worked in a bakery for a year and I spent days cracking loads of eggs and now I can't stand the smell of them. Grilled veg and salsa sounds yum - I've added that to my list.

Come on Beyond, we will do it before Christmas. It can be done. Your regime sounds good, is it going to be very repetitive or do you have lots of options? Have you given any thought to exercise? My motivation hasn't got as far as exercise.

I made up a veggie curry and had what I'm calling "Baked Misery", it's a big pile of cooked lentils, chopped veg covered in pasta bake sauce and topped with a bit of grated cheese. It is sloppy yet very dry, it tastes nothing like pasta bake and that makes it a bit of a sad dinner. DH really liked it but to be honest he would eat anything. I guess I just miss carbs.

Lost half a pound since yesterday and feel pretty good. The only downside is the constant peeing, it's really annoying. Oh, that and the hunger. I've decided to do the James Duncan diet next week, well, me and DH are going to do it. It's a fairly sparse eating regime that lasts a week, I'm doing the veggie version that I found online. It guarantees a stone weight loss in a week if you're quite heavy (which both DH and I are). In a sick sort of way I'm looking forward to it.

Anyone want to join me?

So I have purchased the food, I will be weighing in on a Saturday.
A stone in a week? Off to google James Duncan...

So Beyond are you tempted to give James Duncan a go?

I found low-carbing brilliant. My energy is through the roof and my appetite has definitely decreased, I even walked past a Burger King yesterday when in the midst of starvation and reminded myself that there was some soup I could have at home. And it worked! No Burger King, no feeling like shit because I'd cheated (no tasty fast food).

Myself and DH have done the weekly shop and we have all the stuff for the James Duncan diet. We start tomorrow. I'm more than happy to be a guinea pig on this one and see how hard it is. I will report back. I don't eat eggs so will be having the equivalent weight of an egg in tofu, for the chicken I have quorn fillets with no breadcrumbs and for the steak I'll have a tofu steak. I think it will be bloody hard but I am very determined. The only thing was a few people were commenting that it gave them dreadful wind which could be bit but I'll probably just blame the kids

Weighed myself again this morning and I'm 1.5lbs down from yesterday. So that's 4lbs since Wednesday, I just need to keep at it. 74 days until Christmas. There's a potential there to lose 30 lbs if I take it slowly but consistently. Do you know what though? It always took me around 2 weeks to lose 4lbs on weight watchers, how did I not realise that it doesn't suit me. Why is very slow weightloss paraded around like the best thing to do? I get so bored of such slow results that I inevitably fall off the wagon (and in to a cake).

I bought Slimmatea from Holland and Barrett (aka Shittertea) it's really nice and I haven't had any of the terrible side effects others were warning about. It tastes like mint tea and I'm using it as an alternative to my diet coke.

Hope everyone's doing well!

Sol - your weight loss is great!! I think I am going to have to follow your diet and make some no point soup etc. I am interested in the diet (will be interested in your results..) I thought tinySol was giving up breastfeeding but she has a cough and cold and not taking in much food, so I don't want to risk reducing my milk supply at the mo.
having said that, I think seeing quicker results like you have, would really spur me on.
Yesterday I cheated with a mars bar although my meals were good: Yogurt with granola, ham and tomato omelette, salmon with pesto and roast veg).
Today I have had: Yogurt with granola, Tuna/feta/olive salad, Chicken and veg. Also had a handful of cashews mid afternoon.
I just need to plod on this week and hope for a weight loss Saturday.
Once Tiny better, think will only be bf a night again (which is mainly comfort I am sure anyway and she is normally a good eater). So I can reduce intake more.

How much for you want to lose Sol?
I don't think I can fir any exercise in at the mo, just going to walk as much as possible.

Hi everyone, hope you're all well.
I think I've gone mad. I've bought a four week supply of Exante which I plan to start tomorrow. I'm sick of messing about and want quick results too.
I'll probably spend the next 4 weeks complaining about it though.

I'll try to catch up properly tomorrow.

Hello Green - how was your holiday?
I don't think you are mad - I have been considering the same myself. Are you weighing in weekly? I can't remember how much you want to lose?

Hi Beyond. It was good thanks, I need another by myself to recover though. Holidays with little ones are not relaxing are they?

I originally wanted to lose 50lb this year. I still have 40lb to go. If I manage to ever lose that I might then try to lose another stone or so. I'm hoping the Exante will help me to drop at least 20lb by Christmas. I've been looking at reviews and it seems like the weight loss is quick. I'm just sick of having to think about everything I'm eating all the time. I hope I can stick to it.

Your meal plans sound really nice though. Are you still counting points too?

My DD2 is bf loads at the moment, she was ill on holiday and has not been sleeping well. I'm quite sick of it at the moment, but worried I'll have a screaming baby on a night if we just stop. I want my body back and a good nights sleep.

Oh I'm going to start weighing weekly again. (Well probably every day, but I don't want to bore you all!)

Completely agree with you re:
Holidays with small children
Wanting sleep
Being sick of having to think about what eating all the time.

I had a lok on the exante site and they have an offer on at the mo, 2 weeks for £31 (with allowance for 400 ca evening meal) - am tempted.
I will be really interested to hear about your weigh ins so please post! I hope you get really good results and don't find it too hard.

I'll let you know Beyond. I signed up for emails a while ago and they keep sending discount codes too. Some of the meals sound 'interesting' but I should manage.

I'm going to try the 'Total Solution' where you just have 3 packs per day.

Might order the 2 week pack and start on Friday, will ponder!
Good luck Green.

How much do I want to lose? 4 stone .

I am 14 stone and I feel like an EnormaWhale. I really want quick results because I'm sick of gaining and losing the same damn 5lbs.

What's Exante Green . I think we should spur each other on, my plan is very full on and I'm bound to want to quit so we will sympathise with each other. I hope your DD2 is feeling better, was your holiday a bit manic? You will get your body back, it just takes a bit of time. I completely get your frustration, I felt like that while TinySol was breastfeeding, I think it may have been because I knew he was my last and I felt I had given all I could give.

Beyond soup is essential as far as I am concerned, filling and warm. There is no warmth in salad and it's bloody cold here. I love that you say you cheated with a mars bar, it sounds like you were papped in a sleazy hotel with one. I must also say, in the interest of full disclosure, my plan has room for wine/vodka, there is no diet that I could follow long term that did not leave space for alcohol.

I think we should all band together and support each other. We all seem to really want change now and I think group support and motivation is the way to go.

Oh and I don't exercise either Beyond. I'm too bloody tired. I think day to day activity alongside a low calorie diet should do the trick.