Something has got to change...

[ChesterDrawers]

...but I don't know what.

I am sick of being on a diet, off a diet, on another diet, off that diet to, ad infinitum.

I desperately need to lose the two stone I put on while pregnant four years ago, but I can't seem to stick to anything. I am currently falling off the slimming world wagon, having previously tried most things out there - WW, low carb in various guises, hypno, cal counting...

Not sure what I hope to gain from posting this. I am just so fed up of it all and so fed up of being fat and needed somewhere to rant.

As you were.

[CrumblyMumbly]

Awww thanks very much. Did get lots of compliments and felt great in my slinkly size 12 pencil skirt! Slipped a bit diet wise - ate my whole body weight in brie and party food! Back on plan now and confident that I can get to target and maintain it. Good luck - you can do it!!!

[starsinthenight]

Crumbly - HUGE congratulations to you! Very very well done - 20lbs is fantastic. Hope you feel how you deserve to feel, and got lots of compliments over Xmas.

(I started on the thread at the beginning - was doing very well, lost a good 8 lbs, but then resorted back to old ways. Fresh start for me today - motivated by you & your fab weight loss !!)

[CrumblyMumbly]

Christmas Crumbly here for last time. Lost 2 this week so 20 lbs since thread started at end of August and 3 and a half stone since I started my weight loss journey in July. I'm off to enjoy my thinnest Christmas in over 10 years! Good luck to you all in 2015 and Merry Christmas.

[CrumblyMumbly]

And another 1 off - I'm killing fat like I killed this thread - Ho Ho Ho see me next week!

[CrumblyMumbly]

Another 1 off today - nobody cares tra la la la la - sings carols madly in empty room while rewarding self with a chocolate coin!

[CrumblyMumbly]

Hums Jingle Bells while reaching for the mince pies!

[CrumblyMumbly]

Come on everyone - where's our motivational pre Christmas team talk!

[CrumblyMumbly]

1 off today - I'm going to stick on here 'til Christmas even if I am talking to myself!

[CrumblyMumbly]

Thanks both - I am no longer using the D word just saying that I'm making healthy choices from now on. My eating is linked to my emotions/boredom which is what I am addressing. If I leave eating until I am very hungry - I either eat too much or at a different time to my family which makes life more complicated! I have forgotten about the lapses, just one week out of lots of healthy ones! Onwards and upwards team.

[Coffi]

Crumbly I have stopped dieting. I had a bit of a breakthrough after reading some books and listening to a talk online. Diets don't work. If they did then we would never need another again. We can all lose weight if we restrict our food intake but generally down the line we will put it on again and then diet and gain over and over again.
Eating what you want when you are hungry is the way to go and stopping as soon as you are satisfied not full. Body led calorie control really. I do not want to spend my life on diets that do not work.

www.ted.com/talks/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_usually_work?language=en

Watch this. It was posted by someone on Mumsnet the other day on a thread about giving up dieting now they had turned 40. It really inspired me.

[CrumblyMumbly]

No change this week - lost the plot a bit. Suddenly got bored of the whole thing - no exercise - snacks galore. I blame the Christmas adverts! Must get back to it and stop self-sabotaging...Hope you're all doing better than me.

[CrumblyMumbly]

Thanks Mydietworked - well done on your weight loss.

[Mydietworked]

Hi I don't normally post on this section (I've name changed) but I just wanted to say if I can loose weight any one can. I used to be a normal weight but in the last five - six years I put on a huge amount of weight over 5 stone my BMI was a shocking 34. I was heading for type 2 diabetes. I half heatedly tinkered with diets but I just love cakes, sweets, biscuits, cheese food, I'm also a foodie and it's a big part of our family life, cooking, sitting eating, chatting, having three or four courses and eating regularly in good restaurants, it's the only luxury in my life. My friends have always commented on my complete lack of will power when it comes to food. It was a great joke. I didn't eat one biscuit or one chocolate or one slice of home made bread Id eat all of it.
As I got older, post menopausal and less active due to a job change the weight piled on. I bought clothes that I couldn't stand but they covered up my weight. This year I was starting to get out of breath on a slight incline, I struggled to get out of the car, I was getting a rash between the folds of fat but most importantly I hated how I looked and was becoming increasingly fed up.
One day I got up and new something had to change.
I've been on a diet which one is irrelevant and lost over 5 stone, I've barely eaten a chocolate, biscuit or cake in 6 months and now I don't even want one, I can now sit next to a box of chocolates all day at work and not eat one or politely decline a biscuit (unheard of before), in fact sweet things make me feel slightly unwell even the smell of sugar.
If I can do it anyone can. The only think is that my previous attempts at dieting had been unsuccessful because I was doing it because I sort if wanted too, this time it was different I knew I had to do something. Over the last 6 months I've also watched very carefully and talked to thin people analysing how they eat, I eat lunch out with friends a lot, they just simply eat less, they drink water instead of Elderflower cordial, they don't eat bread, they don't have a cake or biscuit in a coffee shop, or munch on sweets in between meals, they ignore packets of doughnuts at the till in petrol station till, no treats between meals, many talk about sticking to about 1500 calories a day so that they can eat out and enjoy themselves once a week, or eating less for a couple of days after eating a large meal. Thin people are thin for a reason, they constantly watching what they eat and adjusting their food intake accordingly.
Having lost weight and I now have a BMI of 22 I not only feel like a new women I look like one, friends who don't see me regularly are stunned some haven't recognised me, a few have been unkind and some would push really hard to get me to eat cakes biscuits etc when I was dieting but most have been nothing but complementary and encouraging. I can now walk up hill without getting out of breath and spring out of the car, gone are the clothes to hide my large weight gain.
Good luck to all of you, if I can do it anyone can.

[Coffi]

Im ok thanks throbbly. I had a cold and found myself starting to overeat biscuits and bread (comfort eating) so have given myself a stern talking too. Im going to go lowish carb for a bit to stop the sugar/carb spikes.

[thobblywighs]

How are we all doing? I've just eaten a huge cooked breakfast. Going to walk it off around the shops today and try not avoid coffee and cake, although I am not that hopeful about that one.

[CrumblyMumbly]

Well done Thobbly. I think 7 by Christmas is a good target to aim at.

[thobblywighs]

Hi Coffi. No real plan. I am trying to base meals around veg, drink more water and snack less. The last few weeks have been tricky in work and I have literally eaten my way though them. I have got a grip now though so hopefully onwards and downwards! Good luck. We can do this. Have you got much to lose? I need to lose 12lb to get to a healthy BMI. After that, I will see how I feel.

[Coffi]

Thobbly I would love to lose 7 by Christmas. How are you doing it?

[thobblywighs]

A pound and a half off this week. I'm slowly moving in the right direction. Hope everyone is doing well. 10.7 now. Aiming for 10 by Christmas.

[CrumblyMumbly]

yum love maltesers - and duck pancakes - sob! Stuffed in big roast dinner and profiteroles today - oh dear.

[Coffi]

Crumbly ......not Hi Coffi, duh, that's me lol.

[Coffi]

Hi Coffi Well done on the 1lb loss. I didn't eat much yesterday. Just a piece of dry toast with apricot jam but then DH and I went out for Cantonese so had duck pancakes (two) and prawns in honey in lemon. Didn't eat big portions (never do really) and we shared a box of maltesers later. So not much in the whole day really.

Will do weights later and get on my exercise bike and maybe go on treadmill too. My gym is in a big shed in the garden so cant really avoid it now can I haha!