1st of September I'm back 'on it'!! Whose with me??

[HeySoulSister]

Standards have slipped!

My little part time job has become almost full time, the kids have been home and it's been too hot to keep my running up. The old healthy eating has slipped too. Sugar has crept in and weight has crept on

So, sept 1st

Weigh
Measure
Start running weekly x 3
Back to bootcamp
Juicing and healthy eating

And I'm going to track the lot on myfitnesspal/mapmyrun/fitbug.com

Oh, and for the first time in going to do the water thing. 2 litres a day. That is new for me but achievable I think

So, gives us about 3 1/2 months til Christmas. Anyone else?

I've had quite a good week except for polishing off a bottle of wine with DH on Friday, but had steak and salad and no pudding so not all bad. Weighing in on Tuesday this week and hoping for a pound off.

Been a bit unwell this week but didn't eat too much rubbish! Weight loss for sept was 12 pounds. Not measured yet

Back to it this month. Still in shock getting a marathon place. Will concentrate on weight loss before the training plan gets to the tough bits. I can comfortably run 10 miles so I don't want to overtrain! No point peaking by nov.... Will concentrate on improving speed and just generally. 'Keep running'

Well done everyone

12lbs is brilliant soul you must be thrilled with that.

That's amazing Soul- well done and excellent work on the not smoking carbe

Sorry not been back to the thread this week. It's been crazy here with the protests. Everything is just taking forever, and as schools still shut I've been forced into a spot of home schooling, which has confirmed my suspicions that I'm not cut out for home schooling . Still closed tomorrow. Arrgghh. I made play dough. 2 colours. Hopefully that'll burn through an hour.

Total weight loss for September was 3 lbs but I think there's also some muscle/fat benefit as I did a lot of lifting and shoulders definitely look better. Had a bad week last week with sugar cravings from hell. They have completely subsided today so aiming to have a really nutritious week this week ahead of my race on friday night. Not aiming to lose but just eat really high quality food.

Exercise this week will be limited as I'm tapering but I'm umpiring netball tomorrow night.

Brilliant Soul - Well done! I'd be ecstatic with 12lbs off.
I'm probably more on course to add 12lbs ON :) I have not and I am not weighing myself for a while. I may measure tues/weds though.

I'm going to give myself another week of mostly sensible picking then get tough again. Wednesday will be 2 whole weeks of no cigs - 14 freaking whole days that I NEVER thought I'd manage

What's a few more lbs?

if you were slim and ate your TDEE in Mars bars that was better than being overweight with a healthy diet Surely this person is the Devil in disguise. His/her tongue and fingers should be immediately removed :)

Thanks Aggressive, well done on the loss too, did you measure? I gained lbs last week but my shrunken cms from the week before didn't go up which pleased me.
Oh Home schooling.... I was quite good at cracking the homework whip when my Ds's were young but that was for only 1-2 hours. I think I'd be too soft/easily bored on MN too much if I had to it all day. Hope the School reopens very soon.

I've been investigating Paleo a bit today and reading people's success stories. I love how it helps tummy troubles, bloating, gas etc.. but don't like so much the NO oats, lentils,beans etc...I'm also not a huge fan of eggs - I can do omelette, fritatta and fried with the yolk broken - that's it.
I don't eat a lot of dairy anyway so that wouldn't bother me.

I need to be really strict with a diet to follow or I worry I'm going to put lots of weight on. Plus the fact that I could potentially fall pregnant any month (hopefully) I need to get a grip before I start getting too heavy **.

** I don't even know what I weigh at this moment, nor do I want to, I'm just letting my imagination run wild that I've shot up lots. I think I just to get a grip in general :) :)

Good luck for a healthy coming week everyone.

Decided to return to a Monday weigh day. It ain't pretty (0.5lb weight gain) but then at least I'm not kidding myself! And it falls in line with my weekly WW points this way anyway. On the plus side, the two stone I lost after DS was born have STAYED OFF (which is an achievement in itself) but I mustn't stagnate now, if I can lose even half a stone by Christmas I'll feel so much more comfortable.

A few more pounds off and size 14 on the bottom half and 12 on top will fit perfectly

I'm 6ft tall, can't go lower than size 12 really.

Going to force myself to go out to bootcamp tonight.

Thats fab soul.
Gah!! We have had a power cut so i am currently sat in a hotel in central warsaw, just eaten junk for dinner and dhs tablet refuses to write and autocorrect in english. Im not amused, please forgive my spelling and punctuation.

You are so nearly at the two week mark, carbe keep up the good work.

1lb off this week, 12lb to go, and 8 weeks to my birthday....

Thanks baking, well done on the loss.

Electric sorted now so back home on the lappy. I hate, with huge passion, Dh's tablet. No matter what it stays Polish and auto corrects in Polish so takes an age to do anything, it was really stressing me out but was the only way I could Mn :)

Still haven't been on the scales, I know I'm holding water so don't want to yet, maybe in a few days.
Or maybe not - a tub of marscapone has found it's way into my fridge and I may have eaten some earlier on crackers. FFS!
Definitely, definitely need to get back on track soon. I really don't want to smoke again so will maybe allow myself to pick still for this week and make next Monday my 'Day' to begin pulling it back.

Hello. I've not been on for a couple of weeks because I've been too busy to mumsnet! Dh has been working weekends and dds have had colds and been very demanding. We've also had lots of relative visits.

Anyway the good news is that I weighed myself and I've lost 1/2lb in two weeks. I know it's not much but I've had about 3 days in the last fortnight where I've overindulged so I'm pleased.

Anyway I need to read the thread to catch up. I hope you are all doing well.

Ladies, I need a pep talk. The last few days I'm just so bored of making good choices. DH is away and I have slipped back into eating biscuits in the evening. I'm not even hungry really.
In my head I know slow and steady is the way to go, but it feels like a lot of effort at the moment for a pound off. If I weren't BF DD I would be tempted to do a mad cabbage soup type diet!

A loss is a loss - so well done Johnny. I hope things quieten down for you, a lady's got to MN :)

Baking - STEP AWAY FROM THE BISCUITS.
Make yourself some 'biscuit' I do my own with honey, oats, butter then whatever else I want throw in - raisins, dried cranberries, whatever I have.
Much healthier and hits the spot with less damage and guilt.
I'm not really the best person to be kicking anyone's arse but try to keep going, you're doing well.
I hear you with the cabbage soup/other extreme diets but we both know it doesn't stay off :(
I'd really like to do Atkins or a version of but I can't hack the heavy meat/fat intake nor too many eggs.

I have just eaten a whole punnet of about 6 plums!

and a banana.......bingeing on fruit! just me for dinner and cant be bothered to make anything. this is danger time for me cos I will be hungry later and eat something I shouldn't,just cant be bothered to cook for one!

Ha ha - I love a good fruit binge. Especially plums, apricots Etc. Can also easily eat an ice cream tub of blackberries in a single session.

I had a sneaky weigh this morning ahead of my race tonight. 140 lbs which is4 lbs lighter than 1 Sep and 7lbs lighter than this time last year so happy with that. Quite nervous now. About to have a nap and then heading to the start for 9pm. Will hopefully finish around 4am. Then can get 2 hrs sleep before the kids get up

good luck bunting I am in awe!

thanks carbe I had an ok day yesterday, and I'm going to the gym this morning. I need to not self-sabotage as I have less than a stone to lose. It's just I now feel in the territory where I could lose it in a fortnight of mad cut off a limb dieting, and whilst I know that's daft and I'd put it all back on it is tempting to be at target rather than still plugging away a pound at a time.

Another migraine day. I WILL NOT GIVE IN TO THE BISCUITS.

Finally caught up with the thread and the Xmas shopping threads but I am wondering if I missed any good penisbeaker or sporn type threads. Sitting here mumsnetting while dd2 is making her dolls kiss each other so let's hope she doesn't pull the iPad away from me.

Bakin I feel exactly the same. I've lost about 4 stone and I just want to lose about another half. It should be so easy, if only I could be really strict with myself I could lose it so much quicker. Carbes right that any extreme diet won't be long term so we all have to keep plugging away. I've had phases where I've binged on biscuits for no reason and now I don't keep them in the house. It sounds awful but if friends bring them over I often throw them away because I can't be around them. I still get the urge to eat for no reason so try to have fruit at night time or I clean my teeth and go to bed early.

Carbe well done for not smoking. As others have said you know how to lose weight so if you have to put on a few lbs during this tricky time it isn't the end of the world.

HeySoulSister wow! I am in awe of people who can do a marathon. I have dodgy knees and feet and sometimes do about 3km on a treadmill at the gym but a marathon is just amazing.

Well done suffolkelk for doing so well with your weightloss.

I think I lost 3lbs in September so all in all I am pretty chuffed.

And now I need to pay attention to my child who wants to do arts and crafts. Wonder if I can distract her with fuzzy felt, so much less messy than throwing glitter around and cutting up bits of paper, both of which she loves to do.

Cooeeee, anybody there?

Hope everybody's ok. I have been very good until yesterday. I had a takeaway curry on Friday and had small portions of a tomato based curry and declined the naan.

Then yesterday dd1 decided she wanted chinese food. dh who's far too soft said yes. I started well, trying to limit my food but by the time the rice and noodles came I pigged out.

I now feel bloated and (tmi) slightly constipated so didn't think this morning would be a good time to weigh myself. Will try tomorrow.

Forgot to weigh myself today (no, really!) so will do it tomorrow. Tough weekend so a bit of comfort eating in the evenings. Will wait and see...

2lb off despite the biscuits I do wonder if I lose more when I eat a bit more? 10lb to go.

Still here. 140lbs. Came 11th out of 150 starters in my race on Friday night (yay). Should have come 7th but couldn't hold it for the last 3k ( boo). Gotta go and umpire netball in an hour ( ugh).

I haven't fecking restarted my diet today, nor have I weighed or measured, nor have I bought ANY healthy things to restart, nor do I currently want to :(
I feel like shite, it'll soon be time of the month and I know I'll sabotage myself in the run up to it- I know it. So to give myself the best chance I'm going to wait until 2 or 3 days into it. I always start diets this way so by the time the next one rolls around I'm well past the sugar/carb cravings.

Well done all losers and well done on your race Aggressive - that's really good.

Well done baking, I'm very jealous. I'm going to try to weigh myself tomorrow although I'll be lucky if I lose even a lb.

I am struggling to weigh myself because I don't seem to need the toilet until about 11 or lunchtime and by then I've eaten and drunk and I'm wearing clothes. I do think I'd find it easier to keep up the momentum if I weighed myself more often.

Bunting you had a good september, 4lbs is loads. Perhaps a binge on plums would sort me out!

Carbe I'm sorry you feel like shit but it's good that you understand the pattern, at least you know you'll get back into it.