Anyone else need to lose weight for their wedding?

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I need to lose at least 2 stone by June.

Tbh I haven't done too bad over Christmas and haven't gained afaik? avoided scales.

I'm 5ft 8 and weigh just over 13 stone. Am a size 14. My stomach is my worst area, legs and arms are fine as are boobs.

I only want to get to a size 12 as don't look so good as a 10. I used to be really skinny when younger and hated it.

Anyone else need to lose weight for their wedding? I'm not even looking at dresses yet until I lose some.

Morning all, lovely day here in Leeds- freezing but sunny! Have moved offices closer to home so am now taking a 15 minute bus ride with a 15 min walk there and back everyday. Hoping a little bit of exercise should shake things up a bit! I'm giving blood this evening so atleast that will equate to weight loss!

Todays menu-
B Banana Pancake with Nutella & Fruit
L HM Veg Soup, Liberte & nakd bar.
D Chicken tikka & Salad Pitta.

Well done on doing the Shred dancingwitch, and on your food intake.

Enjoy your walk gotred.

Not sure what I'm up to today? I'm thinking of fast day as have a friend over for lunch tomorrow and might be difficult to do fast day Thurs Fri. I have an exam on Thursday so need some energy to think.

I haven't eaten yet but fancy beans on toast. Probably make some soup for later?

Trying to get Dss motivated to come out somewhere. DS2 will but DS1 is harder to shift. He's a gym bunny so will be no doubt going there?

Have a good day everyone.

Well, any positivity I may have felt about myself has been well and truly destroyed this afternoon. I was talking to my colleague about his weight loss and I mentioned how amazing my best friend is looking as she has lost a lot of weight recently. I went on to her facebook photos to show him how gorgeous she is and while I was scrolling he said, "wow, yeah, look how much bigger she was in that one on the left!"

...it was a photo of me, not her. She had uploaded it via her Instagram and it was showing in her photo album. I'm sitting in my office trying not to cry now. He was apologetic but tried to make a joke about it and thought that it was appropriate to loudly relay the entire story to our colleague in an "omg, you'll never guess what I just did" way. I feel like a pile of shite.

What a shit Soon!! Sounds like he may have done it on purpose? Is he 7? Even my teen dss wouldn't do that. Hope he's not invited to your night do?

My day's been ok. I've had a couple of pancakes and some scotch broth. Marinated steak with salad for dinner.

No exercise today. I've been doing a painting for my church, catching up on washing and doing chores. Oh and watching a bit of TV.

He definitely didn't do it on purpose, his face crumpled when I pointed out his mistake. I think he tried to joke because I didn't laugh or smile once and he was covering up his embarrassment about upsetting me.

It wasn't a close-up photo where it was clearly my face either, it's a picture of me sitting in a chair in Starbucks and I have similar hair to my friend. He had no reason to think that there would be a photo of me in her photo album either, I suppose. Urgh.

Oh that's ok then (sort of).

Well done DW.

I was going to pick up my possible wedding dress but the family got wind I was home. So three hours and five adults and five grandchildren later, the house looks like the wreck of the Hesperus and the dress is still at the shop!

Maybe tomorrow,

It doesn't matter anyway. It's not like it's going to fit on the hips or anything stupid like that!

Oh heck! I've done that. Open my mouth and in goes my foot.

I asked my friend if he was thinking of retiring anytime soon. He was a CEO .

He said, he wasn't and how old did think he was. I thought he was my age which would have been 61 at the time.

He was 55! Do I look that old ( that wasn't a reference to the fact that I am and do) he said.

Well yes he did.

You're very resilient MrsB , you'll be able to look at that picture and laugh when you are lean and trim!

Ugh, what a downer! But I agree, that photo will become your Victory Banner when you're feeling fit and fabulous. But I completely sympathise - can't have been nice to hear.

I tried on two dresses from boohoo.com today and couldn't get into either of them! Same dress, but one a size 10 and the other a 12. I think I've got so used to most shops' Vanity Sizing that I haven't realised how chubby I really am. It's only in certain shops - the younger girls' shops, like TopShop etc - that sizes are still the old smaller ones.

Anyway. Good day food wise today: Blueberries for breakfast, dry wholemeal toast and low-fat cottage cheese, fruit, celery and carrot sticks for lunch, then lean homemade burger and salad for dinner. And a Diet Coke. I feel SAINTLY (and a bit dizzy!).

DS1 is doing thus diet with me and he's being such a good sport. I thought he'd vomplain, but he's being an angel. He loved his breakfast - I smooshed a banana onto a piece of wholemeal toast and sprinkled cinnamon on it. And he's eaten SO MUCH fruit and veg. And no sugary foods at all. he was addicted to sugar before, and just eating pizza and paninis at school. I'm really proud of his attitude. And it's nice to do it together.

Ha at "vomplain" - a mixture of complaining and vomiting?

Soon you must have been devastated. I was on the receiving end of a similar comment years ago &, after I'd sulked for 48 hours, it did give me a kick up the backside.

An OK day here:
B: - the last hot cross bun. No more will be bought now until Easter
L: - jacket potato with baked beans, lf cottage cheese & a small amount of grated cheese
S: - salmon fillet on a bed of veg & a couple of new potatoes
Snacks: - the 4pm munchies really hit today & I had a banana, a carrot, a quarter cheese sandwich & a few raisins. Then we made fairy cakes & chocolate refrigerator cake today & various bits of mixture were eaten at various stages.

Here I am , sliding in through the window again! I won't say back door with its fifty shades of grey connotations..

Not too bad a day...bit heavy on the sweets. Will do better tomorrow.

Vomplain...love it.

Haven't felt too great today. Very disturbed night. Will be back on track tomorrow though

Evening all.

I've done ok with the food. Had my scotch broth. For dinner I'd marinated steaks in red thai paste and lime. Fried them in a little oil and sliced them then put on top of a huge salad of mixed leaves, beet, cherry toms, red onion and coriander. I drizzled the juices over. It was really tasty but low fat. I had another pancake, grated an apple in the batter and added cinnamon. Ate that with a dollop of Greek yoghurt and a small sprinkling of brown sugar.

I need to exercise tomorrow though. Only movement I've done today is chores.

FSC all of that food sounds delicious.
Just done the shred :-)

As in just done it? Respect to you dancingwitch.

Am off to bed now. Night all.

Morning all. I'm still in a huff about what my colleague said yesterday but at least that embarrassment is fueling my desire to shift this weight. I had a god-awful sleep last night due to being far too hot but I'm determined not to let the Munchie Monster out to play and I'll be going to bootcamp come hell or high water. Food today looks like this:

B: Apple and cinnamon overnight oats, 2x strong coffees

L: Ham and mustard sandwich on seeded bread, broccoli and stilton soup, 2x clementines

D: Sticky BBQ chicken breast with baked sweet potato, spinach, broccoli

S: Petits Filous, banana

Morning all,

Gave blood for the first time last night which was horrendous! Apparently I have small veins so the blood flowed really slow and I have been left with a huge bruise/achy arm. Gonna postpone tonight's Zumba till tomorrow so having a fast day today.

B- Scrambled Eggs
L- Cambridge Lemon Bar
D- Chicken Salad.

Soon I would've been really upset but you can either use it as an excuse to mope around feeling sorry for yourself or use it as motivation to never look like that again!! xx

Oh god, I'm freaked out by giving blood already and that story has put me right off gotred!

I'm moping around feeling sorry for myself AND using it as motivation

Oh no Soon Don't let my freakishly small veins put you off! lol My fiancé donated too and his was over and done with in half the time off mine and he said he didn't feel a thing!! Had a NSV when I asked her to explain why my veins were so small and she said it was because I had a small/petite frame woohoo lol xx

Ooh meant to say is anyone giving anything up for lent? I'm not really religious but like to use it as an excuse for having will power so I am giving up chocolate!! x

I'm not doing lent but I have signed up to BHF's Dechox programme, so I'll be attempting to give up sugary crap for the whole of March. Gulp...

Ooh, how I ache today. I took the DC to a music group where we had to throw them up in the air & could scarcely lift them.
I had some veg tart for lunch & a massive bowl of salad but it scarcely touched the sides so I've just had a quarter of a tin of baked beans & a bread roll. I hoping a bit of stodge will fill me up. If I can get through DC tea time without picking & bedtime without diving into the cake tin, I should then be fine.
Wedding getting very real here as have booked venue, restaurant & made appt to get our licence to marry. Now that the wedding is really happening, thus diet needs to really happen!
Soon,glad you're feeling inspired
Go I have previously been told I have small veins too.

I'm giving up crisps for lent. I've almost given them up anyway. Not much else i can give up as don't eat chocolate, am not bothered about cakes. I could give up cheese nope but it's needed when you're my age for me old bones I don't drink much so that wouldn't be hard to give up for a month. And I'm not giving up dancing! I suppose I could give up the internet?

Decent day but hardly any exercise again! Dancing tomorrow so should make up for it. I've eaten chicken breast with pasanda and a few oven chips. I need to go to the shops for some fruit. I'm a bit tired today as didn't sleep well at all.

Keep up the good work everyone. I'm sure we'll all look amazing

Ordered my evening celebration invites today.

What are they like, FSC?
Just shredded again. I am very impressed with myself as I ache so much. I'm about to sink into a lovely, hot bath.
I've done pretty well since I last posted as I had two desert spoons of the DC's soup, a small slice of cheese & three grapes. Now trying to decide on tomorrow's food... home with DD for lunch; just me in the evening.