Anyone else just eating healthier/less and moving more?

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I've tried every diet known to man (and done quite well on some- I was down 50 lbs before Christmas, though dreading seeing the damage an all inclusive holiday and Christmas has done!)

I've had enough of counting calories/points/syns or whatever. I'm fed up of following plans or drinking shakes. What I really want to do, after years of yo yo dieting, is to eat healthy stuff (not low fat stuff though) that excites me, in slightly smaller portions and do exercise that I enjoy. I want to cut down/out fizzy drinks (already cut these out), sugary foods, chocolate, processed stuff etc.

I not only want to lose weight, I want to lose it (and enjoy it whilst doing it) and maintain it. Yes it's a cliche, but I don't want to diet, I want a lifestyle change. I want to be able to go out to a restaurant for special occasions and not worry over how many syns/points etc the food will 'cost' me, but be able to enjoy it. I don't even know if this makes sense, but after spending so long on different plans, I'm so excited to just eat stuff that's not dictated to me, but stuff I think I should be eating.

I've just done a meal plan for next week, and an online food shop which has got me really excited to start (yes, I'm weird! )

I still need to lose at least another 50 lbs. Does anyone want to join me?

MrsHoolie rest up and take care. Always best not to exercise if your unwell. It can batter your immune system!

Silverjohn I'd definately put it down to muscle gain

Terra I do my weigh in on a Friday, so I feel free to indulge a bit more at the weekends if I want to. So feel free to join me of Monday doesn't work for you.

Can I join please?

Am on another weight loss thread but momentum seems to have gone and this one looks busier & mire motivational!

I'll have a read through the posts when I get chance...

As for me, well my start weight (on 29th Dec) was 11 stone 11 lbs. I weigh myself on a Monday morning and today I was very pleased that they read 11 stone!

My target weight is 10 stone 7 (pre pregnancy weight).

everyone welcome butterfly.

stupid stupid scales. i've decided monday is a terrible day for my weigh in as the scales drop midweek.

i've somehow lost 2lbs and put it back on again last week.

i feel really pissed off, but suspect period due to arrive so compounding my annoyance.

anyway, have eaten lunch at 11am as ravenous and going running at 12. will hopefully return with a better frame of mind.

Well, the needle was fractionally under the 10st mark so probably 9st 13.5lbs this morning. Good to be in the 9st bracket again but a hollow victory as it's not due to will power but due to my ulcerative colitis flare up.

Hi Butterfly - Well done on your weight loss! 11lbs off in about a month is good going.

Sorry to see a few of you have seen a slight gain. I've been there! It's disappointing but you may find you have a really good loss next week if you carry on eating a bit less and moving a bit more.

I've joined a local walking group. They have their first walk this evening. Unfortunately I have to be somewhere else tonight so can't make it but am going along to the next. I don't know if walking in a group is of interest to any of you but if it is then take a look at the MeetUp website. You just type in your town or postcode and it tells you what groups are near you. It's hard to find the enthusiasm to do a long walk when it's cold so I'm hoping this will be motivational.

Aimlessly how fabulous for you to move into the 9's they sound like a wonderful place to be! It's good to hear that someone is losing.

I have a dog that needs walking and if you don't move your butt, he'll annoy the life out of you until you do. Walking can be a little dull on your own, when the dog wasn't around I sometimes I listened to podcasts or audiobooks....time flies with a great book.

So thing that I am pleased about despite a massive gain this week, is that I didn't allow my weekend screw up to push me completely off course. I had 2 days of indulgence but it was surprisingly easy to say no to the sugar yesterday. My fingers are crossed that maybe the hypnosis is working - just not in the way I expected it to.

Welcome Butterfly great loss so far, hope you see a 10 on those scales soon!

Silver - I have five dogs so do already do lots of walking but it's stop start, stop start, stop start with all their sniffing and toiletting. I can never get up a good pace! Not too bad with one dog but with two or three (I walk them in shifts. Can't walk all five at once!) all having to sniff what the other has sniffed or pee over one of the others pee there's a lot of standing around.

I could put my trainers on and go on my own but I'm being a weather wimp plus walking alone is a bit dull so I'm hoping there'll be some chatty people in the group that I'll want to see again which will motivate me to go.

It's great to hear that you didn't want sugar yesterday. I read that if you can avoid it for around five days the cravings go. But of course, if you have some again the sugar craving returns. Btw - 0.9kgs is NOT a "massive" gain. Don't be so hard on yourself.

pointless thread here my brain is really not functioning well right now.

Well done to those who have lost weight.

Have had a bad weekend due to having visitors! Had wine Friday and Sat night and ate loads! Too scared to weight myself this week! Back on sensible eating today and still going to gym class, gym or swim 3 times a week!!!

Omg 5 dogs aimlessly are you crazy? I'm hoping to teach Dpup to run nicely beside me. I'm teaching him to sniff on command, which allows me to walk briskly for one walk a day...the off lead walk can be very stop start, great exercise for Dpup but not for me.

I have no cravings while I'm sober, but I have a few wines and my resistance weakens and I start to think about something sugary and there is always sweet stuff in the house and even if there isn't I will bake - even at 11pm. I'm like a woman possessed.

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Welcome Butterfly sounds like you are doing really well with your weight loss. Maybe your fab loss can keep me motivated. I am starting to fixate on chicken nuggets and I fear they will be my undoing!

The sugar free brownies didn't happen due to the battery dying in the scales. I'm gutted, I was so looking forward to eating something that resembled cake tonight ... And as I have eaten all the chicken nuggets in the freezer I am reduced to eating vegetables instead, how tedious!

Or maybe I just shouldn't eat anything else tonight?

Does anyone else have a cut off time for food? Before I had DS I never ate a proper meal after 8pm. If I hadn't had dinner by then I'd have a bowl of cereal and that was it. Now it's quite commonplace for me to be having dinner at 9pm

LowCrab - Why don't you make your own chicken nuggets? That way you can avoid using the usual fats, salt and sugar that often goes into shop bought ones?

Just buy chicken steaks (or turkey steaks which are often leaner) and cut them into nugget size pieces (You can use scissors for this. Easier than using a knife) then set up a little production line of bowls - low fat natural yoghurt in one which you can season with some pepper or paprika or fajita/peri peri seasoning, breadcrumbs (Rice crispies or crushed cornflakes are a lovely alternative to breadcrumbs) in the next and getting dipping! Dip the meat into the yoghurt then roll it around in the breadcrumbs and then lay on a baking tray. Cook at 180 for about 25 minutes or so. Have them with seasoned sweet potato wedges/chips.

May I join. Weighed in on 9/1 at 11st 7 and last weight was 31/1 10st 13. Have been having breakfast lunch and dinner. No snacks bar fruit, drinking lots of water and rare glass of wine. Have an injury so not really able to exercise. Seeing the weight come off has really motivated me. Have a big holiday at Easter so another incentive.

Add to that i am 5' so resembale a barrel

Aimlessly thanks, that's awesome. I found a pic of chicken steaks 'breaded' with quinoa the other day and thought about giving it a try. So maybe I will adapt it to chicken nuggets instead.

I am back on the healthy wagon today And have made myself a promise that I will try new foods in an attempt to stop myself getting bored. So this morning I had porridge with almond milk (I quietly worry that we consume too much dairy in.this house) for breakfast and I hardly noticed the difference.

And I have just made and scoffed a halloumi, pomegranate and lentil salad for lunch. I never normally touch lentils (probably some left over fussy eating habits from childhood). It was absolutely yum! Might have to use less halloumi next time though!

Hi Meg you have done a fantastic job losing all that weight.

Where are you going on holiday? I'm desperate for a sunny break this year

Well, still just under the 10st but my food was light yesterday (Light as in didn't weigh much rather than calorie light). I had a toasted pitta bread with a little low fat feta and some sunflower seeds and half a bar of chocolate.

The calories were probably vast and the seeds were salty so I'll probably pay on the scales within the next few days for them and and the chocolate.

Well done on all the weight loss - very impressed with butterfly and aimlessly and meg. Both dcs gave been sick for what seems like forever but is probably a week. I'm afraid in between taking them to the doctor, feeding every 90 mind at night I didn't do brilliantly on the healthy eating front over the weekend . Am due to weigh myself tomorrow morning. Keeping my fingers crossed x

Thanks for the warm welcome & encouraging words

Am pleased with my weight loss so far though the last 3 days have been bad!! For some reason - maybe stress, maybe the cold weather, maybe as a little reward to myself - I've indulged in chocolate, crisps, & ice cream! Then the MIL visited and bought homemade chocolate cake!!
I'm tracking calories on MFP and over the past 3 days I've eaten 500, 300 & 800 calories more than I should!!!!

Feel pretty ashamed & annoyed with myself after all my good work

Though I guess I'll just have to see it as 3 bad days and start a fresh from tomorrow...

Got everything crossed for you Fifikt10! Also lots of sympathy for you with the poorly dcs and all night feeding! Everything is so flippin hard when you're tired!

Butterfly that sounds absolutely yum! And if it was worth the enjoyment you got from it then just put it behind you and move on. If it wasn't worth it, then just remember that next time ur facing some ice cream.

The way I think about things now is that I'm not dieting, rather I have changed the way that I eat for good. Therefore there will be occasions when I have cake/crisps/ice-cream etc and that's not a bad thing. It's just part of life, nothing to worry about. Because the next meal/day/week I can go right back to the healthier foods again.

It's probably the most valuable lesson I have learned actually. And it makes me feel so free, I know that all sounds a bit evangelical! But it really has made such a difference

Ha, yes it was worth it!!

I think as I'd been sooo good for a month I was craving something naughty and felt I deserved a little treat / reward just a little turned into a lot!!
But like you say, just move on now.

And you're right, it is about a lifestyle / eating habits change so as long as generally I'm healthy then the odd treat now & again is absolutely fine and I definitely want cake as part of my life!

OK it wasn't a disaster I am 10 stone 13 that's a loss of a pound (well within the margin of error but I'll take it). Also had three hours sleep in a row last night so am going to push buggy now. Totally sympathise with MIL and cake. It happens here whenever she comes over. Just trying to take one day at a time. Fingers crossed for us all x

Also really agree with you low crab. It's not really a diet it's about eating healthy most of the time. If I'm eating cake I'm trying to think before I eat it do I really want this? And if it isn't scrumptious is it worth finishing it? If I can manage that mind change I think I will have made a big difference to how I see food. X

Hello everyone, can I join you please? I've been eating less moving more since the start of December and have lost 24lbs so far, going from 16 9 to 14 13. I'd like to get down to 11 7, so have a bit of a way to go! I'm eating healthier, drinking lots of water, and doing lots of walking. It's doing the trick at the moment and I'm dropping a steady 2 or 3lbs each week, but have a feeling a plateau is around the corner. I'm 40 in May, and am going on a big family holiday in August so have plenty of motivation to keep going. I've found it really inspirational reading this thread