Anyone 16st+ and low-carbing?

[Macloveswill]

Hi, I started on 1st Jan at 18st 10lbs and I have so much to lose, it would be lovely to share my journey with others who have over 6 stones to lose.

I know it's going to be a really long slog and I'll need help staying on the straight and narrow. I have to do it this year, no excuses!

So far I have lost 8.4lbs in first 11 days, but that seems tiny when I've got nearly nine stones to lose altogether. My goal is 10st.

Anyone out there? All buddies welcome

Well done MAC, thats amazing news so very very pleased for you and done with lightening speed (jealous face).

I am stuck in house cleaning, sorting, decorating hell but i keep thinking of all the cals i must be burning up. No gym or swim for me but house going on market on monday.

Might be awol for a bit but KOKO everyone and i will catch up when the house is a show home. Its TOTM and hoping to correct the damage done by birthday but wont be weighing this week, just hoping to be 13.7 ish the week after - then there wouldnt have been too much damage done.

Good luck all, catch up soon x

Well done MAC that is fantastic !!

Mac, well done - you must be thrilled.

Well done MAC, that's amazing in just over two months!! And with two stone off, you're firmly in the territory of looking significantly slimmer.

Very exciting news on the house MRS, although I don't envy you on the getting/maintaining show home standards and even worse, the dreaded packing!! Still, like you say, it's fantastic exercise and it will all be more than worth it in the end.

I made the mistake of weighing today - 3lb on!!! I am hoping that most (if not all) of that is "TOTM" weight. May I ask how dramatically your weights fluctuate at this oh so special time?!

I suppose it's all relative, MRS for example is unlikely to fluctuate as much as me as there's a hell of a lot less of her!

Prof, definitely agree with you about planned special meals and the like, just going to KOKO and make sure I'm sensible in the main.

Thanks guys, it seems like I've been at 'nearly' 2 stones off for ages, so it was nice to finally get there. Still only 23% of the total I've got to lose but these milestones help to keep us going. My next one will be about 11lbs away (so a good few weeks) when I'll hopefully be rocking into the 15s. 'Only' 95.6lbs left to go!! Sounds an awful lot, but so much better than 123.6lbs

TOTM seems to stall me for several days, not a great deal of fluctuation in weight, but I guess water retention just makes up for any weight I'm losing and the scales stay about the same.

Good luck with the house Mrs, a permanent state of tidiness is a nightmare isn't it.

So pleased the posh meal was lovely and thank goodness he loved his watch Letme!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend! I've managed to dig out a frock that's passable for my St. Patrick's do tomorrow evening. Feeling slightly angelic that I haven't hit the shops! But I'm sure you won't be shocked to hear that I'll definitely be partaking in some prosecco!

Morning all.

I guess everyone is different with TOTM. I had a cheeky look on the scales this morning and I'd 'lost' 2lbs since yesterday, and that was after coffee, so my weight is clearly doing funny things at the moment. Bloody glad the 3lb gain wasn't real!

Hope all is going well with getting the house in order Mrs. And have a fantastic time at the party tonight Mac.

Best get back to the housework/washing/ironing. Boo! Still, I suppose it's all calories burnt...

Thanks Letme. I bet that was a relief your 3lb gain wasn't real! There are so many things that affect our weightloss....TOTM, alcohol, dehydration, constipation....to name but a few, it's a minefield!

As long as there's a general downward trend, I guess it'll all come off in the end.

I had a lovely compliment today....a parent at my DD's ballet class stopped me and asked if I'd lost a lot of weight and said I look 10 years younger in the face. Now I wouldn't go THAT far, but it was nice someone else noticed that I'm looking slightly less large .

Oh, it's nice when that starts happening Mac. I've not had any comments about my weight yet but I've had a few quizzical 'are those new jeans?', 'have you done something with your hair?' type questions so people are noticing something's different but can't quite place what!

I think poor old dh is afraid of saying the wrong thing and really saying much about it.

Gah - struggling tonight. We had dd2's friend over last night, her lovely parents very kindly bought me some of the cider they know I like to say thank you. The self same cider I've resigned myself to giving up for a year or so and haven't touched since Xmas. Now it's in the fridge - gently tapping on the door.

I had some wine last night and I'm going to have a glass or two tomorrow with my Mother's Day meal as well. I really, really can't afford to have some cider tonight as well.

I'm telling you lot in the hope that I won't be able to face slinking on here tomorrow morning confessing to a cider induced hangover. I'm going to console myself with a cup of rooibos and a Stevia chocolate bar while I watch dh polish off the cider ......

I assume cider isn't great for a low carber? Apologies, as I'm not low carbing, I'm not the best to advise. I'm reducing carbs, but following just a general 'healthier'/ moderate way of eating. So I would say, have a small glass, skip the Stevia, enjoy your small glass and give the rest to your DH. Obviously that may well be rubbish advice if it'll mess up your ketosis or whatever it is you low carbers need to be in.

Or you could save it for a special occasion? Asking your dh to hide it if necessary?!

Or just stick with your original plan, which does sound like the best one tbh!

Whatever you do, enjoy your evening.

Yeah, that's the thing, cider is very sugary. I'm not sure I'd still be in ketosis. That's the thing with this woe, it's very unforgiving you can't really 'cheat' as such.

However, I did it, I resisted and didn't even have the Stevia bar. Just didn't fancy it.

Don't know if anyone else has the same thing but it's the mental gymnastics of 'shall I have this, what if I do an extra workout tomorrow, I'll be good next week, I haven't cheated since January' back and forth that wears me out. Once I'd posted here I decided not to have any and shut down the brain chatter, then it was OK.

Thanks for the support though. The public declaration on here definitely helped.

Happy Mother's Day ladies!

And we'll done Prof for resisting the cider urge!

Hope you've all been spoiled rotten. I've had a lovely morning (lie in and breakfast in bed no less!) and soon heading out to the cinema where I'll mostly be avoiding my favourite toffee popcorn and those delicious Apple chewy cable thingies. I may have to really push the boat out and take some Babybel

Well done prof! And yes, I completely agree about the should I/shouldn't I mentality. It can be very draining. I enjoy cooking but loathe the thinking part (meal planning) I'm finding it even more difficult thinking of varied meals on my new WOE. Then there's the organisation part eg making sure I have soup in the office fridge so I don't pop next door for a sandwich.

I think that if we got to be the size we were, then there's a good chance we have an addiction with food, and the mental side of that has got to be tough.

Guess we just have to keep plugging away ad it will get easier :)

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers!

Thanks both - and Happy Mother's Day to everyone too.

Let - you sound like you're short of inspiration. Have you tried something like Hemsley Hemsley or Deliciously Ella? I found them a bit too carby for me but as you're not strictly low carb they may suit you.

Ah I'm so with you on it all being about the mental side Letme. It really is all in my head and much more a battle of attitude than it is a battle of appetite.

This thread is so good for keeping my head in the game though, it's so reassuring when I check in and can see that you're all going through the ups and downs with me.

It's not easy, but it will definitely be worth it!

I didnt manage to stay on the wagon this week - far too much stress and then not enough time to be organised is my excuse but thats all it is. The whole house now has the most god awful vomiting bug and i have had to cancel estate agent - sob this house is never going to get sold.

My poor children have been so poorly and i have been up with it today. I have been hiding in my room as i dont want 3 ill foreign students!

Urrgghh woe is me, but atleast getting back into ketosis will be easy as i havent eaten in 36hrs!

Happy mothers day everyone

Well we're almost halfway through March already, it's really flying by! Almost a quarter of our year gone. I've almost lost a quarter of what I have to lose (just another 2.7lbs to 25%) but I think that makes me slightly behind as the big losses in the first couple of weeks skewed things considerably so I should be further ahead than this, but there's not a great deal in it. It still leaves me with just over 2lb a week to lose to be SBC.

TOTM over at last and I squeaked a tiny 0.2lb loss this morning, so hoping its a sign things are moving again.

Aww Mrs, hope the lurgy clears up and you're all feeling better soon. It'd be nice if your silver lining is that you'll still lose weight after feeling so horrid and having to postpone your house going on the market.

Have a great week everyone!

Oh that sounds rubbish Mrs, doing all the preparations for moving house is difficult enough without throwing in a vomiting bug. I truly sympathise - I always forget how nasty physically being sick is until it happens again.

As Mac says, hopefully the silver lining is a bit of a loss.

2lbs a week is a great target Mac, eminently doable. Especially if you step the exercise up - I think we were both thinking of joining a gym/swimming/classes? Think we need to kick each others arses to make sure we do!

I'm really conscious that my daily dog walks aren't enough - they possibly would be if I power walked to get the heart rate up, but if I'm honest, it's more of an amble as I walk with other people and the pace is really quite slow (so you're doing much better than me on that front Mac).

I have the shred and weights (unopened), I have a gym just down the road (unjoined), I just need to pull my finger out!

I went to my parents yesterday for dinner, which was nice. But I'm knackered today (3.5 hours driving, cleaning, baking etc yesterday). No idea what the scales will be saying - I was in so much of a rush this morning I didn't weigh, but I'm starting to feel a bit lighter now TOTM is on its way out, so fingers crossed for good things tomorrow!

Apologies Prof, I meant to thank you for your recommendations. I've been having a look at the websites today. Think I may go for the Hemsley & Hemsley Spring Quinoa Risotto tonight.

I'm still bloody tired, couldn't even be bothered to walk up to the shops for lunch (although resisted a baguette from next door) so I fancy something fairly hearty tonight!

No worries LetMe

Hope you're feeling a bit better Mrs S.

Only 1lb off this week, probably because not only have I had a bit more wine than usual, I weighed myself after breakfast instead of before plus it's TOTM. In the circs I'm quite pleased with any loss at all. Only 3lbs to go before I'm under the 13st mark, can't wait to see the scales saying 12st something.

Got to be super good these next 2 weeks as I've got a few 'celebration' weekends coming up where I'm sure I'll end up eating/drinking more than normal and I want to limit the damage.

With extra wine, weighing after breakfast and TOTM I would be delighted with a 1 lb loss! Especially as you've likely lost more than that 1lb (if weighing pre breakfast/non TOTM). I suspect it won't be long at all til the scales are saying 12 something.

God I wish I was 12 something, I looked quite good at that weight, although did eventually get down to 10.5. Reminiscing is making me frustrated for letting myself go, I want instant results!!

I'm quite short and don't carry it well tbh. I got down to about 10st when I was bfing dd2 which I think is the lightest I've ever been. It seems like a pipe dream now, not sure what my goal is really.

I'm feeling impatient too. I'm happy on this woe and confident I'll stick to it and get there, I just wish the next few months would speed by!

I've just remembered. My Nan was a bird of a woman, hardly ate and was tiny (I don't take after her!) To her '10 stone' was the heaviest she could imagine anyone being. She could see a massively obese person on TV "they must weight 10 stone!" she'd say in shock.

My mum is a starlet, she came down mothers day and spent most of the day helping me deal with sick children and then looked after my students whilst i went to bed and threw up. I have been in bed most of the day and now i am feeling much better. I still cant face food as such so i had a piece of toast. Back to it tomorrow.

I have had bad news about the new house, someone else loves it and they are prepared to wait so its about to go sold subject to contract - gutted does not quite cover it! With the est agents cancelling on me and then the sickness bug it feels like the universe is against me - so i am hoping that there is an AMAZING property just waiting for me to stumble upon it - fingers crossed and all that.

I know the impatient feeling, i did one LBTs class and was disappointed to not have ripped abs! I want to be a size 14 NOW but my 16s are getting tight(er) a week of carby twattiness.

I have a short break coming up in May and i am determined to get do what i can by then. I have 6 weeks to loose a dress size so need to get back to the gym later this week.

Good luck everyone, i shall have a proper catch up later. Need to go make my mum a brew as way of saying thanks.

Letme you are so right, I'm not really sure what's stopping me getting my ass to the gym. I might make myself go to the pool at the gym tomorrow morning. How about it?

Prof...chuckling at your gran, my grandma was very similar and thought 10 stone was huuuge! Well done on the weightloss! How wonderful you'll feel being 12 something.

Sorry to hear about the house Mrs....sounds like the universe has a better one in store for you or that one had a terrible subsidence problem and you dodged a bullet. Fingers crossed you'll find another lovely one soon.

I go on holiday for 10 days in less than a fortnight, so really want to shift some decent weight before then. I've no idea how I'm going to manage the low carbs whilst I'm away, but going to try my hardest not to give in. Then have a big family wedding at the end of May that I'll need a frock for. So a couple of big goals that should keep me on track.