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 on the planking Mrs SJ, I don't think I'd get my belly to clear the floor!

Mrspnut- thats good news, it must be a weight off of your mind.

Sending sympathies for shitty situations, they always make me want to munch so sending you positive vibes. Unfortunately the situation wont change because you eat, you will just feel like poo for setting yourself back - easier said than stuck to in my case!

Mrspnut - Ibet you would - give it a try - go on, you never know and it might take your mind off things (doubtful but hopeful).

We need some sunshine to improve our moods, refocus us on our lovely skinny summer dresses and save our heating bills!!

Wow Mrs....v healthy and you sound ON IT! Good on you! And enjoy your boudoir

Good news about the hospital MrsP, bet that's a weight off your mind. But then you walk straight into another stressful situation! Absolutely not fair. But don't comfort eat, it will make you feel worse afterwards. Do something else nice, like going for a long soak in the bath with a nice book. Or painting your nails? Anything to take your mind off food. Hope it's resolved soon.

I really struggled today not to pick at my DD's tea party food when she had a friend over. I ended up just eating some strawberries and melon and a couple of little sausages. So nothing that would ruin my diet, but it felt very out of control and ruined my appetite for my nice roast chicken dinner. I really wish I'd gone to do something else instead of picking!

Only one good thing is that cold on its way out, so decided to do my walk tonight and really powered up the big hill at the end....it felt great. Gearing myself for my plank tomorrow

I second needing some sunshine to focus on our slim bodies in lovely summer frocks! Only about 6 weeks until spring

and my birthday! so trying to keep that in mind. Well done for keeping your picky bits on the low carb side of things, could have been worse. Sometimes i find the feeling just builds and i know at some point i will blow it - like the peanut butter incident a few days ago. Other days i can just drink more water and it goes away. I am never hungry on this diet so its all emotional.

Good for you on getting out and walking. I was planning on walking to one of the baby groups but the cold is putting me off - its also a 5 mile round trip. My kids both hate the creche at the gym so much so i cant put them in there to go swimming so i am really going to have to start 30ds - just not today!!

I am sat in my bed looking at my new doors and they are fab, they have changed the whole feel of the room. Cant believe its nearly thurs already the week is flying by!

Whoa! First plank done....51 seconds. That's hard! My whole body started to shake. Is the aim to just do one every day then, for a little bit longer each day? Or more often than that? The only good thing is that you don't need exercise gear or to go out the house to do it. I just did it in my jimjams, which was cool.

Have a good day everyone...I'm having lunch with a few girlfriends today, so will have to strengthen my resolve. Walking tonight though!

You rock Mac - 51 secs is epic! I try and do it at lunchtime and in the evening. I am trying to practice more so i can show a bigger improvement that DH but thats because i am so competitive!

I will try to build it up to doing it 3 times in a row and holding it for as long as poss each time - i think the world record is 16 mins so thats something to aim for lol!!

I find a shake and swear, its hard but hopefully it means amazing results. Anyone else up for the challenge????

Out for lunch with the girls sounds fab, i am having a picnic with 30 toddlers and babies so not quite so sophisticated!!

I weighed myself today and i weight.... 14st dead on, so since xmas i have lost 9lbs and 7lbs since the start of Bootcamp - i think, i am getting a bit confused i should have written it down. So i have dropped 3lbs since my weigh in on monday.

I am now back to the weight that i finished the last bc on.

I woke this morning feeling so much more positive - this week has been hard but i have joy in my step today.

I have done loads of housework this morning already and i can see the bottom of the washing basket, i have hoovered the stairs and upstairs and cleaned kitchen and its not even 10am - little bit smug!

Weekend is nearly here and hubby will be cooking.

Good luck everyone x

Your positivity vibes are contagious Mrs! Congrats on the loss too! I wonder whether the 16 minute planker was actually a plank of wood rather than a person?! will give it another try later.

It's actually a friend's house I'm lunching at, she's invited 3 of us over. Not so easy as in a restaurant, but I mentioned LCing and think she's doing tapas type stuff, so I should be ok....I'm taking a cheese board, so I won't starve!

The old constipation has returned, so def need cauli rice tonight with dinner! But despite it causing a bit of a slow down in weight loss, I've lost another half a pound, so 17st 5.9lbs this morning. 18.7 lbs off! Much slower, but still a downward trend, so pretty pleased with that in 5 weeks.

if i have my maths right. if you carry on at this pace you could loose 194lbs this year or 13st - admittedly you would be in hospital for weighing about the same as a bag of sugar!

So to hit your target weight 10st (???) by start of dec you would need to loose just over 2lb a week - which is a healthy number and doable. Def going to be slim by xmas - easy!!!!!

At the moment i just want to get to my wedding weight of 12.7 stone (size 14) and be toned. My final goal is 9.13st - would like to be in single figures, i cant remember the last time i was, i probably lived at home still and my stepmum still picked my clothes out!! Would settle for 10st or even 11!

I could hit first goal in 3 months - so for our wedding anniversary. Hit final goal by September ish. Seems like miles off but time flies.

Hi ladies, congrats to you both on the weightloss! I don't even own a pair of scales I am too petrified to weigh myself even though I know I have lost. Does anyone know how much it costs to get weighed in Boots? I'm always scared if I go in there and do it some kind of obesity alarm will sound when I get on the scale hahaha.

Haven't broken my diet this week..... Until tonight - currently drinking a glass of wine as off out to a concert tonight. I really wanted one and I don't want to deny myself all the time else this will become too much of a chore. Done lots of walking this week and feel much better for it.

DP was naughty and brought some pork pies (I bloody love them) because he's flued up and not in the mood for sticking to his 5:2 diet and I didnt even want one - feeling smug!

Totally trying this planking thing the weekend now I've seen your times!

Haha....well I don't think it will come off as quickly as it did the first month, but def doable by Christmas if I can hack it.

I've 122lbs to lose when I started, nay 123 lbs now you've set the challenge at 9.13 Mrs....for the sake of a pound I may as well join you
So 104.3 left to go in 46 weeks...2.26 lbs per week.

It's a long old road, but hell we're walking down it!

Chuckling at the obesity alarm in boots, Flame! Not sure how much it is though.

A glass of wine as long as dry or red won't derail you. Enjoy your concert and welcome to the planking challenge

Plank on!

Hey 65 seconds....hubby now trying
it....it's contagious!

Mac loving that hubby is joining in and 65 secs is amazing, i am really going to have to step it up a gear, i am getting thrashed at my own challenge!!!

Boots scales are a £1 a go i think, maybe less if they just weigh you and dont do the bodyfat bit - top tip dont look at the fat %, i think at one point i was more fat than anything else!! Depressing.

Flame - You have to make this work for real life or you wont be able to stay the course. It might hamper your weight loss this week. IME its not the wine its the munchies that follow! Who are you seeing tonight?

Well done on the pork pies - i love them, i do pick of the pastry off (although it the best bit) and eat them i cant resist so i rarely buy them. Umm pork pies.

Right off to plank!!

Morning, I am not feeling it at the moment. I think I need a good shake and some brisk encouragement.

I've got to come up with something to take to work for my lunch because I have no leftovers and I think I might make a Thai curry for dinner tonight.
I can have cauliflower rice with it.

Brisk encouragement on its way MrsP.....c'mon think how good you'll feel if you just keep going. Picture yourself in that size 10/12 at Christmas and just keep your eye on the prize. You can do this!

Just make sure you don't allow yourself to get hungry. Go and grab some cheese and cold meats at the shop before work and nibble that or some almonds.
Message on here when it gets hard so you don't give yourself a chance to justify wavering.

Good luck and be stron! Hugs!!

MrsP, keep the faith. Can you dig out something that you love which doesnt fit currently and stick it on the wardrobe or better still the fridge!!
Def buy cold meat, olives (yuk!) cheese, pepperamis and cream to go in tea or coffee for work -prob a bit late now!

I find looking out some tasty and new LC recipes helps keep me on track as i end up cooking the same things over and over again.

What keeps me strong is the alternative - being fat and miserable and feeling like i am constantly failing - SW and WW dont work for me. Plus i was bloody starving and bored of counting and weighing and ate a limited range of things which fitted in with the diet.

I saw a quote which i liked - Being fat is hard, dieting is hard -pick your hard!!

Thai curry sounds yum. Hubby is cooking me and might have the donor kebabs we didnt end up having last week - just need to pop to the shops for lamb mince.

Last nights plank was 32 secs, so no improvements but i can def feel it in my tummy muscles.

I dug out a few of my size 16s yesterday - some of which i immediately put in the donation pile and the rest i hung up in the wardrobe. They are a bit too tight to wear but my 18s are def looser so i think i am a size 17 currently!

Got my picture for my bedroom - they do it in two sizes but the size i bought the bigger size and it is too big so will be taking it back today and getting the smalller size. However i am the proud owner of one very tidy boudoir, i even hoovered under the bed and in the fitted wardrobes!

I have my very expensive facial tomorrow, so hoping to reveal my inner goddess (Lol). I will do a pedicure tonight and exfoiliate in prep for a layer of fake tan. I am a bit rubbish at being a girl so this all could go very wrong!!!

Planktastic....66 seconds....my whole body was shaking from about 20 seconds in though, it's a killer!

Have to confess to a mini shopping spree this morning. I was panicking a bit as going away for the weekend tomorrow (well one night and 2 days) with my old girlfriends and couldn't think what to wear, the red mist descended and my resolve to not buy until I'd lost some more just melted away good news is I was a size 18 in everything (5 items from the same shop!!) when before I'd often need the 20 or 22 and the clothes made me feel really nice. Naughty though.

Have a good Friday (or weekend if I don't manage to get back on) everyone. Plank away!!!!!

Ooh enjoy tidy boudoir and your pamper sesh tomorrow Mrs!

I love your quote about being fat and dieting, they're both hard, take your pick.

Dieting at least has something good at the end of the hard, whereas being fat just gets harder and in a few years all the health problems would hit and we'd see all the people secretly thinking 'fatty' when we mention our new diabetes diagnosis.

It's boring and tedious this dieting lark, but it's worth it to no longer be the big girl amongst our friends and family. Also being overweight is the first thing people notice about us when they meet us and they feel secretly smug that we're bigger than them....especially if prettier than them....no way do they want us slim. Let's prove them all wrong!

That secretly smug thing i can def agree with, i have seen it in people i have met. Unfortunately i am not the fat girl with the beautiful face or amazingly funny big girl!

My ex best friend loved me being the big girl and when i lost weight (15yrs ago!!) and i started getting tonnes of male attention she hated it as she was no longer the centre of attention when we went out. I hated it however, it made me feel really conscious - the best bit was telling all the boys who hadnt looked at me twice the yr before to do one. I was only a size 12-14 the year before.

I am guilty of thinking that larger people with diabetes have brought it upon themselves - that is a terrible omission. I secretly think i must be a terrible person!!

Having had GD i am at much more risk of getting it myself. I think i have some sort of reverse anorexia - where i think i am thinner than i actually am and then i get an awful shock when i look at photos. In my head i am a curvy size 12 but def not!! Or i see a person on tv and they are my size and i think i can look like that but we wear the same size jeans so i obvs do.

Dont feel guilty for the shopping spree, if all the size 18s fitted than your old clothes must have been hanging off of you and there is no point getting slimmer if you are hiding your figure under clothes that swamp it! Have an amazing weekend away - i am def jealous of your social life!

Don't feel terrible for thinking that about diabetes, type 2 can be a genetic predisposition, but is often brought on by year's of a poor diet. I'm amazed I've not had it with what I've eaten over the years and the way I've totally overloaded my system with sugar. Lucky escape!

Yes I think a lot of people, like your old best friend, prefer people to be bigger than them. When I lost a lot of weight last time, some friends made it quite obvious that they were uncomfortable with it and I'm really no supermodel.

I think the new clothes will just help with my confidence, I always get a mini panic when I go away anywhere. Haha...do like to socialise, but these last few weeks just seem to have lots of events falling one after another. I often don't go out for a month. I'm lucky that my DH is not that bothered about going out though, so a built in babysitter next Saturday I'm actually out with him for a comedy night, but it's rare.

Good luck with the planking. I'm out for my walk tonight and that will probably be it for exercise until Monday. Yay!

Just popping on after being weighed this morning as another pound bites the dust

19.9lbs off only 103.1lbs (!) left to go.
18st 10.6lbs to 17st 4.7lbs
Slim by Christmas goal = 9st 13.0lbs

Onwards and downwards.

Have a great weekend ladies x

Hi all sorry have been quiet I've been checking in and watching your progress but not stopped to post. It was Rae Morris who I saw Thursday night and had a fab time. Went to get my hair done yesterday and met my friend in Nando's for lunch, surprisingly a very easy place to eat healthy as can have corn on the cob side.
DP and I went out to do the shopping today and I wore a skirt and top I haven't fit in for ages, and my leather jacket fits again now! Tops all 18 and skirt just an XL. Feeling really chuffed today, I'm not going to try my dress as don't want to bum myself out if its tight - saving that. Just so happy wearing more outfits and accessing more of my wardrobe again. I was so determined to not go to the size 24 I was wearing the few things that DID fit and rotating the same 3 outfits.

Macloveswill don't feel bad about the spree, its so nice to wear something new to a special occasion and if it makes you feel more confident for the weekend then why not.

Doing the hairy dieters chicken korma tonight with cauli rice. At this rate we can and will get through February!

Its a great feeling accessing your lost wardrobe isnt it. I hear the three outfits thing - when i got to my heaviest (after DC), i didnt want to buy many clothes as i wont be this size for long!!sigh. 3 yrs laters just getting out of them now!
A new hair cut and lunch sounds like a lovely day. I had forgotten about Nandos - perfect for low carbers.

I had my facial today and i spent far too much on products - but they are to make me look 19 again so it will be worth it! I wish - actually no, i had bad acne and badly home bleached hair but luckily i had youth and thinness on my side!

I was going to have a lovely child free browse around the shops and my father who never visits turned up on my doorstep and rang me to come home - blast!

Whilst DS slept Hubby and i got just dance on the wii out and had a dance off and he beat me everytime - cue much gloating and rubbing my face in it!!! My arms felt it so def a bit of a workout.

I cant get beyond 32 secs of planking, my poor old useless tummy muscles just wont do it!!

Struggling with dinner inspiration this evening. I have some of those fish temptations from birds eye (v lc) and i might do them with green veg - cant be bothered to cook today.

Swimming with kids and a carvery tomorrow.Weekend is going too quickly!