Does anyone with 1-2st to lose fancy buddying up?

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I'm 5ft 5 and am currently 10st 6lb. My clothes are feeling tight and I have stopped wearing jeans in favour of elasticated trousers which is a slippery slope for me.

To cut a long story short, I lost 3st after my twins were born 2.5 years ago. I felt a lot happier and more confident but it's beginning to creep back on as I lost the weight during my turbulent pregnancy so never had to address my bad eating habits. It's catching up with me now and I've put a stone back on and know if I don't address the problem now, it won't be long till the other 2+st is back.

I wondered whether anyone fancied buddying up and we can give each other a nudge, check in on how each other is doing?

Hope you are ok filo you don't have to weigh in if you are not in the place too. You can always just keep eating healthy and weigh yourself next week instead.

Is there any other thing you could treat yourself with as opposed to food? Like a long hot bath with a magazine or book. Or get a movie to watch ? Don't be too hard on yourself filo

God Ellis I could not get full when I was bf I was always hungry. I decided to diet at once stage and I nearly keeled over I was so hungry. I never ended up going back to my pre pregnancy weight of 10.5 st but I lost most of the weight. Then he slowed down feeding and I kept up the eating. I am actually surprised how I am rarely hungry at all on the diet. Expect for last night I really don't feel like it is one. All I have to do is stay within calories now why did that not happen before.

Saturn before I started this I had stuff in the wardrobe I daren't try on because I knew it would not nearly fit. 7 weeks in I am back into everything. It will come.

Zippy I love my wine too. I would forgo food for it but instead I will go for a run.

oh today gets better. run off the road by some crazy twit who shot off like lightening. dont think there's any damage...
i shall weigh in need to keep normal i guess

oh also bent over at work and tore my trousers.... awesome day really!

Can I join in? I'm just over 9 stone but at 5' I should be more like 8st. I've never been much of a dieter but should really start trying to be a little healthier... Not least because all my clothes are a little tight & we've got limited spare cash for new clothes atm!

I'm ill today & have been comfort eating so I'll maybe start tomorrow once I've finished all the chocolate we have in.

Filo I hope you have a great weekend to make up for today. Had a bad food day, scoffed 3 Danish pastries since 10am at an awards ceremony at work, a Malteasers bar, & a sausage sandwich (shared with dogs so more like half a sarnie) not tracked any of it yet suppose I'd better see what the damage is.

Oh I forgot the slice of Black Forest gateux....

Why do I do it? Got on the scales this morning and had lost a lb, think I've found it again & maybe even one of its friends

Hi AGnu & welcome. Good idea to get rid of temptation before you start, our cupboards are nearly devoid of chocolate/biscuits & I refuse to buy more. Messed up royally today as it was our last day & we also had cakes laid on for a work do...then someone bought in a huge box of chocs....then we did a cafe order....arghhhhhhhh. Starting over tomorrow, damage limitation.

A whopping 604 calories over....bugger!!

filo God that is a bad day! Poor you. Hope you get to have a nice evening at home.

anotheri was hungry all the time when I bf my eldest DS but not with this one. He isn't as much of a boob monster though and just feeds every 4-5 hours unlike my eldest who would have fed constantly if he could!

Welcome AGnu the more the merrier I wouldn't feel guilty about eating the chocolate if you are feeling ill. It's medicinal in that case !

I was over today heffa as well. I had a bit too much of the ice cream after dinner. I am trying to convince myself that it's not too bad as it was dairy free and sugar free ice cream but I'm not convincing myself oh well clean slate tomorrow for all of us by the sounds of it!

Hi all, thanks for the mfp requests/acceptances. I'm inspired to log everything at the moment which is great.

I had a night out with friends yesterday. We must be getting old as after the first bottle was finished no one said 'Shall we get another...?' Quite a relief. I've no idea what to put into mfp tho. Difficult to log tapas-y salads and chips.

filo blame it on it being Friday 13th. It is all because of the date and it will get better tomorrow

Same goes for Saturn about the dress and heffa and ellis about going over on cals.

I'm having a shocking time with my toddler, the terrible twos have come 7 months early. It's fine because he's in bed and I have saved enough calories today for some rum and diet coke. Very unhealthy attitude but I don't care.

all feels better. dp is home. hes fed us and is now playing guitar to cheer me up

Morning everyone!

Another - he hasn't accepted my friend request! That's really good to know after 7 weeks you're back into everything. Just need to keep going that long! Although I want to lose 24lb I think 10 would get me back into a lot of my clothes

Ellis - how did the passport photos go? Dd was born with a mass of black hair and by the time she was three it was long and blonde - every time we went through passport control they looked twice at her!!!

Zippy - I have taken your advice and hung the dress on the back of the door to try and remind me to try it on every Friday to see how I am doing. I was aware that most of my wardrobe no longer fitted - but still thought said dress did :(

Filo - how did the weigh in go? Sympathies re the trousers. Love that your dp plays you guitar to cheer you up though :)

Agnu - welcome. I started the day after chocolate (and wine in my case) too

Heffa - I am with you on the fresh start today. At least you logged everything. I was over by after lunch and then gave up logging as went out for a three course meal in the evening - was really hungry too so wasn't the least bit healthy. My thoughts were not to skip breakfast and lunch to save calories for the evening as I would be really hungry and eat everything, but did anyway

The bewilder - I like your theory re Friday 13th, therefore today is bound to be better

Well I just weighed and have put on 1lb after last night - thought it might have been worse actually - still 1 down, 24 to go. No plans for today so hopefully won't keep raiding the kitchen unless people keep posting mushy valentines stuff on FB and bf doesn't even text me...

Epic post there sorry hope everyone else has a good day

starting weight 11st 9lbs
weight today 11st 3.6lbs
total loss to date 5.4lbs
day 14

2.9lbs loss this week

Wow, well done Filo :)

Found an app that shows me a graph i prefer. Hate the mfp one. I may just be odd!

Well done Filo that's brilliant! Another written off day for me, fruit smoothie for breakfast, soup, yoghurt & low fat crisps for lunch, massive chinese & chanpagne truffles for dinner.

Got on the scales this morning & had lost nearly 2lb, not convinced it will stay gone for official WI day tomorrow. Juicing starts tomorrow too, hoping to wean myself off of sugar & junk. Also quitting smoking and vaping instead, may as well go the whole hog!

Well done on the 2lb heffa, might not be as bad as you think tomorrow

Good luck with the juicing, makes me feel hungry just thinking about it

Me too Saturn, already worried about how long I'll last? Had enough to eat today to last the next couple of days though

I'm hungry! Just want to eat biscuits. Only slightly over my calories today so far. Thinking of going to bed :(

Well done filo and heffa

Had hairy dieters cottage pie for dinner, it was yummy, would reccomend if you need some comfort food. Vaguely aware that it's Valentines Day, with 4 kids including 2 under 2 we just didn't even bother lol. And they say romance is dead!

Valentine's day never happens here either! I don't need the chocolate temptation anyway.

Passport photos for the baby went surprisingly well. Now just have to find someone to sign them. Such a faff !

Haven't been doing too badly. Went over calories the last couple of days though with snacks. Half the trouble is the kids get me up at half 5 so we have breakfast at 6 which means I'm ready for lunch by 10! Need to look at low calorie snacks instead of having toast.

Well done in the losses - it's very inspiring !

Morning all!

The bewilder - courage pie sounds lovely, could eat that now

Ellis - let me know if you come up either any nice low cal snacks...I gave biscuits which is even worse than toast!

Being hungry obviously worked last night, lost a 1lb this morning - so 2 down 23 to go. Sounds a lot doesn't it?

Morning everyone, after an awful food week I'm now down to 9st 3/4lb. Started the Jason Vale juice plan today, first one looked like pond water but tasted lovely...not very much of it though! Might be quitting sooner than day 5!

9st 3/4lb is fantastic heffa. How much have you lost in total? How much further have you to go?

I've just had a mcdonalds for lunch and only have 96 calories to last me the rest of the day :( don't even feel full, feel like I could have a dessert now!