Needing to lose 4st+ - support thread!

[HippyJess]

Since I want somewhere to track my progress I'm gonna do it here and have it act as a support thread for anyone else who wants to join me - because it certainly feels daunting and we can use all the help we can get!

I am 5 foot nothing and post DS (almost 6 months) I weigh (as of this morning) 95.2kg which I believe is around 14.5stone, but I avoid using st and lbs as I find it triggering. I would like to be back down to my pre-baby weight of circa 80kg by BiL's wedding in June. So...

HippyJess
SW: 95.2kg
GW1: 80kg (June)
GW2: 68kg (September)
UGW: 58kg (March 2016)

Short Term Goal: Do Davina's 15 Minute Fit every day for a week, starting today. I did it, and some of the easy versions were hard :( which is why I need to keep going.

Hope someone out there will want to join me! Hoping to post once a day to keep myself on track :) now off I go to make myself an omelette and veggies for lunch!

[Stellar67]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2528249-To-brie-or-not-to-brie-basecamp-dyson-weightloss-support-for-all-thread-2?watched=1

Over here ladies, if it worked.

[Stellar67]

Horse riding sounds great huffy. Have you done it before?

Yes new thread....shall I?

.... contemplates new name and how to do it....

[LondonHuffyPuffy]

Hello all

I admire your restraint, pippi and Stellar! I have been less restrained and desperately trying to maintain and not gain any more. I'm hovering between 78kg and 80kg at the moment.

I have a new incentive though... I want to take up horse riding in the New Year (nothing fancy, just in Hyde Park) and the weight limit is 80kg. I would like to be and stay below that.

This thread is not far off being full. Will we start a new one?

[Stellar67]

Well done. Hope you feel better soon. I too graze my way through Christmas, used to.... I must keep saying that.

I am going to the gym again this week! And avoiding a couple of parties as DH out too, so I am forfeiting to avoid canapés. I don't really mind as I am a bit antisocial just now, and I don't feel too hot in a dress.

[pippistrelle]

How very restrained. I've been quite restrained too. For the first time in many years I am not planning to buy enough food to keep an army full for several days. Not so much the Christmas dinner stuff, but all the little snacky treats that you (ok, I) graze on all day long. Really kept it minimal.

And I missed out on a mince pie/mulled wine opportunity yesterday by being stuck at home with a cold/flu thing. Bleurgh.

[Stellar67]

Pippi how are you?
I've been mostly good, keeping going at the gym. Ate an entire pizza the other night, which made me feel ill with bloat for two days. Stupid move. I hadn't eaten all day then after two glasses of fizz, I decided it wouldn't be an issue. How wrong was I.
That aside, I have done my big Christmas shop, and no extra chocolates or crisps, as they'd be eaten by me. My treats this year are bath and music related. I didn't even get any Brie! Yet, but it won't be a whole one. Maybe a mini whole one.

[pippistrelle]

Ha!

I am still maintaining, and have put any thought of losing on the back burner until January. But that's fine. It's hard at this time of year, so well done to you, Dyrne, on your resolve.

[Dyrne]

Oops, Freudian slip? Support each other, not eat other!

[Dyrne]

I agree Stellar - it's nice to have a thread where people arent necessarily evangelical about their diet of choice, we all have slip ups and can support eat other.

Agree about the quiet thread - maybe people will reappear in the new year?

MFP made me laugh today - offering up a blog post suggesting "easy holiday food swaps to save calories". The first suggestion? Instead of pigs in blankets, try asparagus wrapped in prosciutto... Erm, not exactly a like-for-like swap!

[Stellar67]

That's good Dyrne. That's the beauty of this thread. We are all doing our own thing, with support.
Although where are you all? 👀👀👀👀 I hope no one is having problems with the weather.

[Dyrne]

Good call on just trying to maintain, Stellar. I'm being a bit stubborn and carrying on, maybe because I've done so badly the last couple of months, I really want to try and get below 11 stone still before the end of the year. Am hoping 5:2 will help with the Christmas season, as I can scoff away at parties/meals etc but there's bound to be at least a couple of days a week I can be more sensible!

[Stellar67]

The tree is up, the Baileys is out, the spiral has begun. I'm just going to try and not put on. That's my aim for the next few weeks!

[Dyrne]

Sorry, double post but I'm feeling quite chuffed - had a cheeky weigh in this morning to see how the 5:2 was working out, and I'm nearly 3Kgs less than I was a week and a half ago! Yes, I know, a lot of that will be water weight since I've done so badly recently it'll be like the first weeks of a diet all over again; but it's just the morale boost I needed. That takes me to having lost 3 stone exactly :D. More importantly, it seems to have nipped in the bud the spiral of bingeing I was slipping into... Let's see how I do the rest of the week, it's definitely inspired me to give today a go as another fast day.

[Dyrne]

Stellar I definitely agree - just after the last couple of days of not shovelling crap down my throat eating healthily I feel a lot better - more energy, no more heartburn, and my skin's starting to clear up again.

I try not to keep chocolate in the house as I know i'll just scoff it - so my big thing is making sure I don't buy it at work and scoff it all there!

Definitely know what you mean about craving stodge - I've really gone crazy on he pasta recently, i'm trying to swap it for potatoes and rice which are at least lower calorie! A nice ham salad wrap doesnt seem as appetising any more when it's pissing it down outside...

5:2 has gone well this week, managed both Monday and Tuesday as low calorie days, and I didn't feel the need to gorge myself today to make up for it. Will see how I feel tomorrow as I might try to squeeze in another low calorie day this week - I have a Christmas party on Saturday so i'll need to save copious amounts of calories for that! :D

[Stellar67]

pippi well done on the walking. Stodge is, invariably what I'd like during the colder months too. But I have avoided pasta because of the bloated feeling.
I need to know what the pudding is! Do you like to cook?

dyrne I am beginning to think what we put it has an effect on what comes out, emotionally and physically. Doesn't stop me eating the other half of the tub of celebrations!
I'm fine during the day! I need help on stopping consuming 30,000 calories at night and totally writing off the day's work. no idea we had bunnets this week

[Dyrne]

God, I've been a right miserable cow recently. Not sure if it's the feeling miserable that's made me eat rubbish or if I'm feeling miserable because I'm eating rubbish!

I've gained over 1kg in one week. Was far too chicken to weigh myself on Sunday so there's probably another 1kg added on...

Back on it today though. Decided to give the 5:2 diet a go to see if that could kick start my mojo. Managed to stick to 500kcals today and I'm not feeling too horrific - and I like the idea that I can eat a bit more than the 'usual' 1200Kcal tomorrow and not stress about it.

[pippistrelle]

I'm also busy drooling over Christmas recipes as I'm taking pudding to a friend's house for a party thing next week. Don't know why I'm looking at recipes as tried and tested old favourites have been requested so I know what I'm making. And it's not fruit salad.

[pippistrelle]

I walked load last week but used that as a reason to consume vats of pasta. God, it's hard to relish salad when it's cold outside. Still, my DH is away for most of this week and I always find it easier to reduce my consumption when he's not around: he's a bad influence. Also an avid gym goer so he keeps on top of his weight that way: not one that appeals to me.

[Stellar67]

I hope you grabbed mine huffy Last night I fell into a box of celebrations and then a vat of wine. Fell out with DS and needed comfort. Why? Why did I fall into that trap. All I got was a sore head, and belly.

Back on the salad.

[LondonHuffyPuffy]

Ooh sounds like you've got your mojo back stellar!

Now if I could only find mine...

[Stellar67]

Read book about gluten free, walked 14k steps, sensible eating. Got more than enough calories for a rum and diet something tonight. Must. Not. Deviate.

[Stellar67]

Aarrrrgh sodding brie. I've put on 2lbs.

[pippistrelle]

New Look are on the generous side, I'm afraid. I, therefore, heart them. (Plus I really like their jeans.) But it says Size 10 on the label so wear them inside out and revel in it, Brains!

I have a treadmill at home, so no excuse for walking failures. I don't always manage, but more often than not, I get my steps in. I have walked my way through every season of Pretty Little Liars, Homeland and, aptly, The Walking Dead.

[Stellar67]

I am banned from walking in the dark too. It gets dark all day here at times! I just try and fit in twenty minutes in the winter. I have a hi viz jacket but it's from thin days and doesn't zip up yet.

I have hardly eaten today. I am just not hungry. I would like to keep this feeling.