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!

I'm doing easyloss so not eating until hungry is the plan. It sometimes takes nearly all day to become hungry. Some days I don't feel properly hungry (tummy rumbling, light headed etc) all day. Somewhere along the line I think we forget or lose these signals, it's hard to get them back.

Since I've started though, I've never eaten to the point of being very full. Which is good.

See you all when i get back - i am off on my jollies today and can forget about counting points and calories for a whole week. Start again when I get back. Good luck guys and have a great week

Have a wonderful holiday, vicki

Have a good holiday, Vicki.

Taking along here. Sort of ran 10k. Definitely running 5k. Using MFP and finding it really helpful, so, thanks for the suggestion!

Ah, keepon. I have no answers, I'm afraid, as I have no idea how this weight loss/gain/sabotage thing works. I don't know why - this time - I managed to gain some momentum, but I know instinctively that it's all to do with what's going on in our heads.

What I do have though is buckets of empathy, keepon. I've been there so many times. Hopefully, someone with something more practical than empathy will be along soon.

Hope the vickibee family are having a lovely holiday.

And hello to murkygenepool: I do like your name!

Another thought, keepon. I find that I have to weigh myself in order to keep on track, so if it were me, I'd have to replace the batteries as quickly as possible, or risk losing control very rapidly. But we're all different.

I hope you feel better soon.

Brains - you're so hard on yourself: it was a once in a lifetime event - of course, you participated fully. But, yes, booze can do terrible things to our self control, and I've found too that its impact can continue for several days. If you can, it's probably best avoided entirely for a while. So, if you have leftovers of that (or of anything else), can you get rid of it now?

Photos are evil because, unless you're taking one weekly while you're in the same outfit, they're not a record of your progress, and you HAVE made progress - don't forget that. You've lost one battle here, but the war is still going your way.

Hope you've managed to stay positive throughout the day, Brains. Just remember, you've done really well so far. We all suffer blips, and a bit of self-sabotage, but they're not the big picture.

My self-sabotage today was in the form of a lunch consisting of sugar from the pick and mix stand at the cinema. I've exercised the hell out of it this evening, in an effort to counteract it, and see a loss tomorrow as that's my 'official' weigh-in day. Fingers crossed...

When I first wrote on this thread I was doing well, but the past week (especially the past few days) have been dreadful. Today has actually been horrendous, I ate so much impulsively.

Brains- it is good to see that you are doing well after the naming ceremony. It gives me hope that even though today has been bad, I can get back on track.

I've written a list of what I should eat tomorrow. Hopefully I stick on it and don't binge. Wednesdays are my weigh days so I hope I can eat well until wednesday. That feels like so long away, at the minute I can't get past two days without losing control.

Gah! Just lost a long post, so here's the edited highlights:

You CAN get back on track, propergood. I fall off the wagon about once a week, but still manage to lose weight. Similarly, a few days, or even a few weeks are nothing but a blip in the grand scheme of things. Brains is right about focusing on the very short term, but there is a big picture in the background, and in the big picture, your weight is on a downward trajectory.

A single pound off for me this week - again. So, painfully slow now, but still positive change - another half inch off hips, and a quarter inch off arms: any arm shrinkage makes me happy.

Thanks for the messages! I have had a protein shake this morning, and made a batch of muffins for my colleagues! I will allow myself one muffin, instead of the usual six!

Well done mumslife! two pounds :)

I think I have been derailed by my stressful work environment. I have two jobs- though my side job has been taking up more and more time and it is very high pressure. It drains me. I need to learn to control that somehow.

I think posting here just helps me along. I have been looking at the muffins, almost torturing myself, but now I feel I have a bit more strength to just say no.

I've been doing well, all things considered. But, it's my birthday, so, went out for a drink with my friend - which turned into 4 and a packet of biscuits when I got home. WTF?

Today's my actual birthday,a nd there's a bottle of prosecco with my name on it, AND I'm going out for dinner. But, that's ok, because it IS my birthday.

Am going for a run to offset the damage. Am now almost comfortably running 5k. Not stopping, very slow, but, managing and am surprised that I can do it.

Not weighing myself still, but, NSV - I have got a muscle in my legs which is new and I found some tendons in my hips. I am starting to feel a bit thinner.

This is the point where I usually give up. Start to rest on my laurels. So, thanks for the thread.

Happy birthday, siiiiigh!

It's my birthday today too! I am planning on sacking off exercise today and lounging around with a book as much as possible.

(But right now, I'm mostly concentrating on being a prize bitch because I don't like the earrings my husband gave me. Well, I'm sure they'd be lovely on someone else, but they're just not me. I'm fairly sure he's chucked out the receipt though so I'll just have to suck it up. And even if he hadn't chucked out the receipt, maybe sucking it up is the right thing to do anyway. It's what I tell my daughter - be gracious and say thank you. I've done that already, so now I just need to wear them. Ah well, they'll be in my ears: I won't see them much.)

Losing one pound a week, every week, means losing 4 stones in a year. Wow. I found that encouraging!

I'm going for a run tomorrow. Not yet enjoyable, but, "earns" 700kcal and I like that I'm starting to get muscles underneath all the fat. Encouraging.