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!

Pippi it is the first time I have admitted my start weight, I have also lied to one or two people about how much weight I have lost to cover up my start weight. It's bad isn't it but partly self denial.
It will be a STS for me this week I too have a slight cold and eaten a bit more. Someone said earlier about it being a marathon and not a sprint but at times it feels like a never ending journey. How do slim people do it I would like to get inside their head to find out how their make up is different

Just about to set off for my early morning walk / jog when I can, it is still pitch black , that's commitment isn't it

Well done Vicki. Especially with a cold.
I know what you mean. I lose weight so slowly and do wonder if I will ever get there. I've seen people around me lose really quickly, but then gain back and more. I remind myself better to be slow and steady than in a vicious circle.
I haven't moved a lot. Going to spin today but taking it slow otherwise I'll probably cough a lung up!

SFB don't beat yourself up, draw a line and move on. Some of the four pounds could be water retention or time of the month?

It is only a light sniffly cold. I have an eye infection and have some ointment to apply four times a day.

Oh SFB. I missed your rant. But I feel your pain. I don't get it either. I am refusing to weigh myself till I've been better for a couple of weeks.
Vicki hope your eye clears up soon.
Didn't make it to spin because I got a puncture on a bloody pothole. Then went to have blood tests done and now arm looks like someone used a rusty nail to draw the blood.
So the kids and I bought some cakes to watch in front of the tv.

Oh, it's late for any kind of lesson: my brain shuts up shop at about 7pm. But I imagine with your little one it's hard for you to find time to fit such things in at any other time. Hope it's going well. (And that your 4lbs of mucus shifts swiftly.)

Vicki - going out before the crack of dawn is above and beyond. I hope your efforts are reflected on the scales.

Stellar - the gods of weight loss will be back on side soon.

I'm eating terribly at the moment. Not big portions but hardly any vegetables have passed my lips, and my calorie intake has been pretty much entirely carbs. My routine is disrupted by jury service, the need to eat a substantial breakfast in order to avoid embarrassing stomach rumbling before lunch at 1pm, and the lack of healthy options in the jury canteen or any decent shops nearby. But, I am also still walking a lot still so the scales are still being relatively co-operative, and I'm keeping below 1,200 calories. It's a bit more than optimal but not disastrous.

Hope Huffy is doing okay.

It's that wine again SFB ;-)
I think it's great you recognise that you need an extra lesson to park. Wish more people would do that!
Pippi are you allowed a pack lunch? Hope it finishes soon for you.

Hi Everyone

I'm here, been reading your updates. Am still in the same place. Sigh. Thanks for thinking of me though, Pippi. Sounds like a few of us are in the same sort of place - not gaining but not losing much/ anything.

Going to America on Sunday, so I'm either going to gain or at the very best stay the same. Therefore unlikely to meet my goal of 70kg by the end of October.

Maybe this is where I am meant to be? I have never been a size 8 , except when I was about 11. I am a curvy girl with big boobs and chunky footballer legs

I almost killed myself getting down to a size 10 when I was in my early 20s and it lasted a couple of months at most. I mean literally almost killed myself - I was taking prescribed diet pills which are now banned (think I mentioned that before?)

But I need to hold on to the fact that in the last 6 months I have met all my goals, had loads of NSVs, lost 30+kg, or 5 stone. I have gone from a size 20 to a "real" size 14. I can comfortably fit into the skirt I am wearing in the inspiration pic I stuck on my fridge.

This last stretch is so HARD though! Maybe I should aim for 70kg by Christmas, but accept that my "normal" weight is more likely to be somewhere between 75kg and 80kg?

Keep on keeping on, everyone. If I go quiet again it's because I am in the USA trying not to stuff my face!

Hope those of you who've been suffering from colds are feeling better.

Hey Huffy, it does sound like we are all a bit in limbo doesn't it.
You have done sterling work getting yourself to where you are today. Goals can be moved. The whole picture is there in front of you. How about just keeping on track for now and then see how you feel in yourself as you lose? Or do you need a goal to spur you on?
Enjoy America. I love Autumn in the states, depending on where you are of course!
I'm back to being good. Still snivelling but hovered hell out of the house today. That has to be classed as some sort of exercise?

Hovered? Hoovered! Although hovering sounds cool!

If I were a better organised sort of person, I would sort out a packed lunch, Stellar. So far, I've only managed that twice. I'll try and get suitable supplies this weekend for decent packed lunches next week: the case is long, and I'm probably going to be there for another month or so, so I definitely need to get organised.

Also, you are Marty McFly (Back to the Future 2 version), and I claim my £5.

Good to see you, Huffy. I had a period of about six weeks when nothing shifted and it was tough but I appear to be back on a downward trajectory even though I'm not doing anything extra or different now. I'm not where I need to be yet though, and I guess, realistically, Christmas is a reasonable time frame for me to get there because I've a feeling this last stone is going to be a slog. But I do find it helpful to give myself credit for how far I've already come. And I'd urge us all to do that.

Enjoy your trip, Huffy.

I've lost 4 lbs in the last week or so. I'm now a quarter of a pound off my first target. Just under 21 lbs lost since 1st June

Brilliant Downtown! I have never lost that much at once. Enjoy and bask in it.

I'm the same about the packed lunch. It's there, it's made, I must eat it now.

I still feel like shit. I am fed up with it. I have some inkling as to what's wrong now but I don't want to broadcast it all just yet. Incase it's bollocks.

Anyway I've opened wine so I'm going to leave now before I start ranting dancing.

Thanks, lovelies. We're off to LA so looking forward to some sunshine.

Stellar and brains, I really hope you both feel better very soon. I know quite a few people who have been struck down with a really horrid bug/ cold/ snot attack. It looks and sounds nasty.

And bloody good work, Downtown! hurrah for you!

all round xx

Oh enjoy the sun huffy! I'd love some sun.
I had some wine last night and I enjoyed it so I'm not chastising myself. I also had some nuts for health
I was going to clean my kids room this morning. They picked up their toys yesterday for me so I suppose
I should. I have a severe case of the can't be arsed(s).
Hope you all have a good weekend.

Well done to Downtown! And thanks because it must be contagious as I've lost 4lbs this week too: I haven't lost that much in one week for months. It's probably something to do with the low nutrient diet I've been eating, so not a sustainable thing, but I'll happily accept the power of carbs and sugar for now. I'm delighted, and I hope it will help me not over-indulge when I go and meet a friend for coffee later.

Poor Stellar and Brains - I really hope you both feel better soon.

Hi all,

Had a bit of a crappy week last week, only lost 400 poxy grams and felt really down about it. Have managed to lose 1.3Kg this week and have broken through the 12 stone barrier so slightly happer this week. Am such a shortarse though that I need to be 10 stone to be healthy so a long way to go!

Also very happy as I got my shiny new phone yesterday and all my weight data that i'd logged in various apps and notes has ported over fine, was a bit worried something would go wrong and i'd lose everything even made a spreadsheet on the computer just in case . This new phone has a pedometer function so cant wait to start playing with that.

Very jealous about everyones losses so far - it's been 20 weeks for me and i've only lost just over 2 stone :( Need a good kicking - I should stop comparing myself to others - everyone loses weight differently!

I've been a bit like you, Pippi this week - staying under my calorie limit but not really eating healthily - have had tinned spaghetti on toast for four nights this week!

Been feeling a bit lightheaded this week - think it's the calorie restriction. I need to boost the healthy eating to get some vitamins in me! or just buy a pack of multivitamins

I definitely know how you feel about being ashamed of your weight, Viki, I actually felt really ashamed telling DP the other week that I was now just under obese, as that was an admission that I had been obese in the first place! Doesn't help that i've had a couple of rubbish loss weeks since then, so i've got the threat of being straight back up there - one naughty week is all it would take!

Rubbish about the never ending colds, Stellar and SFB, sending healing vibes your way - I was feeling a bit sniffly the other day so thought about having a lemsip drink - 50 calories! So bloody sugary.

Have fun in America, Huffy - you've done amazing so far with the losses, enjoy your holiday without worrying :)

Am off to see my Granny again today so am having a massively low calorie lunch in preparation!

Dyrne don't be hard on yourself. I'm not good at converting weighs, I'm old school scales, but a loss is a loss.
I'm deaf in one ear now, hate love how this cold morphs into something new everyday. But I did go white water rafting today. I must be fucking nuts. I was more excited to manage to get into a "small" wetsuit. Having a large now.