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!

Well done Dyrne!
Thanks all. I try and keep my mojo going but it feels like every week some part of me gets worse. I don't know long I can keep my persistence streak going.
DH said he'd cook this weekend to give me a break. Pizzas and more pizzas. Oh gawd.

Hello!

I have 80 lbs to lose. That number just makes me feel so disheartened which is part of the problem.

I have been at 95 kg (5ft3) for about a year now and I overeat hugely to maintain this weight. I love treats - crisps, chocolate, ice cream, butter, fizzy drinks, the list is endless.

I also binge and eat compulsively - even if I'm not in the slightest bit hungry!

I have eaten well today and done more walking than usual. Will be posting here for moral support! Off for an early night now (part of my new lifestyle)

Ugh, 2 weeks of eating crap has caught up with me - have had stomach cramps all day! Need to meal plan so I actually start eating something vaguely nutritious, rather than just aiming for something within my calorie count. Managed 4 of my 5 a day today, it's a start at least!

Hope the weekend of pizza eating wasnt too disastrous, Stellar.

Hi there, thisisgettingridiculous, you're starting pretty much where I was; and we're the same height. I know that daunting feeling all too well. Different people deal with it different ways - for example, i've broken up my massive target (losing over 5 stone) into loads of little goals, that way I can aim for smaller steps which seem more doable. You've made exactly the right start - take it one day at a time. Well done for eating well today and upping your activity levels!

Hello, thisisgettingridiculous, welcome. One thing I can say for sure is that you will find people here who understand.

Well done on your loss, Dyrne. But yes, ultimately, it's about eating healthily, not just low calorie. I've had about a week of not doing either. It started with the biscuits, and that turned into 'Well, I've already blown the diet today so I might as well have heaps of toast with butter, a packet of crisps, more biscuits, oh and some chocolate. Might as well.' I have so comprehensively sabotaged and deluded myself that I'm now 5lbs heavier than I was two weeks ago. I could kick myself. But due to lack of flexibility, I'm doing the next best thing: 'confessing' here and hoping that that helps me to draw a line under it and move on.

I feel like I've been smug and complacent, and, frankly, I don't have a healthy enough relationship with food for that.

Pippi
I confess too that I have bee off track - biscuits and crisps have crept back in. WTF is wrong with me? When you have been doing the samo old for 6 months plus it does start to get boring and you wonder when the end will be? depsite losing three stone I still weigh 15.5 stone and need to lose at least two more. I am 5 foot 9 so I carry it better and peopple have said I don't look the weight I am. A colleague of mine was complaing about being fat yesterday, your heart sinks because they are 5lbs overweight and you run away and hide?
Thanks Dyrne my eyes are beginning to feel better so I need to go and get some new varifocals, Unfortunately my prescription is so complex I need to save up (?300 ish )

Ridiculous - you need to do some simple swaps - start with carbonated diet drinks saving a couple of hundered cals. have plenty of tasty fruit around for snacks and try not to buy ice cream and crsips

Sorry to hear you're struggling a bit too, vicki, but also strangely comforted by it.

What I'm really struggling to get my head round is that it'll never be over. For me, there can be no end point. I will always have to be 'watching what I eat' (urgh - grim expression). That is what slim people do: that is how they stay slim, whether they know that's what they're doing or not. That doesn't mean deprivation every day, but it certainly doesn't mean treats galore every day either. It means if I eat pizza one day, then I cut back the next so that it balances out to a reasonable calorie intake overall. Yes, we all know the theory; it's the practice that's so hard for some of us. Gah!

Hope your eyes are fully better soon, vicki.

Thank you for the welcome :)

Did well again today with eating and a bit of walking.

Felt stressed in the evening as I rushed straight home from work to child's activity to home to do bedtime alone. I really wanted to eat so I had a few of the kids sweets - very low calorie, just something to quell my cravings. I know it isn't great but I am starting off and doing my best.

I didn't end up going to bed early last night and I probably won't make it tonight as I have tonnes of housework to do.

Going to drink lots of water for the rest of the evening. I am tracking my calories on sparkpeople and I'm under 1550 for the day (I'm usually 3500 - 5000 easily).

Raw carrots are my friend :) gets the jaws moving but very little calories. Taste doesn't matter really because when I'm binging on doritos or whatever I honestly don't even taste what I'm eating.

The scales are showing 1.5kg off already - but that just can't be!

It really can, thisisgetting! You can expect a great big loss when you first start and it can be great motivation to keep going. I think I lost 8lbs in my first week. That takes me about a month these days (although putting back on 5 is sadly all too easy, as I've found in the past two weeks...)

But well done to you!

Oh no Shite, sounds like you've had a shitty couple of days, that was a well deserved glass of wine. Well done on the loss; hope you're feeling a bit more refreshed today? I'm finding myself short tempered enough on this diet, I can't imagine having to deal with small children at the same time, so you all have my admiration!

Great work on your first couple of days Thisisgettingridiculous, and good call on swapping carrots in when you fancy a snack - it's amazing how many calories you save there!

Sorry to hear you're a bit off track, Pippi and Viki. Think the winter blues have definitely hit the thread :(

Hi all, welcome new, sorry I'm not going to manage to address individual as I'm wearing splints but wanted to pop by because I'm going away for a week and may be internetless.
The NHS are a bunch of cockwombles. So I have managed to read two books and consult a couple of recovered people with my problem, and I have turned my back on synthetic meds and bought, recommended drugs online. Which initially freaked the shit out of me. Because I'm a goody two shoes.
Anyway I needed this medication. And 3 days in I feel so much better. My arms are still bad but I have more energy! I'm awake and it's after 9pm.
I will explain the science when my hands work. I believe the medication is available south of the border but not here unless I see a specialist and DH and I said that could be months away.
all round

Oh and some cheese for SFB

Everyone seems to be having a bad time at the moment :( Hope everyone improves soon.
Just 1/2 pound off for me this week which is amazing considering what i have eaten

Stellar I'm glad you've found something that makes you feel a bit better; it's really ridiculous what a postcode lottery the NHS is sometimes with regards to access to treatment.

Shite and Viki, well done on the losses! Shite, I see size 12 as a'normal' weight as well. Doubt I'll ever get down below that but I'd be very happy with a size 12.

Just under a pound lost for me this week (400g). Probably would have been more if not for the copious amounts of alcohol drank last night. Need to find a lower calorie booze - flavoured cider is probably the worst thing to drink when trying to lose weight! It's so yummy though...

Me too Shite.

I have just utterly binged on about a zillion crackers with butter and cheese.

I have this ridiculous compulsion to eat until things are finished, so just had to eat the whole box of crackers (yes, box).

Nervous about my new job tomorrow and bored because I'm all alone and the kids are asleep. Those are my crap excuses.

The only good thing is I didn't cave in and open one of the tubs of miniature heroes DH has been stocking up on for Christmas presents.

Hi Livvy, I'm like you, breastfeeding and need to lose weight! Would love some tips on snacks - healthy and satisfying but that taste nice! I find it hard to get the time with an 11 week old to make healthy food

Ya i have been snacking on nutrigrain bars in the middle of night and early morning feeds and they are full of sugar, but what ready made snack could you replace them with