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 am joining you tomorrow..starting Cambridge Diet. Very encouraged by your postings! :)

Ditto huffy, wine, steak and chips, bday cake etc. feel dreadful now wish I hadn't indulged

Welcome, zeis just don't read mine and vickibee's posts today. Except thise, obvs!

vicki we are back on track now. It's ok to indulge once in a while, we mustn't let it derail us. Keep the faith!

I have gained a pound (hangs head in shame) Starting again today and keeping the faith Huffy. I am at worked and have packed a very healthy bettroot salad for lunch. I love beetroot and once ate so much it turned my urine purple!!

Hey ladies.

Guess what? I lost 2 pounds this week. I have finally broken through the 13 stone barrier and am now 12.13. Altogether I have lost 25 pounds since I started (I know this cause I recieved my 25lb milestone badge today on WW) . Im feeling quite pleased as Im very close to losing 2 stones sjnce the start of my weight loss. Only 2 pounds to shift which Im hoping to do this week then I will only have 2 1 stone left to get rid of. I had a really bad May to be honest as I have only lost 3 pounds altoghether this month as I went on a 2 week binge mid month but I feel much more on track now and positive. Thinking of treating myself to a facial once i lose 2 stones.

purple pee!

Nice work 5seconds. Breaking that 13 stone barrier must have been such a boost. Not far to go to the next milestone.

I lost a measly 200g last week. Apart from Sunday I was really, really good. I walked 98,026 steps. I had a calorie deficit of -11,000 calories so ought to have lost around 1.5kg, despite Sunday's indulgence.

This week is going to be hard. I'm helping my Dad move house. I normally need copious amounts of to deal with him. He's ultra stressed. I won't get much walking in Thursday to Sunday plus, as I've mentioned before, he eats crap. I'll have to take healthy stuff and take over the cooking.

sorry for so much moaning!

Slow and steady wins the race, everyone :) every little helps and try to stay on track.

I've had a difficult few months with DS teething and now going through a leap, hence the not being here, and i haven't been doing my 5:2, just trying to keep a vague eye on things, and this is my weight loss from the past 90 days! Broke the 88kg barrier this morning, which has been eluding me all month :) we WILL get there in the end!

SW: 95.2kg (209.9lbs)
CW: 87.7kg (193.3lbs, -16.6lbs)
GW1: 80kg (July)
GW2: 68kg (September)
UGW: 58kg (March 2016)

Oops, here it is!

Lol Squiggle. Where did you get the chart? I need one too to post next to my bed to keep me on track. Or better yet on the fridge to stop me going for cheese slices. When i first joined ww years ago they were marketing this app/tool thing which I vaguely remember being called picture it. You could take a photo of yourself at your current weight and get a photo estimate of how you would look after you attained goal weight. Like a before and after picture (before you got to the after!). Does anyone on ww remember that. 68 sobs thats a very triggering number for me. I was 68kg on my wedding day. Worked my butt off to get down to that weight. It was the first time in my life I felt confident in my body and how I looked. 5 years and 2 kids later Im 83kg and wrestling to get off every pound. Anyway happy thoughts happy thoughts. Im going shopping today which should be fun. Im always a bit unsure what size to buy. I feel comfortable in 16 but can fit in to a 14 though it can be a bit tight around my stomach. Im not sure whether to shop for the body i have now or the one I will hopefully have. Anyone else have that conflict sometime?

I'm only 5 feet tall 5seconds so that's not even really a healthy weight for me... The chart is from MyFitnessPal, I log my weight on there even if I'm not logging food as seeing the downward trend over time really helps me not lose heart :) I advise shopping at BHS, I recently bought jeans in there and am a loose size 16 - I'm at least an 18 everywhere else!

200g is still a loss, Huffy, but it is frustrating when you don't get the loss you KNOW you deserve. I'm quite no-nonsense about the whole thing, and want to focus on calories in versus calories out, but there's definitely more at play than just that. Metabolic rate, I guess. But if we just keep doing what we're doing, we'll get to where we want to be.

I hope your week is going okay, Huffy. (And everyone, in fact!)

Your chart is excellent, squiggle, because it shows the downward trend so clearly. It literally is the big picture.

I have that with clothes, 5seconds, but I freely admit to vanity sizing - ie. I go for the smaller size but from shops that I know cut generously - e.g. ASOS and Lands End. I'm only fooling myself - and I know what I'm doing - but I'll take any boost I can get.

Back from a few days away where I made good choices although I did relax my no alcohol position. We were pretty active too though, and I'm pleased to have returned a pound lighter.

Next big event for me is a friend's big birthday party in July. I'd like to be a bona fide, easy size 12, and in a new 'look at me' dress for it.

Thanks ladies. your encouragement is much appreciated. I was 95.2kg on the scales this morning, so feeling a bit better. Not sure what the blip was, but at least I'm going down again.

Just noticed that I am now what was squiggle's starting weight!

Agree that downward trend charts are a v good thing. I like my MFP one, although because I registered with MFP a long time ago when I was 89kg, it still shows an overall % weight gain unless I only look at the last couple of months

I also like the weekly progress updates that I get from FitBit - I walked over 68km last week

YY to vanity sizing!

And if we ever get to fill this thread up, the next one should be called Every Little Helps! All of these things that help us on our way are v important, including Next/ ASOS/ Lands End size 16 jeans!

Or maybe Onwards and Downwards?!

Cracked badly yesterday. Nemesis, thy name is Galaxy Counters. I didn't even dare look at the calorie count. But been back on track today. It's just one day, but I need to make sure it stays at just one day.

Gah to Galaxy Days! Don't beat yourself up about it pippi. You're back on track. I think we need those occasional GDs. I've found that after those days the willpower comes more easily, which has never happened before. Am definitely in a better place mentally, despite the occasional lapse.

Wanted to update my stats with amended goals and proper dates:
SW 111kg (23 March)
CW 94.6 kg (after 10 weeks)
GW1 90 kg (30 June)
GW2 85 kg (31 July)
UGW 70kg (31 October)

I'm aiming for 70kg now instead of 75kg, because that takes me firmly into the healthy BMI range for my height. I would still be overweight at 75kg.

Am looking forward to wearing a LBD for Hallowe'en that I haven't been able to fit into since 2001!

Am definitely in a better place mentally

It really is all about what's going on in the head, isn't it? The time has to be right.

I've made the mistake of buying new scales: they make me 4lbs heavier than my old ones. I know I'm not actually 4lbs heavier than I was yesterday, so I'm not too bothered, but it does make tracking my loss trickier. Maybe I should just switch to kilos at this point. I've been thinking about what squiggle said in the thread header about stones and pounds being triggering:I didn't get it when I first read it, but I think I do now. Perhaps kilos will have less emotional baggage.

Shiteforbrains (may I call you Brains, because I'm sure there's no shite involved) - congratulations on the birth of your baby. You sound like you've already done amazingly well on the weight loss front, so just keep doing what you're doing! Getting out walking with your son is a great plan: Huffy on this thread is a great testament to the Power of Walking.

agree totallt Pippi - it is an emotional thing, any small stress can set me off eating for comfort. I have got in to much better habits now and my old habits are filed away and I hope thay never resurface.
Anyone got any tips for reducing bloating, I am eating so much fruit, veg and fibre that my tummy fills with gas and bloating, awful? anyone else have this?

Lol Brain. I do that too. Every time i lose a kg I imagine I have lost a bag of sugar. Sometimes I will even hold a bag of sugar to physically measure how much weight I have lost.

Any losses this week? I am struggling at the moment to hold on to my control. I havent put on weight but the more I weigh myself and see I havent lost anything the more I lose hope and eat. Ireally need to start getting some regular exercise in my life. At the moment my weight loss is primarily due to dieting and a bit of walking. I know if i exercise i will see the change i want much quicker but still finding it hard to get motivated to move. Cooking I think really helps you to control your calories. There are so many hidden calories in processed foods. I once wanted a quick lunch and had some veggie burgers in the fridge which i thought were 'healthy' when i checked the propoints howevryit was something like 7 points just for the burger without the bread, sides and dressing etc. For a measly one burger.

My new scales that added 4lbs were faulty so I took them back and got a new new set of scales. According to them, I'm 7lbs heavier than I was on Monday. Sadly for me, they seem to be accurate (I weighed some weights) so I've always been half a stone heavier than I thought I was. Eek!

So, time to draw a line under weight loss to date, switch fully to the new new scales, and to kilos.

Go on, Brains, go for a walk. Head for a leafy park - it won't be too hot in the shade. And you'll feel virtuous after it.

No idea on the bloating, I'm afraid, Vicki, but much sympathy.

This is probably not a revelation to anyone else, but I discovered that 1 litre of water weighs 1 kg. So I now understand how come my weight can fluctuate so wildly. I weighed 93.2kg on Tuesday but was dehydrated because I went to a work function Monday night and drank way too much without eating. Ate and drank (non alcoholic, obvs) normally on Tuesday - 1200 kcals plus 14,000 steps - and was 94.5kg on Wednesday. But the point I am trying to make is that if we are eating less and moving more we WILL lose fat, whatever the scales say. There are so many variables.

I ate lots of cheese tonight. Another work thing. Turns out cheese is my nemesis.