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!

Hurrah for that, brains and hope you've had a good weekend.

It's not been a great week for me. 5 separate social events. Wine has been drunk to excess. Sigh. Am staying away from the scales and back on track from tomorrow. Double sigh.

It's very quiet here. Is everyone ok?

I have not lost any weight for three weeks, but not gained either - it is the dreaded weigh in tonight. I do wish that I could attend in the mornings as I am 3lb lighter first thing (naked and empty tummy) Please help me get my motivation back...

I have been considering non-weight victories recently like a couple of inches off my waist and thighs and getting into garments that have been stting at the back of my cupboard for years. I do have a pair of white linen trousers that will fit me if I could lose another 7 pounds.

I take it all back, I am very surprised but the scales said I had lost 3 lb this week so 29 in total. I am pleased and this may motivate me to do better for next week. ( did eat most of a big bag of revels yesterday) how is everyone else doing.

Go vicki! Nice work. So motivating!

I'm having a better week. No booze, 1,200 calories or less a day and walked 15,000 steps or more each day. Hoping for a decent loss come Monday, as long as I keep up the good work.

I've been reading about Basal Metabolic Rate and Total Daily Energy Expenditure.

BMR is the number of calories you burn just by being alive. Mine is 1620 so if I eat less than that I should lose weight even if I don't do anything. BUT if I eat too little my body will slow down the amount of fat I burn.

TDEE is the amount of calories I should burn taking into account my lifestyle. I'm walking a lot so moderately active. My TDEE is 2510. As long as I eat less and move more I will lose weight. I know there are other factors at play, including hormone changes throughout the month, amount of sleep etc. But my mantra is eat well and move that butt, Huffy!

To lose 1lb of fat you need to burn around 3,500 calories. So to lose 3lb you used up 10,500 more calories than you ate, vicki. That's no mean feat!

Interestingly, when I reach my goal weight, my BMR and TDEE will go down to 1387 and 2149 respectively, as long as I stay moderately active. It's no wonder I got so bloody fat! I was probably eating well over 2500 calories a day and doing around 4000 steps max, in short bursts. Never enough to really burn all those excess calories.

Sorry for the science lesson! I find it interesting and wanted to write it out here. It's motivating me. Hope I haven't bored you all

Crikey, that was long. Sorry

No not boring at all huffy. Very interesting. When you put it like that it seems easier somehow. Just eat less and move more. Nothing to report here. Mostly as my scales have broken. I feel a bit lighter and have been okay foodwise so im hoping once i get new scales they reflect that. Dont you find it annoying though when your expecting to lose but dont see it on the scales. That can really set me back. Im feeling i need to start going to my ww meetings now. Especially to shift my last 2 stone off. I have started weaning baby and I know my daily points need to go down. Will miss those extra points.

Phew, thanks 5seconds
I am at the higher end of the ASD and know I can be obsessional/ bang on about things at times

Totally get the Scales Depression! It's why I bought new scales, I thought the old ones were broken (they weren't)

I weighed myself this morning. No weight lost in the last 4 days AT.ALL.

If I eat much more salad I am going to turn green and have been pounding the pavements... there ought to be at least a half kilo loss, based on the science?

Hopefully if I have a good weekend I will see some results on Monday, which is my "official" weigh in day.

Do you find the WW meetings helpful? I'm such an introvert the idea of group discussion usually fills me with horror, but as I may have said upthread (or on another weight loss one?) I went to a group years ago which I did actually get a lot out of.

Still slow but relatively steady here. 2lbs off this week and wearing previously too small clothes. (Size 12 jeans! Definitely vanity sizing, but I'll take it) I've tried to up my walking to a minimum of 15,000 steps a day because my BMR is only 1313 at the moment so it would be an even longer journey if I was to rely purely on controlling my food intake. I work out a bit too, but I'm a bit hit and miss on that, while I can usually build a fair bit of walking into my day, with a little effort.

I take measurements as well as weighing as, even if weight loss is slow, there's usually some positive change on measurements, so it just helps to reinforce that things are heading in a positive way.

That's really excellent progress, Pippi. Size 12 is size 12! Sod vanity sizing.

I wish I had taken photos and done measurements at the beginning of this, but I couldn't bear to go near a camera or tape measure! The scales were mean enough

Yes, I think it took me a couple of weeks of big weight losses before I could torture myself with a measuring tape: it was painful but I'm glad I did now. So, I know I've lost 4 inches from boobs, waist, and hips. Arms and legs are smaller too. What's interesting (I use the term loosely) is that they haven't reduced evenly. For example, this week, it's half an inch off my chest and an eighth of an inch off my arms (tiny, I know, but still counts), while last week it was half an inch off waist and a quarter of an inch off thigh. I only measure once a week, and have seen reductions every week, even when the scales haven't been co-operating.

Huffy I find the wow a bit cheesy tbh, let's all clap cos so and so has lost this week and the certificates are given out.the ww leader wants to take photos of our. aChievements , no chance I am doing it for me not for fb. The thought of getting weighed every Thursday does keep you in check.

Hmm, maybe I should buy a tape measure... I need to measure my boobs as most of my bras no longer fit properly.

oh gawd, vicki! That's my idea of hell! But the weigh in is hopefully a motivating factor. This thread is great for an introvert like me.

That's excellent in 9 weeks! Think what you'd tell a friend who'd achieved that, and give yourself the credit you deserve, Brains.

I imagine your weight is distributed differently while you're still breast-feeding i.e. your boobs will be bigger, so I would say it's perfectly possible to be slimmer elsewhere on your body but having mega-norks makes the scales say you're heavier.

I'd like to think that my (non-pregnant but nonetheless huge) norks weigh at least a stone

Joking apart, I agree with pipp. Stands to reason that breasts full of milk will weigh more than breasts without.

I'm not convinced by cauliflower rice but I love courgette noodles. Yummy stir fried with chilli flakes, garlic, S&P and a teeny bit of oil. Nom.

Am down to 91.8kg. Almost at the weight I was when I met DH (90kg)

Good stuff, Huffy. The pounding the pavements, and acres of salad paid off! I suppose that's the key thing we all have to grasp - just keep on, and the results will follow.

I'm watching The Biggest Loser, and feeling envious of these people who - six weeks in - are losing 8, 9, 10 lbs in a week. But then, losing weight is a full-time job for them, and I suppose they generally have more weight to lose. But I have a little fantasy of losing massive amounts of weight for two or three weeks, and then breaking out the Aero. This suggests that I may need to work more on my long-term attitude...

What does it say about me that I could totally go for that tiny jeans/cheese idea, if only I hadn't chucked out the size 8s in dismay years ago?

I think it says my motivation is slipping a bit. I'm still sticking with the programme (mostly, but I've built in a little space for minor slips), but I'm not exactly doing it with good grace. There's no danger of me telling you all how blessed I am. (Although I might revise that if the lovely Jesse Pavelka showed up at my door. Plus, I think I might find that motivational too.

I just had to Google Jesse Pavelka

Ding DONGGGG! that made my afternoon!

I have never, to my knowledge, been a size 8. I probably was when I was a pre-teen, but I don't remember it.

I will be happy to be a size 14 top, size 12 bottom. In fact, I'd be bloody ecstatic!

I am still obese. BMI 31.7 according to the NHS

Need to lost another 5kg before I am just merely overweight.

I'm still in the obese category too. I wasn't three weeks ago, but then I got new and -sadly -accurate scales, which means I feel like I'm having to lose the same weight again. Of course, I'm not but it FEELS like it. But only 2lbs to go until I'm merely (ha!) overweight.

Right, better go and try to walk off the 500 unnecessary calories I've just eaten. Why do I sabotage myself like this? (Oh yeah, because I felt really hungry.)

Hope you enjoyed your walk, pippi. Try not to beat yourself up for eating when hungry! That's what we're supposed to do.

And only 2lb until you're out of the O Zone! Hurrah!

I'm no longer obese. Happy with that. And feel like I've earned it too as I have walked for miles this week.

So, now another 1 stone 13lbs until I'm no longer overweight. But I'm more than halfway, so I think I can allow myself a bit of a cheer here, if I may. In real life, I am so ridiculously secretive about my weight/size that I haven't actually told anyone that I've reached this milestone. Clearly, they know I'm losing weight, but this is very much between me and food.

Hope everyone else is doing okay.

Pippi you deserve a massive HURRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! Bloody marvellous!

I'm doing ok, plodding along mentally and physically. Generally sticking with the plan, foodwise. Except I ate a quadruple choc cookie today. Mainly because it was there. Stupid. Then checked the calorie count on MFP... 386 calories in one sodding cookie! Luckily MFP was wrong, I went into Sainsburys to check (had thrown packet away. I bought biscuits for a team thing. I might be a feeder). But it was still 131 calories. What a waste of my calorie budget!

But I learnt two things... think before you shove it in your mouth and don't over-trust MFP!

I've up my walking to 15000 steps plus for the past 11 days