Brides to be on a weight loss mission! Part II

[SoonToBeMrsB]

Hi ladies, here is part two of the thread.

Part one here

As you were...

Thanks Soon Day 2 of low carb is going well...my hunger is subsiding so must be getting into ketosis now :)

Todays menu-

B- Granola, Greek yoghurt, peanut butter & raspberries

L- Ham & Cheese salad with coleslaw, almonds.

D- Baked Cod in butter sauce, with cauliflower & broccoli.

That's good news, I can't bear to feel over hungry as I'm guaranteed to raid the cupboards

I'm still intrigued by low carbing but I did a massive food shop at the weekend and money is pretty tight with wedding saving so I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing until the cupboards need stocked again. I'll pick up more low carb options with my next shop.

Food today:

B: One slice of wholemeal toast with whole earth peanut butter and half a banana, coffee
L: Ham and lentil soup, WW yoghurt, 2x clementines, Fridge Raiders (small bag)
D: BBQ pulled pork with veg
S: Cereal bar with another coffee

I find it cheaper to low carb- just buy some staples- Raw/Cooked Meat, Tinned Tuna, Frozen Green Veg, Nuts, Greek yoghurt, Eggs, Peanut Butter, Cream cheese etc and base all your meals on them. I always get sweet cravings so sugar free jelly is my go to atm but will bake some low carb treats at the weekend I think. x

I just can't afford to do another week's shop on top of the food I bought at the weekend so it'll need to wait until next week

lol :P Really need to do some HIIT tonight but think I've pulled a muscle in my leg/bum?? Just keep getting a sharp pain up my side every time I stand up/sit down hmmm x

Marking place :)

Hope everyone is well. Xx

Dowser thinking of you xx

I'm in again, been rubbish of late. Mini eggs for breakfast today but just out for a run and hopefully make circuits tonight.

Thank you mad things.

I'm doing ok. It will hit me again when I'm with the family.

Diet is just rubbish. Celebrated the dress yesterday . Oh boy did I. That was two sangrias. One g and t.

Omelette.
Creme caramel with 1/2 banana
Tuna with onion and tomato salad
Chocolate ice lolly
Tuna with salad
Grilled hake and fries
Creme caramel

That's two days worth of food there for me.

Stomach is really upset.

Just about to eat now. Ham and cheese omelette. It's 4 pm

Last couple of days and try to squeeze a quart into a pint potie all the stuff we've bought.

We've got our hippy clothes for Glastonbury. I might get some sandals to go with my dress. All has to be accounted for.

Gone are the days when you bunged it all into your cases and sat on them to close them. .lol

Hubby to be is eating some weird Dutch food. Im glad I stuck to English.

Walking home last night we called in the underground shopping centre and I spotted a pair of silver sandals. Very similar to the pair I have at home I'd completely forgotten about and worn twice. So they will do.

Felt really poorly last night. Didn't eat much at all yesterday but am feeling a bit better now.

It's weird here. You bake during the day then at night it gets quite chilly.usually we are about a mile away in beach clothes and if there's a breeze it can soon go through you.

It'll be interesting what happens today as its statprted to cloud over a bit. OH likes his daily swim so no doubt we will be heading for the beach. I want to go to the supermarket. Valerian ( helps sleep) is only £3.50 and it's £17 in holland and Barrett. So will stock up with that.

Have a good day everyone with some good choices ;-)

Gosh, I am bored of dieting. Especially as I have realised I am going to have to watch what I eat for the rest of my life and cut back more & more as I get older. Three weeks until Easter and I am still bobbing around between 10st 4 and 10st 6, as I have done for weeks now. Will I ever see 10st? It has occurred to me that I may not as, 15 yrs ago, I was 10st on a good day but never managed to get below that.
I'm been feeling really bloated & grumpy today but have stuck to my fast more or less (the "less" being two bites of chocolate brownie!)

Me too and I'm not feeling too good again either.

I thought 3 weeks of exercise and the weight would fall off . Well it hasn't.at just two miles a day we will have done 36 miles and I'm sure we've done more than that.

Would be delighted at 10 st 4 lbs but I know it's all subjective.

At least my dress fits.

I'm feeling really grumpy about it all too - I've wasted three months faffing around, eating badly every few days and exercising when I can be arsed. I'm only a few pounds down since New Year and I have nobody to blame but myself.

I'm having a fast day today to try to claw this week back, I definitely felt more focused those couple of weeks I did 5:2, I just got too comfy with food again

I messed up last night :( Made a healthy low carb dinner of chicken curry with cauliflower rice then my darling fiancé bought my favourite ice cream home for dessert (B&J Peanut Butter Cup) and I just couldn't resist. So if I was in ketosis, I definitely am not now When will I ever find a plan I can stick to???

We all seem Tobe struggling. Nearly three months in and I don't feel any thinner.

I don't need to lose weight for my dress, so no incentive their either.

I actually think I'm at the weight my body likes as I dont seem to deviate too much from it despite what I eat and don't eat.

Food was good yesterday because I didn't feel well

Omelette

Big slab of swordfish, tomato and onion salad and a few chips

Tuna salad and small creme caramel and a half banana

For someone who didn't feel too well, that wasnt a bad haul.

Was chilly yesterday. Sat on the beach all wrapped up. Pretty much had it too ourselves. When the sun did poke its head off two women stripped to bikinis. 10 mins later after I'd been to the loo I noticed they were back in jeans and sweaters.

Last full day today. Lots of packing to do and I don't think it's predicted to be that warm and sunny either.

I'm actually so desperate I'm considering doing Extante properly again, giving it a real go and not giving up like I did at New Year. I have FIVE WHOLE STONE to shift and this cha-cha I'm doing of 2lbs off, 1lb on week in, week out is making the task seem insurmountable.

On a less pathetic and depressing note, the mint chocolate Exante shake tastes like mint aero so my morning is off to a decent start.

Cambridge was the only thing that worked for me...Lost 3 stone in 3 months and I am happy I've kept it off but wish I had stayed on it for a couple more months then maybe I could've been at goal now!! hmmmmm

You'd think that seeing a 14 at the start of my weight again would be enough to make me get my arse into gear but no, I'm just bouncing around the 14's as if I'm not clinically obese. I swing between "I'm not THAT fat" and "omg I'm hideous!" on a daily basis.

Sigh. Exante might be the only way to go to shift a serious stack of weight before I'm expected to wear a bikini in September.

Yep I was the same- I was 15'2 when I started Cambridge and didn't feel that fat..till I looked back on pictures!!!

It's six months to the day to my wedding.

There I've said it. Jan 1 st there was 9 months.

do I really have to go back to SW. When I got to goal last time I vowed that was the last time I was going to pay to not put food into my mouth.

Mrs B, aw sweetheart wish I could give you a big hug. You are sounding really desperate as I'm sure you are.i wish I could offer some sensible suggestions to help you.

I've done this once , walking down the aisle as a slim bride so I know how much it means to you and if I can offer you any help I'm here.

All I can say is coming here to Tenerife and being bigger on the stomach than I would have liked has not been nice and I regret every sweet thing I put in my mouth over the last three months. My beach clothes have not looked as good as they did two years ago.

All I can say is just try and try again. Normally I would have eaten a mound of chocolate here but I restricted myself to a small bag of chocolate covered raisins and nuts. I've had maybe 6 choc ice creams and several creme caramels and quite a few sangrias and g and ts

All that is going when I get home.

This stomach is coming off!

Stick in gal! You'll be so glad you did when you're svelte on your hols.

Dowser I did the same this time last year, I was 12st 13lbs and managed to get all the way back up to the weight I am now (14st 7lbs) just in time for a break to Rome and Paris, and I can't even tell you how awful I felt. I had to buy all new bigger clothes because nothing I owned fitted me the week before we left. I was even called fat by one of the looky-looky men outside the Sacre Coeur and ended up crying in a bush

I lost about a stone after that but I've put it all back on again and I refuse to go on holiday (a beach holiday no less!) feeling like that again. Even DP has asked if I'm going to spend the whole time we're away moaning that I feel fat and uncomfortable, and I feel bad because I know it brings the mood down for everyone. He has lost so much weight since January, it has fallen off him and I'm too jealous to feel happy for him

Hi all.

I'm not doing too bad at the moment. 3 hours power walking over last couple of days has helped. Plus my appetite has been low. I've been taking sinutab and apparently it's an appetite suppressant?

I've just been for a walk to cliff tops with the dog. It's lovely weather today. ?

Dancing tonight. Dinner is pork joint and veg. I'll have a small portion.

Hi FSC glad it's all working for you. Haven't done much today apart from more packing. When I pack it's an art form. Takes a week when I go places and two to three days when coming back. It's been unbelievably windy today. Gorgeous now but am having a lie down as I don't feel grand

I thought we might be going to cousins funeral next week but it's the week after. Just booked the hotel

It will give me time to get turned around when I get home. I hope it's warmed up some. I'm sad to leave the warmth, the long days and this lovely sunshine.

Aibu? You betcha ;-) !

Mrs B if you want extra support just say.

I'm glad it isn't just me who has the diet blues. I was a bit more positive yesterday as I weighed in at 10.4 so thought that, if I had a good day yesterday & fasted today, I may see 10.3 tomorrow but then didn't have time to exercise yesterday as I had to stay at work for a couple of extra hours & had parents' evening after which we went to our local Italian where the pizza are about £8 and delicious & the meat options are twice as much & not so good so I chose pizza meaning to just eat half of it but demolished the whole thing.
Other fails during the day were the usual silly ones but which add to a couple of hundred calories over a day... taking a haribo off one DC, when making cheesecake eating the one remaining digestive as it seemed silly to put it in the cupboard, eating the extra bit of philadelphia straight off the spoon, having a spoonful of cream (I love cream!).
The latter got me thinking. Some of my friends don't have sweet tooth & so wouldn't ever make something like a cheesecake, even for a family celebration as we have at the weekend; other friends would simply put any leftovers straight in the bin rather than use themselves as a bin; other friends would make the cheesecake, eat it but know that they like to eat more than they would usually use so have set up their lives so that they go to the gym for an hour five times a week, cycle or run to work etc & others (like me) eat it, have a sedentary lifestyle & sit around moaning about not losing weight.

Thanks Dowser, the level of extra support I need is someone to follow me around, slapping food out of my hands

After complaining to SW about their, frankly, shite website, they have sent me a voucher for 12 weeks of classes in lieu of the refund I actually wanted. I was angry because the whole point of doing it online was because I can't make any of the local classes (they are on when I'm at college) but I've found a Saturday morning class a short train journey away. I'll be there with bells on tomorrow at 10am, new class, new consultant and hopefully new motivation.

I have a love-hate relationship with SW because I get huge losses when I'm 100% on plan but the weeks that I'm out with friends and have one nice meal out of the whole week, I end up gaining or maintaining. My colleague has lost 3st on the plan though and her sister has lost 5st so something obviously works.

From your name DW I didn't deduce you had a sedentary lifestyle but I know what you mean, a luck here, a dollop there all adds up if you only burn a few cals.

I've had a lot of back pain this week so exercise is out of the window.

Last things to pack and if time will get to supermarket for a few bits. Taxi to airport at 1pm. I'm a sentimental softie. I hate leaving anywhere. I think I leave part of my soul in places I love.

Had a lovely time. Three weeks is great. Will miss the friends I've made here but will give me a week to get cracking before we're off to Wales.

Food will be as and when today. Starting off with omelette though.