New Mums: Pre-diet we had pride, now we want new bodies!

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Here we go again!

Ok it's the magic thread where we find inspiration, motivation and actually see the results we want and manage to hold on to them once we get them.

No more excuses (unless they are hilarious or necessary).

Welcome all!

Have a lovely holiday Green. Yes the curry is the nice once :) have you tried the hot chocolate pudding, that's also good.

How are you both Sol and Rach?

I can hear DH eating I feel murderous (fasting).

hi all,
another busy weekend, it was my oh birthday so we went out for a meal, it was my first alcoholic drink for 11 months. needless to say diet went out the window ;)

how are you getting on beyond? were you able to control those murderous thoughts?

green, how was the holiday? im going away in october with my parents, sister, other half and ds1 and 2 in a very large static caravan, needless to say im nervous, i may end up killing mum or dad or both :)

sol, how are you doing?

Can I join? DS is 11 weeks old and I hate my wobbly bits :-( I don't know if I'm being unreasonable to think I shouldn't have them anymore.

I'll have a quick read through the rest of the thread but any tips are welcome! I have about 10lbs to lose to be back to pre-baby weight.

Hi nailsathome, you are welcome to join. Have you a goal of how much you would like to lose? Congratulations on the new baby, don't be too hard on yourself so early after pregnancy. Have you got a diet in mind to follow?

How is your holiday going Green? I love the thought of heading off to a caravan, we used to holiday in them when I was a kid and I have very fond memories. I'll join you on Exante soon, but not now, read my post below .

How's everything going with you Beyond? Are you feeling less murder-ey?

Were you a bit hungover after after your first drinks Rachey? I was in bits after 2 glasses of wine when I had my first drinks post DS2, it was horrific.

Sorry I have been missing. My DH had an unexpected 10 days off - the longest he has had off in 5 years - as a job he was due to start on has been put back until August. So we have had an epic few days of eating (so so much), drinking (even more) and being out and being active with the kids. Lots of walks and swimming, followed by copious amounts of alcohol in the evening. We have eaten in restaurants and had takeaway every night - I was determined not to cook on our stay at home holiday. As a result I have not been near a scales and because it's a bank holiday weekend here I intend to stay away from the scales until Tuesday.

When are we restarting :

Glad you had some lovely time Sol.

Welcome nails.

Hope everyone well.

Hi,

thinking of re-starting on Tuesday due to a few plans in the next few days. I have not stopped eating. I weighed myself and I have put on 6 lbs in 3 weeks

I am so mortified. I have eaten all around me and haven't restricted myself at all. My chubby jeans are quite tight and I'm much fuller around the face. Part of me wonders if I can fast for 2 days that I have no plans to eat out - the other part of me thinks that I shouldn't bother

Are you on for a restart on Tues Beyond? Are you going to Exante it? I am. How have you been?

Hi everyone. Welcome Nails.

I had a nice little holiday. Despite the weather it was lovely. I did lots of walking and didn't pig out much as I was with my Mother who gives me a look and is permanently on WW!

I made up for it when I got back though, I never stopped stuffing my face this weekend.
I started Exante again on Monday and seem to be doing well. My weight had reached crisis point on Monday morning, but I'm already 6lb lighter. So I'm feeling more motivated than I have in a long time. (Probably because I'm really fat and nothing fits!)
I bought some more Exante bars and some Pizza mix (yet to try), curry and rice (very nice) and sausage mix (I like this a lot).
I think I've worked out that it is the bars and products like pancakes/deserts that we're giving me a bad stomach last time. The shakes don't seem to. So I'm rationing those products and trying to use up the shakes and have more savoury meals.
I'd love to get back into the swing of low carbing properly this time. But I'm just trying to take a day at a time for the moment. The thought of DD starting school next month is actually really motivating me too.

Hope you had a lovely time with your family Sol, you and Beyond need to join me on the Exante journey next week.

Rachey my advice for the caravan is to go out a lot. Also get your parents to babysit ! I get on with my Mum but after 3 days I was getting tense!

That's a fantastic weightloss Green! Congratulations.

Your holiday sounds lovely, even with the ever watchful eye of your Mum you seem to have had a good time . I know what you mean about kids starting school being a motivation, I really don't want to be a fat Mum in school yard.

I will definitely be on board with the Exante plan next week. I have really let myself go and feel so bloated and dreadful.

Thinking of starting Exante tomorrow for breakfast and lunch as this weekend has been another food-fest and I feel a bit stodgy. I've also got rotten PMT and just feel a bit crap. Then I can start Exante full time on Tuesday and continue until I use up all of my food.

Do you drink alcohol when you are using Exante Beyond and Green? I'll miss my evening vino I think.

Thanks Sol. I've had a sensible weekend too so I'm hoping to have lost a little bit more tomorrow. Had some real food, but just meat and green veg. Plus some cheese. So nothing too wild.

Your re start plan is good. I'm going to stick to mainly Exante during the week.

I don't have any alcohol on this plan. I'm hopeless with wine, I could never stop at one. I like gin too which I know is low carb, but I'd probably end up with a bag of crisps and bar of chocolate too. So I'm better ignoring it for awhile.

Is it weigh in tomorrow Green?

How have you found the weekend? You sound like you are doing really well and are in the right head space.

I am a super-piglet today, I have eaten EVERYTHING! And I have a meal out tomorrow night with a few friends and I am not going to be ordering a salad and water (may as well be honest).

However, I bought lots of new make up today and cut and coloured my hair so I feel a little better. I look better. Less Mum-sy.

Now I need to look less fat

I was like that last weekend. (Well every weekend recently!)

I found it okay. I was struggling on Friday night, so I ate some cheese. But I'd bought the individually wrapped blocks, so that stopped me eating too much. I did plan what I was having over the weekend and bought it on Friday. I think that works better for me rather than telling myself that I can only have Exante. Then giving up when I fancy some real food. If I've STS/gained that's fine.
That's it until next weekend though. I did have celery during the week and the occasional scrambled egg to stop me going mad.

I do feel more positive about losing weight. I'm trying to sort all my 'shit' out and I feel it's one of the things holding me back.

I'd like to get into low carbing properly. But I'm going to try to use the Exante up and see how I get on.

What makeup did you get? I got some new nail polish the other day. I just need to get round to putting it on!

We'll both look much better by the start of September.

I forgot to say that I will weigh myself tomorrow, but I might move it to Thursday.

Oh and enjoy your meal out.

I bought some Benefit concealer, some Rimmel mascara (I am allergic to every other brand), some earth tone eye shadow from Rimmel and a bunch of cheapy nail polishes. I got some moisturiser in Lidl too(I am Queen of the beauty bargains).

I can't remember the names of the products, I'll have a root around for them later and post them.

I like that you're sorting your shit out, you sound very motivated. And I think that it's a contagious frame of mind on a thread like this. You will look amazing by September.

hello all,
its been a busy few weeks with ds1, oh and my birthday all within 4 weeks of each other. this means lots of eating an me putting on 6lb ;(

green, glad you had a good holiday. conrats on the weight loss it always helps having someone there that is also watching what they eat.

beyond, how are you getting on?

sol, loving the sound of your purchases i love beauty products just dont get the chance to wear them :)

nails, how are you getting on?

I've had my last non-Exante meal for the next while. I am determined that this is the time I will change.

I will stick with it and become the person I know I can look like, the real me - who has cheekbones and a clavicle and a waist (smushy as it may be due to destroyed muscles).
I will be able to bend down and tie my shoelaces without a weird speedbump of flab getting in the way.
I will confidently sit down in one of the dainty, slender, high sided chairs in posh cafe I go to sometimes, instead of perching my arse on the front and then backing in slowly like a nervous wide-load truck driver.
I will look at clothes and think how they will accentuate the body I will be proud of, instead of looking for clothes I know can hide a multitude of sins.
I will casually stroll in to the swimming pool at my own pace, rather than use the baby as a human shield to hide my belly and cellulite behind and make a very fast dash to hide my body under the water.
I will wear stiletto heels without the fear that they will snap under my weight.
I won't wonder what I have stuck to my face/clothes when I notice people looking at me, I will accept that they think I look well.
I will look well.
I am doing this for myself.
I deserve to feel good about myself.
I will not listen to my inner junk food monster who wants me to have cheesy puffs. I will kick said monster in the shins and have celery.
Ok, ok...I will sometimes listen to my inner junk food monster because I am a human and life is too short. But it will not start me off on a spiral where I lose control and stuff myself.

I am feeling very optimistic about my diet today. But feel free to remind me of all of this when I fall spectacularly off the wagon

Rachey don't feel too bad about the 6 lbs. Are you intending on following an eating plan or are you just going to do healthy eating? I give you three weeks and the 6 lbs will be gone. Sometimes you need to let go and enjoy yourself (I am very good at this) but you need to get back on track afterwards (I am very bad at this).

Have you tried any exercise classes or anything?

hi Rachey. Hope you've had a nice Birthday. DD1, myself and DH all have Birthdays in the same month and it's really hard to avoid temptation. That's just life though? It would be a miserable birthday without cake (and lots of wine).

I love the list Sol. Very inspiring, but now I'm thinking about the cheesy puffs in the kitchen.

We'll have to keep the optimism going. I was also looking for cheek bones and clavicle today. My face is much less puffy.

Did you try out your makeup yet? Which concealer did you get? The Boing or the stick one? I like Nars and Clarins, but I've discovered that the Maybelline fit me concealer is similar to the Nars (and a quarter of the price) and the Maybelline Eraser Eye is also good. (Yes I do have 4 concealers on the go)

I weighed myself today. 8lb lighter! I'm going to try to keep off the scales until Friday and change that to the official weigh in day. Although I'm trying to not get too hung up on it.
I'm pleased with that. Maybe it would have been more without eating some food at the weekend? But it was the first time this year that I made it past 5 days without completely giving in.

I had 2 Exante shakes today and a bar. I meant to have 2 shakes and a savoury pack but my MIL turned up with chocolate for the DC. It smelt so nice that I had to eat a bar to stop myself wrestling a Kinder bar from a 2 year old.

Has anyone tried the Beanies flavoured coffee? They sell it on Exante site and Sainsburys. I got some of the almond flavour and added it to the banana shake and chocolate shake and it's really nice. It's quite nice as a coffee too.

Sorry for the waffling. DH is out and I'm avoiding the kitchen.

Hi, tried to post a million times today but MN refused to load, or crashed, or lost my post - very irritating.

Green that is an amazing loss! Congratulations, you must be so happy. When you start to see physical changes it will spur you on. I have to admit I have a 2 concealer system on the go and then an eye brightener that I put on top, yet I still have visible dark circles.

I've never heard of Beanies coffee, is it sold in a jar or sachets? I can't order anything else from Exante until my latest order is used up, there's piles of it.

Day 2 of Exante was ok. Picked a bit at the kids dinner and had some wine (it was a sunny afternoon and DH was off so I could have some ). I filled a tub in the kitchen with 7 days worth of meals so I just reach in and grab the pack I have alloted at each meal time. It's not fun but it will have to be done. I think some serious low carbing when all this Exante is done.

My neighbour has started doing slimming world, she was singing its praises in the beginning but has been on it for 6 weeks and only lost 6 lbs. She's delighted she gets to eat so much - she really does, the amount of "free" food is unbelievable - but her weight has slowed to losing .5lbs per week. I couldn't hack that. And she's going to the gym twice a week. So no SW for me.

Hope everyone else is doing well!

Hi Sol, mumsnet was hacked last night and they were still having problems today. There's a funny thread about it somewhere.

Well done on day 2. I think the first 5 days are the most difficult. I did the 'select your meal of doom' thing last week too.

I am pleased with the loss. The thought of how much thinner I'll be in a few weeks is helping spur me on.

I really fancied gin tonight. But resisted. I have ate too much cheese though. I substituted a pack of Exante for it. At least it's low carb.

Low carbing is what I hope to move onto too. I had a low carb meal yesterday instead of a pack. It worked out at less carbs than the Exante products, but more calories.

You're right about Slimming World. It destroyed portion sizes for me, at least WW is sensible. I think some of the class leaders/members encourage each other to eat loads though. They seem to 'sell' it as a benefit over WW. I've been following some people doing SW via Facebook and they've lost over a stone in 6 weeks. They post pictures of meals though and the portion sizes are controlled.

The coffee comes in jars. I think most supermarkets sell it.

I get bad circles under my eyes too. All the water I've been drinking seems to be helping though. have you tried a more yellow toned concealer? I've found that helps. The lady at Nars showed me how much better it worked, but I didn't want to buy another concealer from them so I bought the Maybelline fit me concealer in sand instead. As I said it's almost identical. I have pale olive toned skin normally.

Have a good day tomorrow.

Hacked? Why? It's not like we have bank details or anything on here. The most they could threaten us with is "We have a vague idea where you live and you hate your MIL", that could be bloody anyone. Though I suppose some people put pics of their kids and stuff on their profiles, but even then, it's hardly bribe-worthy.

I didn't know you did SW Green. I know someone who has lost near to 15 stone doing it, but she is still morbidly obese so I guess it only works if you have lots to lose. And really any huge change in eating would do that if you were very overweight.

I hate cheese so can't have snacks of it. But you're right, if it's low carb and you skip a pack you should be fine.

My skin tone is sallow. so the base colour always has to be yellow when it comes to concealers. Anything pink or neutral just comes out as white or doesn't work. I tan easily so with a bit of colour I look better, but I slap on suncream so I can't win. I'll check out Maybelline, I had a huge allergic reaction to their mascara years ago so I've avoided them but I can do a patch test first. There's a shopping centre near me which has an incredible beauty hall and I used to love spending ages in there trying out new products, sadly kids have put a stop to that for the moment.

Good Lord I'm shit at dieting. Maybe I should put that on a t-shirt? A very big t-shirt.

I don't think they explained why they did it? Too much time on their hands? Maybe just to force me to do some house work instead of sitting on my bum!

I did SW ages ago. I wasn't very overweight when I started. It only worked because I went to the gym and starved myself for 2 days before a weigh in! Maybe I actually invented 5:2?

I'm not sure how I feel about your cheese hatred it's in my top 5 food list (cheese, crisps, nuts, chocolate and cured meats).

I love beauty halls, I never have time to go and browse. Even a trip to Superdrug involves DD1 trying every tester. (Did I read that Superdrug is opening in Ireland soon? Or have I made that up?)
I tan easily too, but have hyper-pigmentation so I'm always slapping on spf 50. I have a bronzer addiction at the moment though.
I keep hearing great things about the Collection concealer too.

How has today been? I've just had 3 packs today and loads of water because I'm weighing myself tomorrow.