52lbs in 52wks?

[NantucketNightbird]

Sorry if stepping on toes. But couldn't see another thread. Anybody want to join me? I guess the idea is that some weeks you loose a bit more and some weeks you gain but aiming for 1lb a week sounds good to me.

Well done everyone. I'm a kg up at the moment but have just started exercising and am only just starting trying to cut excess food out too so not expecting results yet. Sounds like you're all doing great.
I've just been to a personal trainer session(my first) and it was good, knackering but good. Used muscles I haven't for ages so I imagine I'll be in even more pain tomorrow. I am having salmon and salad, grated carrot and beetroot for lunch and treated myself to a slice of brown bread and butter as I've just worked out. Going to cut right down on bread and potatoes if I can.

Marking starting weight. 12 stone 5lbs. (It is still Monday here, honest.)

Congratulations on everyone's weight loss! My good intentions are slowly shifting if imperceptible to the naked eye. So glad I didn't dive in with actual goals and plans at the start at I wasn't up to it and would have failed and walked away.

Inspired by this thread I actually did some exercise yesterday and might actuality introduce this now instead of waiting add I'd planned. I also managed a whole day, embarrassingly my first, of healthy eating. Porridge for breakfast, home made chili for lunch and roasted chicken and vegetables for dinner without any biscuits or whatnot. So, it took me 25 days post holiday season to curb my appetite for the duration of a day.. but I would rather 25 days than 50, and I'm premenstrual, so I'm taking that as a win.

Duds don't worry about it. I find it very hard to start a diet I need to have something click to get into the zone.

Thanks Nan! I feel like the poor cousin of the thread but I'm still committed to the process! You talking about the shred reminded me of what I enjoyed about it. I'm not doing the shred but just lightly ran through the list of exercises I'd previously enjoyed and it was good to move. Did you find a shred thread? Or are you just sticking now with the personal trainer?

I found a shred thread but don't think it's that active. I'm having a rest day today and attempting the shred again tomorrow morning. The trainer suggested strenuous exercise 3times a week to start with as I have dodgy hips and don't want to injure myself. So I'm thinking 2 possibly 3 goes at the shred video a week and then a session with him. I did Saturday, day off Sunday and then pt yesterday so rest today then another go tomorrow.

Really trying to cut down my food and drink intake this week too so yesterday I had:
Breakfast-greek yoghurt and fruit, plus hot cross bun(couldn't resist)
Lunch-salad with grated carrot and beetroot with salmon and slice of brown bread and butter(just after workout)
Dinner-baked chicken wrapped in bacon with carrot and sweet potato fries and green veg.
Snack- one sliced apple
Only drank water and hot water, plus one glass of squash.

The carrot and sweet potato fries were so good. I've never made them before. We often have sweet potato wedges but these made a change and can't be as unhealthy as a load of chips(like we'd normally have) I barely used any oil and sprinkled them with thyme,paprika and black pepper.

I've been spending a lot of time cooking so this week I'm being more organised- Have a big casserole in slow cooker to do today/tomorrow, am having dinner out Friday (need to peruse menus) and working this weekend so husband will be cooking something of my choosing I think.

The strange thing is, before I went on a diet I was eating tons, huge meals, puddings, unhealthy snacks- but I just seemed to be hungry constantly. But now I'm eating much less, and more healthily, I just don't seem to be getting as hungry. I am getting sugar cravings, after dinner or in the evening which I have been satisfying (slightly) with a small piece of chocolate, but its not really hunger. Maybe its all the extra fibre I've been eating.

The cats have woken me up and now I can't go back to sleep.

Sounds like everyone is doing great, I'm still staying strong (can't quite believe it). Been walking quite a bit this week but it's mainly the wind blowing me along

d27 I'm the same, I think it's cutting back dramatically on sugar that's helped. I gained a lot of weight during maternity leave and I think it was due to being exhausted and constantly nibbling on sugary/carby foods. I was always a little hungry despite eating a lot!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. Well tomorrow is my birthday I'm celebrating with a trip to the cinema to see goosebumps then an icecream parlour. I've been super strict for weeks and haven't gone off plan much I've lost 11lbs so far since the start but I'm terrified of having one icecream! If I don't let it push me into a full on eating fest then surely I will be ok. I will just have lentil soup the rest of the day. I can't believe I'm trying to justify one icecream when in the past I would easily eat a tub of Ben and jerrys every night week. This can't surely mean my mindset is changing?

We've had three family birthdays here, including mine. I have been wallowing in cake all week. I can't imagine why I didn't join the thread tomorrow, instead of BEFORE the festivities. Ah well! I guess I'll have more to lose by Monday, but onwards and upwards!

This is going to sound like a terrible excuse on my part but I am due to check n once a month, on the 1st, only my period is due and I read that you should not weigh yourself just before or within a few days of your period - so now I'm aiming for later in the week, and I will then shift to a 28 day weigh in cycle. Now partly this makes sense, but I also know this is an excuse because since deciding to lose a stone I have upped my intake of biscuits and sweets to DAILY (except for 2 days!). It's very embarrassing. So. I've now hung clothes in the living room next to the tv, in the kitchen so I'll see it when I walk in, and on my bedroom door so it's the last/first thing I see in the day. That should help me with my at-home biscuit eating. For the day times I have decided to leave my purse at home so that I can only eat the lovely healthy food I'm making. I'm hoping at this point to weigh in at not too much more than where I started almost a month ago! !

Oh dear, I have had an epic fail today. I was dogsitting round my parents house all day and they have a house stuffed with chocolate and cake and crisps. I really went for it. Now feeling disappointed with myself and guilty. Really, who needs 3 packets of doritoes, a tiramisu and about 8 chocolate biscuits

About an extra 1500 calories I reckon :(

Aw, d27, that's rough and you must be feeling it physically too?

I cane on to say I forgot to give the reason for hanging clothes around the house is that they are things I want to wear in the size I want to be.

D27 try not to dwell on it- it was just one day, you can go back to eating well tomorrow. I'm trying to keep myself from having a pile of rubbish now. Been at work since 830am, awful day, no breaks, got home at 1030pm to find a fevered cranky toddler. I put an new recipe in the slow cooker at 7am and it's horrible. All I want is cheese and toast. And wine!!

D27 you have done amazing so far, it was one day which is now over with don't feel bad.
Well the car broke down last night so that's the cinema and ice cream parlour out the window. Never mind I have falafel and pitta to look forward to I don't like birthdays anyway

Don't be hard on yourselves! Just keep at it.
Had a night away and two nights baby free so indulged a bit, two burgers, four glasses of wine, wagamama lunch and big hotel breakfast will not have been good for the scales but...back to healthy last night and had courgette lasagne(subbed pasta for baked courgette strips)which was nice. Housework day today with a stinking cold and back to the 30day shred in the morning. Keep at it everyone, a blip doesn't have to be bad, sometimes you need to let yourself relax and then refocus to start again.

Good luck to all weighing today. Just remember that we are all ahead of the 1lb a week goal so it's bound to slow down now

I dropped 3lbs this week which I'm delighted with. I think I'm probably quite dehydrated after a rough weekend at work/sick baby at home so I'll probably put on a lb or 2 next weekend.

3lb that's exactly a stone since I started this thread! I'm in shock but so happy.

Rinceoir that's brilliant well done.
Here's to a great February you losers

Well done Namtucket, you are so close to BMI

Will that put me as overweight rather than obese?

Yes! A worthy aim I think. I'm a way off it yet I'm afraid! I'm down 13lbs now since January 1st and 1.5stone in total as lost a little in October/November and managed not to regain over Xmas.