MFP to lose weight - Part 4

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Part 4 Already! Thought I'd get things started before the old thread got full! Will be posting in a sec to see what my weight was at the beginning and end of the old thread

Try more protein, Must be. How about tin of tuna and salad for a few meals? It's really filling. Or eggs

Another pound off this morning, just under 10st 5lb now. I'm now a WHOPPING 1.5lb lighter than I was at my lightest last month. Fingers crossed for a bit more loss before PMT kicks in. My success this month has been down to pretty much cutting out dinner - I don't have much of an appetite in the evening, but had got in the habit of having a proper meal because the rest of the family is. I've started having literally a tablespoon or two so we all sit down together but I don't sabotage my day, which is making the difference between being 300 over or just under my calories every day. My appetite is very front loaded in the day - I need a good breakfast by 8, then am constantly starving between about 10am and 4pm, but my appetite is perfectly manageable either side of that!

Yy to upping protein mustbe, if I am having a hungry day I have a hard boiled egg (or two) and a couple of tomatoes as a snack.

Well done Hopefully. You are cutting through now and on the way downwards.

I am exactly the same this morning at 11.2 but I have just realised that the flavoured water I have been merrily slinging down my neck, thinking it was diet, is in fact the sugar version and 100 calories per 500ml. So that is good to have found out! Now I won't be drinking that I'll probably drop another 5lb this week!!!

Well done hopefully

Well I'm 10st 8 this morning only just thought, it wobbled between 9-8 before settling on 8. Hopefully I will wake up tomorrow and still be at that weight. 21 bloody days since I saw movement I will throw an epic tantrum if I'm back at bloody 10st 9 tomorrow

Come on MustBe ((cheers)) drink loads of water today.

A huge half a pound up this morning, ending my pleasing three day whoosh, but still 10st 5.5lb. I suspect muscle water retention, as I did a long yoga practice and an hour's surfing in quite strong wind and currents yesterday, and I'm stiff as a board today!

Have a long car journey today with the DCs, which I would normally eat loads of snack food on, but I am going to pack some healthy snacks and log everything in a attempt not to turn it into a four hour all you can eat chocolate fest. Wish me luck!

Thanks Steward Still 10st 8 this morning.

Gained half a lb this morning but I did eat a lot of sugar yesterday. I'm going to drink a lot of water today to flush it out.

Hopefully - wow at surfing! Have a good trip. Hope the traffic is good!

Back to 11.2 this morning so no harm done from the weekend. Public weigh in tomorrow night so my mind is focused today. Vaguely toying with a soup day tomorrow before the weigh in but then I'm thinking if I do it one week I'll have to do it every week. But then one day of light calores per week is certainly no bad thing....

I drank absolutely loads of water yesterday and I'm aiming to do so again today.

Another 0.5lb up this morning. Hoping it's just bloat from sitting down in the car all day - it's a bit early for PMT and I will be seriously peeved if I gain my hard won 1.5lb before water retention and munchies even kick in! Drinking tons of water and walking lots (am house sitting in a massive house and garden) and keeping fingers crossed it's gone tomorrow!

Been round the shops trying tops on.......in a size 10 🤗💪🖒 I'm thrilled, can't believe it.

I'm having TOTM too hopefully and hate the bloat but for some strange reason last time I actually lost weight was at the end of TOTM and now I've just managed to lose my next 1lb at the start of it. Odd

Sorry, what does MFP mean?

My Fitnes Pal, twilight. It's a calorie counting app .

Wobbled back down to 10st 5.5 again this morning, thanks to HEROIC resistance of the amazing giant marshmallows at a barbecue (I only had two. They were about the size of my hand). Expecting PMT bloat gain to start tomorrow, but at least progress is being made. Have just realised I'm half a stone down since 1st May, which I'm pleased with. It's slow, but it's also a recognisable and definite loss!

Hurray MustBe!!!! Well done you. I bought so much stuff when I went down to size 10. Everything looked great!

Well done on the heroic resistance Hopefully. I did less well last night and ate a whole tub of ice cream but I am down 1/8 lb somehow.

Well done on resisting Hopefully

Thanks Steward I'm so happy.
Ah I accidentally ate a full tub of cookies and Cream Hagen Dazs over 2 days the other week. I didn't gain either

I think we are going to need a new thread soon, can we only get to 1000 posts?

Just a quick check-in - I have read up and you are all doing brilliantly - so many woop woop moments.

stewards we have a WW insider - wahoo. Glad you are enjoying it and you are doing so well. I can hear your happiness coming through your posts

Hopefully well done and half a stone is fantastic! Esp at your lower weight - your willpower is really great.

Loli 2 stone! Congrats and wahoo! And I have jumpsuit envy -> I bought and wore 2 gorgeous jumpsuits around the time of my wedding that just wouldn't fit me now.

Must I am so thrilled for you that you broke your barrier!! And a size 10!! Swit swoo

Sesame thank you and hope TOTM isn't having too much of an impact.

karate keep going and you have done very well to get back on the saddle after one day's slip up.

Fitter well done on the 2st as well!!! Do we have to set up a competition for you and loli

Hope I haven't missed anyone....will re-read again later.

I have completely failed and fallen off the wagon . 1kg gain since last week (~2.2 lbs). I can't blame it all on my weekend away because I have lost all my willpower and gone back on the chocolate.

I know there's no such thing really, but I truly believe I have a hardcore chocolate addiction. I ate 2 of those big sharing pouches last Wednesday evening and a further 3 since yesterday. I eat chocolate to try to make me feel better when anything bad happens. I sneak to a different shop every time to buy them in bulk and I gorge at least 2 packets at once in the car once I buy them. I hide the wrappers from my H when I get home and sometimes I hide the bags in the en suite cupboard and eat them when I go to the loo . I could never tell anyone in RL about this.

My triggers this time were 1) putting the dog in kennels before our holiday (hate it and can't stop crying when I do it) and 2) going back to horrible work yesterday which I also hate at the moment.

I don't know how to stop myself and I can't find anything else that cheers me up in the way chocolate does for those few minutes . In my ~head~ I know it's wrong and bad for me and my teeth are a bloody mess but I still don't stop destroying myself.

I ignored MFP all the time I was away and haven't started back yet - trying to aim to start back on Friday but who knows . Also have lost the will for c25k at the moment - might not get back to that until next Monday at this rate .

Sorry for the self-indulgent post but this is my cycle of weight gain over and over again and I don't know how to change it. I will hopefully be back in the saddle in a few days - you are all doing so well it really does inspire people like me.

must woo hoo on shopping for size 10s! That’s amazing!

hopefully that’s looks like a slow and steady overall loss – well done and keep holding on to that resolve!

stewards good luck for the official weigh in, fingers crossed the ice-cream didn’t do too much damage!

loli well done on your milestone – nice work!

fitter does this mean you are also at 2st off? Me too – there’s some spooky syncing of weight loss going on…

dawhead nooooo! So sorry that things aren’t going well. You’re human, food is addictive, especially in response to stress. But you can regain control. You CAN do it. Keep logging everything if you can. No matter what. And keep on posting. The only way I broke my addiction to sweet things, chocolates and multi-buys was by weaning myself off in a gradual way. I started off by buying my treats in ‘ones’, one chocolate bar, a normal sized one, not a grab bag/multipack or buy one get one free. I would go out to get one bar, go home and eat it. Nothing kept in the house, and if I wanted another, I would have to go out – even if it was really late at night - to physically go and buy another one. Then at one point I switched to ‘mini’ treats like freddos instead of the normal bars. Then at a later point I moved on to having them occasionally. And so on. The other thing I had to learn was how to shop in supermarkets to avoid the sweeties. In my opinion, the worst supermarkets ever are Tesco and Asda. You will get bombarded with an assault course of sweeties and treats from the moment you step inside one of these places - just observe your own behaviour and which things your eyes are drawn to. Now that it is no longer acceptable to keep sweets by the till, the sweets and treats and special offers are at every store entrance and at every aisle end. You are being manipulated by the stores to consume sugar to feed your addiction. It’s not your fault. When I started out, if I ever had to nip into Tesco I had to go in through the exit door rather than entrance in order to avoid temptation. I feel so strongly about this stuff. I think I was most likely around 16st (and a size 22) when I started changing my attitude to food in this way. 4 years later, I am at least 5.5st lighter and 5 dress sizes smaller! And if I can do it, you can too!

karate are you managing to stay on plan? Who else hasn’t popped by recently?

As for me, on Sunday thanks to a lie-in and waking up a little dehydrated I weighed in at 10st4. So that’s my first sight of a 2st loss! The last couple of mornings however, I’ve weighed a lb heavier, but I’m still hoping to reach a more consistent 10st4 within the next few days. I think I’m still aiming for a nice round 10st, and then I might try to stabilise around that point. Yesterday, was a crappy day though with nasty conference sandwiches for lunch and then had to grab another sorry looking sarnie from M&S in the evening on the way out to watch a performance. I felt so hard done by from my impoverished sandwich diet, I had to have a hot snack and some chocolate when I got in at 10pm. I finished the day about 400cal over… I may still go for a run this eve, so that might help redress the balance.

Yes, we’re almost at end of this thread. Is there someone here who would like to kick off a new one?

Dawhead. Don't feel bad. The fact that you are here and telling us is a good sign. And that you have weighed yourself.

I go through big phases of doing the same things. Chocolate is a huge one for me but also ice cream. I too go to different shops to buy my stash so that I don't get recognised. I hide wrappers. And I haven't eaten in the loo for quite a while but I have in the past stashed jars of Nutella in there and had a few spoonfuls when I went to the loo.

When I am in a really good place I tell myself that eating in response to a stressful trigger doesn't actually help the situation and makes me fat as well. When I am not in such a good place I tell myself that but do it anyway.

I don't know what the answer is. I suppose keep weighing yourself and don't bury your head in the sand. I think using food as a 'sedative' in response to negative emotions is incredibly common and it is definitely what I do. I might drink alcohol otherwise but when I can't get drunk because it's the morning or I'm at work or in charge of the dc... there's chocolate.

Just trying to say you're not alone.

Morning all, back off hols and gained about 4lb I think but my scales are wonky (the foot fell off!) So not 100% sure. Still going to log, and weigh and post but I need a bit of a break from trying to lose so much every week. My actual allowed cals were 1669 as I exercise at least 3 times per week but I was only allowing myself 1200 to get the weight off and I knew I was getting obsessed and not enjoying cooking as I was worrying about the cals. It was great short term but now I'm back I need to focus on my health, and good food and exercise rather than the numbers so much.
I'll catch up later on all your news.

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