Anyone out there need to lose a stone?

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I have yoyoed with the same stone since the beginning of last year. Getting fed up now but need some motivation to stick with it. Anyone else in the same boat? I'm so near yet so far!

Will be weighing in tomorrow and posting all food eaten. Feel free to join me!

Weighed myself at the gym, 64.2kg - 10st 1.5lbs. Hmmm, not as bad as I thought, but still about 5/6lbs above where I got to a few months ago.

First goal is 60kg. I'm off to drink lots of water and remind myself not to eat biscuits.

Ready - your post has inspired me to eat yoghurt instead of chocolate!

Ashiver- always good to weigh less than what you thought you did :D

Had a massive chicken salad for lunch, was lovely.

well done aunt stella, readyfor and AShiver (and anybody I could have missed)!! My weekend was way too busy, I had to do some stuff for my parents, and then my kids had a few things on and I had to ferry them around a lot, so I did not really get much time to cook properly or pay much attention to what I ate, but I don't think it was too bad. Went to a party Saturday evening, and did not reach for the crisps, amazing self-control for once as I love salty things like that with a drink, hope it continues that way.

The battery in our scales has gone, so I can't weigh myself. Also, it feels a bit ominous, and makes me doubt the previous results as the battery must have been very low. I will have to check when I get the new battery through the post on Wednesday.

Overspill on bras is the worst, I have a few really nice ones that I am not wearing for that reason.

Have a good week everybody.

ps AShiver I actually googled the collective noun of sharks in honour of your name, I didn't know that before!

It's a good one isn't it? We have a print with an A-Z of collective nouns for animals and I spotted it as I gazed around looking for name inspiration. I may go through the whole alphabet :)

I had a minor victory today - I started eating the dcs' leftovers out of habit, but realised after the first bite and threw the rest away. I've had a good first day in general, but have had a few false starts recently where I decide after a couple of days that I can't be bothered. So hoping this thread will make me stick with it.

Argh I've overdone it again. I went over the top yesterday and had hardly any dinner, and I was 300 calories under my limit. I felt hungry as I went to bed but thought I would be fine, but I was up all night with both kids and felt sooo irritable.

Anyway this morning I don't feel well. This always happens in diets, as soon as I stop eating properly I get ill straight away. I'll try and eat sensibly today, but def make sure I'm not hungry. Ahhh how annoying

I didn't eat chocolate yesterday #winning

I have avoided late night snacks three days in a row. Hoping to keep it up and break the habit! Also have swapped out Mars Bars (bad) for Curly Wurlies (not quite as bad) . I can't give up chocolate and won't even try.

Yay twinkle keep up the yoghurt!
I am away tomorrow night so I expect there will be wine & possibly carbs, I will see how I feel when I get there. Hoping to have a good day today to compensate. Couldn't face protein this morning so had oat bran porridge with unsweetened rhubarb & Ginger amazing how delicious something I would usually consider to be gopping can be after not had anything approaching it for a week!
Butterfly savoury is my downfall too, crisps, cheese, bread, list goes on & on to be honest I wish I could stop at a corner of Parmesan. I'll dip carrots in marmite to get my hit & STILL struggle to stop!
Ribinapet, so tough when the dcs are little, try lots of fluids & just try your best to make as many of your cals nutritious if you're cal counting, I'm sure you are anyway

I didn't even have yoghurt yesterday, my chicken salad at lunch was so filling. Funy how salad tastes so much nicer when someone else prepares it!

I am sooooo hungry. and still got an hour of work. and then got to take DS to football, and do a supermarket shop, how will I resist all the tasty things on the shelves? I see the downfall looming.

I feel exhausted, DD woke me up twice last night, first time in tears after a horrible nightmare, and then all bright and perky at 4.30 am, thinking it was time for school.

ready the really truly indulgent thing is parmesan with sun-dried tomatoes. I would not try it if I were you, as you will not be able to stop!

twinkle ALL food tastes much nicer when somebody prepares it!!

Anyone else get headaches when they start dieting? I've got one now and I feel like when you have a hangover and you think that if you just ate the right thing you'd feel better, so you eat more and more crap in attempt to find the right thing...

I managed to stop just after a completely unnecessary slice of bread, but only because I looked for biscuits and only found ones I didn't like - congratulated myself on that decision in the supermarket .

So, have grabbed a handful of blueberries instead, and now having a clementine. Have to wean myself off the sweet tooth.

Didn't manage as good a day as I'd hoped. Was working until 8.45pm, had a quick shower before sitting in my pjs to watch the last happy valley & had no interest in getting myself something 'sensible' after 3 straight days cooking for Cheltenham so had a teeny bowl of pasta w cheesy bolognese that the dcs had had & 4 hobnobs biscuits are like crack cocaine

Yes shiver I get headaches and insatiable cravings that are never satisfied. I think some people have mentioned boiled eggs, so I will keep that in mind for when I'm really desperate.

I managed to salvage what would have been a bad day yesterday. And I think it's all down to the preplanning that I saw a previous poster talking about.

I had porridge for breakfast and two slices of leftover roast lamb, I was thinking that protein and fatty meat would get rid of cravings, and two neuroses as felt awful. Then I went straight to a meeting where I'd been planning to order a peppermint tea, but decided only a latte with 2 sugars would do the trick - it was absolutely delicious!! I was also trying to get my hands on the biscuits, but they were at the other end of the table and I couldn't reach them.
Then back to work I had my spinach risotto which I'd made for my packed lunch - really nourishing but low cal. Plus all I had at work for snacks was some whole nuts, so I had to eat them.
Came home and had a superfood salad with loads of olive oil and humour. Quite high-fat, but really delicious. Then I felt back on track. Did 30-day shred with the kids - and felt awesome with the endorphins flowing. Was under my calories for the day, but had to stay up late and had two Mother's Day chocolates, which pushed me hJust over.

But a successful day really. I'm also realising how I put on so much weight. I think before mFP I was eating around or over 2000 calories a day. Still not sure I'll ever manage under 1500.

Hope you all have a good day!!

Nurofen not 'neurosis'!!

Not getting much exercise at the moment, dog split his paw and is leaving a blood trail all around the house as he limps past me with an accusing eye - and it's not my fault he's not going out, he doesn't believe me!
Food wise doing just fine, sticking to my two meals a day, for brunch I made a pork stir fry with leftover meat, felt a bit empty an hour later so had low fat yoghurt with double cream and stewed apples - not a huge portion but just enough to hit the spot and I impressed myself by stopping at this point, cottage pie topped with celeriac for dinner.
Still waiting to see a 65 on the scale and given I'm out tonight and it's St Patricks Day tomorrow night I'm unlikley to see it till next week but the bra overspill has gone - oh yes!

Down another half lb. God it's slow but at least it's in the right direction and that's with fibbing to mfp, just think how much I could lose if I was honest with mfp

Anyway. Being brutally on it this week but got DH's birthday and dinner on the pub on Sunday. Hmmm then a week at MIL where portion control will be key.

Ready - chocolate hobnobs are my nemesis, I could eat a whole packet so I don't allow myself to buy them.

There was pizza for lunch in the office today and I've eaten chocolate yesterday and today. Sorry guys

Ribena - pre planning is the key. Well done !!

Higge - yay for no more bra overspill!!

The new batteries I ordered for the scales have still not come, so I still have no idea whether the 2lb loss last week was genuine, or how things are going this week. I think I have been doing OK - no snacks all week, and managed yesterday evening to hold out all the way around the supermarket yesterday really hungry, but DH had cooked some spaghetti bolognese so I had some of that as soon as I got home. I felt OK again after that.

I think my real downfall is not always eating properly (in particular, I often skip lunch at work because I can't be bothered to make the effort of going to get something, especially as I don't really like any of the food they sell near my workplace and the queues are really long at lunchtime), and then coming home really hungry and snacking on bread and toast and cheese and things like that all evening, as well as having dinner. So I am trying to take food in with me for lunch and stick to proper mealtimes. So yes, planning is the key.

chocolate hobnobs are my nemesis, I could eat a whole packet so I don't allow myself to buy them.

I was going to post exactly that - I haven't dared have a packet of them in the house since I stopped breastfeeding (3 years ago!)

Thought I was doing well but I can whip up a sweet treat from pretty much anything in the cupboard. This afternoon I made flapjack things with butter, maple syrup, marshmallows and oats - they were too nice especially with plain yoghurt. Scales be damned!

Ive had a bad 24 hours back on it now!

My only downfall yesterday was scoffing jacket potato skins that the children left at tea time. God damn I like them. Right onto today.