Does anyone want to join me in losing weight for the last time?

[princessstrop]

About three years ago I weighed 13 stone, and out of nowhere I found the motivation to go down to 9 and a half stone in a year. Since then, it's gone up and down, mostly up and now I'm back up to almost 12 stone.

So I've decided now is the time to find that motivation again and lose all this weight - for the last time. No more putting it back on!

Start Weight: 11st 12lb
Height: 5'2
Goal Weight: 9st 7lb

Does anyone want to join me? I think I'd do so much better if there were a group of us all waiting to hear how the others had done and give each other plenty of support.

I'm tired of being the "big friend" and just want to be comfortable in my own skin. I've got a holiday booked in June that I'd love to be confident enough for to get all my old bikinis back out, so my first little goal is to have lost a good half a stone by then!

Here is some imaginary to bribe you all to come and join me.

[HelenF35]

I'm 5ft 8

[FiveShelties]

I would also like to join - have not got much to lose (this time) but have decided to tackle the gain now before it gets out of hand -- again.

I am 5ft 4ins and this morning weighed 10 stone 6 pounds, I would like to be 9 stone 10 pounds, so around 10 pounds to go. I got back from holiday on March 6th amd have been going to lose the 10 pounds since then, it has to go before it finds more friends and I am 20 pounds overweight.

Good Luck everyone, have a happy and healthy week.

[applejack18]

I turn 40 in November. I want to declutter my body and my home. Messy disorganised crap-filled surroundings get me down and overwhelmed. Want to take more pride in myself and home. Can anyone else relate to this? Feel happy though to have had a moderate food weekend and be back in the healthy zone. Ordered new dining table and bench set today to kickstart the kitchen revamp.
Today:
Coffee with milk
2 mini raisin strudels and blueberries, melon

3 small egg sandwiches brown bread
Tea with milk

Fish finger, quorn nuggets, mashed potato, broccoli
Strawberries and grapes

[FinallyHere]

AbsolutelyApple, i know just how that goes. I' e been on the good a, only since the thursday before Easter. Suddenly, I have loads more energy Nd am finally getting round to things. Hoping keeps up.

[applejack18]

Thank you Finally. Let's keep this going! it looks like I'm posting daily on this thread. it's free therapy right now for me. I don't have many buddies in rl and none I want to bore with this health mission so I will witter on here to my heart's content!

[Whendoigetadayoff]

Yes please. Three weeks ago I weighed myself as was aware everything bit tighter and got shock at how much I'd put on - just creeping up. Weighted agin tonight and another couple lbs on.
Would like to lose weight for a wedding in two months otherwise nothing will fit and I don't want to have to get something in bigger size especially as I'm another shorty and it's hard to get anything that fits right.
I'm 5'1" with small frame and 9st 10. Ideally I'd love to be 8stone 7 but I'd settle for 9 stone as starting position in next 3/4 months.
I've got an app for tracking food and calories and that's helped a bit over past couple weeks as I'm now aware how much I eat - a lot and big portions - and how many calories are in basic things. A choc hib nob and packet quavers both 100 calories.
I'd like to do the 5:2 as I've seen amazing results on friends but no idea how you can keep to so low an I take especially as I always eat with children at family meals and don't want to eat differently from them (or eat their leftovers☹️).
I dont seem, to have any time to exercise as single mum with FT job and the thought of getting up earlier or doing when kids in bed at 9 and after I've finally done the washing up just doesn't appeal right now. I've looked at those really short 7 mins things but dint know how much use they'd be. Maybe if I got off MN I'd fit it in.

[GreyandGrumpy48]

Ok my results of Monday weigh in 11" 11. About what I expected but a long way from where I want to be. I have decided to just record what I eat without following a particular eating plan. Along with what I've eaten I will make a note as to how I was feeling as I know I eat not only when I'm hungry but also when
I'm stressed, tired etc. Hopefully by identifying the feelings I can find a better way of dealing with them.

I really identify with applejack's comments about a cluttered house as well as a cluttered body. I feel like I am drowning in stuff but I am hoping to start tackling it 15 minutes a day.

Good luck to everyone today

[applejack18]

Yay grey and grumpy - welcome aboard!
I'm also logging food diary without counting Cals or any plan as i want to eat normal/healthy not faddy - when I lost weight before I got ridiculous and scared of food and def a bit of body dismorphia (what was I thinking? I was 9.12 ffs)
Logging for accountability/monitoring/mindfulness sake.
Wishing everyone a great day

[vsoffen]

Hadn't actually weighed myself over the weekend, guessed at 11 0. Just jumped on the scale and am at 11 2. Feeling positive to eat sensibly will restart tracking Cals on mfp and trying to eat as clean as possible. Got James duigan "clean & lean diet book" over the weekend. Enjoyed the theory and the recipes look good

[HelenF35]

I just weighed myself this morning. After a weekend of huge indulgence is alcohol and bad food I'm 13st 7! Slimming world started today with omelette for breakfast.

[vsoffen]

HelenF35 weekends are generally my downfall, too much wine leads to too much food. When I am able to stay on track over weekends I really see results. Time to stick to it full time!

[applejack18]

Yes vsoffen!! That sums it up. Full time healthy, while being kind to ourselves and realistic.
Helen - I hear you! The weekend blip will come off super quick.

[FiveShelties]

Week-ends are my problem too - especially when they start Wednesday and finish on Sunday.

[applejack18]

Weekends are inherently hard: that sense of food treat as reward for a hard week (treats brought into house for rest of family), socialising means exposure to more booze and rich celebration food, and etiquette to not be a party pooper. If we lived in a bubble with no weekends, socialising or home stresses and only had to focus on ourselves I'm sure we'd be so slim and healthy already! I need to face the reality that to get results I need to be healthy all weekend too, have a strategy for dealing with temptations to go off plan. If I go off plan NOT to beat myself up but to accept that's the pay off and start fresh the next day. I read on another thread on maintaining that the poster has reached the happy point where they can indulge on weekends and keep strict during the week. So that way of eating is something to look forward to when I reach goals. But for now for me it's aiming for moderation 7 days a week. I hope I can put this into practice and not be the biggest hypocrite ever as I have 3 big family/friend meals to attend in the next two weeks. Sorry for the waffle. I'm just trying to give myself a talking to really 😮
Anyhoo... I got to the gym this morning after a 3 week sinus-related absence - and had a healthy food day.
Coffee with milk
Orange, Greek yoghurt, four oatcakes, honey
3 eggs scrambled, fried in butter with handful cherry tomatoes and tea with milk
Salad of romaine, baby spinach, olive oil, balsamic, pepper, carrot, cucumber, avocado, tuna mayo, corn on cob
Greek yoghurt, honey, blueberries

[sassytheFIRST]

Well, I'm back to exactly 11.11 this morning. Not too displeased especially as I've been on Easter break from work which is when Im usually greedy (following the logic about weekends, it's like a weekend that lasts 2 weeks ). This is the lightest I've been since the "New Scales Shock".

Going to stay with friends tonight so need to be sensible during the day today so I don't spoil the progress.

[NantucketNightbird]

I weighed yesterday, 3lb off so I'm now 10st 9 just 3lbs away from 3st since jan 5th. I would love 8lb off by the 25th when I go away. As that will put me at a healthy BMI for my height 5ft 2.9 (according to boots scale).

[applejack18]

Good jobs sassy and Nantucket.

According to my guilty pleasure (sidebar of shame), Kim kardashian is losing 2 pounds A DAY.
Is that physically possible, does anyone know?!
I will be super pleased with one pound a week, though I know as I approach 10 stone it slows to half a pound a week but that would still be fab.
Have a great day everyone

[NantucketNightbird]

What the heck is she eating!

[shovetheholly]

I call SHENANIGANS! To lose 2lbs a day, you'd have to eat nothing and do 6000 calories of exercise. That is more than running TWO marathons! Either KK is lying (most likely), or she is on some (likely dangerous) kind of drug.

Can I join? I'm the heaviest I've ever been at 158lbs - I'm 5 foot 4 but not built to be like this (I have asthma/heart condition that get bad when I go over 120lbs. Oops). To put it in context, five years ago I was a keen runner and 100lbs. What happened in the interim was illness + hormone treatment, which totalled my ability to exercise. Only instead of shifting my calorie consumption down like a sensible person, I kept eating. And eating. And eating.

I am reading the Beck Diet Solution and finding it brilliant! It's not a diet as such, but more a way of thinking around commitment to your goals.

[vsoffen]

Applejack18 that is such a good plan

[sassytheFIRST]

Suspect Kk is feeding that info out so that when she has lipo and appears miraculously slimmer, everyone nods and says "she has been on a mega diet tho..."

Omelette for lunch. No breakfast. Will take some fruit in the car when we set off shortly, hopefully that will mean dinner and wine with friends won't ruin things too totally.

[applejack18]

Kk is defo a tad bonkers - especially with the plastic surgery - my day started well with the gym, but dds friend mum can round with a massive bag of buttons and then DH brought home massive bag of revels. I had a nibble of each. Trying to cope "normally" with unexpected treat food in the house....
Today I also had
Coffee with milk
Blueberries, Greek yoghurt, oatcakes, honey
Sandwich of 2 slices toasted brown bread, Mayo, spinach, tomato, chicken breast, avocado
Mini malteser choc rabbit
Bowl of bolognaise and green lentils
Grapes
2 choc buttons from dc and some revels from DH

[applejack18]

*came round

[applejack18]

Evening. Hope everyone's had a good day. Mine was fine (apart from dd antics of waking me at 5am - usual musical beds ensued - she got back to sleep but I didn't ). We took some garden crap to the tip and also set up new dining table which is satisfying - one more step closer to making the house a bit less of a shithole.
Coffee with milk, honey on 4 oatcakes
Salad of spinach, chicken breast, avocado, pepper, tomato, balsamic and olive oil
Salmon filet, noodles in soya sauce, peas
Apple, blueberries, blackberries

[NantucketNightbird]

Hi apple sounds like you are doing good. What day do you weigh?
I've had falafel on a whole meal pitta spread with hummus, and lots of bean shoots stuffed in. Tea was tomato soup with 3 quorn vegetarian scotch eggs.