Mumsnet Mamas Week 24

[Demented]

It's week 24
lets lose some more!

HI Demented rather rudely forgot to congratulate you last week so here goes as a boost for this week. Well done and hope it is going ok.

Thankyou Glitterfairy, not rude at all. In fact I am due a couple of people e-cards so apologies to those people, life is overtaking me at the moment and my Mumsnet time is probably at the lowest it has ever been!

Hey Demented, 2 big ones!!! Well done. It's all that worrying about undelivered parcels

Am feeling very depressed. Don't seem to have lost any more weight. Have been so good too. Just refused a doughnut. Off to eat melon and whinge.....

BR

Melon for lunch here too BR. Have been very good and stuck to it religiously for the last 5 weeks (barring one weekend away) but I'm now longing for bread and cheese (and a nice glass of wine to wash it down). Have promised myself a day off from the diet in a couple of weeks time as will be going to an event which involves involves walking around all day long, interspersed with free samples of lots of lovely cheeses (and other foods) being handed out. Am trying to presuade myself that all the walking will offset the extra calories, and surely I can't do too much damage in teh course of one day?

eerrr actually Lunarsea, melon was a snack, chicken salad for lunch.. how do you survive on just melon?? I'm feel guilty for having a slald now arghhhh

BR

and yes you're allowed a day off with out feeling guilty. Enjoy the day and then back on the diet the day after, no recriminations no guilt.

IMHO

BR

Ok BR - I confess..... it wasn't JUST melon. Two types of melon, plus also had pineapple, papaya, guava, pear, apple, grapes and orange. And loads of it - a whole tub full which (frozen) is about 400-450g when I've weighed it out occasionally. That's as much as I can eat at lunchtime, and as it only takes a few seconds to fill the tub (I have a freezer which is well stocked with frozen fruit and I just have to scoop it out) I do actually bother to bring it with me, rather than getting lazy about making my own lunches and ending up with bought sandwiches. And because it starts off frozen and doesn't defrost until lunchtime I can't really cheat and nibble at it earlier either. So far it seems to be working quite well...

Hey that's a really good idea.... where do you get the frozen fruit from?

BR

BR - big 2.5kg bags of melon/pineapple/papaya/guava are from Makro (about £5 a bag - would do 6 days). The melon/pear/apple/grapes/orange combo is from Farmfoods (£1 per 450g bag). Shop around and you'll probably find other frozen fruit salad combos as well. I keep other frozen fruit too - rhubarb has hardly any calories if you happen to like it without sugar - (2 bags for £1 at Farmfoods), and frozen raspberries (£1.25 for 340g from Farmfoods) are much cheaper than fresh. You can't beat fresh in-season British strawberries though - I ate a whole punnet yesterday!

Excellent. I have a Farmfoods near me and will raid it at the weekend.... now I've just got to make room in the freezer and remember to bring it to work with me!!

BR

Is this your secret to losing 1 1/2 stone????

Yep!

LOL BR!

Great tip Lunarsea, especially in the summer, sounds yummy!

eerrr with being too blunt about it, does eating all that fruit have an effect on your tummy?

Or is this why you lose so much weight?????

BR

Nope - no noticeable effect at all.

I am so stupid. Had pizza last night. Only two pieces and two pices of garlic bread but now I feel really s**t. All that being good for now reason..... sigh. Will I never learn.

BR

I had a chicken tikka takeaway last night and when I do that I should be really good the next day but ... I've been to a friend's house and had chocolate cake!

mmm curry mmmmmmm

I'm feeling dead chuffed - at the school gate today someone commented on how much weight I've lost, how striking it is, and asking how I did it. She's not a close friend, and I've not really told people about it either, so it's great to think it's actually making a visible difference

(I've also started work, so am more likely to be in 'proper' clothes, rather than slobby sacks which makes a difference too).

Good for you roisin

BR

Way to go Roisin - that's a great feeling isn't it, when people start to notice? (Says she - who hasn't had anyone say it to her yet!)

Thank you!

I feel a bit guilty Lunarsea, because I've never ever said that to anyone ever ... I'm just not a very visual person, and I never actually notice haircuts, weight loss, new glasses, anything like that:- I'm hopeless. All my family are too. My parents are coming over on Sunday; Since we last saw them (6wks) I've lost 16 lb, and dh has lost 27 lb ... but I bet they won't notice at all. That's not a moan btw, it's just the way we are! We are very in tune with how people are feeling, and contentedly oblivious of what anyone looks like!

Lost 1/2 lb again this week. Got on the scales this morning and it was alot better than that so a bit disappointed. Mind you I did eat my 'lunch' just before the weigh in at 5.30 together with a large glass of diet coke so maybe that's what it was or maybe it was the cream tea I had after the lunch . Still, 1/2 lb is 1/2lb! Good luck to all of you. Must get the next lb off before next week.

I've had quite a good week this week - have even managed to get out an my bike (pulling ds in the bike trailer), and go dry slope skiing, and have bought one of those mini trampolines (ostensibly as a garden toy for ds) which I've been having a go on too when nobody is watching! And tonight.... wait for it.... down .... .... count them .... yes FIVE lbs.

thats brilliant - well done lunarsea