Lose a stone by Easter- thread 2

[FireflyGirl]

So, just over 2 weeks in. Thanks for starting this I'mabeardedlady.

Stats so far:
Imabeardedlady: S:10'6; 1:10'4
AdoraBell: S:65; 1:
AteRiri: S:87; 1:
Bibs2014: S:10'13; 1: 10'11; 2: 10'12 Loss to date: 1lb
CateGory8:
comeagainforbigfudge: S: 1: 2:12'12; Loss to date: 3lb 2oz
CrystalMcPistol:
FireflyGirl: S: 11'12.25; 1: 12'3(?); 2: 11'8.8 Loss to date: 3.5lb
FleshEmoji: S:8'13
Fortunate Piggy: S: 11'2; 1:
glenthebattleostrich:
GoodQueenWenchEatsLess: S:11'; 1:10'12.25; 2: 10'12 Loss to date: 2lb
happypoobum: S:12'13; 1:12'8; 2:12'5 Loss to date: 8lb
Ice3: S: 172; 1:168.6; 2:167.0 Loss to date: 5lb
Lapinlapin:
Lokisglowstickofdestiny:
Lostmyunicorn:
MillieMoodle: S:12'; 1:n/a ; 2:11'10 Loss to date: 4lb
Minimammoth:
Notsoskinnyminny: S:10'; 1: 9'9.75; 2:9'8.75; Loss to date: 5.25lb
OhTheRoses:
RandomBob: S:140.2; 1:138.6; 2:134.6; Loss to date: 5.6lb
R3ALLY: S:11; 1:
readyforsunshine: S:10'9; 1:11.05; 2: 10'7; Loss to date: 2lb
Scarzo: S:69; 1:68.2; 2:67.5 Loss to date: 1.5kg
ScuttlbuttHarpy: S: 1: Loss to date:4.5lb
SmellTheGlove: S: 1:+1; 2: - 3lb Loss to date: 2lb
SuperFlyHigh:
There'sAlwaysTimeForTea:
Upsy1981:
wejammin: S:9.7; 1:9'7
wonderwoo:
YouMeanYouForgotCranberriesToo: S: 1: 2: Loss to date: 7lb
Zizzi: S:12'8; 1:12'6 Loss to date: 2lb

Ooh, quiet today! I've had problems getting online but I'll message MN now to change the title.

Under my calories today, but haven't felt hungry. Have made good choices and had a filling replaced this morning which helped as I couldn't eat for a few hours...

I'm hopeful for weigh in on Sunday!

Hi everyone. I'd echo what been said up thread it's more difficult getting back into the swing of things since Christmas! I've had a crap week, stressed at work and home (DD has mental health issues and everything you have ever heard about mental health services for children in this country being crap is true, been running around between various agencies in between work trying to get her some help). Will weigh in tomorrow but no idea how I have done, some days I've eaten well below my calories as I haven't been hungry, other days well over, including wine calories which I had hoped to reduce.

Yesterday had cornflakes, actimel and tea for breakfast. Tuna mayo pasta for lunch. Fish and chips for dinner. Snacks were a hobnob flapjack, a mini doughnut, a tree chocolate and a couple of Jaffa cakes.

Today have had Nutella on two slices of white toast for breakfast. We are going out for lunch. Dinner will be chicken stir fry.

Not got much planned for this weekend apart from going out for lunch!

Yesterday I broke my no chocolate in Jan resolution! Tasted good but feel satisfied I can keep it up again till the end of the month.

Today MIL is coming to visit so cake will be consumed but trying to keep my meals healthy.

Have had porridge for breakfast, lunch is turkey steak, potato and green beans. Not sure on dinner.

I am feeling really under the weather at the moment with this horrible cold. my eyes are so sore and tired, my head is tender, my sinuses hurt and i just want to sleep. If only i could!

Today and yesterday i have cycled to and from work so that gets my 5k in both days. You'd think the one benefit of feeling ill would be lack of appetite however the opposite seems to be true and unfortunately i just want to comfort eat. Although i did just about stay under my calories yesterday which i think was the first time this week Yesterday was toast and banana for breakfast, soup and then grapes & strawberries with yogurt for lunch, chicken and salad wrap for dinner. Also had flavoured coffee, small milky way bar and then a hot chocolate at bedtime. Today breakfast and lunch is much the same, not sure about dinner yet.

I'm not holding out much hope for tomorrows weigh in, despite having lost a little bit when i weighed mid week. I'm expecting all my snacking will have done some damage :-(

Boozy night for me last night and feel I may go mad on carbs today so not hopeful for tomorrow... will try and have a strict week next week though. Hope you feel better soon Wench - I always want to eat when I'm ill too - it's a marathon not a sprint so hopefully all of us who haven't done so well this week can get back on it soon!

Here I am, had a manic week in work and then DS royally pissed me off and I knew if I came on here I'd rant, say too much and probably out myself! I don't believe his version of events and DD's confirmed he's lying but said if she told me when it happened he'd have gone balistic at her. I've reluctantly accepted his apology just to move on but I don't forget and feel really let down after supporting him through the last 8 months

I've just caught up with what I've missed this week, needless to say the 2lbs I lost last week have gone back on due to the amount of wine and post-wine crisps consumed. DH's answer to the world's problem is

Happy belated birthday millie I'm a Christmas birthday so I know how you feel about feeling forgotten. Its probably why I go overboard with everyone else's birthdays.

Loki how old is your DD? We've got a support worker at school and parents in your situation say she's been amazing managing to make contact with professionals who wont take calls from or fob parents off.

Thanks for the TDEE link Lapin but eek it says 1600 calories for me to maintain my current weight and if I get to my goal of 8:10 it'll drop to 1550, just shows how I pile the weight back on when I don't watch what I eat.

Waves to everyone else

Notso, she's nearly 16, we have finally got an appointment with a CAMHS consultant but it has taken us ages to get to this point via social services. There simply isn't the resources to deal with all of the children that need help, it's an exhausting process and I have to say that my experience of social services has been very mixed, some very good people and some not so. But we continue to plug away!
Lovely bright day so went for a walk to clear the cobwebs

Loki depending on where you are in the country have you contacted St Andrews Healthcare? They do a lot of work with adolescents needing mental health support. I'm not sure whether you need to be referred or how it works but they do have a website with a bit more info. I hope your DD can get the assistance she needs. for you and for your DD.

Good to see you back Notso!

Hope you're feeling better soon Wench. You have been through the mill a bit recently with colds so you have done really well to keep exercising.

I have managed 10,000 steps a few times in the last couple of weeks, but I do need to move more!

I had quite a big lunch but won't have dinner I don't think! Had pâté and sourdough bread to start, steak and chips for main and salted caramel ice cream for dessert. Plus a Diet Coke. It was delicious! I've also just had a slice of birthday cake with a cup of tea

DH and I are hoping to take the DC on holiday this year, either in May or August so I really would like to be much less wobbly by May. And also I would like to be down to a size 12 again so that my clothes actually fit me and I can stop wearing my maternity clothes. I need to get back on the wagon right now!

Once again I am back losing and gaining the same pound! At least it's back and forth between 11.13 and 12 rather than 12.4 and 12.5 which it was for about six months! Need to have a proper loss though not all this fannying about. Today I have managed my 10000 steps although it was freezing, had huge jacket potato and cheese for lunch and only got 400 cals left for dinner which I am planning to use up sharing a Chocolate Orange with DH! Chocolate dinners are my favourite...Loki I sympathise, I work a lot with children with mental health issues in my role and the lack of services appalls me. We end up doing a lot of pastoral support in school for children who really need more specialist help than we can give but there is no one to refer them to. I
hope you find CAMHS useful.

Pizza for dinner

Thread title now changed. Motivation ahoy, ladies. In case you're wondering, Easter is 16th April so 12 weeks tomorrow or 84 days. That's a pound and a peanut a week! We can definitely do it!

Thank you Mumsnet!

Today has been :
B : fruit salad with yoghurt and chocolate mini weetabix
L : Chicken and falafel salad with hummous and sour cream and chive pretzels.
T : chili and rice with garlic yoghurt

I've eaten more today than usual, but I did a Zumba class this morning, and have been out all day at rehearsals (I'm in the local amateur dramatic group, first performance tomorrow) so it's been a much more physical day than usual for me.

Smell you're still nearly half a stone lighter than that sticky weight now, and more importantly, you know you can get past it!

Millie I'm in awe you're considering a holiday this year! DS is nearly 2 and we did a couple of overnight stays his first year, and then a week away an hour from home last year. I put my maternity clothes away when DS was 9 months, but am only just now anywhere near my pre-pregnancy weight. I put on 4 stone due to SPD and constant nausea relieved only by bread or other such carbs: it's been a hard slog!

Wench isn't the saying 'feed a cold'? I hope you're feeling better soon! DH is just coming down with it, as is DS. You're doing well keeping it up, though. Hopefully all this being healthy will stop you getting ill again? hopeful emoticon

loki DH is a clinical psychologist working with CAHMS, so I can empathise with what you're going through. Just keep on keeping on with it, it's the only way. Fingers crossed for your weigh in tomorrow.

Hope you are getting on okay, Notso. What a shame that DS is taking you for granted. 1550 is quite good for maintenance calories, though. That would be manageable!

triangular don't be too strict with yourself. Slow and steady is the key. I know you want it all off for your wedding (how many sleeps now?) But think how much better it is to lose that weight and keep it off!

Bibs well done on getting straight back to your no-chocolate resolution. In my opinion, that's what's more important : not that we stick to resolutions, but that we can deal with breaking them. It's all about the long-term! Just look how far we've all come already, in less than 12 weeks!

Official weigh in today and I am 10st 2 and a quarter - exactly the same as last week I'm disappointed, especially after my mid week weigh in had me at 10st 1.5 and I've stuck to my calories towards the end of the week. I guess my over indulgence from the start of the week caught up with me. It's also my TOTM so maybe some of it is to do with that clutches at straws

Still feeling pants with this cold. I bought a couple of boxes of beechams flu tablets yesterday so am going to dose myself up with it every 4 hours for a couple of days and see if that helps - so far I've only been having the odd paracetamol here and there which hasn't touched it.

No idea what food will be today - as much as feeling ill makes me want to comfort eat, I also have no interest in actually preparing or cooking anything so it's whatever is quick and easy I'm afraid. We're hoping to get out for a family walk this afternoon so hopefully that will burn some calories and clear my head a bit.

Good luck anyone else who is weighing today x

Official weigh in this morning and am 11st 9lbs up two pounds from last week. I have been bouncing between 11st 7lbs and 11st 8lbs all week. Aargh. I think it is partly because I've gone back on the pill post-DS2 and partly because I can't stop eating crap. Right, if I want to be wearing a bikini on holiday this year, I need to focus on that and not on the biscuits. Only I am stopping myself from being slimmer.

Firefly I didn't weigh myself during pregnancy but I think I put on about a stone and a half of weight that wasn't actual baby iyswim. So I need to lose that, plus the stone I put on during my pregnancy with DS1 nearly 6 years ago.
We took DS1 on holiday last Easter for a week and he spent the whole time in the swimming pool, he absolutely loved it. We took him abroad when he was 2 and 4 as well, but were staying with relatives so last year was our first proper hotel holiday and it was great. So looking forward to going somewhere this year, but really don't want to be miserable about my body as I don't want to spoil it. So I need to get my act together!

Wench I hope you're feeling better soon. You've done amazingly not to put on any weight while ill. I eat loads when I'm poorly.

Right, today we're going for a walk in the forest. I had 2 slices of white toast with Nutella, tea and actimel for breakfast. Lunch will be scrambled egg on toast. Dinner will be chicken stir fry. I WILL do my 5k on the bike today. I WILL!!

Can I join and yes Christmas is a bummer!

However spent Christmas week and new year visiting my mum in hospital which left less time to snack and Stollen etc was uneaten!

So far this weekend had:-

Digestive biscuits x 2 with 2 large cups of tea with skim milk and 1 x toast (Vogel soya and linseed) and marmite with flora proactive buttery for breakfast. Had larger tin of oxtail soup and 1x toast (as before without marmite). Had large caffe Nero tea with semi skim milk and gingerbread man after lunch.

Had cod fish cake with mushroom white sauce, potatoes (about 2 cut in halves), broccoli, parsnip and carrot for dinner, plus 1 bag of mini poppadums. Also 1 x redoxon vit c and zinc drink. About 2 glasses water during day.

Today so far had 2 large cups and 1 smaller cup of tea with skim milk. 1 x lower fat rich tea biscuit, 1 x toast (as above) with peanut butter and marmite.

Plan on walking to shops. About 20 minutes total.

Yesterday I walked and got bus rather than use car (nightmare car journey) but totalled about 2 hours shopping (mall), 30 minutes walking to and from bus stop. Had another cup of tea in caffe Nero whilst shopping.

I need to sign up for the 5k (which SIL who was doing it with me keeps putting off!).

Also plan to find and do a salsa or other dance class with friend. Got vinyasa yoga on Tuesday night.

Welcome Superfly

I hope you are feeling better soon wench it's bloody miserable.

Firefly Break a leg

So I weighed in today and am the same as Millie which is a pound down for me. It would have been more I am sure if I hadn't gone out on an all day pizza and cocktail binge with DD on Friday.

I am starting some yoga and exercise classes in February, but not sure if I will be able to stick with them as I have hypermobility and lots of things trigger it. It may help though.

Will have roast chicken and veg tonight, no potatoes. If DS and his GF go out I may have time to lie down and listen to my Paul Mc Kenna diet meditation CD which seems to help me with portion sizes and is very relaxing. There's a line in it that says "There has always been food and there will always be food." which is quite poignant for me. I grew up not always sure there would be food available and I think this has had an impact on my eating habits as an adult.

Good luck everyone!!!

Thank you for all your messages regarding my DD. We will keep fighting for her, one of the most frustrating things has been the attitude of some of social services. They have kept trying to almost force meetings with her to discuss what's making her feel the way she is. At the moment she doesn't want to talk to them and because of that they back off and have no further suggestions for us. She has agreed to see the CAMHS Dr as she does want to get better, so little steps!
Anyway back to reason for this thread, a huge loss of 100gs for me, bring me down to 69.5kg.
I have reset my target for the next 12 weeks to 63kgs, in old money that takes me down into the 9st's so would be very pleased at that.
Have a good rest of Sunday!

Weighed in today and I'm down one pound to 11.8
Quite pleased as I certainly haven't had a good week.

Tellingly my fitbit has prompted me to set myself 3 goals!

So I've gone for target weight - 10 stone 7
12 000 steps a day (usually manage 10k, so thought I'd better challenge myself)
And exercise 3x a week (currently hardly at all, apart from odd short bike ride)

Good luck everyone else!

Well done to all the losers! Sounds like everyone is starting to get back into the swing of things after Christmas.

We have had scrambled eggs on two slices of wholemeal toast for lunch. Am going back to allowing myself one treat a day in the hope that I will stop pigging out in the afternoons.

1.5lbs on for me today so paying for the indulgences, but also it's my TOTM so that might be part of it. Back in the zone now and ready for a good week!

2lbs off for me so back to 9st 6.5 which was a surprise after all f*ckit moments last week!

happy i have my food on a smaller plate - its a bit smaller than a dinner plate but not obviously smaller if that makes sense - but it looks like I'm having the same as DH and I don't have to put up with his negative comments about starvation rations.

Welcome superfly

millie this should be our group motto "Only I am stopping myself from being slimmer

Notso I agree!

Have been good today and no snacks until now, am having the last bit of birthday cake with a cup of tea.

I think I like this one better, Notso

Super welcome (back - you popped in before when we were previously the 'lose a stone by Xmas' gang; we've rebranded for the new year)

Millie just stick with it! You've done so well already!

Thanks for the well wishes, happy. Opening show today, and it went really well. Glad you and DD had fun on your day out.

A loss is a loss, loki. You might have a whoosh next week.

Have you seen the hiit exercises, lapin? They've got them as a feature on the My Fitness Pal blog. I like them because they're short - about 20 mins - so they're easier to fit in.

triangular I used to always put a couple of pound on at my TOTM. I'd be minded to ignore this week's weigh in and see how you do next week. Glad to hear it's not put you off.

We didn't make swimming this morning as DS has a cold and needed his nose wiping frequently - I didn't fancy getting in a swimming pool with him so wasn't going to inflict him on other people. So, weigh in as of yesterday morning was 10 stone 12.2, down nearly 1.5lb from last week, well into the '10's and have now hit my stone loss from when we first started! Hurrah - only taken 12 weeks, but as that included Christmas I am not complaining too much! It means I am on track to lose another stone by Easter!

I'm now only a few pounds off my pre-pregnancy weight, but I am much happier and more confident to have come down to it than I was to have gone up to it, iyswim. 5lb to lose to get to my first interim target! I should be able to hit that by the end of next month!