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

Today I've had tea with 2 slices of seeded toast with peanut butter for breakfast. Flavoured latte. Turkey and ham salad for lunch. Bag of quavers. Coffee and 2 biscuits for a snack. Dinner likely to be pasta and homemade sauce.

Struggling at the moment (not necessarily with eating, more with functioning in general) as I have health anxiety which I'm normally in control of but not, it seems, at the moment but that's a whole other thread

Oh I had a skinny latte too!

Having a bad day. Am full of cold again and DS2 hasn't slept for 2 nights. He has also been really grizzly in the day as he's teething. I can't even go for a wee without him screaming the house down. And it's that time of the month again. I seem to have a period every couple of weeks and it's really getting me down and costing a fortune in San pro. DH is working late today as well. Just feeling ill and fed up. Fed up of having no support when it comes to the DC either. DH does what he can but it would be lovely to have a couple of hours break occasionally. Or even an evening out together.

Have eaten loads today as it's the only way my nose stops being blocked for a few minutes. Sorry for the rant above, went off on a tangent a bit!

Hope all those who are feeling rubbish feel better soon.

Oh dear I'm not doing well either - definitely emotional and hormonal eating here. Had really really shit day at work and now eating all the sugary crap I can find. Stupid stupid stupid

I had a mullet chocolate fix and 3 Belgian chocolates too 😬

Thanks for the support, everyone. I'm feeling a bit numb, but managing not to stuff my face.

I always cook double and freeze, so we've had freezer teas the last couple of nights, meaning we don't need to order in, and I've stopped myself buying chocolate. MIL is coming for tea tonight, so I will make spag bol when DS goes down for his nap. That should also sort us for tomorrow - I'll make it into lasagne.

Sorry to hear you're poorly again, Millie. Must be rubbish, especially as you can't have a few hours off to feel sorry for yourself. I am so, so lucky. DM and DMIL both love to take DS off my hands one day a week for a few hours.

Hope today goes better, Smell.

Hang in there, wench. Do your episodes usually last a few days or are they longer?

Bibs I'm wracking my brains, but I just can't work out what mullet chocolate is

So yesterday was:
B : haribo
L : falafel with salad and oatcakes with hummous
T : (homemade) Chicken curry with a bit of rice and a poppadom
S: more haribo

OOpS I mean muller chocolate!

Feeling a bit better today - still a bit anxious but not as much as the last day or 2. Thankfully it usually only lasts a day or 2 so hopefully I will be better from now on.

I've been slightly over on my cals the last couple of days but much better than previously and a sneaky weigh in has me at 9st 12.5 so I'm feeling hopeful let's hope it still says the same on Sundays official weigh in!

I've also adjusted my weight goal to be 9st rather than 9st 7. Hoping the fact that I've still now got almost a stone to go motivates me more than just having 5 or 6 pounds to go. The NHS weight calculator thing says I should be between 7.5 and 9.11 so 9st is nearer the middle of the range anyway.

I ended up having 4 small meals today and feeling full! No junk either :)

Menu
small bowl of fruit and fibre and skimmed milk
brunch of 2 bacon medallions, 1 egg and baked beans
3pm meal of 100g brown rice with leftover curry from yesterday - prob not even half a chicken breast
dinner of a couple of chicken meatballs made into chicken nuggets by covering in herby quinoa, a couple of sweet potato wedges and salad

Only snacked on fruit today.

I'm finding it quite hard to stick to/start again. I'm going to try eating later in the day again as that really helped before.

I want cookies!

Busy day so lots of grabbed food –

cereal and skimmed milk, fruit
falafel salad from EAT! 2 biscuits, 2 spoonfuls of cake at a meeting.
cottage pie and veg
popcorn

smell I blame you for any weight gained after tomorrow's early weigh in as I've just made a huge batch of caramel sauce and when its cool enough to put some on the ginger cake I've made for DHs birthday I'm going to use the rest to make buttercream. I think I've eaten 300 calories worth purely for quality control purposes but its delicious

I'm definitely much better when I'm in work although my admin's off sick so I've been too busy to even have a wee. My fitbit says I'd done 6000 steps from arriving at school until I left - note to all parents please make sure your little darlings have got their PE kit, packed lunch etc, etc and make up your mind who's picking them up and if you sign them up for a club put a note on your fridge so you remember as I don't know which of the 8+ clubs on offer each night they attend, nor do I know which ones any of the other 400 kids are at but loads of you expect me to know and then I have to go running round to find out, you phone back, I give you the information and you say oh can they come out at 3.30 its too windy for me to come back out and I've got to walk the length of the school, interrupt the lesson (again) to give them the message - aaarrrghhhh, inhale and deep breath

Sorry for the ranty post - think I need

Mwah ha ha.... now you have discovered my sinister plan notso - to fatten you all up so only I lose weight. The sauce is amazing isn't it ? Sadly I think the actual cake suffered slightly as I ate so much sauce I didn't have enough to top the cake! Luckily DH doesn't like his cakes too sweet (didn't have much choice really).

Ok saboteur guess the calories in a slice of this

Notso please can you send me a slice of that cake? It looks AMAZING!

Sorry have been AWOL for a couple of days, have been getting over my cold and not getting a lot of sleep.

Yesterday I had actimel, tea and cornflakes. Then half a sausage and mushroom sandwich. For lunch I had crackerbread with smoked salmon pate. No dinner as DS1 slipped and hurt himself at football training last night so we spent the evening at A&E. Nothing broken, just ligaments pulled in his arm. I had a couple of shortbread biscuits when we got home at 11.30pm. I need caffeine and sugar this morning though as DS2 was up at 5am.

Scales are finally moving after a few good days!

Today's menu

Porridge and skimmed
Wagamama beef ramen and firecracker cauli
About 6 homemade chicken nuggets covered in quinoa
Fruit, yoghurt, small handful of crisps

I did better yesterday until late at night I found a rogue packet of biscuits in a drawer. At least they are all gone now

That cake looks good Notso.

Hello everyone. Have been awol as this thread fell off my "threads I'm on" list and I've been embarrassed at how rubbish I've been recently.
My willpower has seriously disappeared.

But I'm determined to get it back. With spring on the way, I want to be able to wear nice clothes again (and not hide in baggy winter clothes and coats). I also have a couple of events in April/May that I want to be able to wear nice dresses for.

So I've decided I need to be much stricter with myself and am going to give up sugar for Lent (gulp). I do take one sugar in coffee, so that will have to stay, but it will be bye bye biscuits, sweets, cake, chocolate and puddings.

I think it's the only way. I'm not good at moderation

lapin I'm also embarrassed at how crap I've been doing lately. I really don't know what's going on. I can hardly use the excuse of "getting back in to it after Christmas" anymore now that it's practically march

I seem to be hovering around 10st (will see what tomorrow morning's weigh in has to say) and ideally to get in the middle of my healthy bmi range, I need to be 8 & 1/2 - 9st. I've got relatives visiting from the other side of the world in the summer and I'd like there to be a bit less of me by then! I haven't had any decent summer clothes for years so would love to be able to treat myself to a new wardrobe. I'm going to try and use that as my motivation and maybe put some money aside per lb lost to put towards some new clothes.

Last day of half term holiday for us tomorrow so I will be stricter with myself once kids are back at school and a bit of normality is restored!

Well by some sort of miracle I have maintained the 9st 12.5 that I was weighing midweek, which is 2lb less than my official weigh in weight last Sunday. No idea how as I have not been disciplined at all and only managed the exercise bike twice.

Whilst I am very happy to have lost some, I'm not sure that still losing even though I'm not sticking to my cals properly is a good thing! It's all too easy to not be strict with myself because I'm still losing slowly. When really I should stick to it properly and lose more

Good luck everyone else weighing today x

Put on a pound and a half since yesterday and only ate 1700 cals yesterday!! I know that's over my allowance but wtf? Now THIS is why I usually end up giving up, because I just think what's the point if I can't just have a day of eating pretty normally without this happening? I can't eat 1400 cals a day for the rest of my fucking life!!!!!!

Oh dear... 13st 1lb today. Hopefully a bit of TOTM bloat. I've hovered around 13st for a number of weeks now. Must try harder with the exercise! Well done Wench. Good luck everyone else!

Well done wench

A 3lb gain for me since Fridays early weigh in - ffs I've had a Chinese banquet and 2 slices of

Haven't weighed in yet. In fact, haven't dared step on the scales all week. I suspect there will be a gain as I've eaten shed loads of junk this week. I blame Doris. She's had the blame for everything else this week, so it's bound to be her fault. .

But I am back on it from today. I've got to lose weight before the summer, otherwise I'll spend it being miserable and grumpy, and I don't want that. I want to be able to wear summer clothes without feeling like a whale.

COME ON, WE CAN DO THIS!!