10 stones, 140 lbs, a whole bloody person to lose!! Anyone else?

[10stonestolose]

Age:45
Starting weight: 19st 10lbs on 01/01/17
Goal: 9st 10lbs
Plan: low carb, high fat

Well, it's the biggest I've ever been. Feel horrid, but determined to make this the last year of being a fat person. I''m going to diet the shit out of this mess I'm in! I've see threads to lose 100lbs, but not 140. If anyone else is in the same scary boat and fancies friendly, non-judgmental journey sharing, please say hello and share away.

If the scales are now t showing the loss you feel it might be worth measuring your waist. Despite staying the same weight my waist was still shrinking, I'm not sure why that happens but it definitely did.

I've had all sorts thrown at me today and haven't reached for comfort food once which normally with this kind of crap I normally would. I'm hoping things have turned a corner on that score.

Managed to survive wedding fair yesterday without eating any cake samples! I have had a slight blip today as I was visiting friends, they kindly made me a stir fry with no noodles but MFP tells me the stir fry veg was 19.6g of carbs and the sauce 15.1g carbs. I've been eating 20g carbs max a day! I'm hoping as it was vegetables it won't make too much of a difference.

Flibberty sticking to 20 carbs a day is impressive! I believe low carving is classed at anything from 20-120g a day which is a massive range. I don't think I would have survived a wedding fair and am quite impressed by your will power.

I started at 17st 12.75lbs! My end goal is 12st 5!

Welcome along sherlock, how's it going for you and which plan have you chosen?

Holy...thank you and well done on the 1lb off. Don't be disappointed with it, I might have been tempted to put my foot out to trip up the '6lbs off despite eating a chinese' lady people like that are just plain annoying.

Gator....loving your cosmic intervention, if only we could wish for one of those each time we fancied a food fest!

Wobbly..you're knocking it out of the park! Well done on the 3lbs off and your 24lbs total is incredible. You won't be wobbly for much longer! I think we're taking it in turns to be miserable cows, but yes I did feel great getting in my skinny jeans (not that I look very skinny!) but my tummy is flatter and the waistband wasn't digging into my fat bits like it was before. I'm with you on the swimming though, I haven't even got a costume that fits and yet I'm a member of a gym with a lovely pool, so really need to take the plunge some point soon. Hope you resisted the burger van!

Orlanda...that bra is definitely showing you're slimmer! Well done! Wish I could brave the swimming like you. Can I ask what costume you wear? Is there one you'd recommend?

Narcs...whoop whoop on the skinnier waist! Bet that feels good?! and well done for resisting the comfort food, we will slip up, but every time we manage to resist, we get a little bit closer to our goals.

Flibberty...you must have a will of iron resisting the wedding cake, great stuff! I think you'll be fine with a few extra carbs from the veg. 20g is very disciplined, I know some people still lose weight on 50g+carbs. I have no idea on mine, as I don't count them, but suspect they're more than 20g. You're doing really well.

I've had a good start to the day so far, I met a friend for coffee and she asked if I'd lost weight. She's always super complimentary, so she maybe just being nice, but I think I can tell a little bit now when I look in the mirror. The triple chin might have become just a double one! The more I think about this losing weight lark, the more I think I just have to make a success of it this time around. I can't bear the thought of family, friends and colleagues thinking I've failed yet again. I just have to do it, however hard it gets. So that's what's keeping me going for now...I'm going to prove to everyone that I have a great figure under all this lard and I am going to look bloody amazing. Some of my friends have never even seen me slim. When I lost a lot of weight last time, not everyone I know reacted well and were probably secretly pleased when I put it all back on again, so I do feel I have a lot to prove (to myself too!) this time around.

10stone haha I would have done had she not scuttled away on her 6lb lighter frame whilst I dragged my only 1lb lighter fat arse out late!
Thanks everyone for being supportive and indulging my toddler tantrum about it not coming off fast enough, this group is being a real help to me

I'm hoping I will be able to "relax" my carbs to 50g once I've shifted a fair bit of weight. I have a friends wedding in 13 weeks and I would love to turn up having lost another stone if not more - I am still dreading finding an outfit binbag.

KOKO everyone, this thread is great support & motivation. I popped into lidl, I hate not being able to just pick anything I like especially the bakery. But I know that's the old me, the new me doesn't need food as a reward. Thinking of treating myself to a magazine every 1/2 stone. Any other non-food treat ideas that don't cost a lot?

Holy...I have some brilliant Marjorie Dawes (the Far Fighters consultant from Little Britain) type scenarios about you and 6lbs off lady in my head.

Flibberty...I reckon you'll almost certainly lose more than a stone in the 13weeks. Will you be able to treat yourself to a new outfit for it? One thing for non-food related treats could be smaller clothes from eBay. If you just type in your next size down into the search with 'ending soonest' selected, you can get some real bargains if you bid at the last moment. Which reminds me, as soon as I'm out of my size 22s, I'm going to Ebay/charity/bin the lot.

My vow to climb the stairs had to fall by the wayside yesterday as I was given a huge parcel to take up to the second floor with me.
Today however I did it in 1.39 (basement to second floor, six flights of stairs, with a break on floor one)
Will post tomorrow's time...errr...tomorrow.

1.39? That's astounding!

Well , I bought myself a nightie when I lost half a stone, because I saw one I wanted in TKMaxx, and I'd been looking for one like it.

I'm aiming for the underwear replacement as my rewards..

Swimming costume, although tempted by burka equivalent and one woman does use one, good old M&S, tummy repressing, low legs, black with discreet design on it. Only prob, boob protectors move around so at the moment I am more than lopsided.

But when I lose the next stone I shall go down to the next two swimsuits I own...which are, you guessed it, M&S, in all black or all blue, tummy repressing, low legs.

I think I have lost the next two, so when, not if, I lose the next one I shall buy a new one!!!! Reward...

I've tried a number of makes but M&S takes pity on my shape and provides decency with support...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2848155-Is-anyone-else-slim-but-cant-shift-belly-fat?

I am distinctly not slim but I want to shift my tummy as well as the rest. So here us a useful thread.

I have a swimmie from Yours- well swim dress really, which has tummy control and thickish straps. Sadly I can't vouch for it's swimming credentials as I have only worn it twice and that was in a hot tub!

Impressed the the stairs there Box, love to see how fast you can do it by Friday.

flibberty if you aim for 1lb off a week you will not far off being there, then any more is a bonus.

10stones I have not told many people that I am trying to lose weight, it is as you have said, a fear of failure. By not succeeding I will be fulfilling their expectations. I also find as soon as you mention it every conversation becomes about food/diet, when you are trying not to eat the last thing that you want to do is endlessly discuss it. So & So has lost 6 stones in 3 weeks just eating cabbages - or worse still the saboteurs, 'you are allowed one treat- go on have that cake/biscuit etc', which now I know is about their feelings of justification and guilt.

I inadvertently had a run yesterday. The dog decided to forget all her hours of recall training and bugger off out of the park, over a little bridge and towards the car park. It must have been quite a sight with my size 22 arse chasing a Whippet squeaking a bright pink stuffed pig but.... it registered on my App as 2 mins running .

Yesterday was a good food day, I resisted the burger van even though the rest of the office were enjoying breakfast baps...mmm carrot sticks...

Have a good day everyone- keep at it!

Box...six flights in any time is pretty tough. Looking forward to seeing you shrinking your time.

Orlanda...congrats on the new nightie. New underwear is a good reward it always feels good and gives you a little boost. Well fitting bras make such a difference to how good clothes look too. Thanks for cossie advice, might have to have a look at M&S cossies when I'm feeling brace enough. I too have smaller cossies that don't fit, but I don't have one that fits right now. That belly fat thread might help.

Wobbly... well done on resisting the burger van and the inadvertent run...naughty pooch, sounds a bit like mine. Sometimes he comes straight back, others he revels in running around me in circles and then runs off whenever I get near enough to grab him. I know what you mean about every conversation being about food with some people and the saboteurs and the ones who love talking about dieting, but weigh 8st 3lbs and say they eat loads. For some reason lots of women seem to judge other women by their weight, I know I have a couple of friends (not super close) who definitely prefer it when I'm bigger than them. Luckily for them, I usually am! Well not for much longer, eh?

This seems a safe friendly place. Can I join you please?
I am obese - BMI of 40.3 and need to make some changes. I am not active enough, my fitbit registers barely a few thousand steps daily, and I eat too much even if I don't really want to. My eyes are bigger than my belly as they say (and that takes doing!) but I clear my plate regardless

I found this really helpful www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2csfg8 and would agree that I am predominantly a feaster, with a few craver tendancies. I'm not an emotional eater at all - I just enjoy food.

I've started on 5:2 and have one fast day in the bag this week so far this week. I like the idea of setting interim goals and will be back to share them.

Just done pt session, am utterly destroyed
need a sweaty emoticon

Koko folks!

Welcome to our thread Malmsey, lovely to have you along. Really interesting link there. Weirdly, I'm 39% constant craver, 38% feaster and 23% emotional eater, so really a mix of all three. No wonder I put weight on easily! Yes the interim goals are worth doing, they really seem to encourage me and having this thread makes me feel focused and accountable to someone apart from myself.

Holy...well done for nailing your PT session! You're doing brilliantly. I'm still only managing to walk, but at some point, (probably when I'm a couple of stones lighter) I hope I'm going to be brace enough to venture back to the gym.

*no idea why my phone has changed 'brave' to 'brace' on the last couple of threads?!!

Welcome to the thread Malmsey

Well done on the PT session Holy I am only able to walk at the moment due to health & ongoing chronic fatigue but trying to keep my steps count up.

I really dislike discussing diet/weight with people. Especially the judgy comments about how unhealthy low carbing is. There is lots of evidence that low carb is beneficial for PCOS and my dietitian is happy with it. I always feel very defensive about weight related comments even though most friends are aware I am on high dose of steroids.

Hadn't thought of looking on ebay for clothes - great idea, thank you 10stone

Lotsa 1lb is my aim each week, as long as I am losing something I will be happy. Well done on skipping the burger van.

Well done to everyone on your losses. Another 3lbs off for me this week and I've dropped down into the next stone bracket. I know 16st 13 is still huge but I don't remember the last time I weighed this much, probably in my early 20s and I'm now pushing 33.

I still need to do something about the emotional aspect of my eating. After I weighed myself my first thought was to reward myself with food then I realised how stupid and counter active that would be. I still find it hard now not to have treats after a bad day and I am having far too many packs of wotsits . It's a life long habit that is so hard to change

Checking in here again. I'm doing SW but was struggling with binging on crap in the evenings so the previous 2 weeks I stayed the same. This week I've relaxed on having small amounts of junk throughout the day (double what SW allows in syns) but I think it's reduced the binging. This week I lost 2.5lbs bringing my total up to 9lbs off

Pinot Wotsits are more addictive than crack. I can't have them in the house. My kids have buy me multipacks of them for my birthday instead of chocolates or flowers.

Box here. Had a wee name change.

Knocked 20 seconds off my time on the stairs, but almost fell backwards at the top - blimming sore as well.

I knew it was a bad idea to make "low carb" brownies. As usual I couldn't just have 1 brownie, I had to have a 2nd. What is wrong with me?! Hoping not to have too big a setback.

Well done on the loss harder

Mmm wotsits! I have been known to consume a few bags in one sitting possibly a whole multipack I blame the steroids increasing my apetite but deep down I know I should be able to self regulate my eating and there are no excuses.

Well done on the time Fairfax you'll be super fit in no time