Lose a stone by Easter - thread 3

[Lapinlapin]

Continuation of our old thread!
Everyone welcome to join us

Well I've lost but not for very good reasons - big anxiety problems for past couple days so haven't been eating really. Just goes to show how much scales fluctuate though - 'lost' 3 pounds in 2 days but I haven't really of course...

Hugs Smell - hope you're ok. I have anxiety too so can imagine how you're feeling. Hope you are coming through it now xx

I am seriously off the wagon. I can't seem to stop eating. Was just over a pound up at Sunday's weigh in (9st 13 and a quarter) but my stomach is looking very bloated and flabby. I look like I'm pregnant

How can I get back into this?? So hard to start calorie counting again!! My previous MFP allowance of 1400 seems completely impossible now. I don't know where to begin

Found you! The thread disappeared from my 'threads I'm on' and I've been really busy since going back to work so haven't had time to update.

Am doing ok but had takeaway twice this week as have been late in from work. Aargh. Was down to 11st 2lbs this morning. Trying to keep motivated but haven't been logging on mfp or doing any exercise . Am trying to get out for a 30 minute walk each lunchtime - have been once so far but starting properly tomorrow. Have just over a week to get to 11st which is my end-of-September target. Have been eating a lot of cucumber at work in the hope it will help!

Hope you are doing ok smell, anxiety is just horrible.

Wench I don't know how to get the motivation back. I keep trying to think that I want to be slimmer when we go away in May and am trying to focus on that. I took a photo of myself in my bikini in August which was just horrific in the hope it would spur me on. It's working a little bit but I still keep eating chocolate.

Thanks folks - seem to be over the worst of it thank god. Hate hate hate anxiety, hardly ever get it now but when I do it's just so frightening. Stops me eating but I think I'd rather just be fat and happy! Anyway my appetite seems to be back ho hum. Down a pound still though.ive been walking a lot but that will be more of a challenge once the weather gets crappier.

AAAAAAAAARGH! WTF IS WRONG WITH ME?! IM SO ANNOYED WITH MYSELF!!

Sorry. Just needed to let that out . After another week of being a complete pig a little over indulgence, I have put another pound on, which takes me just over 10st. I'm so disappointed as I haven't had a 10 at the start of my weight since February, but I have no one to blame but myself. I have no motivation nor will power right now. I actually want to cry

wench I feel your pain, I've been stuck at 9st11 all week but a piggy night of pizza and beer in front of the telly resulted in 10st 1/4lb this morning. My mojos still awol, I feel bloated as hell , I've just thrown out last week's untouched salad while eating 2 rounds of buttery white toast urggghhhhhhhhh.

smell hope things are a bit easier for you now

Aargh I can't stop eating chocolate. Damn Tesco and their buy one get two free on chocolate oranges. Grr. I've written this week off already and it's only Tuesday. FFS.

Revised goal is down to 11st by end of October, as I'm clearly not going to be there by the end of September. So annoyed with myself but still can't find my willpower. Help!

ooh millie chocolate oranges. I'm really glad I didn't see that offer! I've been doing quite well but has all gone a bit pear shaped today with McMillan cake sales everywhere I go - well it is for charity so it would be mean not to . I won a cake at a cake auction at DS's school today that I swear is one of the nicest things I've ever eaten - think cookie dough/chocolate/marshmallow. Ive been taking tiny slivers off it all day and now half the bloody thing is gone!!!!!! wench don't feel too bad, we all have times like that and they make me want to cry too. But you wont have undone all your hard work really, it's mostly water weight I'm sure. Can you up your calorie limit even by 50 calories so maybe you wont find it so hard to stick to and go for a slow but steady weight loss? I've worked out I'm averaging a pound a month off (since April), despite all the fluctuation around holidays etc, and as I get closer to my goal I think realistically I cant do much more than that. If I reduce my calories too much I get so fed up I binge.

9st 11.5 this morning but not bad seeing as I ate my bodyweight in cakes at the Macmillan coffee morning. DH dulled because I wouldn't let him have a slice of the cake I baked so I'm making another to stop him moaning and to quote DD acting all butthurt but only because he's got Ofsted in all next week so I'll be able to eat light and healthy things for tea - well that's the plan .....!
Work Christmas night out booked so I've got to get my act together to fit into last year's dress or buy a new one again

Not had much luck this week with losing as have eaten far too much. Had a meal out for my dad's birthday today, so the diet starts again tomorrow. I've given myself until Halloween to lose half a stone. I've got to stop eating crap!

Urgghhhh! willpower still awol even though I'm kidding myself by having salad for lunch. How's everyone else doing?

Not been a great week here either, still eating too much in the evenings and not doing any real exercise, especially as I'm back at work now and sitting at a desk all day. Please someone send me some will power!

I ate half a bowl of nachos on Saturday and put on 2 pounds! I'm assuming it's the salt (optimistic). I'm doing ok willpower wise, which is most unusual for me. As I think I probably said before, it's just so exciting being thinner that I don't want to screw it up! I must say I feel a bit fed up when I realise that I can never eat what I want though. I'm quite a pig and I could just eat and eat and eat given half a chance. I know I will always be fighting that urge! I'm always going to be the one staring at the plate of biscuits while everyone else ignores them!

Smell I am exactly the same. I can't ignore food and I enjoy eating. It's slowly dawning on me that I can't just eat whatever I want, whenever I want anymore. All through my teens and 20s I didn't give it a second thought but it's creeping up on me!

I have started a real effort to up my water intake this week, am aiming for 6 glasses a day. Managed 4 yesterday but about to have my sixth today. Have also cut out caffeine completely. Have stopped eating crisps. Am allowing myself to have chocolate and/or sweets on 2 days a week only. Two days in and not doing too badly. Have downloaded an app called Strides which is a habit monitor app and it's giving me some willpower!

Am currently 11st 6lbs which is heavier than I've been for a while but that's because I really fell off the wagon. Am trying to get back on it to get to 11st by the end of Oct. Fingers crossed!

I'm annoyed. I've been pretty good all week but not only have the 2 nachos pounds hung around they've gathered reinforcements! I've not been as strict as normal this week but I haven't been more than 150/200 calories over each day so I'm really pissed off! 11 stone 6 this morning FFS. I CANNOT EAT 1400 CALORIES FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!!!!

1lb on here, was hoping for a massive post bender dehydrated loss so the scales might be even less favourable tomorrow. A week to half term and trying to decide if it's worth trying to be good or just say sod it until November - why can't I just have a normal relationship with food???

Spam reported

Ah I missed the spam!

Not doing very well at the moment and we have sold our exercise bike as well. We didn't use it and it was taking up room but I feel like my only real chance of doing any exercise has gone. I need to get into the habit of doing an exercise DVD a few times a week. Just finding it all a bit difficult now I'm back at work. Where has my will power gone?!

Typical no notification so I missed it as well!

Got the lurgy, sore throat and drippy nose that's refusing to develop into a full cold, you watch I've got a few days off next week and it'll wipe me out.

Trying to be good, lots of cooking from scratch, but the scales are refusing to budge.

Well I lost my nachos pounds and an extra one so I am just nudging my lowest weight - but being at work is killing me! There are bloody cakes everywhere!!! And there is a catering size box of flipping Haribo IN MY OFFICE!!! I mean how in the hell am I supposed to keep from dipping into that???

Well the lurgy got me good and proper and I've spent half term drinking strong coffee (helps with the wheezing) and eating crap because my mouth tastes horrible but i don't know what I want and can't face a full meal.

It must be coming up to a year since we started and I'm probably the same weight now as I was then. I've got a couple of posh dinners to go to for work so I need to get my act together because I've got some lovely dresses lurking at the back of my wardrobe.

Smell I steer clear of haribo after gorging on them one halloween because no kids knocked on the door and then fainting and throwing up on the train to work the next day

I keep meaning to come back here but the thread keeps dropping off my threads I'm on bit. Not doing very well at the moment. As Notso says, it's just over a year since we started this and I've lost half a stone in total but most of that was in the first month or so. I've spent the rest of the year eating crap and fluctuating between 11st 3ish and 11st 7lbs (which is where I am now).

If anyone wants to carry on the thread would it be good to start a new one - fresh start, renewed willpower? I've definitely fallen off the wagon at the moment.

Looks like there's on me and you left millie There's a couple of new threads but I'd feel like a gatecrasher. I'm just going to keep doing my best by using mfp to monitor what I eat - I already know I undo all my good work at the weekend but life's too short to live on salads and not eat cake!