Lose a stone by Easter - thread 3

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Continuation of our old thread!
Everyone welcome to join us

I'm back and just weighed in - put on NINE POUNDS!!!!! How is that even possible?????

Was back up to 11st 7lbs yesterday. Eek. Had chicken Caesar salad for lunch yesterday and then bbq for dinner plus half an Easter egg.

I really am back on it from this morning. I can't keep pissing about if I want to lose this weight in time for summer. I measured myself yesterday and have lost a couple of inches from my bum, hips and stomach since we started in November but not lost anything from anywhere else.

So now I'm going to measure all my bits and pieces each week to try and spur me on. Plus stop eating crap and stop eating so much. And move more. And log stuff on MFP again. And use my UP band. Which is all the stuff I should have been doing for the last few months really

Today has got off to a reasonable start:
B - tea, actimel
L - cheese roll, tea
Have also taken DS2 swimming so have moved about a bit in the water. Dinner will be pasta, tomatoey sauce and meatballs. I WILL NOT HAVE SNACKS TODAY!

And well done Wench for being under your cals yesterday. Smell, eek. We can do this!

Yes, well done Wench. Can you send a bit of your willpower this way please?!

I was doing OK (at last weigh-in another pound off down to 11st 2) but have eaten way too much over the last few days
Dread to think what I weigh now. My original goal was to have a 10 on the scales by the end of the month. I don't think a week is enough to repair the Easter damage, but I'm going to try to at least get back to where I was. If I could, then I'd be aiming for 10.5 stone by half-term. Probably do-able if I could stop eating chocolate. Might have to ban it again...

Also, somehow, I've managed to lose my fitbit which isn't helping. I'm guessing the 3 year old has hidden it somewhere...

lapin my DS used to pop things out of the cat flap......have a look!

smell How bloody annoying! Hopefully it is all, erm aircraft pressure or something, and in a couple of days you will have lost 4lbs of it

Have been very very good today due to work being mad. Will treat myself to steak and salad tonight - yum.

happy you were right! 4lbs gone overnight! Bit spooky actually, are you in fact a witch?!

Maybe happy can use her powers on all of us so everyone wakes up to the magical disappearance of 4lb?!

Yay smell!

Happy if you could kindly comment on the reason for my extra weight which is clearly not because I eat too much and confirm that it will be gone overnight, I'd be most grateful!

Yesterday ended badly and involved chocolate and biscuits. Meh.

Not been too bad today, 2 lattes this morning and 2 pieces of wholemeal toast with butter and jam for breakfast. Forgot about lunch as have been in a frenzy listing baby stuff to sell on FB to try and make some space in our house to fill with more shit I don't need. Dinner is burgers, sweet potato fries and salad.

Oh how funny!!

"Horrible poundage, I wish you away,
you just are not wanted, don't stay one more day
By wing of bat and tongue of newt
We want to look good in our birthday suit!"

That should do it - phew!

that's fab happy! Let's hope it works!

brilliant happy! .... can't wait for us all to weigh in now and discover our magical weight loss.

I should come in under cals today -

B - 2 slices of seeded toast with butter; tea
L - flavoured latte, goats cheese panini
S - tea and one biscuit; handful of grapes
D - homemade pizza using a tortilla wrap for the base and loaded with veg.
S - hot choc at bedtime.

I went for a browse and try on clothes today and it wasn't very inspiring. My current clothes are all way too baggy now but somehow despite weight loss, I still didn't find it any easier to find clothes that suit me. I think although I've lost over a stone, my shape hasn't really improved and i still have very chunky thighs & bum which make clothes shopping a nightmare.

I did find 2 pairs of trousers, 1 top and a cardy that seemed to fit ok or at least better than what I've got already so I bought those. I'm hoping to get to 9st before I buy lots of new things but these few bits were only from matalan so hardly breaking the bank and will hopefully help me feel a bit less like I'm wearing potato sacks until I reach my target.

Happy I think you must actually have magical powers. Am 11st 4lbs this morning, so 3lbs lost since Sunday. All hail magic happy.

Wench none of my old clothes really fit me properly, so apart from the two new pairs of jeans I bought after DS2, everything else is a little bit tight. I can get away with it (just) with tops/jumpers but not jeans etc. And my summery clothes will look dreadful so I need to lose at least another 1/2 stone before summer.

Am feeling much more motivated today, didn't have any snacks yesterday and had one small burger, sweet potato fries and a big plate of salad for dinner.

Afternoon all

I'm busy doing lots of jobs around the house today - started with touching up the paint in 5 different rooms straight after school drop off so hopefully that burnt a few calories!

Food today -
B: 2 slices of seeded toast with butter; tea
S: Apple; lentil crisps; flavoured latte
L: 3 rashers grilled bacon, scrambled egg, tomatoes & mushrooms. Cup of tea and 3 chocolate biscuits

Step count today is very low due to being home all day so not even getting any extra calorie allowance for that, so I seem to only be left with 327 calories for the rest of the day. Not sure how I'll squeeze dinner and my usual bedtime hot chocolate out of that!

Afternoon. Sad to say my grandad died on Friday, so feel awful. Down at 10 st 3 as I've got no appetite and keep forgetting to eat. I'd happily take back those 4 pounds for it not to have happened.

Aw flash sorry to hear that

So sorry flash

It was the first anniversary of my grandads death this week

Millie I think you could be right, I think I do have actual magical powers!! I weighed myself this morning and have lost 2lbs since the weekend and am 11:6. Am praying that there won't be any weird kind of reversal spell going on that brings any of the lardage back.

I bumped into an old acquaintance today who has lost loads of weight - enough that it would have been rude not to comment rather than rude to comment iyswim? She said she has been doing WW and she is a brilliant advertisement for it.

Sorry for your loss flash be kind to yourself.

I forgot to do my midweek weigh this morning so don't know if Happy's magic spell worked for me. Will try and remember to weigh in the morning but DH cooked us a very yummy but highly calorific chicken korma with poppadoms and naan bread for tea so I'm sure that will have done some damage

Sorry to hear your news flash

happy your little ditty worked for me as well - 2lb down from Sundays weigh in so back to 9.6

Sorry for being awol - I'm snowed under with course deadlines and still have to redo part of 1 submission. DDs got her final exam today and a few bits to submit so we've planned a girly cocktail day for the end of the month when she'll be back home. I thought she'd come home this weekend but it's nearly the anniversary of her dad's death and even though he'd cut himself off from everyone his family have turned him into a saint, blamed me for his death and we're expecting more fallout over the weekend. DD was studying abroad when it happened but not 1 of them contacted her then or when she got home.
DS is desperate to keep in touch with his GM and visits every so often but she's still making nasty comments about me and DD - so sad as we'd become good friends - XH would be loving all the drama.

Gah! Forgot to weigh myself this morning to see if Happy's magic had reached me.

Food today will be:
B- fruit salad of banana, satsuma & grapes chopped up & covered in fromage frais. Tea.
L- bacon roll, flavoured latte
D- gammon joint in the slow cooker, with roast potatoes, sweet corn, peas, carrots, Yorkshire pudding, gravy.
S- hot choc at bedtime.

and hopefully no naughty snacks!

flash how awful for you - hope you are doing okay
notso families are a nightmare. What are you studying for?

Well official weigh in today and I am 11.11 and three quarters. So 3 and three quarter pounds up but considering it was 9 pounds on Monday I can live with that! I've been okay ish calorie wise this week but food intake has mostly been chocolate unfortunately! Easter eggs and the many Reeces pieces I brought back from the states!

Sorry so many people are having a rough time of it

I am really looking forward to this bank holiday weekend,although I feel like I only just got back from Easter.

Anyway, weighed in today. I am 11:5 so that's a 3lb loss this week. The spell is certainly working for me so I won't do any more until we need it may have slightly lost the plot

I will be mostly pottering at home and doing housework this weekend but will try to be brutal with myself calorie wise. I have been around 1200 most days and that seems to be working.

Still not laying off the biscuits as much as I should

Had not too bad a week though and still 11st 4lbs. Have tried to be more active this week but my back has gone today so I'm hobbling around in pain. Have taken all of the available drugs, which have made no difference at all, but am out with a friend for wine this evening so think that will probably have a more numbing effect than the tablets.

On the plus side have managed to clean and tidy DS2's bedroom, so now it resembles a nursery rather than a "dump all your shit in here" room

Urgh what is wrong with me??? Started the week really well with 3 days under my allowance then for some reason it all went to pot and I've had the munchies ever since and eaten way too much crap

Weigh in tomorrow morning .... Happy I'll need an extra strong magic spell please to move the scales in the right direction or more like stop them going up

Weigh in this morning at 9st 10.5 - same as last week. And, depressingly, same as where I was 6 weeks ago (with some up and down fluctuations in between).

Grrrr. I need to get a grip. I have 8.5weeks until my deadline. So annoyed with myself and my lack of self control

Well at least you haven't gone up Wench so the spell is still working

I had a period of about six weeks where I sort of bobbed about but now I am back on it with a vengeance.

I looked at your food diary for Thursday and wondered what would happen if you dropped the latte and the yorkshire from that day? On previous days you have mentioned chocolate biscuits.

I know they are all lovely but I can't eat anything like that or I gain

It's much frowned upon I know, but I have been telling myself "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" every time I get tempted by a biscuit, which is every day!! Although I will never actually be skinny again, the mantra works as I know how much I desperately want to get rid of my kangaroo pouch stomach and chub rubbing thighs.

You can do this Wench have you tried visualising yourself all lovely and slim wearing gorgeous clothes and everyone saying "ooh, look at her, she looks amazing" ??

I think I have run out of well intentioned and hopefully not offensive advice for now.

Happy Bank Holiday Weekend everyone - step away from the cakes!!