2 stone in 37 days

[iloveruby]

Right. I have been trying to loose weight for the last 2 - 3 years now. When I started trying I was 11.5 and now I am 13.9

In 37 days I am going away on holiday - activity holiday not relaxing - and I really, really need to be slimmer.

So this is my goal, no more gently does it because clearly that doesn't work. I am going to have to be brutal with myself and need you guys to be brutal with me as well to keep me on track.

So it starts tomorrow with scrambled eggs on 1 slice of toast for breakfast. I'll do a HIT workout, walk the dog twice and ride my horse. Not sure what I'll have to eat for the rest of the day.

Really need your encouragement with this! I'll check in every day and let you guys know how I am getting on.....(hollow laugh....)

iloveruby I actually think part of my problem is that I've been a bit sleep deprived due to our youngest child and my way of dealing with it has been by snacking, eating high sugar food etc to get me through, rather than just going to bed early so a disrupted night won't affect me as badly.

I've always found it very hard to go to bed early. By the time we get the children to bed I feel like I've no time to myself if I shorten the evenings by going to sleep. Which is silly and counter productive, so if this approach helps with that it is an added bonus.

I did a couple from fitstar which comes with my fitbit.

Just hit 12000 steps so very happy.

Cold turkey on the crisps and chocolate, I'm an all or nothing type.

Lost, I'm very impressed. I am terrible for snacking, open some mini eggs, crisps or similar and I eat them all and then go looking for more junk food.

Haha! Don't be too impressed I'm stealing them from my four year old and the guilt stops me from taking too many! I've managed no chocolate so far today.

Amazing @lostinthehills!

I, on the other hand, have just eaten 3 snickers......

What is wrong with me????

iloveruby I've just started watching Addicted to Food on Netflix. It's very 'American' and a bit sensationalised but actually very interesting, as it covers the emotional reasons behind overeating. It can be something as simple as boredom or something much deeper. I don't know if you have Netflix but even if you don't I'm going to do a bit more reading on the topic as it's worth trying to figure out what's behind it all.

I've certainly found my resolve is much stronger since I started thinking about what is actually behind my up-to-now large chocolate addiction....

What's going on eh is amazing.
Is she still around?

My slowdown has started :-(

Everyone still on track? I ate two cheese straws last night, my exdp bought them for my son and left them lying on the kitchen counter... I couldn't resist
As soon as I have snacks in the house I can't leave them!
Having veg soup for lunch, and courgetti with avocado and a salmon fillet for dinner. What's everyone else eating?
I'm 12.4 now. Slowly going down. It would probably go a bit faster if I drink a bit less, I might have to as I want to see some amazing results if I eat this healthy!
I'm going to look for that docu infinity that sort of thing always gets me really motivated

iloveruby that guilt really is about the only thing that is capable of stopping me gorging! Eating entire tubs of M&S mini chocolate orange Swiss rolls, or tubs of brownie bites, or whole M&S hot chocolate fudge puddings by myself is one of the reasons why I've piled weight on.

I'm a boredom eater and an emotional eater, which is a shame for me as I generally eat healthy foods in reasonable size portions.

I did pretty well yesterday, no chocolate and only a small pack of twiglets as a snack. I am definitely finding that at the moment drastically cutting calories has reduced my appetite. Maybe this is why those annoying very slim people who have very small appetites stay slim?

I've done really well with my food this week, but my downfall is vino. None through the week but a bottle of cava last night with friends and then of course that meant I got stuck into the nuts...

Hey ho, KOKO.

This morning I've had two slices of low carb bread with spinach, tomatoes and turkey bacon.

This thread is really interesting.
I've been put on a high fat/fibre no carbs or sugar diet for medical reasons and have gone from 10 stone to 8.8 in 2 months. It's pretty hardcore with even foods like carrots being considered carby.
The diet is time consuming to cook for and expensive especially as DD is on it too but I have zero cravings or even any interest in food.
Didn't realise how much I constantly thought about where my next sugar fix was coming from.
Totally relate to the open door theory.

lost I think I'm exactly the same as you. I generally eat healthy balanced meals and medium sized portions, but then why I get bored or I'm upset I completely loose it and stuff myself. Which in turn makes me feel shit about myself so I eat even more because I'm a fatty anyway

KRG I've just decided earlier that I'm going to have to seriously limit my drinking. I had a night out with friends and had about 2 bottles of rose Then this morning I'm so disappointed in my weight loss as I did so well with food. So I feel bad about myself again and want to eat!

Emotions really are such a big part of eating. I've had some major changes in my life this last month and I think now is a great time for me to not just try and loose weight but to address my feelings and move forward in becoming a happier and healthier person, rather then just dieting and failing massively.

Dinner done! Very impressed with myself that I didn't fall off the wagon today as I've had such an arsehole of a day

Cutting sugar is hard. I find it harder than quitting smoking.

I'm on day 6 of 16:8 and another 1lb down after my exercise binge yesterday.

My big challenge is cutting out my nightly g&t or glass of wine.

Dinner. Yummy steak salad.

We booked our holiday to Disney for this time next year so determined to be a size 10 when we fly.

Those dinners all look lovely. I had a homemade spaghetti bolognese but I had only a very small portion of spaghetti.

No shift on the scales yet but it's only been 3 days so hopefully I'll see some movement soon. I've had more energy and been less bloated so that's a good sign.

Morning,

Another 1lb off today.

I have a spa day on Friday and am hoping to be 7lb lighter than last Monday (14lb 6.8). Today I weighed in at 14 1.2. very happy.

We are at a BBQ today, it will be boozy so need to hold my will power food wise. I volunteered to go buy the food so we have lots of lovely low carb goodies (and I get the brownie points!!!)

Morning, I'll join in to please. I have exactly 3 months until my holiday & I am way way overweight!

I started exercising last Monday after years of doing nothing however it's made me so hungry I end up eating a big carb fuelled lunch. So as of today I am on the salad diet.

Starting at 12.2 I'd like to get down to 10.2 before my holiday.

1lb off today so finally some movement on the scales, that's after three full days so hopefully more by the end of the week. I'd actually be happy with around 2-3lbs week as slow and steady for me works better than big losses at the start which trail off to nothing. Wedding is in 9 weeks. 20lbs by then would be great.

Well done @InfinityPlusOne, @glenthebattleostrich and @dutchmumny for the weight loss and welcome @LadyMaryofDownt0wn!

I am still at 13.7, so pleased that my snicker binge didn't undo everything but ideally would have liked to see more weight lost. I've not been low carbing though because I've been skint and had to use up what I had in the cupboards.
Is it just me but does eating healthy cost more? Or maybe its because I'm not used to it?!

Am going to supermarket today though and planning on having big salad with salmon for dinner and same again tomorrow.

What is everyone else having? Please keep posting pics - really inspirational!

Good news iloveruby.

Okay, so after I sounded so positive yesterday morning it wasn't a great day calorie wise. I went to a May Fayre and ate a sausage in a roll and had some Brie and oatcakes for tea. The Brie is a bit of a problem as I have a ton of it in the fridge and I'm the only one who eats it.

Today we had an indoor barbecue for lunch. I had a bread roll, a small lamb kebab, a chicken mini fillet, a few pieces of halloumi and two corn on the cob. Is that bad? It's much less than I would normally eat, so that's good. I followed it with two mini eggs. I very nearly caved and ate loads more chocolate but I managed to focus on my goal and that saved me!

I went out for a roast today at 15h and didn't eat anything else all day. That's probably not the way to go either.
Wish I would have seen more weight loss by now to be honest. If I havent lost anymore by tomorrow it's going to be a bit shit! I don't understand how I stayed the same weight whilst eating 3 meals + snacks etc before, but now that I'm seriously limiting my intake and eating much more healthy it doesn't seem to go down
I've got a wedding to go to on the 20th of May and even though I'm just an evening guest I want to look absolutely amazing. I've recently broke up with my partner and I just need a night where I feel amazing!

I'm 1lb down since Friday. I've stuck to the 16 hour fast apart from a coffee with a splash of milk first thing. I'm hungry by 11am but it seems silly to cave then.

I had a three egg ham omelette with a little cheese for lunch with a massive salad. The DCs wanted to bake so I said suggested fairy cakes as I can resist those. Had one when DS (3) asked me to try his cakes.

I made meatballs for DCs and had mine with courgetti followed by Greek yoghurt, blueberries and raspberries.

I then took a cup of tea up to bed and watched my iPad for a bit to avoid the temptation to eat chocolate after 8pm. There is still one of those Lindt bunnies looking at me in the kitchen.

I'm away the first weekend in June with thin friends with an expectation I will wear a swimming costume. Even 7lbs would make me feel better about that awful prospect. It's an adventure thing with DCs too so I can't even hide as I'll be in and out the water with them.

Oh, I'm going to try and drink more water today. I don't drink anywhere near enough.

I don't drink very much, SpaghettiMeatballs, so I am trying to increase my fluid intake by drinking herbal tea. It is always said that drinking loads helps weight loss but I don't know the science behind it.

I am not doing 16:8 (I have tried 5:2 in the past) but I am beginning to delay my first meal of the day because I am waking up without hunger pangs and I don't mind when I do have them in the mornings. Also I normally eat my evening meal between 5pm and 6pm so my pattern is becoming a bit 16:8-ish, it would be nice if that helped me!

DutchMummy I managed to not eat anything else yesterday. I thought about having something in the evening but then I realised that it was 8:30pm. I didn't want to eat that late and I thought if I'd made it that far there was no point eating something as I wasn't really that hungry. This is not normal for me! My days are normally very structured around lunch and dinner.

I sympathise with your frustration DutchMummy, hopefully you'll have a sudden big jump down the scales.

I really need to put some batteries in my scales. I thought I would judge things by how I look and how my clothes fit but it would be nice to (fingers crossed) see the lbs go down.

We are having a trip out and a small picnic today, I'm going to try to be restrained.