Hello, welcome to the sixth instalment (wow!) of the ‘Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus …’ thread smile
If you want to read them (but by no means feel obliged!), the previous threads are here:
Part 1 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2812619-anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-in-2017
Part 2 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/2920520-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-in-2017-Part-2
Part 3 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3045244-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-in-2017-18-Part-3
Part 4 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3193507-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-Part-4
Part 5 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3271618-Anyone-looking-to-lose-100lbs-plus-Part-5
We’re a very friendly, supportive group, and all at different stages, but we’re all seeing some real changes in ourselves and our attitudes to food. It’s a long old road, but it helps to chat along the way
Collectively, we’ve lost an incredible…......... 🌟 1205.75lbs 🌟 since the start of the first thread in Dec 16, which is amazing!
We tend to weigh in on Fridays or Saturdays, but feel free to join in at any time, with whatever weight loss method you think works best for you. Some of us have lost more than others, but we're all in this together, so if you're losing, gaining or staying the same, it's nice to have some inspiration to keep going.
We’re always welcoming to newcomers, but as with the previous thread(s), I’ll add one caveat - we’re all here because we are trying to lose a LOT of weight. If you’re looking to lose the last half stone, or even two or three stone, this might not be the thread for you. Good luck with your goals, but you may find more support with in threads with people who have similar goals to you.
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Anyone looking to lose 100lbs plus... Part 6!
honeysucklejasmine · 27/08/2018 10:02
Can I join in? Have been doing MFP and 16:8 intermittent fasting. For a few weeks. Have 120 lb to lose and so far I have lost 5lb as of last Friday. It's daunting so I need all the encouragement I can get 
Magic can I just say how great you’re looking in those over there ! It’s so exciting when things like that happen and more is yet to come! I think you’ve hit on how we all felt at the beginning, how impossible all those stones felt at the beginning, however determined we felt but that it is possible.
On that note a good time to say a warm welcome to all the new people. Great timing, you can make a good difference by Christmas then start 2019 with less to lose. Biggest thing I personally have learned is never underestimate the power of KOKO -Keep On Keeping On. If you’re here you’ve most likely got a history of a series of failed diets behind you. Forget that, it’s in the past and yo7 can’t change that but you can make the future different.
The most successful weeks are those where things go horribly pear shaped but you turn things around , draw your line and keep at it, you learn much more from doing that then one of the weeks where everything goes just fine and you lose a couple pounds. I was u see the illusion that thin people naturally regulate themselves without really thinking about it - having talked to a few about it turns out most f them have to work at it too, it’s just that it’s become a habit to them.
My other tips are get smaller plates and bowls, Asda do good white plates for £1.
Take measurements before you start, good to look back and helpful for weeks when the scales don’t move.
Your relationships with other people may change, some for the better and some for the worse. Be selfish for once and put yourself first. I lied my arse off about how much I’d lost at the start and halved it as couldn’t be doing with ither people’s reactions to hearing I’d lost loads when I clearly had loads to do.
Weight loss is not linear and we’re all different. I was a touch deflated at ‘only a pound’ on week 1 but that pound fpgained some friends over the weeks and then somemore and suddenly it all became substantial and then entered the life changing realm.
Never too early to think about maintenance, it’s the really hard bit so think about it in advance. This isn’t something with an end date, it’s changes we’ll all need to sustain for the rest of our lives. It’s hard but it’s hard for everyone- my super fit Pilates instructor, runner friend who is the same weight as she was when she left school 30 years ago was moaning about it the other day.
Plan in regular weeks of eating at maintenance. It’s good practice, a useful tool to handle life’s various curve balls and there is some evidence apparently that it helps reset leptin and grehlin which are hunger hormones.
Never underestimate how good walking can be for you. Leslie Sansone has a few videos on YouTube, cheesy but effective. I used the 5 minute one when boiling the kettle and the 15 minute one for rice cooking. Also downloaded some running music as the faster tempo made my legs go faster. As you get smaller gradually and have more energy try to fit in more activity as a social thing but gonsteadynat the start as it is tiring and Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Doesn’t matter which way of eating you go for, just needs to be one that strikes a chord with you and you can always change it along the way, don’t over think it at the start, just start! A lot of us have found that it’s been important to build in foods that prevent us feeling too deprived otherwise the fuck it button triggers and helpful to try and minimise this happening. However it will at times and see bit about KOKO for dealing with it.
Sorry to ramble on. Honeysuckle I had no idea there is a new Charge coming, thanks for that 
I too had a ropey couple of days so had to have a better day yesterday which went slightly pear shaped at one point but ended up fine after an evening walk.
Well done Strawberrypig, you’re averaging 2lbs a week at the moment and lost weight over a holiday, plus are nearly 30% of the way there.
Thread: What are you wearing?
Magic : Size 14 jeans!!!
Thread: Wahooooooo that's amazing
What a fab result and must have really been a great feeling. It does show that KOKO that we can all do it, some slowly, some quickly but with support from everyone on this journey.
Post what a fab post, I will also be keeping it to remind me of what I am here for and to KOKO.
Welcome all you lovely newbies, hope you find your swing of things and start to see those pounds drop off.
I am feeling pretty good at the moment, we are starting to buy baby things and am about to head off to Asda for maternity jeans. Getting a mini bump now but still proud that I weigh less than when I started with this whole pregnancy.
Anyone have any good suggestions for places to buy maternity trousers?
Moonlight next were good! But size down, they were huge!
Due to GD I also lost weight in pregnancy. When I weighed myself a week post partum I'd lost 31lb from my booking weight 
Hello all you new losers, this is a brilliant place to be for encouragement, tips and sympathy.
Magic, well that is a great NSV, the size 14 is awesome too but to be your lightest adult weight is an incredible achievement.
Moonlight, great to hear you coped with hotel living and not put on weight.
Someone I work with has started mentioning my weight in relation to hers a lot recently, comments about the size of my boobs, tummy etc. I would expect better of them as they had gone from a size 18 to a 10 and should know better 
I just keep replying, there's a lot less of me than there was at the beginning of the summer. Maybe she feels weight loss is her thing? Not going to rise to the bait.
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Hey everyone! September marks a fresh start for me, and the start of the goodbye to the 100lb I am keen to wave goodbye to. Ideally I'd like to see 32 lbs shifted by the New Year, so I'm diving head on in tomorrow . I'm a bit of a slimming worlder at heart - are there any recommendations for tracker apps? Well done to all of you who are on board already, I'm excited to join you!
Hello Getoffthetable, welcome to the thread. Starting is the hardest step
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