From now until Christmas eve...

[ChristinaMarlowe]

...It's on. My friends mum saw me today and thought I was pregnant (to be fair DH and I are trying which she knows so it's not such a stretch but yeah 🙈) and I've had enough.
I'm 5"6 and 13st, biggest I've ever been and I have a tiny frame do it looks awful, I have friends much bigger than me that look great but I look like the Hunny Monster!
Not setting goals just hoping to be sensible and to usey exercise bike and twist n shape more than I usey pint glass and takeaway menu.
All welcome - Join me and let's get to a better place by Christmas eve 🎄✨☃️❄️

Hi all! Great to see so many people joining us - didn't expect the numbers that have joined but wishing you all success! We have a decent amount of time between now and then so it's just a case of keeping on keeping on...

So I caved today and made a somewhat dubious purchase 🙈 Great reviews everywhere and currently half price at Holland and Barratt, £14.49 for 7 days. I'll review here as the week progresses. My big downfall is night time munching so I'm hoping this will help...

Goodluck everyone!

One week down and I have lost 5lbs. I'm very happy

Ooh well done Camden! That's amazing!

I had chocolate cake and a glass of wine last night but did just short of 10,000 steps yesterday so I'm not feeling too bad about it. Got a day out today so there will be lots of walking.

Happy Sunday everyone

Well done Camden!

Thanks you two.

Well done Camden, that's awesome, just think what you'll have achieved in a month and so much time left between then and Christmas eve!
I completely slacked for a week between creating this thread and my post yesterday, you've really inspired me to stick to it with your progress this week 🙂

Don't give up if there's a week where you lose nothing. I found the weight loss for me ebbed and flowed. Some weeks I lost nothing, others a little and then some weeks had significant movement downwards. It's not a straight line down but a zig zag.

Well done @camdenlock!

Well done Camden, that is excellent!

Also late but had some big changes lately and am feeling squishy. Gotta be careful thanks to a chronic illness, as I don't absorb nutrients well. I get the choice of a bit fatter than I'd like and lovely nails/hair, or slim and basically dessicated! I'd like to try and find the midpoint. I have been gymming it hard, and lifting a lot of weights, but moved house and lost my nice gym. Not found another yet. 5ft 7in and 73 kg. Size 12. I look best at 68 kg ish, which makes me a pleasant size 10.

I’m game. Down 34lbs since DD born end of May. I’d like to lose about 5-10lbs by Christmas

5’5 and 13.13 (thanks to food poisoning yesterday evening).

Christina I'm in for a dubious purchase.. do you mind sharing which one? I pass an H and B on my way to work! .. I had a complete fail weekend so now back on it on Monday morning. It's so easy to undo the hard work from during the week isn't it? Camden great work!

After an atrocious week eating (cookies, takeaway and then yesterday a large roast dinner) I have put on weight. I'm now 8 st 10.5 lbs

I’ve lost 1lb this week, that’s good motivation for me to keep plugging away. Abstaining is better than having a little as I struggle to stop the bad stuff if I start. Birthday treats at work is a downfall for me due to the guilt factor.

Petal I have to abstain too. Just one square of chocolate will set me off and I won't be able to stop and before I know it I've consumed 1000 calories within five minutes.

One week in and I've lost 7lb so that will keep me motivated when I'm drinking sparkling water and everyone else is on wine!

Ooh can I join? I was in great shape before I got pregnant, stayed in great shape throughout pregnancy, dropped down to below my pre-pregnancy weight within a month, then BOOM, the sugar addiction started and I gained a stone! And I can not seem to break the bad habits and get rid of the weight.

So. 5'7" and 152lb/10 stone 12. Size 12 but would love to be the lower end of a size 10 and not just because all my clothes are a size 10 and I don't want to replace them

So I'm in. Hello!

Does anyone have any good healthy vegetarian recipes to share? I'm not vegetarian, but I have a really good repertoire of non-veggie recipes and would like to start trying to eat less meat. Maybe 3 veggie days per week.

Well done Doodle that is a fantastic loss. Keep it up.

Wow some really big losses this week, well done!

I had fruit and fibre for breakfast, crackerbread and some dairylea for lunch and sausage, mash and beans for dinner. I had a couple of biscuits at work too as its that TOTM and I have got a banging headache. Went out for a walk at lunch though and planning to have an apple later if I'm hungry instead of chocolate.

I had an absolutely bloody dreadful day today, after spending the entire weekend on my own with my dc (who is 2) and sliding back on to the snacking bandwagon, which I had so successfully abandoned.

DC has a biscuit? Mummy has a biscuit! DC has a little kinder bar? Mummy has a little kinder bar! (I do actually feed dc very healthily most of the time but is currently in a very difficult phase where buggy cooperation can be achieved only with snack based bribery 🙄)

I did go to the gym this morning so that's a plus. Am aiming for 4 x per week. But omg after starting the day well with porridge, I ended up snacking on HALF A PACKET of biscuits (admittedly a very small packet), a little kinder bar left over from the weekend, and peanuts while I was making DC dinner. I'm so fucking annoyed with myself.

Still, I haven't had a drink since last week, so that's a plus.

(I realise that makes me sound like I have some sort of problem...I don't, but I had got into a bad habit of having a glass of wine or two most evenings after DC bedtime.

Here's to a better day tomorrow- chin chin and night night

@lrh3891 don't feel too bad. My apple turned into not an apple but custard creams, party rings, a Jaffa cake bar and some more raspberry vodka chocolate. FFS. Tomorrow is another day! We will do better!

I had a brilliant day until I went to a friend's and ate a second dinner and chocolate

for those who were a little naughty yesterday!

Whenever I nearly cave and pig out, I go and look at my fatness in the full length mirror just to remind myself why I'm doing this

I'm just so fed up with how I look and it's making me determined to deal with it.

Good luck today ladies.