A stone by Christmas

[Shalll]

Is it possible and who will join me?

This stone has been with me for many years now since youngest was born... five years ago! I really want it gone especially as the weight is mainly around my middle.

So starting today:
Weight 11.8 stone or 75kg
Height 5.7 or 1.70

Using my fitness pal with target daily calories of 1,200. Aiming to reduce sugar / carbs and increase water intake. Exercise when possible but it's a juggling act with kids/work, maybe 3 workouts per week plus walk when I can.

Would love some company!

I'm in. 10st 5. Aiming for 2lbs per week.

Hello, please can I join as well? I am 5'5" and weigh 11st 6. A couple of years ago I lost weight and went down to 10st 2lbs but it's crept on again since then.

I work f/t but try to go to the gym several.times a week. So far this week I've done two spin classes and a body combat class. Then I come home and raid the fridge!

I try not to calorie count but I do follow a low carb diet. The trouble is the low carb diet allows nuts and cheese which are my weakness.

Slow cooker going on with a beef stew for tea. Will have

2anddone that's extremely good going for a meal out.

Mm beef stew... sound delicious.

I'm on day three of the same breakfast and bored with it already...

On the plus side it makes completing MFP entries really quick as I just copy yesterday's meal..

2anddone I think eating out is definitely the biggest challenge. I went out to a very posh restaurant and managed to avoid all sugar / carbs but I did drink wine. I enjoyed it though!

Has everyone got their loins girded for today. I have my food planned so fingers crossed my halo won't slip today

Here's my meal plan:

B: Special K with fresh berries. Green tea.
S: Apple
L: cheese and ham wrap. Banana.
D: chicken curry and basmati rice.

I must not eat the children's trick or treat goodies! (Repeats to oneself over and over).

I must not eat all the chocolate. Or any. Because one tiny chocolate leads to eating all the chocolate.

Yesterday was an ok day again:
B: Porridge, blueberries and yogurt, milk (8)
L: Salad, chicken pesto pasta, satsumas, nakd bar (13)
D: Gammon, chips, egg, pineapple, cabbage (9)

10k steps done too. It's never a great week when mum comes to visit!

Beef stew is on. We usually get a kebab after trick or treating! The kids are gonna be gutted

Ok I’m now ready! It took me a day or so to adjust mentally as I need to give up bread. I don’t know why I eat it when I know it’s a trigger food for me (because it tastes so good!)
Anyway, bye bye bread.

I’ve got lots of veg, brown rice, lentils and other good stuff so no excuses.

I’m combining this with 16.8 so I’m not eating til 12. I’ll have porridge with fruit, lentil soup mid afternoon and dinner is mushroom and spinach curry with rice.

Oh goodness Halloween...

At least I am safe until 6pm while I am at work, but there's a high risk of chocolate between 6pm and bedtime. It's the home baked goodies that always get me, especially as the DC have usually made such an effort so you have to taste it all!

Same breakfast as the last 3 days and soup for lunch. All going really well then I may have accidentally ordered a luxury hot chocolate complete with cream and marshmallows at a cafe!! Now I only have 300 calories for the rest of the day .
I am weighing in Saturday morning as in my head it doesn't matter if I am naughty at the weekend I can try to make it up during the week....or is that cheating?

I think Saturday morning is a good time to weigh in. It maximises the time you have to recover from the weekends over indulgence!!

A decent day here.
Breakfast: 2 weetabix, chopped banana, skimmed milk
Lunch: Baked potato with a little butter, roast chicken and side salad
Dinner: Pork stir fry with noodles
Snacks: Grapes, apple, boiled egg and some indian sweets given to me by a school mum (VERY sweet, but only had little bites)
Excercise: Over 11k steps

Today- breakfast Kiwi, bran flakes and milk. Lunch Crumpet with butter, satsuma. Dinner will be Roast chicken with mash, veg, stuffing and gravy. 4K jog this morning

Chilli veggie soup for lunch today, plus two boiled eggs for snack. It was tasty but I'm about to chew off my own arm..

On the plus side I am feeling very slim which has to count for something!

I am also STAAAAAAAARVING and don't eat till late as bf is going to the gym. I may LTB Or eat toast while he's gone.

Oh Shalll I love that skinny feeling when you're hungry

Back from trick or treating with the dc I have NO willpower!! Chocolate, sweets, general sugary crap all gone in my mouth!! Today is a right off 😫

No worries it's a one off! Tomorrow's another day.

I've still not had dinner and it's 9pm... it's really bad to be eating so late but I've had my hands full since I got home... soup for dinner I think.

Oh I am insufferably smug. 2nd golden halo day in a row. 833 calories, 5km run, no booze

Hi, I’d like to join - I’ve got 10lb to lose but it’s the same 10lb I’ve been trying to lose since even before kids! I’ve lost 2-3 stones after each child but just want to shift this last pesky bit of weight and think if I dont do it now I never will.

Will be doing 1300 cals on MyFitnessPal and aim to run twice a week.
My deadline is 21 December and will then have to try not to put it all on again over Xmas!!

Would also love to join. I’m 5ft and 9stone 2 (same as another poster). Youngest is 5years old - been trying to lose the baby weight unsuccessfully. My problem is I get STARVING. Would love to be in this together with you all - if I don’t eat my iPhone!! 😉

Bitoutofpractice wow! A 5k run on only 833 calories. Are you not ravenous? I'd probably chew my own arm off

I managed not to fall face first into the sweets and I even turned down the grown ups doughnuts one house handed out! Off out for a shuffle now. It’s the first one in about two years. For various reasons I stopped exercising completely after finishing a triathlon and 10k runs! Back to the very beginning of c25k....

I'm impressed with the running going on on this thread. Early morning ones even!

Hello to new joiners. Peachpearplum that's great that you managed to lose all the baby weight!!!

Early start for me today and I'm having breakfast on the go, not sure what I will buy yet. No breakfast pastry definitely!

This weekend is when things will get really challenging. Weekends are hard anyway but we have guests as well and for some reason I never want people to know I'm dieting so will be a balancing act..