I'm really fucking fat :( If you are too, what's your plan?

[MummyPigsBigTummie]

Last year I was gutted at being 13st.

I'm now 17st 2lbs.

I've done nothing but emotionally eat all year, fuelled by depression and anxiety. To the point where I've become mildly agoraphobic.

This has got to be the year I turn my life and poor eating habits around.

I don't know where to start.

I know the title is quite harsh but I've been telling myself it's not so bad.

But it is.

I'm fat. Very fat. And I need to correct it.

woohoo I'm starting with healthy eating on 2nd January, no point starting on the 1st for me as we've got friends coming over, and I don't think they'd be too happy with just a carrot! I'm going to try and walk 2 miles a day from the first, but have major foot issues so possibly being optimistic! I'm also going to keeping to 9:30 bedtime and waking at 6:30 so I can get a walk in before work/ school run etc! Looking forward to evenings drawing out as well.

I too am depressingly huge and it's starting to impact my life. I have a wardrobe full of size 12 clothes and im currently a jelly like size 16. I hate how I look and I'm 3 stone over what I should weigh

An added pressure for me is that we are going on an amazing holiday mid April. L.A etc. We will be cycling and walking and having fun and I just won't be able to enjoy myself like this

So my plan! I need restriction. If I just do low carb for example, I overeat. Same with anything else

The solution for me is the blood sugar diet. 800 cals a day, I can eat cheese and nuts and berries on it and it promises a loss of 2.5 stone in 8 weeks. I know this to be true as I achieved it last year

I can also incorporate protein bars or shakes if I am in a rush or out and about. But most importantly it puts a cap on me going mad which I will do when quantities aren't stated

Oh and I began today. You need to look at an app called Nutra Check - it's so simple, contains every single food there is from every single shop and it knocks spots off MFP - in my opinion of course

So I've had ..

Total full fat Greek yogurt
5 strawberries

Veg
Quorn pieces

Goats cheese
Protein bar

Makes a change from a tube of Pringles and a box of mint matchmakers I suppose

I will do my Pilates and Spin classes each week and maybe some boxing boot camp

Hi there' I hear you as I am 15 stone and was 12 stone last year.
I read brain over binge which helped but it is not a case of binging. It is wrong choices. Maybe just start by changing one thing at a time. I am going to give up snacking and eat three meals a day. X

isn't it funny how people say " I want a stone off by ....." as if the stone is literally that, a big rock you can leave behind.

Unfortunately for whatever reasons, the stone is part of you, it has not arrived overnight.

I am fat, I drink too much and I eat rubbish. I need to solve me, all of me.

I'm in.

I have an appointment with a private gastric band surgeon on 8th Jan, and if I don't lose a stone in January then I'm going ahead with it in early Feb.

I've started hundreds of diets over the past 10 years, and now truly believe I can't do this on my own.

I feel like a prisoner in my body living a half life, it's drastic measure time for me now.

I'm in too. I'll be using MFP and going to the gym 2 or 3 times a week. I was out with DP earlier in the week and met one of his friends for the first time and I was so embarrassed. He's probably wondering what DP sees in me! I need to lose 6 and a half stone :(

Search Team RH fitness on FB or online it totally makes sense, only £4.99 a month I wish I'd not wasted so many years on SW which actually taught me nothing. Also follow 'Mind over platter' on Fb and 'Real food real talk' v inspiring

I'm the heaviest I've ever been at 14st 10. I cried when I was 13 stone last year so how I've got to this I don't know. I would like to be 11 stone, so thats 3 stone 10 to lose. :(

I'm trying to work out my plan. Going to start on the 2nd and think I will cut down on carbs and eat more lean protein, stick to 1200 calories and try to exercise (this is hard as I am short on free time).

I need some support and motivation so I am hoping joining this thread and other peoples journeys will help me.

BatCakes I have that app. Never really got into it as I had mfp all set up but will give it another go. Woohoo1 I plan to ease myself in from the 3rd so it's not too daunting then 'properly' on the Sunday when I will weigh myself, that in itself will be a huge achievement as I am dreading it. I like starting on a new week as it feels more logical.

Unfortunately for whatever reasons, the stone is part of you, it has not arrived. Well it's a big globual of an unwanted fatty deposit somewhere about your person....or rather several unwanted fatty deposits in my case but by eating less, exercising more, that fatty deposit gets converted into energy and thus is removed from the body...simples (accept as we all know it's not that simple)

Cat girl 1200 cals is v low. Have a look at Team RH fitness, I'm a similar weight and was advised to be on 1800 cals which meant I lost a pound a week and didn't feel like bingeing. Great support via their Fb pages I really recommend it

Ok - thanks swizzle - I'll check it out. I don't want to do what I always do and make myself miserable and then give up, so if I can lose on more calories maybe I'll have more sucess

I'm somewhere between 14 and 15st (it fluctuates a lot) and I've lost about 2st since Sept. But I'm only 4ft9 so any and all extra weight makes me look like a bowling ball. I need to lose some weight before I go on a beach/theme and waterpark holiday with two of my ridiculously fit and attractive male friends this summer. They don't care how I look but my confidence will really take a bashing if I don't at least improve my fitness at least beforehand.

Im sticking to 1500 on MFP. No point doing a drastic 1200 as I’m setting myself up to fail that way.

I don't want to say how much I weigh, it's horrific but I am desperate to get rid of it. Sick of feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed all the time. Sick of frumpy clothes and getting tired easily.

I am at the point where it's difficult to exercise (compounded by a seriously injured knee + reconstruction which is still quite achey and gets knackered quickly). I did have some success with walking every day (DH and I did Pokemon Go which really helped as I find just local walking incredibly monotonous) and had lost about a stone by November, but after some horrible life events I started comfort eating again and got depressed and holed up in the house. I've eaten disgustingly over Christmas and am feeling lower than ever. Feels like it's just too big a mountain to climb when my eating habits are so emotionally driven (depression, anxiety and CPTSD here, on long-term medication) and I'm too unfit to do proper exercise.

Would really appreciate the companionship in trying to do something about this!

18 stone here starting with 1600 calories a day and 2 x gym a week (would like to go more but am starting a masters, looking for w part time job and have a 9 month old baby, so time is at a premium!)

Hi Greensleeves think of Newyear as a new start, and park the guilt, it's not helpful or constructive. I think we will all have blips, its human to err after all, but each day is a new start! If I wear vertical stripes I look like a watermelon!

I'm with you OP. This time last year I was a little over a stone overweight, now I'm almost 3 stone overweight. For me it's been a combination of comfort eating, high cortisol levels due to stress and an early menopause/HRT. I've recently come off HRT and already lost a few pounds which has been gratifying.

I spent all of this year doing more exercise than I've ever done in my life, at one point I was weight lifting heavy weights 3 times a week and doing F45 every single weekday. I also a minimum of 14,000 steps a day. Sadly I've nothing to show for it as I just can't get my diet under control, and you can't out train a bad diet.

I know what I should be eating but I can't seem to stick to it. I eat because I'm unhappy and find myself in a vicious circle where I'm using food to self-medicate. My weight and appearance makes me unhappy, so I eat more.

Save for going to the gym and to work, I've also become agoraphobic. I hate going out as I've nothing to wear. I've refused to buy clothes since gaining weight as I feel that by doing so it's an acceptance that I'll never be thin again/fit into my own clothes - I've a wardrobe full of beautiful clothes and for someone as vain as I am, it kills me that I look so dreadful. I know all my colleagues are bemused by the fact I wear the same thing pretty much every day.

So what am I going to do about it? Baby steps I guess. Get my eating under control. First plan - 5 days of Zoe Harcombe's No-Diet Diet in yesterday's (Saturday) Times Magazine. If I can do 5 days, I'll do another 5 days. And repeat. If I can make it to the end of January then I'll try another month.

Good luck OP!

My plan? It's worked the past.

Use a 9 inch dinner plate
Swap potatoes for turnip and swede
Eat porridge with honey and fruit for breakfast.
Cut out bread.

No other changes. Eat normally.

I can loose 1/2 lb a day if I do this.

Hi..i start 1 Jan too.
You would think a vegan would be thin..no ,not me..crisps Pringles and crisps make up 70 % of my diet.
My New Years resolution is to give them up..eat healthy and exercise.
I'm fat

I weighed 10 stone before having my daughter and whilst pregnant up til now piled on nearly 5 stone in a year!! I keep ignoring it I'm just starving all the time I cant stop eating crap but it's getting to the point where it's going to be so hard if not impossible to get back into shape. I've gone from a size 10 to a size 16 in a year... I know people might not mind being a 16 but because it's happened so fast it feels really awful. And my body feels awful my joints hurt all the time and my feet ache from the weight! I've only got three dresses that fit me which I bought in a charity shop because I cant bring myself to go out and buy all bigger clothing because it seems like accepting the weight gain! Plus I get so depressed looking in the mirror trying things on....
I do exercise.. it's the constant eating of sugar nd bread based items that's doing it! I cannot seem to stop! Not sure how to get it back under control at all... just so tired all the time that I just cant think of anything but sugar!

Hello!! Can I join in?
I'm 19.7 stone. Somehow lost a stone last year without dieting. I think I've reached peak fatness
I want to focus on my health, getting fitter and strengthening my core (keep getting bad backs) this year rather than "dieting" as such because I feel like traditional dieting often causes weight gain in the long term. I NEED to do something though.

Can i join too ?

Ive got so 9 stone to lose

Its seriously affecting my life now, my knees hurt when i kneel down to play with my dc , i have to squish myself into my work chair and ive got no confidence

Im going to use MFP and stick to 1800 cals to start off with, concentrating on high protein meals.

Exercise wise i have had a gym membership since June that i am now going to use to go swimming and do some weights. Also going to do as many steps as possible each day, aiming for the 10k.