Anyone starting a new diet tomorrow 21/1?

[MrsMummyBx]

Anyone starting a new diet tomorrow? Want to be diet buddies? Im 14st7lb my heaviest ever at 5ft4. Need some motivation and willpower. Going to be doing meal substitution with shakes twice a day to kickstart my diet. Was meant to start early in January but it didn’t happen and I’ve slipped. Will be doing My Fitness Pal too.

Ha! Ha! @Tinsel, the girls laugh about "mum's swearing" nowadays especially as I occasionally manage the F word for real these days. Still have to be careful though because of DGC especially DGD 18months who is a little parrot!
What an exciting thought - so what are the logistics of the Chinese meet up? Where are we all? I'm rural Northamptonshire.
Haven't made a food plan yet but probably soup and salad as usual. Going to step away from the bread for a couple of days as I think the daily toast is causing problems. I honestly think that I am hypersensitive to carbs even though I crave them.
Hope you're having good days both and @YouBoggle got home safely.

Oh that is so precious - I am in Derbyshire so really easy travel wise for me

I'm exactly the same reckless RE carbs, but I have just swapped my bagels for bagel thins and sandwich thins instead of bread etc and it's halved the calories and still leaves me feeling as full! A breakfast I just had that used to be about 500 calories is now 344 and that's with lots of butter on bagel thin, bacon and scrambled eggs mmmm😍

Not sure on the rest of the day! Have a good one ladies

I'm Berkshire so not a million miles away Reckless. We have family in Northamptonshire.

We'll be heading off from Cornwall soon. In an hour or so.

Haha I defo day things like mother pukka and boo hockey in replacement of some swear words!

Not eaten the best today but not the worst either... here I am at aqua class again I'm really starting to enjoy it now. How has your day been ladies?

Check you out! Shall we call you Tinsel Mermaid??

A travelling day back home here. Stopped for Costa half way and had Mac n Cheese, Flat white and millionaires shortbread. Not hungry now though so not sure I'll eat anything else this evening.

Evening both, just heading off to spend the evening with a g/f.
Been quite good today, soup for lunch and tuna fish salad with coleslaw for dinner. And 6 Maltesers. Oh well, still under the 800 calories I'm allowing myself.
@Tinsel I'm really amazed at how much time you spend exercising - I hope you're proud of yourself. I have finally cleared and cleaned my desk and completed a bit of admin today so happy with that.
Catch up later.
@Boggle are you home safely?

Home and sound after a long journey. Always feels longer on the way home doesn't it?

I gave in and had crumpets for a snack!

I'm happy being a mermaid. I've spent my evening after aqua making unicorn cupcakes for a party order and I'm so sad I can't even try one!

That sounds amazing Boggle and a nice way to round off your mini break glad the journey was okay, I agree about it taking longer on the way home when you've had fun! Hope your batteries are recharged.

Reckless well done for sticking to your calories that is truly amazing, I still struggle with 1200! Hope you've had a lovely evening too. I am feeling better about myself R.E the exercise because I know I'm actually putting a bit more effort in - I actually look forward to going now because I feel so good about myself after. Sounds cheesy but oh well. Speaking of cheese... I could just eat some Cathedral on crackers 😍😛🤣

Overbearing MIL is coming over today. Heart of gold, generous and heart in the right place bud my god she is hard work. So also favours DS over her other grandchildren (she'd never admit it but she does) and I find that so hard to deal with. She also prefers boys so it's a double whammy...

But*

Just hopped on the scales... up almost 2lbs... will be defo gain tomorrow but will try and limit today!

Oh dear - hope you can cope with her!!?

I also hopped on the scales today and have gained a pound I've been working so hard at the gym and eating way stricter than I have been - what's the point!! Oh well. I'll keep at it.

@YouBoggle I've come to realise that it's all about the mindset, not the weight so don't worry about the 2 pounds because actually it is very obvious that you are in such a good place mentally now - the weight loss will follow, honestly. Well done you and good luck with MIL. [Hoping I'm not the MIL from hell.....]
@Tinsel I can understand completely what you mean about feeling good and it spurring you on - I feel like that if I can see the tiniest drop on the scales on my daily weigh in. I know weighing every day is a bit obsessive but actually it's keeping me on task as a tiny gain makes me stricter the next day, so it's working for me so far.
DD2 coming today with darling toddler DGD , they are vegan so that is a bit of a challenge at dinner time but they're happy with a jacket potato and beans.

Ahh @Tinsel - cross post.
KEEP GOING - you will definitely lose - could be anything, extra cuppa,fluid, time of month etc. Also you're probably making muscle with all this exercising you're doing which is supposed to make you heavier I've heard.

I hope it's my muscles coming back mmm I love a jacket potato with beans! Lots of cheese and butter on mine though please ☺️

I so agree about the mindset. I had to read back what I wrote yesterday about how I feel and realised it's true - I'm enjoying it a lot and so I'll go to my first spin class tonight and try it. I've got to lose weight at some point!!

So I didn't go to spin as I got 3 hours sleep last night and didn't feel up to it, I did a light cardio session instead. Had a Nando's for lunch and that's my only meal today - not feeling hungry and it used up my calories! As well as 4 digestive biscuits.

My first "mini goal" is to lose 35lb, which I have I lost roughly 11.5% of so far at 4.4lb I am also measuring my waist as an indicator as I used to have a lovely slim waist and that will tell me if I'm on the right track

How has your day been?

Had soup and toast for lunch and cheese and egg salad for dinner. Random snacks of a cream and jam ring biscuit from DH's biscuit tin and 3 caramac buttons from DH's sweet tin. DD2 came with DGD 17 months so had a chaotic afternoon playing a kind of carpet bowls with 5 onions from the veg box. [DGD currently obsessed with "balls"]. Got to love the little darling. Great rearrangement of the bowl of decorative pebbles on my fireplace too. Priceless.
DD4 coming on Friday ahead of her trip to meet friends in London on Saturday so have booked a table at swanky restaurant in yonder village for Friday night .[We previously promised her we would go there next time she is home.] Will need to be extra good until then won't I?
@Tinsel sorry you are knackered but think it's good to have a goal of some sort. I am struggling a bit I think in terms of loss even though I've been good. Interested to see what if anything I have lost on tomorrow's weigh day.
@YouBoggle hope you survived the MIL's visit -bet she loved playing with DS.

Day with MIL was ok... she only asked about when we were having baby no2 once... 😑

Crap food day. Will have to start again tomorrow properly and get my arse into gear.

Ladies so sorry I have been absent, it’s been a manic few weeks and I just haven’t had the headspace to think about my diet. Weighed myself today and 14st 3lb so I have put on weight which isn’t surprising given what I’ve been eating!!! I need to stop emotional eating but think I need to retrain my brain somehow!! Hope you are all well :-)

That's so cute reckless with your onion game! Sounds hilariously cute.

Oh god Boggle the dreaded question! Don't worry about the food, you had one mission - to survive the day, and you did

Welcome back MummyB - hope you are okay after your manic few weeks and sorry you haven't been feeling great! Losing weight is all ups and downs and it won't work until you're absolutely ready, we are all still learning that I also struggle with emotional eating!

Thanks @Tinsel I think I need to get my head firmly in the ‘zone’ I’ve been focusing all my energies on a new little venture that’s launching in May and when I’m not dealing with that (we are massively up against it for our deadline) and working my other 2 jobs, I’ve just been wanting a chocolate fix! I am literally a sugar addict - how do I solve this??? I feel like I should join “sugar addicts anonymous”.

@boggle argh your MIL is banging on about this topic too is she?? She should join mine. I’ve been so busy and even though we have a nearly 3 year old I don’t feel 100 percent ready for another baby (but not sure I ever would) but hubby and I gave it a go last week just once the day before ovulation (I’ve got PCOS and very irregular so I thought it was an opportunity I probably shouldn’t miss) so I will wait and see if anything’s happened. Not sure whether I want a positive or negative to be honest. Hubby says he can’t take my stress levels right now plus any pregnancy hormones so is all for holding off having a baby right now hahaha. Sorry this is all a lot of information to be spilling to you all on a Wednesday morning!!!

Welcome back Mummy! Lovely to hear from you.

Yes I'm sure MILs life mission is to be surrounded by grandchildren (she already has 5 with another on the way in August!)!

I just shut down the conversation as she has no idea what we went through to have DS so I'm not up for discussing with her as to when we are trying for no2!!

1.2lbs on today. Not hideous but not great.

Boggle that is a bloody good gain to have considering you had a mini holiday! Well done

Mummy that's a shame, I really hope your stress levels come down soon! Wish I could help re the sugar but I'm just as bad you sound like you work very hard though so don't be too hard on yourself. So cliche but we are on a JOURNEY it will take time!

Morning all and welcome back @MrsMummy! We three have been going along, up and down but always supporting each other. I think that we've all decided that the key to this weight loss lark really is more about the state of mind than anything else.
Today is my weigh day!
Last week 13 st 5.75lbs
Today 13 st 4.5 lbs.
So that's 1.25 lbs loss. Not bad but not great really considering the level of deprivation. However I'm very determined and was aiming for a stone off by the end of March. 3.5lbs to go as my start weight was 14st 1lb - don't think I'm going to make it. Even being very strict I think I'm going to be lucky to drop a pound a week. Never mind, the general trend is downwards and I'm in this for the long haul. I now realise that for my level of inactivity I will have to stay under 1000 calories forever if I don't want to be obese for the rest of my life!
Hope you're all having a good day.Sun shining nicely here.

Wow reckless that's definitely great! You should be proud. The sun is shining here too