a stone

[helenb706]

Hi all... OK the sun is shining but the summer wardrobe just doesn't fit. I know that this is a temporary blip in the weather and it will rain next week but I would love to be a stone lighter by the time summer starts for real. I feel miserable - anyone want to join me. Starting tomorrow.

I’ve just had my first random food binge for a week and off the back of a not quite so good couple of days I’m really cross with myself.
Nothing terrible but was a bit peckish and before I knew it was nibbling left right and centre!
All my rules broken about having a proper meal and sitting down etc.
Am going to consider it an early lunch and try to be good now the rest of the day

I have also just weighed straight after so I have to stare it in the face and own it!

I was 59kg on the button 3D ago and was 59.7 just now (starting at 60.7) so beginning to wonder if I’m actually making any progress or I’m just showing normal variation from day to day?

Pah!!

Ah where, don't beat yourself up! You are 1kg down, that's pretty good. Like helen said, take this as an opportunity to reset yourself.

I'm glad you posted because you made me feel a bit better about sharing a slice of pavlova with my 4yo earlier.

The thing with food binges is you need to bloody well enjoy them.

It’s incredibly frustrating when you binge on something not worth the calories, like, I don’t know - those morning breakfast biscuits (never had one, because they seem to reek of disappointment?).

But a planned binge, looked forward to, can be a thing of joy.

So don’t beat yourself up. Look forward to something you really enjoy and use the time inbetween now and when you get to eat it to get some diet credits in.

I planned to do this once a fortnight. It’s turned into once a week. And once I start I go big. I get everything in in those few hours. It’s like a goal. (But completely contradicts ‘dieting’. I know, I know )

If you’ve not lost anything please don’t be disheartened!!! I know myself how disheartening it is but weight loss is not linear and consistency is key. We can do it. I believe in you!

I believe in us too and if we weren't on here we'd probably be gaining weight as that's what seems to happen when you're not dieting. It's as though the universe has played a sick joke on womankind and made all this amazing food available but if we actually enjoy it then we pay the price of not being able to fasten our jeans. Even the people I know who always used to be skinny a few years ago are now struggling with their weight. When I was young and I could eat what I wanted I wish I'd known what the future held in store and enjoyed it more whilst it lasted. As someone on another dieting thread said recently "since when did bread become a big treat?"

@eattothebeat I agree!!! It’s so sad :( I’ve realised I will probably always battle with my weight and going to have to work really hard to get it down and keep it down

Yes so that!!
I look back and think wow I never have a second thought about going to the chippie or having a kebab after a big night drinking.

Now I darent even have a glass of wine let alone a damm chip!

Age and metabolism is a very cruel thing

I do so much exercise that I didn’t used to as well. Pah- maybe I have a healthy heart even if my arse is struggling....

I did so so well, dog walk, house work, gym. Then sodding pancake day. Thought I was very well restrained by having one small pancake. Then my DD made more after tea so I had another. And a glass of wine. Grrrrrr! But according to the scales I have lost 2lb over the week. I have weighed every day and it does fluctuate but the overall trend is going down! Yay!!! We can stick with this! By the summer we will all feel great. I know that awful phrase the kate moss used once (the press hated it) "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" it's my secret mantra Maybe not 'skinny' but a stone lighter

Evening, just home after a long shit , weighed this morning and 8/11 so pleased with that . Perhaps it was the inspired bike session. Food wise I think about 900 cals and I am currently drinking an elderflower gin and slim and trying not to think about the cheese and onion walkers in the kitchen!
I managed to walk 13,000 steps today.
It’s not easy but this thread it helping loads .

😂😂😂😂
I just read that back .. after a long shift not shit... although that might get rid off a lb

Ha ha thisimmortalcurl that would definitely help you lose a couple of pounds!
Feeling determined today and hoping that when I weigh on Friday I will see a bit of a loss as I'm trying very had to reverse the damage done at the weekend.

Does anyone else feel that if they had no social life this would be a doddle? I sometimes resent my friends for inviting me to things as I know I will overeat (especially at a dinner party when under intense scrutiny - buffets are easier). I have a couple of dinners out this weekend and it's going to be so difficult. It's a real dilemna - if I keep saying no I'm worried I won't get invited any more and then I'll be upset but if I accept the invitations it makes me fat!

Hi eattothebeat... yep I am trying to break the fear of a social life and food. I never want to go as I don't feel confident in how I look because I feel fat. I then try to fit in...so don't show restraint thus blow the diet, then feel rubbish and despairing the next day. I think if I can get into my confidence clothes I can break the cycle... go and enjoy the night for what it is and just revert to being good the next day.

Would i be able to join in please! The thread i was on seemsto have died

I weighed at 10st 1 last Friday. Want to get down to 9st, my weigh days will be friday. Once works out of the way ill go to the gym. I havent binged for a while, as thats what i tend to do. Heads in the zone at the moment💕

@Caggie09 welcome!

Right I’m back on it today.
I did nibble too much yesterday but am pleased I still avoided my trigger foods of bread and cereal.

Today I found myself cutting off a slither of bagel and eating it as I was doing the kids breakfast. It’s so mindless. But I did reignise it and stop and now feel galvanised!

Sat for breakfast and had yog and berries. Will have a coffee mid morning and try and push on through to lunch and make a proper lunch today not start the shovelling in bits and bobs.

Overall I think I’ve eatne much better but think my mood about it yesterday is because I feel really bloated and my belly is round again whereas first few days I felt so much slimmer.
When I feel slim I eat slim.

It might be mid cycle or it might be the iron tabs I’m on I’m not sure but then my weight went up too so who knows.

Anyway good luck everyone with hump day- let’s make it count!!

@caggie09 hello! Welcome

Re. going out - if you are going to a restaurant it might help to look up the menu online beforehand so you can suss out the best choices? (even if the choice is that the food looks so delicious that you are choosing to stuff the diet and make up for it the next day. Or even better, the day before....always good to be in credit).

I've realised that my weeks follow a pattern re my eating. Monday - Weds I'm usually pretty good, Thursday gets harder (esp Thursday evening) and Friday - Sunday are usually pretty poor. Partly due to what's going on routine-wise - work, dc, etc etc. So I reckon I probably lose weight the first half of the week, then put it back on the second half. I need to work on this! But I'm in the zone too, so bring on the second half of this week 💪

I am really cross and it’s taking all my strength and willpower to resist the packet of hot cross buns and tub of lurpack that’s on the kitchen table. 😤😤

Don't eat them!

o4FS throw them in the bin!

Crash and burn.. Ate everything in sight today 🙉

Anyone doing fast800 and had horrible headache/nausea/zombie-like fatigue?

I’m on day 6 and have been fine until now but yesterday evening i was very tired and got a bit of a headache. Today I went walking for an hour and now I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus, a stomach bug and a migraine all at once. And I’ve got bedtime to get through!

Just wondering if it’s a thing and I just need to push through.

I've been really tired today and spent the day muttering to myself that eating cake and biscuits will not make me feel more awake but will make my fatter and am feeling quite proud for having avoided them.
Eatto & Beela - yes & yes. I think losing weight would be so easy without a social life. If I want to lose weight, I can't drink due to the calories in alcohol and the fact that a sniff of wine seems to make me feel hungover and scoff loads the next day. And if I I do that, I simply undo all the good work that I did during the week. I did 4:3 for 9mths or so (so 5:2 but three fast days) and would lose 2lbs each week only to put 1lb on each weekend.

Not a great day for me either ladies. I’m 150 cals over but do you know what? I’m staving and my body needed it. That’s what I’m sticking with anyway 🙄

Starving ^

On the plus side I went to my gym class today even though I was really busy at work and easily could have missed it

Also 150 cals over today and really trying hard to resist the kitchen .
I’m tired though so hopefully bed will win .

Hopefully tomorrow will be better for all of us