52lbs in 52 weeks

[Crunchymum]

Sorry for the self indulgent thread but I've finally had enough.

This time next year I'll turn 40 and I don't want to be fat and 40!!

This time next year I want to be a healthy BMI and a clothes size that I feel comfortable in.

Anyone want to join me?

[wheresmymojo]

Hi Crunchy....I've bought a months worth of Exante products but think I'll use it when I start feeling like I'm reaching a plateau.

Last time I successfully dieted it was by switching types of diet every time I lost motivation with one (instead of just giving up IYSWIM).

I'm much better at starting things than sticking to them sadly!

[Ihatesundays]

I’ve lost 2kg so I am 78kg. I wish I could remember how much i had gotten to before. I don’t think I have broken the 70s barrier into the 60s which is where I need to be. 69kg would be in the 10 stones.
I can remember being 9 stone and thinking I was fat

[Crunchymum]

Unfortunately I'm still imperial when it comes to weight. Still cant get the hang of kg

Another week begins and I'm doing OK. Birthday weekend coming up so I've got dinner out Saturday (weigh-in Sat morning) and then drinks on Sunday and a Picnic Monday. I hope I can make good choices and negate a gain.

June is such a busy month for me birthday wise as I have birthday meals on 21st, a big lunch on 22nd and then another birthday and another dinner on 28th. My friends and family are big foodies (yet I'm the only fatty!!)

[Ihatesundays]

I find kilos makes me feel less fat as I don’t know what the numbers stand for!

[Crunchymum]

I find kilos makes me feel less fat as I don’t know what the numbers stand for!

You are very wise

[RubySlippers77]

I'd love to join @Crunchymum as I have 46 weeks to lose about 50lb!! I have an anniversary celebration to attend next June and a wedding to attend next July - I'd fooled myself into thinking that those were ages away and I wouldn't look that bad at 3 stones over my healthy weight - then DP's DN announced his intentions to get married next May in a hot location. Skimpy frock + current weight = very unhappy me

Thank you for the app recommendation mojo, I'll have a look at that! I've signed up for OurPath too after reading good reviews. I've done both SW and WW in the past with varying success but don't like their reliance on sweeteners/ eating loads of 'fat free' yogurts etc. How are you finding Noom?

Trying to think of ways to do extra exercise now as that really helps with my motivation, but it's not easy to find time with two toddlers to run round after.....

[Crunchymum]

Welcome @RubySlippers77

50lbs in 46 weeks sounds doable (albeit a long term project!!)

I know the consensus is often to break down goals / have smaller more manageable goals but I am thinking that looking at the bigger picture can help.

1lb a week should be manageable without too much sacrifice?

Where is your DN wedding?

I have my brothers wedding in 2.5 months and I'd love to be a stone down.

I have a 6yo, 4yo and 1yo, work theee days a week and have arthritis so exercise for me is walking (I manage 10k steps a day at the moment, my arthritis is currently well controlled but when I flare, it's hard to even do the school run!)

My issue is that I can be fine all week and then I tend to binge at the weekend?

Years ago I followed low GI and the 80/20% rule. If I ate healthily 80% of the time it left me a little scope to have a few treats not so healthy meals

It wasn't about bingeing. It was about having healthy treats (a few vodka and diet cokes as opposed to wine / homemade "KFC" as opposed to the real deal / share a shop bought pizza as opposed to order a massive Dominos)

Need to get back to that way of thinking.

This weekend is Birthday weekend though!! I plan on a few posh cupcakes (one for each of us) instead of baking a big cake that will last well into next week..... and get eaten everyday.

[AJPTaylor]

What is working for me is noom. It is calorie counting but it has made me stick to it.
1200 cals a day
I have switched from weighing in stone to kg.
You weigh everyday.
I have lost 9lbs in 7 weeks. I gave up sw and ww cos the meetings were disheartening for those of us that lose 1 pound a week if we stick to it. I don't need to hear about Steve who ate a whole dominoes and has only lost 4lb this week instead of his usual 8! My battle is different.

[RubySlippers77]

I think that's good advice about the big picture @Crunchymum. Realistically I won't notice much difference losing 7lb, I need to lose a good stone for it to have any effect

It must be very difficult to do any other exercise with arthritis - I suffered from a mild form last year and my goodness, the pain! I do do at least 10K steps per day but now like you have to be careful not to overdo it, or I feel on the verge of flu - cold/ achey/ shivery/ joint pain etc. I might try C25K if I can take it really easy, used to enjoy running and the gym pre-DC.

DN's wedding is in Italy - he'd thoughtfully booked it for the first weekend in May so everyone could take advantage of the long bank holiday weekend, which of course has now been moved!! Not sure how that will work out with people's work/ school/ childcare/ flights etc. But I will need to fit into some sort of posh frock

I love baking and so do the DC - we need to find another hobby, or a way of making it more diet friendly!

LOL - I couldn't stand those meetings @AJPTaylor - only ever went for the weigh in bit (and my WW leader was/ is fab, too). I found SW a bit of a faff with the syns/ HEs and our group leader was quite a large lady, which didn't encourage me!!

[Crunchymum]

Italy. How lovely!! Agree I wouldn't want to do it at my current weight though.

I found SW very counter productive for me, personally.... I didn't like the ethos and in the end I was paying someone a fiver a week to weigh me when I had perfectly good scales at home.

My MIL has been doing SW for a year, lost a stone within a few months and has been losing and gaining the same few lbs every week for 8-9 months now
She says it helps keep her in check and she'd be much heavier (she isn't at goal weight, needs at least another stone off). I just think it's a waste of money!! Given she isn't losing?

Thay said I gained a stone after I stopped SW so what do I know?

[Crunchymum]

Oh yes and our group leader was a big lady. She had lost 4st but was still heavy. She was a fellow arthritic though!!!

[RubySlippers77]

I don't know if our leader was arthritic @Crunchymum as she never bothered to make the time to talk to me! Kept saying "Ooooh we'll have our new members talk soon" but weeks later it hadn't happened. I think she had at least 4 stone to lose though; she kept saying "I must get back onto plan!" whilst never actually doing it

It's freezing here. So miserable and rainy - feels like it'll never be warm again. All my layers of lard are coming in useful for now!

[Crunchymum]

-1.5lb

So -6.5lb in 2 weeks.

Although I'm still 8lb heavier than when I stopped SW in January!!!

3st and 0.5lb to my goal weight though and as I started this thread a few weeks before my birthday, technically I still have 52 weeks.

This time next year will be my last weigh-in in my 30's . Hoping that this is finally my time to sort myself out.

[Ihatesundays]

Although I have shrunk significantly from exercise I have lost nothing this week! Boooo

[RubySlippers77]

How are you doing this week @Crunchymum?

Annoying about the (lack of) weight loss but well done on the inch loss @Ihatesundays 👏

I'm struggling on this week whilst dealing with horrendous AF pains and wanting to eat my body weight in chocolate. Pah.

[Ihatesundays]

AF also making unwanted visits here too. I might have eaten some medicinal biscuits

[RubySlippers77]

Biscuits can help @Ihatesundays!

Usually I can only keep white chocolate in the house - the DC like it, I don't - otherwise I will scoff it...

I've made a bit more time for cooking proper meals which has helped. Although the dishwasher has never been busier as a result!

[Crunchymum]

Another 1.5lb gone today. Woo hoo.

So that's 8lb in 3 weeks? And it was a heavy weekend (meal out Sat, take away Sunday and wine / cake Monday!!)

Still an uphill mountain to climb but so far, so good!!!

[Ihatesundays]

I’ve lost a kilo but the weight loss feels very slow this time. Probably my age.

[RubySlippers77]

Well done @Crunchymum and @Ihatesundays!!

I've lost 4lb so far - 4lb down, 46lb to go.....

So hot and humid here tonight, I'm hoping it will have some sort of sauna effect on my fat loss! Did 18K steps yesterday on a theme park visit and kept to my diet plan with only half a Cornetto extra today will be 16K steps and again more or less ok (a little piece of chocolate to help me cope with a DTS1 meltdown.....)

How is everyone else doing?

[Crunchymum]

Well done for the losses. Every little bit is in the right direction isn't it?

Now the weather is hotting up, I'm cursing myself for not getting my arse in gear months ago. I swore last summer I wouldn't be fat this summer and here I am!!!

I did however in a fit of positivity book out first family holiday in many years.... we go mid May next year. So that is 4 weeks before my self imposed 52 week time limit.

I will not be this size for my holiday. I can't be this big.

Today I wore a thin cardi as I am too big to have bare arms...... it's awful being fat in summer!!

[RubySlippers77]

Ah me too @Crunchymum - said last January that I would never be that big again - a year later and I was a stone heavier but like you now I have a May 2020 event to aim for, I'm hoping that will give me more incentive! When the only people I see regularly are toddlers, it really doesn't make any difference if I'm a size 6, 16 or 26 to them.....

I actually don't mind the bare arms but hate summer tops being skimpier so they don't cover as much tummy wobble!!

[Countdowntofitandforty]

So name changed to put up a post and found you guys!

I turned 39 the first week of June. I am (shhhhhh!) 14 stone. 5"8. Size 16/18. Unhappy with fast weight gain in past year. Feel unAttractive, dumpy and am so unfit

Would like to lose 4 stone and be healthy!

Please can I join! (Ps have hypothyroid too so expecting this to be tough)

[Crunchymum]

@RubySlippers77

Little people are very accepting. Do you work with them? (or just have them as "pets" lol)

Welcome @countdowntofitandforty

I turn 40 in mid June but my holiday means I'd like to be at goal for mid May.

As I've bemoaned many times, I have arthritis, so exercise is out for me. I walk daily (aim for 10k) but losing weight has got to be via my diet

[Ihatesundays]

I’m going on a big holiday next May so that’s my aim date too.
I’ve lost a teeny tiny bit this week, I’m not very far being under 12 stones, but that’s still heavy! I can’t believe I thought I was fat when I was 9 stone.
My clothes are certainly bigger though. I’ve been doing exercise at home but think I need to go back to class to make a bigger difference.