Heifer wants to be Bambi. A thread for accountability.

[TreesSandSea]

I lost 7 stone a year ago. I have put a stone and a half back on and now weigh 15 st.

I want to be 11-12 stone. I need to stop eating crap and get back on track. I am using My Fitness Pal to track calories and starting this thread to keep myself accountable. Anyone else welcome to join, but also happy to talk to myself.

Weight today: 15st
Breakfast: I egg scrambled, 1 veggie sausage, 6 button mushrooms
Lunch: 1 fillet sea bass, 1 cup mange tout, 50g cheese
Dinner: M and S plant power butternut and quinoa salad, one mango and quinoa 0 fat natural yoghurt

[TreesSandSea]

@Chocolatecake12 your username makes me hungry

[Howlongtillbedtime]

14:3

I am so annoyed with myself , I have a family thing at the end of january and would be so happy if I could get rid of some decent weight but then.

[Kaykay06]

Sorry forgot to add @MillieMoodle My head ok luckily but I’m so hungry banana didn’t really help much

[TreesSandSea]

Ok so weigh in tomorrow morning, everyone post their weight (if you’re happy to) and we’re al aiming for a stone from then to 25th December.
No judgement, only huge support and encouragement. It really helps me to post what I have eaten, do you all want to do that too? It helps to see my willpower (or lack thereof!) in writing, and also maybe we can give each other ideas?

WRT exercise, it is really hard but my Fitbit helps me - I try to do 10000 steps a day. I also walk the dog a few times a day and try to use that as some ‘me time’ to do some deep breathing too.

I also have a list of distractions- things to do instead of eat!
Walk the dog
Brush my teeth
Paint my toenails
Watch something on Netflix
Have a coffee
Drink a pint of water

Any more ideas?

[pixidreaming]

@MillieMoodle I'm happy with Monday mornings being weigh day. Is everyone else ok with that?

[TreesSandSea]

And also @FizzFizzPlinkPlink it’s not just you! If I have a ‘starving day’ when I don’t eat anything, I always overdo it in the evening. It’s your survival instinct!

[FizzFizzPlinkPlink]

A weekly weigh in would be good, I think Monday because it will make me stick to it over the weekend (well we can always hope).

I also refuse to buy clothes in a bigger size so have been crow barring myself into my size 12 jeans then feeling uncomfortable all day. Think I will start wearing my smaller size 12s as a constant reminder not to be greedy, it will be like a Corset of Conscience

[Howlongtillbedtime]

Monday weigh in sounds good.

I need more distractions , I am the queen of procrastination with everything other than eating .
I read
I faff on my phone
I cook
I am starting a OU degree in feb so that will keep me busy but that is a way off.
Self care is a good one , so maybe
a face mask
Nails
Soak in a bubble bath
Exercise.

All ideas welcome.

[MillieMoodle]

@FizzFizzPlinkPlink oooh I like the idea of a Corset of Conscience. I can't get my size 12 jeans over my ample backside at the moment though! I've got a pair of size 14 skinny jeans which I can get on but can't do up so I'll aim for being able to wear those first!

Monday it is then for weigh-in day. Hoping I can control myself this evening and step away from the chocolate!

@TreesSandSea Yes happy to post what I've eaten. It will help me to think about whether I should be eating something if I've got to admit it to you all!

[TreesSandSea]

Hi @howlongtillbedtime 😁
What degree are you doing?

[pixidreaming]

@Howlongtillbedtime I need a plan to keep me busy in the evenings. I will be using the copious amounts of beauty products that I have and currently do not use.

I blow dried my hair this morning for the first time in months and put make up on. Already I feel better for having made the effort.

Tonight I will be painting my nails, again not done in months.

I've kind of given up doing these things so it's time to start again.

[Howlongtillbedtime]

trees I am going to be doing Pyschology with counselling. I am v scared , I am 48 and it has been a long time since I ever wrote an essay !

[NaturalBlondeYeahRight]

Yes just calorie counting- around 1400/1500 on mfp - this is hopefully the lifetime diet now as I was starting to get some health issues from weight and it scared me being only 44.
Find it hard to fit in gym (even though I pay a fortune for it) so not much exercise here. I don’t drink during week either now.
Like the idea of Monday weigh in too as I seem to get to Friday and have first g & t and things slide a little....
I need to get into a fancy dress costume for early December that doesn’t do up at the moment!

[MsMarple]

Can I join please?
I have a similar track record to howlongtilbedtime with more false starts than I care to think about...
I’m 16st8lb now, so I’ve lost about 5lb very slowly (through 16:8 and not buying chocolate ice cream) since starting new job in September. But they have Christmas food in the shops now, and I can already feel myself derailing...

[MillieMoodle]

@pixidreaming yes! Me too. Sunday night I try to paint my nails, but I have millions of bath/skin products and don't use any of them. I need to start and then I'll be distracted from eating, and maybe I'll look a bit less knackered too!

@MsMarple welcome!

[TreesSandSea]

Hello @MsMarple! Welcome! (And also of course to anyone I have missed - I can’t keep up!) well done on 5lbs!
I really recommend MyFitnessPal - it’s completely free and really helpful to keep you on track with portion size as well as keeping an eye on how many calories are going in. I swear, life is so amazingly much more comfortable at 13 and a half stone that 16 1/2. My highest weight was 21 stone and I was constantly uncomfortable, horribly self conscious and unhappy.
Keep on keeping on - we can be each other’s cheerleaders!

[Chocolatecake12]

Monday morning weigh in here we come!
The dreaded Christmas tempting food is in the shops ...... my downfall is Lidl’s mini stollen - not sure if I’ll be able to resist that!
Anyway today I’m going to cook a roast dinner but I’ll have a small portion and no Yorkshire pudding

[TreesSandSea]

@chocolatecake12 don’t feel sad about missing out. List all your reasons for wanting to get rid of your excess weight.
For me it’s:
Being healthy
Being fit enough to easily run about with the kids
Feeling good in my clothes
Layering up in the winter
Never having to worry about not fitting into seats/ costumes/ wetsuits etc for various activities
Looking nice when I look in the mirror
Loving myself. This is a throwback to not being good enough for my mum because I was fat
Being kind to myself by being healthy
Not being a sucker for all the ‘treat yourself’ crap around refined sugar. I really believe in the long term refined sugar will be in the same category as cigarettes!

We are treating ourselves well, how we deserve, by choosing healthy food and getting to a sensible weight. Not sure about the ‘corsets of conscience ‘ go for comfy trousers and be nice to yourselves!

[MsMarple]

Thanks TreesSandSea you’ve done brilliantly losing all that - I am going to try and keep your amazingly comfortable new weight in my head when I am tempted.

Totally agree Chocolatecake12 - marzipan things are hard to walk past! I did buy a Christmas pudding on Friday.... but will share with my children today rather than scoffing all by myself !!

[MsMarple]

’Not being a sucker for all the ‘treat yourself’ crap around refined sugar.’

I am SUCH a sucker for that, you are so perceptive it’s a big con! Need to reset my treat mind. More time to sleep, time to read a book, walk with friends, making time for crafts I enjoy would all actually be nicer than a fleeting fumble with a bar of dairy milk when i think no-one is looking....

[Innishh]

Hi all - can I join? Here is a thread I started a few weeks back - I am looking to do it by creating new habits now that I can sustain after the loss to maintain as I have yo-yoed all my adult life. There are some good ideas on there - especially the link to real life MNers who lost many stones and kept them off for years (end of thead) - hope they help.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3705360-Changing-eating-habits-for-life-anyone-done-this

[TreesSandSea]

Thanks @Innishh - how are you getting on? And yes @MsMarple I am a sucker for it too, and I lol’d at the fumble with a bar of Dairy Milk - I know exactly what you mean!

[MillieMoodle]

I also lol'd at the fumble with a bar of dairy milk 

Thanks @Innishh I will take a look too, I am hoping to change my eating habits for good too.

[Innishh]

Doing great - lost 6lb week one, then 2 on each of following weeks so 11 down - weigh in on Wed - so hoping for the stone in a month. Doing 16:8 (11am-7pm) means I shove all of my meals into an 8 hr window so I am v full and not snacking which is where the calories were coming from. Also zero alcohol. No processed foods. V aware I am a sugar addict so only having one treat once a week on a Saturday. I am roughly doing SW recipes - but working on smaller portions and lower carbs than they allow - also not using syns for sugar treats (except Sat) but using them for nutrition (olive oil, avocado, nuts).

Basically a clean up, eating like an emotionally intelligent balance grown up rather than an unruly gung-ho teenager (I am 52!)

[pixidreaming]

@Innishh it sounds like you are doing really well.

I can totally relate to eating like a teenager with the food choices that I make. I'm going to try and eat like a grown up. I'm 51!