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]

Just read both the other threads, Innishh, really helpful.

Here are my list of ‘Yes’s’
Yes to lots of fresh water every day
Yes to enjoying all the seasons in the fresh air
Yes to good sleep and being warm
Yes to fresh fruit and veg, and home cooked food
Yes to a glass or two of wine on Friday and Saturday night if I fancy it
Yes to real food, food I am happy for my children to eat
Yes to a healthy life, and not being controlled by shame and fear and ‘not good enough’
Yes to treating myself as I treat my own beloved children; with live, understanding, thought and care.
Yes to guilt- free me- time
Yes to supporting each other with our journey on this thread.

[Innishh]

That’s brilliant Trees - it really helped me when the poster on my thread challenged me with all of my “No’s” and “Don’t’s” - but it was v easy to turn them around into positives. I love your approach to healthy, loving acts of nutrition and pleasure for your loved ones. A great way to see it. I know that my children were v sad about my weight - worried about my health - and I am also sad that 2 of my 4 children are themselves overweight - and I take 100% responsibilities for inflicting that miserable burden on them due to my poor eating habits. But I am turning it around and they will also have my new lifestyle habits (except the 16:8).

[TreesSandSea]

@Innishh I firmly believe that although there is an environmental component (or else nobody could ever lose weight) I think there is a very strong genetic component too. So don’t beat yourself up over your children’s weight. My problem was not so much my weight but that I was unacceptable to my mother because I was fat. I felt the love of my parents was conditional on my weight which was a real kicker as a 7 year old. My low self esteem resulted in bullying and then binge eating...
My children are fortunate that they seem to have my husband’s skinny genes but if they had been overweight I would have been so do careful that they felt fully loved, supported and ‘good enough’ whatever size. Even now, whatever I achieve my mum says ‘if only you could lose a few stone, everything would be perfect...’

I am sure you are doing an amazing job.

Lunch: one egg omelette with 25g cheese and 50g leftover quorn bolognese. Green salad.

[FizzFizzPlinkPlink]

Hello to all the new faces I too eat like a greedy teenager given half a chance and binge on refined carbs. I want to start eating like a real grown up. As I reach for an apple, I find it helps if I take the line of 'If I eat this it will be good for me and nourish me' rather than 'I wish this was a bar of Dairy Milk'.

[MillieMoodle]

I also eat like a teenager but sadly my metabolism doesn't keep up like it did when I was a teenager.

Lunch was a prawn mayo sandwich (236cals), Diet Coke and a bag of wotsits. Not great, but I'd usually have a sandwich with more calories and chocolate as well. We were in a rush and need to go shopping so it was a tesco meal deal.

I need to make sure when we do our weekly shop that we've got some healthy stuff in for weekend lunches.

[TreesSandSea]

Ok tomorrow I am on a train all day. Typically I would eat crap all day.
What’s a good plan? Onto train at 7 am, 30 minutes to change (big station) at 1 ish. Get to destination at 3.30pm. Pack a coffee and try to make it to M and S for a salady lunch?

[Innishh]

I would just add that not eating completely usually backfires on me as I then inevitably end up shovelling in crap junk food by the end of the day as I am so hungry my self control disappears.

There’s your answer. Pack stuff for breakfast if you will not have time to eat before you get on the train. Coffee makes me hungry. On SW you can have 6 baby-belle lights (if you don’t have any other dairy) in a day. Those and a bag of apples could keep you munching away?

[TreesSandSea]

Good point @Innishh
I don’t usually have breakfast but will take some apples. And coffee. And get a salad for lunch.

Today i’ve Had
2 coffees, 2 big bottles water
omelette with quorn mince and salad
2 slices roast, broccoli, cauliflower and gravy
2 glasses white wine

MFP says it came in at 998 cals

[MillieMoodle]

I had a Jaffa cake about 3pm (only one, I'd usually have at least 5) and then had sausage pasta for dinner. Just about to make a cup of tea. This is when I'd usually eat all the chocolate but I'm about to paint my nails instead. Hoping that when I step on the scales tomorrow morning, I will have lost at least 5lbs

[Innishh]

Today at 11 I had big breakfast of 2 hovis nimble toast, 2 poached eggs, toms, avocado and mushrooms.

3ish - Cappuccino
4ish - apple and

7ish - Big dinner steak, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, sweetcorn,

[TreesSandSea]

Morning all and welcome @ElizabethMountbatten

So this morning I weigh 14st 12lb

No idea why I am 1 lb up on yesterday, but never mind! So my target for 24th December is 13 st 11

[Howlongtillbedtime]

Good morning everyone
I have weighed and I am 14:2 . My goal for christmas is to be under 13.
I am on a course today so will make sure I take a healthy lunch and ignore all the biscuits.
Haven't planned dinner yet but probably left over chicken from the roast yesterday and some new pots and salad.
Will drink lots of water as I know that will help keep me on track as well.

Good luck to everyone for a positive monday!

[pixidreaming]

Morning all, I went to bed so hungry last night. This is new to me as I'm usually stuffed full of chocolate come bed time.

I have an appointment at the dentist this morning to have a root filling. I'm not looking forward to it at all, feeling pretty scared to be honest and no idea what to expect.

Have a good day everyone, let's all be good!

I'm going to have Monday's as my weigh day so I will report back once I've weighed myself.

[Chocolatecake12]

Bit scared to weigh in this morning as I did have Yorkshire puddings with my toast despite saying I wouldn’t followed by a waffle
Anyway today is a new day
Weight 10.11.6
Plan for the week - walk 10,000 steps - decline the snacks at work.
Good luck everyone

[NaturalBlondeYeahRight]

Morning all. Start this at 13.6 this morning - aiming for 12.6 by Xmas eve. Gym today to try and cancel out some half term treats.
Good luck at dentist Pixie, it’s usually never as bad as we think it will be.

[TreesSandSea]

Morning @pixidreaming, @Chocolatecake12, @Howlongtillbedtime and @NaturalBlondeYeahRight
We have to start where we are, right? And we can do this. One day at a time! Also, calling @Myusername2015, @MillieMoodle, @FizzFizzPlinkPlink, @Kaykay06, @WutheringFrights in case you’ve lost us!

Day 1, my plan is:
Breakfast (on train) :coffee
Lunch : M and S butternut squash and hummus salad
Dinner: Fancy dinner out. Don’t know what’s on the menu but will be tiny posh portions so not too awful 😁

[FizzFizzPlinkPlink]

Morning! Weighed in at 12st 4.4lbs, so another lb lost. Am very surprised because yesterday was a bit of a right off because we ended up in Pizza Hut for lunch but I just had the flatbread pizza which is less than 550 calories and two salad bowls covered in 1000 Island dressing. Then last night scoffed quite a bit of chocolate

But onwards and upwards today. My first target is to drop these 4lbs and get below 12 stone again. Only had a mug of coffee so far this morning and about to make a mug of peppermint tea.

Out and about doing errands today so have decided to swap out my usual Costa Cappuccinos for plain Americans which should save me about 450 calories!

[pixidreaming]

Well I survived the dentist. Decided to treat myself to a coffee afterwards and managed to dribble coffee all down me thanks to my numb rubber lips. On the plus side I avoided cake

[MillieMoodle]

Afternoon all!

I was 12st 6lbs this morning so 1lb off and my goal for 24th December is 11st 6lbs.

Resisted the chocolate last night so feeling very pleased with myself.

Breakfast was 2 weetabix with semi-skimmed milk. Just about to have lunch, which is a minestrone cup a soup and two slices of tiger bread with butter. Not sure what's for dinner yet but it'll be whatever's in the freezer as we haven't been shopping yet.

@pixidreaming I hope the dentist was ok. It's probably my least favourite place.

Great to see so many of us weighing in and full of motivation! We can do this!

[pixidreaming]

@MillieMoodle the dentist went ok, thanks for asking.

No pain whatsoever but I find it exhausting being scared and vulnerable for an hour.

[sparkle789]

Can I join you all? I’ve really been struggling with dieting/binging for a while and need to get my head straight. I’m 13.2 atm but have been moving between 12.12 and 13.4 depending on how much binge eating that week. I know eating badly affects my mods so I really need to sort it out.
I’m going to do 16:8 between 11 and 7 as I’m not much of a breakfast eater anyway and try and stay below 1500 cals and see hi I get on from there. We’ve just made our garage into a mini gym so I have weights, punch bag and a treadmill. I’m going to aim to exercise 3 times a week.

[pixidreaming]

Hi @sparkle789, welcome to fat club

[sparkle789]

😂.
Well I’ve done 20 mins on the treadmill and arm weights so feeling very positive and achey now!