Fuck, some serious dieting and princessing required

[ThornsInMySides]

Who's in? I'm a mess.

I need a lot of work 😁

I'm going to try and ditch quite a few pounds and make myself more lovely again. I need a complete overhaul. Starting tomorrow obviously!

I'm 5'5 @Bercows aiming for 60kg (ish) as that would be right in the middle of my healthy BMI scale, I'm quite evenly proportioned all over and when I gain weight it's also all over.
At the moment I'm also trying to work on toning up especially tummy area after 2dcs and my thighs as they're rather wobbly.

Well I am very upset tonight 😞
I took people’s advice got myself a Fitbit .
Started to log all my food etc and aimed for 10000 steps .. 7 days in and I had lost 3 lbs .. great I thought only another 21 to go but I can do this ... ok I had a wobble the weekend with a take away but have been good all week .. just popped down to see my elderly mother in the garden - social distance etc as I myself am on the shielding list .. my brother was there . He had been drinking , he took one look at me and said God how fat are you !! And walked off laughing . I felt so humiliated in front of my husband and children .. I laughed it off but just feel like crying

Urgh @tracey47 that’s just horrible, and rude, family can be so insensitive and blunt. I bet if he knew how you were feeling he’d feel awful.

Don’t beat yourself up, the majority of people have gained weight during this lockdown due to enforced inactivity and a whole load of emotional and mental trauma of sorts (trauma sounds like a big word, but it’s true to an extent).

You’re well on the right path and so take comfort from that and keep going, for yourself, no one else.

That's horrible tracey47

I've just been reading the pudding thread and my stomach is rumbling away. My food choices have been poor today and dinner was a bit of a disaster for various reasons. I am making pizza and chips tomorrow. Ultimate comfort food. Homemade pizza so will have to work out the calories for that one. Might stick to one slice of toast at breakfast so I can have more pizza. I need to get back to step ups and get walking daily as it really bumps up my step count.
I was supposed to be sleeping just after 10 but I failed on that one thanks to dds and the pudding thread. Whoops.

I am so hungry this morning. AF has half-heartedly started but the pain and feeling rubbish has started full blast. A quiet day today I think with a walk after the phone meeting we have booked this afternoon.
It's another miserable day here and I am tired of the grey. I hated the heat of last week though. Give me 21 degrees and sunny and that's me happy.

@tracey47 - think of it this way: you are taking action to lose weight. What is he doing to stop being so horrible and rude? If he doesn't realise then he'll always be like that and you'll have the satisfaction of having improved yourself. When you've reached your target you'll be able to say/think, "I've changed for the better, but I see you haven't."

@tracey47 family can be utter bastards about personal comments, and my brother and I get on really badly because he just can't stop teasing me.

You are doing what you can. Don't let his comment derail you.

I am stuck 0.4lbs over a stone barrier - three days of eating unbelievably well and low calorie and the scales just won't budge. I'm hoping tomorrow suddenly 2lbs will disappear! I had a haircut yesterday and felt like I'd lost at least 0.5lb of hair.

I've had a small gain today (less than a pound) but I'm putting it down to period weight, and the fact that I didn't drink much yesterday, I didn't have time for lunch so had all my calories for yesterday in a large 'wrap pizza' and if was bloody lovely so no regrets here.

It's been a really hard few days, bad news and good news, a rollercoaster. I'm waiting on one more bit of news which is about housing and will be the 'biggie' I had a lovely walk with DH and DS3 yesterday about 2 miles long and today I hope to walk with my sister but the weather looks gloomy at the moment.

I'm sorry @tracey47 that your family haven't been supportive, the joke will be on them when you don't let it beat you down. You'll become victorious in your good health while they look stupid for doubting you.

I'm lacking lunch inspiration at the moment it's making me not want to eat anything. I need to get better at planning. What's everyone else have at lunch?

I had a sausage and a salad. Thrilling! Dinner tonight is seafood on the barbecue and baked wedges, so yum. I'm just really, really craving a cold glass of white wine, but only 2.5 weeks of no booze to go!

Morning all. I stuffed myself with pasta last night. Probably a normal portion that I'd have served before but I couldn't finish it. AF has arrived with a vengeance but I didn't inhale chocolate and biscuits like I normally do so that's good progress. It's homemade pizza today. I'll restrict myself to one slice and 5 chips. They are huge chunky ones. I watch the children eating ice cream, crisps, biscuits. Choc ices, lollies, cake and think how unfair it is that they eat twice as much as me but are half the size.
I'm trying to work up to weighing myself. The scales are old and put away somewhere. I'd weigh ds first to see how accurate they are. Clothes are definitely looser and my stomach less rotund.

I feel like everyone is doing well but me 🙈 my diet and drinking has improved marginally over the past fortnight. But nowhere near good enough so the scales aren’t moving. My jogging / running is slowly improving, that’s my only upside. Just need to make more improvements to diet and make sure I monitor my wine intake. With wfh being so arduous I just need that glass (ok 2 large) at the end of the day. I haven’t found anything to replace that with yet.

Ouch, that's a big whack of calories on wine, about 450, and around 6 units depending on the wine and how large large is. Cutting that would make a huge difference to your health and weight. I've no idea what you could replace it with though. I'm sure others will have some ideas though. I drink lots of iced water. The belvoir juniper fizzy drink tastes a little like gin and tonic. I don't know the calories in that though or if you even like gin. I don't like things with sweeteners so prefer water. Tea in the morning then just water. You are doing really well on the exercise though so don't be so hard on yourself

Yeah I know I’m self sabotaging with the wine! I guess it’s a little like an addiction (although I wouldn’t put myself in the bracket of ‘alcoholic’!) I’ve just come to rely on it to chill me out. I don’t drink every day though. Cutting down will make a big difference though, you’re right, so key is finding another drink I find enjoyable / refreshing or another way to chill out after a long day. Maybe jogging will do that for me when I’m fitter, or maybe I need to get back in to yoga.

I feel the same with the wine! Finding it hard to reduce even though I know its empty calories. I need to stop seeing it as a treat come the eve. I do find it easier to go without for a day or two than have a tiny glass though. I'm a large glass or nothing kind of drinker. But my large glasses are 250ml, 3 units and probably about 200 empty calories. Which leave me craving chocolate/snacks.

Haven't weighed myself much this week but I doubt I've lost a lot as I've gone over on MFP calories a few times. Not hugely over but a little. Plus no exercise thanks to WFH every spare minute when I'm not looking after DC.

Hubby wants a takeaway tonight as it's our anniversary. I really want one too! Will be hard to keep under my cals today.

Try maybe replace the wine with something like a gin & tonic? Or a vodka & soda? Even prosecco has less calories then wine. I’m trying to stick to just a few drinks on the weekend but my god after dealing with a toddler and baby every day I am so tempted to reach for the wine every night lol!

Hey crew, I’m late to the game but I discovered 12 days ago that I weigh 14 stone!!!!!!!! That’s about a stone and a half on in lockdown.

The horror.

Anyway I started SlimmingWorld 9 days ago, I aim to lose 4 stone. I lost 8lb 2oz in week one so off to a good start.

My feet and brows need some love too, how on earth do you pluck your own eyebrows whilst wearing glasses?

Obvs too fat to reach feet to paint toenails 😂😂😂

I'm tempted to have some prosecco or G&T tonight - what's a better option calorie wise? I'm only going to have 1-2 glasses if I get some.

Weigh in is tomorrow. Couldn't help myself and jumped on the scales with my clothes on about 10mins ago. Currently fully dressed with jeans etc on they're showing 65.3 kg. I usually weigh myself with no clothes and first thing in the morning and last Sunday I was 65.5kg. So fingers crossed the proper weigh in tomorrow will show me what I want to see but doubt it as was hoping for 64.5 - not sure how much my clothes weigh though

I've gone under my stone barrier at last! 13lb 8oz from the next one, which I need to get under too to be anywhere near a healthy BMI.

@Youngatheart00 I think there probably isn't anything that will substitute for the wine. It just has to be done and dealt with unfortunately. I had got down to only drinking on Friday-Sunday before this booze-free month, which limits how much I could have over the week. Although I'm missing it, I also feel good at the moment knowing I'm not consuming any empty calories at all.

I'm genuinely unconvinced that losing weight and still eating the foods we enjoy is at all possible, except in very small quantities. I find I have to cut out sugar more or less entirely and fairly quickly I lose the cravings for it - but it's not a fun prospect. I gave up eating much carb-based food about eight years ago when I got gestational diabetes and don't really miss it. I do have them if I really want to, but we're out of the habit of basing many meals around them.

I mean, blimey, I'm still overweight and fed up about it, but the minute I start to eat much sugar or carbs (eg on holiday) the scales start flying upwards. I do find, like some of you are saying, that I really can't eat much of them now anyway, which definitely helps.

I am working today but this evening really need to take a hold of myself as I am a hairy, pale, frizzy-haired troll. Truly fed up of looking so unkempt and scruffy.

Gin and slimline tonic is definitely the best for weight loss. Slimline tonic is negligible in pretty much every diet and way less sugar in spirits than wine or beer.

Have you ever made wine? It’s terrifying how much sugar goes in to it.

I'm not a gin lover tbh. I did buy some of the mini prosecco bottles, 4 for 3 at tesco, and one of these is 200ml I think. Nice for a treat, and better than opening a large bottle and knocking back half before you've even realised!

Well done to all the loosers!

Mini bottles is such a good idea!

I don't like slimline tonic at all. My friend says she can't tell the difference but I definitely can and its not for me.
I'm guessing a flute or two of prosecco will be better calorie wise than 1-2 g&t's with regular tonics?

Managed to get my hands on some palmers tan after running out over a week ago and popped some on after my shower. Hoping for a nice glow.
I keep my nails very short for practical reasons and they're "baby nails" as DP says because they're small but might clean up my cuticles and put some nail conditioner on tonight and moisturise my hands - exciting times

I've just added the calories for my lovely lentil chips and am amazed how many you get for 120 calories. It seems like a good sized snack and the fibre certainly helps.

The princessing has fallen by the wayside. As has the exercise

I like this thread. Some of the other ones are scary and not realistic or healthy at all.

Yes a switch to gin and slim sounds sensible, especially as I don’t really love gin (certainly not as much as wine) so it means I drink it slowly and never have more than a couple.

Do have some wine to finish tonight tho 😬 but I would usually think nothing of drinking a bottle on a Friday night and I have a third of a bottle leftover.

Had a healthy omelette for lunch. Princessing wise I used a lovely intensive conditioner on my hair earlier, and it feels a lot nicer now.

I agree re this thread, it’s definitely supportive without being too intense or judgemental!