Any fatties want to join me getting slim

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Oh dear, I'm so tubby. I can't hide it any longer. I need help and support from other fatties who will understand 😭

Starting tomorrow, no more excuses. Please join me.

Hi, mind if I join in too? I've restarted so many times but this time I don't have a target weight or a deadline I just have to move in one direction. Planning to weigh myself in the morning for a starting point and go down from there.

Only one more day of isolation. She is ok, no symptoms, just they send home the whole year when they have one positive case. Good luck on your weighing day!

Welcome pocketsof pudge.

Hello and welcome aboard @PocketsOfPudge.

@WobbleWhenIRun great that you're heading in the right direction, and congratulations on making it another notch down the BMI scale.

End-of-month weigh-in and it's 5lb off for me this month. I'm more than happy with that, in a month that contained a maintenance fortnight. I'm now just 5lb over the BMI healthy weight range for my height!

Starting weight: 15 stone (start of lockdown)
Current weight: 10 stone 11lb

@PocketsOfPudge I started without a specific target as well. Over the months my target has evolved to be: eat healthily, develop a plan I can sustain long-term, and maintain in the 10 stone-10 stone 7 range. So I'm nearly into my goal range, but I know that's just the start. Have to kick this lifelong yo-yo diet habit.

Well done mornington! That is a great loss for a month with maintenance.
Only 5 lbs to go!
I am 100% that the maintenance is the right thing indeed. To keep the weight, go slowly towards the end!
You must be so happy, so close to healthy weight.

I don't have a specific target either. I've so much to lose that the final destination is over the horizon at the moment. I can't see it.

FatCatThinCat, that’s why I started weighing myself in kg—because I realised I had so many bad associations with stone... and I wanted to just think of numbers, not times past when I weighed x.... now I have to convert back to realise where I am and that’s good for morale.

Thanks @MushMonster. Yes, I'm very happy to have come so far. But also slightly nervous about the next challenge - maintaining at this weight for life. It occurred to me after I posted this morning that next year, 2021, will be the 50th anniversary of my first diet, as a nine-year-old child. A whole half century of oscillating between 15-stone out-of-control eating rubbish, and periods of exercising iron control over everything I eat. I hope to be able to celebrate my 50th diet-iversary by consolidating my new healthy eating habits and never having to diet again!

Wow @morningtoncrescent62 - massive well done!! You have done so well and lost so much in such a short time period. What do you think you did different this time vs previous attempts? Let us learn from you!

So I’m back from my 2 week break having gained 4lbs which I am delighted about considering how much I ate (but I did visit the hotel gym a few times for the first time in my life!). I am back on it and hoping to lose these lbs plus an extra one to get me to my 10kg mini target.

I am feeling motivated and happy to be back on this thread to stay accountable and cheer everyone else along too!

Lose them before Christmas I mean! 3.5 weeks of being extra good. I also went for a 5 minute on, 1 minute off run today making up 30 mins of running and 5km which is a massive achievement for me as running is definitely not something that comes easy or is enjoyable for me!

as about 7ish today.

Monday and tuesdays are my relaxed eat without guilt days then the rest of the week I plan to be strict on the junk food and snacks. I figured this way if I'm craving a donut I can think to myself just wait a few days rather than thinking I can never have a treat ever again- I'm hoping it will let me stay on track longer.

Oh I somehow cut off half my post, it's meant to say I did 10k steps yday and 30 mins on a recumbent bike. I left my Fitbit off this morning but I recon it's around 7k ish today.

Well done @PocketsOfPudge I love the username

Prior to my 2 week break I was walking 10k steps per day but sadly now due to work being super busy and studying for exams in January that I have left seriously too late...I no longer have the time luxury of a 1.5 hour daily walk hoping that a 40 min a day run/walk/shuffle will suffice until the exams are done and I can go back to walking. I know I am burning 200-300 cals less a day according to Fitbit

@notevenamum1 4lbs gained is pretty insignificant for a 2-week holiday, and I'll bet most of it is bloat in any case, from eating more carbs while on holiday. A few days back on your weight loss plan will likely see the back of them.

As to your question, I've actually lost this weight and more many times over my lifetime!! I'm a serial dieter and I've got down to 9 stone or less a few times in my adult life. One of the reasons, though, that I'm not aiming to get below 10 stone this time is that I can only go below that by entering a state of warfare with my body - in which I think about food and eating and nothing else, until the physiological and psychological dam bursts and I binge on rubbish until I'm back at 15 stone which is where I always seem to level out.

What's different about this time is:
a) I'm eating more healthily than I think I ever have in my life. I'm making sure my meals are carefully balanced, with loads of vegetables, and I'm cooking things I actually like so that it doesn't feel like punishment.
b) I'm going more slowly than in previous diets, and trying not to get obsessed. That's why I'm only weighing myself once a month.
c) I've started thinking about how to cultivate lifelong habits well in advance of reaching my target weight. I've never developed the ability to make healthy choices - it's been all or nothing. The maintenance fortnights (thank you to @WobbleWhenIRun for the diet breaks idea that inspired them) have been extremely helpful both as rehearsals for switching to a maintenance plan, and also psychologically in helping me to believe that maintaining a lower weight is something I can actually do.

Huge well done @morningtoncrescent62

I weighed yesterday a day late and had maintained, not at all happy with myself but I’m determined to have a loss this week so I’m trying to kick ass in the Fitbit workweek hustle

Did no exercise except the usual 12k steps at work yesterday but back on the stationary bike this evening attempting 10k while I wait got DP to get in and the dinner to cook.

How does everyone stay so motivated? I really struggle to say no to treats at work and at home even knowing how unhappy I am with my weight right now :(

@notevenamum1 I hope you had a great holiday, they are hard to come by this year! The carbs are always the most difficult bit indeed, I do think they contribute more to weight than fat itself, inuding butter ! 4 pounds is not much at all, and it will be gone as soon as you get back to the routine. Good luck with the running. That I found very tough indeed.
@PocketsOfPudge that is quite a bit of fitness you are doing!
@TessTackle well done on your maintenance. Keep going, you could lose it next week. The scale is a tricky thing. Regarding motivation, keep going, even if the scale is not helping, because the loss may happen later on. My knees are my main motivator, they were struggling to carry my weight. So much better now. And I am determined to keep fit, so going regularly to the gym. The secret is not punishing yourself, do not think that you have failed. Just keep going. Fine if you did not go to the gym today, or ate a piece of cake, enjoy it. Just tomorrow, choose food low in carbs (soups are great for winter), and go for a walk/ gym. It is better not to take it too seriously. Take healthy snacks (fruit, dried fruit) just in case you get hungry. And portion control! I think that is the main bit.

I have a question.. if I take a hour to do a 20min walk with dd, is it bloody worth it?!

Thanks for your wise and kind words @MushMonster I’ll be back to it tomorrow and hope got a loss on Monday.

Managed to give both DP and I dodgy stomachs so hoping to lose some pounds that way 😂

@PocketsOfPudge anything to keep moving is worth it

@PocketsOfPudge

I have a question.. if I take a hour to do a 20min walk with dd, is it bloody worth it?!

Yes! You must have been entertained along the way

Tess they are not wise! I am learning on the go, but it is what keeps me going. I do never want to find difficult to stand up after getting something from the floor! That memory haunts me more than hunger.

I'm still shopping like a fat person it seems. Yesterday we went to Lidl and they had my favourite biscuits in, chocolate Christmas butter biscuits with sprinkles. Last Christmas I would have eaten a whole pack in one sitting easily. But now my appetite is under control that won't be happening at all.

I bought 8 packs as they sell out very quickly. DH asked when I was going to be eating them as he thought my overeating was sorted. I said they will be my Saturday treat over Christmas. If I've lost weight I'll treat myself to one. He laughed and pointed out that in that case I've just bought a 2 years supply.

Clearly still more work to do.

I'm absolutely gutted as I only discovered the bakery in lidl 2 weeks ago and now I've committed to behaving, I could easily have binged my way through!

I want to be able to walk up the stairs without being out of breath! I'm so unfit it's shameful - I work in peoples houses and when they show me upstairs I'm actively trying to breathe quietly so they can't see me struggling

I've found some cereal bars in b and m similar to the slimming world hi fi bars and they are only 75 calories each and definitely get the treat feeling so heading back today to buy a trolly full!

I bought 8 packs as they sell out very quickly. DH asked when I was going to be eating them as he thought my overeating was sorted. I said they will be my Saturday treat over Christmas.

@FatCatThinCat I'm in awe that you can have your favourite biscuits in the cupboard and not eat them immediately. I'd have eaten at least four packs by now, I think, and the rest wouldn't make it past tomorrow. It's shopping rules all the way for me from now on - which is soooooo hard at this time of year.

Last year I would have been the same mornington but I'm not dieting by willpower. Using the CPAP machine every night turns off the over eating drive in my head completely. I'm not resisting eating them, I no longer want them. The shopping part of my brain just needs to catch up.

It's why I've not been that bothered about the occasional blip. This time I'm not at war with myself. I'm not fighting the urge. The urge has been treated and has now fucked off to whence it came.