New Year, New (Not So) Fatties Getting Slimmer

[WobbleWhenIRun]

Continuation of www.mumsnet.com/Talk/weight_loss_chat/3977780-any-fatties-want-to-join-me-getting-slim

Calling @MushMonster, @morningtoncrescent62 , @FatCatThinCat, @ShopoholicIn, @GwendolineWindowlene, @Fatgirlhopingtoslim to the new thread (if you want to keep going).

Thanks for the callout. I haven’t been hugely motivated but I think I’ll lurk for inspiration.

Lurk away @GwendolineWindowlene - you're very welcome to do that and only join in if and when you want to

@WobbleWhenIRun Thanks for creating a new thread and adding me.. looking forward to a healthier me in 2021

N healthier all of us*
Good luck ladies keep going

Checking in.

Here we are!
I will update on Sunday.
New Year, new goal posts to smash!

Thank you for the shiny new thread @WobbleWhenIRun.

I'm declaring the festive season a success, eating-wise. My biggest achievement was on two days when I started to lose control in the afternoon, consuming about 1,000 empty calories-worth of sugary snacks. The old me would have said (at best) "Oh well, that's today down the drain then, I'll re-start tomorrow" and kept going with the crisps, cake and chocolate. Instead, I managed to stop myself - I convinced myself to make and eat a small but healthy and balanced meal so that I got some proper nutrients, and then managed not to eat for the rest of the day, but drank lots of water. It may not sound like an achievement to a lot of people, but I think some of you will understand how momentous it was!

I'm having some slight problems going back onto weight loss plan, though. Nothing major, and no binges, but I'm getting hunger pangs in the afternoon which are quite difficult to ignore, and I've increased my portion size at lunchtime to try and deal with it. I think I've got used to having more food over the break, and cutting back down is hard.

That's so great @morningtoncrescent62 .. I have lost that control in the last few days, but now restricting on snacking which is difficult with so much chocolate lying in the house.
Regarding your hunger, have you tried eating more proteins in the morning or fort lunch. I found that helped me a lot as i had cut carbs n focussed on eating more proteins n my portion size had reduced too.

Hunger pangs are the worst. I used to attend an eating disorders clinic and their plan was designed to avoid them and balance out spikes in blood sugar. They recommend 3 small meals a day and 3 snacks (2 of which are fruit). They said you should never go more than 3 hours without eating something and shouln't avoid having more than 5 hours without a proper meal. Within these rules you can arrange your day as best suits you.

So I have breakfast at 7.30, fruit around 10.00, lunch at 12.00, bigger snack (porridge or toast or even a slice of cake!) at 3.00, dinner at 6.00 and then another piece of fruit around 9.00 if I need it.

*should avoid having more than 5 hours without a proper meal!

117.3 kg today. That's a 1.4 kg loss. I'm very happy.

Well done @FatCatThinCat. Brilliant post-festive-season loss. And thanks for the advice on hunger pangs. One of my issues is that I bloody love toast as my first 'meal' of the day. @ShopoholicIn is right about proteins early on, and I needed the reminder (thanks!) because starting the day with just toast doesn't stave off hunger pangs for long, so 'spending' my calories on it, especially early in the day, isn't a good idea. Sigh.

I’m finally surfacing to say that I’ve now weighed in at less than I did 1 week before Christmas, which I’m happy with.
I’m using Happy Scale so I don’t have a weigh in day as such.

Well done Gwendoline weighing less just after Christmas is definitely something to celebrate.

I've just achieved something awesome. I've just given DH permission to help himself to my Christmas chocolate hoard. This is mega. It's taken me a few weeks to do it but it really is mega. DH looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights, like it was trap. We've been together 20+ years and he's never has free access to my personal hoard before. He's been very understanding throughout my years of disordered eating and would never just help himself. So the new attitude to food me has finally overpowered the old me.

Well done @FatCatThinCat and @GwendolineWindowlene. Weighting less than before Christmas is a super achievement

I did weight during the holidays but not stressed about it. I am 80.6 kg today, so I have failed to remain below 80 kg by the 10th Jan. But I am not that worried. I am going back to work next week. I hope it will burn off with a busy routine.
I had treats, mince pies, chocs and lots of milky coffee. The milk and milky coffee is the most difficult part. I always fall back for that.

Weigh in day...

Week 34

Start weight: 276.8lbs
Current weight: 219.5lbs
Weight change over Christmas period: +0.5lbs
Total weight lost: 57.3lbs

So, half a pound gain but I did say that if I kept under 220lbs I would consider it a success - so am ok/happy with that result.

What I am less happy with is just how easily I saw my eating get out of control. There was at least one day where I was eating, just for the sake of eating. Even though I was uncomfortably full.

This is a worry to me, because it shows just how delicate the balance is and how easily I could revert.

I think it will take the best part of the year (if not all of it) to gently get down to a weight where I want to move to maintenance so I really need to give some thought to how often and how I 'practice' maintaining during that time. Plus how I make the final move to eating for lifetime maintenance.

Still so much to learn!

A silver lining is that I DID track everything I ate. My tracking showed I ate 2856 more totals kcals than I burned during the Xmas weeks. As my end result is a 1/2 lb gain, that suggest my TDEE and kcal calculations must be pretty close. Which is good to know

That's a terrific result over Christmas @WobbleWhenIRun - well done. And congratulations on your tremendous TDEE calculation skills.

I'm so with you about how easily eating gets out of control. That's exactly my worry too. Eating disorders and addictions are for life, I suppose, not just for Christmas, and we have to find a way to live with them. I was thinking about other kinds of addiction management, and I think a really big difference is that we can't just give up eating completely, the way you can give up other addictions like booze or gambling. I'm not suggesting for a moment that giving up any addiction is anything other than a lifelong struggle. But with alcohol, complete abstinence is at least possible, and with gambling you can steer clear of places where gambling happens and not log on to any gambling sites - obviously massive self-control still needed, I'm not diminishing that. But the point is, we still have to eat, every day. We still have to think about food, and go into places where food is sold and prepared, and prepare it ourselves, every day. I do think that's an added complication, and it makes sustainable rules so important. Plus strategies for recovering quickly when we've broken the rules!

Hi mind if I tag along? I did post on the old thread once or twice but couldn't get my head on right so fell off the thread. I've name changed and feeling much more motivated now. Also I'm so unfit I've literally no choice but to lose weight!

Welcome OnlyOneOption

Well done Wobble it appears that we've all survived the Christmas trial, onwards and upwards. Or should that be downwards?

0.2 kg loss for me this week which is a tad disappointing but that's what happens if you celebrate a really good week's loss by eating half a stollen. The other half will have to wait until next weekend.

Week 35

Start weight: 276.8lbs
Current weight: 217.4lbs
Weight change over last week: -2.1 lbs
Total weight lost: 59.4lbs

I do love stollen @FatCatThinCat so I can't blame you for celebrating like that! And any loss, is a loss.

Welcome @OnlyOneOption. Ease yourself into it gently. If it's for life then there is no pont in rushing the start...

I've got back with the program easily enough, so that's good. But the ease with which I started to abandon it over Xmas sticks in my mind. I suspect I might always be the kind of person who simply cannot buy tempting things and have them in the cupboards. They will always call to me. The trouble is, I love my food - so I can see almost anything as a temptation!

Eating disorders and addictions are for life, I suppose, not just for Christmas

This is so true and I have really started to see clearly how disordered my eating has been for years. Periods of feeling chuffed I have only eaten 800kcals that day, followed by periods in which I literally cannot seem to stop pushing more and more food in.

A deep love of secret eating - like, I actually enjoy the process of eating food when no one is watching. And I don't think it's because I worry about being judged. I would plan to secretly eat food that I know no one would judge me for - but the act of eating it in solitude was part of the treat.

Because I ate normally when other people were watching, I somehow convinced myself everyone must eat like that.

Arrgh! This is going to be a lifelong Thing for me.