Anyone else struggling to get that annoying half stone off that won't shift for love nor money?

[MascaraOHara]

I don't need to lose a massive amount of weight but ideally would like to be half a stone lighter I'm 10.7 at the minute and would be almost in heaven if I could get down to 10st exactly!

I'm going to start on Monday and I am going to lose 7lb by Friday 14th December..

Would anybody else like to join me.. or just come here and abuse me to keep me on track?

Welcome Starbear - the more the merrier!

Weighed myself on Friday and I had lost another pound so that is 3lb in total.

However, visited IL's this weekend so may have undone all my good work. Any back on track from today and will be sticking to 16 points for the rest of this week.

Breakfast branflakes with skimmed milk
Lunch ham salad, one apple, two plums, two tangerines, small bunch grapes and a slice of pineapple

Dinner, pork tenderloin with basmatic rice and veg.

Hope everyone else is doing well.

10.6

I haven't been very good at all so I'm glad to have got a lb off. Going to try harder this week but have all day meetings for 3 days so doubt I'll get to the gym much!

Right I'll o a roll call for you all

Amandoh
GingernutLover
Niceglasses
NiftyNanny
REIDmylips
Rebelmum1
Sweerheart
Piffle
Spokett e
StarBear

Weights - c'mon girls

My weight is now 10.9, down from 10.12 three weeks ago.

The heating in my office has broken down so we are all shivering. That alone will help to burn my excess fat!

Good morning girls,

Stats...

Height : 5'4"
Start weight : 9st 6 & a half lbs
Current weight : 9st 6lbs
loss so far : half a lb

Oh dear, half a pound! I usually do really well the first week of a diet then it slows down. On the plus side, the poor loss has made me feel more determined today than I did last Monday to shift this half a stone.

Mascara & Spokette ~ Well done both of you for your respectable losses. I'm soooo jealous of your 3lbs off Spokette!

Have a good week everyone!

no weight loss here!

I know I had a bad day on Saturday but I was good all week and I exercised nearly every day so I am quite pissed off that I haven't shifted anything!

To make matters worse I have a work lunch today so not a good start to the week.

Well done to everyone who has managed a weight loss. I normally shift 3 or 4 Ibs in the first week of a diet so I am more than a little dissapointed!

Sweetheart - If you are exercising a lot and not specificaaly in the fat burning zone you tend not to lose weight as you are toning it into muscle which is denser. Don't be disheartened

Amandoh - .5lb is still loss , you may find you lose a couple this week as your body will balance itself out different.

Spokette - Am very envious of those 3lbs

I had a small bowl of cheerios for breakfast and just had a snack of 1 crackerbread and cottage cheese. For lunch I'm having Soup I think and some fresh fruit.

Sweetheart, as well as monitoring weight, remember that you will lose inches too so even though you have not lost any weight, I bet you are trimmer and firmer from all that exercising.

I have skirt that I use to guage my progress. Three weeks ago I could not fasten it, now I can and it is comfortable to wear.

I'm flipping well starving today - I've had breakfast and a cup of tea.. think it's starting to catch up with me!

netball match was cancelled yesterday due to the rain so not only was it a big lunch but no exercise yesterday either!

I plan on having a good day today though and will do a workout this evening. I mustn't let one bad day ruin the whole week.

Plan for today is soup for lunch, probably home made low fat curry for tea and a tae bo dvd tonight.

How is everyone else getting on?

Oh I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels a bit sorry for themselves. My period kicked in with a vengeance on Saturday, so much so that I just slept all day on the sofa. My pmt starts 2 weeks before I'm due, my boobs get so big and tender I can't even handle tight cuddles from my charge Thinking I might have to do something about that as I blame a lot on hormonal food cravings too...

I must admit I have had a couple of good days now where I've eaten loads of veg and been satisfied with half a pitta for lunch with a huge salad! So hopefully next week will be better... I haven't weighed myself, I think I'll wait til next Monday! This Mon I woke up with a hangover after 4 pints of beer - at least it was lager, not as heavy and calofiric as ale, which I usually drink!

Yes, naughty nifty nanny is not doing herself any favours........ why do i always seem to start OK then sabotage myself!?

This week I'll be good 0:-)

on the plus side I managed 3 workouts, since friday i have been vegging due to cramps and blerugh (i fear leakage)

think I'll do davina today and gym tomorrow... thursday ....and friday! There is a Bums, Tums and Thighs class on Friday night. I WILL make the class on Saturday morning this week!

I've now eaten

3 crackerbreads with cottage chesse
Noodles (3.5pts)
Strawberries
and a ryvita bar

One of those days.. really must try not to eat anything else untiul dinner time.

This morning I did my new Tae Celebrity Sculpt DVD. It is brilliant! Funky music, lots of kicks, punches, bouncing around and Billy Blanks with is unique motivating style.

I had a small bowl of bran flakes with skimmed milk, went to a meeting at work and promptly tucked into a large cookie . My willpower just crumbled.

I'm currently eating a ham salad which will be followed by an apple, some pineapple, two plums and two tangerines.

I made some vegetable soup this morning and added some red lentils and a tin of cannelloni beans for extra fibre. I will have that for dinner with a couple of slices of bread.

Did my Tae Bo energise dvd last night with my dd (7). She was laughing at me - she told me if I get any slimmer I will go pop (not sure what that means - I think she was trying to be sweet!!!!).

Dh said yesterday he wants to loose a few Ibs so we've decided to have a ww week next week. When I do my shopping I will buy 1 weeks worth of ww ready meals. I find it gives a diet a good kick start to have all your points laid out for you. It's a bit bland for a whole week but you feel great after a good weight loss to start you off!

I'm off to do a Tao Bo abbs and glutts dvd in my lunch hour - even though I'm still aching from last night. Will have soup for lunch and that will be my first thing to eat today. I'm starving!!!!!

Hows everyone else doing?

I'm just eating my sardine salad followed by apple, plum, pineapple cubes and tangerine.

There is a new gym at work so I'm going for my induction later.

My DH has just started running again but he just wants to increase his fitness rather than lose weight.

Dinner will be spaghetti bolognese.

I have TaeBo Energise too! Graet workout.

I have been good today, possidge for breakfast and soup with crackerbread for lunch. Really would like to get 2lbs off this week. Still not been to flipping gym - can only go at lunchtime as on my own with dd but if work busy I don't get to go at all

I've been good today and wasn't TOO bad yesterday, but it was a bit of a carb fest. I had salad and loads of shreddies in the afternoon, just had plain rice and a fairy cake in the evening, followed by 11pm 2 ryvita and some sugar snap peas!

Today I've had my porridge, a grilled aubergine sandwich on WW bread (with a smear of cream cheese and some tomato chutney... yum!) Got to resist the munchies when I get to my Nanny Familie's house as it's there I start nibbling shreddies mid afternoon!

I haven't been to the gym since Thursday and I was going to go today but they've invited me to the cinema. B is taking so long to get used to me, and we're hoping if we go out and do nice things together it'll show her "how to be nice to Nanny". So I really want to go. She's a nice little girl when she wants to be but oh she can be vicious sometimes and it gets me down a bit. I wish I was one of those people that loses their appetite when they're nervous! Poor little thing has had a few changes in her care lately (I'm the third carer in as many months - her long term nanny, a new girl who left after a month, then me) so it's not surprising she's shaken by it. I'm the grown up, I'm supposed to be able to deal with it all but it's still stressful even though I can understand why she's upset!!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm anyway, weighed myself this morning and still 11.7, but I had plenty of salt and soy sauce on the rice and a fair bit of Baileys......... must keep drinking water and decaff stuff today! Dum Dum DUUUUUM!

Enough of Nifty's woes. Does anyone else find they're emotional eaters though? How does stress affect your appetite?

Or are you all wonderfully well balanced and I'm the sole neurotic on this thread!? hahaha (actually I'm on quite an even keel in real life, it's just in my head that I flap!)

Don't worry Nifty your not the only one! I am an emotional eating AND a habit eater! I don't find it with stress but then I don't get stressed very often. It's more if I'm feeling down or bored that I want to reward myself with something yummy to eat. I tried treating myself with little gifts instead of food but it got too expensive!

I also find I get into habits with food and it takes a long time to break them. For example - When I used to cook spag bol I felt it wasn't a meal without gratted cheese on top and some garlic bread - same with curry, it had to come with nann bread and poppadoms. Ditto - cup of tea and biscuits.

It's taken me a long time to break some of these habits so that I can still have my fav meals but I have found recently I am starting to fall back into old ways. The nann bread has made a come back as has garlic bread recently, 2 things I would never have brought when I was attending ww meetings!

Ahhhhh just been told we're out for dinner tonight by dh AND invited for a girlie dinner on Friday night.

Why do I have some many meals to go to - I find it IMPOSSIBLE to be good!!!!!!!

Oh to be popular

just be extra good for the day before and day after.

i had chicken in a low fat sauce for dinner last night with rice and steamed veg.. please please let me have lost at least another lb on monday!

Really missing the gym, am really starting to lose tone around my stomach and my bum is growing by the day!

I went for my induction at the new gym at work. It is wonderful and plan to start using it next week.

I am eating out for the next 3 nights so plan to just eat only soup and fruit for lunch for the next 3 days.

My size 12 trousers are falling off me too, even with the clasp and zip done up so I'm off to Bluewater at lunch time to buy a new pair for work as a reward.

It is amazing how many inches I have lost in 3 weeks considering that I have only lost 3lb in total! I plan to exercise to a DVD this afternoon before I collect my twins from nursery.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Spokette that is brill!!!!!! inspire me - please!

I ended up having to go for another work lunch today! I'm never gonna get any weight off at this rate.

Well done spokette! I am going to meet a friend at the gym today - first time in a week I've been but it was TOTM so I felt exhausted. Excuses excuses! I know it's supposed to boost your energy levels too...

I feel extra hungry after I've worked out a few days though. Hmmm.

Just sat munching my porridge so hopefully I will be able to stay good today - post workout, I'll grab a healthy salad from the natural food store place as a friday treat....
on the plus side I bought 3.5 kilos of apples and pears at the farmers market yesterday so I have no excuse to snack on anything else!

sweetheart, I find it easier if I deline alcohol altogether, my willpower disappears after the "safe" first two drinks, and really no one notices that much. Or they might start asking if you're pregnant!