3 stone to lose - would like some company....

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would anyone like to join me. I am going to start on Monday.

I am not joining any clubs but will be loosely following WW.

Need to cut out the alcohol, crisps, cheese and chocolate (not totally) .

I would love some company. Will try to log on everyday to keep up with anyone who joins me but I do work full time so please dont be cross if I dont reply quickly!!!

I am really down right now about the way I look and would love to share my joys/lows with others - speak soon x

Am having tomatoes and mushrooms on toast for dinner in the absence of any imagination.

Was going to have salad, but DH just kicked up a huge fuss about salad not being enough for him etc etc. He's gone off out in a huff (was going to supermarket anyway) and said he's making his own now.

Can I join to please? I need to lose about 4 stone I feel rubbish about myself I have been on a diet last weeek and it was going really well until..THE WEEKEND.. oh dear I keep think...oh well I will start again tomorrow... and guess what I havent I could do will a kick up the backside and some fellow MN to accompany me xx

hi summersun everyone has helped me keep going so far, about 2 1/2 weeks which is VERY good for me

Have been sticking to my diet, apart from a packet of crisps yesterday which wasn't so good but not as bad as the huge bar of chocolate I really wanted

Hey summersun - all welcome

Did you lot know, that a Tunnock's Caramel Milk Chocolate Wafer is just 2.5 points?

I just had one. After the pitta bread and BGTY houmous (was still hungry ). I have realised that I havent drunk enough water though and I am rectifying it. Have also had 4 WW ginger and lemon biscuits - 3.5 points in total. They are delicious - I am hooked.

Still have 4.5 points left for the day!!!

Well done, I think I have had about 40 point today and I didn't know that about Tunnoks yum yum but I am going to start tomorrow again Im drinking larger at the mow, silly me. Although I should enjoy my last day of eatting nice grub

Hi everyone,

Had a computer problem so been offline for half a week - MN withdrawl pangs galore

Congrats on the weightloss to all! Amazed at the 6.5 stone total Welcome to those who are new. I need to go back and have a good read

Well - 4 ibs last week when weighed on monday - which amazed me too But I think it must have been all the walking with the pram I did ... managed over 16 000 steps on a couple of days.
However I have not been so good - no MN to keep me on the straight and narrow - or off the bread and butter and honey Also not been out doing so much walking this week.
Also have just started weaning and am finding it will be all too easy to end up as a human dustbin - when the baby does not finish it, I have sometimes found I have popped it in my mouth and eaten it without realising

By the way VVVQ - love the pitta/ flafel thing - planning it for tea tomorrow.
Flo the butternut squash looks good, never knew what to do with them before!
Right I feel more motivated just being able to get on this computer again! Will do better tomorrow.

UC-2 Total -
Colditz -1 Total -7
VVV -1/2 Total - -11 1/2
arau- 4 Total - 9
perkin-2 Total -
silk -6 Total - -11
caykon -4 Total - -16
loler -2 Total - -7
happymum -6 Total -
glitter -2 Total -
mammyjo -3 Total - 11
eddas -2 Total - -4
Lilibet -1 total -1
Ag -4 Total -11
FioFio -5 Total - 7

Hello

Summer - even if you fell off the wsgon this weekend you still had 5 days of eating well as opposed to 7 days of eating a load of cr*p (assuming you do normally just like the rest of us)

Arau - nightmare being mnless for a week!!

I think we have all done incredibly well to keep going so far and I find it great support having this thread - so thanks all

Butternut squash soup for tea tomorrow I think - loks scrummy. Dh can have loads of crusty bread with his so he doesn't feel hard done by. (yrs dh is not alone VVV)

have SERIOUSLY fallen off the wagon today. I started off so well. I had a good cereal breakfast, and a well controlled single home made oat cookie, but then some delicious homemade (not by me) bread made an appearance with some hoummous and it was just fantastic. The (oh my GOD I cannot believe I did this) a lovely man gave me a DOUBLE snickers and a twix for the CHILDREN ... well, ds1 got one snickers, and ds2 got half a twix. I wqas saving them from themselves - pity nobody did that for me

I've had naughty cucumber and philly sandwiches for tea, haven't weighed or counted since breakfast, I've just had a fried egg (in spray) sandwich and a banana, and a vodka and lemonade (diet) - I have eaten FAR too much, and it is true to say that if I stick to my points I don't feel hungry - but the problem is I barely recognise when I am hungry and full .

I am VERY cross with myself, and feel I will be even crosser if I don't lose any weight this week.

tomorrow is another day, and I MUST MOT quit now. i may have slower weight loss because I buggered about with my diet - but if i quit because I buggered about I will have no more weight loss at all!

It'll probably have done your diet the power of good colditz

Be brave - work out the points - establish the damage done (poss not as bad as you think) and then do some exercise to make up for it (it's only wednesday)

I bet you've fallen off the wagon worse than that before! And if someone hands you a double snickers then you'd have to be some sort of saint not to eat it.

Yes, agree that thanks are due to everyone as I find this thread really useful and enjoy posting on it (very unusual for me as a consumate lurker!).

Hi Summer, well done on making the big step. We are all doing well so far so keep posting. Even on the bad days!!

My big tip at the moment, if you like parmesan, is use it as a substitute for other cheeses. 1 points worth is 10g and it is enough to really taste of cheese. Have had pitta full of lettuce, cucumber and tomato mixed with 10g of finely grated parmesan which tastes truly delish only 3.5 points. Also made a fake carbonara tonight with 300g of cooked pasta (very sizable portion), 1 tblsp of 1/2 fat creme fraiche, 10g of parmesan and a bowl of mushroooms cooked in the micro. Really filling and tasty and only 6.5 points.

oooh ags the pasta sounds lovely. I might try that tomorrow.

Colditz, shitty day indeed. Are you actually me? Sounds sooooo familiar. Get back on that wagon first thing tomorrow and all will be well.

VVV boo to that naughty dh! But I darent serve mine the same low low calorie stuff I am eating for dinner. He is on his own self made diet, very healthy, NOT! Involves eating precisely nothing all day and then stuffing his face each dinner time with whatever he likes. We are so incompatible, diet wise!

I have come to some conclusions about my eating and wanted to get them down in black and white so to speak so that when I doubt myself I can read them back. Does that make sense

Ok so, after really wanting chocolate(which I think is my main problem) over the last few days, and resisting, I have concluded that I dont need chocolate. Quite obvious but whenever I get down I turn to it as a comfort, but really that silly as it makes me feel worse because I know I won't lose weight by eating it like I was.

Crips do not fill you up. I had some on, erm, monday and really I didn't need them. I was no less hungry after them so it was a bit silly eating them.

I am losing weight for myself. So if I fall off the wagon and give into temptation the only person losing out is ME.

I have realised that I need to work really hard to lose weight. It won't happen overnight, mores the pity. I have to start exercising and looking after myself. No-one else is going to do it. It's down to me and me alone. I am really finding he support on this thread and the support from dh very helpful. It's such a hard thing to do. I need someone there to tell me I can do it(how pathertic is that?!)

I want to feel happier looking at myself and the only way to do that is to lose weight. I use to like my figure before I met DH. It's not his fault I have put on weight, just one of those things. I want to look how I did pre DH. I want to feel sexy and confident. I want to be able to wear clothes I like. I know that sounds silly as you can get clothes n all shapes and sizes that you like. But atm I refuse to buy anything too expensive as I don't want to stay this size so I hope to not have to wear them for too long. So I tend to only buy clothes on sale, and then I kinda of settle for whatever is not too expensive.Does that make any sense?

Ultimately i'm not bothered what the scales say or what the size of my clothes is, I just want to feel better about myself. I want to smile when I see my reflection. When I go out it'd be nice to get some kind of attention like my friends do. I am married so would never do anything but I just miss that ocassional attention of being noticed, does that make sense. It just gives you that confidence that actually you're not that bad.

Thanks for letting me get that out. Not that anyone had much choice but it feels better to have typed it out. I have to say I have wanted to lose weight for some time. But couldn't really get up the enthusiasm. I now feel that I can do it. and I am in the right mindset to do it, well, ocassionally not, but in the main I am

Sorry to waffle on

the spelling and typing mistakes in that post are appalling fingers type too fast

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Ags - your DH sounds exactly like mine

He eats barely a thing all day (which makes him grumpy, dizzy, headachey etc), and then comes home and stuffs and stuffs. And he does it under the misguided notion that because I have bought "Be Good To Yourself" hot cross buns, that means he can eat 3 or 4, and it's so much better. He's missing the point that he doesnt need to eat more than 2 (well really, one, if we're honest since its a 'snack'). Just because it's healthier, it doesnt mean you can gorge. And he does gorge.

Eddas - what a good post. It is how I feel too. Replace "chocolate" with "sweet foods".

This thread has been really helpful for me. I'm not really telling people in RL that I am dieting. I dont want to talk about it all the time, or people to keep assessing my progress, or seeing me eat something and judging whether or not I should be eating it. I just want the weight to disappear, and be able to buy nice clothes again and have a much less sore back.

I am getting a little impatient though . I know I've lost nearly 3/4 of a stone, but I dont think I've dropped a dress size yet and it's irking me....... I want to try on size 16 trews and not be disappointed. Oh! What a quandry!

pelafina - what is spinning?

And, did you have any complications in your pregnancy/labour?

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Pelafina, would you be able to go back to points and eat all the things you like anyway? If you like pasta and cheese then have it, just be aware of how much you actually eat. The same with the baguette and pate. If most of your points were going on jaffa cakes then dont buy them!! I discovered that to my peril yesterday in the boots shapers dept!! I hope I dont sound patronising, I really dont mean to be. I know how hard it is to stick to the plan. I have joined weight watchers so many times before and every time my commitment has gone.
Just keep coming here, there have been some fab recipe ideas, and the support of others who know what we are all going through is just invaluable.

Sorry, that was long and rambling but I hope you understand what I am getting at

As for exercise, just walking pushing the baby in the pushchair is better than no exercise at all and its free. I couldnt afford to join a gym either. I am full of good intentions to exercise, shame I havent actually got anywhere yet

Eddas, I think you may have summed up several people on this thread with your post. Me for certain. I have a real problem with chocolate, well sweet things generally really. I have bought a few pots of the options hot chocolate and I have been drinking it like mad, especially in the evenings. It does seem to take the edge of my cravings, and some of them are only half a point per serving.