One day at a time thread for strugglers.

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It really shouldn't be this hard so I'm going right back to the basics and just want to get though day 1 (attempt 98748)

@maccheeseandpeas congratulations to you and your poo baby.

Well done chanceux! 5lb is really good!
Hi ChiselandBits.
I fell off the wagon last night. Ate a Milky Bar and Thorntons Easter eggs. Most chocolate I've eaten in five weeks!

Never mind @73kittycat73, today is a new day. One day at a time.

I can't have anything sweet in the house, I have zero self control. I wish that I could be one of those people that can have just one biscuit or one square of chocolate. Once I start on the chocolate, I literally inhale it and can't stop until it's gone and then eat some more.

If ever there was a chocolate eating competition, I would win. Every time. Unfortunately I never feel sick from too much chocolate so there isn't a cut off point.

@73kittycat73 solidarity sister! I was just coming on here to confess to 2 jammie dodgers......and a peanut butter sandwich. Just why???? Oh well, new day tomorrow and will redeem myself slightly with a healthy dinner and nothing after that. No excuse really just mindless scoffing. Sigh.

Hi chanceux, I didn't have anything sweet in when I started five weeks ago as I just can't be trusted. However, I had been stashing some M & M's for emergencies in my mums. Also most of the Easter eggs. She ran out of cupboard space so asked me to take a few in...I had them in for a good few days though! lol I love chocolate like you but I'm type 2 diabetic. I was eating loads of sweet stuff and feeling so mentally and physically crap. The tiredness was crushing. I couldn't physically keep myself awake all day. Since stopping I feel 100% better. The trouble is, I 'got away' with last nights binge, I assume because it's not built up in my system. Now my brain is shouting, MORE CHOCOLATE PLEASE!!! (It's very polite... ) I have also realized that this weight loss malarkey is going to possibly take months. I really need to figure out a good balance. I'm very black or white thinking, all or nothing...I need to find some middle ground...
Hi recklessgran, must be something in the air! At least you are still being healthy with your dinner. Very good luck to you for tomorrow. One day at a time...Soon builds up, more good days than bad. Can I be really nosy and ask you both what you're hoping to lose? I started out at 14st 2lbs and have lost 17lbs so far. I really want to get down to 10st 7lb, so another 2st 7lbs to go. I lost 4 stone last year but put three back on! The lowest I got to then was 11st 3lbs. I hope I can do it, 10st something would be nice!

@73kittycat73 I'm hoping to get into the 11's. [Currently 14st ] I'm tall so 11st 12 lbs [top end of healthy weight on BMI] would be fine for me which is what I got down to last time on keto. People were commenting that I looked great etc. so I'm hoping I can do it again. I bought an entire new summer wardrobe at that weight which now doesn't fit but the bits that do look awful on with lumps and bumps everywhere. I'm desperate to get back into those clothes. 3 months exactly today until my holiday in Skiathos and I need to be able to pack those "skinny me" clothes!
Dangerous day today as my usual Friday lunch out with a g/f. We will be in a pub of some sort no doubt. It will be JD and diet coke for me but the lunch might be carby so a damage limitation exercise Ithink. Have a good day all - I'll be back later to report the inevitable pub based transgression!

You can do it! I had the same, I was in a hurry to lose the weight to get back into the size 16 summer clothes I bought last year. I think I need to take my foot of the gas a little.
Hope the meal goes OK. At least I hope you enjoy it.

Morning @73kittycat73, so when the first lockdown happened I was 10st which was around a stone over my usual 9st. Two years on from lockdown and I'd scoffed my way up to 12st 3lbs which is when I joined this thread.

As I lost 5lbs this week it took me back into the 11st bracket.

I think I would be happy at 10 stone now to be honest. I'm short so every pound shows and mainly hangs off my stomach.

Hello @recklessgran, enjoy your meal out today. It's a lovely day where I am, beautiful blue sky. I have even put the washing out, which sadly excites me 😂

Going to do another online food shop today and I won't be ordering anything sweet. It massively helped me last week not ordering any crap food. If it's not in the house I can't eat it. My nearest shop is eight miles away so it's unlikely that I would go out purely for chocolate. Not guaranteed though!

Enjoy your day.

Well done @chanceux that loss is amazing!

I finally braved getting on the scales the other day and I'm 14st 2lb. When the first lockdown came in two years ago I was 12st 4lb and wanted to get to 11st. So I've got a long, long way to go and am therefore taking it in short sections. If I can lose a few lbs and get into the 13 stone bracket that will be something, then aim for 13.5 stones, then into the 12s etc. Otherwise it just feels insurmountable so I'm hoping keeping focused on short term goals may help.

I've actually done well all week and averaged about 1200 calories a day. I'm trying to buy myself a bit of leeway at the weekend to have some chocolate/wine etc otherwise I'll totally give up, I'm trying to be realistic. I do plan on buying some individual bars of chocolate to try to restrain myself. If I have one of the family size bars of chocolate in the house I'll eat it all so I'm hoping treating myself to a small bar of dairy milk or a bounty or something at the weekend will be damage limitation .

What I've found this week is it's both really simple and yet really difficult to stay within my calories. If I stick to one slice of toast for breakfast, take lunch to work (been having soup) and then do a home cooked meal in the evening (last night fish, rice, veg followed by some grapes) then it's easy. But it is also so, so easy to go overboard just by having two slices of toast not one, or buying a baguette at lunchtime rather than taking something from home etc. I got a shock today as I treated myself to a Costa and was actually paying attention to calories on the lunch items. I'd have usually had a sausage and onion toastie and a medium caramel latte.... probably around 700-800 calories all in. Today I had a prawn sandwich and a small skinny latte, 450 calories for both and I still enjoyed it to be honest. For me it's going to be all about these swaps and trying to re-train my brain. I'd usually never get a sandwich without a packet of crisps for example, but I've done that twice this week and discovered the world doesn't fall in if I don't eat crisps! Who knew?

Congrats on the 5lb chanceux! I carry all my weight round my belly, I look like Humpty Dumpty. lol I ordered some low calorie (63 per bar) chocolate bars from Amazon. The Belgian chocolate one was OK, nothing like Cadbury's though, and the cookies and cream one tasted of white chocolate. That's ok because I love white chocolate. I realized I had been being too strict on myself, and that's why I ate all the chocolate last night. I'm going to go a bit easier on myself and if I lose 1lb a week, I shall be happy. I also gave in and bout a summer dress that I'll hopefully fit into, so at least I'll have something to wear! lol Hope you had a good day? Not so much for me, scoffed nearly all the chocolate I kept at my mums.
Well done on swerving the crisps ThreeRingCircus. It's all about the little things, that then become habit isn't it? I agree 1200 cals doesn't give you much leeway. I remember on a show a few years ago, the were telling you the sugar content of shop bought coffees. I think it was a white chocolate one and it had 15 spoon fulls of sugar in it! Also, stay away from shop bought sandwiches, they usually have loads of calories in them when you think you are eating a healthy lunch.
How did it go today recklessgran?

Evening all. well, the damage limitation exercise consisted of a bacon sandwich and JD and diet coke in the pub. That was the best option I could find. I had a prawn cocktail for dinner with lots of salad. One purple one left on my desk by DH from his box of Quality Street. Ahhhhh!
One day at a time. I am trying if nothing else. I really do need to focus now. Catch up in the morning.

Evening all. I rejoined Noom this week which I used with some success a year or so ago. Not a great weekend ahead with a day out to celebrate a birthday but I'll do what I can to minimise damage.

Morning all - it's a beautiful sunny day here !. I'm just back from Tesco with healthy choices for me for the weekend. And water. Big bottles of water. Plan for today is bacon and poached eggs for lunch [I do 16:8] and prawn salad for dinner tonight followed by sugar free jelly and raspberries. Afternoon snack [if I really must] will be 6 pecan nuts and a small chunk of cheese. I'm currently on my third black coffee of the day but I'm going to try to drink 2 litres of water a day too from now on. Unsurprisingly I have failed so far to get myself into ketosois on avccount of eating carbs. I simply MUST now stay on the wagon and stop self sabotaging my efforts.
Hope everyone else has nice plans for this weekend - we're planning to organise a couple of trips - one is our whole family U.K beach weekend penciled in for June and the other is a trip to the Highlands of Scotland in July. Our DD's [we have 5] bought us a trip on the Jacobite [steam train] for Christmas which leaves from Fort William so we need to book flights/hotel etc for that. Have a good day all - be back later to report misdemeanors!!!

Morning all, it's another beautiful day where I am.

I've no plans for the weekend, I am home alone so will just be catching up with housework and I may venture out into the garden to do some sweeping up. Will definitely be walking the dog, there is a farm down the road that has an honesty box for eggs and honey. I have developed a thing for Greek yogurt with a teaspoon of honey stirred in.

As a treat for being really good I bought myself a hair hot brush which was delivered first thing. I am now sporting a big bouncy blow 🤣

Be good today everyone.

Sounds like you are both having a good weekend. No plans here yet either. My nieces might come round tomorrow but more than likely it will be next weekend instead. It's my brothers birthday then (His kids) so he will want to come round and get his cards (And cash! lol)
I ate loads again last night. Not beating myself up about it though. First blip in five weeks, and realized this is going to be a long journey, so not to freak out about it. I'll still weigh on Monday but I am sure I will have put on.
Annoyed with Amazon today too. They are usually so good. Decided last night o order a Fitbit. I have Prime so it was due to arrive today. I had my front door open all day. Get an email to say driver delivered my packages so go to look and no parcels there. (Wouldn't have been nicked as you have to come into the garden to get to the front door.) Waited for a while as I know sometimes they say delivered and they turn up 20 minutes later. Still no show so try and get in touch with Amazon. Tried live chat and got a bot. Told me I have to wait until March 22nd before they can step in! I hope it turns up tomorrow.

I've had a day out today with family. Posh lunch out and a theatre trip but quite pleased that I chose salmon and salad, a glass not a bottle of wine and no munching in the theatre. I'll be over 1200 cals but not as bad as it could have been with different choices.

Will do @73kittycat73 - I'm not expecting quick changes but hopefully things will improve over the next few weeks.

I've been out for dinner tonight and made some good choices, and nice not to feel bloated afterwards. I do feel my appetite is very strange at the moment. I don't seem to feel full, even after the kind of dinner that would normally satiate me.

Morning @73kittycat73 sorry to read that you didn't get your Fitbit yesterday. It is very hit and miss with Prime delivering on time.

You have reminded me that I have a Fitbit lurking in the kitchen drawer of doom. I might see if it's still there and charge it up.

Looks like it's going to be another sunny day here. I have plans to do some tidying up in the garden and get the garden table and chairs out.

I had a day well and truly off the wagon yesterday. Ice cream.....pizza.....chocolate. Once I start I find it hard to stop I'm very all or nothing.

Oh well, today is another day and all that! Onwards.

Morning. Well I managed to stick to plan yesterday so I'm pleased about that. I'm not expecting much at my weigh in tomorrow as I know I've had an up and down kind of a week but I do feel that I'm finally getting in the zone. Today I will be having tuna mayo salad for lunch and roast chicken and vegetables for dinner. I will swerve the stuffing. and Yorkshires and will allow myself one roast potato.
@ChiselandBits and @Leftbutcameback that's brilliant that you managed those lovely outings so well. I find it's really hard when eating with others not to let yourself go! @73kittycat73 I hope your fitbit turns up today. Have a great day all.

@ThreeRingCircus I've been off the wagon more than on it this week too. I think I might be getting there at last. I'm really going to HAVE to get my act together now as it looks as though DH is wanting to go on an unexpected week in Tenerife in May - he's retired and spends a lot of time lurking on the Jet2 website. I wasn't expecting this and obviously I'm not complaining but it's giving me a month less to get beach ready. Really need to focus and hope nobody upsets me as I'm an emotional carb binger.

I'm on Noom. I've lost half a stone so far. I need to lose another half a stone. It's going ok so far though.

@Libertybear80 do you find the lessons a bit twee? "noomilicious!" I find spending ten mins on the app and logging everything helps me stay focused through the day but the actual content is annoying and obvious if you've dieted much before.

Good going ChiselandBits. Sounds like a lovely day out.
Glad you enjoyed a night out too Leftbutcameback. Very strange about you not feeling full. Are you due on? I used to find that could make me ravenous.
Hi chanceux. Lol at the 'drawer of doom!' I had a whole flat sort out a month or two ago now. The foot stool, with storage, is becoming a bit of a 'place of doom. now' Got old TV guides in there, a DS3, glasses, a 100 day countdown to Christmas calendar...lol
Yes, we finally have some good weather coming. I hope you enjoy your time in the garden. My next job in the garden is to paint the shed.
I agree ThreeRingCircus, draw a line in it and move on. We are human beings with complex needs so bound to slip up now and then.
Hi recklessgran, well done for getting your head in the right place! I hope you manage to stay on track all month. I understand about the emotional carbs! I'm type 2 diabetic so should really be watching what I eat. I really miss some stuff (Potatoes!) but a poster in another thread recommended Eat Surreal. They sell no sugar breakfast cereal. Very pricey but I saw the cereal and read all the reviews and caved! I went for the Cocoa pack.
Good going Libertybear80, sounds like you've got this.

Can I please join? Stop started so many times this year I feel like one day at a time is the way to go. Will weigh in tomorrow but I suspect I need to lose 12lbs minimum to get back to my happy weight which I know doesn’t sound like much but it’s slowly creeping up. We have a big move in the summer so I want to be fighting fit for that.

Probably won’t calorie count except will attempt to get back to 5:2, and will go back on 16:8 for a few weeks before reducing down to 18:6. I think slow changes might be better than an all or nothing approach