Fuck I'm so lardy, I've hit peak fatness and need to sort it out.

[HairyKnobsAndBroomsticks]

It would appear that all I do is stuff my face with crap, lots of crap.

I'm going to try and sort myself out, starting tomorrow.

I'm scared, I'm useless at dieting but it's getting serious. I'm so unhappy, I caught sight of myself in the window walking past Costa coffee today. It was grim.

Anyone want to join me?

Weigh day tomorrow.

Well done @WalkingOnSonshine

On a positive note, muller lights have improved a lot since my last go round.

The chocolate orange/ salted caramel /vanilla pack is absolutely delicious. I have to fight my family for them.

Wondering how everyone is tracking their weight, and what's helpful for accountability and motivation?

I use an app which logs and smooths and graphs and visualises in a variety of ways which you can customise to focus on what is helpful to you. I also have a simple, slightly denialist strategy - I don't log a weight unless it's gone down!

The app counts down in nice round numerical increments. So alongside the app I have a list of qualitative milestones, which I find more meaningful to aim for.

Some health related: crossing BMI thresholds; losing 10%, 20% of body weight.
Some numerical: reaching 80's, 70's, 60's (kilos); or the halfway point.
Some more abstract: when x size clothes will fit; when y activity is possible.
Some are for easy communication: 1/2, 1, 2, 3 stone lost, 1 stone to go.

I work out a kg conversion for each, order them, and end up with a list of mini milestones. Some are close together, some with bigger gaps, but the next is never more than a couple of kilos away, and I transfer that to the app as a meaningful mini goal. The app says my next round milestone is 78 kg, but it is also tracking when I might reach 78.3 kg which is ½ stone lost.

Tl;dr: I find more qualitative goals really helpful.
I apologise for boring you all to death!

Which app is that, @Stravaig?

@stravaig that's interesting not boring!
I'm only using this thread atm for motivation , and its been great so far, but have downloaded nutracheck app as recommended by pp.
It is informative but have only used it to log for calories so far and just for a couple of days as its harder to do calories if you cook something from scratch.
But still helpful for ball park figure.
I am trying the basic ( not enough headspace for anything else!) Limiting eating to a 8 hour window of eating and cutting down on portion size, healthier options, limiting snacks.
I will measure my waist, hips, bust to see if I lose cms and weigh myself which I will try and stick to once a week.
What app do you use?

I'm using MyFitnessPal and find the same with homecooked meals being hard to track, I can at least zap barcodes of things I eat to add on the calories. It's not perfect, but it's linked to my fitbit too so that helps me keep on track.
I'm still fasting, I used to use a fasting app but that drove me mad with random alerts etc., so I deleted it!
This morning I didn't want to step on the scales, but I knew that's where I start to give up if I did that so I hopped on and all ok. I did a food shop and meal plan yesterday, now to stick to it!

@Stravaig Mini goals are definitely the way forward. I also try to think about how I feel and look rather than just the scales. My mum-tum is considerably reduced. I feel like the entire 3lbs has come off there. Now just need to work on that shelf on my hips. My current goal is 70kg as then I can start running again without grinding my knee joints to dust but I'm high-fiving myself for every 500g.

I also don't really track food and weight- just keep it in my head. Otherwise I can become a bit obsessive and if it goes up I stop tracking as I don't want to "fail". . I tried using MFP but was too hard and time consuming with home cooking- also found it quite US centric. I'm not following a defined plan but have a few things I try to stick to that generally work- sharing below in case useful.

• I don't buy snack foods as then I am 90% less likely to eat them as would need to drive to the shops to get some. The kids moan but tough. If they want to eat crap they can go and see their GP who indulge their every sugar request. They get a proper pudding at school every day so it's not like they're totally deprived.
• No alcohol - this is a big one for me and probably saves me at least 1500 calories a week. Got a soda stream so lots of fizzy water. Also love miso and ramen soup - the Itsu chicken ramen in a carton is delicious and pretty filling.
• Generally don't have a meal before midday but I don't technically fast as I'll usually have a milky coffee (or two) in the morning. I eat my main meal at lunchtime and make it pretty big/ filling.
• Eat light evening meal with the kids around 6;30/7 (they have main meal at school) and then "close the kitchen". Obviously it's not locked but I find it mentally puts a distance between me and the fridge if I've completely cleaned up and put the dishwasher on.

Basically I put on weight with wine and snacks so hoping that scrapping them will suffice. Let's see. Going away for half term but have cyber-researched the hotel buffet and looks like lots of salads and grilled fish/ meat so hopefully wont be a total reset.

@LadyHester Happy Scale (iOS)

Well done on weight loss WalkingonSonshine.
I snacked too much again yesterday, am in the office today with health meals so less opportunity to overeat.
Some really good tips from Stravaig and illiterato.
I was shocked to discover that my BMI is 29 so my first goal is to get that down to 28.

I'm using Happy Scale too on ios

I don't use apps for food tracking, I don't have the time or patience but I can definitely see how it would be really helpful for some.

For me, I don't really have any issues around savoury food, I rarely overeat proper food. Sweet things on the other hand, I know no limits. I can just eat and eat and unfortunately never feel sick from over indulging. It's mainly chocolate, tons of chocolate.

I pretty much eat what ever I fancy with savoury food as it offers me no comfort and will often leave food on my plate.

I've completely stopped eating anything sweet basically.

18hr fast done, lunch eaten
No exercise today as I haven't slept for 2 nights and am in desperate need of sleep!

@PeloFondo how come you've not slept. I find functioning so hard with no sleep.

No idea! Just had two nights where I lie there wide awake for no reason

I hope you manage to get some sleep tonight @PeloFondo. This happens to me sometimes for no reason.

Full moon!

That's a thought, it's a Hunter's moon at the moment and it's much brighter than usual. It was on our local news! 🌙

Must try Happy Scale. I do find inputting home cooked food a bore - which is most of what I eat.
My nemesis consists of
wine
travelling when I’m not organised enough to take my own food
finding a pack of biscuits in the cupboard and eating the whole thing
eating in restaurants and devouring the entire bread basket with butter
and menopause.

@Runnerduck34 You've reminded me - last time I put on weight was about 10 years ago, after bereavement, and I created a table with columns for kg, body fat, bust/waist/hip, waist:hip ratio, BMI. I loved watching those go down! Back then I didn't even know what my healthy weight or measurements were, I'd just taken them for granted. So i paid attention as I returned to my normal.

Now I have more idea what my BMI and body measurements will be at different milestones, so less novelty therefore less attention therefore less motivating. Sometimes I think the psychology of it is half the battle!

This time it's chronic illness, and once I've removed the excess sugar I'm having two meals plus a strip of chocolate over eight hours - so also intermittent fasting, by accident. It seems very effective.

Feeling quite nostalgic 🤣

@illiterato That's a really good reminder about paying attention to how we feel and look so's not to be obsessed by the scales. Last time around I followed Whole 30 for a bit, which is a really natural way of eating for me. They say no weighing at all for 30 days! Just focus on the changes in health and wellbeing, clarity of mind, emotional state, energy levels, flexibility, strength, and so on. It's a complete reset, not (just) about weight loss. A healthy outlook I think (even as I forget :).

Good idea @Stravaig to do the start measurements and enjoy seeing the numbers go down. If you don't see it on the scales you may well see it on the measuring tape. Now I need to find that measuring tape!

I'm using WW points to track food. It works for me. When I use it. I joined last weekend. I try to stick to the same breakfast and lunch and I meal plan with it. I track before I eat to see the damage.

Well and truly peed off this morning! Appears I haven't lost any weight after all!!
GP weighed me 2 weeks ago as 81kg
After over a week of only eating in an 8 hour window and limiting calories to less than 1500 a day , I weighed myself on my ancient diall scales and appeared you have lost between 1-2 kg.
Ordered some new whizzy scales and weighed myself this morning and I'm 81.5 kg!! So 0.5 kg higher than at GPs after over a week of dieting !
Very depressing. I suppose weighing on 3 different sets of scales may not help but it is depressing not to have lost anything after trying so hard and being hungry and grumpy and headachy for a lot of the time, and all for nowt!
Will keep on keeping on and hope for the best.

Thanks for recommending the Happy Scale app, had a look and think it'll be a good motivator :)

I don't track my weight per se. When I last lost weight this was purely by cutting carbs in half but also fast walking (so you're a bit out of breath for approx 10-15 minutes a day and a lot of walking around the office and then to get a bus home in the evening. Boring lunches of soup and bread (no spread), with fruit and/or yogurt.

I noticed I quite quickly lost weight but didn't really weigh myself. I didn't deprive myself of office treats though, had some but not all. E.g. treat sized mini sausage rolls etc.