DIET FAILED AGAIN? Thread three. Join us in a friendly group who are very supportive without any judgement.

[TalkToTheHand123]

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Thought I'd save you the hassle @poorpaws.

Well done for those who have lost and good luck to those struggling.

My focus at the moment is just to be wiser for food selection and to keep active. The slow moving scales can wait although I did check this morning and showing I'm nearly back to 14 and a half stone.

haha! No, cant perform to order, sadly

so after 3 days hotel living, just with work so premier inn in central london on a very strict expenses budget - so not at all glamourous or treat like. I've tried hard, walked an average of 5.5miles a day and put 1lb on this week,. Bit disappointed but supposed to be expected and will aim to be very good over weekend to try and make up for it.

@Gottoloveatakeaway that could just be salt, sure it will even out soon. I think a pound gain is a win in those circs. Love all the activity. I’m doing two long train journeys this weekend with 2 under5s. I have got so many snacks.

Morning all...I'm so pissed off with myself and my menopausal sugar hoarding body.
Had dropped from 74.4 to 72.9 kgs from 3jan.
Went to London this week,two nights out. Dinner but not bonkers 15 course effort, didn't have pudding at all...but did have multiple cocktails 🙄and today back to 73.9
I feel so fat...agghhhhhhhh
I read on here of people skipping a few days or eating a whole shortbread wheel and gaining a pound.
I have two boozy dinners and gain a while kg..or 2.2 lbs
Petulantly stamping foot
Oh well winge over I will get back on it today
Still think can drop it again by end of Jan ...but out for dinner tonight...must not drink calories...RPT....must not drink calories.

Awww @Theredjellybean don't beat yourself up... I'm menopausal too and know just how hard we fight for every bloomin ounce.

I'm taking the view now that I'm in this for the long haul and hope to( no, not hope, ... I will) lose weight on average over time. So at any point it may go up, but rolling over a month or so, it will go down. My general "oh god it's gone up so much" over Christmas has made me a bit cheesed off, so I need to just think of it that I lost over a stone last year. (Some pounds more than once).

@Zebracat thanks, maybe. I've planned a healthy greek fakeaway tonight so that will help, yet still give a weekend experience. The thing I really struggle with are weekend lunches with a DH that always suggests sandwiches. I find it so hard to resist lovely fresh bread - any thoughts on appealing alternatives? I'd be happy with a salad, but DH wouldn't and then the risk is salad + bread - even worse. I know I should have willpower to resist but.... just dont.

@Gottoloveatakeaway wraps maybe with lean ham or chicken? The small ones can't be that calorie laden surely, or pitta maybe?

I'm doing ok I think. I've kept to eating larger dinners, lots of veg, to avoid evening snacking. I still have snacks but not nearly so many. Also exercise has been ok, dog walk daily and four dvd workouts (I was too exhausted last night), so we'll see what Monday brings 😬

I hope everyone is staying positive, it's a rotten time to diet, so cold. Just keep thinking how good we'll look this summer 😁

Ah lunches. Our go to is cheeses and crackers. A year ago that would have been several rounds of crackers and a lot of cheese. Now it’s mostly celery, tomatoes and pear with 30g of cheese and 2 walnuts. Feels the same , so try a help yourself lunch with bread/ crackers.

Where are all the Monday morning weighers?

I've lost 2.5 lbs this week after a determined effort. I know it sounds good but I gained so much at the end of last year, I'm still way above what I should be. I would have done better but last night I ate A LOT of Domino's pizza, chicken strippers, wedges etc for my DDs birthday treat. I don't regret it though, it was a lovely evening at home with the family and I refrained from the alcohol.

I hope everyone is keeping away from here because they are too busy rather than they don't want to step on the scales.

My scales aren't moving @poorpaws , although I've stuffed my face quite a lot on party food and will be likely to do a bit more when everyone is gone 😯.

I've done 2 nights simulated running and hoping to keep at it. Doing a few desperate tummy tenses now 😂

98.5 today, after a weekend away. I think ,again, it will be better tomorrow. I don’t even really mind because I know on the whole , I made good choices.

Thanks @Zebracat cheese n crackers with healthy padding sounds a good move. Will also get back into making soup.

Lunches definitely my hardest meal

16 at 4.5 here. I don't know what's going on!

I think there's external factors at play here because I don't think I'm being that good.

I started back at work 2 weeks ago, plusI've had sick children last week so haven't really slept much or had time to snack, plus I just got my period back after breastfeeding for 12 months. but after struggling to shift anything all year suddenly it's dropping off!

I'm not complaining it's just odd! My target for next week was 16.6 and I've already smashed it. If I'm not under 16 by the end of feb something will have gone terribly wrong.

I even moved my scales in case something under them was making my weight lighter 😂😂.

My week has been cheerios for breakfast, soup or scrambled eggs on toast for lunch, relatively normal dinner (eg 1/2 an over pizza, very small portion of fish&chips, spag Bol etc etc) plus apples, oranges and a bag of skips (71cals) and a mini dairy milk (130 cals)

@poorpaws definitely a too busy to Mumsnet in the morning trying to get out of the house, not avoiding the scales!

@poorpaws ... I'm avoiding weighing until end of Jan as I feel it will be demoralising... I know I feel heavier... so am going to double my efforts and just leave weighing for a bit, for my mental health.

Everyone is doing well, which helps provide a bit of motivation and positive vibes!

I had a very wierd week but finished at 73.5..
I'm still trying for 72 by end of Jan , which is unlikely but I'm not giving up...
Well done everyone else... especially @poorpaws ..I think that is a great loss

I've restarted to only weigh when I think I've lost some lbs as it was getting a bit extra demotivating.

I've done quite a bit of exercise tonight (for me anyways) to try undo as much of the party food binge today. I did manage to avoid the cake though. Even though I don't actually like cake, I used to indulge for some reason...until now, so a little victory 😊

I'm so pleased that no one is giving up even if struggling. I so regret the overindulgence at the end of last year. At the time it seemed worth it but not so much now.

I had a good day yesterday and seemed busy all day and evening. Supermarket shop, dog walk and exercise DVD provided lots of steps and I also visited sis in law who has had a hip replacement. She's doing so well and with her weight too. She's always been quite a bit bigger than me and is now only a little bit bigger so I have to up my game.😁

I'm still feeling positive even after a bad start to January which will have stopped me meeting my mini goal but I'll get as close to that goal as I am able so it wont be such a fail.

I hope everyone finds their mojo this week. I'm sending willpower free of charge so please use it.

Sitting next to a busy air fryer and a huge chocolate cake at the moment. The joys.

I have my soup and a banana with me though 😔😂

@TalkToTheHand123 did your willpower work yesterday? It's so difficult when others seem to have lovely meals and we just have soup (albeit nice soup), I have this with DP all the time.

I've managed a lot of steps today, mainly because my doctor wanted to know my blood pressure so we walked there before the dog walk. I used the machine in the surgery which I've never seen before. Apparently I am now 5ft 3ins when I've been 5ft 4 all my adult life. This means I have to lose even more weight to get a healthy BMI 😕 and I weighed more on their machine but satisfied myself this was because I was wearing a lot of clothes including heavy jeans and I had eaten breakfast.

I hope you are all ok and doing well, only a week to Januarys mini goal, which it looks like I will most likely fail.

I hit my soup limit today. I actually can't force down another bowl of soup. I want food. With flavour that isn't vaguely tomato based.

I definitely won't hit my mini goal.
But I keep reminding myself that it will come off..albeit slower than it went on.
I'm going to start weights workout tomorrow and increasing running a bit...physio gave go ahead...so hoping not so much for weight loss but more to halt my torso and boobs becoming one flabby blob

@poorpaws I'm quite used to it now. I just try remind myself I'm avoiding the bloating from not participating. I've started taking a couple of bananas and oranges and a couple of chicken wraps with me now as I'm struggling a bit with just soup.

@effiesgoldwig I know the feeling of not wanting another spoonful of soup ever! The feeling should return quite quickly though.

Been to gym and with too many late nights I'm zonked, so I'm off for an early night.

@poorpaws. I wear a cotton dress to the GPwhen I weigh. And my smallest knickers! And I eat afterwards.

Haha @Zebracat , I no longer own any small knickers... but I gradually moved my annual heart checkup to the end of May (was February!!!) so that I could wear lightweight summer clothing! (Only kidding myself really, but the mental part helps!)