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

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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.

@Newyearnewarse everyone on here will tell you how much I love my soup maker, I've been singing its praises all winter. It's a Morphy Richards and I managed to get it half price (limited offer ended many months ago I'm afraid).

I should add that I have soup every lunchtime during late autumn/winter/early spring and I don't really like canned soup so for me it is well worth it.

I used to make soup in a large saucepan on the hob and blend with a stick blender but the soup maker is much easier and the soup is creamier/smoother.

I also like quite bland boring food so don't experiment with soup flavours (I should). I stick to parsnip, carrot and parsnip, and mushroom.

I'm sure not everyone would use it as much as I do so it's really about how much you/your family would use it. I'd hate to advise you to buy one and then you wouldn't use it, but mine is brilliant for me. HTH

Don't worry about me blaming you for my spending money on shite , I can do that all by myself 😁

I have toyed with getting one in the past , bit of a daft time to buy one probably but it just might be the thing that makes me lose 4 stone so .......... off to search on Amazon.

@Newyearnewarse I also thought about buying one for a long time and wondered if it would end up in the back of a cupboard. I thought what a gimmick when I have a saucepan and blender.

I won't use mine in summer as I have salad for lunch then. Soup for me is a real cold weather food. Perhaps wait until autumn and decide then?

I like the Covent Garden soups but they are expensive compared to making your own. - do you find your soup maker quick & easy @poorpaws compared to a saucepan? We bought a popcorn maker a while ago, that is around somewhere, ignored & unused!

On holiday in Spain lady year @Newyearnewarse I had Gazpacho (I think that's what it was called - cold soup - I didn't enjoy it but maybe worth a try for summer soup.

I remember when I successfully lost weight a few years ago, I would often start with a soup, then salad.

I love the sound of a soup maker. I am a fan of soup!

I had broccoli and cheddar soup for dinner yesterday in fact.

Not a terrible day yesterday, but far from perfect. I think I'm in this for the long haul realistically as I need to lose three stone to be a healthy BMI. But I'll take anything tbh!

I've booked a yoga and a Pilates class each week for the next two weeks. My thoughts are that if my posture and muscle mass improves I will feel better while also trying to lose weight. So I'm going to prioritise exercise as well. I look so much better when I'm fitter even when I'm fat!

@LightandAiry I find the soup maker easier because I can make the parsnip chunks bigger and it takes 21 minutes for either smooth or chunky soup (I always make smooth). As I said before it is much smoother than with a saucepan and I wouldn't like to go back to that.

I don't think I'll be using it much longer now until autumn and yes it's so much cheaper. Parsnip, carrots, onions, two stock cubes, sweet chilli, salt and pepper, water.

@LightandAiry oops came back to say I usually add cooked broccoli when the soup is ready to add more substance and sometimes thin strips of chicken breast.

I've been using my soup maker daily for a few months now and will continue in the summer. I often drink it cold after being in the fridge. The knowledge of the benefits make it more palatable ☺️

As I often forget to drink a lot of water so the water content from the soup keeps me more hydrated than I would be.

It's a lot less of a faff on I find than using a saucepan and blender. The only issue is if I use frozen veg is sometimes sticks together so have to break it up with a knife or spoon to put the lid blender on.

@TalkToTheHand123 cold soup - why not, but something stops me seems funny, but our friend in Spain lives Gazpacho, very refreshing.

@poorpaws you are selling the idea of a soup maker pretty well, I'm also off to look on Amazon for one. Also Simple shower gel for my DM - random!

@RobertaTheRotund I composed a post chatting to you yesterday but for some strange reason it disappeared 🤔 I was the same weight 14 stone 7 Nov 22 but lost 1 and half stone. My knees and blood sugar level thanked me for it but now I don't want to go backwards and want to lose another stone, as I have gained some of it back. I went to Slimming World but I find myself not committed to the plan now. I am making a consistent effort to not overeat (since the Easter chocolate!). Also cutting down. I do yoga once per week and I am looking to practise twice per week, and I like walking/hiking. What you said about eating the fridge after work I understand, it's something I am prone to do after one of my long days. What do you take for lunch?

@poorpaws yes brocolli in soup. I love Stilton & Brocolli! I am a cheese fiend anyway 😁

@LightandAiry I've said this before on here but I just couldn't get on with Slimming World at all. Each time I went I actually gained weight and stopped going pretty quickly. I do read a lot on Mumsnet about how it does works but definitely not for me.

I lost on Weightwatchers a long time ago and found that plan doable. It's hard to remember but I lost something like 2-3 stones and felt amazing and was probably too thin (and said I would never put it back on 😕).

My favourite was Rosemary Conley classes but they are no more. I enjoyed the class exercising and lost weight (several times ☺️).

As you can see, I've been losing and gaining the same weight for many years but for most of my adult life I was slim (and very careful about my weight) until now!

Sorry if TMI but ive had a really upset tummy last night and this morning. I feel ok and very hungry but darent eat anything 🙈

Not sure what to do diet wise today as I don't want to eat anything which will upset if further!

Thinking maybe just some peas it butter on toast at dinner time? Hmmm not sure!

Not peas butter 😅 peanut butter*!!

Oh no get well soon @midnightblue12

@poorpaws Slimming World has been good but I just can't seem to commit now. You're right it's not for everyone & waste of money for me now, but I miss friendly people at the group I attended....but I have all of you now!. I did WW too some time ago, I used to like earning exercise points. I didn't keep the weight off.

The Gillian Riley book is really helping.

@LightandAiry aww thank you! I feel ok I'm just very aware of how sensitive my tummy can be after being upset 🙈 so going to try and have a bland day 😬

@midnightblue12 . I also have a very upset tummy and flu. I feel absolutely awful. At times like this all I ever want is tea and toast or digestives. So grim. It’s a gorgeous day here and I have seedlings to pot on but I can’t get out of bed.

Hello Everyone.

I hope you are all well. Can I please rejoin this thread? I was on here in the summer of 2021 and found the chat really supportive and I really enjoyed it. I also notice that life, unhealthy eating whilst working from home and wine of an evening have wreaked havoc and caught up with me.

I weighed myself then (July 2021) and I was a very happy 65.8kg (10 stone 3 lbs) and I was hoping to get back to 60kg (9 stone 4 lbs) although this might have been a tad optimistic. I had a baby in July 2020 and was back to my pre pregnancy weight so all good. Well fast forward almost two years and I weighed myself a couple of weeks ago. Obviously I knew my weight had gone up and clothes were quite snug but it was a shock to find the scales reading 84.3kg (13 stone 2 lbs). I have never been this heavy in the history of the universe!!! It was a surprise.

I have looked at photos of me from the summer of 2021 and I look healthy. The photos of me now are definitely a wake up call. Anyway I started to try out intermittent fasting last week as not tried this before and quite like the concept. Don't plan on weighing myself until the end of April as don't want to fixate on it but hoping to be spurred on by you all and to keep motivated as I need to become healthier and look after myself more. In fact just writing down all those weights and stating my intentions in writing has helped to focus the mind. Thank you for listening!

@VonWeasel hi and welcome back. I am still here, still struggling but still (after all this time and many failures) not giving up 😁

I hope you enjoy being back with us, we have a lot of new faces since you left but all caring and non-judgemental. Lovely to hear from you after all this time.

Been to the shop again as I don't think I got enough last night 🤭. Avoided the naughty frozen food which lets me down so hopefully once the current freezer stock is used up, I can make better inroads.

Colleague who started SW a couple of months seems to be struggling now and slipping back into old habits. I don't know anyone who's had a success and kept to it.🤔

I love that this thread is so busy but I forget who to reply to and who asked what! Welcome to anyone new and returning @VonWeasel.

Soup: I am crap at making soup. I either get no flavour, or too stocky, or weird texture or….. anything else. I’m a good cook usually but I cannot for the life of me make soup, even with a soup maker. Actually I tell a lie, I made a broccoli and Stilton in my slow cooker- broccoli, stock, water, whole block of Stilton- it was bloody lovely but my house smelled of feet for a week. I stick to Covent Garden or Asda own fresh pots now.

SW- I have done it, but I found it very slow weight loss. My appetite is just too big for any kind of ‘unlimited’ eating. I can see how it could work, but you’d need discipline.

I’ve had a crap day, I’m exhausted, I ended up in a massive binge on chocolate biscuits. Annoying because my food was excellent and I was going to come in on target. I’ve just listened to my stop binge eating hypno in the bath, and drunk a load of water. Planned my food for tomorrow. My period arrived today, 6 days early and in full force so that could explain my food behaviour for the last week as I never put it down to hormones as I’m not due on for another week 🤷‍♀️

I wrote a big post replying to @LightandAiry and chatting to other people and it all went to hell when I tried tagging someone 😂

Anyway, hello light! I did my yoga class this evening and I feel better for it but so tired. I'm so tired anyway, but that's just life ATM! Do you have a particular type of yoga you like? I'm doing the easier going ones ATM. My weight and lack of fitness is against me in the more dynamic classes.

@VonWeasel, like you I lost all my baby weight after having my youngest who is now five. I was actually pretty smug about that 😂. Now I'm ginormous though 😬. It's hard when they're little and I'm really wary of doing any mad diets in front of my DCs.

I've never really got on with SW. I tried a couple of times but just couldn't get into it. I did WW a few times too and found that a bit easier to follow and I did lose weight, but there is quite a lot of counting involved or else quite limited food choices. I also don't know anyone who has had long-term success with either.

I had an ok day today. Ate fruit instead of raiding the biscuit cupboard after work, but dinner wasn't particularly low calorie. It was all homemade from scratch and lots of veggies

I joined this thread a few weeks back and did absolutely nothing. But I’ve jumped on the wagon and feeling good. I’ve massively increased exercise from 2k steps a day to 10k steps, the weather has been helping to get the steps in. I’ve been doing tennis with the kids at the leisure centre and it doesn’t feel like exercise, at least until the next day when I’m achy.
Food wise progress has been slower but I’m on it. Went to an Italian today and declined offer to share a garlic bread and ordered a salmon salad, it was really good to be fair, there were chick peas and pine nuts and cous cous and pomegranate seeds in the mix and a nice hot piece of salmon on top. So easy to make at home yet I don’t, I open a bag on dry salad and wonder why I don’t fancy it.

Good morning everyone, it's very nice to see it so busy here.

@Cocopogo welcome back, I hope you stick with us this time and see good results.

Yesterday was the day of two halves. I did a long dog walk and then walked into town (about a mile) and ended up doing 20,600 steps. The problem is we walked into town for our favourite ice cream.🙈
The difficulty in living in a tourist area is all the ice cream parlours and cafés.

I was totally exhausted in the evening and just ate crap as you do. I'd bought loads of salad and intended making a large chicken salad but was too tired to do anything so just ate rubbish and this morning I can tell, I'm very sluggish.

It's miserable weather here today, so I intend to do a dog walk and then very little else.

I hope everyone is doing okay and trying their best.

Hello @poorpaws and everyone else.

Thank you for the welcome back. I did scroll through some of the earlier posts and there were a few names I remembered @Bjarnum @ClaraTheImpossibleGirl - I hope you are doing ok too?

@poorpaws it sounds like you had a lovely day walking yesterday and I don't blame you for stopping for an ice cream either. It's so tempting. I went to my favourite community space the other day where the cakes are too good, but sadly turned down the lemon drizzle as there was nobody to share it with and I would have hoovered it up otherwise!!

You have definitely highlighted how being organised and prepping helps to stay focused. Be that through making soup or meal planning. I did try a meal planner for a couple of weeks as it's such a good idea but the burden seemed to just fall on me to generate the ideas so it has now been blank for a fortnight. No ideal. I should do something about this.

And @RobertaTheRotund I hear you! So annoyed at myself for letting the call of the chocolate consume me. I think with all the walking in lockdown, lack of alcohol due to breast feeding, then breast feeding itself, I went from being quite active and burning a lot of calories to being quite sedentary. It's so annoying. I am going to try and organise myself better to do a walk or bit of exercise on my working from home days. Otherwise I am pretty good at walking places when I have the opportunity. But then walking clearly hasn't offset all the chocolate I was eating. Oh dear.

Anyway a big hello to anyone else from 2021 and also another big hello to anyone new. It's nice to have a virtual and supportive group to share these thoughts with. It also makes me feel slightly accountable which is a good thing. I think last time I got to a place where I was reasonably happy, stopped checking in with you all and then progressively put on weight. Disaster!

Wishing you all the best.

@VonWeasel Both @Bjarnum and @ClaraTheImpossibleGirl have left the thread and come back again, only to disappear yet again. Both were very valued "members" (as were you) and I'd love them to come back to stay.

Shorter dog walk today because I feel shattered, made mushroom soup and that's about it.

Out for the day on the Moors tomorrow so a fair bit of walking but a lot of sitting. 😁