1st January start, anyone up for it?

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I can't put it off much longer, I am getting very large and uncomfortable. My eating has become very out of control.

I need to shift around 4 stone, not sure exactly as I am to scared to get on the scales.

Anyone want to join me for a big new start and weigh in on Sunday 1st January?

Morning folks. I'm another one whose weight today outstrips previous pregnant weights. I am 13st 12. This gives a BMI of 28.7. A 2st loss would give a healthy BMI, although I look and feel better at around 11st.

Perhaps more importantly to me, I have gained weight quite quickly, and have little in my wardrobe that fits well and makes me feel good. I hope even losing 1st will help me fit back into my stuff!

I'd love to join. I'm hypothyroid and massively struggle. I was a normal weight all my life until this happened and am how 2 stone heavier than normal and overweight. Not to mention miserable! I can't skip meals or starve as I get terrible headaches if I do. I'm also doing 50 days sober from today! Need to change my life as everything has slipped down to simply surviving. My self care is terrible and I even hate my job. 2023 has to be my year!!

Weighed this morning
Current weight 15st 8lbs.
1st Goal weight is 13 stone.

My Starting weight was 17st 3lbs so this was my journey to lose 4 stone.

Already planning my day for lunches/ dinner etc so I can input it all into MFP. Going to try and not snack, snacking is my downfall and I already have a large bag of flaming hot cheetos staring at me from the cupboard and loads of christmas chocolate left. My plan is to go chocolate free for January at least 😋
Anyway good luck to me and everyone.

I have weighed this morning and ready to get going. Realistically this is a couple of years plan as I have half my body weight to lose 😅 but I put it on so I can get it off again.
Im not entirely sure what I’m going to do that I can stick to but in the past I have found the 16:8 easiest so going to give that a go. Plus walk daily (I love walking anyway) drink water (I like water and only ever used to drink it before started drinking Pepsi) and write down everything I eat. I will weigh daily as I prefer to do that. But will only record weekly.
im not sure whether to set a mini target or not. The weight I am I reckon I can be a stone down by the end of Jan as it will come off quickly to start with. It’s sticking with it that’s the issue so I’m going to try and get addicted to this page for motivation.

good luck everyone!

So I have no scales as they broke but I'm thinking of going to slimming world. I lost a lot of weight on it in 2013/2014 but then it crept back on. I'm just not sure whether it will work this time.

Weigh in 1 - 12 stone 3
Aim - 10 stone
To lose - 2 stone 3 pounds
Going to calorie count using nutracheck.
Good luck everyone and thank you OP for starting the thread.

Goodness, weighed myself this morning and I was 13 stone 6.4lb, I'm only 5ft 4 (or 3 even) and that's more than I weighed when I had pre eclampsia when I was pregnant!!
I'm thinking if I can average just 1 lb weight loss per week that will be nearly 4 stone gone by the end of the year, I need to change my lifestyle so accept it will take time!
Starting on 4th but I have joined a gym and I'm also going to join SW online as that has worked for me in the past!
Good luck everyone, going to dust my pinch of nom books off and do a healthy onljne order now!

Weigh in - 15 stone.
First goal is 13st 7lb as that would be 10% of my body weight.
I'm planning to do 16:8 but won't start that until I'm back to work on Tuesday, so just trying to stick to 3 meals today.
I did a very short workout this morning, aim to do at least something daily.

Good morning all, first weigh in of the new year :-)

Exactly 70 kilos! (height 156cm) and BMI is 28.8
My goal - to get in to the 'normal' weight band and have a bmi of 24 if I can manage that. I need to lose 11 kilos to get to a BMI of 24.2

I'm using myfitnesspal to track calories and I'm making as low carb choices as I can but not aiming for keto at all! Keto broke my heart. I lost so much weight doing keto and then had a big slice of cake one day and I felt like a addict falling off the wagon. so, no keto.

Can I start tomorrow? And lose about 4 stone. Preferably by Easter.

Oh, good motivation! I used to work in a place that had a uniform and I wouldn't wear the standard issue grey slacks, I had a pair that were from Tommy Hilfiger and the zipped up the side. They reluctantly allowed it on the grounds that they had to admit they looked better!

Is it annoying if I do things in metric? I'm not in the UK and I couldn't figure out how to switch my digital scales to imperial. Not 100% sure I can.

@KathyBurke that was the shock I needed too. I have always thought of myself as normal weighted so to see the BMI calculator tell me i was 29 point something (I've got it down to 28.8 already) but to be thiiiiiiiiis close to ''obese'' it was a rocket under me. I hope that rocket keeps me going.

@Daisychops yeh, I remember feeling depressed about my weight when my son was 3eeks old and I was still 10 stone./63 kilos. I was being very hard on myself I now think. It will take me weeks of hard work to get to the weight that 'shamed' me when I was 35

I'm in I have about 5st too loose. I hate to look at myself in the mirror and hate the way I'm treated because I'm overweight.

I think I will do calorie counting. I definitely need to up my fruit and veg and cut out the junk.

I already exercise frequently and will increase my steps on non gym days.

I'm off on holiday in July and don't want to be like this.

First goal 1/2 a stone, then 1st then 10%.

We can do this!!

@Doesitmatteranyway we are the same weight can I ask how tall you are?

I'm in :) 335.2lbs this morning, wtf but I don't care. I've beaten myself up enough over the years and did it make me thin? Did it bollocks. So here's to an alcohol free, take-away free year that doesn't feel like a fucking punishment! Instead of my go-to lazy weekend breakfast of Costa caramel latte, muffin, McDonalds breakfast (around 1200 calories), I'm having a lovely home-made flat white, home-made McDonald's fake sausage muffin and an Aldi high protein chocolate (half portion) at a total of 600 calories. I'm going into the new year taking even less bullshit than ever. I've blocked my deranged brother on all forms of communication (much to the angst of the rest of the family - oh dear how sad never mind) and am putting my foot down that I am not picking up "odd jobs if you get a minute," because guess what? I deserve a day off too! Good luck all x

Hello to the new joiners, I wish you luck. We can all do this if we stick to it.

Even if we lose 1lb a week that will make us all one stone lighter by Easter which is exactly 14 weeks away.

@JoyPeaceSleep yes I've never been in the obese category, it's always been over weight which I knew by looking at myself. Obese is a whole new level and it has really shocked me.

Can i join? 2 stone to lose, but I’m not starting till tomorrow because I still have food leftover from Christmas/ NYE to eat today!

Right, just weighed myself. I'm 12 stone and 2 lbs. I need to drop 2 x stones. Diet starts today.

Even if we lose 1lb a week that will make us all one stone lighter by Easter which is exactly 14 weeks away.

God goal.

Yes please. I ideally want to lose 3 stone by the end of the year. I'm going on holiday at the end of March so would love to lose one stone by then. Menopause and lots of sedentary working from home has meant my weight has crept up and is hard to shift.

Always find the first couple of days of a new regime the hardest... attuning my body to the lack of chocolate!

@anonexhausted I'm glad you shared that. I don't want to get too heavy on this thread, so skim past this if your family of origin is supportive! but dysfunctional family dynamics have been dragging me down so much over the last few years. In May 2020 I told my mother she was hurting me by repeatedly glossing over the past so dismissively. It has never been addressed and to her it's a grudge. i Just asked that it stop now iin the present! I wasn't trying to hold her accountable for the past. Even so, she martyred up, she was hurt, She was the victim, my Dad came over to reprimand me for ''hurting mum''. I wouldn't back down. So I was written out of the family. I got the silent treatment. My Dad enables her defensiveness and my brother is the apologist.

He gets it, cognitively, but still feels anger towards me for not just buckling under. , I've asked him ''how come mum's pain is real and I ought do x,y,or z to avoid causing her more pain (ie, apologise to her) but my pain spanning decades of having been the family scapegoat is a ''grudge'??'' and he has no answer but he feels angry with me for not just accepting their perspective as reality. I stood solidly in my own interpretation of events, that they hurt me. That they turned it all around and attacked me and shamed me, smeared me to all the relatives and family friends and generally just wrote me out of the play. I entered stage left and they have accepted that. Every single time I have tried to talk to them I got called another name. Insane. Detached from reality. Entitled. Looking like a dog's dinner!!! Yes, really. I was begging them to listen to how I felt and they insulted my appearance! so I know worse things have happened to people at a much younger age and really I am strong enough to look after myself now, but it was in the backdrop of all of this upset that I put on so much weight.

Losing it will also signify healing from being the scapegoat. I'll still be the scapegoat but I'll be an emotionally and physically healthy scapegoat.

Can I join too? After 3 babies in the last 4.5 years I've put on a lot of weight. Last year I shifted 7.5kg.

I was at my happiest at 58-62kg but realistically if I get to about 66kg that would be amazing!

1st January 74.2kg