DIET FAILED AGAIN thread 5. Everyone is welcome to join our very supportive and friendly group without any judgement.

[poorpaws]

Thread 5, everyone welcome!

And I really really want a Christmas village now.

@Zebracat as soon as I saw @thenewaveragebear1983 village I thought I really really want one of those it's so gorgeous. Now I'm craving ice cream and it's only 8am 😁

And I want Maggie too!

@poorpaws the village is my husband’s pride and joy, every year he chooses himself an extra piece. I pretend to despise it and mock him heavily but to be fair it’s pretty cute.
Maggie is also very cute, but getting big and is bloody hard work. 😓 you’re welcome to her!

I think I would love a man with a Christmas village. I did find myself buying a few wooden houses with my husband actually harrumphing in the corner. We are supposed to be decluttering though. Maggie is incredibly sweet but I have made a vow to never have more than 2 dogs again. They are hard work. But mostly worth it.

@thenewaveragebear1983 thats fantastic, you are doing so well! @poorpaws my DH is a really cheerful lovely man too, lucky us.

I need to declutter before I can decorate! Bit shameful I know. Plan is declutter early next week. Decorate on Friday.

I have finished week 1 of C25K and am thrilled with myself. Weight wise I was 11st 7 lbs in June, 10st 1 lb on 1st October and back up to 10 st 8 lbs today.

Recommitting to diet today. Doesn’t matter it’s December as I am really unsocial (literally zero planned) and I like winter weather. Todays food is coffee for breakfast and lunch, 300 gram steak and salad for dinner. My biggest problem is I am drinking far too much wine at night.

Well done everyone on losses and decorations...and Maggie the honorary diet group dog is such a sweetie.
I'm Bach from NYC ..it was ok, I didn't go mad and did lots of walking but not done a run for a week now.
I generally ate more than I usually do but didn't go mad.
Had no "extras" like sweets or cake or snacks.
So I will weigh in today and see...

I also had a pleasant clothing surprise..bought new trousers from Seasalt...Im going to have to swap them as size 12 is too big.
The size 12 shirt and tank top I also bought fit easily....very chuffed

@Theredjellybean yayy on the NSV clothes, it feels fantastic to go down a size. I bet you look amazing now, size 10 trousers that's soooo slim. Well done and in the New Year you will be able to just maintain for the whole year, watching the wagon roll with me falling off at frequent intervals 😬

@poorpaws ...we are both members of the on/off the wagon club...

I am pleased though I have stayed same weight ...and I felt better for not eating stupid amounts or drinking stupid amounts..my jetlag is minimal and generally feel good.

Urgh I feel dreadful this morning, we had family round yesterday afternoon/evening and I drank too much and ate too much rich food. Didn’t go to bed until 1 and now I’m up with the pup at 6.30 silently swearing to myself that In 2024 I will stop drinking! It’s always my new year resolution and I do dry January most years. But I’m definitely noticing this year that alcohol really makes me feel awful, maybe it’s my health declining with age overall? I didn’t even drink that much, I had maybe 6 glasses of wine over about 10 hours (so yeah a fair bit but I wasn’t drunk at any point really) but it makes my already limited sleep really poor quality and I just feel yuck.

@thenewaveragebear1983 .my sympathy. I feel like that now...cannot do more than one drink or feel yuck the next morning.
I agree I think it just wrecks sleep quality.
My suggestion if you can is go for a run...it usually helps me but if it's a real doozer of a hangover the only cure is a red ambulance: 2 paracetamol, a full sugar coke and a maccies breakfast...not really in the spirit of diet !!!

@Theredjellybean thanks for the sympathy, I went back to bed for an hour and a half and I don’t feel quite so delicate now I have woken up. A run is definitely a good idea, I know I will feel better if I run.

I really do want to stop drinking. Anyone else quitting for a bit after Christmas? If nothing else, it’s the one thing that affects my sleep and it’s the biggest calorie consumption item in my week. I’ve used all my syns (and more) this weekend for the whole week just on alcohol and a dessert last night. I’d love to get to a position where it was just an occasional celebration treat, but currently dh and I drink every weekend on Friday and Saturday (and sometimes Thursday/and or Sunday) and it just feels like too much for me. I’m tired of it. I’m dreading How rough I will ‘Christmas week’ and it’s guaranteed to have an impact on my weight that will take me several weeks to undo.

@thenewaveragebear1983 yes I can relate! I had some friends over on Friday and it was one of those evenings where you intend to have one and are then counting the empty bottles in the kitchen the next day 😂 I have really noticed this year that if I have one glass, I'll really enjoy it. If I have more, it's the sleep, diet and head wrecker as @Theredjellybean says.

Speaking of running, since having covid I simply can't seem to exercise. My body is so tired that I am struggling to carry my toddler! I'm desperate to get out running but my lungs say no. I'll try some Pilates next week and see how I get on.

happy Sunday everyone and good luck next week

Hi all. A couple of days of doing a lot of walking (a lot for me anyways) caught up with me so I've had to have a few catchup naps and rest. Scheduled to be at the gym tomorrow. I'm determined to making walking a regular habit as noticing I'm terribly unfit.

Alcoholwise, I've managed to cut down a lot recently although a lot of it hasn't been out of choice (early starts the next day or getting home late).

@thenewaveragebear1983 I used to drink a lot of wine/cider, in fact I'm not sure now how much I drank but I know it was a lot. My daughter used to go to France every year just before Christmas and bring back a large car full of booze and I bought the lions share,

I can't even remember when it was, maybe 6/7 years ago and I just went off alcohol. I have no idea why but I am a Diet Coke addict and I found I felt so much better just drinking that. I now drink one bottle a year I guess. Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Eve, just one small glass which I now sip slowly and I'm done. We didn't even have wine at Easter (my favourite holiday) and I drank Coke with my meal.

I do feel so much better without alcohol and I wouldn't go back. I feel the same about cigarettes, I'd never go back to smoking which I gave up in 2006.

As I've said on here a few times I am a creature of excess so if I drink or smoke it will be heavily. Now to chocolate ☹️, I cannot get my head in the right place to give that up although my binges have been cut and I've replaced a lot of my chocolate with granola bars, which I am equally addicted to. I most definitely have an addictive personality and the more of "whatever" I eat/drink, the more I crave.

It might help that DP doesn't smoke or drink either, so it's never in front of me and I don't think about it.

Back to today's weigh-in, somehow and I really don't know how, I've managed to STS. I've had days of non-stop gluttony this week, searching cupboards and the fridge/freezer for whatever I could find and I've cleared all of it. I did expect a gain so I'm happy.

Anyway my lovelies, good luck with your weekly weigh-in and take good care of yourselves. Only 2 weeks to go!

Hi all! I had a very busy weekend; just appointments and catching up on stuff that I let slide due to work deadline (which is complete!).
Had optician appt and for myself and dd and everything was fine. My eyes were a little dry but have completely improved.
Skipped the gym Saturday as I was so tired. And spent the weekend mostly eating out due to being out and about, but that's life.
On the alcohol, I loved a few glasses of wine at the weekend, could be more, but last February I was in a sports competition and cut it out, and honestly never really returned to it. I discovered I didn't miss the tiredness the next day. I'm a bit like you @poorpaws I have diet coke or diet fizzy drinks to relax with. I honestly don't miss it. I still drink if I'm going out (rarely) but I'm a lot more measured. I never lost any weight though! 😂
Day out for work today so lunch/dinner will be out again. Hope everyone has a great Monday

Morning. I’m not at home so can’t weigh. Guess it won’t be great. We had lunch at a Harvester yesterday. Lots of brown food, And a salad bar. I did try to mainly have salad, but…
Im supposed to be doing my dds garden, but I’ve only got 1 set of clean clothes and I have to travel home and then go straight to my hobby. So I’m drinking tea instead. I’ll have to try and garden like a lady but I’m a messy person, could go badly wrong.

Morning. After a completely disastrous weekend, yesterday I was super strict and did an SP day which is like a low carb version of slimming world. I slept really well and feel a lot better today. I’m going to do it again today, it’s a bit limiting as there’s no pasta/rice/potato etc but I just had my meal with salad last night and it was fine.

my dh is away Thursday and Friday and I’m actually really looking forward to a few evenings where I can eat what I want, get a few jobs done in the evening and get some early nights! And no wine on Friday!

I am going to try and go no alcohol until Christmas Day. I have basically made no progress and regained since going back on the wine. Wine makes me eat bread and crisps, self control goes. 13 days, my main strategy is not to have it in the house, genius strategy right. Buying some low calories alternatives today. DH will be happy to join. Anyone else want to join in? Report in every morning?

Week 2 C25K going well, enjoying it.

I’d love to join in but in all honestly I think it’s unrealistic. I don’t drink in the week, and this week will have Friday off as dh is away, but invariably will drink Saturday, and next weekend I will almost definitely drink Friday and Saturday and Sunday…. Then it’s Xmas day (will drink) and Boxing Day (will drink to recover from magical day with extended family… 🙄) then maybe, maybe I’ll detox a bit before NYE.
i’m absolutely well up for dry January though- in fact, I’m up for dry and sugar free January I think.

I have a rare night out this Saturday so will be definitely be drinking...
Have a quiet day today (had training last two days) so hopefully will get back into routine.

I’m having good week food wise. Cutting back on the carbs really seems to cut my appetite at least in the short term. I ran last night after work, and again this morning. I made a big jumbled up salad mix with some cheese and chive dip as dressing which was really tasty and had that with chicken for last nights dinner and today’s lunch. I’m a bit hormonal and brain foggy as my period has decided to arrive 5 days early, no warning - that’s unusual on hrt as it’s triggered by the change in patches (which isn’t TIL Sunday) so I wonder if I had a duff patch or if for some reason I didn’t absorb the hormone properly. Anyway, feeling tired, grouchy, hormonal and tired. Did I mention tired?

One window finished. It certainly doesn't look as nice on the photograph as irl. The big "hole" near the bottom left has dark green baubles so it's not bare like it looks.

Having a really bad time with food right now but will make up for it in the new year. I can't seem to stop eating and I'm usually good all day and eat all evening but today it's been every bit of the day.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I hope you'll soon feel brighter and less grouchy and tired.

Looks lovely @poorpaws

i stayed the same this week which I was pleased with as it’s very much been a week of 2 halves- total Gluttony first, then quite strict 2nd. So overall they’ve balanced out.

Hi all
Very sorry I've been MIA and am definitely not caught up, but wanted to come back to update as my last post was around the time I had an unfortunate diagnosis.

The good news is that the tumour was removed, took a couple of weeks to recover, and thankfully the histology results came back clear.

All is well that ends well!
Although I got a serious fright (as did my husband).

My dieting has been out the window but hope to get back on the wagon and pick up some sort of momentum again. Hope that everyone is doing okay and looking forward to the festive season