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

[poorpaws]

Thread 5, everyone welcome!

@Ledochas that’s great news, it must be a huge relief!

@Ledochas gosh, how worrying but glad it is now removed. Hope you are ok 🌷

Another weekend with a fair amount of excess for me. It would have been avoidable if I’d been super strict, but I’m tired and not really making the best choices right now. We desperately need a big shop doing which doesn’t help as there’s not really any healthy stuff to hand either. Will do that today. I plan to go for a run today and get myself sorted for the week, feels like we’re all sort of limping to the finish line…. I am really looking forward to Friday, I need a break from work and a proper rest, but again, it will be a week of excess and I’m cautious about feeling worse at the end of it, not better.

i like January and I like making resolutions. I always try to do Dry January and mostly succeed, and this coming Jan I am going to have a big overall detox and give my health a boost. Cutting out drinking and crappy food choices will help, but also giving myself a bit of respite and taking care of myself a bit better, whether that is better sleep, or a bit of pampering or whatever. I feel (and look) very tired and worn out right now. This winter has seemed very long, wet and dark. I’m really looking forward to the brighter months.

Hi all. @Ledochas so pleased for you.

Haven't had the energy to exercise much recently although a little active. Have somehow managed to avoid alcohol for a couple of days.

A colleague mentioned steaming vegetables the other day which made me crave so if I can't find mine today, I'll get one tomorrow when I go shopping 😊.

I am already looking forward to January, feel similar to @thenewaveragebear1983 ! Completed 2nd week of C25K.

Hello all...I was mic this week (missing in Christmas).
And alcohol was involved which then had to be followed by the day of eating to cure hangover.
However I am managing to get my head back into "eat when hungry and stop immediately sense of being full"...I'm amazed at how little I need before I'm full.
This worked for me 12 yrs ago...and seems to be again.
Weight today was .5 lb down.
So I will weigh in next Saturday at work but right now I'm 71.9 kgs.
Not the lightest I've been this year but 2 kgs lighter than this time last yr.
No alcohol for two days...and aiming for none until a very special evening on Thursday...
How is everyone else feeling about impending holidays and food fest ?
I'm confident I think....

@Theredjellybean sounds like you’re really focussed, well done. I’m feeling like, in principle, I am ok about the food fest but I also know that this week is going to draaaaag and I’m so desperate for my annual leave and to spend some time with my dc and dh and ddog- I don’t know, I think I’ll spiral myself. The solution for me is to ‘front end’ my weight loss by having a really good week this week. The weekend went a bit awry but for this week I am actually super planned, I’m doing sp again for the week, I weigh on Thursday and I’ll be ok with a maintain or thrilled with a small loss,

I ran 9.5km yesterday, which is the longest I’ve done in a while. My food went a bit cray-cray as my dd baked cookies with ds, and I abandoned SW just for a few days and calorie counted instead, so I could enjoy some Christmassy food (pate… 😋) - but hey, I actually feel in a much better and much more festive mood now.

part of me is in the ‘it’s one day’ camp and the other part of me is in the ‘fuck it it’s Christmas’ camp so…..

😂..I get that foot in one camp thing.
I also like the idea of front loading.
I think that's kinda my plan...a really good week this week, then moderation over Christmas.
Then I go away on 30 th for a week skiing...which will be quite likely a food fest of epic cheesy proportions...so front loading is essential

Hi everyone

@Ledochas I'm so pleased to hear that you are now ok, it must have been a very dark time for you all. Put it behind you and start to shine again.

Such a mixed week on here but it's so difficult at this time of year. I think I can say I started Christmas early and my weight gain is staggeringly high. This week I have to calm down a bit and try to have a "normal" week.

It will be mainly a quiet holiday time here apart from whatever day dd and her kids turn up then all hell will break loose.

I'm not sure what we are eating over the Christmas period but I certainly don't want a repeat of last year when I cooked far too much after a long dog walk, was overtired and to say I was grumpy was a vast understatement. DP would just like a picky meal so no roast dinner but to me that sounds very unChristmasy and I can't imagine it so we'll see. Last year he spent most of Christmas washing up and we don't want to go through that again.

It's very hard to comprehend in my tiny brain that this time next week it will be Christmas Day 😱. Have a good week everyone, I really need to.

That is great news @Ledochas!

I've been Mia too...had some family stuff going on which meant I could not go out on Saturday which I was so looking forward to - I rarely go out.
I seem to be in the middle of a up .5kg/down.5kg cycle at the moment: probably need more steps but it's so hard to get out at this time of year! I'm also very stressed so will have to try to avoid stress eating.

@poorpaws we went away last year, just me dh and the children and although I did do a Christmas dinner, it was very low key and more like just a Sunday roast, then for Boxing Day we just did ‘party food’ and it was lovely. Felt very festive and was dead easy, everyone just grazed as they wanted to.

That sounds lovely.

I think I must have done 5k just walking around asda today. I haven't been to this one in a while and must have been getting mixed up with the layout from other ones.

Pigged out on pizza and drank a lot of alcohol last night so hoping for a big change of ways soon.

My week isn’t going exactly to plan. I’m going ok but things are creeping in…. A chocolate or two here, a mince pie…. I’m weighing in tomorrow so I’m determined to stick to it today and tomorrow. I just really really want to break up for Christmas now.

I’m going out for a run this morning. I set myself a target of 100 km this month and after this morning I think I’ll be on around 50, so not quite on target but still more than I have managed recently. I’m doing a lot more steps generally these days as I’m out with the dog, my average has doubled to where I was three months ago. It all helps doesn’t it?

Of course it helps...
I'm going for a run too...but it's still pitch dark here .
I've been doing ok as we don't have chocolate and mince pies etc in house...but my youngest dd is home so we have been trying out Christmas cocktails...but I've somehow stuck to just one each night ..

So in the past six days, despite training, calories etc I'm still fluctuating with that bloody .5kg. I'm exactly .5kg heavier than last Thursday. Trying to remind myself that this can happen and stick with it.
@thenewaveragebear1983 that's fantastic improving your steps so much! I'm trying to get out for a walk at lunch, otherwise I may not move at all. Pre-covid I worked on a large site which meant walking many little trips every day. Now that's gone.

Urgh I put on 2lbs when I weighed in tonight, my plan to limit the damage did not work. I have no justification other than that I’m utterly utterly exhausted and i have just had toast and other quick, nutrient poor carby crap all week. I hate that feeling of it all spiralling out of control, I know next week will be a busy week of lots of food but I hate the way my mind works in the run up where I sabotage myself because I’m too tired to fight it. God knows what the scales will say next Thursday! However, after that, it’s draw a line time and back on it I guess.

It’s been so windy here, I wanted to go for a run but it’s really seriously windy and not really a good idea. I’m going to go tomorrow hopefully.

we’re about to do our big food shop but I’ve been firm with dh that I’m not just eating party food for the next week, I need proper meals with vegetables for at least another couple of days. That’s the plan anyway!

Things getting messy here too, not sticking to the plan, lots of crisps, wine and carbs. The worst thing is I feel bloated and stuffed and it’s only the 22nd! I need a couple of strict days.

Ditto. @Sedgwick

I don't think I could eat more if I tried hard. I'm eating like an animal starved of food for months. I need to sort this but I know I won't. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I don't go into the new year one stone heavier. I am bloated and feel horrendous but I can't seem to stop. To think only 6 weeks ago I was celebrating my weight loss and feeling fabulous.

I think the reason for my gluttony is anxiety related. I don't really like Christmas or new year, and I eat my way through it. Roll on 2 January 2024!

Have a lovely Christmas everyone, I hope Santa brings you all something amazing 😀

Hi all. I fell out of the thread as I am miles away from the wagon at the moment and didn't feel like checking in every week to report that was going to make me feel any better about it. I'm close to being back to my horrific lockdown weight. Although I'm not one for resolutions, I am going to make a commitment to healthy eating from the new year and will be back here again as it's always been a good support.
Hope you're all doing well, in both weight loss and life in general!

Hi @PinkArt Lovely to have you back. We'll all start again in January no doubt and I'll slow the wagon down so that you can jump right back into your seat. Have a lovely Christmas and I look forward to seeing you here in January.

Thanks @poorpaws. I don't think I've been looking after myself brilliantly as my flat is very hoarders looking too, so I think a new years reset across the board will be really good for me. Lot of veg, some decluttering, better sleep habits - I plan on framing it as doing a lot of good things for myself rather than restricting any fun things.

@PinkArt ...in the jellybean house we call them life goals rather than ny resolutions
I like the positive framing.
Basically instead of punitive restrictive vague things like "I will lose weight in 2024".
Or "I'll not eat carbs"

You pick 6-10 achievable goals...so something like " 2 out of 3 meals will contain vegetables five days a week "

I also have a travel one, fitness one etc
..but you can do anything aslong as it's specific.
I have " visit a continent I've never been to " and " run a marathon"...

We did it last year as a family and it was so good. Special specific things we wanted to achieve. We are all busy making our goals for 2024

Ooooh I bloody love a life goal

last year we did a family challenge in January to eat 150 portions of fruit and veg each- it’s really only 5 a day but it sounds big and we all did it.

I will definitely be making a few ‘life goals’ for January!

I'm loving one of my dd..life goals next year is to go to a life drawing class...who knew ??? She has never done anything arty ever...she is a scientist through and through.
This is what I love about life goals...it makes us try really random new things.
I am thinking about "do a floristry course" .
We make a box...(cover a shoebox) and write out goals on a postcard and put it in the box with a "reward" for achieving the goal. They are just silly little things...like bag of sweets. You sign the card next to each goal when you've achieved it and get the reward.
This yr my goal box has inspired me to go to a place I've never visited before, see an exhibition of something I'd never have bothered with before, learn a new language and learn a new culinary skill.
Several I haven't achieved but that's ok...it's not punitive..we just roll them over or reflect that maybe they weren't the goal for us ...

I'd love to take credit for this but my dd2 saw it last yr on tick-tock..and wanted to do it and it helped my dsd 2...who is I'll with anorexia think of positive experiences she wants which have nothing to do with getting better...

@PinkArt I have a small attic room as my study, it has a very sloped ceiling but pretty wallpaper and in theory it’s my space where I could do anything. But! In the 15 years we’ve lived here it’s been full of clutter, I can get in the door but that’s about it. I will try and reclaim it in the NY, we could encourage each other if you like?

Love the goals and framing things in a positive way. Have a good day everyone.