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

[poorpaws]

Thread 5, everyone welcome!

I ended up crashing out and eating loads of sugary rubbish last night, and today I have felt really hungover and tired. I’ve really struggled to get back on track this week. I need to plan my menu and get some shopping in as I don’t really have much on plan food in so I end up eating rubbish. My meals have been good, it’s just the snacking, such a bad habit to get into. Oh well, I will weigh in tomorrow and I doubt I will have lost anything but will try harder next week.

@thenewaveragebear1983 have you ever tried having a square of really dark chocolate for your sugar cravings? A skinny friend does this, she takes it like a pill after every meal.

10 days no alcohol ✔️. This is really key to my weight loss. 5 lbs down this year. I am eating a lot of chickpeas, spinach, onion, quinoa (all mixed together) with chicken and mushrooms. In bed by 9 pm every night. I just need to be consistent and not lose and regain the same 10 lbs over and over.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I do the same. Its where my diet falls down. I wish I had a magic solution...diet coke and popcorn as its low cal, or grapes. I could keep eating sweet things. Sometimes I think I just need to be aware and tell myself to stop.
After a slight loss, I'm back up again today!

I’d lost 1.5 at slimming world tonight. To be honest, I don’t think I really deserved a loss at all so I’ll take that even though I am annoyed with myself for wasting a week.
so tomorrow is my day 1 take 2! I’m really determined to have a good week. I’ve done a shopping order which is coming tonight so tomorrow I should have everything I need and can have a good week on plan. I did run this morning and plan to go tomorrow as well. My period came today and that could explain my sugar cravings and bloated feeling a bit as well.

the key for me is drinking enough water, I don’t really manage to drink enough most days and it really helps my weight loss when I do. So that’s my biggest goal this week, along with tracking my food really carefully.

Well done @thenewaveragebear1983
I've managed to limit drinking this week and feeling quite positive.
Weigh in , is Monday for me.

@thenewaveragebear1983 well done, are you finding it hard not to weigh every day or is it a relief? @Theredjellybean nit drinking makes a huge difference to my progress too, hopefully it will show on the scales on Monday.

Steak/mushrooms cooked in butter, /spinach/broccoli tonight.

Oh gosh I gained a pound, that wasn't the plan! I do have a loooot of PMT symptoms going on though so it might be a rogue result. Waiting to see how next week compares.

I've put on another 2 pounds.
Have added some more fruit and veg into diet but still given in to unhealthy snacks and alcohol in the evenings.

I know what I need to do but haven't got into the mindset to actually do it. Need to get cracking on treating myself better, we're almost half way though January all ready.

Nothing fits, im dehydrated and lacking motivation. Had a bit of a pamper session this morning, hoping it will spur me on treat my body better ignoring the quality street and biscuits I had after breakfast.

@Sedgwick if I had scales in the house I would find it impossible, but without them here I am finding it ok. I have a very weird relationship with my scales anyway, I am far more likely to weigh myself when I’m having a bad day/week than a good one, like some sort of punishment. I know that’s weird. So in that respect it’s making me feel much better.

I had a pretty crazy day yesterday, again my meals were good but I logged off work and as I wasn’t drinking my little animal brain sought out the dopamine hit any way it could, so I ate loads of crap. Today I feel a lot less hormonal and I woke with a clear head. I am feeling very burned out recently so I decided today was to be a day of self care. I went for a lovely walk with the dog, then went for a rummage round a huge second hand furniture warehouse I have discovered, then came home and went for a run. This evening I have done some training with the dog and had a shower. I feel much better just just having a very Me focussed day. I’ve not really thought about food and as a result I’ve not had any syns and forgot to eat lunch all together! So I think what I’ve learned is that I need to get my little dopamine fix somewhere else other than wine/food!

Hi all. I weighed myself a couple of days ago and seem to have lost a couple of lbs.

I started doing my soup again so hopefully can continue with losses although I went a little off track with too much alcohol last night.

I've also managed to avoid all the xmas chocolate in the office which others seem to be finding difficult to resist.

After a good ish start , I've lost 1.5 lbs this week.
I'm pleased with this, I had odd glass of wine and one dinner out ..
Managed two runs and back into routine of other habits I'm trying to build.
Feeling positive for 7 in 7 challenge

@poorpaws How are you ?
99.6 this morning, which is a kilo lost, but I was 98.6 on Friday, so that feels like a gain. I just cant resist my dhs roast dinner, and he made bread too.
i have eaten better though, much less refined carb, much less sugar. My sleep is still a mess and I know that impacts hugely on weight. I really think we need separate bedrooms, but don’t currently have a spare. I swam 3 times last week and intend to do that again. Thinking about finding a Pilates class…

@poorpaws ...you are quiet..hope everything ok.
Well done @Zebracat ...I know it's frustrating when scales go up and down. But overall a kilo off is excellent.
I found I do better if I just weigh once a week .

I’ve lost 2.5 lbs this week. Just got to keep going. Chicken (leftovers) stirfry tonight. I have 3 more pounds to lose to get back to where I was in October before I messed it up by going back to wine etc! I have to do it this time.

@Theredjellybean that’s a good start, you sound organised.

@Zebracat a kilo lost is not to be sniffed at, well done. We always have a roast too, I skip the york yes and limit myself to two roast potatoes. In my experience bread unfortunately is the devil. It’s like I can eat bread or I can lose weight, can’t do both. Exception might be really dark rye bread but small amounts.

It is a bit quiet on here, I thought we would be flooded with new joiners!

@Zebracat my sleep has been massively improved by getting some really good silicone earplugs and a proper weighted eye mask. I no longer hear dh’s snuffles/ light snoring and if he snores loud enough to get through the earplugs, I feel justified in kicking waking him. It takes a while to get used to total black out but now I can’t be without them. The quality of my sleep is so much better.

I was feeling great on Saturday, ok yesterday. Our little kitty went missing yesterday so it was a very emotional day and I had no appetite. I have that sort of cried out hangover this morning, my face feels all burny. She is now home, thank fully, but was out all night in -5* and she is a very pampered little house cat so I was incredibly worried about her.

today I’ve not had any breakfast and it’s now nearly lunch so I won’t bother. I’ve made a big pot of spicy couscous and I will have that with salad and make a lemon mayo, and feta cheese. Then dinner tonight is leftover pork made into chow mein style noodle stir fry. I’m looking forward to both of those meals. I might try to get a short run in after work today as I didn’t manage one yesterday as i was on cat patrol.

@poorpaws ! Hope you are ok?

So glad you found your kitty @thenewaveragebear1983 . I’m having a stupid morning because I agreed to manage complicated arrangements for my friends dog, forgetting I had a meeting, and so left them to my Dh but gave him the wrong timings. I’m in the doghouse with the 3 dogs!
@Sedgwick I agree bread is the devil, especially if, like me, you like to eat it with copious amounts of jam and a wedge of crumbly cheese! But we thought we would share 1 small home made loaf a week, which is a massive improvement on our previously overflowing bread bin, with crumpets and muffins balanced on top. @Theredjellybean once a week weigh ins don’t work for me, I need to keep the numbers at the forefront of my mind, or I backslide.

Hi everyone

I'm so sorry I haven't been in touch but I'm having a very tough time and I've been invaded! Dd, dgd and dgs have moved in with me for a month. Dd and dgd are no trouble but dgs is a challenge and that's a very polite way of putting it. He never ever shuts up and shouts instead of speaking. He is very entitled and spoiled and he slams doors, kicks, strops every few minutes. It is so difficult and I am eating my way through it. My bungalow is small and I feel so overwhelmed and we are only one week in. I would imagine I'll gain at least a stone after this and that's not an exaggeration.

On top of all this my three dogs went for a "free" (haha) health check before the vet would prescribe worming tablets. Molly, my old dog, has a slight limp at the end of the walks. The vet examined her and suggested she need a newly released "magic" injection every month to help her but not affect her kidneys. Result - £187 vets bill and a dog who is very poorly with chronic sickness and diarrhoea. I've been nursing her for three days but although she will eat chicken breast and fish she has lost a lot of weight and I'm so worried and upset (this is the dog with cancer). I've rung the vet and cancelled any further injections but I think we'll have to have an emergency appointment tomorrow if she is poorly through the night again.

I am trying to cut down on food from today in the hope that I don't gain too much weight but I'm just not myself and I feel so low, worried and upset.

I haven't totally given up, I will be back and I am reading your progress but I need three more weeks of not really being up to standard. I'll start 7/7 then and really go for it!

I'm so sorry this is a bit of a pity party post and please keep on doing well until my return. I am with you in spirit, I'm cheerleading from the back.

Oh poorpaws. So sorry, that sounds rubbish. Could you go and stay part of the time with your partner?

@poorpaws that does sound miserable. Poor doggo. And poor you. I hope things improve soon.

@Zebracat I suppose I could but my dd would be so upset and tbh my partner is a bit clingy now. He's a lovely man and it's probably more my fault than his because I'm a bit of a loner and I crave my time alone but he would love me to go to his place and I'd be screaming. I wouldn't leave my dogs either.

It's only three more weeks, nothing in the grand scheme of things and I have cheered myself up this evening. I think I posted at a very low point.

Thank you all for your concern when I went AWOL, it is only temporary I promise.

@thenewaveragebear1983 Thank you, I'm sure it will be ok and three weeks isn't too long. I'm more concerned about my dog now, she's so poorly bless her.

@poorpaws sounds very trying, don’t worry about us, we will keep going. Hope Molly’s tummy improves, they can lose weight so fast. I know I have said this several times but I find a book/kindle in bed can be very calming, on bad days I regress happily to St Clare’s and Mallory Towers.

@Sedgwick Thank you so much. I am much brighter now, I think perhaps I shouldn't have posted when I felt so low.

I am going to try to improve my diet before the three weeks is up but there are so many lovely treats here and dd and the kids keep sharing them, it's very difficult to say no.

Keep up the good work everyone. It would be great if you'd all lost weight on my return. I going to work hard at it in three weeks and counting...

@poorpaws ...I would definitely not try to worry about your nutrition these three weeks.
As much as we love our families it's surprisingly hard to live with them full-time!
I am very sociable introvert...I love other people but crave space and time...I'm often in bed alone by 8:30 so I can decompress the day on my own.
I'd recommend it.
Molly has been through it, poor pup, the jellybean puppies send her love and strength...and for you. Make sure you do get enough rest.

@Theredjellybean I've been in bed by 8.30 every night with my iPad for company. I often do this when I am alone too.

People just don't seem to understand loners but I love the silence and hadn't realised just how quiet my home is until now.

I am ok, I feel I've recharged my batteries tonight. The kids are with their dad, dd has been on the phone all evening in the kitchen and I've been in the dog room nursing Molly. (The dog room is actually the main bedroom which I've converted into a second living area).

This evening is just what I needed, a bit of peace and quiet, I can face tomorrow now.

Thank you all so much for your concern. I will keep reading your posts even if I don't add much.