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

[poorpaws]

Thread 5, everyone welcome!

@Theredjellybean lots of hugs and support right back at you.
Good advice to focus on what I can do.

Lots of love and best wishes to you both @Theredjellybean and @endlesswashing 🌷 🌹 🌺

I’ve bloated up like a balloon of water today- combination of too much Easter excess, due on, and started a new exercise regime so I’m really feeling it in my muscles- well, I did a little check on the scales this afternoon and I was up 6lbs!! In a week!!! I’m not one to skive off and not face the music if it’s deserved, but I don’t think it’s a fair representation of my week so I’m tempted to not weigh tonight. There is a Saturday group I could go to after a good day tomorrow but I really don’t want to take a 6lb hit on my progress.

@thenewaveragebear1983 ..that really isn't fair is it ?
You cannot have gained 6 lbs in weight as fat or muscle in one week...that would mean 6 x 7700 calories over maintenance...I'm sure you did not consume that much.
It's water etc..
I find it depressing when this happens so I wouldn't be going to weigh in !

@Theredjellybean no it really isn’t fair, thank you for your supportive words 🤣 I was in a proper funk last night. Ate a load of shit food. The irony of this being that now my 6lbs gain probably is deserved. 🤔 I’m sure there’s a lesson here……

anyway. Slept well. Ran well (actually very well, probably all the ‘carb loading’ last night). Going to not beat myself up. My rings won’t even go on this morning so it’s clearly water and I’m just going to get back on it.

I listened to a podcast, Jessica Cooke (she’s quite hard lined and not everyone’s cup of tea and I don’t agree with some of her views but it’s easy listening) and she says when you have a gain and you feel crap, you need to ask yourself the big questions that aren’t about weight on the scales., and ask yourself how could I do this better? So last night I wrote out ten questions in my journal that I will use for that. Eg.

1. did I show up for all my workouts that I committed to?
2. did I drink 2l water every day?
3. did I plan my meals and stick to my plan?
4. did my food represent the end goal I’m trying to achieve? etc etc one of mine was - did I dress in ‘day clothes’ not dog walking clothes for work every day? 🤣

Make them personal to you and to your actual goal, which is ultimately to feel better and happier. I like that. I can go through my list and answer yes to about half of them, and no to the rest and then I can say well his can I do this better? What steps? And none of it is about numbers on the scales. I think that is really good for my mindset and I’m going to do that each week. I am terrible for making all these promises to myself and then just ignoring them so it’s a good focus for me.

Sorry to hear about your dads @endlesswashing and @Theredjellybean
Hope you are coping ok and they are too.

I've been suffering with migraines this week and can't seem to get myself going to do anything useful which has been a complete waste of the Easter holidays. I had so many plans.

What day is everyone weighing in? I'll try and join and stick to once a week instead of the very day.

I'm weighing in on Friday...today was 73.8

I weigh in on Thursdays, but this week I’m doing Saturday (official sw weigh in)

I weigh myself every other day but my official weigh in day of reckoning is Monday, old school I know.

I weigh in on Monday with a sneak peek half way through the week which doesn't count.

I hope you are all ok. I'm trying to have a very normal weeks eating but avoiding the evening chocolate excess just to see what the difference is on the scales.

Because I shop and cook for one (for main meals) a lot of my meals are repetitive to avoid waste. This week I've had three chicken stir fries and now I've got a fridge full of salad to eat and a lot of large potatoes for shoving in the air fryer so I'll probably be eating those with chicken or burgers until next Mondays supermarket shop. It sounds very dull but I actually enjoy the majority of them.

I hope everyone is having a good week. I'm off to clean the bathroom to keep busy 😁. Have a good Friday everyone.

Ok I think I will be brave and join the Monday weighers so that I have some incentive to actually behave at the weekend 😇

Haven't decided what I'm going to do yet. I don't know if I can be bothered calorie counting. It's so much effort.

Also all the dieting, or the 3 children, or cost of living has obliterated my iron levels. I've been on supplements for 3 months from the gp and it's still only half way back to normal so trying to improve my diet and iron intake whilst also losing weight is a new challenge I've not had before.

I have had a slightly better day today, although I did eat a white chocolate kitkat chunky (but I didn’t then spiral into a full on choc binge which previous days I have done, so I guess that’s a win of sorts)

I did a fast intervals run this morning, hit a 4:47 km which is pretty fast for an old lady like me, and I did Caroline Girvan arms and abs after work. I have drunk loads of water. I still feel really bloated and retaining loads of water. And I’m still due on which is making me miserable quite frankly.

I’ve decided I need to go and weigh in tomorrow to draw a line under all this eating shitty food and get my head back in the game. I’m just going to ask her not to tell me what it is.

dh wants to get the raclette out tomorrow. I must admit I hate it. A bit like bbqing, you end up with loads of slightly burned meat and no one eats it, and it leads to excessive consumption! I’m just going to have a steak and cook it normally, in a pan, on the hob- and leave dh and the kids to their hot plate!

@effiesgoldwig my Iron wss low as well and it really does make you feel a whole new level of awful doesn’t it?! I’m on ferrous sulphate now and I cannot believe the difference- I take mine at night which is supposed to maximise the absorption.

So I weighed in this morning at home, I’m officially up 4.5lbs this week. Slightly better than 6, but not great at all. I decided against the public humiliation of sw and weighed on my home scales, but I am accepting that as an official weight and moving on.

so my plans for the weekend:
long walk with doggo today
workout today
run tomorrow morning
make soup & do some meal prep
do a list and a shopping order
drink lots of water
count my calories and for goodness sake, stick to the plan

I was promised sunshine ☀️ by the weather lady yesterday but quite frankly, it’s looks windy and grey out there so I’m not entirely convinced.

Have a good weekend all, whatever you are getting up to

Cross with myself, had a perfect dinner of fish and veg, really satisfying and tasty. Then drank some wine which led to an awful lot of cheese and crackers. Delicious at the time but then slept dreadfully, tossed and turned. Weighed and I am up 4 lbs. Feel terrible. Going to go for a walk and then get on the cross trainer to see if I can improve my mood. Why don’t I learn!

Sympathy to @thenewaveragebear1983 , know how you feel.

Steak night here too, will just have it with greens.

Been pretty crappy eating here too, and haven't managed to conquer the evening chocolate demons like @poorpaws yet. Am also Monday weighing and have managed to avoid stepping on to peek this week so tomorrow will be... something.

In ass kicking April theme I've entered a few races in the second half of the year to push myself back into running again. Seems to be working as I've dusted off the fitbit and exercised three days in a row. Tbh me and the kids are on Easter break, so it'll be tougher when I'm back at work and can't cram a workout into the day.

@Theredjellybean and @endlesswashing i'm so sorry to hear about your dads. Now is not the time to be hard on yourselves, try to take care of yourselves, whatever that looks like. We would love to hear how you are doing here when you can ❤️❤️

Hi everyone on this gloomy Monday morning.

I have a plan, a new plan, it's not a particularly good plan but I have a plan.

As you all know I have a massive chocolate addiction which I find hard to control and is the no. 1 cause of my weight gain. I try to stop eating the stuff and I'm miserable and if I have a little it makes me crave more. It's a massive problem in my dieting journey and in my life in general. I have tried so many things over many years to sort out this problem but I lose the battle every time; I need rehab.

This week from Monday to Friday I stuck to healthy meals and no-calorie drinks and was doing well. On Saturday I did ok too, eating healthily until the evening. I thought it would be ok to eat the Kitkat chunky middle bit of my Easter egg, it was delicious. I then reasoned that half the egg shell wouldn't be bad and of course the whole egg disappeared and I was so upset with myself. On Sunday I went back to healthy eating and no chocolate - miracle!

I know it's week one and I know about water retention but this morning I was 11st exactly, which is 3 lbs down, My plan is to not eat chocolate at all Monday-Friday and I can get through this knowing on Saturday I can definitely have quite a lot of chocolate (hopefully reducing the amount a little each week) so long as I go back to plan on Sunday.

I know my plan is far from perfect but as I said small amounts make me crave more so if I have a substantial amount on Saturday (getting less each week if I can) I have something to focus on without too much guilt.

How are you all doing? It's sounding a bit iffy for some of you so I'm sending positive vibes.

I'm allergic to iron tablets, they make me violently sick so even in pregnancy when my gp insisted I try them again I had to give them up and haven't touched them since.

There seems to have been quite a bit of struggling last week in our group so let's all put our big girl plants on (noooo 😱) and have a really good week (with the exception of Saturday night for me).

Happy weigh-in for the Monday weighers.

Good luck to you @poorpaws, it sounds like A Plan and 3lbs off is fantastic. I find it's impossible for me to do something if I say "never again" but if I know it can come if I want it eg Saturday chocolate.

up 1lb over here, I also ate an entire Easter egg or three. The kids have so many and I'm doing them a favour right 🙃

My sister has lost 3 dress sizes in 9 months doing Saturday "cheat days" and sticking devotedly to the diet Sun-Fri. I don't have the discipline for that because I know if I fell off the wagon on Tuesday I'd write the week off.

good luck for Monday weigh ins

Morning ladies.

I like the plan @poorpaws , I think the number 1 rule of any diet plan has to be that you can stick to it so if it works for you, it’s got to be a good start!

I had a really good day yesterday. Stuck to sw, had only a few syns, lots of protein, nice meals, no chocolate or other rubbish. Isn’t it weird that sometimes magically it just sort of ‘clicks’ - I’d love to know what that is- is it motivation, or hormones, or some sort of diet god recognising my relentless servitude??? 🤣 😇
anyway, regardless- a good day was had and I would like to replicate that again today. It’s my office day which normally leaves me dehydrated and frazzled but today I am determined to drink lots of water, and not have the usual wild 20 minute feeding frenzy when I get in the house.

I did a really tough workout yesterday, I managed 5 days of Caroline girvan last week and this week I’m going again, but I doubled up so did legs and shoulders as one set. And oh boy, do I feel it today! So a full rest day as per usual for a Tuesday today, although maybe a walk in the evening to get the steps in.

Good morning lovelies

@thenewaveragebear1983 how lovely to hear the diet gods are being kind to you. You are really on track now with both diet and exercise and long may it continue for you. I recognise the home feeding frenzy, I even get that after a long dog walk, ooh home at last and straight to the fridge/cupboards.

I had an ok day yesterday, managed a healthy supermarket shop. Since it was torrential rain for most of the day we didn't get the dogs out so that's the priority this morning. DP is a very outdoor man, has always worked outside and just has to be outside like some sort of addiction. Yesterday he drove me crazy, I swear every 5 minutes he was up looking outside to see if the weather had changed, he couldn't sit still and just kept sighing. I've told him if it's nasty out there today he can either go home or put his waterproofs on and go in the garden. He very nearly drove me to the Easter egg stash but I resisted 😀

@triplecheeese wow your sister has done well, I bet she feels amazing. It makes our gang look a bit like failures but hey we'll get there (sadly I got there in November but typically put a lot back on). I very rarely lose the faith that I will reach 10 st, just when I'm feeling very unwell like the beginning of this year but now I'm back to better health (and only since I feel better do I realise how awful I felt for a long time) I have the faith again.

Keep doing your best everyone, maybe the diet gods will be good to us all this week.

@thenewaveragebear1983 thought I'd just let you know you have inspired me. I was slumped in my dressing gown with my coffee, dreading starting work... read your update and thought you know what Caroline Girvan has loads of workouts under 30 mins, I can do that instead of worrying... and I put my sports bra on and did it. Now I'm slumped sweaty with second coffee but feeling hella better than 40 mins ago. I wouldn't have done that even a week ago so credit to this thread.

@poorpaws yes she's amazing, opposite of me as she is single minded. My brain is like a clumsy octopus, flailing about with 8 things at once, but once she's in the right frame of mind she cracks on. She's run several marathons and done significant weight loss more than once... her issue is in between she doesn't maintain it so she puts the weight back on and has to start again. We all have our own thing to deal with I guess.

im not sure I'll be 3lbs off in April if I already gained 1lb 😜but let's kick Tuesday's ass everyone.

Morning ladies, you’ve inspired me too. After eating things I shouldn’t do… I thought right if it’s not there I can’t eat it!
I still did buy some Waitrose posh potato salad (not called that!) and Quorn picnic eggs but had this for lunch with pimento and garlic stuffed olives and my new fave find which I think I’ll try for breakfast, pumpernickel (black bread) with crunchy peanut butter. Really channeling my German heritage there (I do have it directly on mum’s side).

And I bought treats and ate them but haven’t so far.

I didn’t feel great yesterday (cold?) so had above lunch with veggie slim a soup and in the evening had a cheese omelette and Greek yogurt with honey. Plus an orange. Morning breakfast was a muffin with marge.

This morning had muffin with spread (hey Waitrose were reducing them, criminal not to buy them! 🤣) and Greek yogurt with honey. I’m figuring the protein fills me up.

From tomorrow I’m either staying with my mum for the rest of the week as SIL and her 2 DC are staying the rest of the week. I’d like to say the kids keep me fit but on Sunday afternoon I was sitting on a bench in a cold wind scrolling MN (no bloody cafe in this park, as Jen Brister comedian says, there should be a hut selling neat gin at playgrounds 😱🤣) watching nearly 6 year old DNephew navigate his way around the playground and parents and their kids, he loves other adults and kids and talks and plays happily. He should be a politician 😆!

@triplecheeese someyimes it is really good for your mind to do a work out rather than fret or worry about problems. Which will still be there after the workout but at least your body is fitter! And sends those nice thoughts to your brain.

@poorpaws your DH makes me laugh with his antics re the weather! I had to say to DNephew on the way to the park not to stop and stroke what looked like an innocuous spaniel being walked by an older man (I worry in case it’s not friendly!) .

Well done on your loss @poorpaws

I weighed this morning at 15.4 which is worse than I expected and now I'm sat in a cafe eating Nutella pancakes so perhaps it's what I deserve. I think I may need to join sw or similar again. I'm going to take myself home and give myself a stern talking to.

Maybe some exercise wouldn't go amiss too. Just need to get myself motivated.

Great effort everyone, well done @triplecheeese - I’m really enjoying the CG programme and you know I always love to exercise first thing, it really does set me up for the day.

I had another good day, ended under cals/syns and DID NOT come home from the office and scoff a load of carby rubbish. My boss gave me some ‘proper chips’ lentil crisps, they are only 66 cals a bag and I ate them on the way home. Made sure I drank plenty water today, all good. Dinner was meatballs in a smoky sauce (it was a Schwartz sachet mix, one of the Nadiya Hussain ones) bug I had it just with veg and it was a bit watery unfortunately. I had a mini twister (45 cals) afterwards as a little pudding. So all in all, a good day.

Wednesday means a run for me, I always do the same run on a Wednesday and use it as a time trial to push my pace a bit (that is the most #RunningWanker I get!) so I will do that first thing. I am really enjoying my overnight oats for breakfasts, with raspberries and mango, salad for lunch and probably a variant of meat + salad/veg for dinner, before dog training.

I weighed in yesterday at 72.9...so in a week managed to go from 74.8 to 72.9..
I know a lot was fluid ..but still .
My dad is doing ok and my brother and sister have come down so I've come away on a pre planned holiday to Italy...I'm eating pasta ..I don't care...