DIET FAILED AGAIN - maybe this time we're 7th time lucky, all are welcome

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Roll up roll up, it's time for thread 7... everyone is welcome here on our lively supportive chat thread.

Good morning

another day without sugar done. I didn’t do much yesterday as the previous day was so busy and I needed to rest.
DP went home early to collect a parcel so I had an afternoon nap in the chair which is most unlike me. I went to bed early too so I’m feeling much better today.

not much happening today, usual dog walk and then housework. Is everyone enjoying this autumn sunshine? It’s cold at night but lovely during the day.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I hope yesterday went well for you.

have a great day everyone.

I’m enjoying it @poorpaws, in fact I don’t think I’ve enjoyed an autumn as much for years. I think because we had a decent summer I don’t feel so cheated when it turns to autumn! Last night I went to a PT bootcamp in the park and it was full, people walking dogs and kids playing even at 7pm, and it was warm. Make the most of it!

I still feel throaty and a bit under the weather to he honest. It’s now 4 weeks with no gluten and I am finding it ok, except I am uninspired about my food and just can’t seem to get into the groove. I need to do a menu and a shopping order, but last week I ended up hardly making anything that I planned anyway! And as always I need some veg inspo as I just do not eat enough. I was thinking about some sort of potato/ bacon/ cheese/ onion/cabbage combo with lots of black pepper 😋 might make that today if I can find a recipe. Any suggestions?

I like a good veg curry, not sure if it's diet friendly, but got some curry paste thr other day and you mentioning it now has made me want to cook it tonight when I get home @thenewaveragebear1983 .

I'm currently at the cafe and just had a cup of tea and a ssusage roll. It was lovely but the shame is spoiling it for me. Maybe I should try avoid it next time and I may feel better for not having anything 😂

Another day of no sugar completed yesterday. I might have a chocolate bar on Sunday as that will be four weeks done. It’s been so much easier than trying to cut down which I’m rubbish at.

@TalkToTheHand123 ooh I know all about the shame and how it spoils what you’ve eaten. Maybe next time try to choose something with a little fewer calories? I know it’s difficult and I can’t talk, I’m rubbish at following my own advice.

im having a quiet day today, DP is coming down here later this morning for a dog walk and then he’ll go home so this afternoon I’m not doing much.

ive been negotiating my contract with Sky this morning and they’ve been excellent. I currently pay £32.25 for a flat package with no extras. They are giving me full fibre broadband with free outside connection and new router, access to Sky TV and Netflix for £30 pm lasting for 24 months. I think that’s an excellent deal.

i think I’m growing weary of the no-sugar now but I don’t want to go crazy if I start eating it again, it has to be balanced, and I’ve said many times on here I’m all or nothing. I wonder if I’ll feel guilty if I start eating it again after a month off and I won’t like the weight loss to slow down so I’m not sure what to do.

happy Wednesday

@poorpawsyou are doing so well.my prediction is that you will have some sugar and it will be so sweet, you’ll be happy with just a taste

I’ve had an absolutely epic fail today. Yesterday was actually a reasonable day, I ended the day only slightly over my goal but my goal is low so I am happy with that. I was on a course today for my new role, it was a bit above my level to be honest and a lot of the other delegates were heads of departments with lots of experience, I felt a bit out of my depth. Lunch was provided but nothing was gluten free, so I bought some gf crackers and mini cheese and ate the fruit that was provided. Well, something did not agree with me, I had the most horrific headache all afternoon, drove home feeling totally frazzled and exhausted. I ended up eating a lot of extra food at dinner, and 3 choc covered rice cakes and some cheese. 🤷‍♀️ so my calorie today will be waaaaay over target, and I have done less than 4K steps and I am not going out again! So a pretty unsuccessful diet day, all in all. I think it’s something in the gluten free crackers that caused the headache, I’ve had one a few times now since giving up gluten and switching to gf, but it’s hard to isolate as they all have the combination of oats, and various ‘starches’ and rice to make the ‘flour’ - in short, they are all ultra processed shit really. I don’t really want to consider that it might be the cheese 🧀 😢

anyway, tomorrow- I have a busy day at work as I need to process 3 days of training and new role stuff, various meetings etc. I’d like to go for a run at some point, probably in the morning before I start work. My food should be ok tomorrow, i’m
going to fast til lunchtime, then have homemade chicken soup, and dinner will be a chicken papricash type dish with sour cream 😋

Aww @poorpaws , sounds like you are doing well though. I have declined a mcdonalds meal for tomorrow night so some hope of change.

I’ve really tried hard today, after eating way too much this week. I didn’t eat til lunch, then had chicken soup and some raspberries and a fig. Dinner was leftovers from yesterday. I’m on 988 calories and I am not eating anything else. To be honest I am quite hungry but I just eat way way too much. So I’m being super strict for a few days.

I have had palpitations again today, all day since I had a cup of tea. I am starting to think that maybe there is some truth in the intolerance test I did, since giving up gluten I am now really acutely aware of how much my palpitations peak when I eat certain other things. Namely dairy, sugary stuff and rice. So next week I’m going to try to cut those out as well.

I’m four days into my new job and to be honest I am really not enjoying it, its a lot of clearing up a lot of other people’s mess in a data system and I must admit today I got a bit peed off and took an extended break to go for a run.

any weekend plans? I am decorating (again!) but now we have a date for the electrician so I am going to move ds out into DD’s room for a few weeks so I can just crack on. I need to paint the ceiling white, the walls grey, and order some wardrobes

Oh goodness everyone sounds a bit down today and I have to admit I’m going to join the doom gloom. @TalkToTheHand123 well done on swerving the MacDonalds.

i’m not sure what’s wrong with me this evening, but I feel really really down without reason. It’s been a lovely day here and we were able to sit outside at our café and have a lovely lunch but I just feel down. Maybe it’s the lack of sugar and any treats that’s making me feel fed up. Every evening I sit with my iPad and watch rubbish with just a black coffee or Diet Coke for company.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I’m so sorry to hear your new job isn’t going as well as you’d hope but it’s early days, maybe it will get better as you become accustomed to it. DD is starting in a new department on Monday and I’m really worried she won’t like it. Her old position was a temporary one to cover two years maternity leave but she loved it and was good at it. Once the girl came back DD has spent a month handing over and now she’s been given the new position but at least this one is permanent.

@thenewaveragebear1983 sadly no plans for me this weekend. I’ve said before DP is a lovely person but he likes to potter around the garden, walk the dogs but he never wants to do anything else. He hates the theatre, shopping and eating out anywhere different and I love all three. Usually im happy enough staying home until my mood falls as it’s doing at the moment and I just want to put a rocket under him 😁. Tomorrow I’ll be fine I’m sure.

i hope everyone picks up soon and the decorating goes well.

@poorpawsi am just being cranky and irrational to be fair. I’m tired and as always, feeling under the weather 🤣 I hope your DD’s new job goes well, it is really hard when you move from something you like. I enjoyed my previous post and although this secondment will be good experience for me, I’m not quite enjoying it yet.

@thenewaveragebear1983. 🤞you’ll enjoy your new post soon. Sorry you’re still under the weather and it’s no wonder you feel cranky, you’ve had a difficult year. Let’s hope 2026 is better for us all (although I’m definitely not wishing the time away, it goes quickly enough without me encouraging it).

Hi all. I'm a bit more settled in my new role so I empathise!
I've started to go to the local veg shops and only have cups of teas at the cafes (touch wood). I'm binging on fruit rather than the ready meals at the local shop, which I hope will knock a couple of lbs off by the end of the month although I've just set my target to be 1 lbs under 14.0 stone as I seem to be stuck on 14.0 stone so would be delighted with just 1lbs off.

@TalkToTheHand123. You’ll get your one pound off soon. I love it when I go to the next stone down bracket, it feels so rewarding.

life is throwing me a few challenges in my no sugar plan. DP had to see my neighbour (the retired chef) today and he came back with four jam tarts, all with different flavoured home made jam in each. I wondered how to navigate this without upsetting anyone and for a few seconds I was ready to give up my no sugar record. Instead I put the kettle on, made DP a coffee and placed three jam tarts in front of him. The fourth one, one I reserved for myself, I placed in the freezer for later (much later I hope).

today has gone well food-wise. We walked the dogs, DP went into the garden and I did some housework. Not very noteworthy but I was pleased with the result, especially the kitchen floor which I hate doing.

i believe tomorrow will be a repeat of today. DP has his own list of gardening jobs to do and I’ll move on to cleaning the bathroom. I can hardly contain my excitement at how thrilling my life is.

anyway, so far so good this week and again, if I only see a small loss on Monday I shall count it as a win.

@poorpawsyou are so on it, I love it! 🥰 I had a really long week at work and I decided to have my first glass of wine since August. It’s gone right to my head.

@thenewaveragebear1983 relax with your wine, you deserve it.

Does your DP still not know you are off the sugar @poorpaws ?

I've gone off the rails well and truly tonight. Oh well. Start again tomorrow. A little drunk.

Thanks @poorpaws, I did actually enjoy it but this morning I have a headache and slightly regret having the 3rd glass but… 🤷‍♀️

the usual weekend mix of kids football, jobs, a run, and getting ready for next week is ahead. Dh is cooking tonight. I need to do a big shop, we’ve run out of fruit and other healthy bits, and next week I am going to try to cut out dairy as I have been having such strong palpitations when I eat it or have milk in tea. I don’t want to, but I am noticing them even more now and they are really exhausting. I really do need to actually start losing some weight as well, that always feels like it’s quite far down my to-do list 🤣

Hope you all have a lovely weekend whatever you’re up to.

Update on today, I have been a total sloth all day long, ate loads of sugary crap and had a 2 hour sleep 🤦‍♀️ 🤣

Good morning everyone, I hope you are all well on this cold mid October morning.

Weigh day woo hoo! I’ve lost a whopping, massive quarter of a pound this week. I know I said I’d take whatever small weight loss I had, but I can’t help but feel very disappointed this week. When I think of all the things I’ve said no to, I really feel despondent.

This reminds me of when I went to Weight Watchers many years ago and after a few weeks of losing weight, even though I followed the plan to the letter and was a complete angel, I had three weeks of not losing anything. I’m just hoping this week doesn’t turn into three weeks because I know if it does, I’ll give in.

It’s now four weeks without sugar and I’m sure it won’t be very long before I start eating chocolate again, but I think I’ll give it a few more days at least.

i hope you have a good weigh-in and have lost more than I have. Better luck next week for me I hope.

I have maintained this week, that’s the 3rd weigh in on the trot where I’ve stayed the same. I suppose that’s better than a gain 🤷‍♀️ and if I was being really really honest with myself I would agree that I haven’t really been 100% on plan. I’d like a loss this week though so it’s back to basics for me. I spent yesterday slothing about, I really needed it, I sat on the sofa with Maggie watching Secret Eaters (if you remember that old show?) - if you pause disbelief at the way we used to speak to and about overweight people, I guess the message is pretty clear- it’s ’not Working’ because of all those little extras that creep in, I recognise a LOT of my habits in there. Guessing portions, constant nibbling little bits of extras that I don’t count, and big portions being the main culprits for me. So this week, as is often my goal, I am going to weigh and track every single morsel, and stick to my calorie goal.

@poorpawsdont be too hard on yourself, a loss is a loss as we say. I think you’re doing brilliantly

I didn’t have a good day yesterday, I was having such a stressful day at work and I just felt my emotions get the better of me. I went for a walk, via the shop, and bought chocolate at lunchtime. I can honestly say it was HORRIBLE! I bought Cadbury’s wispa and it was just a solid tasteless greasy lump, what have they done to it??! I still ate it though 🤷‍♀️ so I ended up over my calorie goal yesterday. I went to bed early but I couldn’t sleep but at least I did read for an hour in bed and feel a bit better today, more ready to take on the world. I need to have a few difficult conversations today at work and need to feel a bit stronger in myself before I do. Anyway, I learned yesterday that chocolate is not the answer.

today, I feel a bit brighter. I have planned my meals. I’m going to bootcamp after work. I actually prepped tonight’s dinner yesterday, a lovely slow cooked beef casserole with paprika and lots of veg 😋 so I will throw in a couple of baked potatoes for that later. I do like autumn food.

Hope you all have a lovely day

@thenewaveragebear1983 you sound overwhelmed and I’m so sorry to hear that. Perhaps it’s a good thing that the chocolate was horrible and yes I would have still eaten it. I wonder if it’s just Cadbury or all chocolate or have you just lost the taste for it?

I had a stressful day yesterday. We had the broadband fitted, DP had to rush home for a parcel, we had to meet a lady on our field who was making a dog lead for us. On the retelling it doesn’t sound stressful at all, but it really was. I don’t take in information anymore, my brain has given up, so trying to figure out the new television connection was quite an ordeal and I’m not sure that I know what I’m doing still.

I did keep to my food limit apart from one packet of low-fat crisps later on and a sneaky weigh on the scales this morning tells me I haven’t lost anything. I don’t really know what else I can give up, I’m often hungry, I’m trying hard but it’s very slow. I don’t expect to lose four pounds every week but half a pound or one pound would be what I’d expect from what I’m eating. It’s going so slowly it doesn’t seem fair. The devil who lives on my shoulder keeps telling me to give up and the chunky (ha they don’t look chunky to me) KitKats keep calling my name.

i’ll try and hold out to the weekend, but I think this weekend is a time to at least enjoy something chocolatey to eat.

@thenewaveragebear1983 I hope you day goes better today and you find the courage you need to have those difficult conversations and you manage to articulate your needs, not what they want. Sending you some strength on that one.

i hope your day goes well.

@poorpawsmaybe flip it on it’s head and rather than think of what you can give up, think of what you can eat more of. This is a big thing for me, I am so focussed on NOT eating x,y,z that I forget that I should be eating lots of yummy things that I can eat in abundance. Veg mostly, I am terrible at eating veg and yet ironically I really like it and if I cook it I eat it all. So I am trying very hard to eat more, and thinking of veg heavy recipes- soups, chutney with my glut of green tomatoes, homemade potato wedges, roasted veg like carrots, parsnips eg , adding extra veg to bolognese or stew etc. to help me eat a bit more. I think we can be a bit more relaxed with it if there’s a few things we can eat in abundance? Plus it’s cheaper and filling. Food is so expensive these days, it can’t hurt to eat a bit more plants and less meat/egg/cheese.

Today has been crazy, my cravings have gone through the roof.

I couldn’t cope with the idea of soup for lunch so I had a cheese and pickle roll which was lovely. Tonight after dinner and dessert, I was still craving so I gave in and had a KitKat chunky. The last chocolate I had was on 14 September so it’s been over a month. I was absolutely shocked at my reaction. I didn’t enjoy it at all, well the biscuit part was okay, but the chocolate was bitter. It had a bitter almost sour aftertaste. I realised then I must’ve picked up a dark chocolate Kitkat because I know they make them around Christmastime and I’m not a great fan of dark chocolate and it did taste like it. I went to the cupboard to the packet and no it wasn’t dark chocolate it was supposed to be milk but it didn’t taste at all like milk chocolate to me. I don’t think I’ll be craving it quite the same in future and I’m in shock.

tonight I’ve been feeling quite depressed about my weight, quite down. I’ll see what tomorrow brings but I am losing impetus for keeping up the good work.

I hope everyone is doing well and staying warm in this cold autumn weather.

That’s a good result @poorpaws, I think when we eat it all the time we don’t really taste it, when you eat it after a long break you taste it for what it really is. My wispa yesterday was really unsatisfying, it didn’t feel creamy or melty at all it was like a lump of dry wax and really tasteless. I’m starting to really miss gluten now, a biscuit or a piece of cake or something like that.

yesterday I made a beef stew and I put it in again when I went to the gym so when I got back there was a lovely, hearty stew with baked potatoes 😋 mini carrots and parsnips as well. Fruit for dessert. I am slimming angel today 😇

I had a much better day at work as well, I’ve solved a few problems and got a plan for the next few days so that’s good.

@thenewaveragebear1983 i’m so pleased you’ve got work sorted out and you sound happier.

food shop today and I’m not sure what I want to buy. I’ve got a list but it’s the repeat of a list I buy every week, I live on jacket potatoes with different protein and salad. I do like it, it is filling and it’s not bad for me but I’m getting a bit bored, and I don’t know what else to buy that will tempt me to eat and enjoy.

i’m sure it will be a busy day today with the food shop, dog walk and housework that I didn’t get done yesterday because I FaceTime my friend most of the afternoon and all of my jobs got left. I’ve also started watching The Crown in the evenings so much of my weekly work has been left.

I fear I’m facing a gain on Monday due to the KitKat, several lattes and low-fat crisps. I wonder if Ive exchange my habit from chocolate to crisps but they just seem a nice nightly snack.

It’s cold here, the heating is on, I hope everyone stays warm and happy Thursday.