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.

@poorpawsi am totally with you! I had such a horrible binge yesterday and it was the culmination of a whole stressy week. Ironically, stressing about how the weekend was going to totally derail me was high on my agenda 🤷‍♀️ I am desperate for a detox, I’m really struggling with inflammation in its various forms and I just generally feel very run down and like i need a full reset!

my plans this weekend are to finish my landing decorating, it’s taken forever, we now need to lift the carpet and sand and gloss the woodwork. I want to listen to my hypnosis audio (hopefully twice over the weekend), go for a run and nice walk with the dog. Plan my menu for the and go to the supermarket.

I have only 1 Easter egg, it’s a salted caramel layer egg from Lidl. Looks delicious. I will eat that Sunday but other than that I am not really planning any Easter treats. I might bake something for my vegan and dairy free family coming tomorrow however.

Well, my mindful eating is going well, but I'm at that stage where my body is.... ahem.... in overdrive as a reaction! This has previously made me return to old ways of eating (not least because it's so inconvenient!) but I am trying to wait it out.

Huge sympathy/empathy to everyone else. What must it be like to never think about chocolate or sweet things....??!!

Quick question: what do other vegetarians like as their sources of protein please? I use tofu, nuts and, sparingly, cheese and egg (the whole idea of eggs makes me feel a bit ick!). I could happily eat tofu every day but I have (somewhere in the back of my mind) a vague idea that it's not good for us.

DP arrived with these this morning. At least they weren’t huge ones.

I’ve put them away in the wardrobe and written the use by dates at the top in thick permanent marker.

the dog walk went badly this morning as it rained earlier and heavier than forecast so we had to cut the walk short. I managed only 5,000 steps when I usually get between 10 and 12,000 so it’s not a good start. I have drunk several glasses of water which is very unusual for me and I had soup for lunch.

i feel I should do an exercise routine to make up for the missing steps but it’s such a drag I really don’t want to. I’m going to prepare my side salad early because nearer dinner time I can’t be bothered so I leave it out and that can’t happen today. It’s so cold and miserable out and I’m sitting with a glass of water, it just feels wrong. I think I’ll make a coffee for warmth and comfort but I’m staying away from those lattes because they make me eat.

Made a batch of spinach soup. It is becoming more palatable! I'm seem to be going a little off cereal recently. I used to not be able to go an evening without a bowl. Had some soup instead. May try and have this as a new habit as should help to lose weight switching from cereal to soup on an evening.

Hi everyone.

happy Easter, I hope you are all having a good holiday.

so far so good. I still need to be exercising a bit more, but I seem to be sleeping a lot more. Last night instead of my usual chocolate binge I had an apple and some grapes. Dinner was large but had a lot of vegetables and I made a large side salad which I didn’t eat. Much later in the evening when I was getting hungry, I really enjoyed the side salad so I’m wondering if this is the way to go, make up a salad in the afternoon and have it for supper. It seems really wrong, but if it works, I’ll go with it.

It’s still quite miserable weather here so we’ll do a dog walk but I’m not sure for how long. One of my dogs is a real drama queen when it rains. She has her nose to the floor, eyes looking down and she suddenly stops and won’t move, then she starts to limp. We bring her home and suddenly the limping stops and her foot is alright.

Apart from the dog walk, I’m not sure what’s on the agenda today but I don’t think I’ll be doing too much. I hope everyone really enjoys the Easter break, I just wish it would stop raining here.

@thenewaveragebear1983

how’s it going? Are you feeling any happier? did you manage to de-stress and re-set? I hope you’re ok.

Hi everyone!

@poorpawsi have just accepted that regardless of my great intentions, it’s not going to be possible to be back on it until after tomorrow. There’s just too much temptation and I do want to enjoy my Easter egg (I have only 1 thankfully, I couldn’t cope if dh bought me 6!!) Family coming today for a walk with kids and doggos and this afternoon we are visiting Dh’s family for more fun with cousins and Easter eggs. All good.

we’ll have a nice roast tomorrow. And then on Monday I really am getting back in the zone. My plan is to be quite strict, I know it doesnt work for everyone but I actually really enjoy it, not cutting calories as such but cutting all the crap out of my diet for a few weeks and hoping I feel better/more energy/ fewer of these lingering aches and pains and other symptoms.

I was going to go for a run this morning but I just couldn’t face it so I have run the vacuum round, put some fresh flowers out and lit my posh candle and now ready for the day.

Hi all. I seem to be an lbs or two lower than 14.0 stone, so a record for me! Tummy doesn't seem to be much slimmer, although a slight improvement I believe.

Going to try start doing tummy tenses again on the bed and couch as part of a proper routine to try speed up the weight loss a little.

Hi,

Can I join you? Maybe having an outlet for all this will help.

Summary - 46, 5ft6, BMI of about 28. My weight has gradually crept up the last few years, especially on my tummy, and I'm now properly unhappy about it. I was OK when I moved up a dress size, but now I'm at the top end of that size, and I've had enough.

My weaknesses aren't chocolate, or cakes, but things like cheese. I'm always worried I'll be hungry if I don't eat enough, and so portion size is an issue. I feel like I have to fill myself up, even though I don't need to. Exercise-wise, I'm not unfit. I walk everywhere and go to the gym 2-3 times a week. I usually do my own thing, but have an appointment with a trainer this week to get some advice.

My plan is to maximise my exercise so it's as effective as possible. I also want to psychologically change how I feel about food, and cut down portion sizes.

The time to change is now!

Hi @heelie278 , exercise is obviously good, but to combat weight, I'd focus more on combating food addiction. I find going down relaxation routes the best. Schedule time to lay on bed tensing and relaxing tummy muscles. Drink water when you are wanting to eat cheese. When you do eat cheese, I'd recommend feeling a little shame and all the reasons not to, or schedule when and how much cheese to eat.

Good luck with however you approach this!

Hi everyone. Welcome @heelie278 😊 I totally get what you mean about cheese - like chocolate, I can't have it in the house (other than parmesan/grana padano which, bizarrely, is in a different category in my head 😁).

Well, so far I've managed to avoid all Easter eggs (although my son-in-law is coming over this evening, so we'll see if he is on message!). We're going out for an Indian meal, which doesn't concern me at all as the food is really healthy in the place we go to.

Hope everyone's having a reasonable day.

Went to my in-laws yesterday and didn’t drink. Food was ok but I did have dessert. I felt absolutely dreadful all night, like I was going to be sick, but I wasn’t- I just kept getting up and sitting on the bathroom floor feeling like death. I feel a bit better now but it’s really put a damper on my day, I feel very delicate.

i pretty much wrote off today and yesterday, I haven’t calorie counted or weighed myself. I’m starting tomorrow a big detox, I sat and wrote out a long list of all my ‘ailments’ ranging from palpitations, aches and pains, anxiety and low mood , binges and sugar crashes and just generally feeling exhausted, old and tired. I’ve decided it’s go big or go home, so I’ve decided I’m going to do a round of Whole30. I am away next weekend which probably won’t be on plan but i will just get back on it once I’m back. My shopping is coming tomorrow, my menu is planned and to be honest, I really can’t wait to start

hope you’re all having a lovely Easter weekend.

Awwww.

Weighed this morning and another lb close to my new target of 13.0. Trying to use food up for the next couple of days so no naughty treats.

I have some noodles which I'm having with veg as a stew and home made soup from frozen veg. Drinking plenty of water when having cravings. Having soup as evening food.

I may try to cut out the noodles once finished current stock.

Feeling a bit better this evening, but I’m clearly under a virus of some sort because I am having terrible palpitations. My Easter egg was very nice, it was a luxury salted caramel one from Lidl and dh cooked a roast. Stuffed now.

I am very very very looking forward to feeling a lot healthier from tomorrow though. I listened to a really excellent podcast with rangan chattergee about sugar and the benefits of doing a 10 day full detox from UPF. He said most people have no idea how much better they can feel- this really struck a chord with me. I actually do know, I’ve done this before, so I am looking forward to feeling better.

@heelie278 hi and welcome.

@thenewaveragebear1983 you are sounding so positive right now I know you can do this. I’m sorry to hear you have been so out of sorts, but hopefully from tomorrow you’ll feel so much better.

my last two days have just gone in a flash. I don’t see DD very often but at the moment we’ve got some things to work out for her and she’s got a new rescue dog this weekend so I’ve seen her all weekend and it feels really weird. Things haven’t gone to plan today as I was awake all night last night, worrying about DD And today I was really exhausted, although we did a very long dog walk and I’m looking forward to sleeping tonight.

So I guess we’re all back on it tomorrow. Good luck everyone and those weighing in, I hope it goes well.

Hi everyone and happy Easter Monday to you all.

Although I started my “detox” (not exactly a strict detox) on Friday and weighed in on Friday, I decided this morning to go back to my normal Monday morning weigh-in. I think I must be a creature of habit because I didn’t like a different day to weigh in. Anyway, I’ve lost 1.5 lbs since Friday although I do realise that’s water retention but even so it’s a start. I’m starting this week at 11 st 11.5 lbs which is very high for me but as we always say life gets in the way.

i’ve got a lot to do today. I’m meeting DD to sort out some more of her problems and a long dog walk is definitely on the cards. I’ve got plenty of salad left (I’m really enjoying my side salads) and enough jacket potatoes to last the week it’s just what I’m going to eat as protein with all of that. I’ve also got home-made soup for lunches.

Ive filled my water bottle with cold water and a slice of lime for the dog walk instead of all the fizzy diet Coke I drink although in all honesty there will be Coke as well as the water.

I hope all goes well for everyone today, especially those starting afresh like me.

Morning all.

Sorry to hear about the various physical and family trials and tribulations: I sometimes wonder when there might be some respite from life's issues - the true answer is, probably, never! Life would be easy if it wasn't for people!

I've managed to avoid all Easter eggs (my daughter is working away and sent me some marzipan fruits instead, which I love) and my visiting son-in-law stayed on message, so that was good.

I'm also a Monday morning weigh-er but, this being a Bank Holiday in the UK, and having just managed a very busy Lent, Holy Week and Easter, my timing is all out of whack so this morning I completely forgot to get on the scales. Wondering whether to weigh tomorrow, or give myself an extra week so it looks even better (always the optimist!) next week....

I've just been looking back (as a complete newbie!) at the contributors to this thread, and realised that we are very few in number. That's actually rather nice, I think, as it feels friendly, and as though we 'know' each other a bit.

However, I'm also aware that this is not the first incarnation of this thread (I believe they 'run out' at 100/200/500?? posts) so have been idly wondering if a lot of people have dropped off on the way. And that led me to think about (you can tell I've got a day off!) what it is that helps people stick to groups like this, and what makes them fall by the wayside (or choose to leave, of course)? Just musing...

@ToutesetBonne I’ve been on this thread since the very beginning, although I have wandered off along the way, eg when my dog died, when I wasn’t well etc but I always come back because it’s so supportive here and definitely without judgement which I like. My weight has fluctuated a lot during this time between 12 sts and as low as 10st 1 lb.

a lot of people have passed through some for very short periods and some have stayed for a considerable time. There are two ladies I can think of who come back occasionally and pop off again. A few have reached their goal and left, some must have given up and one person has used something like Ozempic (or similar) and has never been at her present low weight for years.

it is very friendly here and we always welcome new faces but I wonder if being a long term thread (I believe we are thread 7) puts people off as it might seem cliquey although it’s definitely not.

im pleased you’re here and enjoying being with us. We occasionally talk of other things which affect our lives like home and garden renovations, family and of course pets. 😀

Thanks @poorpaws - that's really interesting.

I joined in….thread 3, or 4? I like that it’s a small group as well, some of the bigger threads with lots of contributors feel a bit more anonymous but they move on very quickly and I don’t keep track of who is who.

my shopping has arrived and my fridge looks fully restocked and very healthy. I think I have overbought though, it will probably last 2 weeks! I am going to spend the day planting my little kitchen garden despite the rain, and then I want to go for a run and will take Maggie out again later for an additional walk.

if anyone would like some easy bank holiday listening, I can highly recommend this podcast, I love Dr c anyway but I found this very interesting and it’s confirmed to me what I need to do to kick start myself a bit. podcast - it may have been someone in here who originally recommended it to me so apologies if it’s already been mentioned.

Have a great bank holiday Monday all, whatever you are up to!

Hi all.

@ToutesetBonne Welcome! It's 1000 max replies per thread. I joined from about thread three. It seemed a very friendly thread to join. I was on another site where I got a reply which wasn't very nice and very critical about my weightloss attempt so left.

I was posting less and less up to about a month ago here as I just couldn't get lower than 14.0 stone and it was demotivating, but managed it a week or so ago.

Just weighed now and the scales are showing just under 14.0 so a little increase, but I did binge a bit on pasta and hotdogs last night, though I'm binging less and less recently, touch wood. I didn't drink much wster yesterday which was probably the main issue, so hopefully drinking plenty from today.

I have been an absolute slimming angel today 😇
no UPF, stuck to calories, lots of veg and fruit.
I’ve batch cooked lots for the week as well- scotch eggs, sweet potato chunks, mayonnaise and breakfast chia pots with coconut milk and raisins.

back to the office tomorrow. Tuesday is always my danger zone but as it’s school holidays there’s no rush after work and no football. I will be a bit more able to stay on track.

Morning all , the title of this thread spoke to me as I have failed so many times to lose the weight.
Back to work today after 2.weeks holiday so this feels like a good time to start (agajn)
My first goal is to get under 15srone which makes me sad in itself as I feel so bad letting myself get so heavy.

Anyway hi all and hope to get to know everyone .