I’m done

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We’re barely past Boxing Day. But I’m done. I’m starting now. I’m so overweight. I’ve finally sickened myself of it all. All the chocolate, cakes, sweets. It’s all stress and anxiety and I need to stop now.

I saw an M&S Yule log reduced today and bought it. We had one at Christmas already! I saw sense when I got home and had a slice. I felt so ill I binned the entire thing. Then I went through the cupboards and binned every single other snack.

I’m officially done. I need to lose weight. So pissed off with myself letting it get out of hand like this. Anyone with me?

Me too!!! My body feels rubbish from all the “wrong” food the past few days.

I'm the same. I've signed up to BIWI's January Boot Camp on here to make the changes.

Absolutely. I’ve just tipped myself over the edge completely. I suppose I had to hit a limit and then seriously think about what I’m doing.

It’s going to be a long road and small changes I think. All chocolate and cakes are out the window but today I had porridge for breakfast and a bowl of
soup for lunch and I was just ravenous at dinner time so ate far too much tuna pasta. I need to figure things out and get a handle on this.

What is this? Can you send a link? In the past I’ve only ever lost weight on my own terms. I’m not good with things like slimming world and so on. But I’m interested to have a look

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/low_carb_bootcamp/5456204-january-26-low-carb-bootcamp-the-sign-up-thread

It's low carbing. I've done it before and it does work, although personally it's not a 'forever' way of eating for me, I prefer calorie counting for daily maintenance in the long term.

Low carbing could be the kick start you need, and I found the thread very supportive and motivational when I did it last time.

Good luck, whichever approach you take!

Thank you for linking. I’m not good at keeping up with this sort of thing and definitely prefer to go it alone. But I do like the chat and the motivation so I’ll be a lurker on that thread for ideas to help me along

Good for you!!

I've lost 7 stone this year and its the best I have ever felt!!

New year, new you! Smash it x

In one year? Wow 🤩 how did you go about it?

If you can afford it Mounjaro is the way to go.

I can afford to but really don’t want to inject anything into myself. I just need to stop eating so much.

I tried WW, SW, calorie counting etc and lost and gained the same stone for YEARS. Only by taking Mounjaro and religiously calorie counting using the Nutracheck and Happy Scale apps have I finally lost five and a half stones. I can understand your reluctance to use it (I was too) but it’s the only thing that’s worked for me.

I know what you mean. Sometimes you need that support to keep going that isn't available in real life. I definitely need accountability so I'll try it. I think it's been run for years and people do get results from it.

Mounjaro. Started on 20.01.25. I went from a size 18 to a 10. If you can afford it I highly recommend.

No wonder you were ravenous , id have been eating around myself

Protein is the food that fills you for longer

For me I find porridge makes me hungry early but what really fills me is a large portion of greek yoghurt ( I do use fat free as I make my own ) and a large portion of berries and perhaps a chopped apple for the crunch

Lunch I would use wholemeal bread - just a slice - and make a big open sandwich with a tonne of salad and a pile of protein and if really hungry - have a bowl of HM soup

Then dinner, I eat the same as the family - but I have half my plate of veg. Even if Im cooking spaghetti bolognese, I make room on the plate for either a salad or something like grilled peppers and asparagus. By time Ive waded through that, I eat a much smaller portion of spaghetti

I lost over 2 stone and am maintaining for two years , never even gained a pound over christmas , because now I eat balanced meals, Im not looking at snacks

If I do go off the rails - cos if I start on the sweet stuff, I find it hard to stop - I just draw a line and start again with the next meal

I don’t know… not that long ago a decent sized bowl of porridge and large bowl of soup would have been plenty for me until tea time. Now I just pile on too much dinner and all the chocolate and cakes around about too. I can’t force myself to eat what I don’t like so things like Greek yoghurt are of no interest to me. I like eggs for breakfast but that’s usually a weekend thing.

I have porridge for breakfast and it works for me (I'm in weight maintenance). I calorie count so to make this easy I just use a sachet to which you add milk and microwave it ( stops 'portion creep' if you use individual sachets).

Perhaps try something a bit more 'solid' than soup for your lunch - a wholemeal roll with, say, lean turkey ham and salad or similar, or Ryvitas with cottage cheese/other topping that isn't horrendously high in calories.

Eggs are great and you can eat lots of them on almost any diet because they're low in fat and sugar and high in protein.

I have thought about injections but the idea that I'd need to stay on them forever does put me off. I looked into an accountability / personal food coach type person for similar money to Moinjara/ wejovy but not quite found the right person. My current strategy this Jan is going to be to let myself stray/ eat 'badly' (ie sugar or a meal out or a few drinks) 20% of the month ( 6 days ) and then try and eat sugar and alcohol free the rest of the time (80%, 24/25 days). If I manage that by the end of the month I'll pay myself £100, to go towards frivolous expenditure. Who knows if it will work but nothing else has! If I can eat fairly balanced and well most of the time and not give into my sweet tooth or mindless grazing then maybe it will work. That said, I'll prob get bored of the whole thing and self sabotage like all my other attempts!

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Eggs are great for breakfast, a couple scrambled takes 90 secs in the microwave . Slice of wholemeal, some baked beans, sliced tomatoes or a tin of them - a high protein, fibre laden meal which will stop the 10 o'clock mid morning munchies

Find the foods you can actually face and work with those. I dont think Breakfast - has to be cereal /toast etc, I think Im hungry - what will keep me going till I get to eat again - can be cheese on toast or a tin of sardines or a tin of beans Fruit and yoghurt is my personal favourite because I dont want to carb so early - carbs give me a glucose spike and Im hungry quicker

Ive just eaten a mountain of turkey and ham with a decent sized portion of bubble an squeak with fresh tomatoes, beets, and a selection of pickles Im stuffed

For me its no special diet as such, yes I go to SW as I like the accountability, but I dont buy into their use this, use that, ready meals, fry lite culture. Just the balancing of plates of food and then as weight drops just building on the exercise to keep muscle tone

I was the original veg dodger Now I eat a good variety of veg because that fills me up for very few calories. I seriously thought I didnt like cottage cheese, having memories of the bitter liquid stuff we had in the 70's. Now its thick and creamy and actually yummy

Sure there's a lot of foods I still am not fussed on but I at least try them

The thing is, Ive battled with weight on and off over the years and have never been happy overweight and I dont want to be sat there in another ten years feeling as I did that day that I finally decided enough was enough. Eating foods I previously had no interest in before is to me an acceptable trade off

Thanks everyone. It does help to read your experiences. I think a key change for me is I just can’t buy in snacks and chocolate anymore. It simply can’t be in the house. I love things like raw veg and humous to snack on but if there’s chocolate or cake in the house of course I won’t reach for the healthy snacks.