SUPPORT for the LONG TERM SLIMMER (4)

[champs]

Here you go

Yes he's here, and he's delightful. I managed to find time yesterday to eat a whole bar of Green & Blacks, a big one not the good little one that www eats. I think I'll have to shorten my time off before I go back to dieting as I noticed today that my waistband and bra are getting a little tighter. As summer is coming I plan to do lots of walking, and pushing the pushchair will give me a great upper body workout too. I can already feel biceps developing from rocking Branboy to sleep at night. Who needs a personal training? Only non-parents, that's who.

Hi all, just checking in again.

GF, hope Venice goes well for you. And Puff, have a fab time in barcelona. Champs, as you asked (though don't want to encourage you! lol) I like to make BBQ kebabs by skewering mediteranean veg alternating with chunks of halloumi, then a little drizzle of olive oil. mmmmmmmmmmm
www - pmsl @ old women's knickers!!!! Thnak you, you may have cured my addicytion. And congrats on your maintenance.
puff - fab loss, I'm v. jealous. Well done.
Bran - congrats on the arrival of branboy. Must be a very exciting time for you.
moonshine - nope, def not just you

Well, last week was pretty pants. Found my dreaded sweet tooth was hampering all efforts to be good. Came to tuesday-weigh-day and ......
nothing! Well, maybe a shade off (like .2 kg or something - sorry, I can only do metric) but nothing worth reporting. V. lucky not to put on, what with all the sweet stuff, but I seem to be getting a little better at eating only when hungry, and not for the myriad other reasons that I want food.
Decided I needed a bit of a break so have taken the week off. Not to go mad, or anything, but just to relax a bit. Try and head off any stress and frustration that might develop from this sticky patch. So it'll probably be no surprise to hear that this week I'm doing quite well! Was feeling super healthy this am with having a fab day yesterday, and going to me yoga class in the evening. Decided to have a sneaky weigh in and since last tues (9 days) have managed to shift this stubborn half kilo! woo hoo! So will hopefully keep it up, though saturday'll be a big bust as my antenatal class are getting together for a joint birthday party for our 5 babes.
My rough plan is to relax until the end of april, then try really hard for may/june/july. Poxy way to motivate onesself, but I'm going to a wedding in august and want to look fab just to prove to a certain person that I can .

Have a great week, all,

Ox.

Well done oxymoron!
Bran, welcome to bran boy!

whoever wants tips for sweet things avoidance here you go: I didn't used to like sweet things, I really didn't but now I do, which is a damn shame. I can easily resist ice cream (there's some in the fridge now) but if I want something sweet I have sesame snaps, 165 cals, 50% of which is sugar, which is NOT good but at least sesame seeds are good for you; or a 20g bar of Green & Blacks, which is only 100 cal; or I buy dark dairy free chocolate (I try not to eat dairy but fail sometimes, see G&B habit above)and batch it up into 100 cal clingfilmed portions, kept in my fridge door, high up, where ds can't see it!

I was asked by a shelf stacker in Sainsbury's today when's that one due? (pointing at my stomach! so fing fing hell, that's sure given me some motivation!

Yesterday I was good, had lots of fruit, veg, tuna steak for supper but spoilt it all by drinking wine in the evening. Pants! Today:

2 pieces toast, olive spread, marmite
1 box raisins
1 quarter peanut butter sandwich (dd's)
1 smoked salmon sandwich
1 sesame snap
1 apple
and I think we're having prawns for tea.

LOL bran, sorry to disapoint you but i deff need a personal trainer or at least a personal food police officer

Ox -- well done and keep it up.

www -- ty for tips but you are not helping my dreaded choc craving by mentioning yummy delicious chocolate.... best thing to happen to me(in a weird way) was that the other day I ate some choc and came out in a horrid rash on my face, chest and arms!! so that has been a deterent so far for me.
btw, at sainsbury assistant!!! some people!!! but if it helped to motivate you then you take a mature approach and take the positive out of such a negative situation.... or you could go for the imature approach and next time(hopefully never happen again) ask the person when's their operation to take their foot out of their mouth was due..... or if it a woman say when it's conceived, how about you...when's yours due?!
sorry As you can see I am in a verry imature mood!!

HI guys thanks for all the messages. I went to Veice and it was awseome romantic and brilliant. Me and DH have agreed to a six month trial at making things better and some counselling so that is good. We are going to work together on his company more as well.

Anyway I am going back to the gym on Sunday and starting my new thin me six month miracle! I will need all the support I can get so will post more!

Champs hun wagon wheels! You are very naughty whatever happened to the hippos?

Bran hope all is going well with new branboy! Congratulations mum!

Glitter!! wonderful news!
ooo Happy hippos..... slurp.

How is the pregnancy Champs?

going well ty. still have sickness but has eased up alot. also very wobbly at the moment both emotionally and phisically
how are you today? how's kiddies? any more ballet recitals(sp)?

Great to hear Champs. I am fine and am just off to ballet having, like an angel, agreed to an extra child whilst my friend goes shopping in Manchester!

So I have four today! And three buns to do. I have had nail extensions so am finding gripping pins a little difficult. I had hoped that extra long nails would also curb my eating as it would be more difficult to wipe up crumbs but have found putting the plate to my mouth the only solution LOL!

Oh no re putting plate to mouth glitterf! Made me laugh though! Champs, sorry you're wobbly, I detest being pregnant, poor you.

I took ds out for lunch today, just the 2 of us and was v good, he had chips and garlic bread followed by choc ice cream and I had monkfish and king prawns and salad and water. and we walked a couple of miles there and back. I am drinking tonight and did last night though so it will all be a bit undone. He's a sweetie, he wanted the chocolate fondue with marshmallows, fruit, toffee and biscuits but said he wouldn't as it would be too much temptation for me, bless him. I hate chocolate ice cream so no prob with his having that. Today I've had

2 pieces toast, marmite
2 apples
a piece of monkfish
3 king prawns
salad
a few strawberries
a handful of grapes
a quarter of a pitta with a scrape of peanut butter on it (dd's)
and we're having salmon steaks tonight with roasted veg (broccoli, carrots, baby sweetcorn, onions, garlic, small amount olive oil on them to roast) plus green beans in garlic and soy
plus white wine

I tried on a skirt today and although the size is as I thought, I looked like a heifer (and then had to explain to ds what a heifer was, after which he said 'No, you don't look like one of those mummy' bless him!) and it really incentivised me before lunch. So there's my top tip, try on clothes before lunch so that by the time you get to food you are newly motivated if a little pissed off!

lol gliter, maybe i need loder nails too!!

www -- wat a sweetie ds is. I have to go shopping for some trousers, dreading it will be peed off for more than lunch time.

WWW arent sons great? MY girls are very different and often too honest but my boy is always gorgeous about me and my weight! NOt sure about the clothes thing though as often the reverse works with me. I might go into a sulk and think well I may as well eat because nothing works!

Glitterfairy - glad you've gone some way to a more hopeful future. Could do with a romantic trip to Venice myself to try and light the flame under my marriage but that's another story...

WWW - do you mind me asking, how much have you got to lose then? I know it's all relative, but seem to have a picture of you not being a heifer but slightly more rounded than you would like. My neighbour did not even know I was pregnant (despite seeing me most days) until she heard my ds crying! And I was huge. No, I was ginormous. Made me despair of what I must have looked like pre-pregnancy!

Hi everyone, lovely to see this thread buzzing again .

Confession time..........I went away for a 2 night break and came back 6lbs heavier - eek!

Now, I wasn't that naughty - not a big drinker, no snacks between meals and nothing laden with fat etc. So, I reckon the culprit is bread. Bread was served at every meal and I like it and I haven't really eaten it for months and it was my birthday and I thought "what the hell" - live a little - eat a bread roll or two!

The result was my stomach blew up like a balloon, I got awful headaches, felt like I'd drunk a bottle of scotch a day, I'm still constipated 3 days later and still feel lousy .

Guess that's no more bread for me then huh?

Puff - norty norty! (or should that be lucky lucky) But I bet some of that weight gain is some extra water attracted to all those lovely carbs so you should lose it quite quickly again.

God I cannot beleive that puff! Nightmare.

I have probably lost loads today as my car was stolen in front of me whilst I paid for petrol! Worst of all I had left my ds new ballet outfit in the car and she is devestated!

aw glitterfairy, thats terrible
have the police found it??

Oh no glitterfairy! How awful! At least your children weren't in it - did you see the thread about it yesterday?

Oh puff, bread, now that is my downfall too, that and butter, I simply cannot have it in the house or I will eat lots of bread slathered in it. 6lbs in 2 days! Blimey! Surely though if it is bread then you just (just! I know, easier typed than done) have to stop and that 6lbs will drop off.

Moonshine, how have you got a photo of me? Eeek! Did you used to be someone else and have I got your email address and did I send it to you? Or did someone forward it to you? Is it of me with brand new dd in pink socks? I really don't want to say how much I've got to lose but I reckon it'll take the rest of this year on 1,500 cals/day. How depressing is that?

I am back on the wagon after a bank holiday weekend of eating and drinking too much. I am going out with a friend on Sat night though and will be drinking.

Oh and yesteday

2 pieces toast, marmite, olive spread
2 apples
omelette made with 1 egg, the pan with a slight coating of olive oil applied with a pastry brush, half a yellow pepper and a v small amount of goat's cheese
1 carrot dipped in hummus (not much though)
handful of grapes
lentil hotpot (lentils, carrots, tomatoes, herbs, tomato puree, veg stock, garlic, onions, small amt of olive oil)
50 cal dark chocolate
No booze

Hello, feel such a failure. You are all plugging away and I am eating as if it is the last of the food in the cupboard

How awful GF !

WWW - I'm the same with bread - can't stop eating it, but must say, I didn't eat that much - 2 small rolls for brekkie, then 2 more, one with lunch, then dinner. I'm convinced I've got a wheat intolerance - think I might have the testing done when I can find some spare cash.

Fio, hun - I'm a great believer in "needing to be in the right place in my head" to lose weight - if you don't feel like you could stick to an eating plan at the mo, then try not to stress about it - do it when you feel ready, just try to maintain your weight for the mo .

Fio, I have only lost 1.5 stone in five months, it ain't that good my dear, if I'd have been weighing a bit more often to see the scales going up and down and drinking less I'm sure I'd have lost more in that time. It is bloody hard isn't it? Food is nice. Dieting is boring. Fat Girl Slim is a great help though, I do re read it when I need motivating. God, don't listen to me though, I should have lost a lot more in that time and have a long way to go yet.

what is fat girl slim like? I have bought the you are what you eat books but without a kitchen at the mo and I just wouldnt even be able to contemplate sticking to it. I still have to have my wine on a weekend too, must cut down again in the week though. 1.5 stone in 5 months is great

Sorry glitterfairy, i didnt see your message before. that must have been really awful for you

Gawd GF, that is awful. I'm paranoid about locking my car/house ever since someone broke into our flat when I was in it (stood at the top of the stairs watching him open-mouthed but luckily he legged it after greeting me with an 'alright').

WWW - I keep detailed files on all mn'tters 'just in case', hee hee hee (mad-eyed emoticon).

Hopefully I will have lost close to 2 stone on Lighterlife by this Saturday but abstaining from food and drink has been the only thing (so far) to help me lose weight and not put it back on every weekend. I confess that I am a complete food (and drink!) addict and an all or nothing girl. I've still got about 5.5 stones to lose but think the hardest thing will be re-educating my eating habits long-term.

Moonshine, please tell me, how have you got my photo? You're scaring me now!