Fedda/Kidsrus & Co - Over here - New thread as we need to keep going!!

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New thread, new start. Come on guys keep up the good work. Other thread won't allow any more posts so needed to start a new one. Heres hoping you will all keep posting.

Happy New Year! XX

i can't believe it's 2/01! how is everyone? i'm taking it gradually so I did have 2 little chocolates today but not too bad considering.

Hi Fedda - Same here, taking it slowly and not beating myself up about the choccies I have eaten (still have loads in the house), but have tried to compensate with tuna salad for tea and am now heading to the gym.

Well, no gym here I'm afraid but i had fish with vegies and little amount of chips, tiny helping of trifle and i'm going to have tea with grapes later.

Fedda - don't worry about gym, I am sure if you are anything like me (and the amount I have eaten the last week), just cutting down and watching our portion sizes should help us lose a little weight at least - heres hoping I'm right?!?

Thank you, Fimbles. you are so positive and inspiring

Sadly, I volunteered to help in the works children's Party Today. So had a free, fried breakfast and had coffee and choc all day too. I have no will power! Not helping tomorrow so can eat normally. Really start on Monday when things are back to normal.

Don't worry, Starbear, I'm sure everybody is still having the extras as the kids are still home and the temptation is huge with so many left overs. monday is a good day to start for me as well. Let's go for it. We can do it

Starbear - I am here too. I think I need to restart properly on Monday also. I am back to work and so at least I can only eat what I have packed up and taken with me. I have also had a really bad day, needed to go shopping for food, so prior to this had loads of left over cheese and crackers for lunch. Still eating the tin of quality street (I have finished the tin of roses ), hubby cooked beef curry for tea, but ate naan bread too and am now sitting feeling extremely uncomfortable in my jeans that are now too small (only bought them two weeks before Christmas). So all in all, not a good day here either. Looking forward to Monday.

How is everyone? I need to loose 4 kg. I think this Christmas was my worst in overeating and i'm still not eating sensibly I'm afraid. I keep saying tomorrow when I should say today.

Me too!! Didn't do too bad on Monday, but today has been a different story. We opened more choccies at work and I couldn't resist. I keep thinking when there gone I won't be able to eat anymore, but I am sure there will always be something else to tempt me. I think overall I have gained about 6lbs over Christmas and that is on top of what I had to lose so not great. I know I keep saying the same thing Fedda, and it probably doesn't help, but I do know how you feel so please try not to beat yourself up about it. This time of year we are all in the same boat, and it doesn't help when every magazine you pick up has some diet fad plastered across the front. We are in this together and have been for sometime - We do not need diets, we will be there for each other and in time will change our eating habits for the better. Keep Smiling X

Good to see you are doing as you are told!!!

Not feeling good. very stressed and late in from work for the past three days, with DS coming into our bed 1st night 3 in a bed not good 2nd night DH went to DS's bed 3rd night me in DS's bed and I didn't sleep. Could be the reason I didn't crack it this week.

How about starting ths Monday?

Will do. The boys are out tomorrow morning. I'll sit down and write out a exercise and menu plan that will suit us as a family. Really put my mind to it Thanks for your support

Happy New Year to you all!
Welcome back starbear good to see you.
Im sorry i have been avoiding this thread thinking i would let you all down but can see you are all in the same mind set which is reassuring.
I like the advice from your gym instructor "only eat bread once a day, replace snacks with fruit, drink two cups of hot water a day, and cut out all juice drinks."
I think i will try to take that advice.
I have tried to eat healthy but also added a few extra left overs i hate waste!
Do you think i can add home made parsnip cake to my menu for the fruit and veg content? It is yummy!
Any way im back to walking to & from school but its so cold i just want to hybernate and not exercise. Any ideas to get me going with a 3 yo in tow!

I have salads and fruit but I overeat and I jave chocolate and ice cream often. I need to loose some weight but I don't do anything sensible about it. I'm hoping to start having soupw although I feel so lazy cooking them for myself and I've gone off shop bought including soups I used to like. I must get back to sensible eating.

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I think they are right Fedda. I need to stop taking monster nibbles instead mice nibbles. For me its the sugar highs and lows. I'm a very poor sleeper and get very stressed I think one feeds off the other. I had to get up at five this morning to get a train at 5.49am, which I missed with myself. I was too hot during the night, sent my duvet to be cleaned, using the deep winter duvet. Woke up at 2.30am and didn't really sleep after that. Got up and instead of Porridge or toast had Cheerios. Got to work offered a latte said yes, then offered a coffee and mini danish yes again. Someone else got my lunch, wasn't really hungry but ate a huge cheese and pickle bap ate it while doing very stress inducing work. Allowed to leave work at 2.30pm Home now had a kids yogurt! When I'm home with the boy I just need a constant supply of tea and biscuits to get me through the tedious bits of the day of housework while being interuptted with Mummmy! Mummy! play with me, help me, can I help you, which is sweet but drags the tedious house work into a longer chore. Reading this back to myself I think I need a food diary??? What do you think?

I didn't have time to have lunch so after a good start with poridge with grapes and cherries and honey I had 2 natural bars with 2 syrop flavoured coffees, another coffee later with halva and chili con carne with rice, shop bought trafle and coffee with crackers. Each cup with 2 sugars. Terrible! Weekend is ahead! i have to say it again - let's start next Monday - I keep saying it for 2 weeks now! Not good.

hear hear!

We still have xmas chocs here and dd likes to share with me
I have seen a poster for a lbt class starting at the end of jan so intend to start exercise then.
Walked/ran to and from school today (trying to keep up with kids!)

shredded wheat for brekki, salad for lunch, bangers mash and beans for tea,pop corn snack 3 digestives 15 smarties 6 chocolate animal biscuit, a handful of salted peanuts,peach,grapes what can i eat now

also 2 fruit teas (boiled water) 2 coffees with 1 and 1 cup a tea.
didnt i do well

i will keep trying i promise.

Oh Blimey you lot, we are all really crap at this healthy eating lark arent't we?!? The only good thing about it is that we are all struggling, so at least we can support each other. Well I've decided to come along to kick you all up the backside. We are no longer going to put off until tomorrow what we can do today. So as of NOW!!!! we are going to cut out all the rubbish and start eating healthily. What do you think? I need somebody to be really firm about this as I have been putting this off for far too long now, and the weight is increasing rapidly. So I am now off to bed, but tomorrow is another day and I can do this and so can you too. (Enough said - who's with me?!?).... or have I scared you all away?

Oh, I just had coffee with 2 sugars and pringles!

I'll let you off but you WILL start Monday won't you? I started on Thursday and so far have been really good, but thats me isn't it, good for 3-4 days and then I will probably go downhill mid week, however, so far so good so trying to remain positive.