The Only One Pound Club..... need to lose over 2 stone? Join here for moral support!!

[Alambil]

Hi girls!!

Right.... the rules:

1 No big goals.
2 No failing.
3 No guilt trips.

Our goals need to be realistic. It freaks me out to think I need to lose 10 stone. That's 140 pounds - it's a WHOLE PERSON!!!!

Therefore I propose that we make ourselves realistic goals. Ignore the final hurdle; the first hurdle is my first half a stone.

7 lbs.

No failing: if you put on any weight, then IT IS ALRIGHT. It will come off again.

We will try our best to keep our weight going down, but if it has a blip, then it has a blip - no big deal, ok?

I am sick and tired of putting myself on and feeling guilt tripped by people because I put a pound or two on this week.

NEWSBREAK: it doesn't matter in the big picture!

Focus on the positives.

We will encourage each other as we muddle along together, agreed?

Here is our inspiration to keep going:

Only One Pound

Hello! Do you know me? If you don't, you should. I'm a pound of fat. And I am the happiest pound of fat that you would ever want to meet.

Want to know why? It's because no one ever wants to lose me; I'm ONLY ONE POUND, just a pound!

Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds, or fifteen pounds, but never only one.

So I just stick around and happily keep you fat. Then I add to myself, ever so slyly, so that you never seem to notice it. That is until I've grown to ten, twenty, thirty or even more pounds in weight.

Yes, it's fun being ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT, left to do as I please.

So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying, "Oh, I only lost one pound." (As if that were such a terrible thing) For you see, if you do this, you'll encourage others to keep me around because they'll think I'm not worth losing.

And, I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you.

Happy Days!!! After all, I'm ONLY ONE POUND OF FAT!!!

oooh, I lost two last week, but probably due to 24 hour tummy bug over Sat/Sun!

I'm sure I've out it all back on today as I have eaten waaaaaaaay too much.

well done on the pounds lost everyone

Hi eddas; that sounds like a really wise plan. My downfall is denying myself things and then I just crave them and cave in.

I'm trying to watch portion control, but had a huge roast dinner tonight and ate rather too many roasties!

yes i am also targeting the evening meal as the time when i eat the most unnecessarily.

i reckon if i cut down on portion size and accept that sometimes i will have to eat different food to dp and the dcs, that could have quite a big impact for quite little effort. up til now i've tried to go along with this idea that we should all sit around and eat the same food. but dp doesn't like healthy food really, and there's always lots of rice / pasta / potatoes and sauces and stuff that i can't resist. better for me to say i will just have salad and stick to it and don't even taste what they are having.

well done to everyone who has good news and is feeling better!

i find standing and sitting up straight makes me want to be good, if that makes sense! i soooo want to be able to report back some good news sometime soon...

Excellent Hippi, imagine me missing that rofl. Well done to you, brilliant!

Same to you Bella and Ladymariner, keep it up.

I have been so so so bad today again, please give me a boot in the arse and make me get back to it. FGS I'm going on holiday next Monday . What is wrong with me!!???

The day started off well, took my cambridge packs to work with me. Then decided to have a Frusli bar for breakfast, not so bad says I. Then the lunch van came and I thought sod it, I'll start again tomorrow and had a egg mayo baguette, a chicken and mushroom soup and a pancake with butter . THEN 4pm comes, I'm starving (bloody carbs) and I had a Bounty. Got home and had mince n tatties with brocolli and cauliflower. Blew it big time when I got the jar of Nutella out and ate 4 big spoons. Have now just eaten two packs of skips and a chewee bar. I am definitely addicted to food.

I need to stop this now and get back on it tomorrow. . Its like I'm on some kind of self destruct mode. Please help.......

Not going on hols next Monday, its next Thursday, but ho hum.

Just reading that back I am such a pig!

MHE, sounds like you'r expecting huge amounts (or losses) from yourself with the Cambridge Diet. From my many many years of experience I have found I need to find something to fit in with my life. I need to know I've got snacks I'm allowed easily to hand. If I try a regime that's too strict I set myself up for failure. I'm an all or nothing person and once I've had one chocolate, I think I might as well eat the whole box.
I do realise I sound like the kind of person I hate btw! Apologies for that

Its not that Swedishmum. Its that when I'm on a diet I'm wonderful, I can do it, even if it is extreme. But if I fall off that diet, I can't eat normally. Its either one extreme or another with me, like you I can't just eat one chocolate. I have spent since Friday being a complete pig.

I'm going to start AGAIN today. Shake for brekkie one for lunch and a proper dinner (oops thats slimfast) lol .

MHE - good luck for your new start today

Thanks everyone

Good luck MHE, you can do this, and we're with you all the way!
xxxx

good luck MHE

i too am guilty of the one bar of chocolate never enough.

I keep raiding the kids Christmas choccies and having to replace them

Thanks, so far so good! Choc shake at 10am, planning a cup of boullion at 1230, another shake at 2.30 and then chicken and salad for tonight.

Going to do my ironing tonight. I think the key is to keep myself busy.

I hope you all have a good day. x

MHE, sounds like you had a rough few days. Try not to beat yourself up about it. If you've eaten it then it's done, you can't change the past so look to tomorrow(well today now) as the start, hope you've been ok today. You sounded much better in your last post than yesterday

It's very hard to change habits. I'm terrible if I fall off a diet, i'll eat loads but this time truely feels different. I watched a few programmes which have changed my view a little(I may regret saying that in a few days weeks) one of them, half ton son, made me stop and think about what i'd been eating over the last few years. Basically since I left home 8 years ago. I eat what I want so crisps, chocolate, chips. Also I eat more, so the sausge example mum used to give me 2, which was plenty, then when I lived with dh it was 3, but do I really need 3? I doubt it or I wouldn't have a rino's behind

I realised that I know i'm overweight and I always make excuses why I don't diet or exercise. Exercise is tricky with 2 dc and a part-time job, coupled with no cash for a gym, so i'm trying to add little things in. DD started school in Jan, the school is at the top of a big hill so I plan to walk up it twice a day, not much but better than what I was doing.

I am also trying to think 'do I need to eat that' before scoffing away like usual. I didn't really ever feel hungry before because as soon as I did i'd reach for a biscuit or crisps, so now i'm trying to suffer a bit of hunger for a while, then if it's too much i'll have fruit.

that's was a huge outpour of thoughts it's good to get them out sometimes

I agree, eddas, thats whats so fab about this thread, we can put down what we are thinking, stuff that we probably wouldn't tell anyone in rl, and we know that we're all supporting one another and not judging.

I came home from school really wanting to eat something but I really tried to think if I actually was hungry or if it was habit, and I realised it was just habit, I'm so used to grabbing crisps or whatever when I come in. so I went on the cross-trainer that we have in the garage, and which you would think is on top of everest the effort it takes to get me on it, and whilst I was on it I phoned my best friend and it was easy, because we were nattering the 10 minutes flew past.
Although it did sound like she had got a heavy breather on the other end, I was gasping a bit, it has to be said!!!
anyway, when i'd done that I didn't feel as though I wanted to eat anything, so I hoovered the stairs!!!

Not that the half-pound weight loss is playing on my mind or anyhting......

well done lm, it makes you feel all proud of yourself when you resist doesn't it?

I wish we had room for an exercise bike or crosstrainer but we don't I definately need to exercise to shift the weight but I think i'll have to wait til the evenings get longer, then I can try running, rofl, that should be a sight I've entered the Race for Life so i'm hoping that's going to make me do it

I had my hair cut today - first time in nearly a year . It's part of my resolution to treat myself better. Made me realise how rubbish our moderately sized high street is at providing healthy lunch food. Paninis wall to wall - had to walk half a mile to find a salad!

well done on entering the race for life, eddas, my friends and I qlways do our local one, this year will be my 6th time, I absolutely love it. My dad has prostate cancer so its close to home and doing it makes me feel I'm doing a bit to help.
We don't run it though, now that would be a sight to behold We power-walk it, which I feel does me just as much good as running 30 yards and colapsing in a big sweaty heap, I can walk fast for miles.

Hope your hair looks nice, swedishmum, and you're right to want to treat yourself better! You go for it!!! xx

I really admire you doing the Race for Life - I've thought about it but my weight has always put me off. Maybe if I could find a not super-fit friend to do it with me.... My mum died of cancer nearly 3 years ago after a 10 year battle.

Not good food wise round here - I'm having to avoid the choc brownies dd is making. Will also avoid Yorkshire puddings. So far I've resisted.

Don't let your weight put you off, swedishmum, honestly at our race there are literally all shapes, sizes, ages, colours, its fantastic. They set the runners off first, then the walkers and you just chooses where you want to be and go with it. Some people look on it as a race but the vast majority look on it as a fun way to raise some money for cancer research. Honestly, the feeling when you cross the line is just amazing, loads of spectators come and cheer you on and you feel brilliant.

I'm having lunch with a couple of friends tomorrow - maybe I'll ask around. I thought about it last year but have made excuses for not doing all sorts in the past years - I'm pretty asthmatic anyway. OK, will make a big effort to find someone to do it with me and report back. And of course, I'm going to be considerably less large by then...

Hello Ladies,

Well done to those of you who do race for life, I really wish I could motivate my fat arse to do something like that! Especially since we have a gene fault in the family and loads have been affected/died with cancer .

Have had a good day today and yesterday, thanks to all of you for your support. Dropped 2 of those 4lbs I've gained so back up to a 10lb loss since 5th January. I'm sure I'd do much better if I would stop sitting up late!

One week tomorrow till hols!

Hi ladies. I lost another of those little pounds this week. If I lose 1 next week, it'll be half a stone. however, if I manage to lose 3, it'll be 5% of my weight.

Today a friend told me that by eating one bag of crisps per day, you are consuming 3 litres of oil per year.

Yuck!!!

Well done MHE and twoluvly - it all adds up! My dds will do Race for Life with me - though dd2 will prob run v fast all the way round. We'll be at Folkestone if anyone fancies joining us???

So glad you're doing the race, swedishmum, honestly you will love love love it!! We're at the Cleethorpes one, so won't be able to join you, but can't wait to hear how you get on!

well done on the weightlosses everyone, fab!

swedish, well done on entering the Race for Life. You must be quite near me, i'm in Maidstone

All going well here, couldn't help a sneaky try on the scales I knew i'd cave it's looking good! Will weigh in tomorrow even though I said i'd do it every other week but tomorrow is one week of dieting

Well done all, still doing fab!

I too can't resits the scales, back down to 10st 8lbs this morning, that 4lb gain must have been mostly water cos thats it gone again . Phew!

Right, now I just need to get through the weekend again and not do what I did last week! I have lots of packing for hols to do though so that should keep me busy and away from the cupboards.

Want to be at least 10st 6lbs by next Wed morning, so thats my holiday goal as that will be a stone off. Please pray for me! lol

Had a really yummy dinner last night. Had smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and some grilled mushrooms done in the George Foreman, it was YUMMY! I managed to not even pick on anything last night at all. Feeling rather proud of myself.

Might treat myself to some chicken wings from the Indian for my dinner tonight or if I was really good I'd just have some c hicken shish and salad wouldn't I?!

Please send me all your strength from the weekend.