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!!!

Sneaks back in after a month away***

Hello Ladies,

Yes I have been very very very naughty. I have pigged out for a full month and I am just ridiculous. There's no other way to describe me.

I have an excuse, our extension has been finished and we've been decorating and fitting a kitchen and bla bla bla so otherwise read as I have been eating takeaways for a month.

My clothes are getting tight again and I seem to be back to about 11st 2lbs (after being 10st 4lbs on 5th February!). Sooooo I started back on Cambridge yesterday. I realised that things were getting out of hand on Friday when I ate 3 bars of chocolate, yes 3!

Glad to see you are still doing good LM and Swedish.

I've also realised that I am such a bad carb addict. If I start the day off with good intentions and have say porridge or a slice of toast I am starving all day. if I start off with protein, say egg, bacon etc, I am not starving. I really think I have blood sugar issues, hence why Cambridge seems to work well for me.

Ho hum, back on it now and hope to stick to it. This really really is my last attempt at this diet, as I've been on and off the wagon for a year now, which is a joke really.

Take care

C xxx

Hey Mum, soooooo great you're back!!!!
Not surprised you lived on takeaways really, you sound as though you've had a lot on, to put it mildly. Anyway, you're back now and I'm glad.
Don't know how you manage on the Cambridge, though, I'm ready to kill by 11am if I've not had a "proper" (read "big"!!) breakfast. So far this morning I've had bran flakes with a banana and raisins, then at playtime I've just eaten 2 plums and another banana (had to put the banana in my handbag till I'd eaten the plums though, as it all lokked far too phallic to leave lying on the staffroom table till I'd got my drink

Of course, the answer is that I'm just a glutton!!!

I NEEEED a big breakfast or I can't cope!

I had angel delight today. WHY?!! It's years since I had angel delight.

We're having a mini epidemic of noro-virus in our house and apparently I'm the designated healthy person (which is good or bad, depending on which way you look at it). That's my excuse for sugary puddings gluttony anyway. And I'm sticking to it.

Welcome back MHE - don't know what else you can do but takeaways when the kitchen's being fitted. I must admit I couldn't do Cambridge either - good for you for having the willpower.

I forgot lunch when I went to work the other day - was so hungry at the end of it I went straight to the supermarket and ate parma ham from the packet in the car. Very sophisticated! Need to work on packed lunches that are low carb.

Someone else at school commented on my weight loss this morning - these little comments keep me going. Just need not to have red wine, but there's always an excuse...

Thank you for the welcome back ladies and a big Hi from me to Maria. sorry to hear you have the lurgy in your house. Hope they are all doing better now.

The good thing about Cambridge is that after the first 2 days you're not hungry at all, well physically anyway. Low carb has the same effect but I'm such a pig that I use that as an excuse to eat as much steak and chicken that I can possibly stuff in my gob, lol.

Have been good since yesterday, had my two cambridge shakes during the day and last night had smoked salmon and scallops with salad for dinner and then tonight had more smoked salmon only with prawns and crab sticks with salad.

Weekends are definitely the time I find it hardest though as we usually have friends round for a couple of drinks and thats when the nibbling starts! I will try to be good though as best friend is pg so I should try and not drink with her I suppose.

LM and Swedish (or not lol) keep up the good work, you are both doing amazing. How much have you both lost now?

Thanks MHE. Big hello to you too!

Swedish (or the mumsnetter formally known as..) - at least eating parma ham straight from the package makes you look a bit posh. It could have been a scotch egg. Or two scotch eggs.

Maria, I'm always posh, even if it involves eating food from the packet in a car park
MHE, I so wish I'd weighed myself in the first place. Clothes are getting looser, and that's all I can go by. I lived in Sweden while dh worked there (way back in 2004/5) and never name changed back when we came home - that's where the Swedish thing comes from. Told you it was boring.

Where have you all gone? I'm not really posh, honestly! Ask anyone who knows me!
ILs for dinner tonight. MIL makes a mean choc pudding with yummy sauce but I didn't have any

Posh is a state of mind I think. And a good one to have!

I am celebrating today as I have now officially (da da da da da da daaaaaaa) lost a stone!

Yeah!!

Right. Someone pass me the Tunnocks teacakes.

Had really bad week with depression so all good intentions of healthy eating went out the window .
DH kept buying me Chocolate to try and cheer me up, temporary fix, next morning felt huge as now struggling to get clothes to fit.

Sadly I'm the heaviest I've ever been .

DH and DD's are cooking lovely mothers day tea with some kind of pudding, so last binge then I'm on the wagon.

Anyone got any motivational things for me?

Mrs Purple, hope you had a lovely mothers day tea
It's great your husband's supportive - is there anything else that cheers you up? I once had a really rubbish residential job and counted down the days until I left by making a raffle for myself - wrote out a list of treats for each day on separate sheets and picked one out a day when I needed one - face pack, magazine, flowers, a lie in, someone else to put kids to bed etc.
I'm sure your dh would be very happy to find other treats for you.

I hope you had a lovely mothers day tea too Mrs Purple!

Sounds like you need to not be too hard on yourself and take it one day at a time (that's so cliched but you know what I mean!). Love the motivational raffle idea!

And we're all here to tell you how WONDERFULLY you're doing of course!

Thanks Ladies, tea was lovely. Not been hard on myself to day, my therapist (due to depressin) says to get better first before beating myself up re weight. Small steps.

So I will get head sorted first but am still going to stay on this thread as it is inspirational and makes me feel I'n not alone with weight issues.

Hi there everyone. Wow, MrsP, you are sooooo not alone in your weight issues!!!! But we're all in it together here, dontcha know???

I'm confessing here, I was going great guns till I had to miss a SW class last week because of a hair appointment. I've had my hair cut and coloured professionally at last instead of sitting in the bath with a box of nice'n'easy!! Anyway, I knew in advance that I wasn't going to get weighed and therein lay the path to madness....a bar of chocolate here, bag(s) of crisps there, thick buttered toast all over the bloody place, all the while telling myself that because I'm walking every day (which is admittedly doing me the world of good and I am definately toning up ) I wouldn't be putting any weight on!

HAHAHAHAHAHA.....(that's very hollow laughter, by the way!)

I went to get weighed and in the two weeks since I last hopped on the scales I've put 4 wretched pounds on!! {blush] How annoying is that??? The good news is that I've still lost 18 pounds, but even so...!

Anyway, I'm now back on the plan with a vengeance. Been to Asda tonight and bought some 1lb weights that you strap on to your wrists and ankles for extra oomph when you walk, and I've booked a badminton court for us tomorrow night. Wish me luck!

god, even cocking up my emoticons!!!

good luck, wish I could do the exercise, but arthritus in knee is currently preventing even that.

Like you say, LM, you have lost 18lb. Enjoy the badminton! I'd love to be able to do sport too but I'm very lazy. Can't use my asthma too much any more - it's improving as I lose weight . Actually teaching some PE tomorrow but standing around with a whistle isn't quite the same!
Dd1 is in London for work experience this week so I'm off to stay in a hotel up there for a couple of days to cut down on her commuting. There's a pool so will fit in a few swims. Hope you all have a great couple of days.
x

Wow LM - you've lost 18lbs - totally amazing! You're allowed to have off weeks. Just keep remembering how brilliantly you're doing over all. Bigger picture!

MrsP - have you thought about doing pilates? Admittedly I'm annoyingly evangelical about it these days so I'm not necessarily a fair judge but I was a total exercise PHOBIC before I discovered it. Someone bought me a couple of one-on-one sessions with an instructor for Christmas a couple of years ago and it was the best thing I ever did. It has the whole yoga thing going on whereby it's really focusing, relaxing, great for beating stress etc etc. It's really gentle and was originally designed for rehabilitation etc so might be ok for you (you'd need to check with your doctor I would think). PIlates instructors are really good at tailoring exercise to deal with very specific needs etc. There's a guy in my class who has really chronic knee problems and a police officer who had some sort of accident which led to a disc in her back disintegrating (!!!). It's a low impact thing but I'm definitely stronger, more flexible and much more toned than I was.

Told you I was evangelical!

Hey girls - am SO sorry I abandoned you... massive mental health issues went on and I couldn't cope with the diet

Anyway, it seems that's passed / passing - and I actually had a salad for my lunch today - just a plate of veggies and an apple; I should have had some protein with it, but I forgot to buy any - but I've got some for tomorrow.

Dinner went to pot, but at least I had one good meal today - I will tidy my house over the next few days and sort the kitchen to get ready to eat properly at every day.... it'll take a few days, but at least it's a start, right?

Anyway - I think you're all amazing for going on your quests to eat healthily .... I am joining you from today - 100% in the next few days.

Next step: overcome fear of scales and weigh self to know starting point

Hi Lewis. Lovely to see you back and I hope you're feeling well. I never weighed myself to start with btw - though now wish I had now I'm losing weight! What I need is scales in algebra - you weigh blaa plus x - could then celebrate my loss of weight without feeling bad to start with...

Come on the rest of you lot. Come and join in on line

Hi! I weigh myself now but used to be completely ALLERGIC to scales - probably as a result of my Grandma asking me how much I weighed everytime I saw her (starting at about ago 7 lol). I had to steal myself this time around and discovering what I actually weighed was DREADFUL. Just kept reminding myself that I wasn't going to weigh that for much longer.

I've had a bit of a week 'o' cake. White chocolate and pistachio on Sunday. Large chocolate brownie on Wednesday. Plum, ricotta and almond cake today. So nice. So BAD!!!!

What fantastic sounding cakes! Did you make them or are you near a great cake shop? My cake making is much more limited.

I'm working by trouser fit for now. I promised myself some suede culottes when I was a size 12 - that was back in 1983! Fortunately I've got a long way to go so there's still chance for them to come back into fashion.....

Unfortunately I live near several great cake shops. That's my problem.

And it's come back and bitten me on the bum this week. I've put on 2lbs. Booooo! Grumble Grumble.

Sorry... just re-read your message swedish (formally). Suede culottes you say. Interesting concept but that was the 80s!

Hello! See you never missed me then?

Fell off the wagon AGAIN! But here I am, having climbed back on again yesterday. Doing sole source on Cambridge this time and this is my LAST attempt. I've been on and off the wagon for a year now and I need to stop it. I fall off, eat like a pig for a fortnight, put back on any weight I've lost and then i start again. Well enough is enough. I have got to do it.

I really think I have some kind of eating disorder, but then again I do actually feel hungry (or maybe I imagine it?).

Anyway, end of day 2, and off to have my last shake of today.

Keep up the good work Ladies and lovely to hear from you Lewis!