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A space to talk openly about weight loss journeys and challenges. Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. You may wish to speak to a medical professional before starting any diet.

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Dec 08 ladies, time to drop a few pounds...

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SummerLightning · 27/01/2009 08:30

New thread for us to waffle on and moan about baby fat, without boring the others...and hopefully drop a few pounds along the way!

I am currently 11 stone - 69.8 kg
Want to be pre preg weight of 59 kg, about 9 stone 4 i think.

If everyone posts stats maybe i can do a bisou style list. (don't post weights if you don't want to! amount to lose will do!)

Weigh in on Mondays?

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EffiePerine · 10/02/2009 20:05

sorry, late as usual but think (squinting required on cheap scales) that I am 74.5 kg. So a pound loss. Celebrating with bot. of beer and soss

LadyT: Sorry you're feeling crap, I am in a state of denial (not self, as is obvious) as have no full-length mirrors in the house. Top of head to collarbone looks pretty normal but will be avoiding shop windows for a while...

Resolutions for the week: not eating unless I am hungry (am awful snacker), drink plenty of water, limit cheerfulness, walk as much as poss.

EffiePerine · 10/02/2009 20:09

am interested in the WW thing Turip: the only people I know who have successfully lost lots of weight (i.e. 2 stone plus) did so on WW. It seems pretty sensible to me as it's flexible. The meetings sound a bit grotesque tho (as do the WW pseudo foods - yeuch)

Veggiemummy · 11/02/2009 00:17

Effie I usually need to squint on the scales when I have taken my glasses off to make me lighter, and also wouldn't be able to tell you the time when on scales as have my watch removed.

katie3677 · 11/02/2009 11:44

Finally remembered to weigh myself last night and have lost 2lbs, must be something to do with not having a car and having to walk everywhere!

Veggiemummy · 11/02/2009 15:05

did some serious power walking yesterday. had to get DS1 to a friends house across town in time for them to walk to his gymnastic class then had to walk back across to the clinic for DS2s jabs, then a bit more walking and shopping later, and most of this was done with a 5kg baby strapped to my front and ds1 who is all of 17kg being pushed in the pushchair (the speed i was going he would not have been able to catch up and would have had to hold onto the buggy board for dear life). So that must have had an effect on my waist line.

kmp1 · 11/02/2009 23:09

sorry have been crap posting weightloss but zero first week and 0.8kg the Monday just gone! So about 68kg even! yuk!

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SummerLightning · 12/02/2009 09:50

Hmmm I have been keeping a food and exercise diary and the one thing that jumps out is quite a few spots of cheerfulness. I think that is my only remaining weakness will have to cut down on that too.

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LadyThompson · 12/02/2009 10:00

I have been cutting down on the cheerfulness. Not had any since dinner party last Saturday night (unheard of for me). Must be why I am so *ucking miserable

Alcohol is such a joy. I could deny myself any food or any amount of food but my life is genuinely poorer without wine. I don't drink tons normally - say 1-2 glasses every other night - but it makes such a difference....

My new programme is one session on the rowing machine and a walk with the Baby Bjorn of at least an hour, every day. And this afternoon my trampette and weights are being delivered. What I will do with them I don't know. Bounce through the french windows with the weights in my hands, I expect. It's not a big flat.

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SummerLightning · 12/02/2009 10:25

Maybe when you get your weight loss underway and feel a bit better about it all you'll be able to up the wine and still lose weight?

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LadyThompson · 12/02/2009 10:42

Yes...I hope so. I used to be very slim and drink plenty of wine, so...here's hoping. I do suspect that being 36 instead of 31 or 32 might have something to do with that though

Nolda · 12/02/2009 11:21

Ooo, don't mention the age thing. I'm going to be 40 in May,argh!!

I've just been to buy some of those flattering jeans from M&S. I'm really pleased with them. I bought a size 16 - it's a good job they're stretchy !

daisydora · 12/02/2009 11:28

Well, I've had 3 days of swimming now and am really enjoying it. However, I do feel that am having perhaps using the exercise as an excuse to have the extra glass of wine here and there. But like LayT I love it! It keeps me going. Good job I'm BF or I'd be pickled by now!!!!

Am going to go to WW next week with a friend in the home it will motivate me a bit more. I did WW about 7 yrs ago and lost 2 & 1/2 stone. Hopefully I'll be just as successful this time. Paying to get weighed is a great motivator imo

LadyThompson · 12/02/2009 11:54

Ooh, what flattering jeans Nolda? I could do with some.

Nolda · 12/02/2009 12:02

They cost £12 and sit on the waist. There was a thread about them which is how I found them. Something like M&S £12 will make your bum look tiny. I've got to go now and fetch DD from Pre-School otherwise I would try and find and link it in for you.

LadyThompson · 12/02/2009 12:29

Ace, I will have a search!

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SummerLightning · 12/02/2009 18:59

I bought some M and S jeans without trying them on as I had DS with me, they are a size 14 and are going back as I couldnt' get them on . I fancy getting some from there as they come in short length so I won't have to get them shortened, and they are cheap. They weren't the 12 quid ones though. May go back with my parents tomorrow as they are coming to visit.

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kmp1 · 13/02/2009 07:33

I know what you mean about the metabolism slowing down... I could eat as much as I liked when I was 25! After 30 that all changed! I do best by not eating carbs after midday. I'm the same Lady and Dora - always have the odd spot most nights - and if I don't, lifes just not as cheerful Ladyt My dh says the rowing machine is the best machine you can use to get fit / weight loss etc. I've tried it - it's bloody hard work!

Nolda · 13/02/2009 11:44

I decided to take advantage of DD being at pre-school this morning to do the Davina workout DVD. Having rearranged the sitting room furniture and changed into my gym kit, I discovered that we'd left the DVD player at my mum's house when we were staying there at Christmas. Not to be put off I decided to do an old workout video only to find that the video has decided to play sound only! I think I did quite well considering (I did do the workout a lot at on time) but still can't think what hip circles are. I must remember to pick up the DVD player at the weekend.

I wish we had room for a rowing machine but our flat is very small. Anyway I don't think I'd get much of a look in as DH used to row and it's fav bit at the gym.

daisydora · 13/02/2009 17:47

Went shopping today and I could not find anything that fit properly. I'm between sizes and have bloody enormous boobs because of the bf!!!! Anyway after a mini tantrum in the changing rooms in front of DC's and my mum I'mdetermined to shift this weight.

So have just come back from my swim & sauna and am feeling great, although the lure of some cheerfulness tonight is already testing my resolve

Veggiemummy · 13/02/2009 18:01

Daisy it is never fun looking into a full length mirror unless your a size 8!

daisydora · 13/02/2009 18:34

the problem is we are going out to dinner tomorrow night with friends. One has a figure like Geri Haliwell ang the other Pamela Anderson. I just wanted something new to make me feel less like a frump.

They are beatiful people and don't see me like that but I do Still after a few wines I won't care what I look like

LadyThompson · 13/02/2009 19:12

Well, I fell off the wagon with a resounding CRASH last night. We had loads. However, my trampette has arrived and it's rather good fun.

artichokes · 13/02/2009 19:21

I had a similar sounding day to you Daisy. I actually cried in one changing room. I am going to a lovely restaurant tomorrow night (without DH!) and I have NOTHING to wear. It is so demoralising that I almost don't want to go.

LadyT - I have seen those trampettes and always been mystified. Do you do lots of little jumps on the spot?

DD1 and I made valentines cookies for DH this morning. Not good for the diet. I ate 3 straight after they came out of the oven as the chocolate was all oozie and seducing.

LadyThompson · 13/02/2009 19:42

Well Arti, I haven't yet gone into it and it is sans instructions. I am going to research on the internet. But when you jump up and down you can feel it in your legs and tummy so that must be good, right? I heard on the radio it's good for you pretty much everywhere, but the key thing is, it feels like playing instead of hard work and as I operate on a very simple pleasure principle it will now be an integral part of my routine

One trouble with it is that you do feel rather foolish.

I so hear you about not wanting to go out because of lack of clothes/rather large bod beneath said crap clothes. I am in big trouble with DP for obsessing about it. And the awful thing is, I know that only hard work and TIME are the cures. And I am not very patient. I started a thread in Style about dressing for my new size as I haven't a clue, (would do a link but I don't know how) but to be absolutely honest it wasn't all that fruitful. For me, anyway. Nightmare, isn't it? And Samui Detox haven't come back to me about whether we could take DD. But we really shouldn't spend that sort of money anyway. It is times like these that I find myself wishing to swallow some sort of parasite which will make me thin quickly, which is an awful thing to think.

Veggiemummy · 13/02/2009 20:01

Lady I keep thinking I wouldn't mind if I got a terrible tummy bug then could lose loads of weight at once. I am currently packing to come down to London and am just putting loads of black tops in an effort to make me look slimmer down there.

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