Reserving my place for January 1st - Part 2 - Spring into Summer - Anyone welcome :-)

[LisaLessLumpy]

1st March - Time for a new thread

We can now forget/capitalise on the first two difficult months. The lighter mornings are upon us, soon the sun will be shining more and more and it will become warmer. Time to start thinking about the spring wardrobe...

Come on ladies, lets go for it, Summer will be here before we know it, and we want to enjoy it don't we?

I have copied the stats from the last weigh in, I have put the Jan start weight first, and the last weight that was posted, so update as necessary I have taken off a couple of people I haven't seen in a while, apologies if you are still checking, please say hello and add yourself to the stats again, as well as anyone else who would like to join.

Undervalued.......14s8...12s6
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
PollyGarter.......11s9...11st1
SilentTerror... .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...11st9
Countingthe.......76.2kg...74.4 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st11
Countess..........12s5...11st4
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5
LisaLessLumpy.....11st9...11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...12st 7

Dashing flying visit to say OMG the Wii said 8, 11 tonight

have been good over the last few days but wow!

off out for dinner with dh now so may undo some of the good work

Keep going everyone!

Wow 8st 11............ I remember those days well!! Nice one and congratulations.

Excellent news JKS.How great is that. Wll done.

I've stayed the same this week.. Ah well, at least I didn't put any on.

9st 12 today but fully expected and had a massive indian last night as have decided that was my last take away and if we want take away in future it will be sushi much more healthy.

Had decided I would start on saturday and continue blow out today but have had a good start and am starting today.

Breakfast
Strawberries and an apple
Low fat yoghurt (could someone explain to me WHY onken do delicious strawberry fat free yog but that is the only flavour and they have a massive range)
Glass of water

Skinny cappucino (cant resist starbucks in the morning)

So far that is 3.5 points out of my 17 pt allowance.

JKS well done... amazing.

I have a horrible feeling I won't have lost anything when I weigh in next week. None of my clothes feel any looser I'm definitely going to see the doctor if I haven't lost anything!

Thanks everyone, sorry it was such a flying visit.

Mixed - hope you stay on track now & the gym must be paying off, are you noticing you are getting more toned? that's my next challenge really as the flabby bits are still there even now.

Lisa - you may be right to see a doc, if you are consistently exercising & keeping a low calorie intake you'd think it would show by now. Maybe a hormonal imbalance?
Of course, you could be losing fat but gaining muscle, do you feel any more toned?

Got the bike trailer sorted out and took both boys to playgroup in it on Fri - and home again of course
oh how my legs ached am very unfit!

Mind you if i can do that even just once a week it should help with my legs. just need to find something that helps with the rest of me, lol!

Hope everyone manages to stay on track over the weekend, it always blows it for me!

just a quick check in really!

more congrats for JKS!

Being very good with your points mixedmama. ooh - sushi takeaway.......mmm! Running looks very good! Well done. Not long!

Lisa, you may as well go for a check up. My mum's thyroid became inactive around 40, so i pop in every couple of years - but always normal and it used to be my sheer love of cakes negating my gym workouts - it's good to rule it out tho...

Don't worry Countess - sure it will show next week!

JKS and MaryAnn thanks for the comments, I think I will just go and have a check up, see what the doc says

My DH reckons I look more toned and he said the same thing that the muscle must be overtaking the weightloss for the moment. If nothing comes up at the docs I guess I'll just carry on as I am and hope that something will show soon. All my clothes fit so I suppose I should be happy with that. I just want to look at a photo of myself and feel happy with it for once, especially with the summer holidays coming up

Have a good day everyone

Hi everyone. Sorry not posted for a while - had a hectic week!

Anyway, good news - I've lost 2 lbs this week and am now UNDER 11 stone at last!!! I'm so pleased and was jumping with joy (literally! ) this morning when I got off the scales. So, it's a stone since January. I'm hoping to lose another in the next 7 weeks.

Hope you are all ok. Lisa, agree with the others about a check up. JKS (love the Easter name)- glad you've found such a good way to exercise with your children!

Have a good weekend everyone.

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
Polly/MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st
SilentT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...74.4 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 10
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st13
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 11
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13

Just looking at our results chart. Between us we have lost LOADS since January!

Just reposting list to update my details

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
Polly/MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st
SilentT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...74.4 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 10
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st11
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 11
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13

weight loss since Jan:
186lbs
13stone4lbs

(if i've worked it out right)

Wow - that's an impressive total. Well done on the maths JKS!

Oh I am so to see this thread!!

Thank you so much for starting it LisaLessL (pathetically grateful emoticon)!!

The months since January have been fairly tough for reasons I won't bore everyone with here ....

and despite trying to start again in Lent and totally giving up alcohol I have still managed to put weight ON so am reporting in 76 kg tonight

So starting again here:

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
Polly/MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st
SilentT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...76 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 10
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st11
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 11
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13

Determined to do it this time. One huge motivation is that I can't fit in to any of my summer trousers!!

Tessie, JKS (and everyone else I have missed - sorry only have time to read top of thread tonight - will read in full tomorrow)

• am so impressed by your weight-loss - you have done brilliantly well - congratulations!!!

Counting that is the right attutude.

Had a bit of a pig out yesterday as my cousin came round and had baked cakes.

Had a previous good two days and went to the gym saturday am hoping to go today and WILL eat WELL today so ignoring yesterday and not getting down about it.

to say that i have contributed just 3lbs, but i know this is my own lack of will power.

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
Polly/MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st
SilentT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...76 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 12
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st11
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 11
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13

There are some incredibly fantastic results there.

Nice to see you back, Countingthegreyhairs. I think it's easier to lose weight and exercise more now spring is on its way. Think it helps keep us all more motivated, well, it does me! Like you, I have some summer clothes that I would like to be able to wear soon. Good luck.

Mixedmama, you are so right not to let a little over-indulgence stop you. After all, life goes on while we're losing weight and there will always be tempting goodies around! It's what you do most of the time that matters IMO. Anyway, the gym will help burn off the extra calories!!!

I am so motivated at the moment as I have 7 and a half weeks until I go on holiday, and I really want to be at the most 10 stone then. I've done 45 minutes on the Wii fitness coach today and lots of cleaning/sorting out clutter (where does it all come from???). Though I am going out for a meal tonight!

Hope you're all having a good day.

Tessieb you are so fabulously motivated!

Mixedmama - stay away from the baked goods! No! When i'm visiting w/ my mil that is my terrible terrible temptation. Some days i win, some days i lose. Now i've said it on here - i'm not going to do it!

Counting is back! Hooray! Great to see you on here again!

That's a very very nice total JKS

Come on me! Get a move on! Summer's almost here!!!!

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st...10st13
Sile ntT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...76 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 12
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st11
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 11
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13

Awwww - thanks everyone - don't really deserve such a warm welcome back given my woeful weightloss performance so far, but it's great to be back and to read all your familiar names and to see how well you have done!!

[waves gratefully to Tessie B, Mixed Mama, Mary Ann, Lisa Less, Mrs M, Undervalued, Silent Terror and to anyone I have missed]

Getting worryingly warm over here given that I can't do up any of the zips in my linen trews - so spent the afternoon chasing a football in the park with dd (hopefully that should start to shed some of the lard!!!)

Good luck everyone! The sunshine really does help doesn't it?

hi everyone!

Right, I am getting myself organised again!
I suspect I have put on a little weight over the last few weeks but it was expected (I've not been at home for a while so have not been organising my diet very well)

I am having a major cleaning day today as I have a few child free hrs. Will catch up later

Well, I am aching now. Went to a yoga class this morning and it was good, but fairly hard on the legs! I'm off work this week and going out for lots of meals, so am trying to increase the exercise to compensate. I've used the Wii fitness coach every day since Saturday. off to polish halo!!!]

Actually, it's the thought of being seen in public in my swimming costume in just 7.5 weeks that's keeping me going. I really really want to lose at least 12 more lbs by then.

Hope you are all having a good day, and are not too tempted by all the yummy Easter chocolate that seems to be everywhere at the moment!

Hello all. Slightly embarassed to show my face as I was ridiculously hopeless over the weekend. I was in town on the Friday and someone I hadn't seen for about 4 months came up to me and said 'Hello skinny minny', which obviously thrilled me, and I then went home and ate what I liked over the weekend!

There is no rhyme or reason to it, I'm just an idiot.

Anyway, we are off to Florida for the summer holidays ( 7 weeks of it! Yippee!) so massive motivation now to ditch the flab and look good ( well,if not good at least 'ok') in my cozzie.

You're going to Florida for 7 weeks?! Am everso

from me too!

went back up to 9,0 yesterday on the Wii after a huge pasta lunch and some treats.
was better today, back to 8,12.
really want to be good but all the Easter chocolate everywhere not helping

Jealous bunnies all round!

Feeling good in myself today. Got my skinny fit jeans on and feeling a little younger and brighter - certainly so since Jan 1st.

Eating light and wondering if i get one very good quality small dark choc egg for myself for sunday, whether that will keep me away from all the sugary milk chocolate rubbish. I think i have to give it a go.

Don't get envious.I've got to sit for hours on a plane with a squirming ds on my lap! Plus, take the two 'kevin the teenagers' foster lads, who's favourite words are 'why' and 'you're tight'. Hopefully it should be fun though. We hope to make our ds a proper little water baby while we're there.

On the diet front, after my appaling weekend I am totally back on track. Only problem is I haven't had much time to exercise as we've had lots of visitors so my time has been taken up with that, so that will slow things down I'm sure.

the ole swimming costume is certainly a big incentive. i have till August to squeeze into mine!

happy to report a weight loss this week of 3lbs - well actually 4 as i put a pound on last week after a hefty meal out washed down with a bottle of wine. i knew i had lost weight this week though as I had been STARVING. it is actually quite an incentive to put weight on, as you subsequently really rein yourself in (albeit temporarily!). Off to my folks now though for the weekend, so hopefully i can stay on track...have lovely easters. x

Undervalued.......14s8...12s3
Wintersun ........10s10...10s6
Summerfruit.......11s5...11st
MASailors...11s9...10st13...11st...10st13
Sile ntT error.. . .. 10s10...10st6
TessieB...........11s12...10st12
Countingthe.......76.2kg...76 kg
MixedMama.........10s1...9st 12
Countess..........12s5...11st4..11st2..11st0...10st13.
bananapaddlepop...13s2...12st6.5..12st3
LisaLessL umpy... ..11st9 . ..11st2
Whyme2 ...........14st8...13st12.
Mrs Mattie........13st6...11 st 8
JKS.................9st13...8st11
chipmonkey 11st9.....11st7
luckymoray.....12st6.....11st 8
Jack2601.......10st4.....9st13