Anyone want to join me as I go from 'fatty' to 'fabulous'?

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Well, I have decided that from Monday I am

1. Going to lose weight and stop making excuses and put it off anymore

2)Make exercise a regular part of my life, which will mean shaking the months of dust off my clothes hanger exercise bike.

3. Start to feel good about myself again, and imagine myself in lots of lovely clothes for the Spring. This will involve looking at myself in a mirror and thinking good thoughts

I am 5ft 3 and tipping the scales at a disgusting 12 stone 7lbs. Ideally I want to get to 9 stone 7 lbs so 3 stone to lose. Eeeek! Anyone fancy joining me?

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Hello ladies

With regard to pilates, www.play.com have pilates for dummies dvd for just £2.99 and thats with free delivery. I've just ordered one for myself.

Great news on the weigh losses and the 'feeling fabulous'. Weel done ladies.

Obviously I meant well done ladies not weel done.

Oh so brilliant to hear all the latest on the lost pounds and fabulousness! Well done everyone.

I'm struggling a bit on the food front, but went to British Military Fitness this morning (nearly died) so on the exercise front things are looking up. Long way from fabulousness yet though...

I forgot to weigh in this morning so will do switch to Fridays and weigh in then instead.

Well I had an ok-ish weekend. Chinese Saturday night but did play a netball match Saturday afternoon.... Roast dinner and pudding yesterday but dragged DH out for an hour's brisk walk pushing the pram so almost feel vindicated.

Have been beautifully good today so far and am weighing in at SW tomorrow night. Weighed myself this morning and I've put on 3 since I last weighed there so not looking so good.

But I have a positive view on things and will be focusing on trying to keep that. That'll do me for now..

no loss and not feeling fabulous here feeling bloated and pre-menstrual, but at least i know it will pass...well done to everyone else though

Thanks for the pilates advice ladies, I opted for the DVD from play, seemed like a good price too.

I had a non slimfast day yesterday, but ate healthily - soup, sandwich, stirfry etc. Although I shoud have had a slimfast at one point because there is a Terrys choc orange in a kitchen cupboard that I grazed on througout the day. Not the whole lot, just a few segments but still not great.

Feeling a bit fed up at the moment tbh. Being a SAHM with a dh that works early and not home until 9.30pm at earliest around 6 days a week, is getting me down. i would like to be able to go swimming or out even one night a week to an evening class or something. Some 'me' time. i know I'm not unusual in my situation and am grateful for what I have. I suppose with my friend returning to work this week after maternity leave has made me think about my wn situation. Hey ho. Sorry off topic... Have a tendency to waffle.

Had my slimfast this morning and am not feeling hungry yet. Will try and be good today.

Oh dear, sorry for moaning earlier. I know this forum is about weight loss and exercise - won't do it again! I have a spa voucher I got for my birthday in June and I've just phoned my mum to see if she'd watch ds for an hour in the hotel where the spa is and she is doing it tomorrow! So I'm all booked in for my spa and will treat mum to lunch in the restaurant afterwards. Feeling better already.

It's after 2pm and I'm still not ready for lunch yet - not like me at all.

sweet don't worry about having a moan. I think it's quite therapeutic myself. Far better to vent on here for a bit than get fed up and eat stuff you shouldn't instead. Enjoy the spa. Sound great.

Seriously sweetboy, moaning is what mumsnet is for!!! It's good to get things off your chest.

I can sympathise with your situation. DS is 2.3 yrs and me and dh both wanted me to be a SAHM. I love it but my dh works 12 hour days 5 days a week so I am at home a lot, especially as I can't drive. I do suffer with loneliness and a bit of cabin fever every now and then. I found it much worse when ds was younger though. At least now I do have some funny conversations with him and I can go out and about, into town or to my friend's house without having a wriggly, screamy baby wanting to breastfeed every hour. It's still bloody boring somedays though which... leading me to eat through bordom. 'Me time' is essential although rare! It must be worse for you with your dh not getting home til so late.

How's everyone's eating/ excercise going? I have been doing reasonably well although dh did some baking with ds yesterday. They made apple crumble with custard which I just had to try cos it's my son's first taste of actually baking rather than just passing mummy things or helping me put the muffin papers in the tray! It was delicious and although dh obviously did most of the work, it was really cute seeing ds mixing flour and pouring sugar into the bowl etc. I probably ate more than I should have but ahh well, I can't deprive myself of everything or else I go mad and binge!

Anyway, I am waffling now! Hope everyones weigh ins go well this week.

SBM - I'm lucky with dh atm but we went thru period of him working shifts, including lots of time when dcs were at home being very demanding, so shout away - it's tough.

I got off to a shaky 1st day restart but have been eating healthily for 3 days (well it's a start ). Have flirted with, but not committed to, low carbing, but I know it's unsustainable so am just trying to cut down on it in the evenings.

I too am not feeling fabulous yet and the zip on my one good pair of trousers has bust - looks like I will be wearing the same 2 outfits to work for a while...

Hello everyone, hope you're all getting on OK.

I'm feeling premenstrual at the mo and it's hard to keep momentum going. I feel as if I've been obsessing about food/weight for years but never actually achieved anything. I feel resentful for wasting time and energy like that.

My problem is that first of all I am addicted to sugar. I find it very hard to go more than a few days without it and can't get through the cravings without caving.

Also, I think I have been suffering from body dysmorphia in reverse from the usual way... you know where people with perfectly normal bodies look in the mirror and see a fat person? Well I would look in the mirror and see a normal person when actually I am fat. I tried standing in front of a floor length mirror at home at holding a piece of paper in front of my face, and I was totally shocked, it was like seeing somebody else's (fat) body.

It's a struggle but I'm still going. Been out for 2 runs this week and I have dug out my mini trampoline which is a good calorie burner at 300 cals for half an hour bopping around gently to my ipod. I have a heart rate monitor that calculates calories burnt pretty accurately and the trampoline is almost as good as a gentle jog and less effort and impact.

Sorry for waffling! Keep up the good work!

Hi everyone, thanks for the support yesterday. DH came home early last night (must have read my mind) and I went straight out for a swim which was lovely. He's going to do this every Tuesday night so good news for me.

Moonshine, aren't trousers meant to eventually have a broken zip? When it happens with mine I just like to think they don't make them like they used to.

smilesboy, clever ds you have to make the best pudding ever. I just love crumbles.

Slimcognito - I understand what you're saying about the mirror thing. Sometimes I'll look in the mirror when going out and think I look quite nice but then I'll later see a photo from that time and that's when it hits me that I am big. Usually (not on this occassion due to baby belly) I just put more weight on where it is at the moment, so the shape doesn't change - just grows. But hey, we'e gonna shrink and tone it.

I've eaten well today and am having slimfast tonight. I am just too tired for any exercise though. Hope you are all doing well.

I just wanted to share that I weighed myself for the first time since starting this (it's taken me that long to pluck up the courage to get on the scales) and I've lost 3kg!

Also my fitness has improved massively because I can now cycle the whole way up our huuuuge hill with 2 bike panniers and a backpack full of shopping

Wobbles into the thread, peers around, and reluctantly lets go of the biscuits.

If you don't mind I'm going to watch you guys (all stalker like) in the hope that some of your glittery, fabulous enthusiasm will rub off and I can start shifting these extra pounds.

Sweetboy I love crumbles too! Good to hear you'll get some 'me time' every week, it's important to have something to look forward to that is just for you.

Hi onelonely sock, hope the 'stalking' helps you to lose whatever amount you want to lose.

I got weighed today. I am now 13st 1 lbs so lost another 2 lbs since last week! Yay!

Hope everyones doing well!

Frakkin and Smiley - well done!

I have failed again this week but will weigh in tomorrow regardless... On the positive side, I'm feeling really well post-op and reckon I can get back to Pilates at least next week, might even try a gentle run.

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please can I join - have been on the other thread re;why have you let yourself go and feel v sorry for myself. bmi of 33 and a bit scared - put on 3 stone since having ds (3.10)and, in total, need to lose closer to 4 stone and dont know where to start - it all seems insurmountable. thinking about the cambridge diet to kick start with some dedicated walking (focussed 45 mins per day which I could do on my lunch break) and then switching to ww after may be losing a stone and a half or so - what do you all think? feel really determined that I owe it to my ds and myself to do this as having health probs now ...

Well done on the weight loss girls. robino don't get disheartened, you're still recovering. Don't know if I'll have lost anything this week but I'll weigh in tomorrow to report.

OneLonelySock & oneofakind - welcome. Hope you both find support here.

oneofakind I know what you're saying about feeling scared. When I weighed myself in August I was shocked and scared. I had a BMI of over 33. Since then I've lost weight and am down to bmi of 30.2. I decided on slimfast and the weight has been coming of slowly every week at 1-2lbs. I like that I don't have to think about what I have to eat/portion sizes etc for 2 meals of the day. After I lose another stone I plan to move on to something like ww in the new year. I walk and am planning on pilates and swimming in the next week. I know nothing of Cambridge so can't advise on this. I've been focussing on small goals - fit into an outfit, lose X weight before an event etc. These have helped me feel less overwhlemed by the amount that has to go. Good luck with whatever you choose to do.

I'm going to my GP to get some Reductil. I have been taking it for the last 2.5 weeks and have lost about half a stone. I'm able to keep within my daily calorie allowance, eating healthy foods and exercising. It takes the edge of my previously ravenous appetite.

Trying not to get disheartened - have put 2lb back on but I think given that I have done nothing and eaten and drunk too much it could be far worse! Think will probably have a takeaway tonight with OH we've hardly spent any time together in the last 2 weeks and then start to re-focus. Am going to e-mail pilates teacher right now to arrange a one-to-one session next week so that a) I can see how I do in terms of recovery and b) get back into it in a bigger fashion.

Good luck all weigher-inners!

Well it's the same story as lst week for, lost just 1 pound. I have had a couple of naughty snacks the last two nights though, so I'm not too surprised. Having said that, I've been sticking to around 1200 calories a day this week. As the weather has been awful I haven't been walking much though so perhaps that has made the difference. My Pilates DVD has arrived so I'm going to watch it just now and try to do that tonight before DH gets home.

No big plans this weekend, but like robino, I'd like to have a takeaway tonight with dh and maybe some wine. Jut realised I haven't drank any alcohol for nearly 2 weeks. I'm not even pregnant - that must be a record for me!

My typos are awful, I should really proof read what I'm writing .