A stone by Easter challenge!

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Well half term is over, back to school tomorrow and Spring is in the air...time to get rid of the winter flab methinks!

I weigh 11 stone and want to be 10 by Easter (and ultimately around the 9 stone 7-10 mark) - six weeks to do 14lbs doable I think?

My reward will be lovely shopping for summer clothes.

My plan is to do HM smoothie or cereal breakfast, Soup or salad lunch and "normal" healthyish dinner (but watch the portion size on carbs. I will be trying to drink lots of water and less coffee/alcohol and exercising 3 x per week (prob be running but am considering joining a gym!!)

So anyone who fancies joining me feel free

Today: Strawb and yog smoothie/prawn salad/shepherds pie and brocolli. Might run later if it ever stops RAINING!!

Rang Golower today and ratted on DH. The counsellor was so lovely, she is going to send me the replacement meals for free! I even confessed to eating the milk choolate bar! She said it wouldn't have been so bad if it had been dark chocolate but to just forget it and carry on.

Twinkle - know what you mean, when DH is about I find it harder. He does make yummy food and really enjoys cooking and has made me some really good LC meals, but he also likes picking at chocolate and crisps. He got in a little while ago and ate half a bar of hazelnut chocolate, and had chicken hotdogs in a bread roll with loads of ketchup! And we had dinner earlier....

Ere girlies... anyone on the 1000 calorie diet????

twinkle - 1000 calories is really low, don't think I could survive on that. Are you trying it? Did you manage to turf your DH off the treadmill?
Scifi - how is your DS, is he over the worst yet?
Had to have serious words with DH tonight, he decided he and DS would have a picnic in the front room on a blanket and got a huge pizza delivered! I had to leave the room and go upstairs. Thought he was being a bit inconsiderate, or am I the selfish one?
I am almost half way on my weight loss and I am worried I won't see if through. I have never done this well before and getting excited I might do it this time and then something as small as a pizza throws all my insecurites to the surface. Think I am just having a low day.
I did weight myself today and have lost another 3 lb, which is still good but my lowest loss since starting GoLower. One of the counsellors rang me out of the blue today so that made me feel a bit chirpier (this was before the pizza picnic incident! ).
Oh well another weekend of temptation awaits, we can do it. Have a good one and will post again on Monday.

Hi All,

simmo yes DS is over the worst now and we can go out and aboout again (thank god). Sorry MGC that means there's no need for me to have the kids for you .

Sorry to hear about some of the problems you have with your DH's mine is that he's as skinny now as he was when we started dating over 20 years ago. He just doesn't understand how hard it is and I hate if he starts to question what I'm eating. He calls it 'trying to help me' but it just winds me up.

Weighed in this morning (on my new scales) and have lost another pound. Am now 10st 9 . I'm pleased but it's bl**dy hard work .

Well done SciFiFan Keep it up...

Am too scared to get on the scales as I have had a couple of bad days and have decided it will be easier to stick to something when dh has gone away as when he is around he makes it impossible for me to stay good.. but I know that during the 5 months he is away - I'll be able to take the food issue once and for all!!! .

I will continue the exercise and I start my 30 day shred dvd as soon as it arrives.....!!!! So hopefully will see some inch loss rather than weight loss!!!

twinkle i am i start again tomrrow i will let you know how i get on this is about my 50th try since the stert of the year wish me luck i have a date next tuesday .i will post my weight and we wioll see how it goes.

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Keep it up Kurves... I know that you can do it!

Been thinking long and hard about this diet thing.. just using dh as an excuse I think! Am determined to stick to ww this time and just be good and reduce my points as its way too easy to have naughty stuff on ww!!!

Wish me luck start tomorrow!!!

ok twinkle we can start again together i am so happy for number four and she is so good for getting the weight off even though she has been ill.

I spent the day cleaning the house so that tomorrow i can have a fresh start when i see the house Ina mess it really get s me down to me their is nothing like a fresh smelling clean house with fresh cut flowers and clean cotton bed sheets love it . and that is what i have done cleaned the house and got fresh cut flowers i feel so happy now .i planned to clean my bedroom tonight and sort out all my clothes those that are wearable and those that need to go in the garage.i been doing so much thinking that i need to get some rubbish out of my life and that also includes people that i feel that is not good for mre Easter i a time for new beginnings cause the death of Christ meant that all old things have passed away and we have become new .his resurrection to me means a new birth and that is what i need a new start.i am 35 and i looked at my pictures and i do not look a day over 30 so when i lose this weight i will look great.

I realised that i have been controlled by food all my life the Cambridge diet does make you think and i believe that when you mess up you get to identify the reasons behind the compulsive eating.i FEEL ITS THE ABUSE THAT I EXPERINCED FROM A KID UP UNTIL NRECDENTLY THE MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE AND WHEN I START TO LOSE THE WEIGHT AND SEE HOW GOOD I LOOK I GET SCARED AND THEN I START TO EAT I AM SCARED OF LOOKING PRETTY AND NICE CAUSE WHEN I DOID I GOT BULLIED FOR IT.DOES THAT SOUND WEIRD AND I do not like the attention.my sisters used to pick on me and my cousins then when i entered school it was always on about my figure and i felt that if i was fat then people could know me for me.

i know guys its crazy but its what i have come up with so far. thanks for listenning to my rant but i need to get it out.

Kurves I think we can help each other... I suffered from anorexia as a child.. as I was a dancer and suffered with the pressure from home life as well and the dance world! I managed to overcome it but since having my children I have really had a troubled relationship with food.. I told myself while pregnant during the first one not to get fat and the second but while pregnant with my third I was so hungry that I put on 3 stone and this loosing weight is completely alien to me as I have never had to do it before...!

I think that's why I am finding it really hard but I know that with the support from these threads that I am on I will suceed!!

Thanks for listening girls....!

Sorry to your stories girls

Good luck on trying again I hope it works for you this time.

I'm starting again from tomorrow, the past week and half has been difficult, but is hopefully going to be a lot better this week.

I'll weigh myself in the morning and then come post the results, i'm also going to do measurements so i can where and if im losing inches

Meant to be sorry to hear your stories

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Good Luck MGC I hope you succeed too...!

Have started off well to pieces of toast with Maramite... 4 pts - 14pts to go....! Just hoping I can stick it this time!!!

hi girls i am doing ok went to the gym and did a half our work out and now haveing a fuller for longer thia currey meal from marks and spencers thats only 400 cals with veg. got a bit more cals left to use up. I AM 12STONES 11 LBS

OK had a bad day yesterday so need to get myself back on track. Also struggling to motivate myself exercise wise - it was so much easier when the weather was better! I will go for a walk, I will, I will.....

It has rained so much here the last couple of days, got absolutley drenched on the walk to school this morning. Took the car to pick up DS, poor DD got soaked just transferring her from the car to her pram but she still smiled despite having soaking wet hair! So no running for me at the moment. Have been doing Davina DVD every other day, and really do think my tummy is a bit better.
Pleased to report the food front it still going ok, feel quite boring as have managed to be good. Am missing the odd glass of wine but my counsellor today said I can have the occassional small glass so that was good to hear.
Have been incredibly tired the last few days, so am upping my intake of leafy veg to see if that helps. Its just becuase my DD still wakes up in the night and had a bad few nights in a row because she has a cold, it really knackers me!!! DH is also away at the moment on a training course and I find it hard to sleep when he isn't here.
Been fed up the last few days don't know why. Maybe its because I am forty next week!

I think the trick is o keep really busy i identified that my problem times is when in the night i get up in the night to deal with ds and then because he does not go straight to bed i eat what i find now is that i am thinking about food allot when in the eve lings and the night time. i think this is where cognitive behavioural therapy kicks ion i have a great treat planned off to the caribbean in the summer at a five start resort and i really want to enjoy my self and i refuse to be fat this 3 sttones will go the thing is when i started this 3 weeks a go i was 13 stones 3lbs even though i have not done it properly i have still lost weight which is good i guess.

Good for you Kurves, ooh a Caribbean holiday lucky you, what a great incentive. Was your date last night or is it next Tuesday? How did it go?

Got my 40th birthday party this Saturday and the pub are doing the food, I have asked them to do lots of chicken and prawn satay, cold meats and cheese (well it is my party and I want to be able to eat! ) Might have a couple of glasses of wine, but will leave it at that. I am not very good with alcohol and want to remember my evening :0

After my party I haven't really got any other major incentives, we are going to Butlins in May and a sun caravan holiday in September with the kids and my parents, so bog standard cover up everything swimsuit will suffice! DH has just started a new job and I am on ML so money it tight. Plus at the moment I am investing in myself (for once) with the GoLower food being delivered.

Maybe next year when I am slim toned and gorgeous in my tiny bikini we can go on a luxurious holiday (just pinched myself awake!) But seriously, I am determined to lose the weight this time and do my very best to tone up.

Logging off soon to do Davina!!

yes i am looking forward to it i need the break my date is next tuesday but i do not kniow if its still on have not heard from the guy so just focusing on my diet .if i lose enough weight this week i will treat my self to a new top.

Hello all, I was here at the start of the thread but have been blocked for the last 4 to 5 weeks (not through being a troll but due to some technical problems which MNHQ have finally sorted out)

Have a lot of reading to catch up on. Has anyone lost a stone yet? I've lost a little bit each week, 1 to 2lb and to date have lost 10 1/2 lbs. Clearly not going to reach the stone by Sunday unless I cut off a limb but am pleased with my progress as I can see the difference (have gone down a size on trousers) and have had a few comments (except from DH) Hope you are all doing ok.

Helloo..... girlies!

dh and I are on agreement that he is a bad influence on me where food is concerned so I have decided that Wednesday is going to be my day... It will be easier that way as I then 5 months to concentrate on getting my pre-pregnancy figure back if HW can do it in that amount of time then so can I.. I think its a more realistic target for me!!!

I also have the 30 day shred video so am going to give that a try aswell, starting wednesday...

We also have a bet on that if I don't managed to fit in to my pre-pregnancy skirt then for my 30th its off to Scotland but if I do then it is Vegas.... woohoo... a good incentive! Lets hope I can do it!!!!

hello twinklwe what diet are you doing and i was wondering as it is easter now does this thread change or does it carry on.

Supermummy... I think I am going to give ww a try and eat heathily to be honest...! I am just going to exercise more I think...

Am not sure if the thread will continue??? The girls on this thread are fab and good motivators!

I have set myself a target of 5 months to loose 42lbs... (3 stone) I want to makesure it stays off... so its a lifestyle change for me but anyone is welcome to join as I could do with the support!! Dh has just gone away for 5 months on deployment and am like a soggy kitkat at the moment...

yep i have the same amount of weight to lose and i am just making wiser food choices introducing a lot of fruit instead of cakes etc and trying to eat more veg and have a light breakfast bout drink more water and have a good dinner.

my sister lost 30 lbs off weight watchers the kay to that is exercise . I am building my self up slowly.