NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS BEING SLIM FEELS

[BudaisintheZONE]

Morning all.
New thread for weigh in Friday.
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Was SO bad last night. Fancied a glass of Rose wine so bought a nice bottle thinking DH would have it with me. He didn't. I had it all. Whole bottle. Dinner was actually fine - steak, a sausage, salad and a piece of halloumi. But then I had a mini magnum. And then drunken hunger kicked in when DH and DS had gone to bed. Had a packet crisps. A cheese sandwich . And another sodding magnum .

However. The good news is that I weighed and still managed to lose. Only a pound but at least i lost.

a deservedly proud mum.

I am proud, and I don't even know him

Oh wow tibni. That's made me well up. You should be very proud of him. He must be SO chuffed.

Thank you all. ds,9, has severe learning difficulties but had the biggest grin on his face as he sat down in his seat. He had also grabbed the cup to take back with him as well as the salver that he was supposed to take! They made him give the cup back .

18 months ago ds had a breakdown, lost toileting, all speech and regressed in a frightening way due to his mainstream school head messing with his support. We got an apology from LEA and support from the health service but no one could say if he would ever recover. It was the most dreadful time which makes this all the more special.

We have had a celebration dinner tonight.

Oh wow tibni. You and he have been through a bad time. But he sounds like a real trooper. Thank God he has recovered so well. Hope that head was reprimanded.

Well.. Weigh in Friday.

3lbs off this week! Yay. Which is a total loss of 21 lbs which is obv 1.5 stone.

Now weigh 15 st 3 lbs so next target is obv to get under that 15st.

Next 3 and a half weeks will be a challenge as we are away but if I can come back having lost that 3lbs to get to 15st I will be happy. Very happy!

Have decided to take scales with us! DH will laugh!

Right. Weigh in this morning - thanks to psychopathic exercising this week have lost 2.4 pounds after plateauing for such a long time!! Makes total loss 23 pounds, taking me from 15st 6 to 13st 11.

5 pounds to go before I can go around boasing I've lost two stone!!

Only two pounds to go until my BMI goes from 'Obese' to just 'Overweight'. Big psychological goal.

Well done Buda - 3lbs!!

Well done Undertone! That's a great result.

I was 15 st 6 last week! And that was with a loss of 18 lbs!

Well done Buda and Undertone.

Im 10 5 now so a total loss of over 1 stone and working like mad on my tone and definition. Not going to the gym today as my back is still twinging so Im going to rest and hopefully be ok to do my mega Sunday session.

Tibni - huge congratulations on your DS's special prize. Both you and he are right to be so proud of his achievements! Have a warm bath and take some ibuprofen to relax your back muscles and take it easy today.

Buda and Undertone - well done on the weight loss. Good luck for trying to stay on the mostly straight and narrow in the UK Buda - you know you can do it (esp if you can put biscuits back in the tin!)

So, work has been crazy, eating not been good and am back to 10 8. Got told by a woman in the gym yesterday that the weight is just melting off me though so at least all the exercise I'm doing is making me look lighter than that.

Right, best get back to evil work...

Oh wow guys, great losses buda + under!
tibni, a stone is great achievement, nice one!
Dinks, i am losing cm but not lb atm, cm more important i think.
I am still 15 7, but tbh am only half heartedly zoning atm, and haven't exercised in ages. Too much stressing about sorting uni stuff + childcare before everything shuts down for hols plus period biffing, next week will be better....

Hi Quality - was going to post exactly the same thing!

Have been biffing bigstyle for past 24 hours (work horror story going on, DS2 going through separation anxiety again - ugh and DS1 being a pain - oh and am due on) - need the crack NTAGABSF team back on the case....

Ueah, me too, have become fixated on sorting stuff for uni, and trying to sort the house before it goes to shit in the full time study fog I am going to be in, am biffing and not exercising, but happily, my biffing is a lot mroe restrained than it used to be.

Sorry! Was out yesterday trying out the local gym. It's £39.95 a month, which is a lot if I'm potentially only going to use it at the weekends and maybe one evening after work if I'm not back too late.

Case FOR joining the gym:

1. I like using all the weights machines as weights training burns loads of calories and continues the good work 30 Day Shred is doing to tone me up.
2. There are lots of cardio machines, which means if I feel like doing cardio I have more of a choice than just going for a run (high impact - sore knees afterwards) or going on my battered cross trainer in my flat (v bored of it now).
3. I get to use thir big pool for free - can't remember last time I went swimming.
4. from experience, once I actually get through the doors of a gym I'm happy pluggig away for a good hour or more, whereas if left to my own devices at home I tend to cut corners or get to 20 minutes and stop.
5. Group classes

Case AGAINST joining the gym

1. The principal way you're meant to entertain yourself while working out is to plug in your headphones and watch any of the several big TVs showing different channels. There's only crap on TV at the moment. I have a feeling I would get bored quickly and not go.
2. Most of the people using the gym on a Saturday afternoon seemed to be really unnatractive middle-aged guys or young guys taking it really seriously. It wasn't a fun atmosphere.
3. I HAVE a cross-trainer and the 30 Day Shred. If I wanted to, I could easily lose the weight I need to by only using these? I would be wasting my money?
4. It's light in the evenings now so I could walk from the gym (which is the middle of the park) home, straight through the park. In the winter, when the park shuts at sunset, I would have to walk out of the main entrance and do a huge loop to get home. Still walkable, though. I'm just well-acquainted with my own laziness.
5. Knowing that I would try and pack in my money's worth at the weekends, I feel I would be a hostage to the gym at weekends and feel guilty if something kept me away, like seeing my family!

£39.95 is the ONLY option - I asked about a pay-per-visit set up but they don't allow it. If I cut down on buying crap/clothes/treats from Boots/expensive meat I could easily afford the £39.95 a month, but I LIKE these things.

Am I just making excuses? Is this a negative state I should just snap out of - my lingering 'fat thoughts' trying to ruin it for me? Or would I feel worse paying that much if I wasn't getting SPECTACULAR results straight away?

Help me make a decision, please!

I'd also like tips on how to take my weekly food shopping bill (for one person!) down from the £40 (excluding washing powder, etc) I currently pay with Sainsbury's. No booze or anything. Just meat, meat, meat, salald, salad, salad, veg, veg, veg, fish, fish, fish. I fed myself for £20 a week when I was a student up north!

Hi, I am afraid I have not read the thread so this comment may be out of place (I apologise if so) but the title caught my eye. Did you know that that phrase is a pro-anorexia phrase used to warp the minds of sick young girls and encourage them to starve themselves to death? 25% of anorexics DIE from their disorder - the highest death rate of any mental disease. They could do without this kind of dangerous mentality that this slogan encourages. Yes, it's lovely to be slim, but it's not nice to see a human skeleton and not dying is rather more important than losing a couple of pounds.

Rant over! :-)

I wish you all well in you weight loss (if that is what you want for yourselves) but please bear in mind that being in the healthy range is the key and don't take it to extremes.

golden, no apologies needed, the thread title has been around for a long time and I believe when it first started that was mentioned, it's an ironic, tongue in cheek title, any 'newbies' joining the thread are asked their height and weight and encouraged in a sensible manner, a number of women on the thread are obese, if not morbidly (I was morbidly obese), the majority are a normal weight range and just toning up.

I think the reason from the title is that it isn't in the vein of the majority of weight loss threads on MN where someonme will pig out and others will say 'never mind' I have 5 stone to lose to get to a healthy weight range, I don't want platitudes I want someone to tell me not to eat shit if I am serious about getting healthy, hence the title.

Hello all - haven't been on for ages. Still following dinky's exercise and diet advice and now down to a size 10 from a 12 - woohoo - wasn't even aiming for that!

UNder, in all honeswty, it sounds like a fab gym but I wouldn't pay that. But then I am brassics!
I am going to join the local leisure centre gyms once I start my course as it will only be £20 a month, is normally £29 and includes unlimited access to all pools, gyms and classes in the county, do your council do something like that?

You run a risk of resenting the money you are paying for the gym imo and then not going, can you do a trial run of a couple of months or are you stuck in for a year?

wrt the food I was having trouble keeping our 2 adult, 2 small picky children food bill under £100 as DH is an avowed meat eater and I eat loads of veg. I woudl stop going to sainsburys for starters though, some of their stuff is cheap but since I moved to aldi I have nearly halved that. Otherwise buy in bulkl from teh meat counter, and buy cheaper cuts if you can, fish, I get trout rather than salmon, saves a cople of quid, and I have had to stop buying free range chicken and eggs, much as it pains me to do it, I simply can't justify the price, I can get 30 eggs for £3 which will feed us for 2 weeks.

Hi Quality - good response to concerned citizen above.

Yes - thet's a Gym London scheme going on which is £29.95 a month, but you have to pay £2 every time you attend any of the gyms participating in the scheme. So if I joined up and went more than 5 times a month (which I hope I would) then I would be out of pocket. Check the small print of the scheme in your county and make sure is not the same.

Yes - bonus is I can join for a couple of months and leave with only a month's notice. Hadn't thought of doing that...

Do Aldi do home delivery? I'll go and take a look...

corn, didn't spot your post earlier, nice one!

That's shit wrt the council gym, ours is not teh same, no bugger woudl use it if it was!
No aldi don't deliver unfortunately, but my local one is about half a mile up the road, which is veyr handy!

I woudl try joining for a few months if you can just to see how it is for you.

Glad to see my advice is doing someone some good Corny! Keep up the fab work.

Undertone - would you go to the gym during the week (maybe one or two mornings before work and once or twice at the weekend)? If so, its worth it. If not, and you're really only going to go twice a week, not worth it at that price. And I say this as a confirmed gym/exercise fan. Re shopping - single colleague of mine swears by buying a whole chicken, doing roast chicken at the weekend, then using carcass to make stock for soup and left overs for curries/sandwiches/salads etc. Says it works out alot cheaper than buying single cuts. Other things worth doing are buying fruit and veg from local market/corner shops (often a hell of a lot cheaper than supermarkets - our local one sells bowls of fruit and veg - including 2 pineapples today - for £1 a pop). And try a couple of veggie days/nights a week.

Quality -good response to the concerned citizen. Hope you've managed to sort most of your stuff out now.

I am very careful with money (have to be) and having gym membership is a huge motivation to exercise - I go at least 3 times a week and often 4 or 5.

Weekend has had far too much biffing (but not as much as it used to be). I have struggled with my back still hurting and not being able to exercise. Back is easier today and I had a gentle session at the gym so next week I will try and pick it up a bit.

Glad your back is getting better, tibs.

Dinky - I'm worried about cooking the chicken with the skin on. Temptation!! Or would that be a little too obsessive?

Went for a mammoth run this morning. 1 hr 15 minutes, including a 1/2 mile up a notoriously steep hill in the area. Had to stop for a gasp a couple of times, but I had a strong finish and I topped it off by looking like a wally doing a Rocky-style arms-in-the-air celebration for the benefit of the traffic waiting at the lights at the top. No-one hooted congratulations. Misery-guts, the lot of them. Maybe they were just worried. I looked at my heart monitor and it was going at 180npm! I must have looked pretty scary.

Just done the Shred now. Trying to cool down before bed. Off to the Farnborough air show tomorrow for work.

bpm, not npm, that should be!