DIET FAILED AGAIN thread 4 - Everyone is welcome to join our very supportive and friendly group without any judgement. Do come and join us

Checking in.

I'll be having booze and buffet for eurovision tonight but back on track tomorrow.

I've just signed up to Simply Cook to try and shake up my boring diet a bit. My friends really rate it so looking forward to giving it a try.

lovely new thread - its like ( another clean new start) we really are very good at those
currently hovering around 72.2 ..so a little loss this week , which is good as it has been a truly awful week here at jelly bean towers....my life is just is exhaustingly hard ( emotionally, mentally ) i feel very near the edge of not being able to cope...dsd is so ill again, and i am so sure it is some form of ED , but she denies it and i do not have proof, her mother is useless and my DP is so worried but also has massive issues at work ( he works for a very big bank and they are in all sorts of bother) . On MN people talk about 'big jobs' ( makes me laugh , everyones job is important) but in MN terms he has a masssooooive job...sort of head of the bank of england but not quite massive !
so it kind falls to me to try to sort dsd...she is supposed to be sitting alevels but i think that will not happen as she in hospital right now .
todays job is to try to get her stable to be transferred to a more specialist metabolic unit in London, and to also try to find therapist for her older sister who has decided in the midst of this to fall apart, and my DD has just called to say she has lost her glasses and has raging conjuntivitis too...she is also starting alevels on monday and is at school 3 hrs away ....so I WANT TO EAT MY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

Clara....happy birthday, buy yourself some flowers ..you deserve it and go running, do not let DP drail you...running is my biggest form of release..infact i am going to go tomorrow...if at home, well dsd can wait for my me to appear at hospital bed for a few hours and if she has been moved..unlikely at this rate....i will go for nice run round regents park.

Checking in. Having a quiet night with Eurovision on the tv trying not to eat too much.

Hi and love to all. My main food over the last two weeks is soup, rice, fish, chicken, yoghurt and prawns. I've had the odd naughty treat but not too bad. A little more exercise than usual too.

I don't feel any slimmer though and I thought I would but going to give it to the end of this thread and if that doesn't work, I'll try something else. 🙄🤔😂

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After a decent sleep last night and a trip to the toilet, I feel a bit slimmer.🤭

Can I join you all? I'm struggling atm and trying to make some fairly drastic lifestyle changes. I need to lose at least 2.5 stone but I keep binge eating. I have ADHD and autoimmune disease. Life feels tough atm and it would be really nice to have a friendly weight loss corner.

Well @poorpaws, you’ve kept us lot going through thick and thin, that’s quite an achievement. So less of the negative self talk please.
I have been thinking about your evening eating issue. I suggest preparing loads, and I mean LOADS of cut up veg,carrots celery pepper, I love raw swede but I know that’s niche, radishes, and work through them. It takes about 30 mins to eat a bowl , and it is crunchy and interesting. You can have a bar of chocolate as pudding. Apparently it takes 30 repetitions to establish a habit, so you need to keep it up for a month. It cured me. I used to nibble all night, but knowing that any urge to rifle through the magic cupboard has first to undergo trial by vegetable usually stops me. And I love vegetables.
@Theredjellybean I’m so sorry so much is going on. It sounds really difficult. Self-care!
I’m trying to move myself up the agenda but it’s bloody hard after a lifetime of putting everyone else first. Today I had my oldest child’s (40!) Dad here for lunch. He comes a lot and brings his washing and moans for 7 hours straight. He has a number of serious health conditions, and no network, but honestly, he was a rubbish boyfriend and a crap Dad. I owe him nothing. I’m thinking of getting a new washing machine to cut down the time it takes.

Morning, I thought I had placemarked on this thread and was wondering why it wasn’t showing up in my feed, I must have randomly waved on another thread 😂

@Theredjellybean you have so much going on, just do what you can when you can. Enjoy your run 💐

i weighed yesterday and I was 11.1.3 (that’s 155.3lbs) and I came on today so I would hope that it’s entirely possible to be under 11 st on my next weigh in. It’s a very slow old slog for me and lots of yo-yo-ing. We go on holiday in 11 days so I really am “on it” now. I’m taking a bit of a break from gym classes this week, they aggravate my hip way more than running and I always want to run as a priority. I will do home workouts with dumbbells for arms and core, but lay off the squats and lunges, and stick to running and walking.

my food is all planned for the week but it’s all very samey, lots of chicken/salad/veg combos. I need to mix them up a bit but I can’t really find the motivation. I always see great ideas on threads but they never actually make it onto my plate most of the time.

Thanks @poorpaws . Like you, I have gained and lost this week. Last Monday I was 95.5, then went up to 97 .Today I am 96.2, so I’ve lost .8 kilo, but still gained from last week. I know exactly what caused it. Cream and chocolate and biscuits. Need less of that and more raw veg.

Hello everyone, can I join? I've struggled for years and years with binge eating. I am currently doing really well having completely cut out all chocolate, cakes and biscuits. Now on day 21 and feel so much better with less cravings. I'm scared to get weighed as I will feel disheartened if I haven't lost anything ( don't feel that I have). Hope everyone had a great Monday!

Oooh @poorpaws that fruit salad looks delish! I definitely need to do more of that. It is pure laziness that I don't because they taste so good and there's so few calories!

We made chicken ramen for tea the other day and it was so quick and filling and low fat o don't know why we don't do it more often. I just get so bogged down in slinging a pizza in the oven or another spag Bol and the effort it takes to actually think about and choose food to cook and eat is a draining chore.

Which is so sad really because food it delicious and I should make food that I love and actually want to eat instead of just shovelling bland garbage into my mouth.

I think I'm just so exhausted from working full time plus 3 kids plus everything that entails that I can't bear to have another thing to think about.

Welcome aboard @Sourdoughhunter - I'm not always so negative I promise!

I ended week on 72 kg...very pleased...most calories were alcohol this week but new week very positive...no meals out planned, no work trips, dsd is home from hospital for four days..just her and me so peaceful.
Good luck on a positive week for all

love that fruit salad.

@poorpaws what device do you use to view the site?

I managed to avoid eating a very sugary little cake offered to me yesterday and gave it to someone else 🤭.

My rice, chicken and fish diet feels like it is starting to work after a couple of weeks but will give it a bit longer to assess more.