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funkyfunkymonkey

sarymclary wrote: »

ffm - it sounds like you feel your eating is beginning to get out of control. Is there anything we can do to help? How about doing a food diary? I found doing that shocked me into not eating so much - I couldn't bear putting another thing down on the page, so went to bed early! I have a strict rule now with myself, in order to break bad habits, that I don't allow a mid-morning snack, or anything else to eat after my evening meal. I know that I have enough calories in both meals to keep me going, and to eat anything extra is just me being greedy. Is there a rule you could impose on yourself similarly? Just an idea.

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I know my eating is beginning to get out of control, I do keep a food diary and it is all there in black and white. :eek:

Some of the problem is that I have reached my target weight and often get comments like 'you're lucky you can eat what you like', 'you're so slim' etc - that leads me to the 'just one chocolate won't hurt', 'it doesn't matter if I eat alot today - I'll pull back tomorrow', and so the slippery slope begins...

Today my jeans are feeling a little 'snug', and if I continue expanding this week, my suit won't fit on Monday - so that should be an incentive. I've thrown out all my larger clothes - so I don't really have an alternative (too tight to buy bigger clothes).

I've been good so far today - but really fancy some chocolate (think I'll go brush my teeth - that one does often work).

FFM

Missy™

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Missy, well done on your maintaining - that is really great - I need to take a leaf out of your book. I'm in danger of 'losing it' and am struggling to hang on in.

I have faith you're not going to 'lose it'. Soon clocks are going forward, lighter evenings, Spring, warmer weather It will give us all a boost.

Sometimes I think a temporary break is needed too. I took an (enforced) month off exercise last September and to say it's changed everything for the better would be an understatement. I'm sure the same can be true of taking a break from a strict food plan, or anything else.

As we all know, we CAN eat whatever we want and nothing has to be off-limits, we just need to find our own personal ways of balancing it all out

Thanks for the continued support with my maintaining, it's much appreciated I'm pretty sure monthly weigh ins will continue to work for me, and the next thing I'm starting to think about is losing the everyday calorie counting

funkyfunkymonkey

Hi Missy, thanks

You are right about the lighter ams and pms, I will be able to cycle to/from work again.

It's great the way you have been able to 'let go' and still maintain. I worry that if I 'let go' I'll put it all back on - not that my 'method' is working at the moment

Keep it up - you're the proof that it works.

FFM

littlegirllost

purplevamp wrote: »

littlegirllost - I find the main diet quite easy to follow. But if you want variety in your main meals it does cost a bit. We seem to have the spag bol, chicken jalfrezi and creamy tom pork most of the time . I have most of her books so when I get bored I tend to just swap to another one...

It may be worth going to the classes for 6 weeks, if you can afford it, especially as they've got the special offer, or just change your job :rotfl: . Good luck tonight.

Thanks, I went along and expressed my concerns, she said I could
still have a drink but not to expect the 7 and a half pound loss within
2 weeks, which is fair enough. Im a bit worried about the next
two weeks though as i can only have a breakfast, lunch, dinner and
2 power snacks. Im always very bad at eating later on, so this
will test my willpower

victory

sarymclary wrote: »

Morning!


Victory - I've not had that happen with the Wii's scales yet, but I'd be mortified if it did! Have you changed the time of day you weighed? Have you been and double checked with the normal scales? I'd be double checking by re-weighing on the Wii too. Have you moved the place the board usually sits when you weigh? I have no other ideas for you. Don't let it get you down, but seeing that line shoot up is horrible! I have another graph on the Foodfocus website, and my own one on a Word document that my friend sent me. I need visuals to keep me going!! he he

I have not had it happen before, yesterday it said 'oh dear 8lb over' today it says 4lb less loss since yesterday:rolleyes: so the chart has gone shooting up on the wii and then come down:rolleyes: yes, it was afternoon I did it yesterday 16.01 and today it was 09.34, yes, the normal scales say exactly the same from friday all the same today, no, the board checked for it's feet, has them on, on laminated floor same living room same place,:rolleyes: hey ho at least I have 'lost 4lb since yesterday':D


As for Valentines, my OH doesn't think he's done anything wrong, so says he has nothing to make up for. I'm in a quandary as to what to do now, and am unsure whether to go ahead with fully moving in this spring. I don't want to make a big mistake, especially as I have the children to consider in it all. I've tried to explain to him, but it is like talking to a brick wall.
VD seems to be very difficult for OH but look at the bigger picture if he is attentive, caring, loving, supportive, helpful all the other times not just the day he feels 'he has made to do it' you have got gold there.:D

Victory - My youngest is 8, but he's not doing Egypt, like his brothers did, but is doing about Kenya. He's not very inspired by it, whereas I think kids like learning about Egypt, and the pyramids, etc. I do think giving them these projects at such a young age is unnecessary mind you. It just puts more pressure on them, and us. My lad is the youngest in his year, with an August birthday, and really struggles to think as maturely as his classmates about these things, which means I have to support him much more.

I was shocked that he had to do a minimum of 15 pages, with drawings, illustrations, models the whole bit, he is in the throws of being diagnosed dyslexic so this project is hell for us and for him, the amount of time we have to put into getting him to write one page is quite something:rolleyes:

Yesterday I did an hour on the Wii Fit. 3799 (argh, just 1 more an I'd have hit 3800!!) steps in 30 mins, then 25 mins doing the muscle exercises, finishing with 5 mins of step plus. I was rather sweaty, had the windows open, so feel I'd done some good. I find doing it with the children chatting to me constantly rather difficult I must say.

My youngest has decided and I have had to tell him off for it to be my best friend the second I get on the wii fit, he has to talk to me, distracting me, asking for things (he could have spent the morning not saying 2 words to me playing on his DS or upstairs but the second I step on the wii:rotfl: )
I told him today to stop it and he went and got his friend to play with otherwise I have no chance of getting the aerobics done in this half term week:rolleyes:
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Sorry about the lines and too short but I tried to make it go and it kept saying message too short and I did not want to loose it or have to re-write it:D

victory

funkyfunkymonkey wrote: »

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I know my eating is beginning to get out of control, I do keep a food diary and it is all there in black and white. :eek:

Some of the problem is that I have reached my target weight and often get comments like 'you're lucky you can eat what you like', 'you're so slim' etc - that leads me to the 'just one chocolate won't hurt', 'it doesn't matter if I eat alot today - I'll pull back tomorrow', and so the slippery slope begins...

Today my jeans are feeling a little 'snug', and if I continue expanding this week, my suit won't fit on Monday - so that should be an incentive. I've thrown out all my larger clothes - so I don't really have an alternative (too tight to buy bigger clothes).

I've been good so far today - but really fancy some chocolate (think I'll go brush my teeth - that one does often work).

FFM

I wouldn't say your eating has got out of control, it just needs to be reigned in a tad that is all, I am with you on the comments, I get them al lthe time even from complete strangers the other day at Asda when I was buying a ready meal WW they told me in no uncertain terms that I was not to eat it because I did not need to:rolleyes: one teenager practically reduced me to tears with the long speech of 'how big do you think you are, why are you eating that, why don't you buy a whole chicken and eat that instead? etc'

That really keeps me going my clothes, apart from one pair of huge black trousers that I kept the rest is all gone and there is no way I am buying a bigger size:D as for the choc go dark, no added sugar angel delight in choc, one biscuit is 82 cals macvities, work it off if you have to;)

vixarooni

hey guys!!

how are we all?

if anyone feels they are overeating, i think im overtaking everyone! ive had a chinese, harvester, beef (never have beef) chocolate, bacon sarnies ect. Im just reeling it all in!

Feel bad about valentines because when i came home on saturday night there was a vase full of roses outside the front door and 2 balloons tied to it with a note pushed into the door. It was the best surprise!

Victory: peoples comments are always the worst. Sadly i was fattest in my teens when no one of that age really thinks before they talk. Alot of asda shoppers are common chavs and that you are not

Marion: Can i come!!!!!!!!!

simbalou

I'm back again for my daily post, at least it's one thing that I'm sticking to. It seems quite a few people are having a rough time at the moment, I think the momentum of trying to lose weight can start to slow down a bit at this time of year. Everyone is so adamant that they are going to do it in January and the reality kicks in that it's not an overnight thing. However, I'm sure I saw a glimpse of my old waist in the mirror the other day, I didn't check too much in case I imagined it!:D

OH kicked me out to the gym last night at half eight, it's his sweet way of being supportive and it did make me feel better (wont admit it to him though!) so I managed to go to the gym 2 days in a row and I've just completed 30 mins of Wii fitness coach so I'm feeling good. I'm trying to keep on track with food but I honestly think I need to see a counsellor or someone who can explain to me why I have to devour everything in sight and have no restraint. Has anyone else ever been to see anyone and if so, how did it go?

Keep going everyone, just think of the summer. If I manage to lose my 2 stone then as much flesh as possible will be on show this year!!:rotfl:

sarymclary

KatiePC and Victory, thanks for your kind words. The reason I'm so upset with OH isn't just about Valentines, tho' he usually does 'do' valentines. He has always got me a special card, and maybe a little gift. It's not the gift that's the issue. It's the fact that because we weren't really talking, due to an upset between us, he made a conscious decision to not bother, because he didn't feel I deserved it, and he didn't really like me at that time! I still got him his card & bits, because even though we've had a bit of a falling out, it shouldn't mean I don't love him full-stop. We'd fallen out previously about me feeling taken for granted, and expected to do everything, while he's taken a massive backwards step from doing anything in/around the house since I've been here p/t. I didn't plan on being his cleaner! We've been together 6 years, so the moving in isn't at all rushed. It's all very complicated, and I guess this isn't exactly the thread to share it! I do appreciate you guys trying to offer support tho!

No Wii time today. Chores day taking priority.