Half a stone or Fight the Flab in Feb challenge!

LilMissEmmylou

Becca - what about when your family are doing something like making or having dinner in the kitchen? Could you perhaps do it then? Failing that - I would ask your family if they would mind you working out once a day/ every other day and they let you know when would suit them, then they can't complain re the noise.

I've had a good exercise day. 30 mins of rosemary connoly again and an hour of walking (4 miles). Not a great food day, but not so crap I am going to worry about it tbh. Still trying to stay motivated to work out every day. Ive even hung up size 12 jeans in the kitchen to remind me WHY I am doing this lol

tara747

That's good motivation LilMissEmmyLou! Well done on the exercise too!

becca, don't worry, we all have negative thoughts sometimes. It can be so hard when you see all these obstacles in your path. I second EmmyLou's suggestion, try asking your family for some space/time to exercise. And come here anytime for support, this thread is the best diet aid ever imho.

I weighed in this morning at 61.7kg and 27.4% body fat, both slightly higher than yesterday. I know it's daft to weigh every day but it is pricking my conscience when I want to eat junk/slack off the gym. Speaking of which, I am going to the gym today (even though my legs are a little stiff). And no chocolate!! (hopefully)

tara747

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My boss has just asked me to go to a meeting RIGHT NOW. I really feel so mad at her, why can't it wait till after lunch??? Lunchtime meetings are so unfair, I can't even take a late lunch break and go to the gym afterwards. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Sorry to be so peed off, this is just totally sabotaging my plans. I will have to think of a way to make up for it, maybe go running after work (although I won't have much time, OH has tickets for a play and we have to be out the door by 6:30). Why do I have to work for a living! Think how svelte I could be if I didn't have a FT job...

OK, enough self-pity, I will just get on with it and do my run later. I have made a commitment and will stick to it.

Crap_with_money.com

tara747 wrote: »

littleemmie (#395), that is my problem too, I tend to eat as soon as I feel remotely peckish. It's hard sometimes to just say 'no' to yourself, isn't it? Anyone got any tips on how to do this effectively?

Tara, every time you find yourself reaching for a snack between meals, just think "little pickers wear bigger knickers!!" - OK, so it's total copyright from a poster on another thread - but it did make me giggle!! :rotfl:

If that doesn't work, maybe try having a drink of some fizzy juice or water? Always does the trick for me - drinking the juice has the added bonus of being sweet, so I can almost pretend it's like having a proper treat!

tara747

Crap_with_money.com wrote: »

Tara, every time you find yourself reaching for a snack between meals, just think "little pickers wear bigger knickers!!" - OK, so it's total copyright from a poster on another thread - but it did make me giggle!! :rotfl:

If that doesn't work, maybe try having a drink of some fizzy juice or water? Always does the trick for me - drinking the juice has the added bonus of being sweet, so I can almost pretend it's like having a proper treat!

Good quote!! Thanks. :rotfl:

I might get some sparkling water and have it with sugar free cordial if I feel hungry in the evenings. I already drink a lot of water, maybe that helps me and I don't even realise it?

Anyway, I just have to be firm with myself on the snacking, I think. And remove all sources of temptation! I have a large jar of Nutella in the kitchen cupboard which I know should go in the bin...

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becca2008 wrote: »

i'm finding it very hard to stay motivated at the moment i thought My Fitness Coach would help motivate me, but now i just feel like i've wasted my money

Don't be so hard on yourself Becca - we all have days where it just seems like it's a never ending battle! But you're doing well to even just be making steps at trying to improve yourself!

As for the fitness coach, if you're not gonna be able to use it, then just send it back! If you can though, maybe try and find somewhere that you will be able to use it - do you have any relatives who maybe wouldn't mind you "borrowing" their front room while they're out? I would defo go with what everyone else's suggesting, and see if your family would give you space for a certain amount of time every day to use it - or are any of them overweight too? Maybe they wouldn't mind joining in? Then it would have the added bonus of seeming like some family fun rather than an exercise chore?

If none of that works, I'd try and find some exercise you can do without it causing too much hassle, get out walking more, every time you go to go upstairs, go back down them then straight back up - you'd be amazed the difference walking up and down the stairs an extra 10 times per day actually makes (I actually took this to another extreme at one point when I first started trying to pick my fitness up - every time I was going up - I'd walk back up and down 10 times - then got to the stage where I could run up and down - maybe looks a bit odd, but my family are used to my randomness - so no-one really said anything! )

xx

littleemmie

Crap_with_money.com wrote: »

Tara, every time you find yourself reaching for a snack between meals, just think "little pickers wear bigger knickers!!" - OK, so it's total copyright from a poster on another thread - but it did make me giggle!! :rotfl:

If that doesn't work, maybe try having a drink of some fizzy juice or water? Always does the trick for me - drinking the juice has the added bonus of being sweet, so I can almost pretend it's like having a proper treat!

Please may I steal your advice!!?

I know that I don't drink enough during the day, and although I take a bottle of water to work everyday most of it comes back home with me! Maybe I'll start getting it out of my bag and putting it in view so that when I start to feel hungry I can grab it.

Last night's meal out with work ended up being a trip to McDonalds :eek: (not my decision!) I was very good though (as good as you can be in McDonalds!) and had a grilled chicken and bacon salad which was actually not too bad. I had a bag of Maltesers afterwards though, but it was my 1st chocolate of any kind in a week. Got home at 10 really hungry but refused to munch so I'm quite pleased!!

Done my 4 mile round trip to work today, got to do it again this afternoon though.

Crap_with_money.com

Deans - sorry your loss wasn't as big as you expected! But at least it's 1/2 off and not on! And you might just find it'll catch up with you next week! I know everyone says you're meant to lose big in the first week of a diet, but I always find it tends to take even 3/4 weeks before I really see anything starting to happen!!

Tara - Boooooo!!!! To your boss!! Well done on still trying to work round it though! Especially if your legs are sore - that's usually enough to put me off!! Oh - and I weigh every day too - I got up for the loo at 3am the other night, and actually weighed myself then too! It's becoming an addiction! Had a proper problem last year (not in a serious sense), but my dad got so sick of seeing me jumping on and off the scales that he hid them - he then passed away about a week later and it took me ages to find them again!! (not that not being able to find the scales was the biggest thing I had to worry about at that particular time obviously - but hey - you've gotta try and see the lighter side of these things - and I've no doubt he'd have been looking down from wherever he'd taken himself off to, and p*ing himself laughing at me not being able to find them!! )

As for me - yesterday wasn't actually too bad! Eating wise I stuck to my diet plan religiously. I went to Legs, bums and tums at the gym - which I have to say is possibly one of the most random classes I've ever been to! Any LBT class I've ever been to before, has always been 30 mins cardio, 30 mins conditioning - which was always just lunges/squats/sit-ups - last night, it was all conditioning, but there were lots of exercises with fancy gadgets (like all shapes and sizes of rubber bands - and a ball etc) - anyway - if I'm going back I would probably go to body attack afterwards, since I kind of feel like I cheated since I didn't break up a sweat - as it was, I went swimming afterwards, swam 40 lengths - then had a bit of a drama as I'd lost my locker key - but that's another story!

Oh - and weightwise, I'm havig issues with my scales, depending on where on the floor they're sitting, I've either lost 1 or 2 lbs since Monday - but there's still the weekend to go.......

I'll stop typing now, before I got RSI in my wrist from such a loooooonnnnngggg post!!

xx

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littleemmie wrote: »

Please may I steal your advice!!?

I know that I don't drink enough during the day, and although I take a bottle of water to work everyday most of it comes back home with me! Maybe I'll start getting it out of my bag and putting it in view so that when I start to feel hungry I can grab it.

Last night's meal out with work ended up being a trip to McDonalds :eek: (not my decision!) I was very good though (as good as you can be in McDonalds!) and had a grilled chicken and bacon salad which was actually not too bad. I had a bag of Maltesers afterwards though, but it was my 1st chocolate of any kind in a week. Got home at 10 really hungry but refused to munch so I'm quite pleased!!

Done my 4 mile round trip to work today, got to do it again this afternoon though.

Steal away littleemmie!! Glad to be of service! I definitely find that drinking at least 2l's of water a day stops me hungry! I was also gonna say, that it ups the exercise a wee tiny bit by walking back and forward to the loo all day (especially since our loo's are in a separate building, and it's about a 5 min walk away!) - but with all the walking you're clocking up, it doesn't look as though you need any more help in that direction!

Horace

Sorry have had a busy week so not even weighed myself yet:rolleyes: Well done to all those that have shifted a few pounds:T

Tara - you cannot chuck out that jar of nutella - put some on your toast in the morning and it will keep you going til lunchtime.

I have been busy glugging orange juice and feel sad that Sanguinello is being discontinued - its like drinking a glass of blood because it is so red:eek: Have tried to be good:

Breakfast - one glass or orange juice
Lunch - Wholemeal sandwich - it might be a scraping of jam or marmalade
Dinner - Chicken thighs with spuds and veg (2 will be eaten and 2 put aside for tomorrow's lunch)

Feeling a tad confused as ex boyfriend came round today - again he apologised for breaking my heart all those years ago so I said sh*t happens. Well, what was I supposed to say, he said that I had changed and become harder. I wouldnt say that - not harder but stronger and I don't put up with idiots either:rotfl: It was kinda strange to see him sitting there drinking tea - I felt awkward:rolleyes: