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victory

Well yes, thanks for that tech:rolleyes:

Raining here, sary is the strawberry season over? I only get 4/6 strawberries a day

Intergalactic_Floozie

hello all, can I join you?

Desperately trying to re-learn what normal eating is. I'm using the Weight Loss Resources website, need to lose 3st 8lbs (50lbs - can I do it in a year?) but it seems such an enormous task! My main problem is boredom eating, I spend a lot of time in the house, or a lot of time sat at my desk at work (9hrs per day indeed!) and I also have a problem with 'moderation' in that it's a word that doesn't exist in my world!!!

Another problem is that I am completely inactive. I can't afford a gym membership, and although I have exercise DVDs I can't get near the telly because of the kids to do them. I start work at 6am and struggle to get up at 5:15am to go to work, so can't get up any earlier than that to do a DVD lol.

I've found my pedometer (an Omron,, which was the most acurate I have ever had) but the battery has run out so I am going to go to the local hardware shop and get a battery for it so I am going to try and walk a bit more.

Other than that, I like to think when I'm not overeating / binge eating through boredom, my diet is healthy, I love fruit and veg and eat quite low fat. I just feel like I am trapped in a vicious circle of binge eating followed by a diet followed by a fad diet etc..

Anyway, thanks for letting me join in, and I promise I will post every day.

Starspar

Hi Intergalatic Floozie, I also just joined in and everyone is great on here. 3 days in and the weather is miserable and I feel like lying in bed all day and eating rubbish so trying to think of other things to do ?

mazza111

Intergalactic Floozie - Yes you can do that in a year. I lost my first couple of stones due to stress, but it also gave me the kick up the rear that i needed to get started, so I've lost my weight over about 4-5 months, What I've lost so far is around the same as you want to in a year. Although I wouldn't recommend the stress part :rotfl:

Walking is great exercise for the legs, 4th compliment on my legs this week (5th if u count the dog who tripped me up :rotfl:) Although not sure if they were compliments or not.. went something like this..

1. Customer: You got great legs for a woman of your age!!!
Me: Are u calling me an old fart??
Customer: Ehh, errr, emmm
Me walking away laughin at him :rotfl:

2. Customer: You got better legs than the other postie!!
not really a compliment as the other postie has legs like a rugby player :rotfl:

3. WoW a Postie with sexy legs!!

One true compliment, couldn't answer that, so just gave him a killer wink

4: The little dog who took a fancy to my leg and tripped me up

5. Customer: Great pair of pins on ya lass!
Pity he was about 90

So get walking, improve your pins!

Now need to change jobs so i can work on the belly :rotfl:

victory

Intergalactic_Floozie wrote: »

hello all, can I join you?

Desperately trying to re-learn what normal eating is. I'm using the Weight Loss Resources website, need to lose 3st 8lbs (50lbs - can I do it in a year?) but it seems such an enormous task! My main problem is boredom eating, I spend a lot of time in the house, or a lot of time sat at my desk at work (9hrs per day indeed!) and I also have a problem with 'moderation' in that it's a word that doesn't exist in my world!!!

Another problem is that I am completely inactive. I can't afford a gym membership, and although I have exercise DVDs I can't get near the telly because of the kids to do them. I start work at 6am and struggle to get up at 5:15am to go to work, so can't get up any earlier than that to do a DVD lol.

I've found my pedometer (an Omron,, which was the most acurate I have ever had) but the battery has run out so I am going to go to the local hardware shop and get a battery for it so I am going to try and walk a bit more.

Other than that, I like to think when I'm not overeating / binge eating through boredom, my diet is healthy, I love fruit and veg and eat quite low fat. I just feel like I am trapped in a vicious circle of binge eating followed by a diet followed by a fad diet etc..

Anyway, thanks for letting me join in, and I promise I will post every day.

Deal with one thing at a time....yes 50lb is douable in a year, if you were to loose 1lb a week that is 52lb and 2lb a week will get off 104lb and so on...yes it is seems such an enormous task but not if you break it down to smaller bite sizes pieces, like I want to loose 7lb by or I would like to loose 7lb for....have an aim, a wedding, an outfit, a reason , a purpose, health, write a food diary that will surprise you how many cals you have each day, include drinks and the sugar in the drinks as well as the milk, everthing that passes your lips, write in the diary at the front the measurements, take a pic if you want to and watch the inches come off. Find out your height, what your weight should be, what your BMI should be and aim for it.

Boredom eating..got a degree in that one, the trick is to know that the food is not going to make things better, it gains weight, is not a distraction only a hindrance takes longer for you to become the thinner person you would like to be, find other things to do, bath, walk, paint nails, read, clean house, talk on the phone, invite people over to decorate a room, drink lots of water, they say wait 20 mins to work out whether you are hungry or just thirsty, distract yourself.

Moderation... buy the plate if you need it, the slimming plate, borrow loads of books from the library and get the idea of portion sizes, the palm of your hand is a great indicator, never cook more than you are allowed or need, know the cals per day or points per day you should be on and stick to them.

Check out the food doctor diet, it gives you the most accurate ratio of foods protein fats complex carbs and simple carbs that should be on your plate and that you need.

Walking is great exercise, I have two kids also but I used to walk up and down the stairs all the time or spend ages walking around the house doing the house work, any walking exercise is good for you however small it still counts and still is great for your all over health/well being.

victory

Starspar wrote: »

Hi Intergalatic Floozie, I also just joined in and everyone is great on here. 3 days in and the weather is miserable and I feel like lying in bed all day and eating rubbish so trying to think of other things to do ?

Clean the house, iron, read a book, watch the dvd, bath, make a new low cal recipe from the diet books you have or google one, talk to someone on the phone, invite someone around, do something you have not done for ages but have meant to get around to, put all your photos together as you keep saying you will do, go on friends reunited....

sarymclary

Hello all,

I've been a bit AWOL, as the days seem to be getting busier and busier.

Welcome newbies, the best advice I can offer is try to pop in here each day, for support, to celebrate and to feel you're not doing this alone.

I had such great plans of making this a good week, and it's just been a bit of a hash really. TOTM was part of it, but the rest was me feeling rather stressed and overwhelmed by stuff, and so I resorted to the box of Ritz, and then a few biscuits, and so on. I've had a carb fest, and don't feel at all better for it, in fact I feel totally !!!! for being so weak. Anyway, tomorrow is another day, and so I'll put that blip behind me (literally knowing the size of my @rse), and be better. I almost said 'try to be better', but 'try' will only give me permission to fail. I edited myself, to say I will be.

I had a day out yesterday with a friend sorting out getting new tyres put on my car, and her's too. Then I nipped into the big Tesco nearby and found some bargain buys for the kids holiday stuff (a couple of mini surf boards for the beach, beach shoes, etc). I returned a couple of pairs of shorts I bought for myself, but didn't like on me. My waist has got smaller, but my boobs are still too big, so when I try on tops they just look so out of proportion. I can't understand why my boobs haven't really got much smaller, after losing the weight so far. Anyway, I shouldn't grumble should I.

I kept my food to a reasonable level yesterday, thank goodness.

Today I am off to a garden party at a friend's, which isn't as posh as it sounds, but is still a rather 'nice' affair. We go each year, and they have a little jazz band that plays in the garden, and a bouncy castle for the kids, and last year a couple of my boys ended up playing guitar and drums and then singing! They had a fab time.

I should be there now, so have to dash. I will try to keep my food intake to sensible, and I'm sure there will be salads on offer.

Will report in later. Bye for now.

victory

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1HANNAH

hello all, hell of a day here :rolleyes: spent the morning in A&E with DH, he is ok but in pain, so all of our normal routines food/exercise wise got lost today. We ended up going for a late lunch at a harvester were I didn't make the best choices but it could have been much worse and neither of us had had any breakfast and we will probably just eat fruit later, so hopefully I won't have done too much damage.
So will get back on track tomorrow morning is the plan with a run. xxx
(will try and catch up on posts when the kids go to bed)

Missy™

sarymclary wrote: »

I can't understand why my boobs haven't really got much smaller, after losing the weight so far. Anyway, I shouldn't grumble should I.

LOL Sary and Victory! Once I reached my maintain weight I treated myself to lots of new bras (day and sports ones), but then my boob size shrank again really quickly - I think it was because that's when the exercise bug really started kicking in.

It was a lot of money down the drain because I got hardly any use out of those bras Was 32F, now seems to be anywhere between 28C - 30DD depending on style. I prefer having a smaller bust, it's a lot more practical