Delightfully, Decadent December Dieting!

knithappens

I cant believe it, I passed up the mince pies in Tesco, I usually buy boxes and boxes at xmas, no ones eats them so I eat them all with lashings of cream, so not going to do it this year, this xmas i am tryin not to overbuy the luxuries because we usually have tonnes left and i end up eatin them because i dont want them to o to waste. I also got out with baby yesterday left the car at home and walked everywhere. feeling good today.:j

tara747

134.4lbs today, which means I put on half a lb in November! I wonder if I was lighter yesterday...

Anyway! Onwards and upwards!

If I manage to lose any weight in the run up to Christmas with all the dos and socialising I was be gobsmacked. Maybe I'll take a perverse pleasure in eating less while everyone around me is stuffing their faces LOL.

tara747

Here's to a fab December for all of us, we can do it!!!

lostinrates

tara747 wrote: »

If I manage to lose any weight in the run up to Christmas with all the dos and socialising I was be gobsmacked. Maybe I'll take a perverse pleasure in eating less while everyone around me is stuffing their faces LOL.

As with the social stuff one or other worries about every month, IMO, this is our biggest challange as weight losers then maintainers: to understand that life goes on and that we must aapt our old patterns that have not helped us, by adapting what/how we celebrate. No mince pie marathon, but perhaps one mince pie, relished, eated off a beautiful plate, every bite appriciated and indulged in..the eating drawn out over 15 mintues and served with a perfect tea/coffee/drink rather than gobbled in three/four bites while we walk through the house/loa the washing machine/absent mindedly watch tv/work.....

and 15 minutes extra exercise a day to counter that one mince pie....!

Otherwise after we lose the weight, with no adjustment to the way we feel about eating and food, we just end up putting it back on.

As for you Tara, hen you have lost and are maintaining you cn stay with us, as Adrian does, spurring us on with your tips for success!;)

jack92

Lostinrates - great words of wisdom there

Knithappens - snap regarding the mince pies and not wasting food!

I weighed in on the Wii fit this morning at 11st 4lbs, so that's 2lbs on in the past 9 days :mad: BUT I started November at 11st 7lbs, so that's 3lbs off during November.

Nicky
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AdrianHi

Sign me up to maintain 10st 4lbs this month.

I will be dealing with Christmas week by trimming off 100 calories a day the week before and the week after. Christmas week will be tricky, father-in-law likes to load up plates with food, get out the chocolates and cheese and biscuits and thats after starting Chirstmas day with a traditional cooked breakfast :eek:
Anyway, I'll also deal with it by having a little of everything I like but not a lot!

Now 2 months into maintaining weight, as I've said on the threads, bit tricky to get the calorie intake and weight stabilised but it's not a hard struggle. Once you've spent the months or years it takes at 500 calories per day under what you burn gradually loosing weight on a relatively "normal" diet your left with a smaller challenge of adjusting it slightly to maintain weight.
You have already taught your mind, body and appetitite what it needs to know to maintain weight by then - you are in control now!

so_here_we_are

Morning All

Just signing in to say weigh in was last night and I have lost 3 and a half pounds

HOOOOOOORAH x

SHWA

knithappens

so_here_we_are wrote: »

Morning All

Just signing in to say weigh in was last night and I have lost 3 and a half pounds

HOOOOOOORAH x

SHWA

:T:T:T
Thats great, i cant wait to register a loss

Has anyone checked out sparkpeople.com, it is an american site but lots of brits on their the good thing it is all free, fitness tracker, food tracker, the best bit is they have exercise videos, the majority are 10 mins long, so they are easy to it into your day, I lost a lot of weight pre baby using this site.

Amanita_2

I think you'd better add me <sigh>. I have been doing so well maintaining too but I'm pretty stressed at work at the moment and when I'm stressed I eat! If I'm seriously stressed then I hardly eat at all but it isn't that bad yet!!

It doesn't help that we get the Marie Curie fund raising cakes here too. For a cancer charity I don't know why they distribute such calorie rich and fat laden junk.

lostinrates

Different scales this week at the doctors, which I suspect went quite..heavily ;)in my favour! But.....2.5 kilos!!! which is just over...5lbs....hmm, far too quick presuming scales are right I said, but doctor doesn't seem worried (after all, a drop in the comparitive ocean).

So, I'm pretty happy (I was expecting 2-2.5 lb loss, not kilos), but aware I need to watch the speed of loss. What I'm worried is that the first bit will remain easy, but the further I get the harder it will be...

As a matter of interest does any one here read any of the health/fitness and or slimming magazines? I was surprised to day how big the range is. I'm guessing they are a bit of a waste of money and not very MSE, but wondered f they provide inspiration?