Lose Weight 8

JenIttels

Have a wonderful trip tallgirl!

honey28

Merry Christmas to you too tall girl, safe travelling.

Jeni thats not too bad considered you got married! You will have it off in no time! I'm still quite partial to the rice pudding too, its nice and warming on these cold nights, proper comfort food. Although I have totally sicked myself of muller lights - couldnt eat one unless it was mixed up in the rice pudding. Anyone else having this problem with "free" foods??

WelshWoofer

Hi all,
I've decided to turn over a new leaf and start again for the two weeks that are left before Xmas. Having been ill recently the diet completely went out of the window and I ate everything I fancied and more! haven't been to WI for two weeks either - a combination of fear and sickness!
Anyway, OH is away this weekend and therefore I can make a good start. Will go shopping this morning and buy only free foods!
I went clothes shopping in the week and bought a size 10 pair of evening trousers and a nice silky top thing for my Xmas work p*ss up (on the 20th) but if I carry on at this rate they won't fit and I refuse to go back to the shops at this time of year!
Have been checking the latest on here over the past week and it seems really quiet - have people given up? Or are they just being a bit evasive like me?!

Anyone want to do a two week challenge from now until Xmas Eve? I'm going to try to stick to SW 100% for 2 weeks and take at least 5x30mins exercise a week (brisk dog walking counts for me but should also have some "formal" exercise too)


Will someone help/join in? I'm sure we can last two weeks!!! I have my work do on the 20th and that will be my only day off.

Am going to weigh on my rubbish scales now - prepare for tears!

WelshWoofer

Well my rubbish scales says that I have put on on only 2lbs!!! :j They are usually wrong when compared with the SW scales but I know what the weight is on them and it pretty constant so I think I believe it.

2lbs should be shifted in a week (maybe a bit more if I'm really good as my body will think its starting a diet all over again as it just not been on one for weeks now!)

I'm off to take the dog out for an hours yomp now as it's not raining yet but it will do later. Start as you mean to go on and all that!

JenIttels

Honey i'm going through the same thing with muller lights. I can't even bear to put them in the rice pud (have resorted to reduced sugar jam which i find divine!) I'm also utterly fed up with apples for some reason and so have filled the fruit draw with a melon, a mango and some clementimes. I feel bad cause I can't imagine any of them are in season but, mmmmm...mango.

Rachel I've been doing rubbish diety things too. I'm going for it in the next two weeks (have a couple of posh meals that will get in the way though). Good luck with yours! 2lbs doesn't sound too bad at all!

Ted_Hutchinson

Study suggests eating slowly translates to eating less•When eating quickly, the women consumed 646 calories in about nine minutes.
•When eating more slowly, they had an average of 579 calories in about 29 minutes.
"They ate 67 calories more in nine minutes than they did in 29 minutes," says lead researcher Kathleen Melanson, director of the university's Energy Metabolism Laboratory. "If you add that up over three meals a day, that's a big difference in calories."

WelshWoofer

Flipping eck ! It's quiet here today!

Am in on my own and have cleaned the house from top to bottom including all of the downstairs inside windows. Am officially knackered and taking a break before wrapping Xmas pressies.

Anyone else left alive or am I on a parallel universe??:D !!

consultant31

Ted_Hutchinson wrote:

Study suggests eating slowly translates to eating less•When eating quickly, the women consumed 646 calories in about nine minutes.
•When eating more slowly, they had an average of 579 calories in about 29 minutes.
"They ate 67 calories more in nine minutes than they did in 29 minutes," says lead researcher Kathleen Melanson, director of the university's Energy Metabolism Laboratory. "If you add that up over three meals a day, that's a big difference in calories."

Yes a well known trick to avoid eating too much. It takes 20 minutes for your brain to let you know you've eaten enough - by which time, we quick eaters have consumed an extra severl hundred calories :eek:

Trouble is, I hate my food cool, so have to eat quickly in order to get it down while it's still hot

Rachel I admire your energy - I'm knackered just reading about it

Everybody's busy I guess - thank goodness it's only Christmas once a year!!

katiepoppycat

Yeah, we're all busy and given the level of gloom in the posts we're all struggling with our diets too! Maybe we ought to change the name of the thread to 'plan to lose weight' until January?!

I'm also doing the big christmas clean up Rachel, I even scrubbed out the fridge and threw out all the old marmalade today. Now off to cabbage in front of the telly for the rest of the night. Hope everyone's Christmas planning is going well - anyone still got gift buying still to do or all we all good MSE-ers who got it all done in January?

Lois_Lane

Hi all :wave:

I've been away since Wednesday at a conference, and although I had my laptop with me, I had no time to check in here, and it seems ages since I did. The conference was a nightmare as far as the diet is concerned - two days of hotel breakfasts, buffet lunches, cakes and biscuits, plus a gala dinner in between, followed by a work Christmas do last night...:eek: With all the travelling as well, I've been fit for nothing today!

I get the distinct feeling that we are all losing our focus at the moment, and I know I'm struggling too. The thing that keeps me going is knowing how easy it would be to give up altogether and then come the New Year, find I've gained loads and have an even harder task ahead of me.

Over the last couple of days I've OD'd on bread and rich food, which really doesn't agree with my digestive system, so this weekend I'm detoxing - lots of water, fruit and veg, yogurt, and small amounts of meat - not so much to lose weight, but to give my system a break!

If anyone is struggling and out there lurking, don't be afraid to post, come in and share with the rest of us. Let's all support each other through this difficult time and then we'll all be raring to go again after New Year.

LL