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gunsandbanjos

Evening! Some of you may remember me? Well I need to get my lardy !!! back on the SW wagon.

Will be returning on Monday, just trying to get myself back up to speed, think I remember most stuff but going to re read my books and need to go shopping at the weekend.

Life has kind of taken over at the moment, in the middle of a divorce, DD is still not great with her health so good times all round.

Thankfully I've not put on too much weight - been hovering round the 9st 6 - 7 ish range. Would like as a start to get under 9 stone so not a massive undertaking. My end goal is probably about 8st 7 or there abouts.

Hope everyone is good?

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gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Evening! Some of you may remember me? Well I need to get my lardy !!! back on the SW wagon.

Will be returning on Monday, just trying to get myself back up to speed, think I remember most stuff but going to re read my books and need to go shopping at the weekend.

Life has kind of taken over at the moment, in the middle of a divorce, DD is still not great with her health so good times all round.

Thankfully I've not put on too much weight - been hovering round the 9st 6 - 7 ish range. Would like as a start to get under 9 stone so not a massive undertaking. My end goal is probably about 8st 7 or there abouts.

Hope everyone is good?

Welcome back

gettingthere54

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Evening! Some of you may remember me? Well I need to get my lardy !!! back on the SW wagon.

Will be returning on Monday, just trying to get myself back up to speed, think I remember most stuff but going to re read my books and need to go shopping at the weekend.

Life has kind of taken over at the moment, in the middle of a divorce, DD is still not great with her health so good times all round.

Thankfully I've not put on too much weight - been hovering round the 9st 6 - 7 ish range. Would like as a start to get under 9 stone so not a massive undertaking. My end goal is probably about 8st 7 or there abouts.

Hope everyone is good?

Hiya again :j nice to see your back, good luck x

gettingthere54

Finally ........ a 2lb LOSS!
Whew! x

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gettingthere54 wrote: »

Finally ........ a 2lb LOSS!
Whew! x

Well done :T

beanielou

Great news getting there :j

gettingthere54

thanks for that x

Mediterranean_Mum

So nice to see you gettingthere54 and gunsandbanjos.

No.1cashcow wrote: »

Hi all, am trying to follow SW plan and have lost 12lbs so far, but have 2 week self-catering hol. in France at end of month and am wondering if anyone has any tips for staying on plan when all the usual products most probably not available. The baguette will be a tough thing to turn down....

As some of the others have said No.1cashcow, you can get most things in France and certainly plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables - go to the open air markets for the best and freshest selection. I remember when I was last in France I ate tons and tons of cherries from the market! :eek:

With bread I would say take a couple of loaves of bread with you. They don't take up a lot of luggage space and you can freeze them when you arrive and just take your two slices out each day. I don't travel anywhere now without my bread :rotfl:

frogga wrote: »

...sneaking in slowly as I'm in a state

Have been bingeing like a mad frog possessed. Well, as you may remember I weighed myself on Sunday morning and was a stone heavier than I thought. And that was it. Have been stuffing food in my mouth quicker than a whippet after a hare

I just knew getting on the scales would be a bad idea, but I couldn't understand why my trousers were tight so I wanted a sneaky peek, but it's really really upset the apple cart.

Yes Blodwen I was reducing the fruit all of last week :beer:I felt much thinner, which was why I couldn't understand the tight trousers. Hence the desire for a quick look at my actual weight. I thought I was going to be about 13st, but I was 14st :eek: I thought I was normal again, now the harsh reality is I'm seriously obese, still. I should be 10st. I'm 4 st overweight.

It made me panic, I thought I've got to get this weight off, and be quick about it. I started planning a veg only diet. No pots, no fruit, no beans or bread. Then suprise suprise I felt upset with the deprivation. SO I stuffed and stuffed and stuffed. I've been bingeing since Sunday night and I feel dreadful. I feel mentally rough and physically absolutely dreadful.

It's wednesday, I'm already thinking about starting again on Saturday. Whoever starts again on a wednesday? Come Saturday I'll be thinking I'll start again on Monday, then I'll say I'll start again in half term, then I'll start again once term has started. Before you know it, it will be christmas and I'll be 7 st heavier! :eek:

Got to get to grips with myself TODAY. Got to pull myself together. One day at a time. Stay away from the scales. Don't ever hop on them again maybe? Because if I hadn't have looked on Sunday morning, none of this would have happened. :mad:

I'm so angry with myself. I'm an absolute fruitcake

Frogga I've been away for a couple of days but was going to say basically what some of the others have said - don't wait just get back on the wagon right this minute. When we "plan" a comeback or a start it usually means that we're setting ourselves up for a huge binge before we "start". Glad to see that you've already set yourself on the right path again.

All I would really say is get back to basics - write it all down and don't forget to weigh your syns - it's really very easy to miscalculate.

Mediterranean_Mum

Dreadful couple of days for me as I had a big breakfast meeting on Tuesday morning. It was in a hotel and I made the most of it :eek: Actually I did have a huge plate of salads but also had some stuff that I shouldn't have had. I did however keep away from the breads, jams and cakes - must look on the positive side.

On Tuesday evening we were at friends for dinner and I really thought I would be able to have a good meal as my friend is also struggling with her weight. We sat down to soup to start which she told me I could have as it had nothing in it except celery and apple. OMG the top of it was swimming in oil - even my kids commented to me afterwards!!!

Main course was baked fish, peas and new potatoes (greasy) and salad with an extremely sugar-laden dressing. It's amazing how people forget the "extra" calories that they put in their food.

Dessert was cheesecake - I am absolutely gone when it comes to cheesecake - I simply adore it.

I think I mentioned the other day that it was a holiday here and it's otherwise known as the cheesecake festival. We were invited out also for lunch yesterday and there was more heavily cheese-laden foods and more cheesecake - I was soooooooo bad :eek::eek::eek:

I went for an hour's walk last night to try and attack the damage but a hop on the scales this morning shows that I'm up a couple of pounds this week - totally deserved - WI isn't actually until tomorrow but we're going away this evening until Saturday night (more food!!!!) so official WI will be next Friday. At least I have two possible zumba classes next week to try and work some of it off!!

frogga

Well, I got through Day 1 without bingeing and that's aways the hardest isn't it? I actually find the next few day tricky as the 'urge' suddenly comes upon me and if I'm not careful I'm stuffing my face before I've even given myself a chance to think about it.

I'm wondering what to do about breakfasts. I have been enjoying a really big breakfast. I've mostly had a big bed of watercress or spinach, a wholemeal roll cut in half toasted (HEB) a tin of baked beans, 2 poached eggs and 30g cheese (HEA) on top, with 6 grilled mushrooms too I've been loving it and it really satisfies my greed.

If I look at the calories, and baring in mind that this must be contributing to me not losing, no actually gaining, what else could I have that would be that filling? A 30g portion of cereal is pathetic and it's gone in 2 mouthfulls. Also as I'm trying to cut down on fruit not sure that I want to have a bowl of fruit either? Some ideas would be good if any of you have time :beer: I want a huge amount of food, not expensive, that's all free. Easy

Still feel wobbly after weighing myself. I wish I could throw the scales away like some of you suggested, but I share the lillypad with Mr Frog and 2 nearly grown up tadpoles who use them. Mr Frog likes to weigh himself every now and then, and the tadpoles too. Just like the idea of not having any yummies in the house, I don't want to inflict my issues on anyone else. they don't have a problem with scales, so why should I have to ban these things just because I'm the one who's barking mad? I know if I said I was throwing them, they wouldn't care, but it's the thought of my weirdness affecting in any small way, the lives of the others. I'm the one with the problem. I've just got to sort it out!

Have a great day people