Lose Weight 12

MissFlimsy

Hey there guys and girls !

I need to lose a stone so thought I would join you for the support factor, I have been eating crap recently and need to take back control before things really get out of hand !

Hope everyone is doing ok with their own goals, I look forward to speaking with you in the coming posts ! :j

SkyBlue_2

Oooops....I hadn't quite finished...but dropped my mouse, so it 'sent' !

Sorry about long, long post.....but I feel so inspired to tackle my fat issues!

Anyway...my plan is to have foods in I enjoy, and make the effort to prepare them for myself! I am worth the time it takes to make a salad instead of having a couple of slices of toast and butter!

Thats one change.

Another is to look at portions....to eat less....but to fill up on fruit, veg, salads, yoghurts, dips...all bought in advance

Another change is to list quick mini-meals on my cupboard door. if the munchies hit me I have low cal soups or beans available. I'll make a mini-meal...a healthy one...and not raid the biscuit tin. (I know how I operate!) I have oat cakes (which I love) and cottage cheese in the fridge...

I have to cut out the junk...no more junk food. End of. yes...I'll have a treat once in a while...but really I am now seeing the fat in these things...the calories, the additives...the expense....the damage to my heart. They have to go.

So too does alcohol. I can take it or leave it. I have tended to have a few glasses of wine with food to keep OH company...but it's been a social thing. I am just as happy with fizzy water. Someone (was it here?) described a glass of wine/alcoholic drinks as a "cream cake in a glass." I like that image.

Already I have implemented changes. Bread is not my frend really....nor is pasta.....so definite portion control on these things. I already eat low fat spread...and I'll continue to allow myself drizzle of olive oil on my salad. I eat small amounts of nuts and seds for snacks, (instead of Pringles etc) and I am learning to love fresh fruit in jelly.

Most importantly, I have to get off my bum and MOVE - so I aim to increase the number of steps I take every day. Walking is my exercise of choice...and swimming when I have had my op.


I am learning to treat myself well. My diet will be low GI...so fibre rich.

I know I have to try to move more each day...so with that, I'll away and make myself a bowl of salad to go with my mackerel.

Sorry to have gone on....but my fat will shift if I love myself a bit more. Loving myself isn't about denial...it's about treating my body well. It's the only one I have...and I CAN DO THIS! I want to be slim again.

How much do you want it Kerry? That's the question I had to ask myself. It's going to be a long haul job....but I can lose a stone in seven weeks. I know that. I have lived fifty years....I am prepared to dedicate a few years now to reshaping myself...day by day, week by week, month by month...and yes...year by year. I am going to do this!! Yay me! :j

If I lose a pound a week...that's 52 lbs gone in a year! If it takes 14 months...I don't mind. Then I'll tackle the next 20 lbs.

Thanks for allowing me to write this much...and great if you got this far!

I may slide....I am sure I will...but this is for me, for life....and in the not too distant future I'll be slim again.

We can do it! :T

xxx

ju24

Victory; Yes i've watched all of those programmes as well and always started the next day full of enthusiasm, at least till about dinner time. Its then it always goes downhill and i end up binging(sp?)from tea time onwards then i could really kick myself :mad:

Im just waiting till next Friday to hopefully get the all clear on some tests at the doctors, then i'll be able to put my mind to it properly, cant do it whilst i'm worrying. Hope you'll feel a bit easier soon, losing weight can help the arthritis, it did mine in my hips, knees and back when i lost alot of weight many moons ago. ju

ju24

Skyblue. Hi i've just been reading your post and i thought you sound so much like me. In my head i'm still that younger active slim person that i used to be but boy do i have a shock when i get a glimpse of myself in a mirror or a shop window! Well done on getting positive and taking control, hope to be there myself sometime soon. I have only just rejoined the forum and already there has been positive help. Hope all goes well for you. ju

SkyBlue_2

Thanks ju.

I hope your test results are OK on Friday and you can move forward. x

Yes...mirrors and my reflection in glass cause me pain. I look so horrible now. I try to focus on attractive things about myself, but my thinking has become warped. I see a fat blob...but have recently been telling myself I am a bright, kind, able fat blob - one with lots of determination to reduce the blobbiness!

Do we have a Mrs Blobby smiley?:D

Good luck ju....we'll get there!

victory

I like your positive attitude and your changes sky all of them fab and in the right direction....why don't you if you find clubs and diets hard do what MTC and Arthurdent do on the MTC loose weight thread? MTC eats what he wants only he cuts the portion sizes right down, so if he had a plateful he has trained himself to take half of it off and then a bit more to leave 1/3rd that way he does not feel he is being deprived and it not such a hardship, I have often done that with my plateful, as to be honest I did not need that much at all, just greed, boredom, comfort, habit on my part and all that can be broken...

Also eat on smaller plates, use a teaspoon for soups instead of a big spoon, watch constantly portion size, read labels, go for the low calorie, low fat, low sugar versions are there are many to choose from..

I agree with the body image, I have a terrible case of huge stomach that no one else notices but I think is enormous syndrome!! It stops me from wearing skirts, nice clothes, dressing up and is just a pain.... however much weight I have lost all I see is the huge frontage I have!! I agree it has to be dealt with otherwise us and all around us suffer from it, life is too short to not show off our good points eh?!!!
Ju hope your test results are o.k on friday.....

Welcome missflimsy

juststarting_2

Well having another good day :j
Watched a program the other night someone having a tummy tuck they weighed what they had removed just 2lb but it looked hugh just made me relise that 2lb is a lot to lose. You need 7000 cals to 2lb of fat so thats alot to cut out so we all should be proud of all the 1lbs and 2 lbs we keep lossing it takes alot of effort and it is alot of weight so well done to everyone on here who is determind to do something about their extra weight. :T :T :T :T

bindiboo

bindiboo wrote: »

it keeps on coming. Another 2lb off. Runnig totol is now 22 lbs in 7 weeks and 19 inches lost all over.

Going in for my op so dont know how next week weigh in will hold for me. Should be out same day tomorrow and I am going to be off work a week and a half. Wish me luck guys.:undecided

guys i'm back after having my operation Ended staying night at hospital due to a non functioning bladder!!!! bloody well functioned all through the night though!!!!!!!!!!

All i can say is OUCH!!! Needed 2 shots of mophine after I came round and dont even start me on the size if needle the anesatesic put in the back of my hand.

Hope to be back on the cd wagon very soon.

going back to the sofa and blanket now.

victory

Lots of rest for you bindi:grouphug:

victory

I am quite proud and pleased with myself today, the school goody goody mum who volunteers for everything and tries to put your name down for the rest came straight over to me after school and wanted me to volunteer for tomorrow's school fete, I positively, decisively and no backing down said no I would not do it tomorrow yay me :T I normally try to blend in, say nothing and for peace if cornered say yes and agree to anything.... not this time, I DECIDED I am worth something and my confidence is boosted by the weight loss, I know I don't have to be a yes person anymore, I count:D