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Good luck with the diet plans ladies, I'm using myfitnesspal to help me lose some weight - makes me pay attention to what I'm eating calorie wise when I exersize you can then input those details so you get additional calories to 'eat back'. It worked really well for me a couple of years ago when I went from 11stone 12lb and got down to 10stone 2lb. I've gained some again lately so am back up to 10stone 10lb but its coming off again slowly when I remember to keep track. Might work for you guys too? If you do give it a go I use the same username there so you can 'friend' me to help keep ourselves on track (nothing like a bit of peer pressure right
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I've not spoken to my mate again yet, will be seeing him in December when I meet up with the southern group again, so will think about it then - who knows the scotsman might have been asking our mutal friend about me (in which case the teasing will still be merciless but at least I'll know it wasn't just me thinking he was interested when he was being friendly). Either way getting in to yet another long distance relationship and with another ex military bloke is something which will take alot of thinking about - previous experiences should be telling me to run away and never look back. :rotfl:It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.
Sir Terry Pratchett
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Thanks for the advice scubaangel. I already have a similar sounding app but it does not allow you to friend people so the peer pressure might do the trick.
I tend to find that I can lose weight easiest when work is quietest and not stressful. This also coincides with the lighter evenings but I do not want to wait until the spring to start my diet. I am going to have a good long think about it this weekend and try and get in the right mindset for starting next week.
I also hate the photos and I hide them away, which is a real shame as I would love to have them out as a reminder of the lovely time I had.LBM = 07/09/13 Debt = £13339 (100% cleared)
New roof and car £8557/£19003 New kitchen £396/£5039 Credit card Paid Student loan Paid0 -
Wasn't there a my fitness thing for the wii or nintendo ds?? Was it the same idea?? I like using those.
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Well... I weighed myself on the wiifit tonight and I am more than I thought 15st 9lbs!!
So after a bit of a bubble down the phone to my mum, I decided to get off my (literally) fat !!! and do something.
Diet books are now out and being read. And I did 30 minutes of exercise on the wiifit.
I love the wiifit exercises purely because I always try and beat my high score which means I keep going and going and going.
Feeling a bit gutted about being heavier than I thought.
However... a wee bit of MSE for you. Spoke to my dad and he is going to pay me £1 for every lb I lose. See... who said I'm not entrepuernurial. (I hope you can figure out the word I mean by that horrific spelling attempt).
Exactly fmess. We have an amazing photo of us inside the eiffel tower restaurant (the tour58 one, not the really expensive one) and they gave us an amazing table right in the middle of the windows looking out over the trocadero. It was stunning. The waiter saw we were taking pictures and offered to take one for us. It is the most horrendous photo I have ever seen. You can see me from head to toe, sitting in a chair leaning over the table towards my OH... even being in black didn't save me.
My dream is to go back, get exactly the same meal and the same table and get a better picture with a skinnier me. I know it is stupid but I would love to retake all my holidays but with a skinnier me instead so I could look half-decent in the pictures.
I felt really bad talking about my clothes addiction earlier. I know it is horrendous and a ridiculous amount of money but I can't sell them. The clothes I bought aren't fashionable sort of clothes, they are stuff I would wear for years (band tees, vest tops, dress trousers, dressy tops, decent but not posh dresses, etc). As much as I love my hoodies and combats, I am beginning to feel that I should be dressing up every now and again. I have an amazing coat that I bought from new look that I can't fit into it so have never worn. But I want to wear it. And I'm rambling again...
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Anyways... Away to update signature.
Current weight is 15st 9lbs.
Target weight is 10st 7lbs.
Need to lose: 72lb.
:eek:Mortgage: £0/£80,329.91
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**hugs** a motivational suggestion for you, me & my mate have been trying to lose a bit this year, get 2 jam jars on one write Lost & the other To Lose, in the to lose put a pebble for every pound you want to lose, when you lose one it goes into the lost jar. As your dad is paying you £1 per lb maybe you can at that point swap the pebble for the coin & save them up for a treat when you reach the goal. Maybe you could do a couple of to lose jars for each stage target.
I'm continuing to try & lose a bit over Christmas, when I have time to get on my cross trainer that is, I don't know where I'm at now I know I put a bit back on but whether its fat or muscle I'm not sure as I'm still not a completely consistent size- Mortgage: 1st one down, 2nd also busted
- Student Loan gone
Swagbucks, Mingle, GiffGaff, Prolific, Qmee & Quidco; thank you MSE every little bit helps0 -
Hey Stewby,
I was pottering through the diaries and saw a familiar name from NSKs challenges, so I thought I'd pop in to say hello!
You are doing great. Paying everything off in 18months sounds great. The key is to not create any more debt in this time. This is something I've struggled with. Slow and steady wins the race :money:
Re weight loss. I have lost 14kgs (about 31lbs) in 18months. My weight, like the debt, had crept up and I got married last year so I began my weight loss 5months prior to that. I think someone said about stress and weight loss- they're not friends! The weight loss I experienced before and now after the wedding is ridiculous! Stress is definitely and fat hugger! Hah. One thing I'd say though is to make it a lifestyle change, not a "diet". Good luck both of you with it! :j
"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try" :TDebt at LBM June 2013- £31,300
Debt July 2014- £16,736
[STRIKE]1 HP, 5 4 3 2[/STRIKE] 1 CC & 2 loans
DFD: March 2017
Sealed Pot ~£90
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Hi trix-a-belle and fyggy. Thanks for reading. Hope it made sense, I tend to ramble a bit.
I love the sound of the jars trix-a-belle!! Going to need a massive jar for 72 pebbles though. I cannot believe that I let myself get into this state. (no offence intended to anyone).
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I would love to walk into any shop and pick up a size 14. No need to try it on and just know that it will fit. I know I am "big-boned" in size so going to anything smaller just wouldn't work and I accept that. But it would be nice to be the "average" size.
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Stress made me comfort eat junk food fyggy so you are very lucky that yours did the opposite.
I did the s.world diet before so am going to be MSE and use my old books to monitor my eating.
I spent the night and will spend today working out what I can eat whilst still maintaining our MSE ways. See... I am trying. (very, as my dad would say).Mortgage: £0/£80,329.91
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I completely agree, stress and weight loss do not go together (although I did once find depression and weight loss did go together, but I do not recommend this!). I also think debt busting and stress do not go together well either.
This month I have been much more stressed than last month and am struggling with both my weight and getting SFDs. As if to illustrate my point, I have just offered to buy OH and I tea from the fish and chip shop after another rubbish day at work.
Funny you mention the pebbles in a jar idea. I was just thinking this morning that I might draw up a weight loss chart with a box for every pound I want to lose and then colour in each one as I lose it. (Just realised the irony that I'm trying to gain monetary pounds for my debt busting and lose pounds in weight at the same time!!) :rotfl:
I do really need a lifestyle change. I exercise everyday by walking the dogs and stand up and walk around all day at work, so exercise is fine :j, but I snack too much, eat way too large portions and have a thing for putting cheese on top of every dinner.
I think I'm going to have specific targets for next week relating to the lifestyle changes and hopefully this will kick start the weight loss:-
1.) Do not add cheese to any dinner (except lasagne as this is what normal people do!)
2.) No snacks - not at mid-morning, or mid-afternoon, or after dinner, or all the other snack times I have invented to allow myself to eat (this includes ones in the middle of night, when I let the dogs out in the garden)
3.) Eat portion sizes that I think are too small
I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 10st 11lbs so want to lose 25lbs.
stewby can you pass on any SW tips or tricks that you found worked please?
My only trick is to eat foods that take a while to eat so that I feel like I've eaten more. I find a plate full of salad with dinner/lunch takes me ages to eat and then I don't notice that I've actually had relatively few calories.LBM = 07/09/13 Debt = £13339 (100% cleared)
New roof and car £8557/£19003 New kitchen £396/£5039 Credit card Paid Student loan Paid0 -
In 2009 (when I dropped from 15:2 to 13:2), it was exercising for an hour every night. I set up my wiifit and did it at home at about 23:00 - 02:00 roughly. (if you select nightowl, wii accepts anything up until 03:00 as the day before).
However, since then I have met my OH, gone out a lot more for meals, had a lot of extra stress at work, borderline depression (no meds required thankfully), moved home with my parents (due to said stress and depression) and dealt with my OH being at the other side of the world for eight months. Which is my excuse for gaining so much weight and certainly not due to my love of chocolate and unhealthy food.
I was speaking to my mum today and she was explaining that the reason why my dad has let me overspend the past wee while is because he could see it was keeping me on an even keel. I feel bad that I have made my parents supply me with extra money due to my inability to cope very well.
However... since October, I have gotten a new job which I am very happy with; my OH has moved in; I have realised my debts and decided to take control of my overspending; and I have decided to go on my final diet and started today!! So lots of good, positive changes going on in my life.
Aw fmess. I thought the stressful times were over now??
I don't think you should grudge yourself one chippy if you have had a horrendous day. (I don't know if NSK would agree though).
I think your goals sound brilliant. My plan is to stick to the SW syn scores and try to lose weight that way. Today I have had 2 weetabix; 125ml milk; sweetner; two cups of very weak tea (that I don't normally drink) with no milk but a wee drop of sweetner in; some homemade soup (made by my daddy); 2 slices bread; 25g primula cheese spread and some ham.
This comes to 1A, 1B and 9.5 syns. so I still have 5.5 syns to go which equals a kitkat later (two fingers).
This diet worked really well for me in 2009 so I am hoping it will do the same in 2013. Fingers crossed we both achieve our goals. I look forward to hearing more about how well you get on. Remember to be positive.
Hugs.Mortgage: £0/£80,329.91
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hey
I thought they were over but one of the issues seems to be lingeringI'm hoping it will be over tomorrow and I can start next week on a positive note
I reckon the SW will work for you especially as you had so much success with it before. When I've lost weight in the past it has always been through calorie counting but my main fault is falling off the wagon. I got down to 9st 12lbs in June but then it has crept back on over the last few months
I'm going to start my 3 challenges tomorrow and hope that it helpsLBM = 07/09/13 Debt = £13339 (100% cleared)
New roof and car £8557/£19003 New kitchen £396/£5039 Credit card Paid Student loan Paid0 -
I think it will help in several ways. It will give you something else to focus on, it will allow you to feel that sense of achievement that we all love and losing weight will make you feel more healthier and energetic and less sluggish. (if you are anything like me then winter is hellish for feeling sluggish).
My problem is always treats... I have one treat day a month. But then if I have it too early in the month, I want to have one later or I justify that it wasn't really that much of a splurge and I could manage a second one with no problems... and then I have a chocolate cake or three and the good work is undone.
However, I am determined as I have just gone up another trouser size. I wear men's combats as ladies are too fitted for my tastes. (that should read, I am incredibly self-conscious of how people look at me and my ample bottom so I wear mens combats as they tend to be looser and not show it off as much). But yeah, going up another size has kinda given me a jolt. (I went up a size last year at the same time and bought trousers right before our last girly holiday).
My brain is still going round and round about how I managed to gain so much weight. I blame my biscuits and fatty yummy foods.
However... one positive!! Found out that passata is syn free (so I can have as much as I like) and it is seived tomatoes which is basically what I put into homemade lasagne. So that means each portion of lasagne is 6 syns and I am allowed 15 in a day!!
:j
Hope tomorrow is a bit better and brighter for you fmess.
Hugs.Mortgage: £0/£80,329.91
Savings: £0/£64000
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