Weight Loss the Old Style Way Part 11

MrsLottie

Good morning everybody ,sad to say I have a STS to register this week. Would like to say I’ll do better next week but we’re off on holiday tonight ( chasing the sun). I will try very hard to eat sensibly but often not a lot of choice for gluten free choice and then there’s the cocktails ! Don’t want to let our group loss down too badly though so will try .

I agree evening is a danger time for snacking so I usually allow myself a little treat of about 100 calories ,french fries or a Freddy frog usually do the trick .
For those who are feeling sad or emotional , I think that’s all of us at sometime ,let’s try and put food behind us and do something positive instead to take our mind off things .in the daytime I try and take the dogs an extra walk and in the evening a nice soak in the bath with a good book or make Mr L play scrabble !

Keep going everybody and I’ll report back in a week .

hatful-of-hollow

Afternoon all.

Lovely day here in West Wales, just been for a three and a half mile walk along the coast, certainly blew the cobwebs away.

Today's menu:

B Black coffee
L BLT on wholemeal (with lots of L and T and not much B :rotfl: ) and half a banana
D Fish fingers, oven fries, mushy peas

Snack tonight - few brazil nuts and a glass of red wine

E 3.5 mile walk

GreenEcoGirl

Evening all.

I am very pleased to say that I have finally caught up with all the posts! I've been meaning to do so for the past week, but it's only today that I have had the opportunity.

It's been a bit of a nightmare few days. My oh came home for a long weekend and brought the flu with him! I spent Tuesday looking after him, as he was too unwell to drive back to Scotland. Then yesterday morning at 5am I woke up with stomach cramps and ended up in bed all day with s&d! So oh ended up looking after me! He felt rough again this morning, but I've slowly started to feel more human. Still haven't eaten very much though. I have weighed myself and I've lost 4lbs, but I won't register it as an official loss yet, as I expect most of it will go back on. It's probably mostly water loss anyway!

Anyway, to top it off, my little boy now seems to have a touch of both of our bugs. I was hoping he'd escape my germs as he's breastfed and I've been told that means he should get the antibodies that my body produces when I'm ill, helping him to fight off whatever illness I might have... unfortunately, he does seem to have produced a couple of dodgy looking nappies, and it's not helped him fight off daddy's germs! We ended up taking him to an emergency appointment at the doctor's surgery, and he had a thorough check over, but it seems to be a case of letting him fight it off himself. It's very worrying when he had a high temperature and is so unsettled, as he is usually such a happy, smiley baby. ☹️

Fingers crossed we get through the night. He's been feeding loads and snoozing in between.

I will hold off on updating my weight until I know I'm fully recovered. It would be lovely to keep it off, but I am realistic about it! Although, my oh has eaten most of the chocolates he bought me for Valentine's Day, as I couldn't face them (cheeky bu**er)!!! That's got to help, hasn't it?!

dandy-candy

Well I went for two walks today but it only totted up to 5k steps. I also got the biggest blister I've ever had on the back of my heel, it's the size of a 50 pence and that's not an exaggeration. I really don't want to miss my walk tomorrow but I'm not sure what to do. It's burst, so I'm wondering if a plaster and two pairs of socks will cushion it enough to be bearable?

Re. The emotional eating, I was sitting today thinking that the one I would love more than a flash car or fancy house, jewellery, holiday etc, would be to be slim again. And the ridiculous thing is that that is actually something I genuinely can attain if I could sort out my will power and emotions. I have a "diet diary" that I write each time I start a healthy bender, and it has entries going back 4 years saying "this time I will do it" and every time it's the same - I lose a few pounds then relax and pile it on again! It's so frustrating :mad:

GreenEcoGirl

I can totally relate to this. I have diaries with my weight recorded in them and it's so depressing to see how little has changed over the years. I sometimes feel like I have been dieting my entire adult life.

I gained weight in my teens and my parents used to tell me that it was just 'puppy fat' and that I would lose it. That was so not the case. I lost some during a gap year by doing a sponsored diet and calorie counting, but put it all back on (and more) when I went to university.

I eventually got to my goal weight in 2004 (aged 31!) for my sister's wedding, but it was short-lived. I did it again in 2014, just before I met my partner, and did keep it off for about 12 months. I went on a mega shopping spree with my best friend and totally revamped my wardrobe. For the first time in my life I actually felt good about the way I looked and enjoyed clothes shopping.

Unfortunately, a dodgy back killed off my exercise regime and the weight has slowly crept back on. I am nowhere near my heaviest, but I have all these lovely clothes that I can't wear and feel so disappointed in myself. I don't want to be skinny as I didn't like the way I looked when at my lightest, but I do want to be able to grab anything from my wardrobe and know that it will fit...

I know that I have a beautiful baby, and people keep telling me not to worry about the weight at the moment, but it does impact on the way I think about myself. I have almost everything I want in life. I became mortgage free in December. I finally gained my OU degree after 15 years of part-time study (and a career change which put it on hold for about 6 of those years!), but this is the one thing that I feel is holding me back from truly enjoying what I have.

I just have to keep telling myself that I will do this, and I will keep it off this time...

fit_and_freaky

Morning.

1lb loss this week. A little disappointed as 2lb would have put me at a stone for the year but hey ho.

Usual meals for me
B- berries and yoghurt
L- salad with eggs and some kind of meat
Snacks generally a couple of cheese strings, the odd bit of chocolate - I am managing not to eat the whole house which is good for me as I have spent a good couple of years emotionally binge eating.

Going to have a jacket spud at lunch to try and kick start the old metabolism. I’m not craving carbs at all but I believe I might need a little boost.

Well done everyone either for losing or for trying. Have a great weekend 😊

CRANKY40

Just a quick one as we're getting ready for school/running here. dandy-candy a plaster won't do - not unless it's a blister plaster and especially it won't do if you're wearing the same shoes. You need a bunch of melolin pads (or cheap supermarket equivalent, usually labelled "absorbent wound dressing" , and some micropore tape, or again cheap supermarket equivalent to hold the dressings on. Make the dressing bigger than your blister. Ask me how I know this, sigh.......

Take care all of you and proper post later

savesummore

Hi All,


Sorry I'm so busy this week! I will try and catch up on everyone's posts the weekend


STS for me please- not bad considering what I have ate this week!


Hope everyone is well x

VickyV

Reporting another -3lb loss this week! :beer:
I'm trying to stick to 1200 calories a day and have been pretty much doing it! This weekend will not be good. 6lb lost so far!

Keep going losers! :j

Doing_it_my_way

Woo hoo 5lb loss woo hoo, woo hoo x
Can't do the red ☹