Old Style Weight Loss 2019 Part 2

CRANKY40

Oh Katie, your day sounds like it started a lot like mine. I was tired to start with because my bladder is very irritable just now and kept me awake a lot of the night (I think I had a light bulb moment about that and if I'm right it will be great). Apparently the cat (who the House Troll begged me to let sleep upstairs) woke the HT up a few times in the night so he said he was shattered. I therefore did the bad mother thing, phoned the HT in sick at school to save him pretending he was ill so I had to collect him later and went back to bed for a couple of hours as I knew I'd just want to eat otherwise.

I'm also a bit miffed/upset/whatever because of a couple of people that I've given a lift to fat class for a couple of years and who I carried on taking and bringing home even when I stopped going. One who claims to be my friend had a big birthday last month...and despite me saying "lets do something" I wasn't invited to the celebrations - the other person was. I had a message today saying person whose birthday was last month was arranging a birthday do for the other person and did I want to come. Thing is she's arranged it for the day of my birthday....it might be cutting my nose off to spite my face but I currently feel like I can't be bothered with either of them and I'm not in the mood to spend my birthday with them.....whinge over!

I'm making rhubarb crumbles for my friend who is very poorly either later or tomorrow. I will use sweetener instead of sugar as my friend is trying to lose some of the weight she's gained from steroids. I may make a very small one for me. Yesterday's food (still behaving) was :-

b - couscous, fruit and yogurt
l - ham salad sandwich
d - chicken with mild nando's rub, salad and reduced fat coleslaw
s - apple and bag of quavers from multipack

dandy-candy

Crikey Cranky how rude of them especially when you taxi them about. They can walk from now on, might help them shift a few pounds too!

I have fallen badly off the wagon from mother’s day onwards, culminating in the most enormous sugar binge yesterday. I woke up and was sick (sorry tmi) and have had a headache all day. Starting my sugar free withdrawal again so I know I will be rough for 3 days.

The keto was great for fast weight loss but I couldn’t stick to the 20g carb as it stopped my innards from moving. I’m going to up carbs and add fruits which I couldn’t have on keto. I will cut down on the fats to compensate.

I’m sure the sugar really does me harm mentally, I’ve been having real down moments since I was eating it again. So I will see how I get on with this new modified diet. Oh and I will start using my app again, I’ve been super lazy typing in what I eat. Please boot me up the backside for this challenge

Rose_Wood

Evening Everyone.

I didn't manage to post yesterday as I woke up with a headache and later started feeling shivery so went off to bed with a pile of books and a load of Vitamin C tablets. I slept from about 5.30pm to 8pm and I am sure it helped me throw off whatever was lurking as I feel fit and well again today. I didn't worry about achieving my step count yesterday but will go well over today as I have already done over 17,000 steps and will do more as I am collecting DGD from Brownies, bringing her back here and putting her to bed and then going out to a quiz with DS and DDiL whilst DH babysits. (I just have to be strong minded and resist the crisps that will inevitably be bought and put out to share.) I also played tennis this afternoon so have been quite active.

Lunch: Piece of Camembert
Dinner: Sole with cauliflower cheese, peas, mushrooms and half a small jacket potato. Small bunch of red grapes
Treats: 6 squares of dark chocolate. Slimline tonic with lime cordial (at the quiz)

One way I have found to help with mindless eating is to 'close the kitchen'. Once the evening meal is out of the way put everything away properly, with no open bags on the work top or half-covered dishes in the fridge; close the drawers and cupboards; wipe the surfaces; turn off the lights and close the door. By doing this you help signal to yourself, 'Eating time is over for the day'. It feels odd to go back in there, and it discourages you from just looking around. As an added bonus you can brush your teeth.

Maybe this might help the scenario where you go looking for something to eat or open the fridge and spot something you'd forgotten about till you were looking at it.

Rose

CRANKY40

Sounds like you started the day with a migraine dandy. It could have been triggered by food related issues though. I'm trying to cut out sugar as much as possible this week and I'm tired today which is making it harder. It's an odd feeling when your head is saying no to something but the rest of your body is saying yes. maybe that's contributing to you feeling miserable - I really dislike the feeling of being out of control. Tomorrow is a new day....draw the line and move on.

Izadora I forgot to say well done on the running. It's a strange feeling when you look back and think how week one nearly killed you yet there you are running like....well....like a runner. I can still run for 30 minutes no problem. after that it gets tougher and I'm still very slow.

Take care all of you

fit_and_freaky

Hello!

Can I put in a target of 18 (gulp) lbs for the next 3 months please.

I feel I could have reached target last time had I not had a couple of stupid binge eating episodes.

18 lbs will put me within 1/2 to 1 stone of my ultimate target weight, which I would like to reach by August.

I can do this.
I can do this.
I can do this.

Although I am nowhere near happy with my weight I am a lot happier with myself. I look in the mirror and see that I look a bit better than I did at the start of the year, instead of hating my reflection. I have lost over a stone this year - something I haven’t achieved for a long time.

I can do this.
I can do this.

CRANKY40

Good morning all,

fit and freaky I'll add you. Don't be so hard on yourself. The binge eating episodes aren't stupid - they're a response to something inside you. Have a read of the link that katiepants has put up.

katiepants I read the stuff in the link that you posted. I'm actually following the suggested meal plan all by myself - mostly because if I go without food for too long I get a migraine. I'm trying not to let myself get too hungry which means planning better. I'm starting to prepare and cook my meals before I get to the point where I'm so hungry that I'm wandering round the kitchen eating anything that I can see while I'm waiting for my dinner. I'm going to avoid alcohol for the foreseeable future as well I think as once I've had a drink my mind sort of shuts off to calories and I just start reaching for food....any food.

Rose Wood sorry you were poorly and I hope you're feeling OK today? Closing the kitchen is a good idea. Our cat sleeps downstairs so we tend to put her to bed as we collect our supper. That means that if we want any more food we have to fight our way past the cat who is way keener to get back upstairs than we are to have her there - she's not a peaceful sleeper if she stays upstairs with us, she's an annoying, noisy fidget.

I'm just finishing my cup of green tea, then I'm going to make some rhubarb crumbles for my friend who is poorly. After that I'll go and do a bit more gardening for another friend. I've cleared most of the rubbish from her garden, just a little more to shift and some large tree branches to saw into pieces, bag up and take to the tip. It's almost ready to start making it look like a garden again. My friend is very grateful for the work I've done. I'm just happy that she is losing weight and starting to feel better about things in general.

Take care all of you

CRANKY40

Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2019 Second Quarter

01/04/19 - 30/06/19

Imperial (lbs)

Brambling 0/10
chocolatebum 0/14
Cranky 0/9
dandy-candy 0/7
Doing it my way 0/13
dumpling 0/10
ellie99 0/10
enthusiastic saver 0/14
fit and freaky 0/18
Gingerlily 0/14
GreenEcoGirl 0/11
hatful of hollow 0/11
Iheartichokeyou 0/10
Izadora 0/18
K9zz 0/12
katiepants 0/13
MovingForwards 0/20
MrsLottie 0/7
Munchin 0/10
Rose Wood 0/7
s_glover 0/16
SIRENS 0/10
star trek fan 0/14

Metric (kg)

butterfly2507 0/9

s_glover

I've not made a good start to this challenge at all but today is a new day and all that!
I had a meeting London yesterday and unusually didn't have anything prepped for lunch for today, so have treated myself to some nice sushi, healthy but a nice little treat as it's something I rarely have.

Iheartichokeyou

I've had a terrible start to the challenge, but I'm determined to get back on track. I have binge eating disorder and whilst I have a handle on it, sometimes I don't and that's ok.

GreenEcoGirl

Hi all

I am still here and definitely want to make more of an effort this time as I was a bit slack on the last challenge. I lost weight last week, but put it on again this week. To be fair, I've had Mother's Day, my birthday (yesterday), and my oh has been on leave, so we've been out a lot going on little day trips and eating picnics. I think I am still 4lbs lighter though.

My target for this challenge is to lose 11lbs, Cranky.

This would get me to my goal weight. I am currently 165lbs - I decided to share as I usually put it on my calendar, but that's hanging in my kitchen in Shropshire, whilst I am still up in Scotland until the middle of May, when I go back to work.

So onwards and downwards. I'm going to change my WI day to Monday, as that always feels like a good day to make a fresh start and because we're hopefully having afternoon tea in Edinburgh tomorrow as my birthday treat and oh starts back at work next week...

Good luck everyone!