Old Style Weight Loss 2020 - Part 1

Molly41

You can do it dumpling hugs xx

roblou27

-0.5 for me this week BRAMLING. I am very pleased considering.
DUMPLING I totally relate to your post, I get so frustrated with myself that I am triggered so easily into bad eating habits. I don't know about you but I had weight issues all my life, binge eating, I also used to munch exlax if anyone remembers what that was. Mostly because a then boyfriend said I was fat. This was in the 70s/80s. I had a great family who loved me  but obviously these comments had such an effect on my self esteem that it programmed by brain into believing that I wasn't't worthy as I was. Looking back I understood none of this but now I understand. Sadly 2 yrs off 60 and I still struggle  but am at a point where I don't beat myself up.......as much anyway. I now loose weight for me because my health and wellbeing matters. I am lucky now to have an OH who looks at me through rose tinted specs and wants what makes me happy. Be so proud of yourself DUMPLING because you haven't given up on what you want. Nothing is ever a failure it's just learning and another piece of the jigsaw of you which is amazing. Thank you for sharing honestly and openly your experiences, what a great community this is.
Menu for today is a bit sketchy as its an its an bitty day. I have some leftover chicken to do something with. Could be a rootling through the cupboards and fridge to see what I can rustle up.
Have a good one all.

dumpling

Good morning everyone

Just going to pop on and record what I am going to eat today.
b - porridge and a cup of tea
l - spicy carrot and parsnip soup (from a tin but tastes so lovely just like homemade)
d - Chinese 5 spice pork loin with egg fried rice and roasted vegetables.
s - apple and a banana if they ever ripen.

Hope you all have a great day and make healthy choices and a special thank you to molly and roblou for your support and honest post. Cheers xxx

zafiro1984

Weighin today 2.5lb loss over the last week, at least it's a start in the right direction.

Yesterday's food
B: cup of tea and a load of 'staying alive' tablets. 
L:- Tin of parsnip and squash soup, one bread roll, a few crackers and cheese, it would have been better if I had had fruit as it was on the table but at least I've now finished the cheese and hopefully won't buy anymore for a while.
5pm and just come indoors:- DH made a mug of hot chocolate, I had to say yes!!
T- A bit weird - HM minestrone soup to which I added chorizo sausage and 1tbs of bulgar wheat as it looked a bit thin. Small portion of icecream, glass of wine.
Guess what - no weight loss this morning

Does anyone know how to do colour on this new forum?

Toonie

Dumpling...sending you lots of love and good vibes xx

Trying to get motivated again, not used my exercise bike for nearly a week, so need to start up with that again. Just having a slump at the moment as both BF and I are still unemployed (I'm currently on ESA and him struggling as his profession been hit by Brexit and he was made redundant). But I have soup bubbling away (butternut squash and carrot) in the slow cooker and have so far today not snacked.

B-Toast, a slice of cheese, grapes.

L-Soup

Not sure what is for supper yet, possibly cottage pie.

Izadora

Morning All,

Dumpling Waiting a week to weigh in isn't cheating, do whatever you need to do to give yourself the best chance of success, and I definitely understand where you're coming from. I've struggled with my weight since I was a kid and despite knowing what I should be doing and having managed to lose weight a number of times it always piles back on and food seems to be a constant battle. When I'm eating sensibly I spend the majority of my time having to drown out the nagging voice that's telling me "sod it, why are  you bothering?" and when I'm not I know, even while I'm stuffing food into my face, that it's not actually going to solve anything and will make me feel worse yet I can't make myself stop. Very well done for drawing a line and best of luck for the week ahead.

roblou Well done for the loss and I love the comment "Nothing is ever a failure, it's just learning and another piece of the jigsaw"

Sirens Weekends are a pain sometimes aren't they!! I hope you enjoyed the fish and chips and pie and best of luck for the week ahead

Blue Doggy Well done for the loss, both in weight and inches.

Zafiro Well done for the loss

Toonie Having a slump under those circumstances is totally understandable. Best of luck with job hunting and enjoy the soup.

I had a rather manically busy couple of days, which was great for keeping me to plan as I didn't really have time to think about food, but then it all fell apart yesterday as I was so tired and was working all day from home, only a few steps away from the biscuit tin... I also had cheese, crisps and cookies and custard, really not a good day!! I still managed a loss of -1.5lb this week but that's 1.5lb heavier than I was yesterday morning
I've started off today quite well and am managing to ignore the mountain of fudge behind me, that a very considerate colleague brought back from Devon, but I know it's going to be a hard week as I'm away for 4 nights with the girls for a friend's birthday. I just need to try to eat as well I as I can up until then to minimise the damage of eating out and cream teas etc. over the weekend.

Best of luck everyone xx

Brambling

Old Style Weight Loss Challenge 2030 1st Quarter -01/01/20 - 31/03/20

Imperial (lbs). Please let me know if you want me to add a kg list as well

2goals2get2 11.5/21 /  

Balabooberlies  -/14

Bfh 4/14. /STS/ /  /   

Blue Doggie 8/14. /  /STS/STS/ /  / 

Bluegreen143 0.75/9   

Brambling 3/14.   /STS/ /STS /  /  /STS

Cherry Burton 4/14. 

Cranky 4/7. / /STS/STS/ / STS /

Doing it My Way 2/5.   

Dumpling 18/15  / / / /  

Frith -/20

Frugalhome -/14

FrugalLina -/20. STS/STS

Gingerlily  5.5/13. / /STS

Grunnie -/14

Honeythewitch.  3.5/7 /STS/ / STS/  / 

Izadora 17/21 / / /STS/ / /  /

Jackrabbit123 6/10. /STS/ / / STS

Janiebaby29 2/14  STS/ /

Killielila -/35

Lindor -/10

Miss Behaving 6/7. /STS/  / /

Molly41 14/14. / /   /STS/ /  /  / 

Mrs Motivation 1/14. 

Mummy_bear 1.5/10. 

Patentgirl 4.5/20. / / / /STS / 

Procrastinator 2.5/6. /STS/STS/ /STS/  

Roblou27 0.5/3  

Rosie D -/21

S_glover 7/14. / /

Savingholmes -/14

Schweiz -/14

SeekingFlight 7/20   /   / / / STS

Sirens 10.5/20.   / / /STS/  / / 

Short_bird   1.8/10. /STS/ /STS/STS/STS

Sue14 5/12. /STS/  / / 

Sunflwer 6/21   / / 

Toonie 4.75/10. /   /STS/   
zafiro1984 2.5/10  

Kgs

butterfly2507 -/7. STS
SarahJ1986 1/7. 

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Brambling

Well done on all your losses, Cranky i think when you have children school holidays are always a challenge but well done to the HT for losing so many inches 

Dumpling I've skipped weeks when I know that to see a gain on the scales will drive me back to eating the wrong food, sometimes mentally you don't need the added pressure even from yourself.  I think a lot of overweight people will understand where you are coming from, we can end up in a spiral of not liking what we see in the mirror and eating more to give us short term comfort and then feeling bad about ourselves for eating and so it goes on.  I know all the theory to losing weight it's putting it in to practice and keeping if off  which is the hard bit  I'm sure most of us have lost weight and sworn we are never going to let ourselves be that weight again?  Looking back I would love to be the weight i was when i left school and then i hated it as I was told i was fat!

Food wise today needs to be better than yesterday    I woke with a bad headache which lingered all day and I had no desire to cook probably or eat healthy, a lot of sugar and carbs were eaten and my planed roast dinner is still in the fridge waiting to be cooked.

B- Porridge and fruit
L - Nasi Goreng 
D - Not sure yet as cooking a roast seems too much hassle on a Monday.... 
S - apple, 2 plums, 2 finger kitkat 

I must resist the biscuits whilst system testing this afternoon    Good luck avoiding the fudge Izadora our biscuits are also from a colleague returning from holiday

CRANKY40

Wow, so many of us that were told we were fat.....I was 9.5 stone (and 15) when my mum told me I was fat and ugly. My boyfriend continued this theme (so what did you see in me then you twit) and by the time he dumped me I was 11 stone with no self confidence whatsoever. Life has been one long diet ever since. Luckily my late husband (met when I was 33, married when I was 35) saw beyond my weight and acne which actually turned out to be caused by polycystic ovaries and married me because he loved me. It took us 3 years and fertility treatment to acquire the House Troll and after being pregnant I weighed 18 stone. My husband still loved me. 

I'm currently 14 stone 10 but the zero self confidence persists. I've been on single dates with a couple of eejits since I've been widowed (10.5 years) but that is all. My sister was my mum's favourite but that didn't do her any better than it did me. When my sister was 14 my mum told her she wasn't sure who her father was because mum wanted to believe it was her boyfriend (her best friend's husband) rather than our dad. I say "our dad" as my sister looks more like him as the years go by but back then it did untold damage. In spite of mum who died when we were 21 and 18 respectively my sister and I get on very well. My sister also has weight issues and has tried counselling but is now on long term anti-depressants. 

I'm an emotional eater - I had chocolate this morning because of something that upset me last night. Friend phoned me this afternoon, we spent an hour together before I had to collect the HT from school and everything is OK - it's like my head makes things up to be upset by. To be fair if we hadn't been short of time last night when we were talking it wouldn't have happened at all. He rang me as soon as he was free today - I'd already decided he didn't want to see me when he clearly did - he hates using the phone but he used it to tell me to call and see him. 

I wish I knew what the answer was - I'd love to be able to fix it for all of you but at least we can keep talking to each other and know that we're not alone in this. Dumpling, you've done really well. A tip for you - do you have a cable needle in your knitting bag? I hold mine between my teeth when I'm knitting or doing crochet. It seems to put a brake on the "mouth hunger" which is different to being hungry because it's time to eat. Izadora....it's hard, we know it, have a virtual hug. Actually, hugs all round. 

Take care all of you 

Brambling

Cranky to quote Philip Larkin (swearing removed for MSE censorship)

They !!!! You up, your mum and dad 
They may not mean to, but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you 

BT have been on good form today and fixed my phone line 👏I'll make a cuppa in a minute and test it on one of my sisters