Last week: Lost 1lb

Total: 6lbs

Comments: Been a bit off colour this week, so didn’t really feel up to excercising much, so pleased I lost anything, really!

Tips: Now’s the time it’s easy to start getting bored with your healthy eating regime. Remind yourself why you’re doing it, and how well you’ve been doing. And hunt down some new recipes, or try a different way of exercising. Snowball-fighting is good!* (*The opportunities for this will depend on your location and the ambient temperature).

last week : lost 2 lbs

total loss : 9 lbs

my daughter came to visit last night, and she hadn't seen us since christmas, so she noticed the difference in me straight away.
this was most encouraging and as Drakeygirl states, this is the time when the resolve usually breaks, so come on fellow chubsters...keep it up and stay focused!

That video's a rum old do, isn't it? The woman on the left is noticeably less enthusiastic about the plastic-clad gang bang in the middle of a nursery rhyme

Last week: Lost 1lb
Total: 6lbs

Coincidentally, I find myself sporting exactly the same set of figures as as Drakey. Whilst this is delightful enough to contemplate, I'm especially pleased with this week’s minor loss as it coincided with my attendance at the Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. This has since been followed up by the odd tipple, but I have stuck fairly rigidly to the food side of the diet. Bad weather prevented our intended exercise this weekend too.

I believe that there will be a short intermission on the diet front for the next reporting period as I am off to Centre Parks for some fun and frolics where I believe diets will be challenged. It would be great if I could avoid putting weight on, but we shall see.

Tip of the week

Don't go to the Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival

This week 0lb
Total 4lb

Aint lost nuffink.

They have changed the food at the staff restaurant. This has mainly involved replacing a lot of the real food and with cheap carbohydrates.

They have also introduced a large "gourmet jacket potato bar", which is oxymoronic.

I am wearing my grumpy hat today and am best avoided.

Still no weigh-in, going purely on how my clothes are fitting, and how I'm feeling.

And... I'm feeling good! Any Christmas excess weight has definitely gone now. Another week with no comfort eating at all, so bloody big hurrah!

I'm actually feeling very relaxed about my eating, full stop. Just being careful to only eat when I'm genuinely hungry, stop eating when I've had enough, and to be ensure that, when I do eat, I eat something that I genuinely enjoy. (recently, this has been LOTS OF PORK)

Haven't been to the gym in months, but managing to pack in exercise with lots of walking.

Genuinely, I feel pretty great at the moment. Better than I have done in a long while. Also feeling very settled in my new house. Life is good.

Long-term, I'm not really fussed if I lose more weight or not, I'd just like to not put any on. I mean, I'm nowhere near thin, and I'm still overweight according to my BMI, but actually, I'm at a body shape and weight that I'm really happy with. And, for me, it's all about feeling comfortable in my own skin.

Hx

the gastric flu that hit chez-Crout meant, between us, a whopping 7 kilos. Best ask the judges for a ruling.

This week 2lbs
Total. 8lbs

Seemed to come off with some difficulty but in the last couple of days the abstinence paid off. Even refused the incredibly tempting cake offerred on friday and saturdy at various events. Clearing snow might have helped on the exercise front too.

I've been waiting all week for the medal that Drakeygirl promised last week, and now it's about to arrive!

This week: gained 0,4 Kg
Total loss: 2,1 Kg (or is it still 2,5 Kg and when I lose those 0,4 Kg again will it be - 2,9 Kg...? No ? Shame.)

Well, it wasn't my fault, Your Honour...
I started the week well, I walked, I ate veggie food and stayed away from all temptations.
And then pain struck me like a two ton truck.
The left side of my body has been in perpetual torture since Thursday, a pinched nerve in my back going full nuclear assault on me, shooting pain through my shoulder down my left arm all the way down to my hand. Painkillers didn't help. Rest didn't help, no position was comfortable. Massage helped a little, but since I for the most part didn't have anyone around to massage me and it was tricky for me to reach the right spot myself, it only gave me short pauses from the worst pain until it all started again.
So I turned to comfort food...crisps, to be specific. And because I couldn't do very much in my sorry state I ate all the wrong things because they were easy to cook (or warm up, rather).
No exercise, naturally.
So all in all I'm pretty pleased that I didn't balloon up more than that!
I got someone to come and give me a proper massage last night, so I'm much better today. Hopefully this week will be a lot healthier in every way.
Keep up the good work, everybody!

This Week - 0 lbs
Total - 11 lbs

I knew nothing would happen this week, I expected to go up, to be honest. I had two days in Dublin which required eating on the fly, a takeout another night but it was all leading up to Sunday and a big family shindig in the house. I knew it was coming so I knew I was going to eat a foot of cake and ingest another food nemesis: that crusty white bread that gets baked in store.

Now at this point someone would say "I fell off the wagon" but that terminology just sets you up for failure. How? Well first of all the admission itself is loaded with a sense of failure and regret: "I was doing so well then I fell off the wagon ". Restructuring your diet is hard enough without inflicting a sense of failure which can then propagate as the next step is "well since I fell off the wagon, I'm going to eat this crate of cheese and biscuits".

Secondly, the notion that you are on a wagon implies that any change in eating habit is temporary, and that the wagon is going to come to a halt at some point and you can return to the ways of old. That can't be, unfortunately.

However some days just need to be full of cake. It'll taste all the sweeter when you don't eat cake every day.

Didn't post last week but had lost 3 1/2lbs. This week another 2 1/2lbs. Total loss: 8lb

Happy enough with that as I did partake in home-made Baileys cheesecake on Saturday, having looked forward to it all week whilst necking my own body weight in fruit and other healthy shit.

Apparently, nothing tastes as good as thin feels, but that cheesecake was truly awesome.

Top tip: Slimming World lasagne (basically replace that white sauce stuff with fat-free natual yoghurt and skip the cheese) is remarkably acceptable.

Hello all!

Can I please join this gang of fat fighting people? :-) I did last year, but failed miserably, my need for proper coca cola and chocolate simply being too strong :-S

This year though, I'm determined to succeed, so my plan is to count calories (there's an app for that, v. handy!). It's not my long term plan, but as a starter and kick off I quite like the restrictions and guidelines it offers. Other than that, eating lots of greens and walking the dog are my main weapons in the fight against being overweight. I'm going for an open day at Uni in March, and plan to lose 5 kilos before then.

Started up last monday, and am proud to annouce I've already got rid of 1 kilo :-)

So sign me up, I could use the support and the scare of having to own up to what I have been eating ;-)

Vorgongod
Lost 2.5 lbs
Total lost 6lbs

Renewed my efforts and cut down on carbs this week, so pleased. However,
had the weigh-in been on Friday, I'd now be the proud owner of a Drakeygirl half-stone badge. Like a tool, I weighed myself on Friday - was delighted and made an oinker of myself at the weekend..
I WANT one of those badges.
I will work this week to get one....
Tonight, the weekly spag bol is gonna be made with..... and I can't believe I'm saying this ....wholewheat spaghetti... Hope it's yum, though I fear it'll be vom.

Btw Drakeygirl, hope your Aquabeat is working out for you and if, like me, you have trouble deciding what to put on it, I made the delicious discovery this week that Kate Bush's The 9th Wave - or Hounds of Love side 2 in Old Money, despite being about drowning, makes a swim, mysterious, sensual and, as Alan Partridge would have it: Ruddy brilliant!

This week: 0lbs 0oz
Total: 7lbs

I could make excuses, but I won't. However, I will walk to work thrice this week, which should help.

This week: 5lbs

Total: 11lbs

After last week's blip, I put in an extra cycling commute, which seems to have done the trick.

I also had a Jammy Dodger, a biscuit which I now realise is close to culinary heaven.

Gained this week : 4 lbs
Total lost : 2lbs
Been very hungry and very thirsty.
Must try harder. Or rejoin the gym.

This week: lost 2lb
Total this year: lost 7lb

The waistcoat buttons now attach without causing so much discomfort. Next: that pesky trouser button at the waist ...

PS The only real "secret" I'm employing so far - stop snacking on sugary crap.

...until Friday when I had steak pie and chips and beer to wash it down at the the pub...or until Saturday with a curry and more beers...or until Sunday with the full English at the Grindleford Cafe!

Prior to Friday 6lb lost. Give it a few days and I should be back to where I was was, because I'm back on the Briffa plan!

Have been playing the game for the past 2 weeks and looking forward to polishing my ego here.

But. I had to buy a new suit this week and I am apopleptic with misplaced childish fury. I've had to buy the next size up!

Why O Why, Lord?! Why? Why-yy-y-y-y...?(sobs).

Look, all my other trousers and jeans, shirts etc all still fit perfectly well. Why is my new suit necessarily bigger?

It's not fair and I hope I fall over in the slush tomorrow and ruin it because it's actually crap and it's not sized right and, and... oh fuck it.

And rest.

This week: lost 1.8 lbs

Total lost: 3.2 lbs

I'm slowly going in the right direction! I've finally got into a routine of going to the gym and not using a flimsy excuse not to go (I've a slight pain in my stomach I'd better stay at home!). That and staying (mostly) away from delicious white bread seems to be working.

I'll blame the snow, work, depression, etc, etc

This week: put on 1lb

Total lost: 5 1/2lbs

2 weeks around Mrs. B's huge birthday celebrations so I knew it would be tough. To be honest, I'm please it is only one pound! The snow meant no gym and we've still got it so no power-walking either. Hey-ho,just have to Dance Myself Dizzy!!

Or maybe I should just stick with Sir William of Idol

Not only didn't I get the dream job I applied for, but now I haven't even got the job I *did* have.

I've put on a stone.

Proper catch up soon, I hope. Good luck.