Positive about sorting my weight this time...

[manda]

Well done, that's a really good loss!!!


I have lost my mojo a bit..I've had Sciatica and up till last week couldn't walk...I didn't think I did much walking to be honest until I stopped...I think I move around quite a lot..might not go far but I walk about all the time...sitting down doing nothing and then exercising in between was driving me barking!!

I'm up now and everything seems to be much better...so I'm hoping I can get organised and onto it again...I haven't weighed myself yet...bit scared to ! But got to be done and then hopefully I'll be losing again.

[davina112]

Manda I am sure your mojo will return as your health improves. Stick with it

[davina112]

1 pound off this week, I was aiming for a pound and a half so I am a bit disappointed. But I shall stick with it

[manda]

Well done Davina....I'm more upright now (had a deep tissue massage yesterday so I'm feeling a bit odd today ...my hubby would say what's new!) but I'm starting to get there...it's not being able to walk for any major distance I find so hard...and it doesn't exactly help when you're trying to get healthy...but I hope it won't be too long and we'll be back off down the beach with the pooches and all be well with the world again.

[p.penn]

1 pound off this week, I was aiming for a pound and a half so I am a bit disappointed. But I shall stick with it

1lb is great Davina - just think, if you lost a pound a week for a year, that would be nearly 4 stone gone!

Manda, glad your back is improving

[davina112]

Thank you ladies, when I lost my 2and a half stone a couple of years ago, my average loss was 1 pound per week. The reason I wanted to loose 1 and a half each week was to get back to my target for my holiday April. But as I said I will stick to it.

[Americanlady]

I have such sympathy for all who are trying to lose weight. I've spend most of my adult life being overweight and hating it. Tried every diet known to man including the kind that sends you your food. Nothing worked UNTIL... I cut out the worst thing in my daily routine... sugar! in the past several months my weight (without dieting!) has dropped from 149 lbs to 121 lbs and am maintaining. If there is something in your diet that is especially high in calories, I encourage you to try to cut it way back or eliminate it. I know it sounds simplistic, but it really happened to me. Another thing I do is chew my food A LOT and eat slowly. Please know I sincerely am not preaching. Just wish my odd success could work for all of you, too. Weight control is the pits when it doesn't work for us. Good luck to all.

[davina112]

Another pound off this week

[kate egg]

I haven't been on this thread for aaaaaaaaggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeessssss and the weight issue is still an issue Our eldest son is getting married next month and so at the start of January once all the Christmas goodies had gone (except for 5 boxes of chocs kept for upcycling as birthday presents ) I decided that I had to stop filling my face with too much food as I didn't want to be the fat momma on the wedding snaps.

A salad for lunch, discovering Pink Lady apples, and smaller portions at dinner time, combined with stopping drinking almost a whole bottle of wine every night have helped me lose over 16lb so far. I'd like another half stone of before the end of April but so far so good. No counting calories / points / sins / carbs etc. just normal food but less of it

Good luck to everyone else who is still doing battle

[p.penn]

Sounds like you have a real incentive Kate! I think sometimes just breaking everyday bad habits helps - also I am convinced that drinking calorific wine makes me peckish, so not drinking would really help me lose the pounds.

[davina112]

I haven't posted for a few weeks as I have been disappointed with my weight loss. But this week I have lost 2 pounds
Wednesday is my weigh in day, and my treat night. So for tea I have had 2 boiled eggs and 2 slices of thick white bread and butter , who would believe this is what I deem to be a treat these days.

[Meanqueen]

I haven't been on this thread for aaaaaaaaggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeessssss and the weight issue is still an issue Our eldest son is getting married next month and so at the start of January once all the Christmas goodies had gone (except for 5 boxes of chocs kept for upcycling as birthday presents ) I decided that I had to stop filling my face with too much food as I didn't want to be the fat momma on the wedding snaps.

A salad for lunch, discovering Pink Lady apples, and smaller portions at dinner time, combined with stopping drinking almost a whole bottle of wine every night have helped me lose over 16lb so far. I'd like another half stone of before the end of April but so far so good. No counting calories / points / sins / carbs etc. just normal food but less of it

Good luck to everyone else who is still doing battle

Well done Kate. I thought you looked a lot slimmer when I saw you last week. Now I know why we had salad for lunch. Keep it up.
Ilona

[kate egg]

Thanks Ilona, I am really enjoying finding different ways to enjoy salad for lunch

My dad-in-law said to me a few weeks ago "You've lost weight.... did you mean to?" I think so many of his contemporaries who lose weight do so because they are ill, so he was just checking that I wasn't poorly bless him.

Going to look for mother of the groom outfits on Friday and I have been told to try and buy something that no one else has worn before.... working in a charity shop I seem to hardly ever buy brand new, and resent the cost if I have to

[davina112]

1 and 3 quarters of a pound off this week. I may just reach my target in the next 2 weeks before my holiday

[perchy]

Well done Davina and everyone