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Today is the first day of my diet. All I can think about is food.
I had 2 pieces of toast for breakfast, a ham sandwich for lunch and a baked potato for dinner and I am still starving. I will only allow myself 2 wines on Friday!
If anyone else wants or needs to lose weight feel free to join me on my quest for slimness.
phantos02
18-04-06, 09:01 PM
You sound like you are doing well, Tact!
Hubby swore blind yesterday that today would be the day he starts getting his 'five a day'. I asked him how he had done so far when he got home from work - he had forgotten all about it!
I find it does help to keep a 'food diary'. If you know you're going to have to write it down you think twice about eating it!
P x x
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 18th April 2006 - 8:01 PM) 161143</div> Tact - I would love to loose a few llbs - but I don't think I have the will power!!!!! [/b]
Yi Win, I have no will power just a Mr T who laughs at my wobbly belly!
Phantos, thanks for the tip about the food diary. I looked on a slimming website earlier and down loaded a calorie counter. So I can add calories to the list as well.
Little Master T is finally getting Christened in May and I have seen the outfit I want. I am a woman on a mission. :hihi:
phantos02
18-04-06, 09:10 PM
Just don't starve yourself, you don't want to flake out!! There's plenty of snack type stuff you can have if you're peckish. How about chopping up some carrot sticks?
I am going to do it properly just cutting out chocolate, crisps, wine and junk food. I hope to lose 1/2 to 1 stone. Or get in to a size 10 outfit and be able to breath :hihi:
phantos02
18-04-06, 09:25 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dibuzz @ 18th April 2006 - 8:21 PM) 161151</div>
I want to and need to but every time I try I just get fatter :(
I keep trying to be good but get a choccy urge and even as I'm unwrapping it I'm saying "I don't really want this" and then I eat it. It sounds so easy not to do it so why is it so hard? [/b]
Dibuzz the only way to avoid chocolate competely is simply not to buy it.
When you go to the supermarket don't even look at it. If you are buying things to put in the kids lunchboxes, buy something else like dried fruit.
If you don't have any chocolate in the house it makes it a lot easier, believe me.
DB, I am a chocoholic, I would also eat a McDonalds everyday if I could. Start your diet tomorrow and everytime you get an urge to eat chocolate come on here and post.
When my friend gave up smoking she had a help line to ring when she wanted a ciggerette and they talked her out of it .
Copperfox
18-04-06, 10:15 PM
I used to be the worlds worst chocoholic :) i went to one the slimming clubs and lost 3 stone to get down to a size 10 it was a goal i had a wedding to go to i found that helps if you got something to focus on :D
It is hard i have kept mine off for two years i do have the odd chocolate moment if i had a bad day i cut chocolate straight out when i started and jeez were the cravings bad for a while :bigeyes:
If you like sweet things have you ever tried those pink and white wafers they hardly got any fat in and i find them brillant if you craving something sweet :D
A woman at the slimming club i went to used to freeze her chocolate bars so that when she fancied some she only ever had bit at time it
I found when i finished work at evening was a hard time so i used to get good book out to take my mind off food :D.
Good luck you will get there take care Copperfox
Mr Ribbit
18-04-06, 10:22 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tact77 @ 18th April 2006 - 8:19 PM) 161149</div>
I am going to do it properly just cutting out chocolate, crisps, wine and junk food. I hope to lose 1/2 to 1 stone. Or get in to a size 10 outfit and be able to breath :hihi:
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I don't diet often but once I threw all chocolate, coke, cake, biscuits, etc, etc. out and lost a stone in weight in 1 week just by cutting out 'bad' food. :blink: I was gobsmacked! :bigeyes:
Just goes to show how much 'just that oine piece' can affect weight.
Good luck with your diet. :clover: :yes:
In 1 bottle of wine there is nearly 1000 calories (that 2 Big Macs or 1.5 quarter pound cheese burgers). Wine before dinner on Friday's only from now on.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mr Ribbit @ 18th April 2006 - 9:22 PM) 161175</div>
I don't diet often but once I threw all chocolate, coke, cake, biscuits, etc, etc. out and lost a stone in weight in 1 week just by cutting out 'bad' food. :blink: I was gobsmacked! :bigeyes: [/b]
Now thats what I call a result :thumbs:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 18th April 2006 - 9:49 PM) 161189</div> Ok Tact & Dibuzz - I'm on a wine & cheese diet!!!
Now thats the liquid & protein taken care of!!! :thumbs: [/b]
Throw in an apple job done, bet you lose more weight than me. :hihi:
coppernob
18-04-06, 11:34 PM
My downfall is wine too!! I was thin until I stopped smoking a few years back then my taste buds returned!! Having a really skint week this week ,have to feed 7 of us on £20........a good incentive to loose weight,couldn't buy junk or wine if I wanted to!!! :bigeyes: I swear by porridge in the morning to fill you up with either a few saultanas or stewed apple on top that keeps me going til lunch! Another cheap fav we had today is pasta,bacon and salad very filling but I have to hide the mayo otherwise I'd smother it! CN
Mr Ribbit
19-04-06, 12:03 AM
I have to admit, keeping to a fairly low cal diet in our household is not as hard as it would be in many other homes. We are vegetarians, don't use oil in our cooked food (take aways are different of course), don't have butter or margerine, have only started buying milk for our pets lately, only have a bag of sugar for visitors if they need a cuppa (which we then have to run out and buy tea or coffee 'cos we don't drink either, except for green or fruit teas), we don't drink alcohol (Ribbit has the odd tiny tiipple) and we don't have much in the way of cake or bisuits either.
You may think 'Blimey, what DO you eat?' :lol: but the truth is we eat a very varied and interesting variety of food with recipes from all over the world so we don't suffer from a lack of variety. :no:
What I suppose I'm trying to say is that low cal doesn't mean it has to be monotonous or boring - 'tias fun to see what you can put together - honest. ;)
Lady Penelope
19-04-06, 12:17 AM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tact77 @ 18th April 2006 - 7:45 PM) 161141</div>
If anyone else wants or needs to lose weight feel free to join me on my quest for slimness.
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:o Okay count me in too :thumbs: I don't do diets :P but I do need to cut down and get rid of that there bum and tum. :sad:
Alright then, like you guys I like a little wine at the weekends....so maybe instead of 2 nights I'll cut it down to one night :bigeyes: It will kill me. But I'll do it for you lot and me. :rolleyes: No bread then and no potatoes or chips :o and no butter. :o I'll do it for a week and let you know how things are going. When I diet I try to wear my tightest jeans :lol: you know the jobby when you have to lie on the floor to get the zip up :wacko: donned with a nice clingy top....michelin man eat your heart out. :lol: Who's having a bet I'll be off to buy a pair of 'streeeeeeeeeetch jeans' :rolleyes:
:crybaby: oh alright then and no chocolate.
I might or might not get ratty be warned :lol:
I haven't weighed myself since I was pregnant with Little Master t but I know I am a lot bigger than I was before him. After Miss T I was a size 8 now a good 12. I will settle for being a 10. I need to lose weight of my tummy mainly. I have a great idea on how to lose weight
Move in with the ribbits. :bigeyes: :hihi: :hihi:
MM, LP and B you are more than welcome to join me on the quest for slimness. Shall we do weight and how much we lose or measurements? Both of which scare my a little. :D
:hihi: :hihi: @ DB. I think my waist is the bit where I have to lift my belly up to measure under it. I have the worlds worst jelly belly, it wobbles like its full of water. :bigeyes: Join in it might help. I think I must weigh about 10 stone I used to be 8'13.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 19th April 2006 - 10:08 AM) 161235</div>
when sailing in a boat in the middle of a lake & having to eat lunch at the same time!!!) [/b]
:bigeyes: Interesting job. :D
I am not giving up bread and potatoes. I'm Irish its bad enough giving up the wine. :hihi:
StoneHenge
19-04-06, 12:15 PM
I'm with you on the slimming thing. Before I had baby number two I used to be a size ten! Now with all my pregnancy weight and the fact that I ate for england during my pregnancy, I'm back up to a size 14 again (boo hoo), and need to loose at least a stone, so I'm there in the slimming thing!
I calorie count though, based on my current weight, and so far have lost 12 pounds, so getting there slowly but surely!
Melt those pounds away!
Stonehenge well done on the weight lose so far. 12lbs thats fab. :thumbs:
Right I have just weighed myself for the first time - I weigh exactely 10 stone.
I had tomatoes on toast for breakfast any ideas on a large low fat/cal lunch as I am v. hungry?
Hey I'm a size 10-12, what's wrong with being a size 12? :P
I'm naturally curvy (hopefully in all the right places! :blush: ) and weigh 8 and a half stone - I'm very happy being the size and shape. Maybe I'd love to be a dinky little thing say a size 8, but I never have been, I don't have the frame for it and I love my curves. :D
I eat all the bad things like potatoes, butter (on everything), chocolate, cheese, bottle of wine, etc but I do watch my figure - with me I never eat breakfast and when I'm at work, I don't eat lunch either, sounds terrible maybe, but it's a habit I've had for years - on a weekend it's lunch, tea and snacks all the way :lol: And we do get many snacks in the office too, people are always bringing in food.
Good luck to anyone dieting - but remember the main thing is to love yourself and who you are, it's not always about what you look like. :D
Eeyore 8.5 stone I would have to cut off a leg to get to that. :bigeyes: Nothing wrong with being a 12 but my belly is definately creeping upto a 14. Its just so out of proportion with the rest of my body.
I think for me at 5'6" 9 stone would be great.
Banana thanks for the ideas I am going to nip to the shops now.
StoneHenge
19-04-06, 01:21 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tact77 @ 19th April 2006 - 11:36 AM) 161247</div>
Right I have just weighed myself for the first time - I weigh exactely 10 stone.
I had tomatoes on toast for breakfast any ideas on a large low fat/cal lunch as I am v. hungry?
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This is my usual sort of day's food just to give you an idea:
Breakfast: 2 slices brown toast with 20g lot fat spread
Mid morning: apple
Lunch: either a sandwich (no marg), with ham, cucumber, tomotoes, lettuce, or I have a mixed salad with lo cal salad cream
Mid afternoon: banana & low cal cereal bar
Dinner: whatever I like! Baked Potatoes, curry, pasta, fish, just in sensible portions, and loads of veg!
Drink loads of water as this really is the key. Did you know that in order for your kidneys and liver to work properly, you need to drink the correct amount of fluid each day. If you don't, your liver will take over some of the work of your kidneys, and therefore the liver will not be at 100%, and will store more fat than if it had enough water, so weightloss really is helped by drinking water!
Red wine is good for you, so a glass a night is no big deal - and dark chocolate (a chunk or two a night) is proven to be good for you.
So don't feel bad about those muchies!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eeyore @ 19th April 2006 - 11:47 AM) 161248</div>
Hey I'm a size 10-12, what's wrong with being a size 12? :P
I'm naturally curvy (hopefully in all the right places! :blush: ) and weigh 8 and a half stone - I'm very happy being the size and shape. Maybe I'd love to be a dinky little thing say a size 8, but I never have been, I don't have the frame for it and I love my curves. :D
I eat all the bad things like potatoes, butter (on everything), chocolate, cheese, bottle of wine, etc but I do watch my figure - with me I never eat breakfast and when I'm at work, I don't eat lunch either, sounds terrible maybe, but it's a habit I've had for years - on a weekend it's lunch, tea and snacks all the way :lol: And we do get many snacks in the office too, people are always bringing in food.
Good luck to anyone dieting - but remember the main thing is to love yourself and who you are, it's not always about what you look like. :D
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That is so true - I do like myself, and am only loosing weight to be me again, as I had loads more energy for the kids when I was lighter and healthier. But I wouldn't change me, as I am lucky to have everything in working order in the first place.
So well put! Love your curves!
StoneHenge
19-04-06, 04:58 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dibuzz @ 19th April 2006 - 1:28 PM) 161263</div>
I might be more successful when the kids are back at school, it's so much harder when they are around although I have been trying to get them to eat healthier the last few weeks.
I still haven't been brave enough to use the tape measure, I'm scared it won't be long enough :blush:
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I am quite lucky, as we got the kids into healthy eating a while ago, so during the week, they have healthy snacks like fruit or raw veg, and then have a 'treat' on Fridays such as something from their snack box, so there is never a huge amount of naughty things around!
Yu Win,
Only 4 lbs to loose! Lucky thing I have 16 pounds to go yet, and it feels like it's going to take forever. I am to get it shifted by my son's first birthday though. I bet you are a tiny thing eh?
Well for lunch I had 6 crisp breads with low fat spread and tomatoes and for dinner I have just had a low fat, low cal ready meal (which tasted of nothing) with extra sweetcorn, brocilli, carrots, peas and cauliflour. :( Not the best dinner I have ever had. For my munchies later I have a low fat yoghurt. Diets are not much fun.
How many calories and grams of fat a day are you meant to eat whilst dieting?
DB, I'm lucky with both of my kids they love vegtables and fruit, its just me who doesn't.
coppernob
19-04-06, 10:47 PM
Tact,snap!!I'm 5.6" and around the 12stone mark,two years ago I was 10!! I'm good all week,no crisps etc but come the weekend,I like to have a few glasses of wine, then the crisps come out and my waistline disappears!! Some of the reciepies/meal ideas on here sound yummy so will diffinitly try a few but I'm still going to have to hide the wine to loose some weight!! CN
coppernob
19-04-06, 10:56 PM
LOL!! Dorian Grey's my name ;) Having nfh aged me overnight!!CN
phantos02
20-04-06, 12:06 AM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tact77 @ 19th April 2006 - 6:17 PM) 161298</div> for dinner I have just had a low fat, low cal ready meal (which tasted of nothing) with extra sweetcorn, brocilli, carrots, peas and cauliflour. :( Not the best dinner I have ever had.
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Those diet ready meals are awful. They have no nutritional value whatsoever, usually taste terrible and the portions are tiny. They may be low cal but usually they are packed full of chemicals. In fact they are probably only low cal because there is only about three mouthfuls of food in the box!
If someone ate them a lot I wouldn't be surprised if their body actually tried to retain some weight because it decided that it was malnourished!!
Anyway Tact I'm sure you don't eat them all the time....
PS make sure you drink lots of water. A lot of the time when you think you have the munchies it's not really hunger but thirst. Have a glass of water and then see if you still feel peckish :-)
StoneHenge
20-04-06, 09:27 AM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 19th April 2006 - 5:39 PM) 161291</div>
Stonehenge,
short - maybe
tiny - would love to be!!!!!
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
1st choise for tea - colliflower cheese bake
2nd - feta stuffed chicken wraped in bacon
I'm doing the chicken minus the feta!
I've got veg samosas for lunch at work with mixed dried fruit - rather than the usual cheese sandwhich & crips!!!
Not bad for a cheese freak with an addiction to crisps!!!!
This is going to kill me!!!!! :D
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Oh, your lunch sounds lovely. I love samosas. I'm am also vertically challenged, so joint the club! An inch on my hips seems like 3 when you need all the height advantage you can get!
I can't do heels either, so will just have to loose weight instead! Actually, after only 1.5 hours sleep last night (and I've clocked up a grand total of 21.5 hours in a week of sleep), I have also lost another pound, which is now 13 pounds, so at least something is coming right!
I have a cheese sandwich for lunch today by the way! :D
Yay..... I have lost 4 pound!!! just another stone to go.
phantos02
26-04-06, 01:30 PM
Well done Tact :thumbs:
phantos02
26-04-06, 01:38 PM
Oh dear Yi Wint that doesn't sound good... going all that time not eating. I bet that pizza tasted wonderful!!
StoneHenge
26-04-06, 02:25 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 26th April 2006 - 12:47 PM) 162522</div>
Phantos - I can't eat when the NFH get to me - I get all tummy tied :(
The reason I only want to loose 4llbs is that the NFH made me loose 1/2 stone between New Year & valentines!!!!
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Yes Yi Win, I am pretty sure my weight loss (a whole stone now) has been helped along by stress from NFh. Not the sort of diet I had planned on.
JOIN NOW
The new NFH diet plan. Eat nothing, get stressed, don't sleep, and you will loose pounds instantly!
No thanks! Let's just hope we all get our appetites back soon enough! (but eating good food of course!).
StoneHenge
26-04-06, 03:08 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 26th April 2006 - 1:53 PM) 162555</div>
Chicken salad for lunch, chicken curry for tea!!
So far no snacks or NFH!!!!
(maybe I should eat the NFH - may taste horrible but it would improve my health no end - BBQ'd NFH!!!!! :D)
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LOL! Now that is funny! :D :hihi: :lol:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dibuzz @ 26th April 2006 - 2:21 PM) 162569</div> I give up, I've put 6 lbs ON :cry: [/b]
Borrow my niece or Yi Wins NFH and you will lose it in no time! DB just keep going it might be because muscle its heavier than fat and you are just getting muscular.
Lady Penelope
26-04-06, 05:13 PM
:) Well done everyone who has stuck with dieting. :thumbs:
Tact hun your going to kill me!! I haven't even started yet like miss_mellie :lol:
See I told you LP's don't do diets :P
LP and MM you should be ashamed of yourselves.... Nothing like a nice salad NOT followed by wine! :hihi:
Blimey tact, well done :notworthy:
Dibuzz, please don't worry, your weight will fluctuate all the time. Best not to weigh yourself for about 4 weeks at a time so you can get a good idea of what's going on.
I have lost over three stone in the past year just by changing a few things that I eat....
Instead of white bead, changed to wholegrain, pref the bread with nice linseeds in. Change stodgy white rice to brown rice (still stodgy but ah well, I never could cook rice!)
Cut the butter out and use only reduced fat butter or low fat spread. Hardly use any oil ever in cooking. Never fry anything.
Make lots of veg soup and have that for lunch. Eat yogurt (make it myself - it's called 'EasiYo) it's brill, low GI, keeps you full. You can still eat choccies occasionally, but try plain choc which is far better. Fill your plate with heaps of veg, cut down on red meat.
Porridge is great too - add cocoa powder and it's so yummy and sorts the choccie craving out :D .
Sometimes I get days when I can't stop eating, but it doesn't matter because on the whole the healthy eating balances it all out.
In General you should aim for 1/3 of your diet to be carbs, 1/3 to be fruit and veg, with protein at about 1/5, dairy a similar amount and fat/sugary foods at 8 % . Nothing is forbidden, it's a question of balance.
Also, make it easier by not having really high cal foods hanging about at home - choose diet drinks, water or fruit juices.
I am more of a ''savoury'' person, so I have a stash of rice cakes on hand to nibble on - Tesco does a good one that's flavoured with savoury spread, but there are lots of different ones available.
It works for me anyway, I am still losing weight and it's been no problem at all to ''stick'' to. To me, it was just a question of re-educating my taste buds :) .
Nothing to be proud of, I should never have got that big in the first place :bigeyes: :o
coppernob
26-04-06, 11:01 PM
Hi mazza, I eat all the things you mention- my Mum's a complete health food freak,lives on seeds etc so I've always been quite healthy,it's the wine at the weekend,once I've had a glass,the munchies begin :blush: Don't give up,dibuzz,evryone has a hiccup now and then.!! CN
Oh yeah, alcohol, I used to partake, but I never really bother now. I guess that has helped me...
1g alcohol = 7 kCals... Fat is only 2 cals more per gram!!! Sobering thought...:bigeyes:
(protein and carbs are 4kCal per g ...so not as bad as alcohol and fat... )
StoneHenge
27-04-06, 04:56 PM
I have ruined my diet for the week! We have just been taken out for lunch with our department. Curry! Ahhhhh! :badmood:
The starter was bigger than I'd have in any main meal, and then we had a buffet to eat as well. My goodness am I full or what! I just hope Mr SH isn't planning a big dinner tonight (if he is, he is welcome to scoff the lot - i'm stuffed). I don't think I will have lost anything this week (boo hoo!).
Still, there's no challenge in already being perfect is there! :blush:
Lady Penelope
27-04-06, 08:25 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(miss_mellie @ 26th April 2006 - 8:07 PM) 162647</div>
Will start with a vengance on monday...(hopefully) :hihi:
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Thanks Bank Holiday miss_mellie :(
I'll start with you on Tuesday and we can catch up with these guys :P
Lady Penelope
27-04-06, 08:30 PM
:D Yer on Yi Win!! :thumbs:
StoneHenge
28-04-06, 12:08 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(mumski @ 27th April 2006 - 8:23 PM) 162856</div>
Hiya, Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr keeping weight off is hard.I have been with a slimming club for years and three times I have had to lose a stone which goes on very easily!!!
I am about 5ft 3 [my sons swear I am shrinking :D ] and weigh 10 stone which the club reckon is my correct weight for my height if that's any help to anyone out there!
It gets harder as you get older but I will not be fat and frumpy :(
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What is really strange about my weight is that I am 5 foot 2 (and a half!), and currently weigh 11 stone, but am fitting into a lot of my size 12's, which I didn't last time when I lost weight (before I got preggers).
My shape has totally changed from before which might help the clothes. I need to loose another stone to get down to 10, then hopefully slowly loose another half (put on 3.5 stone during pregnancy, of which 10 pounds came off giving birth, then 28 pounds over five months, now another 14 over the last four months, but as I gained nearly a stone before getting preggers, need to loose more).
Ok, probably completely confused everyone now. If you look at the normal height/weight ideals on the charts over the internet, I would need to be about 8.5 stone to be 'ideal'. If I weighed that much, I would look severely ill! So I never take those seriously. You know when you feel good. I was 9 stone and a bit before, and a size ten, so to me, that was fine (not sure I'll get that far down again though!).
Come on, we can do it. Make Tuesday the day to wave goodbye to the naughties and make a fresh start (so you all have permission to eat bad things and drink over the bank holiday!).
StoneHenge
28-04-06, 12:55 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 28th April 2006 - 11:43 AM) 162981</div>
Hi,
I agree with StoneHenge - ignore the weight charts - loose weight - get a figure & not look like a skeleton! I'm not fussed about getting into the correct 'charts' - what I want to do is feel a bit less 'flabby'!!!! it will give me more shape - I dont want to loose my hips or my boobs& be skin and bone but a bit less tummy fat & that'll do!!!
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I'm with you on the tummy thing Yi Win! I have a lot of that since having two babies has taken it's toll. I've a bit of loose skin that will never go away, but I am happy with my shape as I would never go in for cosmetic surgery. I have never worn a bikini and don't intend to start, so there is no bother about that.
Yes, love yourself and others will love you back! We don't all want to look like Kate Moss. It's bad press to expect women to look like skeletons (unless you have a natural slim figure anyway and then, lucky you!).
StoneHenge
28-04-06, 01:17 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Yi Win @ 28th April 2006 - 11:58 AM) 162986</div>
er...... whats that?
:hihi: :hihi: :hihi:
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Good question Yi Win, but one that seems to be on some of the women I work with who never seem to look any different! They are either not eating, over exercising, or just have amazing metabolsims! (spelt that completely wrong I know!).
If I find one, I'll share it with you (as long as I can have it November for looking good on my birthday!).
:thumbs:
Yeas, I I agree, forget the charts :). I am very glad that I can get into clothes I have had lurking in my wardrobe for over a decade now - yes, they are still in fashion, ie 501's :lol: - as I was determined to fit them again, someday...! And I do fit them now :D :party: .
I don't think I have managed to get into clothes this size since I was at 6 th form @ school, so I am more than happy with that - the charts still state I need to lose at least another three stone though :whistle: .....
I lost 8lb was just over 9stone but went to try on the outfit I liked and I was still to fat. I need to be at least a size 8 to look good in it. The girl in the shop was a size 6/8 if that and offered me a 14 so ego gone straight away.
Eventually bought an outfit from Monsoon in a size 12. I am quite happy with it but would liked to have been able to look good in the one I really liked.
As they say onwards and downwards (in weight that is).
Lady Penelope
05-05-06, 08:33 PM
:D Well done Tact, that's great news you've lost some weight.
Take no notice of the sales girl, stupid woman, fancy doiing that to you, no wonder your ego was deflated. You were probably prettier than her, thats why she did it :P
Anyhow, sizes are so off the wall these days. Sometimes I can fit into a size 8 then next I'm donning a 16 top :blink:
And another confession...I haven't started my diet yet either :(
Mmmmmmmmm perhaps I need to fall in love :rolleyes:
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Lady Penelope @ 5th May 2006 - 7:33 PM) 164354</div> :D Well done Tact, that's great news you've lost some weight.
Take no notice of the sales girl, stupid woman, fancy doiing that to you, no wonder your ego was deflated. You were probably prettier than her, thats why she did it :P [/b]
Thanks LP. :thumbs:
StoneHenge
08-05-06, 12:58 PM
Well, my weekend diet was pretty much ruined as well, so no weight lost (heh ho). Never mind about that girl tact, they always do that. That's why I never ask for help!
Anyway, a size 12 is a good place to be. And I am different sizes in every shop I go in, as there are no 'standards'. If you go one place, you will be a 12, if you go another, you will be a 14, and I've even been a 16 in some places, purely because of the fit (and they assume that all women have completely flat stomachs and bottoms as perky as j-lo's).
Well, in the Real World, we are all NOT like that, so don't take sizes as something to show your weight. If you like your shape, then stick with it if you don't work on it with toning and weight loss. At your weight, you probably already have an amazing figure!
StoneHenge
08-05-06, 02:11 PM
I don't do jeans Yi Win. They are either too long in the leg (and turn ups are such a turn off!), or they don't fit in the waist or hips, and because I have not got the flat stomach I would really like, they just don't suit me! Heh ho! Hence I wear lots of cotton tye dyes!
I am doing well today also. Brown toast for brekky, ham salad sarnie for lunch, fruit salad for snack, but it's someone's birthday in the office and we all bring cakes in when it's our birthday. Question is, can I resist?
Someone please talk me out of it!
phantos02
08-05-06, 10:24 PM
Oh dear I took a nice bottle of rose wine to my mum's yesterday for sunday lunch and drank 3/4 of it myself. :unsure:
Today I have been better... I had shredded wheat and soya milk for breakfast, took a salad to work, and for an early dinner I had leftover chili from saturday night which had lots of veg in. Then I went running for an hour (on and off!).
Trouble is now I'm back indoors and that that packet of Walkers Sensations in the larder is calling me..... :rolleyes:
StoneHenge
11-05-06, 11:58 AM
We are doing it all wrong ladies - this apparently is how you burn those calories!
Proper weight control cannot be attained by dieting alone; however, many people who are engaged in sedentary occupations do not realize that calories can be burned by the hundreds by engaging in strenuous activities that do not require much (or any) physical exercise.
Here's the guide to calorie-burning activities and the number of calories per hour they consume.
Beating around the bush . . . . . . . . .75
Jumping to conclusions . . . . . . . . . 100
Climbing the walls . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Swallowing your pride. . . . . . . . . .50
Passing the buck . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Pushing your luck. . . . . . . . . . . 250
Making mountains out of molehills. . . 500
Hitting the nail on the head . . . . . .50
Bending over backwards . . . . . . . . .75
Running around in circles. . . . . . . 350
Climbing the ladder of success . . . . 650
StoneHenge
11-05-06, 12:47 PM
I've been really good to (although I am off to an environmental meeting in a mo, and it's a free lunch - ouch!).
I don't think I've lost weight either, although not gained, so not all bad!
If I can climb a few rungs of that ladder every week, I'll soon be back in my ten's!
Well done you lot!!! :thumbs:
My 12's are now beginning to hang around my hips so I might try on a size 10 later.
Stonehenge its a pity that calorie guide doesn't work I would be a size 6 now. :lol:
StoneHenge
11-05-06, 04:17 PM
Tact that's brill! I want to be a size 10 (not jealous at all!).
I do have scales, but try not to go just by weight as it's body shapes and proportions as well isn't it! I know I'm changing by the waistlines and hips on my clothes, but just to squeeze into a ten would be nice. I can, with one of my skirts, but I also know it's generous compared to some places.
I have particular pair of black trousers, and when I fit into them well, I know I'll have cracked it.
Go on tact, try on the ten's, bet you will be surprised!
I am sat typing wearing a size 10 skirt and yes I can breathe....I will enjoy it for tonight as we are about to have a b-b-q so no doubt tomorrow it won't fit.
I was weighed at the doctors yesterday and I am now..............9' 6lbs.
Lady Penelope
15-05-06, 12:06 AM
:notworthy: Well done Tact :thumbs:
I've lost weight too, but I haven't been on a diet :lol: There's a clue on post 86 I think :whistle:
StoneHenge
15-05-06, 02:48 PM
Snap Yi Win. I was very naughty too. A double decker and twirl this weekend plus sausage sandwiches when I was doing my car boot (you have to keep the energy up!). So I won't have shifted a pound. Will not get on the scales this week for fear of being hugely deflated! (or should that be inflated :P )
StoneHenge
15-05-06, 04:51 PM
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dibuzz @ 15th May 2006 - 3:26 PM) 166242</div>
OMG Stonehenge!
I thought I was bad but I've never eaten a bus.
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LOL !!!!! :hihi: :lol:
I think I have put all of mine back on again. Must weigh myself and find out. :cry:
StoneHenge
31-05-06, 09:19 AM
I think I've gained 2 pounds from all the rubbish I ate over the weekend (but boy did I enjoy it).
I think I needed the weekend away from NFh, and just letting go!
Heh ho, back to being good! (nice while it lasted).
StoneHenge
08-06-06, 11:42 AM
I still haven't shifted anything since my bad weekend of junk. Heh ho. Have more pressing things to concentrate on at the moment! I am surprised actually with all the stress that I haven't lost more weight! My body is odd!
I used to love running Yi Win, but with dodgy ankle, and now dodgy heel, I could just about manage a hop around the garden!
Hulablush
08-06-06, 08:28 PM
Hello all,
Only just found this post so forgive me if I am repeating some things already said......
I lost weight recently just by changing my breakfast to porridge every morning and did not change anything else. I had no intention of losing weight just fancied a change! I lost about 4lbs in a few weeks.
When I had to have my wisdom teeth out, I bought some Slim Fasts as I thought I would not be able to eat afterwards and wanted to make sure I got all of my vitamins, etc. I didn't half get some dirty looks from the (larger) women behind me when I was in the queue buying a few cans of the stuff because I'm already a size 10!! I felt the need to explain myself in the middle of the shop! :bigeyes:
Good luck to everyone fighting those cravings..... it's easier in this hot weather, I think.
I lost 5 stone seven years ago. It is a struggle to keep off, but one that is worth it. I joined Slimming World but I think when the time is right and your frame of mind is good, go for it. There has been one rule for me over the years and in the last NFH 18 months, nothing will get in the way of me staying slim. I worked too hard and I refused to comfort eat although I so needed to. Keep at it everyone! :thumbs:
StoneHenge
09-06-06, 02:46 PM
Wow Pandy, that is some weight loss!
Well done to you! :notworthy:
I am slowly loosing the pounds, but it is slow, but I am no with Slimming world or anything, just watch what I eat and exercise when I can (with two kids, it's not easy to get time off!).
Fantastic weight loss though. you must feel like a whole new person!
Yi Win!
I know, excuses, excuses! Last time I went out, I had my ankle strapped up tot he nines, and I kept getting odd looks as I must have looked in pain running!
Silly me! I just need to loose a few pounds. A girl at work is in the same boat, so we are going to combine forces and spur each other on. I hope it works!
Thanks I suppose I have done well but it seems a lifetime ago that I was that weight. Its a constant keep an eye on the ball situation but anything that makes us feel good is great. I'm a firm believer in eating plenty of healthy food, only cutting down the rubbish and still leave room for a drink and curry at the wekend. Roll on tonight!!!! :D
WOW pandy :notworthy: . 5 stone thats fantastic!!!
Lady Penelope
10-06-06, 11:37 PM
:) Well done Pandy :notworthy:
Good news miss_mellie about the weight loss! :thumbs: Sad about the stress though :(
Keep at it hun.
LPxxx
StoneHenge
19-06-06, 03:29 PM
I love swimming Yi Win, so might have to look into that. I used to go all the time but with a full time job, and two kids, it's not easy. And when we take little one, we have to stay with him, so don't get a lot done then either!
I haven't shifted a pound either, but as it was our anniversary yesterday, we had a lunch out and hubby got me a box of choccy's as well, so it was a wine and choocy evening. Loads a calories!
Oh, well, I did have a salad today for lunch, so was good then!
StoneHenge
24-07-06, 01:32 PM
Well, if you promise to tell us when you are tempted, I will tell you not to do it, only if you promise to do the same for me (except I have double to loose what you do).
So I'll stay off the cheese and crisps if you do!
StoneHenge
24-07-06, 02:52 PM
You just can't win can you!
I know what you mean. I do pick at bad things, but now I have to stop and try and be good (she says with a piece of cherry and sultana cake in front of her!). But it is my treat for having such a hard weekend! (so you can tell me off now!!!!)
StoneHenge
24-07-06, 03:49 PM
Thanks for the telling off ( I needed it!).
Yup me too, I have clothes which are now too big, and clothes which don't quite fit, and I want those ones to be the ones I shrink into!
I want to be a 10 again!
I want to join in as well!
I have a target to lose, and it's only so I can fulfil my dreams next year! :P
I need to start trying again as well. Good thing with the hot weather it makes me not want to eat. So hopefully will have lost some. I will weight myself later. I would love to be 8'11lb again but really can't see it happening. Unless of course I cut off a limb.
Good luck to you all and hows it going?