xj-esx diary to loosing and maintaing

Hey all!

I am not so much a newbie here but I am restarting my journey to loosing weight once again. *sigh*

I joined minimins in 2010 in a bid to try and go from 11 st 11lb to 8 and a half stone which I managed to successfully do from 2010-2011. I slowly started to use minimins less once I had hit my goal and with being at university I didn't have a lot of spare time to post. I kept the weight off for quite some time up until recently. My weight has crept up to 9 and a half stone over the past few months due to bad eating habits and lack of exercise

I have joined minimins again in the hope it keeps me motivated to loose the weight and this time, keep it off. I haven't set a 'goal' date yet and I am unsure of when I should be weighing myself. At the moment I am trying to keep track of the calories I consume and make small healthier changes to my current diet in the hope over time I can slowly cut further calories and loose weight.

I really enjoy cooking healthy food from scratch and finding and making healthier alternatives to my favourite dishes, this is something that I have missed doing and will be doing again now. I will be posting recipes and pictures of any dishes that I think may be of interest to other calorie counters

J x

Here to join you!!
I am loosely following slimming sold to loose the last 14-21 lbs
Thinking like you that by changing little bits it might just come off slowly. Met target in feb then gained slowly from then till recently when I decided it was just too much pressure for me :-/

Hope you get to yr target again soon xx

Hello!

Congratulations firstly on your amazing weight loss. 6st is amazing! I hope you eventually reach your goal Good luck xx

xj-esx said:

Hello!

Congratulations firstly on your amazing weight loss. 6st is amazing! I hope you eventually reach your goal Good luck xx

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Thanks I am sure I will - just taking the long route now ha ha x

The long route will hopefully lead to the final route! (meaning you wont need to keep on dieting!) xx

Food sounds delish- I LOVE halloumi.

Do you use My Fitness Pal?

Since I began calorie counting I sometimes now feel anxious if I don't know the exact amount in something like you mention with the potato salad - it has meant the last few months I have been eating less home prepared stuff just because I don't trust my calorie counts when I create a meal. Freshly prepared food is so much tastier and better though!

Me too! Its so good, especially when its been cooked on the BBQ.. mmm

I feel exactly the same, I hardly ever used to cook my own food because I was worried about the calorie content, would also end up buying low calorie food from the supermarket etc. I do use fitness pal but very loosely, I used to use it all the time however now I much prefer to track what I have to eat using minimins. I use fitness pal to find out the calories of lots of stuff though! x

Today I was trying on some clothes and I cant believe how much weight I have put on in such little time :cry:
One of my shirts just about buttons up, a shirt that was baggy on me about a month and a bit ago. I feel really annoyed at myself for letting myself go and ruining all the hard work I did before. I wish I could just turn back the clock and stuck to calorie counting. Rather than getting really down about it I feel that with the use of minimins I can use it as motivation. Maybe I did over eat for a while but I totally enjoyed it! hehe. Now is the time to curb that enthusiasm for food and get back into that shirt.

Will be posting my diary later on tonight xx

Don't beat yourself up about it - life is too short - and as you say - you enjoyed that food whilst you were munching it

Would you mind giving a bit more info on your first stint on Minimins as I have a similar start point/goal to your original weightloss and am intrigued as to how long it took/ whether you stalled at all on the way down/how many cals/what kind of things you were eating/did you exercise? etc etc

BerryBerry said:

Don't beat yourself up about it - life is too short - and as you say - you enjoyed that food whilst you were munching it

Would you mind giving a bit more info on your first stint on Minimins as I have a similar start point/goal to your original weightloss and am intrigued as to how long it took/ whether you stalled at all on the way down/how many cals/what kind of things you were eating/did you exercise? etc etc

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Thanks lovely

Of course I wouldn't! I started at around 11 st 11lb and began dieting on 1500 calories a day however I often lost my appetite when I first started dieting and sometimes my calorie intake would only be around 900 for a day which I know isn't healthy but I found the low calorie food that I was buying actually filled me up so much that I couldn't up my calories. This changed when I begun exercising, I began using the wii fit in the evenings using special workout DVD's for around 45 minutes a night, this meant I was way hungrier and managed to get my calories back up to around 1400-1500 a day which is what I wanted. On average I lost around 1-2 pounds a week. I had weeks where I would gain pounds for what seemed to be no reason at all but now looking back it may have been muscle weight that I was gaining as I swapped my fitness routine to the Davina Mccall power of three dvd which burns fat but also tones. (Can I really recommend this dvd? it is AMAZING!) I also had weeks where I just wouldn't loose at all, when this happened I usually decreased my calorie intake or increased my exercise level to try and kick start the weight loss again and often that did help. It took from June 2010 to Dec 2010 to get to 9 stone with constant calorie counting and regular exercise Hope this helps? Feel free to ask more questions, love to answer them and chat

PS good luck with your weight loss and you can definitely do it! xx

I've just read that I have lost the equivalent to a mid-sized microwave! How's that for motivation hehe I often forget that I have lost a lot of weight because of just focussing on the weight gain at the moment. That's made me feel tons better and has motivated me to stay strong. Any newbies who haven't already seen this post with the weight equivalents can be seen over on http://www.minimins.com/slimming-world-off-topic/248845-weight-loss-equivalents.html

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Dinner; Small portion of steak and ale pie with baby new potatoes and peas - 500 calories​

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Hi, your weight loss is fantastic - well done! I really struggle at night but I'm trying to stay strong and get in the habit

Oh and I LOVE big brother, gutted it finishes tonight

CharlieDelta said:

Hi, your weight loss is fantastic - well done! I really struggle at night but I'm trying to stay strong and get in the habit

Oh and I LOVE big brother, gutted it finishes tonight

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Thank you so much Good luck with staying strong! You can definitely beat the habit May I ask what in particular you struggle with in the night? Snacking?

Me too. I'm so glad that the celebrity one starts a few days after, I love BB

Me too, although after CBB finishes I'll not know what to do. Who do you want to win tonight?

Yeah snacking :-( I'm really good all day at work and I mostly do well at dinner, but come 7.30pm I just reach for crisps, chocolate etc. pretty much anything. I don't buy crisps or chocolate so I don't eat it but I literally will make do with what's there...toast, crackers and cheese etc. and after resisting for 10 mins I then convince myself I'm hungry and NEED to eat :-(

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Me too, although after CBB finishes I'll not know what to do. Who do you want to win tonight?

Yeah snacking :-( I'm really good all day at work and I mostly do well at dinner, but come 7.30pm I just reach for crisps, chocolate etc. pretty much anything. I don't buy crisps or chocolate so I don't eat it but I literally will make do with what's there...toast, crackers and cheese etc. and after resisting for 10 mins I then convince myself I'm hungry and NEED to eat :-(

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I wanted Scott to win towards the end, was shocked he got voted out! Who did you want to win?

I used to do exactly the same! Especially with cheese. I used to be really healthy then come home and have cheese on toast or just blocks of cheese if there was nothing else to eat. I stopped by buying loooads of different low calorie options of snacks and having a few of them at one time which made it feel like snacking but the calories remained low xx

Hey hun

Found your diary! I'm the same as you, I got down to target of 9st 2 and since feb have gone up and up and up.... Daren't weigh myself after the last few horrific days I've had. Holding out until WI on Saturday and Hopefully it will show a maintain or a tiny loss!

What day do you weigh on?

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Nikki<3 said:

Hey hun

Found your diary! I'm the same as you, I got down to target of 9st 2 and since feb have gone up and up and up.... Daren't weigh myself after the last few horrific days I've had. Holding out until WI on Saturday and Hopefully it will show a maintain or a tiny loss!

What day do you weigh on?

X

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Hey! I can't seem to find yours unless I am being blind! Could you send me a link? Ah it's so hard isn't it :-( I get so annoyed at myself for gaining again but I try and remain positive otherwise I know I'll think what's the point and continue to gain.

I haven't set a WI date or day yet, at the moment I am trying to get a healthier diet in me and then I will weigh myself after a short while. I'm a bit scared to weigh myself at the moment!

Xx

xj-esx said:

Hey! I can't seem to find yours unless I am being blind! Could you send me a link? Ah it's so hard isn't it :-( I get so annoyed at myself for gaining again but I try and remain positive otherwise I know I'll think what's the point and continue to gain.

I haven't set a WI date or day yet, at the moment I am trying to get a healthier diet in me and then I will weigh myself after a short while. I'm a bit scared to weigh myself at the moment!

Xx

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I posted mine on the front page of cal counting instead of in the diary section... Total accident!

Tell me about it. I weighed my self on Saturday and had lost 3lb.... Then I had a major bad weekend and am no way going near the scales now until Saturday, may end up throwing them out the window!

I was so chuffed to get down to 9st 2 and then I crept up to 9st 6 by my holiday in feb and then I can back off holiday 9st 9 and then hit 10st 2!!! Hoping to keep it up now though and get to target by my holiday in November xx