JanD's New Year, New Start, Maintenance Diary

[JanD]

Grrr Grrr Grrr!!! You'd have well known by now if I hadn't lost the blasted post I typed ..... PC froze .. it was dead long too GrrrGrrrGrrr!!!

PHEW!!!

I'll try again! *** AUMMMMMMMMMMMMM ***

Thanks so much for all your suggestions and comments - I just love you guys

Funny thing about the takeway situation - MY daughter isn't interested either, she put on a few lbs last week when they went away and she's TINY so really feels it but my friend's daughter (her girlfriend) IS interested and yet she's the one out of the pair of them with weight issues ... isn't it funny?! Anyway I think it's just going to be coffee, we'll see
There may well come a time when I have to say something. It'll be along the lines of 'I realise it may seem a little obssessive but what I've learned is that if I'm not going to waste the rest of my life yo-yo-ing massive amounts of weight this is how it has to be' - followed by something like - 'and I'd rather be a little obssessive at 10.5st than bl00dy miserable at nearly 16st' (knowing that's at least what she is - hmmm is that nasty? )

ANYHOO!!! Happily I DID change my mind about the chippie fish - I had a ww shepherd's pie with a little tin of baby carrots and a ww yog instead. Bingefest officially over

It's really weird because I feel it coming and know when it's over - seems to be no way I can stop it from either starting or in the middle .. really strange. Sometime I must go through my diary and see if there's any sort of pattern. I think I HAVE missed carbs and I've missed yogs & stuff while I've been high proteining. I KNOW the best way is a little of everything. I really liked the propoints for that reason but it just wasn't happening quickly enough for me.
Well at least I got off all my Christmas gain - I just haven't lost my leeway lbs - I really feel the best I can do for now is aim to sts (which'll be a bleepin' miracle this week now!!- but you know what I mean)

Sorry this is such a long post - thanks again guys xxx

(And you thought Vanessa could blather )

 

[summergurl]

Glad to see you back on track Jan
Would be good to see if there is a pattern to it.

Good idea about what you thought of to mention if it comes to it that you have to say something. And I'd defo put in there the yo yo comment!!!!

Xxx

 

[SandraB]

It's a little obsession that keeps us posting here Jan and keeps us to within a few lbs of our desired weight......you only have to look on the general forum to see the amount of people returning to LT, sometimes more than once, having put all the weight back on! Yet here are you, Tanya, Mary and Molly, all having kept it off for years!! and I'm sure that it's made easier by logging on here and 'obsessing' with the rest of us........

Glad the binge is over and it didn't do you any harm interesting though if it was cutting down on the carbs that brought it on? Mmmmm food for thought! X

 

[Zebs07]

Jan - apologies if I'm wrong but I think u said before that you are thankfully past the TOTM curse! However cud the binge fests not be still maybe down to some sort of hormonal phase - even if no longer bleeding! Just a thought if it's roughly a month apart it happens!

One thing I've noticed (and like) since LP is that if I am bad, I notice it in how my body feels health wise pretty quickly which helps with knowing it's time to climb back on! 'You are what you eat' and all that certainly is real for me now! I don't enjoy that overstufffed feeling or too much fatty food yukky'ness!

Plus let's be honest - our bad now isn't really comparable to our bad before!

 

[Zebs07]

(And you thought Vanessa could blather )

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[summergurl]

:giggle:

It's true it's our 'obsessing' that has enabled us to keep the weight off or atleast within a few lbs

Xxxx

 

[JanD]

I've wondered about the monthly thing too Van - you are still supposed to have a cycle - even though you don't 'see' anything. My bad IS as bad as 'before' but doesn't last as long .. well not usually, but it did over Christmas

Sandra & Tan - oh yes I'm sure it's being on here that is the main reason for staying within a few lbs of target! But Sandra as for the bingefest not doing any harm - well monday will tell I guess

Sat 26th Feb

Bed all day

ww yog

Tea - Crustless quiche (3 beaten eggs, tub of cottage cheese with onion&chives, 2 slices of ham chopped up & 3 mushrooms chopped all mixed up & bunged in oven on 180 for about 25mins) I had just under half of it and 2 tblsps bbq beans.

wine xx

BTW Vanessa - I know it's been said before but if we really 'are what we eat' and Gillian McKeith & Nigella Lawson are the same age .. pass me the chocolate fondue!! xx

 

[Zebs07]

BTW Vanessa - I know it's been said before but if we really 'are what we eat' and Gillian McKeith & Nigella Lawson are the same age .. pass me the chocolate fondue!! xx

ABSOLOODLE lol x

 

[SandraB]

I'll have double cream with mine I think!

 

[kered]

Jan you are a star refusing the chippy fish for the WW meal...........hands up to you girl.

 

[JanD]

Ahhh thanks Mary .. I think I'm still up 3 or 4lbs on last week though .. ... I'm beginning to think 10.5 isn't sustainable!! ..... Ah well I'm still 5stone down on my worst ever xx

 

[irish molly]

Don't despair Jan. You have done so well overall. You have a point as to what weight is a sustainable weight. Someone,herbalist/osteopath, told me to add 10 to 15 lbs to my average weight in my teens/twenties and take this as a manageable weight for my fifties.
Have a good week.

 

[JanD]

That's interesting Molly .. My trouble is I have always yo-yo-ed sooo much & sooo many times - I wouldn't know what that weight was!!

Anyhoo - dunno if it was Freudian error or what but I drank my coffee this morning before I (would have) got weighed - so I didn't .. I'm up early in the morning so won't be brought a coffee so will have no excuse! .. trying to do a bit of a 'catch up' today easily as it happens coz I've been very busy and am off out again soon & won't be back till later on this evening.

Breakie - ww yog

Lunch - apple

Tea - I've left a 'tutti fruitie' mixed fruit pack at my daughter's to have when I'm there a bit later and I've got another one that I'll have later on. I'm hungry now though so I think I'll finish off a tub of cottage cheese that I had half of yesterday.

I KNOW this isn't really enough but it's only 1 day. I've got the 2 little ones all day tomorrow so will need more energy!! xx

There MAY be 1 or 2 V&Cs when I get back - not sure yet xx

 

[JanD]

HaHa ... even allowing for 3 drinks later mfp says if I eat like this every day I'll be 10st in 5 weeks time ... HaHa .... I wish xx (NOT that I'd do it - just in case anyone's thinking I might - I couldn't anyway!)

 

[kered]

HaHa ... even allowing for 3 drinks later mfp says if I eat like this every day I'll be 10st in 5 weeks time ... HaHa .... I wish xx (NOT that I'd do it - just in case anyone's thinking I might - I couldn't anyway!)

You have too much sense for that Jan

 

[JanD]

Or I'm too greedy x

Well bit the bullet and weighed in this morning 2lbs up on last week - no more than I deserve. Still in the 140s though .... JUST!

Tuesday 1st March

Breakie - Tesco instant porridge pot maple syrup flavour.

Lunch - Tin Lentil & veg soup & piece toast

snack - walkers baked sour cream & chive crisps

Tea - chicken breast done somehow with something - don't know how and don't know what yet

edit - done in ww roasted garlic sauce with a baked sweet potato - bit more than planned but needed it.

Running round after a 4 and a 2 year old today xx

No doubt a couple of V&Cs will be imbibed tonight xx

edit - 2 Krisprolls & 1 el lfg cow xx

 

[summergurl]

Looking good today Jan, well back on track hope you had fun looking after the boys xxx

 

[JanD]

Yeah - they're little sweeties

I WAS back on track - we have a 'situation' in the family at the moment which sent me straight to the bread bin/fridge/biscuit tin last night - because as we all know filling your face is the answer to everything !!! xx

 

[summergurl]

Aww hope that it gets sorted soon
Not sure why we think the biscuit tin etc is always the answer but it's certainly the answer at the time.

Up early today, got the boys again?xxx

 

[kered]

Hopefully the family situation will get sorted Jan (hugs).

That dreaded biscuit tin and bread box, mad how we head straight for them in times of need - either that or we head for the bottle (well I do........lol)