Steps In The Right Direction...86.6lbs Lost Fasting

[upndown]

Thank you x It is honestly ,I think, the most convenient and adaptable way to lose weight. I'm fine tweaking it now that I've shifted a good bit of the weight I need to ,but I've averaged a 2lb a week loss since starting without feeling deprived and eating any type of food I've wanted. Just trying to make better choices with an eye to the long term now. Anything you want to ask I'll try and help if I can x

Epiphany is a big word but ur achievement is huge - not just the weight loss but how u've changed during the journey - well done and thanks for sharing ur experience - it's also what makes ur diary so interesting too!!

 

[Autumn500]

Wee buns,your attitude about wanting to be healthy etc is how I feel at the minute too.been watching documentaries about the importance of nutrition and it's so fascinating,but also quite scary when we think of the stuff we put into our bodies thinking we are doing the right thing-there is so much corruption out there and big food producers have a lot of influence over the government and the info we get told about what is good for us,which I find very sad

I'm trying to really reduce my processed foods and sweeteners etc-I cringe when I think how bad my diet used to be when I originally started weight watchers-it's a great plan but I was eating all sorts of processed and sweetener laden stuff because it was low points-I'm trying to have smaller portions of the real thing rather than big portions of the crap stuff.

 

[Autumn500]

I think your attitude about fasting for health and lifestyle and then having the weightless naturally happen alongside that is a great one-I think that's a sign that it's something you could realistically do for life,albeit with any tweaks you decide to use once you reach goal-I think so much of us fall into a trap of wanting to go on a diet to lose weight with little thought for what happens afterwards-a lot of us haven't been lucky enough to reach goal before so we don't realise the struggles that come with maintaining,but at least if you find a way of eating that works for you,it makes that battle a bit easier

 

[KittyBling]

Dancing while ironing is GREAT exercise. I dance while cooking I'm loving your attitude and hoping to develop one just like it as time goes on! My attitude towards food is dreadful.

 

[weebuns]

Wee buns,your attitude about wanting to be healthy etc is how I feel at the minute too.been watching documentaries about the importance of nutrition and it's so fascinating,but also quite scary when we think of the stuff we put into our bodies thinking we are doing the right thing-there is so much corruption out there and big food producers have a lot of influence over the government and the info we get told about what is good for us,which I find very sad

I'm trying to really reduce my processed foods and sweeteners etc-I cringe when I think how bad my diet used to be when I originally started weight watchers-it's a great plan but I was eating all sorts of processed and sweetener laden stuff because it was low points-I'm trying to have smaller portions of the real thing rather than big portions of the crap stuff.

I think your attitude about fasting for health and lifestyle and then having the weightless naturally happen alongside that is a great one-I think that's a sign that it's something you could realistically do for life,albeit with any tweaks you decide to use once you reach goal-I think so much of us fall into a trap of wanting to go on a diet to lose weight with little thought for what happens afterwards-a lot of us haven't been lucky enough to reach goal before so we don't realise the struggles that come with maintaining,but at least if you find a way of eating that works for you,it makes that battle a bit easier

Thanks Autumn x I'm hoping it works. Not going to turn into a control freak about it though. Not going to be the one at a birthday party refusing cake and eating a carrot!! I reckon if I can make healthy choices most of the time it will make up for the less healthy moments. I think I was so focussed on getting to target that I wasn't really thinking beyond the number on the scale. Nothing magical is going to happen when I get to that weight...no magic wish will be granted where I can eat whatever I want and stay that weight. It really does need a lifestyle change because if I got to target and went "woo that's that then " and went back to my old ways I'd end up right back where I was last year. And I don't want to be on a "diet" for the rest of my life. So healthy, cleaner eating seemed the way to go. It'll take a bit of adjusting and I'm sure I'll slip up occasionally along the way but so does everyone..even people without a weight problem. x

Dancing while ironing is GREAT exercise. I dance while cooking I'm loving your attitude and hoping to develop one just like it as time goes on! My attitude towards food is dreadful.

Kitty my attitude up until a couple of months ago was to manipulate my calories on UDs to have as many treats in an evening as I could get I think I've just realised that life...and food...will go on beyond getting to target and unless I want to get into a vicious cycle of gaining and losing I need to wise up and start implementing some changes about my food choices. I really hope it works...or I'll be the one in the corner eating all the pies and sobbing!

 

[weebuns]

Day 3/31

Breakfast....


I made a smoothie!! Get me being all fancy nancy and stepping away from the bran! Banana, raspberries, fat free yoghurt, vanilla rice dream milk. And...it didn't fill me up I was starving within an hour. Lesson learned, fine as a snack but not as a meal.

Lunch - veggie rice (rice, red pepper, baby sweetcorn, red onion, sugar snap peas and carrot) with chilli baked chicken breast.

Dinner - Haddock done in a cheese sauce with mushrooms and tomatoes, all baked in the oven. Served with new potatoes, carrots and broccoli.

Snacks - Black grapes
Cinder toffee coffee made with vanilla rice dream instead of water
Solero mojito...this was disgusting due to the bits of lemon rind throughout it so it went in the bin and was substituted for some Tayto chilli and lime pop corners.

I'm not 100% using the ingredients I want as I've stuff to use up. Not going to waste money having been made redundant!, so once the white rice, pasta and diet bits and bobs are gone what I buy in will hopefully be less processed. Been trying out rice dream as I'm looking for a milk substitute. I only really like skimmed milk as I find semi and full milk too greasy (?)..but I am allergic to cow's milk. Not to the point I can't have it but if I have too much my eczema flairs up. Also looking for a good peanut/nut butter as trying to vary snacks, so if anyone has any suggestions...

Exercise 3.5 miles walked
Mowing the grass
Repeatedly picking up that blooming hula hoop

 

[KittyBling]

LOL at the hula hoop! Smallest son was dairy free for a while and we road tested the alternatives, the oat milk was his choice although even it wasn't great...

 

[Autumn500]

I think holland and Barrett do good peanut and nut butters that are natural with no added sugar and salt.they also have healthier snacks with no nasties in,I've been looking through their website as I'm looking for healthier snacks too

 

[weebuns]

LOL at the hula hoop! Smallest son was dairy free for a while and we road tested the alternatives, the oat milk was his choice although even it wasn't great...

I'm a dab hand at spinning the hoop along the ground and getting it to return to me, but don't think that's really fat burning! I was on goat's milk as a child and the thought of it makes me heave. I am ok with skimmed milk as long as I don't have too much. If I have a milkshake at McDonalds I wheeze for about 2 hours afterwards. You'd think being a grown up I'd not do that and avoid what wasn't good for me I do keep an eye on my dairy intake and unless I'm an idiot I do fine unlike people who have to cut it out completely. The problem is I like cheese, ice cream, milkshakes and hate having tea and coffee without milk. All the "alternative" products are a a bit pants quite frankly!

I think holland and Barrett do good peanut and nut butters that are natural with no added sugar and salt.they also have healthier snacks with no nasties in,I've been looking through their website as I'm looking for healthier snacks too

Always forget about Holland and Barrett. Will have a look online as I think the tv ad said buy 1 get 1 half price or something? Really need to do more reading on healthy, clean eating as I feel I'm floundering about a bit. Did try Nakd bars and they were ok and all natural ingredients.. but they were high in sugar albeit naturally occurring. I tried a Trek coconut flapjack and gave up half way through due to the massive bits of unchewable hard coconut. A lot of muesli bars are really high in sugar too. It's hard trying to find the right balance!

 

[weebuns]

Received a parcel this morning...



A whole load of WW products ordered for me by my mother. Order was only placed 2 days ago...she just isn't listening and has to be right I don't know why I'm surprised as she gave me a SW subscription for my birthday once. It's like banging your head against a brick wall

And to add insult to injury it said this on the outside of the box so the whole world knows...

 

[Lexie2005]

OMG!!!!!! Why don't you drop it on her doorstep & say you thinks it's been delivered to the wrong address!

 

[weebuns]

OMG!!!!!! Why don't you drop it on her doorstep & say you thinks it's been delivered to the wrong address!

I'm just going to ignore it and say nothing...she's looking for a reaction and I'm not playing. This is because my brother blabbed and told her I was thinking of moving. Why can't she accept I'm all grown up and have been for years. She needs to unpick her fingers and stop trying to interfere in my life. Is sooooooooo frustrating!! I'm not letting her put a dampener on my weekend with date

 

[KittyBling]

OMG I can't believe her!! At least actually I can, I think you and I share a mother! Rise above it!!

 

[Thornhill Cate]

Good luck with your new plan and for reaching 12 stone. To be almost 5 stone down is such an incredible loss. And it's good to hear you haven't really ever felt deprived while doing it.

 

[weebuns]

Good luck with your new plan and for reaching 12 stone. To be almost 5 stone down is such an incredible loss. And it's good to hear you haven't really ever felt deprived while doing it.

Thanks Cate I've tried all the diets over the years...mainly half hearted attempts...and this is the only way of doing it that has worked. I get bored quickly of being on a diet and the restrictions you have and fasting has made it that I'm only restricted 3 days out of 7. For me it's a good fit. I'm hoping this month is going to go to plan but really need to do some more reading and research on clean eating. Seeing 12 stone on the scales was quite emotional because it's been a good 10 years since I've been that low. I feel that pound by pound I'm shedding the old, fat, unhappy me.

 

[weebuns]

Date has arrived in Scotland but not seeing him till tomorrow. He is staying with a friend and his wife and she's cooking dinner. Was invited but we've only been on one date!.. so thought that kind of thing was a bit much too soon. So picking him up at 10 tomorrow for a day out. Will be very weather dependent on what we do as it has rained a fair bit today. I keep waiting for him to do something that I don't like. Feel bad for even thinking that but it all seems to be too good to be true. I have a habit of ending up with men who have "issues". I keep wondering what his is...no one knows why he and his ex split up according to my cousin. I'm an open book...ex would only move forward as a couple if I was the right size and weight. I can't believe he hasn't been snapped up by some lucky woman. I'm over thinking I know. Going to try and take it a date at a time. I'm also freaking out about moving. Mainly that I only know cousin, her OH and their daughter... and Date! How am I going to make friends, have a social life?? How do you do that as a grown woman?? Gosh this has been an emotional old week!

 

[Thornhill Cate]

I moved to Cardiff as a grown woman with a baby in tow at 43, 10 years ago now. Admittedly, I had my mum and dad here and my sister, B-I-L, their two kids, brother and S-I-L (although they moved to Switzerland in 2010) but for reasons I'm not even sure of, my sister and brother and their OHs were less than supportive so I was pretty much on my own. I did make a couple of friends through my son's nursery and these are the people I have relied on ever since although I do occasionally go out with the mums from his primary school. However, I decided a couple of weeks ago that I needed to expand my social network so I've joined Meet Up. Not sure where you're planning on moving to but there might well be one in your new area so check it out. I went to my first Meet Up on Saturday - the Cardiff Fab 50s - and it was fun. The organiser has already posted a few more dates for events taking place for us to get together. Good luck.

Find your people - Meetup

 

[upndown]

Date has arrived in Scotland but not seeing him till tomorrow. He is staying with a friend and his wife and she's cooking dinner. Was invited but we've only been on one date!.. so thought that kind of thing was a bit much too soon. So picking him up at 10 tomorrow for a day out. Will be very weather dependent on what we do as it has rained a fair bit today. I keep waiting for him to do something that I don't like. Feel bad for even thinking that but it all seems to be too good to be true. I have a habit of ending up with men who have "issues". I keep wondering what his is...no one knows why he and his ex split up according to my cousin. I'm an open book...ex would only move forward as a couple if I was the right size and weight. I can't believe he hasn't been snapped up by some lucky woman. I'm over thinking I know. Going to try and take it a date at a time. I'm also freaking out about moving. Mainly that I only know cousin, her OH and their daughter... and Date! How am I going to make friends, have a social life?? How do you do that as a grown woman?? Gosh this has been an emotional old week!

It's not surprising ur having an emotional week - u've had a fair few ups and downs since I've been following ur thread - not to mention ur Mum's antics! So u'll be going thro a gamut of emotions - how many of us can take dates one at a time if we're honest? At times like this anyone wd be looking into the future as well as ruminating about the past.

Hopefully u'll have a job soon -that'll give u a starting point - plus ur family, ur fella for now at least and u might even join a club or take up a new hobby - who knows? You sound really well grounded and you'll make things happen for urself I reckon.

Hope date 2 goes as well as the first xx

 

[KittyBling]

CHILL! One date at a time, enjoy it while it's good, you'll ruin it by overthinking.
I'm here by the way so you'll know me too!!!! Seriously though, we might hate each other on sight but we might not, got to be worth meeting up to see I reckon.

 

[weebuns]

Second date went very well I'm shattered though as we went to Loch Lomond for the best part of the day before heading to Glasgow for Dinner and I walked 11 miles...my poor wee feet! Going to post my food and catch up properly tomorrow.

Day 4/31 - Fast day

Dinner - Chicken breast, salad and a baked potato.

4 x teas with skimmed milk
2 litres of water

Day 5/31

Breakfast - Porridge with skimmed milk and a banana

Lunch - Carrot, tomato and apple soup with 2 granary bread rolls.

Dinner - Pasta and meatballs with a tomato and basil sauce.
Half a piece of a chocolate, honeycomb cheesecake.

Snacks - Skinny caramel latte

Lunch and dinner were eaten out but I think I made pretty good choices. It doesn't look like I've eaten a lot but the rolls were the size of boulders and the Italian restaurant portions were HUGE! Tomorrow we are meeting up for lunch and maybe a film before he heads back tomorrow night.