The really slow loss team!

Good on you Lou! If going back to group get you back in the zone, then you do it - do whatever it takes to achieve your goals! Go for it girl!

TBH I was in the same place as you recently - very angry with myself as I knew in my heart of hearts that I overeating big time in the last few weeks on SW before I decided to swap plans. I am the kind of person who doesn't do well when I am told I can basically stuff my face and still lose weight.

I am doing much better with the discipline of logging everything in the on-line calorie counter as and when I eat it and the ready reckoner telling me "OK, now you've eaten that, you have this amount left for the day". I can "earn" more food if I want by exercising, which has been a real incentive to get out the DVDs and walk that extra mile with Lily (well until I got this grim cold that is!) and either eat it back or not - the choice is mine.

The proof of the pudding (or no pudding as the case may be ha ha, ha) for me has been 8lbs off in just under 4 weeks. Not for everyone, but it clearly suits me, so I say if it works for you and gets you where you need to be then you go for it and we will all be there to party with you on the naughty step on good weeks and commiserate on not such good weeks, because we will all have them.

I am sure my current success will not last, but I am enjoying it while it does - and believe me I have been working and sacrificing for it for the last month, but I don't mind as long as I see the results!

 
conlou1 said:
Thanks Lisa. Even if I only lose half a pound a week I'll be happy but this constant 3 on 3 off is doing my head in. I feel elated when I lose then the week after feel depressed that I've gained. Oh well, I'm just gonna keep going. Increase exercise even more and write everything down. I've do e extra easy mostly this week and I rarely lose following that so back to red and green days. I feel ok now was just shocked as I was sure I had lost. I have a plan of action so am ok lol

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I think its common for our bodies to get stuck in a rut with what we're eating so I bet changing to red/green could be the kick start you need!
 
Just checking in before bed. Been totally on plan today. I've been really syn savvy & only had 6syns, I usually have my full 15!*

I'm still going through a lot of turmoil with my poorly cat & I've been an emotional wreck all day. Yet the food I've turned to is....fruit! Pleased with that. And feel good too.

Hope you've all had a good day. Night friends :)
 
Night night Lisa, good to see you having a good food day and being postitive about it and hugs for the cat.
 
LisaC said:
Just checking in before bed. Been totally on plan today. I've been really syn savvy & only had 6syns, I usually have my full 15!*

I'm still going through a lot of turmoil with my poorly cat & I've been an emotional wreck all day. Yet the food I've turned to is....fruit! Pleased with that. And feel good too.

Hope you've all had a good day. Night friends :)
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That's 2 days full on Lisa. Well done chica.
 
Lou - this is something you may not want to hear but . . . hear goes.

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I need to be honest wih myself and either do it and do it properly or not do it at all and stop moaning im not losing weight- what do I expect?
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This is the crux of the matter. It actually doesn't matter whether you do it on your own or go to class.

Losing weight is all about getting your head in the right place and you have to WANT to lose weight. Forget NEED to lose weight (which is what drove me to it in the first instance when my arthritic knees were playing up something chronic) but really WANT to do it.

Not just for vanity's sake, or hubby or anyone else you care to mention.

But for you. And actively want to do it. Otherwise . . . forget it. You will just play around with it. Just like I did for over a year.

SW isn't difficult, but if you cheat or forget to remember the quick lick of the spoon whilst baking for the kids, or finishing their leftovers, then it won't work.

I'm not saying you do this - but you have said you forget the odd thing and don't write it down. You have to be brutally honest with yourself - otherwise it is only you that you are deceiving.

I've done it. I would conveniently forget the bag of nuts I'd eaten whilst driving to our apartment. Or the crisps I would sneakily eat after hubby went to bed.

I NEEDED to lose the first 2 st - as I said my knees were awful, and those 2 st helped a lot. But then got bored - oh so bored - and stopped for almost 3 years but managed to maintain - by luck I think.

Then I found an old photo of me at my fattest and I cried. I mean really cried as I just looked so bleddy awful.

This was the point I decided I WANTED to lose the remaining 3 stone. Since that day in January 2011 I have stuck to plan - not necessarily 100% but I know when I've cheated and accept any gain with good grace.

And this is the difference it has made. I can now walk without my knees hurting (although the arthritis will never go away), I can walk and talk at the same time (amazing - I just couldn't contemplate this 6 years ago), I can climb stairs again (yes it still hurts my bad knees but as least I can do it) and my cholesterol has dropped from 6.2 to 3.4 because of all the crappy food I've cut out.

I'm not trying to blow my own trumpet - I'm just trying to explain the difference between WANT and NEED. Until I admitted that a I actually wanted to lose the weight then I didn't really try that hard.

I'm still a slow loser - the out of kilter hormones get in the way - but decide you want to do it and you will.

You just need to find it within yourself to WANT to lose the weight and stick to plan.

Well done on saying what you did and deciding to go back to class. It does help and motivate the majority of people.

Good luck chica :hug99:
 
I wish the iPhone had a like feature for mini's cos I like all your helpful comments and thanks.

Pom I k ow your right. I do Wang to lose weight most definitely I'm self conscious and miserable the weight I'm at BUT I always do this, I start getting near my goal and then go off track. I don't know why? It's like I am scared to get there, cos what If I get there and I'm still not happy? ATM I can blame everything I don't like about myself on being slightly overweight, but what if I get there and I still dong like myself or what I see? I know that sounds stupid but hhis is the only reasoning I can give as to why I get so far then sabotage myself. Wow that was deep lol, and no I haven't had any wine haha

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Sorry you had a gain Lou.

I think I am with Annya when it comes to my weight loss. I have been eating the SW world way for so long that my body has become used to it, and that unless I make a distinct cut in calories it will never recognise any difference.

This worries me because a} I do a physical job, the thought of an empty stomach worries me and I know from previous calorie diets I will be starving.

b} because I have got to the stage where I don't want to give up exactly, but I am tired of feeling that my weight and being 1 stone over what is comfy for me, is who I am as a person.

It is true though that unless you are 100% SW does not work and even if you are it sometimes does not.

If I had lost weight half a pound here and there, then I would have lost in 7 mine by now but it just did not work that way for me.

I honestly don't know what the answer is, but we just have to keep going and trying.
 
I think with me its drink. January I didn't dying and lost 8 pound which is the most I've ever lost jn a month. I don't have a prpblem not drinking but I have a night out next week that I've already cancelled once, a wedding in April, and we have friends round tonight. I'm not drinking at all tonight. But next Saturday I can't go out and nog drink so I'm going to have to be really sensible. Have a green day sat so j don't get drunk easy and lose control and go mad on booze and food.

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I think with me its drink. January I didn't dying and lost 8 pound which is the most I've ever lost jn a month. I don't have a prpblem not drinking but I have a night out next week that I've already cancelled once, a wedding in April, and we have friends round tonight. I'm not drinking at all tonight. But next Saturday I can't go out and nog drink so I'm going to have to be really sensible. Have a green day sat so j don't get drunk easy and lose control and go mad on booze and food.

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January I didn't DRINK stupid auto correct

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Hi All, half lb off:hmm:still slow but steady, changing to ww has made no real difference to weight losses each week,but I will keep plodding on:D Have a good weekend:grouphugg:
Ann x
 
Congratulations on the half off, they all add up in the end.
 
I got re weighed today as I felt yesterday's result was due to post hangover bloat and j was right. I weighed 11.11 yesterday on boots scales and 11.8 today on the same scales. I don't normally get weighed more than once a week since throwing away my scales as they broke but please I did as its re motivated me. I'm making smash pizza for tea never done it before.

Had a friend round last night who had a baby 4 weeks ago and she was saying how fat she is. She was wearing size 8 jeans. I wanted to cry!

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conlou1 said:
I got re weighed today as I felt yesterday's result was due to post hangover bloat and j was right. I weighed 11.11 yesterday on boots scales and 11.8 today on the same scales. I don't normally get weighed more than once a week since throwing away my scales as they broke but please I did as its re motivated me. I'm making smash pizza for tea never done it before.

Had a friend round last night who had a baby 4 weeks ago and she was saying how fat she is. She was wearing size 8 jeans. I wanted to cry!

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Size 8 after having a baby ... That should be against the law :mad:
 
I really hate the word "fat". People use it so flippantly I actually find it a bit offensive. I was out for an Indian last year & my friends now husband saw two women walk in, both size 16/18 I'd say, and he said "good job we've ordered or all the food would be gone". I was niggled so asked what he meant & he explained he thinks anyone above a size 12 is fat. Bearing in mind there was me next to him, a size 12/14, it took everything not to hit him round the head with my naan!! I don't consider myself fat at all, I'm just chunky & a little overweight.*

Personally I can't stand when people say they're fat, and they're obviously smaller than me. What does that make me? Gigantic?! Bit of a slap in the face.

Right, rant over ;)
 
Hi all,

Just checking in. Stuck to plan 100% yesterday. In fact I don't think I ate enough. I only had 4syns, not sure how come as usually I can't go without my curly wurly fix! Anyway my jeans are already fitting better & my tummy's a bit flatter. Hoorah :)
 
Go Lisa, go Lisa, go Lisa!!!
 
LisaC said:
Hi all,

Just checking in. Stuck to plan 100% yesterday. In fact I don't think I ate enough. I only had 4syns, not sure how come as usually I can't go without my curly wurly fix! Anyway my jeans are already fitting better & my tummy's a bit flatter. Hoorah :)
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Excellent! X
 
Morning all. Another 0.25 on for me this week :( 100% all week again too. Boo
Hopefully the inch loss will kick in soon with all the exercise x
 
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