takingcontrol, thanks for the words of encouragement! Swapping clothes with your roomie sounds wonderful. Congrats on that nsv! It sounds like you're doing really well with your lifestyle changes.
Girls, I need help! I am fast slipping into some sort of binge-restrict cycle, which is horrible and stupid and the fastest way I know of to gain all this weight back. Today, I ate what must have been an entire freaking packet of biscuits at work (as well as a substantial lunch), a large cheese pastry thing, half a bag of chips accompanied by mounds of melted cheese, a packet of cheesy crackers, three kiwis, a Snickers bar, half a packet of baking chocolates (??!), and I feel like I'm forgetting some stuff. Anyhow, I feel so sick. Someone please remind me that I like being thin! The rest of the chips are now going in the garbage. I need willpower, and badly!
Nienna, by the sounds of it, you're reminding yourself that you like being thin, and you're the best person to do it by miles. DOn't be too hard on yourself, draw a line under it, and start eating properly again now. Envisage the skinny you evey time you think about 'bad' food. Look at all the things you have achieved, and hopefully you won't want to go back on that.
First two days OP this week, Sunday wasn't bad either (to say I tackled it with a hangover!), nearly killed myself at the gym last night, but it felt so good, can't wait for more!
I have decided it would be best for me to stop weighing in daily (can get obessed with the #s) and just weigh in once a week. So far it has been a challenge but I am doing it Looking forward to weighing in this weekend... regardless of the #!
Southernbelle WHen I get back to England I'm gonna do just the same Hope it works for you!
Well today all i've wanted to do is eat, not good! Managed to stay reasonably on track. Had an extra half melon, a small pack of nuts n a couple of bits of sushi to keep the munchies at bay, and my normal meals were all good and healthy. This is such an improvement on a binge day 'before', but still not what I needed.
Think a lot of it's down to quitting smoking, which doesn't work well with dieting, meh! 5 days down, hopefully it'll get easier soon!
Hoping for two perfectly on plan days and a loss on Sunday morning, pretty please! x
Just had a sneak preview on the scales (Saturday morning here) n I liked what I saw. Hopefully that will give me the motivation for an OP Saturday, which is never easy for me! I can't wait to be posting lovely figures tomorrow!
This is the week I gave up smoking, fell out with my exercise regime and tried so hard to make up, and was tempted to eat EVERYTHING all the time, but here I am, surviving to tell the tale, oh yeah!
Had my first binge yesterday..sigh. On plan today though. Haven't been exercising this week except taking the boys for a walk, pulling them in their little red wagon. There's always tomorrow though!
Lostangel Glad you're back down, and please don't give yourself a hard time about the binge, it happened, you're back on track now
I'm down 2.4lb, which isn't bad, especially taking into account the 1/3 bottle of gin n the tonic that went with it I drunk last night, my half hearted attempt at exercise last week, and just not really having my head in the game in parts.
2 weeks 2 days to England. No more excuses. I'd love a big whoosh between now and then, gonna do everything I can to make it happen! Starting with cutting out the milky cold coffees I've been drinking, and eating more tuna and eggs for protein and less meat (most of it's pretty fatty here).
Exercise is key this week, no excuses, I just have to do it everyday, starting today.
I've got a meal out to say bye to one group of friends on Weds, and will be out for my last Saturday night here next weekend. So, I've gotta work hard the rest of the week. If I have a big loss, I'm celebrating with letting myself go next Sunday at our works leaving meal. We're having it at a fab all you can eat Japanese restaurant. All you can eat isn't great, but, Japanese can be done reasonably healthy so I'm gonna let myself enjoy it, as long as I'm good this week!
I hope with the support of 3FC I can get through the next couple of manic weeks and stay on the 'new lifestyle' wagon.
Have a great Sunday everyone
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Lostangel I pledge to do 10 hours of exercise in the next two weeks, so weigh in day on the tenth i will have done it. I'll post on here daily what I have/ haven't done. See how that works out!
I know I'm gonna have to work extra hard to lose anything this week. With a meal out on weds and Sunday night, and a night drinking on Saturday, it's certainly not going to be a given.
Luckily, I'm back teaching this week after a month sat in the office, so that means I'm a lot more active, and a lot less opportunity to snack.
Had an OP day today, and done 45 mins exercise, so that 45mins down, 9 hours 15mins to go before a week on Sunday!
Big news this week. I've hidden away the scales! I've become way too obsessed and find myself jumping on them every time I see them, and it's not healthy. So, I'm going to try and not get them out until next Sunday, but we'll see how that goes!
Hope everyone get's a chance to post this week, not long until the end of the challenge, it'd be great if we can all help each other push to victory.
Looking forward to weighing in this weekend... regardless of the #!
