200lbs to go

Hi Tabitha

All I know of that area is road signs around the M18 / A1M.

It may be quite handy that there isnt a McD about if you are trying to lose a bit of weight. A lot of people seem to complain about passing them and feeling lured in.

I never used to drink water as I was totally addicted to diet coke. A few years ago in a penny-counting campaign I went to great efforts to wean myself off diet coke and onto Tesco diet cola. If I had realised then how bad it was for me - it would have been the perfect opportunity to cut it out altogether. Now I am weaning myself from Tesco diet cola onto water. I keep going to the fridge and having a mouthful of diet cola in between glasses of water. I dont allow myself to pour out a glass of pop until I have drank my 2 litre bottle of water.

If your liking is immature at 31 - what does that say about me at 48! Downright infantile I imagine. I think that age is a pure con because I still dont feel that old yet.

Exercise is a great move. It really makes me feel like I am doing something constructive. Also it is difficult to eat when exercising.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
I live about 30mins from the M62/M18 junction, Market Weighton is often described as close to everywhere yet in the middle of nowhere, I believe we have plans to get running water and electricity next year! We bearly get freeview, and got our first supermarket (not including Netto or Co op) last year which is saving us a fortune in petrol money! Yet I still can't buy polenta! rah!

Before I had an accident playing hockey and right royally screwed up my knee for lift I used to do Shot put for England, that's where everything went tits up with my weight before that I never sat still, granted I was big but looking back I don't know why they made such a fuss size 16 now doesn't seem that bad for a 16/17 year old these days!

The alternating mouthfuls of coke and water seems a good idea, I may try that, it often can take me a few hour to drink a can as it is, and then at other times about 0.00000001 secs he he he especially when mixed with vodka! I like being immature it's fun... just before xmas I went out with some friends and we were all dressed up as bumblebees, which was fun until I got the usual yr too fat to wear that comments from the people around that didn't know me. That's the stuff that hurts, and the fact that i'm almost 6ft means I don't merge into a crowd very well! When I figure out how I'll be sticking a photo on!
 
Hi Tabitha :)

Another Brit popping in to cheer you on :hurray:

I've never belonged to a slimming group so I'm interested to read your experiences - good luck with the weigh-in, by the way!

I'm going to back Margaret re: the water drinking. I reckon being properly hydrated, probably for the first time in my life (!), has made a big difference to me over the past 8 months. Often I think I'm hungry but I'll have a glass of water and the feeling will pass, so most likely I was needing fluid rather than food - unfortunately the hunger/thirst signals in humans are not clear cut. I try to drink between 1.5 and 2 litres of water per day and have a couple of mugs of herbal tea on top of that (I gave up caffeine) and that seems to keep me right (except when alcohol gets involved, but we won't go there...:cool:)

Anyway, I wish you the very best of luck on your weight loss journey. I started towards the end of April last year and had lost 4 stone by the end of November with a regime of sensible eating/calorie counting and moderate exercise (mostly walking), and my attitude throughout was "one day at a time". It's tough to begin with but, as maleficent said, once you start to establish new habits things should fall into place. Oh, and the other 'secret' is that if you mess up (as I did over the Xmas period :rolleyes:) don't go using it as an excuse to trash the whole thing. Forgive yourself, draw a line under it and move on. Learning not to beat myself up for 'failure' is still the hardest part of this process, but it's the most necessary as far as I'm concerned.

Good luck! :D
 
Thanks for stopping by Avenue,

I like the slimming group approach as you have someone to go to if it all starts going wrong, and a large group of people who are going through the same thing that can help you organise strategies.

This time in 24 hrs weigh in will be over for another week and I'll be wondering what all the panic was about! Also I like the fact that by getting weighed on a set of scales worth almost a grand that they're right and slightly more reliable than the cheapo ones I have (well in comparison, 40 odd quid, but you pay if you weigh as much as I do) and definately more reliable than the ones at the doctors where depending on which room yr in the weight can vary by a stone!

I really must get on top of the whole water drinking thing, I think the only time I've really been hydrated is when I was in hospital in labour and I couldn't get out of bed and was very bored so I drank! I have a crap memory for stuff like fluid, it's not a brag but once I forgot to drink for 3 days... not good at all, I didn't get thirsty or a dry mouth once... I know I'm wierd! But I enjoy it.
 
:waving: from :eh:
Just wanted to stop by and encourage you on your journey! You have made such a wise choice putting your health first. Your babies need a healthy Mum!

This website is a wealth of help, advice, and encouragement. I highly recommend advice given by Omega (Margaret), as her loss thus far has been just phenomenal. She is wise and kind. I am happy other folks from the UK have been dropping in to cheer you on, too!

I know it is hard with little ones, but if you can squeeze in any activity at all on a regular basis, it will be very, very helpful.

Best wishes on your journey :auto:
ABBA
 
Thanks for your comments ABBA, I have been attempting to get my health into order for a while now, but I get put off when people tell me I have to do something, and i have a very strong rebelleous streak! Which I think comes from a very controlled childhood and teens and early 20s. But now I've just had enough, I was doing well before I got pg the first time and had lost 5 stone, but then I had a consultant who constantly told me I was too fat and was going to die in childbirth which just sent me to binge and I hit 26st 1 but much to her chagrin I lived and had no complications...

The 2nd pg had the same consultant but this time didn't listen to her and continued to go to slimming world and only put on baby weight, hence that disappeared within 2 weeks of Daniel arriving and leaving behind a fantastic hernia, which I am finally going to have fixed in the spring whoo hoo! I'll be able to do proper crunches once more! Yey!

We have just started to get the 2nd series of X-Weighted over here, that Paul Placcas is really amusing I think, but he could rummage though my cupboards anyday!

he he he :smilielol5:

I'll log in later and share my weigh in, I'm almost looking forward to it 2 hours of kidfree time! Hazzar!
 
hey thanks for stopping by!! I know its hard, but i wouldnt change it! I love going to school to better myself and start my career and I LOVE being a MOTHER!!! anywho i hope that your having a good day!
 
I've been to weigh in and I'm not amused, after a week of hard graft diet wise I only lost 1lb, which considering I was aiming for 3-5lb hasn't helped my mood any, which would have been helped by image therapy afterwards, but couldn't stay to that as my hubby decided to work late tonight and then the bus he comes home in decided to crash so had 2 kids at slimming world and then had to collect him.

So now I'm completely knackered and really mad... it's the only 2 hours I really get to myself and i couldn't even get that... grrr not happy at all.:cuss:
 
Hello, do you know me? If you don't you should. I'm a pound of fat, and I'm the happiest pounof fat that you would ever want to meet. Want to know why? It's because no one ever wants to lose me; I'm Only One Pound, just a pound. Everyone wants to lose three pounds, five pounds or fifteen pounds, but never only one, so I just stick around and happily keep you fat. Then I add to myself ever so slyly so that you never seem to notice it, that is until I've grown to ten, twenty or even more pounds in weight. Yes, it's fun being Only One Pound of fat, left to do as I please. So, when you weigh in, keep right on saying "Oh, I only lost one pound." ( as if that were such a terrible thing!) For you see, if you do this you'll encourage others to keep me around because they will think I'm not worth losing. And I love being around you - your arms, your legs, your chin, your hips and every part of you. Happy Days!! After all, I'm Only One Pound of fat!!!

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Patience with yourself - it's consistency that wins in the end... youdidn't gain the weight overnight -it's not going to be lost overnight...

1lb is 1lb closer to your goal...

Just keep with your newly building habits and keep going forward
 
The party is finally over and my house now looks like a chocolate bomb has hit it! Oh no that would be Jack I have now got a pressing engagement with a carpet shampooer!

Generally a better day, also there is a fair bit of kids party food left, the nutella sandwiches will be off in the bin, probably with a coating of washing up liquid for good measure.

Considering I been on my feet all day, I know that I've not walked far and can tell as I am feeling really stiff, I may break the skipping rope out, and soon all the Xmas decs will be in the loft so I get my home gym up and running again! Wey hey!

Just need to hide the chocolate cake that has been left over now and the fairy buns... sees ya later:jump:
 
Hi Tabitha

Steps or not - never fear - I am sure that you will have burnt up lots of calories running around preparing for, conducting and clearing up after a childrens birthday party. Consider it to be a day with lots of exercise.

Congratulations on the pound lost. It is great news, whether you want to think of it so or not. You have lost more than me over the past week. I am 0.6 pounds down from last Friday.

Visualise half a pound of butter. That is pretty much what I have lost.
Now visualise a whole pound of butter. That is what you have lost.

I think that is a real accomplishment.:hurray:

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Well we're all cleaned up from the party... carpet shampooer will come out tomorrow night now, as I've realised we're out most of sunday so it will have more chance to dry without being trampled on!

I finally got around to doing my new dvd it was really good fun, a mix of salsa taebo and old school moves like swinging your arms... I didn't do the toning bits as I was in the kitchen jumping around like a loon with Jack copying in the hallway! It even made me break out in a bit of a sweat, which is amazing considering how low impact it is. I'm actually looking forward to doing it again and trying to figure out what muzzac that they are playing!

Rosemary dvd should turn up tomorrow and apparently that is a real 80s affair so I'll have to dig out the shiny green lycra onepiece leotard! he he he

Also had an email from my consultant telling me to get my ass into gear because I can do better than 1lb a week! I know that am thinking that I will have to learn to walk quicker with a toddler on a buggy board, and not crack my ankles... fun fun fun or walk him round until he wears his little legs down!
Or the sensible option go speed meandering when they're in bed and hubby is at home, and the dinner is in the oven! Corr I like that idea.:rotflmao:
 
Good work!

I only lost one pounds a week when I first started. Haven't lost anymore, but I am a Compulsive Eater, but I am reading three books and writing in one journal which includes a work book on how not to eat emotionally... its good ...

But one pounds is awesome! One pound is one pound less than you have to lose. Consider it a accomplishment, because next week you will be another pounds less ..and it will continue... some weeks you may lost 1.5 pounds or two pounds, but every pound counts. So don't put yourself down for losing a pound hun ...

Keep up the good work!:party:

always
Natalie jo
 
Natalie jo

I'm also an emotional eater, hence I use the slimming world system so I know that I will always have something that I can eat... and as I usually head straight for the carbs pasta is fantasically nibbly!

Usually after a gain (like the 6lb I gained at Xmas) I lose it all the following week which is why I was a bit miffed, but hey it'll come off eventually!

OOh post is here and my new DVD has arrived yey 80s kitch workout here I come!
 
Haven't had chance to do the whole DVD yet but it seems to be manageable, as its broken into 3 10 minute sections, which I should be able to do whilst cooking tea.

Lunch at the mother in laws tomorrow and I haven't got a clue what it will be so I can't plan anything... I suppose I should worry too much, as long as I'm ultra good elsewhere it should be fine... I'll have to do a few aerobic sessions and weights to counteract it... and there is still monday-thurs to get it corrected too. I'm just hoping it won't be either gammon (yuk) or stew (greasy as hell) and I'll also be avoiding the buttery mash and buttery swede too! But it's out of my hands!
 
Well it has been a really draining day today... lunch at the mother in law's argh my idea of food hell. Thankfully I got her leave some potatoes and swede aside before she drenched them in margarine... she seems to think that it's healthy because it's the lighter version... and that somehow it will have less syns due to it's low cholesterol, if only it worked that way! I swear she put half a tub in there. To finish the job off properly it was gammon which I really don't like at all... I swear she does it on purpose!

Tomorrow is another day as they say and my ipod is all charged up and is currently playing stuff that makes me wanna dance! I think it's going to be a few days of fitting in dancing and 10min blasts of aerobics where I can, every little helps (at least I hope it does anyway!)

Catch yas later
 
Hi Tabitha

I love aerobics and love the 1980s music. The beauty of being 48 years old - I have a chance of knowing 1980s music. It sounds like you are getting a DVD that is made for me - give full title if it warrants a recommendation and I want to give it a whirl.

The other new DVD sounded like it got recommended too.

Most DVDs recommended by people on this forum are only any use in USA. I know because I have looked them up on places like Amazon and if you can get a hold of them they are of a format that will not play in England.

Walking while hubby watches the dinner finish cooking sounds like it ticks all the boxes. Give it a go.

Every little certainly does help.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
Hi Margaret,

The 80s music dvd is Rosemary Conley's Brand New You workout (cheapest off Play.com) is good, and actually uses the tracks, and it has stretches at the end of each section so that you won't get injured or stiff if you only do one section. But then it flows nicely when you do the full thing!

Jack thinks I'm loopy as he has found me marching and doing box steps in the kitchen whilst cooking his tea but I can feel it working the back of my thighs!

Hubby is due back in an hour or so, I best get tea compiled and made idiot proof!

Tab x
 
Thanks Tabitha

Is that the one that is "Rosemary Conley And Coleen Nolan: Brand New You! Workout". I ask because you didnt mention Coleen - or is that a different version.

It is great that you can feel exercise working on your thighs. Keep doing it - and if it amuses Jack - count it as a bonus.

I will be dishing up tea in a minute myself. Walking with hubby after he gets in is inclined to make us a little later at eating.

Take care
Love
Margaret
 
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