Stan back

Gah, two annoying days so far.

Wednesday I got up late and forgot to weigh myself because I was rushing, then I find out my inside information re my exciting news wasn't very inside at all. In fact, it appeared to be quite public knowledge judging by the amount of people camped out almost 3 hours in advance.

Anyway, news was that I was just JCing with Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of Her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. Y'know, as you do :D

Well, okay, so I saw her (pic below). I was really excited because 1. I'm a proper Royalist, 2. I've never seen her in person before and 3. I was under the impression few people knew she was arriving by train so I thought I'd be able to get right up close outside the station. Turns out quite a lot of people knew that lol.

Anyway, this morning I got on the scales and they almost got thrown out of the window. I'm the same weight as I was last week. The air was blue!

So I stomped off for a massive walk into the next town, then round into another town and back (bit of a triangular route). I'm really tired out now lol, this week WILL be a loss week, there's no chance I'm staying put at this weight again!! Grrrr!
 
Stupid weekends throwing routines out of the window. Oh well, big drive towards Wednesday's weigh-in now from here on in.

I'm finding it tough going at the moment. Temptation here, lack of motivation there etc... but I'm still on the right path, I think :)
 
Wow, Stan! I'm so glad to see your weight loss diary here. I think you and I have pretty much said the exact same thing about food, attitude towards food and diets, weekends screwing things up, and other things. You can do this!! We can both make sane and healthy changes in our lives and GET THERE, to our respective goal weights.

I just started a diary here a few days ago called something like 'my no-counting weightloss'. I only have 15 lb to lose but I can't seem to lose it by counting stuff or going on diets! So I'm not going on a diet!

Keep going! We just need to have faith and confidence that our changes will work for us and that we can reach our goals without obsessing over food, bingeing, or being on diets not made for us.
 
Oh this is hard to type out. Not long after I posted my previous entry some things started going pretty wrong for me. One thing led to another and before long I felt like cr@p and resorted to a spot (or several) of comfort eating :(

I know I shouldn't have and I know I should be sitting here now saying how I regret it, but you know what, I loved it. It made me feel so good compared to how people had made me feel. Food was once again there for me when I needed it and it looked after me. I do regret it I guess, but I did it. I needed to do it because nobody else could offer the same and I'd do it again if I had to. Jeez, now THAT feels like a confession!

I guess a day and a bit of indulgance wont cause that many problems, not least because I wasn't actually able to eat all that much because I've managed to shrink my stomach a bit AND I've not really got anything that bad calorie-wise in the house. So maybe it wasn't ALL that bad anyway.

Well enough of the depressing read, somebody start a party up and lets dance :D

MsBubbles said:
Wow, Stan! I'm so glad to see your weight loss diary here. I think you and I have pretty much said the exact same thing about food, attitude towards food and diets, weekends screwing things up, and other things. You can do this!! We can both make sane and healthy changes in our lives and GET THERE, to our respective goal weights.

I just started a diary here a few days ago called something like 'my no-counting weightloss'. I only have 15 lb to lose but I can't seem to lose it by counting stuff or going on diets! So I'm not going on a diet!

Keep going! We just need to have faith and confidence that our changes will work for us and that we can reach our goals without obsessing over food, bingeing, or being on diets not made for us.
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Well hello there MsBubbles :waving: Good to see you. I'll have to drop by your diary and say a proper helloooo very soon :)
 
Well Stan, if that's the worst thing you did because of life treating you like crap, then you're doing well. I'm sorry you were down, and sometimes we just need to comfort eat, dammit!
 
Thanks MsB :)

Well not a lot to report. I've been eating not so well, but not all that bad so I'm expecting a kind of neutral week this week. I did weigh in on Thursday and I was at 308.4 which is about 2lbs down from where I was.

Still in a grump though :nopity: :p
 
Stan said:
Thanks MsB :)

Well not a lot to report. I've been eating not so well, but not all that bad so I'm expecting a kind of neutral week this week. I did weigh in on Thursday and I was at 308.4 which is about 2lbs down from where I was.

Still in a grump though :nopity: :p
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Well done for losing the 2 pounds!!:hurray::hurray:

Start eating more healthy and the weight will fall off!!:)

Best of luck Stan!!
 
Well hey there it's me again, I guess I'm not so good at this. I get so far, lose interest for one of many many different reasons then boom, I'm putting everything back on and all the hard work is gone.


I've decided I just can't do any of the traditional calorie reductions/exercise regeimes - they just don't fit me or my life. I'm not saying they never will, they just dont at this moment in time. I find it a combination of too much effort to research & prepare my meals properly, count all my calories and make low calorie stuff appealing. I guess I'm a bit of a failure on that front, but the worst for me is the demoralising weigh ins where you know you've been eating nothing more calorific than cardboard for the past 3 weeks, yet you lose nothing. I hope nobody is offended by that, I'm not saying this method doesn't work (that would be crazy & there would be millions of examples to prove me wrong! lol), I'm just saying it isn't me.


So..... I'm going with something a bit different by trying this Eat Stop Eat thing and Intermittant Fasting I read about in the papers. I'm quite comfortable going long periods without food already, although I avoid it, so I didn't really fear anything. I tried it out for a couple of days 2 weeks ago going the whole of one day with nothing to eat, but that was not fun! So I tried a 24 hour fast from 6pm through to 6pm which sits a whole lot better. Although I'm 'fasting' for 24 hours at a time, I only actually miss 2 meals in that period. I also keep an emergency can of soup near me lol - just in case!


I guess I'm just looking for something that suits me. Maybe this is it, maybe it isn't. Maybe I just need to man up and face the lettuce diet for 12 months. Anyway, I'm going to give it a go, but in a quite casual way so as to avoid as many of the negativities that have dragged me down before. No calorie counting and no weigh ins. The only measures will be how I feel, how my clothes feel on me and whether other people notice.


The other thing is that I think I'm learning to not even contemplate eating. If there is something to eat, I can't have it - or at worst, I will have to wait until my 24 hours is up. Even if my stomach is having a little growl at me I know I can't eat anything. It's hard to put into words, but it's like I'm being re-educated in my eating habits.


So, for the purposes of this diary I intend to record how I feel, whether I am managing things properly and whether or not it is working/working for me.


Anyway, I'm five hours into my third fasting period now. It's a bit early to be hungry yet, but from the past two non-eating days I've learned that comes at about the 21 hour mark. I could smell a banana on Wednesday and it led to 2 hours of on/off belly-rumbling, but by 5pm I was fine again. I think I ate a little too much in my 6pm meal that night, so I'll need to be wary of that in future.


Thanks for reading - I know fasting isn't the favourite way for many, even frowned upon, but I'm enjoying it so far :)
 
Just two belly-rumbles yesterday :) Was a much easier 24 hours than previously and I just ate a normal meal at 6pm, although I did feel a little bloated afterwards for a while.


If anything, I feel it's easier to avoid any snacking on my eating hours at the moment, there's a definite hardening of my will-power but how much of this is down to 'starting again' and how much is down to the added discipline (from not eating for 24 hours) I don't know - I guess only time will tell.


Overall, feeling pretty good at the moment, plus I slept well for the first time in months last night :D
 
Got a little exercise in today, only walking but it was brisk and in the heat of today I worked up a bit of a sweat - probably about 4 miles in total. Will be interesting to see if that takes any toll on me tomorrow as it might make my body think it needs some more calories to make up for it.


Fast #4 is underway now and was almost scuppered by my mates deciding they wanted to go for a meal. I went, to be social, but just had a drink. I was good and they didn't mind.
 
Trousers were a little looser than usual this morning so was very happy with that! :)


Most of Sunday was a non-eater which was hard - it's much easier to do when I'm at work because I can keep busy so I've been thinking maybe I should just keep the fasts to Mon-Wed-Fri and avoid trying it on the weekend. But before I make any hasty decisions I suppose I should see what happens this weekend first. I also didn't drink properly on Sunday, so I suppose that wouldn't have helped.


Fast #5 is now underway which I guess means I'm coming up towards 10 days and so far I have no complaints: Feel good and in control, plus there are signs of some weight coming off. I'm certainly not saying I'm winning but I may be on the right race-track for once! lol. Loooong road ahead.
 
Hey...this is like the thread for repeat offenders.....I too have been back and forth on here. have you busted 300 yet?


I was 336 at my heaviest in 2009. I think Im about 285 now. I need to weigh in and get started....again
 
Ok I got curious and I had to go way back on my thread and see when I busted 300...It was Jan 17th 2009.
 
Hi Stan,


Just thought I'd say "Hi" it's nice to see someone else on the forum having a go at IF! I read Eat Stop Eat a little while ago and was pretty much blown away by it. I took a while for me to believe in it, but I'm very glad that I gave it a go. In the last four weeks I've done a few 24 hours fasts but eventually opted for doing more regular 16 hour fasts. Lost 17lbs in total and feel pretty darned fantastic. I hope this works out for you and you have similar (edit: or considerably better) results!


Naif
 
Heyyyyy, thanks for the replies guys.


Brawny, I'm still waaay over 300 I'm afraid - even without the scales I know that lol. Hopefully it wont be all that long before I'm into the 200 club though. Probably the thing that got me started again was having to buy a suit and shirt to fit me for a recent wedding - I like to see and feel what I'm buying so I'm not much of an internet shopper but I had the choice, buy online or travel miles to find somewhere that could cater for me. It's such a pain in the ass and so more costly than off the shelf stuff, not to mention a little humiliating. Anyway, I think once I'm down to about 290ish most of my local stores will be my clothes-shopping haunts and I can ditch the special retailers I have to go to now!


And yeah, serious repeat offender here. Fourth/fifth time back maybe? I even got so embarrassed of starting new threads I hijacked one of my own old ones lmao!


Thanks Naif - I amazed how much I enjoy the fasts. It's still seriously tempting to ruin it all with a feast afterwards, but I fill up so quickly it's impossible. Well, who am I kidding, impossible lol, overeating is how I got here so obviously it is possible, but seriously the fullness kicks in pretty quickly.


Well I think I learned that the final meal before a fast needs to have a bit more nutrition than my last one did as it was a bit tougher today, however by time to eat at 6pm I felt I could've waited another day if necessary! Erm, but I didn't of course. Lunchtime was worst as all my colleagues at work were microwaving themselves some of the lovliest smelling goodies while I had myself a glass of cordial.
 
Good luck Stan

See if you can string 2 or 3 good days togther...that puts you on a roll and gives you a tiny bit of pride...today is day 3 for me
 
Had a little break from posting for, err, personal reasons lets say. But the diet/regime (or whatever I'm doing lol) continues into week 4 now :) It's all going very well and the clothes keep feeling a little looser each week. I can get the belt to notch 3 with ease now, but it has to go back to notch 2 still if I'm sitting down for any time or it feels tight. Started out on notch 1, so I'm pretty pleased, it's nice to have some sort of results.


And I have a little announcement. I am now also the proud daddy of a 4 week old.............. beard. Yes, folks, I'm too lazy to shave. I think I'm termed as a 'seasonal grower' as I always keep it to stubble in the summer and let it get a bit more fluffy in the winter, but 4 weeks is usually my limit before I shave it off. Thinking of keeping this one though and seeing how it goes.


For everyone's general enjoyment but mainly so that when I read back over my diary I can remember how I've been feeling today, here is a song I've been humming to myself for the past couple of hours (which also gives away my age lol!)...


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