Wedding Forum - Official Weight Loss Thread - hints and...

Elinor - I will look into that! I don't want to lose too much weight as I am currently 8 stone 11 and am 5'4 so only really want to lose another 5lbs or so, it was toning I mostly wanted to do as I used to be a dancer but had to stop 3 years ago due to injury so I now have lots of flabby bits that never used to be flabby! But I won't be able to do any toning for a good few months as yet, just hoping I will be able to do enough in the couple of months I do have! Plus my dress is a zip back so whatever I am at my final fitting I will have to stay like to make sure the dress fits on the day! So I only have up until July to get where I want to be! Xx

Lost 1lb this week. Coming off slowly

8lbs down, 14 to go... do you think i can do it in 9 weeks?xxx

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I know the feeling DonnaH39, getting OH to buy into my healthy eating and exercise was tough!!
He supported me and wanted me to lose the weight but he caved all the time and got take away or I'd end up having to make one meal with chips and then mine with salad and it made me so jealous!!

The one piece of advice I can give that changed it all for me was not to restrict myself too much, like.. I love potatoes and cheese -especially together!! - and I know they are bad for me but in moderation they are fine. Also, chocolate/cakes/crisps, whatever your vice is, you don't have to tell yourself you CAN'T have them ever. That's too depressing and immediately puts you on a track to fail. But once a week or very much in moderation, or the healthy option (baked crisps, non-cream cakes, dark chocolate etc etc) is fine in my opinion! No one can be good 100% of the time and remember to allow yourself to hav a treat every so often.
If you love pizza, have one or two slices with a big portion of leafy salad which will fill you up, for example.
It'll become second nature to make healthier choices but it is hard at first.

I lost 3 stone last year and have just managed to get off the half a stone I put on in November and December just through eating more sensible and exercising more. No supplements and no crash dieting, just a year of slow and steady loss.

Also, we are here for you all the way!!!

Xxx

So, after a good week and what can only be described as a dodgy week I have still lost over the 2nd 2 week period another inch and a half. Taking my monthly total up to 4 and a half inches lost.

Here's to the next 2 weeks before I measure myself again. Must have a better 2 weeks to make up for this week lol!!

Crawf, well done!!

What have you ladies been having for lunch? I am starting to get a little bored of my salads but don't want to go back to what I was having for lunch as I don't want to put my inches back on! Need some ideas! I only have two 20 mins breaks at work so it needs to be fairly quick to eat too. Thanks.

Lunch tends to consist of left-overs from the night before, soup, sandwiches or scrambled eggs on toast - never been a fan of salad.

We have a restaurant at work so I normally have soup and a brown roll, or a salad pot with mixed leaves and cous cous, peppers etc.
When they do their spinach and chick pea curry I can't resist it! Mmmm

Donna I weigh on a Friday for the same reason! Avoids weekend binging to affect my weeks goals haha. :)

2lb off this week, -6 total :)

Well done Nicola!
Are you doing weight training on the wings? Mine are going nowhere either!!!

I dragged my sorry be-hind to the gym today, killed me after a day running around a dealership. But I suppose I felt better for it, my abs hate me though!!

Have my friends wedding on Friday and I'm desperate to look thinner for it, I am wearing a dress I wore to my other friends wedding and hope I look better in it this time! Have no choice, no time or money to shop!!!

Just did 30 minutes on the crosstrainer and some stomach exercises.... fingers crossed I can keep it up as I know from past experience I look so much better when I'm exercising as well. I need to get back onto my long runs and running 10 - 15 miles each weekend ;) the weight flew off then

Valentine's Day meal at an Italian. Three course plus a bottle between two. Oh well, diet starts again tomorrow.

Hi Elizabeth. It might be worth chatting to your G.P. For one thing you could get a referral to a dietician that will help you get a healthy eating plan that you can stick to. Also it sounds like you're comfort eating and are maybe still a bit depressed, so your G.P. could help you with that. Just be careful with anti-depressants, as some people find that their weight balloons on them. I'm following the NHS weight loss plan which you can download from the website, and that has Sunday night as weighing night, which I find really helpful as it means I'm less likely to abandon the diet over the weekend. I think that before I did that it was the weekends that were stopping me from losing weight. I was dieting and exercising during the week, but then at the weekend not being so careful and undoing the good work. I wasn't gaining but I wasn't losing either. On the weeks where I've watched my eating at the weekend I've lost weight, on the weeks when I haven't I've stayed the same.

The past 3 days I have been showing a 1lb loss on the scales but today (official weigh in day) the scales are showing no loss :(
Hopefully the scales will show a bigger loss next week, to make up for it.

I've had an awful weekend food wise, valentines take-away and then some choccies. then drinking Saturday night and with pizza and crisps and tomorrow is my fiancé's Birthday so we're eating out for tea...... please please please let the scales say I've maintained and not gained another stone

Becky, 6lbs over a few months is amazing :) well done, you'll soon have it all off again and more if you're still wanting to lose

I'm really struggling!! And only got 7 weeks til the wedding.. This is not good! I really need to kick my sorry butt into gear but I really can't be bothered.. Its really not good! X

It is a hard journey losing weight! But keep at it if you are trying!

I have lost just over 4 n a half stone so far (started a year n half ago) I am to be a size 12 by the wedding next May but so far I feel so much better in myself and I know it is so worth it!! It has changed my life so my advice.... Workout and eat healthy! That's all it takes!! If you don't like working out get a gym buddy as it will keep you motivated!

Good luck to everyone!
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I think its the weather. I was walking the dog for miles everyday but now I really don't feel like it. I'm just really tired at the mo! X

Aw thanks Donna. Hopefully the scales will be nice to me on my next weigh in on Sunday!! Xxx

I had a sneaky WI today (but had a blow out yesterday for fiancé's Birthday) scales said I've stayed the same since Friday, would love it if they still say that this Friday..... would die if they say I've lost lol

Have been off week this week and has meant I have had the chance to do some proper cooking!
Made chicken stroganoff and Jambalaya so far this week. Both have been new dishes I have tried and generally fairly healthy too.

Off out for an Indian tonight (not so healthy!) with H2b's parents before they go away on holiday.

Have been sticking to my calorie intake but haven't been eating as well as previous weeks (I blame half term!)

My next measurement will probably be tomorrow as that's when I try my actual dress on for the first time :) Won't be overly surprised if I haven't lost any more inches though. I just hope I wont have put on.

For everyone who exercises - it's more accurate to use tape measure to monitor your progress than to use a scale.
When your muscles are building they make up for the fat you loose :) However a pound of muscle is 4 times smaller than a pound of fat - just so you're not worried you will get big :))

So tape measure will tell you everything the scale won't.

I would use a tape measure and actually agree that it is a better way to monitor progress..... but I can never be bothered, so I go by a mixture of what I weigh, how I feel and how my clothes fit