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Ok, so I have had 4 days off healthy eating and missed recording 6 days :-(
Here is what happened, On Saturday my baby boy turned a whopping 17 and of course between the meal and the cake. I choose not to count calories that day !!
The following day, there was still cake in the house and my mood level had dipped (I had been watching what I ate, exercising and yet I was still gaining weight :-( )
so getting back in to eating healthy was too much of a challenge and I failed
The same the next day and the next !!
This morning I have woken up with a new determination to get back into my healthy eating and today is line dancing which I am looking forward too.
This week always was going to be a challenge for 2 reasons, One I am on annual leave, therefore by not keeping busy I want to eat and Two, 5 of my family members have their birthday's this week (Hence taking the time off work!) Starting with my son's last Saturday and finishing with my daughters this Saturday !! I have so many meals this week, it is no wonder I am struggling.
The good news is my new scales arrived. I stood on my old ones (Monday Evening) they said 18st 2lb, my new ones said "one person at a time please!!" (18st 5lb 6oz.
This morning I weighed myself on my new scales and I weigh in at 18st, 2lbs exactly !! So in therory I have lost a total of 8lb's even though on here it says I have only lost 5 !!
It also means that in the last 6 days, I have lost 4lb's !! How does that work??
I followed my calorie allowance - I gained weight,
I ate what I like - I lost weight??
Still I am not complaining, a loss is a loss.
I have to admit I am beginning to hate seeing 18st 2lb... I either lose the weight and then gain it to that amount or gain weight and then lose it to that amount, even my new scales appear to like that amount. I feel like I am stuck at 18st 2lb forever :-( ...
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You just need to find a way to lose weight which you actually enjoy. That goes for both the exercise element (line dancing great, but find other things too) and the food element (unpleasant rules don't work long term for most people - find pleasant rules) and also the spirit element (find things apart from food that make you happy and relaxed and do as much of that as possible, so that you get less moments when you think 'oh I need...' about food)
01 Feb 17 by member: ARB0001
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"One at a time" - old joke but it always makes me smile. ARB is right. To achieve a loss and maintain it you have to put pleasant rules in place that are sustainable otherwise you'll just give up. The thing that got me working well on my losses at the start of last year was to spend February logging food regardless of what I ate. I used it as a diary to then see what I could cut out and down on. Recording (too many) glasses of wine and large portions of potatoes and chocolate made me realise what I had to work on. My office breakfast wasn't just costing me about £5, it was adding over 550Calories and a whopping 20g sugar (40g net carbs!). That was the first thing to go, I can tell you. So that's my experience and a suggestion. It might not work for you but it sure as hell bucked my ideas up! All the best x
01 Feb 17 by member: Phooka
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I feel your pain, I have those plateau weights too and they are so cross making! I tend to give myself one meal a week when I don't think about what I shovel and this keeps me in check for the rest of the week; psychologically this works for me but I know it ushers in calorie creep for other people. I exercise every day (except today when I overslept!) and after a while the good eating and exercising tends to become the norm. However, it was my birthday this weekend and I ate everything bar the kitchen table so, even though I showed a loss, I think it was a fluctuation and not an actual loss. You will get past your plateau but you have to be mentally strong about your eating and exercising because now you are on it again, you'll mentally keep yourself there as it's 'jinxed'.
01 Feb 17 by member: StrangeTrout
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Gosh I feel your ' pain'. We are all in this Flopsy. There is some great comments here already. I think they will help me as well. Take care and keep going ..you will soo see that 17, then 16, ..... X😁
03 Feb 17 by member: Mrs Maths
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Hi.
I feel for you, I also keep getting stuck
But it will work.. recording everything is key for me
I've just been off track for a couple of weeks due to family issues, building works and a bad fall
But back on track now.. the support from fs friends is amazing, as well as loads of practical tips and advice.. we can do it together
You will succeed ! X
04 Feb 17 by member: poppycom
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