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My Six Stone Challenge

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I bought myself a slimline dress two sizes smaller than I am in now - I try it on now & then to gauge how much more weight I need to shift to fit into it perfectly 🙂 For me this is my incentive - I leave it hung up on the outside of the wardrobe - Think you need an incentive too? Then why not try doing this AJ - rather than be disheartened when you struggle to fit into an item of clothing thats too small for you now - you'd be amazed how much it really does encourage you to curb the food intake - and drinkies!! 🙄 Fingers crossed for you AJ x
WL
 
Thank you very much Ditto and Goosey 🙂 x
 
Wirralass I love your incentive but I've tried that before and it hasn't worked for me but I'm glad that it works for you 🙂 x My incentive is to reach my 50th birthday reasonably slim and as it's only 17 months away I need to be good. My only goal in the meantime is to keep to my calorie target but I really do love your suggestion 🙂 x
 
Saturday was another good day keeping to 1331 calories.
Lunch: Vine leaves with Hummous
Dinner: A platter of prawns, blinis, mayonnaise, a smoked salmon parcel, quails eggs, courgette and feta fritters and machengo and chorizo croquettes. It was delicious.
Three small glasses of champagne to celebrate my novel reaching over 10,000 words.
 
Today, Sunday, didn't have much of an appetite so only ate a packet of Wotsits during the day and a slice of l
Ever dammed at 7pm
Dinner will be fresh home made tagliatelle with a mushroom and Madeira wine sauce.
Three or four small glasses of wine.
I also "earnt" an extra 140 calories with all of my walking today🙂
I will add on the calories tomorrow morning 🙂
 
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Wirralass I love your incentive but I've tried that before and it hasn't worked for me but I'm glad that it works for you 🙂 x My incentive is to reach my 50th birthday reasonably slim and as it's only 17 months away I need to be good. My only goal in the meantime is to keep to my calorie target but I really do love your suggestion 🙂 x
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That one does not work for me.
The aim for your 50 th sounds reasonable, I got fitter for mine. I did it over about 15 months.
 
I'm a bit concerned about the wine you drink, AJ. You appear to be way over the current recommended 'safe' limit by a factor of 2or3, to say nothing about the calories in wine, around 100 minimum per glass. You don't want to add liver or pancreas problems to your already onerous list.

This is just an observation. I'm not being censorious, honest, I just want you to be aware.
 
I just want to eat, drink and be merry. I'm fed-up. I want to eat piles of buttery mash and wholemeal bread with Lurpak on it and the odd slice of bacon on top. I have no incentive now to slim apart from I don't wanna die a horrendous death. It doesn't have the same feel to it as wanting to get into a size 12.
 
Ditto , why are you fed up?
I eat loads but not carbs as such, no rice/pasta and if i have bread i have 2 slices from a SMALL wholemeal loaf, the most i have any day is 2 slices, i lost 4b this week, have had stiry fry with prawns nd chicken, steak, roast chicken, gammon i am a self confessed pig , but i eat loads and lost another 4lb this week, come on you can do it xx
 
I need to get to Slimming World, get some incentive otherwise I'm doomed and so are my sisters. If you'd seen what we had yesterday. 😱
 
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I need to get to Slimming World, get some incentive otherwise I'm doomed and so are my sisters. If you'd seen what we had yesterday. 😱
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I have replied on that other thread
 
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I think I need to resurrect this. I'd been putting off standing on the scales for a long while but on Monday took a big breath and subsequently burst into tears and hid under my duvet when I discovered that I'd put on several pounds and my weight had gone up to a shocking 15st 13lbs.
But I pulled myself together, set myself a calorie maximum of 1450 calories a day and have lost two pounds in three days 🙂
I've also got a notice board arriving this evening where I'm going to put "trophy" stickers for each pound that I lose. I've also written down a week-by-week weight target to get down to 9st 4lbs by my 50th birthday. I have looked at slimming groups but due to my Gastroparesis none of them are suitable so I'm recording everything on MyFitnessPal. My biggest challenge will be minimising wine, always my Achilles heel 🙂
Plan for today:
Breakfast: Slice of fruit bread with butter
Lunch: Three TUC biscuits with a tablespoon of hummous
Snack: A packet of Wotsits
Dinner: A Jamie Oliver Italian dish which has layers of aubergines, tomatoes and parmesan which is then topped with mozzerella and panko breadcrumbs.
two slices of garlic ciabatta bread
A small glass of wine
Total 1431 calories 🙂
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Damn and damn again my weight is back to what it was at the beginning of May but, to be honest, I've been stress eating and drinking so badly recently and not hardly leaving the house in case Dad phones about Mum (he can't hear me on the mobile) that I thought my weight would be worse than this. I know that I will still be drinking more wine than I should but one step at a time, beginning with a calorie allowance of 1500 calories a day. I did feel brave standing on the scales 🙂
 
AJLang said:
Damn and damn again my weight is back to what it was at the beginning of May but, to be honest, I've been stress eating and drinking so badly recently and not hardly leaving the house in case Dad phones about Mum (he can't hear me on the mobile) that I thought my weight would be worse than this. I know that I will still be drinking more wine than I should but one step at a time, beginning with a calorie allowance of 1500 calories a day. I did feel brave standing on the scales 🙂
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It's understandable Amanda, and you haven't buried your head in the sand, so well done 🙂 As you say, one step at a time, don't stress about it, just make a little start so you feel you are on the right track 🙂
 
Thank you Alan 🙂
 
Sending understandable (((hugs))) & positive motivational vibes Amanda to help you get back on the right road again.....take care x
WL
 
Don't beat yourself up Amanda, it's very very hard to keep on the straight and narrow especially when we feel in need of some comfort.
 
Thank you WIrralass and Ditto. I just took a deep breath and stood on the scales again. I've lost 2lbs 🙂 Now 15st 11lbs.
 
Thank you very much WIrralass x
 
Just had a surprise when I stood on the scales and found out that I've lost another 2lbs now 15st 9lbs. Although I must admit that I haven't been dieting and think that he 2lbs loss is due to gastroparesis, grieving about mum and stress but hey ho I had thought that I'd put on weight!
 
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