Thread: Let's Get Skinny

That's a shame but you are right..... you need to be in the right frame of mind for such a drastic diet. Sounds like you have a lot of important decisions to make and loads going on......... good luck and we'll all be here to welcome you back when your Exante head's back on

Originally Posted by namaste

That's a shame but you are right..... you need to be in the right frame of mind for such a drastic diet. Sounds like you have a lot of important decisions to make and loads going on......... good luck and we'll all be here to welcome you back when your Exante head's back on

Life resumes normality on 15th July, so that's D-day I reckon. In the meantime, I'm going to start cutting down my food, so it's less of a shock to the body

I'll keep watching everyone's amazing progress on here to keep me going

In such Exante turmoil lol.

I see all your amazing losses, and I know that I have all the stuff sitting right there that can make me lose weight, yet I'm not in the right headspace at the moment to go through with the diet. It's very frustrating. Although on the plus side, I've lost 1lb lol.

Woop woop! Strawberry shakes sold :-)

Well my 1.5lb weight loss was brief. Think I got carried away with the eating.

So frustrating. Why can't I just find the motivation to lose weight?! I feel like the size of a whale this evening. Grrrr!!

Hey Csl... I'm in a very similar position to you... I started exante way back in March I think and I managed 1 day 100% before falling off the wagon. Was so annoyed at myself and the products have been sat there for months now - think of all the weight I could have lost in that time - grrr!! Anyway, I'm really ready to get back to it now but lots of social events keep coming up (which I've decided I will be driving to and drinking coke zero) but work are now also sending me off 2 days next week to places where lunch is provided and I'll be expected to do some networking... Not sure that sitting with a bar (or nothing if I munch my bar in private) will look too great. So that will be another week gone for me when I can't see 7 days easily for 100%

I'm thinking I just have to make it a priority and get on with it - social events will just have to be a bit different for a few months, but with the losses we can achieve we could be looking and feeling amazing in that timescale! I think it's great that you've identified a date - wishing you lots of luck for when the time comes and keep us posted on your progress!! xx

I've finished my essays for now :-) Although realised I've got one due on 18th july and I'm in scotland between the 8th and 13th, which means I'm going to have to do some work next week. Grrr! Word of advice... if you ever want to do a MSc, make sure it's only a year long. I've been doing mine part time for the last 1.5yrs (will be exactly 2 years when I finish) and OMG, it has become hell.

Also I have had to make an official complaint regarding my tutor! She accused me of potentially traumatising and humiliating a disabled child! I audio recorded (with parents consent of course) a child with dyspraxia doing a jigsaw with one of his best friends. He loves jigsaws! What's worse is that she APPROVED it and then said it was ethically questionable! I apparently didn't inform her of the extent of his condition - surely 'severe dyspraxia' suggests that it isn't mild dyspraxia no? I work with this little boy on a 1:1 basis, and I can reassure you all by confirming that he is just fine.

I emailed her confirming that I had consent from both sets of parents, and haven't heard anything back. I've emailed OU east midlands who said they would pass on my concerns to her manager which I agreed to. They're evidently trying to skirt the subject as my initial reply was I could have it appealed for a remark (which btw was a poop grade - a pass but just). I was like, THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE. It's the way she criticises everything that I write, and she accused me of psychologically damaging a child! Grrr I could rant forever about this. She's my fourth tutor with the OU (you get one per module) and I haven't had any problems with the others - they've been lovely and supportive.

Anyway, I wasn't coming on here to rant about the OU lol. I was thinking about goal setting and whether it actually is beneficial. With me, I find that setting a goal causes me to put on weight rather than lose it! I bought a pair of Hunter wellies 4 years ago, and as I was 2.5 lighter then they fit. Obviously now they don't. I've gone to T in the Park for the last 3 years, and each year i'm like 'right this year I'm going to slim into my hunter wellies' and T in the Park is in 2.5 weeks time and I'm still the same weight (actually might be a couple of lbs heavier than when i bought the tickets 15 weeks ago). I now feel incredibly guilty but I only have myself to blame.

Then I thought to myself... the only time I've ever really lost weight properly was when no goal was set. I reduced my eating dramatically because I had gallstones and eating any fat was way too painful. But the gallstones are long gone now (as is my gallbladder). So I'm beginning to think that setting goals isn't the way forward to me.

I was also thinking about why we weigh ourselves, and become obsessive with it. It's fair to say we all have a vision of what we would like to look like, so surely when you look in the mirror and see that you're not how you'd like to look, you need to keep going. I'm in no way criticising people who do weigh themselves.... I'm always weighing myself, but I was just wondering why for so many people it's all about the scales. If anything, I find that a STS or weight gain causes me to fall off the wagon. Well actually losing weight causes me to fall off the wagon also because I reward myself with food.

Of course you do need to weigh yourself. I imagine it's amazing stepping on the scales to discover you've lost a stone.

I have a lot of issues lol.