Bitten the bullet and joined online.

redmel

redmel

Dreamer
Hello.

I am not new to SW but I haven't done it for some time, although I have tried half-heartedly a couple of times...

I don't manage to get to group regularly so I have joined online. I have never been an online member before but have done it both as a member of a group and by myself at home. Admittedly I was more successful when attending group but I am hoping that now I at least have access to syns and HE as and when I need them I will manage ok.

There are a couple of areas I struggle with: 1, I am an emotional eater. 2, I am very stressed with university currently. 3, I become obsessed with food when doing SW which sometimes leads to me eating when I am not even hungry (am I the only one ho does this?)

I have recently come off the mini-pill as I seem to have gained a lot since being on it, and the occasions I have tried to lose weight I haven't really lost more than a few pound, over a rather long period of time.

Anyway... I know no-one can do it for me. I need to knuckle down and stop eating junk, even if I am craving it!
 
Welcome, redmel! I, too, am an on-line member but really only just use it for Syn values. I get all the support I need from this amazing group. It's brilliant!! Hope you will too. Good luck with it all. :)

Kathy
 
Hello,

Well done and good luck in rejoining! I fully understand what you mean about eating when not always hungry. Its hard to get pass the mental mind set that you shouldn't be eating even though it could all be free food! I started planning my food again to try to get past it.

Anyway good luck and good luck with your studies. I'm studying too as well as working and the urge to snack is unreal. Planning is key :) x
 
Thank you. I really must start planning again. I am just struggling for time at the moment but will try and get a rough guide down each morning.

Yesterday was my first day and I did really well all day, until the evening :( I had egg, mushrooms and beans on toast for brekkie. Banana for snack, mug shot melon and strawberries for lunch then jackets potato, followed by choccy for syns for dinner.

We play board games or watch films at the weekend so I did myself a yummy fruit salad but still dipped into the Doritos :'( I really lack willpower.

Today is a new day. I will try and decide on what to have for the day while making brekkie.
 
Thank you chocko1 :)

Yes my day has gone well.

I have discovered the online planner and it is brilliant.

I managed to input my daily food plan while I was having my morning cuppa. Admittedly things didn't go exactly to plan but I managed to stay on plan and cooked myself an emergency dinner of actifry chunky chips with onion gravy. I just shared a big plate of strawberries and melon with my daughter, so she went to bed happy lol.

Hope your day has gone well too :)
 
Lost 2lb in my first week. Not the amazing losses some get but at least it is a loss and I found it extremely easy.
 
Hey that's a great loss!

Keep up the good work xx
 
Brilliant! Well done. :) My OH has started doing it properly with me and has lost half a stone in 3 weeks. He said, the other day, 'It's great. Just like eating normal food.'! I told him, that's because it is normal food! Glad you're enjoying it too.

Kathy x
 
Let myself down a bit :(

Yesterday I had a huge row with husband and decided to scoff a large bowl of ice-cream... then today i had lunch with a friend and I ordered jacket potato with cheese and beans (no butter) plus a diet coke... BUT then had a gorgeous flapjack :( Why didn't I stop at the spud, I am such a fatty :sigh:

:mad:

Dinner is gammon, new potatoes, veg and gravy. I will just have a drizzle of gravy as I am whacked after a long day at uni so can't be bothered making myself a separate bit of gravy.

I hope I can get back on track this week and still get a loss, it is only week 2 :break_diet:
 
Dont worry redmel, we all have those days. I have been extra good since weigh in (wednesday) and then today for some unknown reason I have eaten crisps, chocolate and peanuts!! So now I am gutted too as I was hoping for a good loss.

What we should both do now is draw a line and get back on track tomorrow :bighug::girlpower:
 
It is annoying when we self-sabotage isn't it!?

Here we go

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Right... Back on track now :D

I had my dinner and have managed to stay away from any naughties.. I have sent myself to my room to study so I can't keep walking in and out of the kitchen lol.

Tomorrow I will be 100% :)
 
Think you do brilliantly to balance everything out, to be honest - with 4 children AND uni!!!!! :O Well done you and well done for the line, too! :)

Kathy x
 
Thank you.

I am about to graduate but will be returning to uni in September to do either a Masters in modern and contemporary literature or a pgce.

It would be brilliant if I could lose a stone or maybe two, by my graduation ceremony in November.

Today has been a good day
 
Oh, good. :)

Still don't know how you find the energy! My daughter, who is 28, did her law degree when she was 22, worked a few years and is now doing an extra year to gain a Masters in something to do with law consultancy?!!!! She is working her socks off and has an exam coming up this Saturday. I know how hard she works and how shattered she sometimes feels so, wow! To do all that, when you have four children must be incredibly difficult. I wish you all the absolute best with everything. :)

Kathy x
 
I know what it's like in regard to uni. I just graduated in June last year and whenever I was studying I would eat so much junk especially when studying late in the library. I think the best thing to do when studying is take plenty of things to nibble on to stop you wanting to go and get a chocolate bar or packet of crisps etc. I bought a flask and started taking soup in with me. Also the mini frittatas were my life savers! I would take a we lunch box of them and munch whilst studying.
 
Just became an online member after previously going classes. Classes are no longer an option with work and after a crazy few weeks my weight shot up and let's be honest I worked way to hard to begin with to just put the weight I lost back on. I went with the gold package (discount codes online) and I'm awaiting my new food optimising books.
I know what you mean about obsessing about food, I originally did the same, a food planner helped control it as I didn't have to think once I had my plan done. Xx
 
Well I have had a bit of a rubbish week last week although managed to maintain. I had my last few assignments in so it is just revision now for one exam and that is it... Until September!

The kids have broken up now and I usually struggle a bit due to buying in extra crap for them to munch on in the holidays. I am determined this time so hopefully I can manage to keep away from it all.

I will get off and try to decide on my food for the day. We are having fajitas tonight so I want to save all my syns for tonight.
 
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