Halloumi's journey to losing almost 4 stone...

I've resisted the PMS chocolate call so far. I think I can keep it up!

Going out for curry I think this weekend so I need to start thinking about healthy (low syn) menu choices. Will have a search of the forum for ideas. I'm wondering if paneer is a healthy extra, as I loved grilled paneer as a starter....

Definitely weighing in Saturday rather than Monday now, weekends are when I eat just that bit more and I think it is shoeing on the scales on Monday, Saturday and Tuesday seem to be my better days (scales wise).
 
Change of plan for the weekend, having everyone over and cooking curries instead - so I can be SW friendly yey! Off to hunt down some recipes...!
 
I'm doing a chicken tikka massala, Hubby's doing pork vindaloo. Mine is a SW recipe, his will be totally made up and amazing because that's just what he does. However I think he'll make it SW friendly but to be honest I hate pork so don't care, I'll be sticking to my own. Found recipes for onion bhajees and veg pakoras too.

Chocolate cravings gone - probably as period arrived this evening. Finally, can get back to normal moodiness instead of extra specially moody moodiness! The household can breathe a sigh of relief!

I'm obsessing over my weight at the moment. I am happy I'm losing, I just still wish that I could just magic myself into a size 10. I can see and feel the loss in my clothes but it doesn't feel major enough. Maybe when I hit that 1 stone mark (as in 1 stone off) I'll start to feel like I'm achieving something.
 
Waking up one morning to be there would be amazing. I'm torturing myself. Asked my 10 y o son, do you think I've lost any weight? He said no. Deadpan! My daughter says she expects it will take me 5 years! Maybe best not to ask the children... :-/
 
halloumi said:
Waking up one morning to be there would be amazing. I'm torturing myself. Asked my 10 y o son, do you think I've lost any weight? He said no. Deadpan! My daughter says she expects it will take me 5 years! Maybe best not to ask the children... :-/
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LOL, stick with adults for sensible answers :D
 
I'm so glad you suggested weighing in on Saturdays. 3lb off for me today, and that's better than what the scales were showing me all week. Very pleased with that loss :)
 
It makes so much sense, I'm really good all week but its weekends when I'll have a drink or eat more higher syns so Monday definitely not going to show best results! I know it would even out eventually but gives me more of a boost to see lower numbers when I weigh in :)
 
So, I've had a horrendous weekend food wise. I started out well, cooked my SW curry, but then didn't resist the lure of naans, chapatis, poppadoms, ever increasing alcohol syns. Topped off with massive hangover yesterday so ate hangover food! Aka stodge and nothing remotely on plan. Upshot a la scales today seems to be a gain of 3lb! So I'll be working hard to counteract that before next Saturday!!! I'm just sucking it up and getting on with it. Today's a new day and I'm back to it!!!!
 
Rant alert.

I suffer with a stupid condition called hidradenitis suppurativa (google it), which since I piled on weight has got gradually worse, to the point where I now have a lot of scars and abscess tracts under my skin. In the last 4 weeks I've not had one flare up, not one lesion has become active. I was thinking last week that losing weight must be helping. Today I've just noticed a new lesion under my arm. Its angry and sore, and I'm now wondering about something I read suggesting that certain foods can cause flare ups. I've eaten so well and had no activity, one weekend of crap food and bam! So there's another incentive to stick with SW and keep losing weight. It just seems that 1 weekend off has bigger overall effects than I would have guessed. If I'd thought it might cause activity I wouldn't have bothered, because, trust me, the pain and discomfort from active lesions is so not bloody worth it.
 
Well that's the last time I do that! Just had peanut butter on ryvita with chopped banana as I really fancied it and then looked up syns. 4.5!!! Note to self, always check before, not after...!
 
So, been good since my weekend blow out and the scales (yes I'm still scale hopping) are now reflecting that, with Monday's gain having disappeared.

HS still flaring, not sure whether its related to food or menstrual cycle, but would love to get back to a non flare up time again. Plus the scars bother me, and will more when I've lost weight and actually want to bare flesh!

Feeling on it 100% again, want to see those numbers moving down, down, down!
 
sorry to hear you have that skin condition (hugs) , sounds awful
But if you noticed an improvement from eating better on SW and losing weight, then that is surely a good thing?!
Def an incentive to continue to see if it really is helping long term?

Could you not find any cover up cream for any scars?
my daughter has a very dark birth mark over one of her eyes, and at a glance looks like a 'black eye' :(
But, we went to see a lady at the Red Cross, who specialises in covering up birth marks etc, and she has some camouflage cream& powder which the lady showed her how to use and actually completely hid the birth mark!
Not that she uses it much though, she said she is not her without her birthmark:rolleyes::confused:
 
They are in tricky places Zafira, underarms, legs, stomach, not face though, so its really only an issue of them being on show in the summer, if I wear vest/strappy tops, bare my legs, or ever want to wear a bikini (bikini unlikely until I get to goal!) So hard to cover up. Best I can hope for is to reduce flare ups and then the scars pale quite a bit, but when I have a flare up, I think because of the existing tracts from previous abscesses, the whole area around gets angry and red. I think I just have to live with it, and I have since I was a teenager, but its got so much worse in the last few years and I'm becoming convinced weight gain and possibly dietary habits have played a big part. Otherwise its just the pain that gets to me, and its not severe or anything, just constant! Still have that one area in full flare up mode, makes me more determined to stick to plan!
 
Synopsis: feeling good, motivated, and I think my syn fest on Sat eve, Sunday has possibly kick started another good loss, as according to the scales I'm 12.6 and half today, so if that's the case tomorrow that's a 4lb loss! Amazing!!!
 
Also means I'm back under my previous 'heaviest' weight in my life, which was when I joined SW years ago 6 wks after my daughter was born weighing in at 12.7. Still a way to go, but mini goals etc!!!! If I weigh in tomorrow at 12.6.5 I've achieved a stone off in 5 weeks, which is great, and my next goal has got to be to reach the 11s!
 
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