Journey to find the slimmer me :)

[*sarah-lou*]

While I was sitting at the dinner table being Kevin The Teenager hubby asked me how much weight I'd lost. After I told him he disappeared into the bedroom and came out a few minutes later with half the weights from my dumbbell set and a dressing gown belt (sounds a bit kinky I know but please bear in mind the children were still sitting at the table!)
He made me stand while he tied the belt round me with the weights attached.
"Bloody hell that's heavy!" said I
"That's how much weight you've lost so far" Said he
"Shuuuutuppppp!" said Vicky Pollard aka enthusiastic me :-D
"You're going to keep it on for 10 minutes" said His smugness! and promptly set the 'Time Out' timer
After my 10 minutes were up and he asked me how I felt the only think I could say is "lighter!"
It just goes to show if you visualize something it's much more powerful. I didn't want the chips after that!
Thanks Hubby

1x 4.5kg
1 x 2.3kg
1 x 1.1 kg
and photographic evidence to prove it!

<img src="http://www.minimins.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=73888"/>

Brilliant post!

 

[babycake]

I agree...... I wonder if I can borrow a belt like that to attach all my kids to. There combined weight is slighly more then I need to loose!! How depressing is that thought!!!

Ds1= 6st7lb
ds2= 3st7
Ds3= 2st6

I need to loose between 9 and 10 st oh pulse the 7lb glucagon store that we regain!!! Thanks for that little gem whoever it was ( better know then not though) lol.

I can actually carry all 3 about 5 yards but I can do it lol

Xx

 

[Spanglymum]

While I was sitting at the dinner table being Kevin The Teenager hubby asked me how much weight I'd lost. After I told him he disappeared into the bedroom and came out a few minutes later with half the weights from my dumbbell set and a dressing gown belt (sounds a bit kinky I know but please bear in mind the children were still sitting at the table!)
He made me stand while he tied the belt round me with the weights attached.
"Bloody hell that's heavy!" said I
"That's how much weight you've lost so far" Said he
"Shuuuutuppppp!" said Vicky Pollard aka enthusiastic me :-D
"You're going to keep it on for 10 minutes" said His smugness! and promptly set the 'Time Out' timer
After my 10 minutes were up and he asked me how I felt the only think I could say is "lighter!"
It just goes to show if you visualize something it's much more powerful. I didn't want the chips after that!
Thanks Hubby

1x 4.5kg
1 x 2.3kg
1 x 1.1 kg
and photographic evidence to prove it!

<img src="http://www.minimins.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=73888"/>

Genius!!! Fab post and fab hubby you have!

 

[WillpowerWoman]

While I was sitting at the dinner table being Kevin The Teenager hubby asked me how much weight I'd lost. After I told him he disappeared into the bedroom and came out a few minutes later with half the weights from my dumbbell set and a dressing gown belt (sounds a bit kinky I know but please bear in mind the children were still sitting at the table!)
He made me stand while he tied the belt round me with the weights attached.
"Bloody hell that's heavy!" said I
"That's how much weight you've lost so far" Said he
"Shuuuutuppppp!" said Vicky Pollard aka enthusiastic me :-D
"You're going to keep it on for 10 minutes" said His smugness! and promptly set the 'Time Out' timer
After my 10 minutes were up and he asked me how I felt the only think I could say is "lighter!"
It just goes to show if you visualize something it's much more powerful. I didn't want the chips after that!
Thanks Hubby

1x 4.5kg
1 x 2.3kg
1 x 1.1 kg
and photographic evidence to prove it!

<img src="http://www.minimins.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=73888"/>

Haha utterly brilliant your hubby is a genius!

 

[wobbly tum!]

He is good. Just don't tell him I told you that!

 

[babycake]

He is good. Just don't tell him I told you that!

We'll unless he's trolling around on the boards its our little secret .......ssh!! ( puts finger to mouth and shushhes) xxx

 

[wobbly tum!]

I've decided that my goal date has changed! I have 11 weeks to lose 28lbs so I have to average 2.5lbs per week. We've just booked a holiday to Wales in the Easter holidays and I'd love to be at goal for that, although my goal is set lower than I actually want to weigh. I've added an extra 7lbs to the weight I need to lose so I have some play with the lbs when I stop. I'm not really too fussed with the numbers on the scales, I just want to be a nice shape. I'd love to be a size 10 but I think that would be pushing myself too far and I'd look slightly gaunt so I'm going to aim for a healthy size 12. I know I was that size when I met hubby and I weighed around 10st but I've had 2 children since then and your body changes so I hope I'll know when enough is enough!

*I weighed the little girl I look after today and she weighs 1st10lbs so I'm only 6lbs off of losing her bodyweight! (you can see I'm going for the visualization technique today!)
*I've also noticed that my stats show I've lost 10% of my bodyweight which is a huge incentive to carry on!
*I'm only 1.8 points off of a 'healthy' BMI
*I can feel my shoulders are more shapely so rather than being all squidgy like unbaked bread dough, I can feel definition. And I can feel my hips bones, but only when I lay down!!
*I need new jeans. The pair I have on today are size 14 (twisted bootleg-y type things) and I've been treading on the bottoms of them all the way to school and back. Every time my daughter clings to my leg she nearly pulls them over my hips! I don't need to undo them to go to the toilet
*All of my tops look too big. They make me look bigger than I am as there's a lot of excess material
*Hubby keeps looking at me and when ask why he keeps telling me I've changed (in a good way). He's also more 'attentive' IYKWIM
* I need less sleep and I'm more active.

I think that's all my good points for today. Hopefully next week I'll start with the exercising (should be swimming tonight but that's gentle so not really exercise!) as the circuit trainign class will be back on after Christmas break

 

[babycake]

Does playing darts in heels count as exercise?


Pnats day here. If there is one more tantrum from a certain member of the 'team' im gonna go for a very long walk and never come back. i might just throw myself off the motorway bridge with a note oinned to me saying......' i couldn't take anymore of ****'s crap. ask him!!!'

i sware he is the oldest one in the building and behaves so poorly. He if didnt want change he shouldnt have sold his buisiness!!!!

I could have ate the complete cake counter at sainsburys and not battered an eye lid!!!!!..........................instead i bought a knitting magazine and im sat happily glancing it while talking on here!!!!!. Im gonna hide it though so the kids wont take my needles. They use them as swords ect when im not around. They also hate the clicky clicky they make. i do get my own back as i have a set of metal pins (i hate them i prefer bamboo) so i get them out and make them click loudly on purpose!!!!!

Calmer know how strange.

MOrning WT...................Morning Daisy..................hold on Daisy where are you?

xx

 

[wobbly tum!]

Does playing darts in heels count as exercise? YES!!! Why not eh?


Pnats day here. If there is one more tantrum from a certain member of the 'team' im gonna go for a very long walk and never come back. i might just throw myself off the motorway bridge with a note oinned to me saying......' i couldn't take anymore of ****'s crap. ask him!!!'

i sware he is the oldest one in the building and behaves so poorly. He if didnt want change he shouldnt have sold his buisiness!!!!

I could have ate the complete cake counter at sainsburys and not battered an eye lid!!!!!..........................instead i bought a knitting magazine and im sat happily glancing it while talking on here!!!!!. Im gonna hide it though so the kids wont take my needles. They use them as swords ect when im not around. They also hate the clicky clicky they make. i do get my own back as i have a set of metal pins (i hate them i prefer bamboo) so i get them out and make them click loudly on purpose!!!!!

Calmer know how strange.

MOrning WT...................Morning Daisy..................hold on Daisy where are you?

xx

Are we talking tantrums from no.2 son? I sympathise with the 'anything makes a weapon" phase....my 3yo DD is the same

Well done for resisting the cakes though.....its' sooo tough when the kids play up and you just want to take comfort in food..... I've started to make them laugh when I feel like caving... blowing raspberries on their tummies is a good one! Makes me laugh too and the littest one is a real giggler

I've not 'heard' from Daisy all day. Although it has been quiet all round I think (or maybe that's just what I'm looking at!)

 

[babycake]

Are we talking tantrums from no.2 son? I sympathise with the 'anything makes a weapon" phase....my 3yo DD is the same

Well done for resisting the cakes though.....its' sooo tough when the kids play up and you just want to take comfort in food..... I've started to make them laugh when I feel like caving... blowing raspberries on their tummies is a good one! Makes me laugh too and the littest one is a real giggler

I've not 'heard' from Daisy all day. Although it has been quiet all round I think (or maybe that's just what I'm looking at!)

Nope this is 59 yr old bloke!!!!

 

[wobbly tum!]

Just saw the other thread.... I think I've missed the bit in the middle. I knew no.1 had trouble at school but didn't realise it has escalated :-( hope you sort it out soon x and leave the chocolate alone!

 

[wobbly tum!]

Day 10 (whoohoo, double figures!) Another good day diet wise not head wise though!
Food - praline bar at 11.45 because I was hungry.
Mushroom soup at 1.30.
Fed all 6 children tonight at 4.30 and popped a jacket spud in the oven for hubby (smelt really delish too!) When he got home at 5.30 I said "there a jacket in the oven for your dinner" and then went off to pop the girls in the bath. Came back 5 minutes later and he's sat at the table stuffing cheese covered potato in his gob. Now I know what Im about to say probably seems very dramatic and over reacting but I was so pissed off with him for not waiting another 5 minutes to eat with me. I'm still upset now. I only had to boil and bit of broccoli and ping my Mac cheese for 3 minutes and he didn't think to wait.... This is why I hate being on a diet because I feel like the outsider and this just made me feel really pants its now at the stage that I'm contemplating opening a bottle of wine. I know I won't because I'm stubborn but aarrggghhhh!
I feel 'down' today and I'm not sure why.... Does anyone else get like this? Or is it just me who's unreasonable and unstable!
WT x

 

[steff92xx]

Congrats on day 10, your doing amazing! I'm feeling the same today, no doubt because of the weigh in this morning mind! Not letting myself wreck this!!

 

[wobbly tum!]

Congrats on day 10, your doing amazing! I'm feeling the same today, no doubt because of the weigh in this morning mind! Not letting myself wreck this!!

Thanks Steff x I think its also because I don't have a huge amount of weight to lose and dropping 8lb in 10 days is amazing but ..... I'm just having a wobble! I'll get over it
Was it an official weigh in this morning?

 

[steff92xx]

Thanks Steff x I think its also because I don't have a huge amount of weight to lose and dropping 8lb in 10 days is amazing but ..... I'm just having a wobble! I'll get over it
Was it an official weigh in this morning?

That's an amazing loss, well done! Wish I dropped that! Only lost 3lb, so gutted! Only thing I can think of is that it's TOTM :/ I've stuck 100%!! And yeah official weigh in

 

[wobbly tum!]

Totm will do that though, its a b***h :-( not looking forward to mine! Next week I bet you make up for it with a good 8lbs fingers crossed!

 

[steff92xx]

Totm will do that though, its a b***h :-( not looking forward to mine! Next week I bet you make up for it with a good 8lbs fingers crossed!

I really really hope so! Fingers crossed, want it to be here already!!! So impatient

 

[babycake]

Ok I'm back for a moment. Well done WT. proud of you babes. ......., I'm living on 2 hrs bad sleep and a pot of black coffee today .......... Think I'm coming down with something too ................. So so grumpy. At least it's Friday what you got planned for the weekend. Think I'm gonna get my boxing gloves out and have an aggression release work out on number 1 son!! He can hold the punch bag!!!!!

 

[wobbly tum!]

Day 11 and I just ate a smartie :sign0007: and I want more......

Warning : self pitying ramblings to follow!

I feel very un diet focused today.... I'm v. dizzy when I stand up, keep nearly falling over and feel a sick Hubby, although supportive in some ways, thinks its because of the diet and has suggested taking a week off (bless!) but I honestly dont relish the thought of coming out of ketosis only to have to get back as I think it will be a lot harder next time. I want to eat food too though....
I've got a real battle going on in my head and heart as to what to do for the best. I know if I cave adn eat then I will be sooo p!$$ed off with myself but I don't know if I'm strong enough to keep battling.
Should I keep trying all day and risk a blow out tonight or should I have an ommlette now (had planned chicken and veg for dinner tonight) and hope I feel better????? I feel sick but it's that empty 'I haven't eaten food' sickness

I am feeling really sorry for myself today. I'm also really tired and could not get out of bed this morning so snoozed twice, got up with only 10 minutes to get ready and as soon as I walked into the bathroom I realised I was supposed to get up early to have a shower. My hair is minging! which is obviously making me feel worse LOL! Oh and I jumped on the scales and it's only showing a .5lb loss ( I know I shouldn't weight daily but I'm never going to stop!) so that didnt help my self pity!

sorry for moaning, I know I'm lucky really I just let things get to me thank you for reading x

 

[wobbly tum!]

I've had a cuppa and a truffa bar and I'm doing ok atm..... today is going to be soooo long though. Luckily I have a friend coming round on a bit so I can whinge and moan to her. She's used to it as I've known her for nearly 20 years and she's seen me at my skinniest (8st 7lbs) when we shared a flat and my heaviest (13st 8lbs) when I was preggers with my second daughter. It's funny as it's her and bubby that got me started on the weight loss. Her hubby has been doing slim fast and lost nearly a stone so I thought I'd give it a go and then moved on to here