leigh1877
Silver Member
Hi, I imagine very few people here will know me, I've been a member of this site since a few months after I had my daughter, she's now 8 years old 
What a journey, a fully pledged yo-yo dieter, aren't most of us?
I've done really strict detoxing in order to conceive, if anyone is having issues conceiving, I urge you to try this, doesn't matter what programme you follow, as long as it's good clean nutritious food and plenty of water! I did this with both my two and within a few months I was pregnant after struggling for years, lets just say, I never used contraception until after my separation from my husband in 2012! :-O We had been together since 1995, living together from 1999, married 2002, conceived my eldest in 2005 and my 2nd in 2009! Notice the gaps, yeah, it took that long after getting married and then between my two there's 3.5 years, but we never stopped trying. So don't give up, get healthy and enjoy life, get fit and forget about trying it may happen to you too.
It was in 2010 I found myself walking into a slimming world class with my baby girl only a few months old and still breast feeding, I enjoyed going, I could notice the difference straight away, but I could afford the plan as my husband earned a fair amount and I was a full-time mum so I had time to plan my meals etc. I lost a lot of weight but I've never actually got down to my target weight as life gets in the way and I lose focus, it's still happening even now, but I'm actually returning to dieting much sooner after I fall off the wagon, so this is good for me! I yo-yo'd again after that as I got busy in life with having two children, and fell completely off after about 6 months or so. Then it was January last year I came back on here and I've been hooked, made a really lovely friend (you know who you are) and dispite all my ups and downs, she's really kept me going, although my heart hasn't always been on dieting much at all recently, I find her an incredible motivation and I thank you so much!!! For listening to me banging on and all your wonderful support!
So that's a little story about my dieting life lol
I've decided along with my lovely friend to try calorie counting, this is something I started to do while on slimming world as I was finding I was over eating on all the free/speed foods and not portion controlling, if you find my other diary in the slimming world section, you'll see that I was doing so well, losing between 1-3lbs a week, every single week too, so I know it works when you stick with it!
I've gained a little weight recently, binging while feeling emotional and just completely down due to my circumstances but I've placed an online order for delivery with Iceland and that's arrived, I planned my meals for the month, so I'm pretty much organised and know what I'll be eating, I only plan to shop weekly for fresh salad/milk etc so shouldn't have to worry about anything else. Hopefully you'll actually see some losses from here on! I weighed myself yesterday, Saturday mornings are my weigh day and once I'm back to my lowest weight from earlier in the year, I'll go back to measuring too as that's more or less how I want to control my weight in the future, not the scales which I find utterly depressing and can really knock me.
I'm currently 178lbs
Lowest was 172lbs
Lets see if I can get 2lbs off by next Saturday!
My trousers are getting so tight and my jeans too, I've been wearing size 12's, I don't want to go up, I want to go down, that's my incentive! My top half is larger, always has been, big chest and arms :-( hate my arms!
I'm going to be checking in with our membership team at the local leisure centre as I'd like to start swimming with my son while my daughter learns to swim and evening for all of us to swim together. I have also been into running, I tried to get back into it recently but failed, so I'll try that again soon too, I don't know if anyone else has tried it, but there's a really great app on my phone, I have android, just search couch25k. I was going for couch210k though, I'd love to be fit! Plus great for toning up the wobbly bits haha.
Anyone interested in a little sit-up challenge, day 1, 1 sit up, day 2, 2 sit-ups, start really slow and work your way up to 30+ I would do this before bed, so you are in bed laying down anyway.
What a journey, a fully pledged yo-yo dieter, aren't most of us?
I've done really strict detoxing in order to conceive, if anyone is having issues conceiving, I urge you to try this, doesn't matter what programme you follow, as long as it's good clean nutritious food and plenty of water! I did this with both my two and within a few months I was pregnant after struggling for years, lets just say, I never used contraception until after my separation from my husband in 2012! :-O We had been together since 1995, living together from 1999, married 2002, conceived my eldest in 2005 and my 2nd in 2009! Notice the gaps, yeah, it took that long after getting married and then between my two there's 3.5 years, but we never stopped trying. So don't give up, get healthy and enjoy life, get fit and forget about trying it may happen to you too.
It was in 2010 I found myself walking into a slimming world class with my baby girl only a few months old and still breast feeding, I enjoyed going, I could notice the difference straight away, but I could afford the plan as my husband earned a fair amount and I was a full-time mum so I had time to plan my meals etc. I lost a lot of weight but I've never actually got down to my target weight as life gets in the way and I lose focus, it's still happening even now, but I'm actually returning to dieting much sooner after I fall off the wagon, so this is good for me! I yo-yo'd again after that as I got busy in life with having two children, and fell completely off after about 6 months or so. Then it was January last year I came back on here and I've been hooked, made a really lovely friend (you know who you are) and dispite all my ups and downs, she's really kept me going, although my heart hasn't always been on dieting much at all recently, I find her an incredible motivation and I thank you so much!!! For listening to me banging on and all your wonderful support!
So that's a little story about my dieting life lol
I've decided along with my lovely friend to try calorie counting, this is something I started to do while on slimming world as I was finding I was over eating on all the free/speed foods and not portion controlling, if you find my other diary in the slimming world section, you'll see that I was doing so well, losing between 1-3lbs a week, every single week too, so I know it works when you stick with it!
I've gained a little weight recently, binging while feeling emotional and just completely down due to my circumstances but I've placed an online order for delivery with Iceland and that's arrived, I planned my meals for the month, so I'm pretty much organised and know what I'll be eating, I only plan to shop weekly for fresh salad/milk etc so shouldn't have to worry about anything else. Hopefully you'll actually see some losses from here on! I weighed myself yesterday, Saturday mornings are my weigh day and once I'm back to my lowest weight from earlier in the year, I'll go back to measuring too as that's more or less how I want to control my weight in the future, not the scales which I find utterly depressing and can really knock me.
I'm currently 178lbs
Lowest was 172lbs
Lets see if I can get 2lbs off by next Saturday!
My trousers are getting so tight and my jeans too, I've been wearing size 12's, I don't want to go up, I want to go down, that's my incentive! My top half is larger, always has been, big chest
and arms :-( hate my arms!I'm going to be checking in with our membership team at the local leisure centre as I'd like to start swimming with my son while my daughter learns to swim and evening for all of us to swim together. I have also been into running, I tried to get back into it recently but failed, so I'll try that again soon too, I don't know if anyone else has tried it, but there's a really great app on my phone, I have android, just search couch25k. I was going for couch210k though, I'd love to be fit! Plus great for toning up the wobbly bits haha.
Anyone interested in a little sit-up challenge, day 1, 1 sit up, day 2, 2 sit-ups, start really slow and work your way up to 30+
I would do this before bed, so you are in bed laying down anyway.
