Bigbear
Silver Member
3 years ago I created my 'Claire Bears shrinking mission' thread, when I had reached the overwhelming weight of 28 and a half stone!!! Over 20 months I lost just over 9 stone, and the fell pregnant! My beautiful baby bear arrived in December 2016 and now she is almost 7 months old it's time for time to get back in my weight loss journey - now for her sake as well as mine.
The last year has been challenging, My first thought when pregnant was not to deprive my baby of anything, I certainly didn't want to stay on my diet during that time, but in my attempts to just 'eat normally' I fell back into all my bad habits. Since becoming a mother I have indulged in whatever I wanted or felt I needed. Sleep deprivation certainly increases those sugar cravings, and my ability to cook healthy meals has been somewhat hampered. Now that baby bear has also started eating it's another reason why now is a great time to get back into better cooking habits and stocking up with lush fruit and veg.
So here I am, starting weight of 25 stone 5 pounds. That was a shock, and I don't want to dwell on the feelings I had this morning when I stepped on the scales, although at the same time I want to remember that feeling in order to give me motivation never to be in this situation again. I vowed never to be above 20 stone before (and then a few months later I fell pregnant)! I want to be below 20 stone by Christmas... an ambitious target but I really believe in having big goals to aim for (as well as smaller goals to feel like you're achieving things)
My plan is to eat less!! I use slim fast products for ease and portion control. I will log everything in MFP. I will eat little and often, my plan is loosely based on slim fast:
Breakfast - 300ish cals - toast/bagel or belvita biscuits
Snack - 100 cal slimfast snack or fruit
Lunch - 200 cal slimfast meal bar
Snack - 100 cal slimfast snack or fruit
Dinner - normal dinner (trying to cook healthily) with my lovely partner - trying to keep under 1000 cals
Snack if needed - 100 cals slim fast snack, chocolate Freddo or similar
I'm also going to be excercisig as much as possible - on mat leave this is entirely achievable!! Will try to take pics when I am out an about to upload on here.
Drinking water and squash by the gallon load will hopefully help, and if I am actually hungry inbetween all my meals and snacks, I will always allow myself fruit
So let's see how this goes. This was basically my plan last time and it worked for me - I know that portion control is key for me, and having pre-made meal bars really helps. Wouldn't be my first choice but I known how easily I get into bad habits if I start cooking myself breakfasts and lunches. My portion sizes creeps up so easily. I'll look forward to a proper dinner with my partner each evening, that's really important to me.
Looking for support. All comments welcomed and I will try to follow all your threads too and give support as much as I can. I love the community on here, it was so key to me last time, and even though it's so quiet here these days I reckon we can get it going again.
Onwards and downwards xxxx
The last year has been challenging, My first thought when pregnant was not to deprive my baby of anything, I certainly didn't want to stay on my diet during that time, but in my attempts to just 'eat normally' I fell back into all my bad habits. Since becoming a mother I have indulged in whatever I wanted or felt I needed. Sleep deprivation certainly increases those sugar cravings, and my ability to cook healthy meals has been somewhat hampered. Now that baby bear has also started eating it's another reason why now is a great time to get back into better cooking habits and stocking up with lush fruit and veg.
So here I am, starting weight of 25 stone 5 pounds. That was a shock, and I don't want to dwell on the feelings I had this morning when I stepped on the scales, although at the same time I want to remember that feeling in order to give me motivation never to be in this situation again. I vowed never to be above 20 stone before (and then a few months later I fell pregnant)! I want to be below 20 stone by Christmas... an ambitious target but I really believe in having big goals to aim for (as well as smaller goals to feel like you're achieving things)
My plan is to eat less!! I use slim fast products for ease and portion control. I will log everything in MFP. I will eat little and often, my plan is loosely based on slim fast:
Breakfast - 300ish cals - toast/bagel or belvita biscuits
Snack - 100 cal slimfast snack or fruit
Lunch - 200 cal slimfast meal bar
Snack - 100 cal slimfast snack or fruit
Dinner - normal dinner (trying to cook healthily) with my lovely partner - trying to keep under 1000 cals
Snack if needed - 100 cals slim fast snack, chocolate Freddo or similar
I'm also going to be excercisig as much as possible - on mat leave this is entirely achievable!! Will try to take pics when I am out an about to upload on here.
Drinking water and squash by the gallon load will hopefully help, and if I am actually hungry inbetween all my meals and snacks, I will always allow myself fruit
So let's see how this goes. This was basically my plan last time and it worked for me - I know that portion control is key for me, and having pre-made meal bars really helps. Wouldn't be my first choice but I known how easily I get into bad habits if I start cooking myself breakfasts and lunches. My portion sizes creeps up so easily. I'll look forward to a proper dinner with my partner each evening, that's really important to me.
Looking for support. All comments welcomed and I will try to follow all your threads too and give support as much as I can. I love the community on here, it was so key to me last time, and even though it's so quiet here these days I reckon we can get it going again.
Onwards and downwards xxxx