TOUGH LOVE-APPLY WITHIN

[sparty]

Hey there bassers!! I've been a bit quiet while I have been away as everyone seemed to be going ok - only bonnie in need of TL so far.

Lou I'm so pleased u decided to stop judd. It sounds like u have been having a right old time hun. Hopefully things will start looking up now.

I know what you mean about SW and that's why I came off it and tried calorie counting. I hit a wall and stopped losing but I was doing extra easy. Now I am back on it and doing red days and I find that muh better as the carbs are more measured. You could try that?!

Food wise I am behaving reasonably well but not really feeling like I am restricting myself. Just not eating junk basically. Drinking will be my downfall if I have had a gain when I get back but will take it on the chin as I am having a lovely time (except the stupid bleeding insect bites grrrrrr)

Keep up the good work everyone!!

 

[conlou1]

Lost half lb this week which i am very pleased with as it was a late wi not lost on a late wi for over 6 week!!!

Oh brilliant Emma!! So you sticking with weigh ins for now? X

 

[conlou1]

Hey there bassers!! I've been a bit quiet while I have been away as everyone seemed to be going ok - only bonnie in need of TL so far.

Lou I'm so pleased u decided to stop judd. It sounds like u have been having a right old time hun. Hopefully things will start looking up now.

I know what you mean about SW and that's why I came off it and tried calorie counting. I hit a wall and stopped losing but I was doing extra easy. Now I am back on it and doing red days and I find that muh better as the carbs are more measured. You could try that?!

Food wise I am behaving reasonably well but not really feeling like I am restricting myself. Just not eating junk basically. Drinking will be my downfall if I have had a gain when I get back but will take it on the chin as I am having a lovely time (except the stupid bleeding insect bites grrrrrr)

Keep up the good work everyone!!

Just re read my own thread that's in my sig. Just need to say....WHAT THE FRIGG HAVE I BERN PLAYING AT? That is all. Re reading my
Old diet plans tonight. I want to feel happy and healthy again

 

[sparty]

Good for you Lou - dont lose sight of what was making you want to lose weight and WHY you want to. It's to be happy I assume and you have DEF not been happy for a while!!

Well done Emma - that's a massive achievement on a late WI. Yaaaaay

 

[emma_partington27]

Oh brilliant Emma!! So you sticking with weigh ins for now? X

Yeah till my six week runs out got about 4 left then im goin solo lol gunna change wi to saturdays aswell wen i start on my own x

 

[emma_partington27]

Good for you Lou - dont lose sight of what was making you want to lose weight and WHY you want to. It's to be happy I assume and you have DEF not been happy for a while!!

Well done Emma - that's a massive achievement on a late WI. Yaaaaay

Ta sparty im happy but had a feeling that if i wud ov weighed in this morning i cud ov got my 2 stone award!

 

[BonnieBooBear]

Well done Emma, and I get updates on MFP and you are always exercising and under your cal goal. Well done that girl.

Yeah Lou, I roughly follow SW principles, but track cals too. When I say SW principles, I basically make sure I eat superfree veg with every meal (1/3 of my plate) and make SW recipes now and again but other than that, I find it a bit inflexible with alcohol. I do still go to group though because I personally get a lot out of it. But you are being a bit hard on yourself, you gave it a try and it didn't work (well, it made you loose but not in the right way!) but nothing ventured, nothing gained eh?

 

[conlou1]

Well done Emma, and I get updates on MFP and you are always exercising and under your cal goal. Well done that girl.

Yeah Lou, I roughly follow SW principles, but track cals too. When I say SW principles, I basically make sure I eat superfree veg with every meal (1/3 of my plate) and make SW recipes now and again but other than that, I find it a bit inflexible with alcohol. I do still go to group though because I personally get a lot out of it. But you are being a bit hard on yourself, you gave it a try and it didn't work (well, it made you loose but not in the right way!) but nothing ventured, nothing gained eh?

Oh yeah totally, it did work I'll give it that. It's not like I cheated or gained haha. Just need to be healthier and stop trying to find a fart lane to target cos I'm bored. The running is helping a lot. I think it will help on the nights I'm bored. Think it's lady fun time next week and I went gaga last time didn't I? Maybe it's just pmt hahaha. I'll be normal (ish) again next week

 

[conlou1]

Oh yeah totally, it did work I'll give it that. It's not like I cheated or gained haha. Just need to be healthier and stop trying to find a fart lane to target cos I'm bored. The running is helping a lot. I think it will help on the nights I'm bored. Think it's lady fun time next week and I went gaga last time didn't I? Maybe it's just pmt hahaha. I'll be normal (ish) again next week

Fart lane HAHAHAHA

 

[faery_lights]

"come on Lou, you know you can't eat crap and feel good, eat less, eat well and exercise-you know this" and my reply "yes your right I do, I guess it was the little fat girl in me wanting to believe I could eat what I wanted every other day and lose weight" and that about sums up the whole situation.

I think it sums it up nicely. All the stuff about having a healthy relationship with food too, is correct. I am glad you are making changes for your health. I think CCing and following SW principles would really help you. I know there's whole documents on the NHS website about recommended portion sizes for all sorts of things- I keep meaning to print them off. Maybe it's worth a look?

Lost half lb this week which i am very pleased with as it was a late wi not lost on a late wi for over 6 week!!!

Great work Emma! Well done

Just re read my own thread that's in my sig. Just need to say....WHAT THE FRIGG HAVE I BERN PLAYING AT? That is all. Re reading my
Old diet plans tonight. I want to feel happy and healthy again

You can do it Lou! I think you'll feel better once the kids are back at school and that dog is gone.

As for me, I've done 2/3 of my Leaving Do's this week. I kept within my cals for the first once but last night was at my favourite restaurant (which I haven't been to for months) with my close friend- I had a load of exercise calories so I decided to let my hair down and enjoy myself. If I gain or STS, I'll accept it as my just desserts, but I'm glad I did it. I think the point of Tough Love is accepting responsibility for your decisions as opposed to whining when you don't have a loss, right?

That being said, I didn't eat anywhere near as much as I have previously been able too and normally I would take the leftovers home. I decided to leave them. I wasn't really hungry this morning either so I had a tiny breakfast- again, that's different as I am normally always hungry in the morning! I am off out for dinner tonight but I'll be eating Korean which actually makes it easier to be healthy!

 

[conlou1]

I think it sums it up nicely. All the stuff about having a healthy relationship with food too, is correct. I am glad you are making changes for your health. I think CCing and following SW principles would really help you. I know there's whole documents on the NHS website about recommended portion sizes for all sorts of things- I keep meaning to print them off. Maybe it's worth a look?

Great work Emma! Well done

You can do it Lou! I think you'll feel better once the kids are back at school and that dog is gone.

As for me, I've done 2/3 of my Leaving Do's this week. I kept within my cals for the first once but last night was at my favourite restaurant (which I haven't been to for months) with my close friend- I had a load of exercise calories so I decided to let my hair down and enjoy myself. If I gain or STS, I'll accept it as my just desserts, but I'm glad I did it. I think the point of Tough Love is accepting responsibility for your decisions as opposed to whining when you don't have a loss, right?

That being said, I didn't eat anywhere near as much as I have previously been able too and normally I would take the leftovers home. I decided to leave them. I wasn't really hungry this morning either so I had a tiny breakfast- again, that's different as I am normally always hungry in the morning! I am off out for dinner tonight but I'll be eating Korean which actually makes it easier to be healthy!

That's a great attitude, of course you can let your hair down on occasion its your decision, your happy with it and not bothered and don't regret it so it was the right decision.

Thanks for the support guys it means a lot I ate well yesterday and had an early night and I feel much better.

 

[BonnieBooBear]

I think it sums it up nicely. All the stuff about having a healthy relationship with food too, is correct. I am glad you are making changes for your health. I think CCing and following SW principles would really help you. I know there's whole documents on the NHS website about recommended portion sizes for all sorts of things- I keep meaning to print them off. Maybe it's worth a look?



Great work Emma! Well done



You can do it Lou! I think you'll feel better once the kids are back at school and that dog is gone.

As for me, I've done 2/3 of my Leaving Do's this week. I kept within my cals for the first once but last night was at my favourite restaurant (which I haven't been to for months) with my close friend- I had a load of exercise calories so I decided to let my hair down and enjoy myself. If I gain or STS, I'll accept it as my just desserts, but I'm glad I did it. I think the point of Tough Love is accepting responsibility for your decisions as opposed to whining when you don't have a loss, right?

That being said, I didn't eat anywhere near as much as I have previously been able too and normally I would take the leftovers home. I decided to leave them. I wasn't really hungry this morning either so I had a tiny breakfast- again, that's different as I am normally always hungry in the morning! I am off out for dinner tonight but I'll be eating Korean which actually makes it easier to be healthy!

Well done FL, I agree, it is fine to enjoy yourself within reason as you have, so long as you are happy shoulder the consequences, as you have. What is a typical Korean dinner?

 

[conlou1]

Just checking in. Decided to weigh in as normal today. 2 of the 3 pound I lost last week is back on. Just doing my 5 mile walk and 3 hour clean, armed with a shapers meal for lunch.

 

[BonnieBooBear]

1lb down though Lou, well done. Sounds like you are calm and collected about it and you know what to do.

 

[conlou1]

1lb down though Lou, well done. Sounds like you are calm and collected about it and you know what to do.

Yeah I'm on with it, lots of exercise and healthy food. I'm just going to take it day by day and work hard at getting back into a healthy eating routine. My scan on my
Tummy is Tuesday and my daughter has her brain scan on 6th September, I'm sure once that all comes back ok I'll feel better and be able to
Focus more, too much crap in my head lately lol.

 

[faery_lights]

Yeah I'm on with it, lots of exercise and healthy food. I'm just going to take it day by day and work hard at getting back into a healthy eating routine. My scan on my
Tummy is Tuesday and my daughter has her brain scan on 6th September, I'm sure once that all comes back ok I'll feel better and be able to
Focus more, too much crap in my head lately lol.

Sounds like you have had a lot to deal with lately Lou! I think that changing back to CC will do much better for you!

Home now. Kept within my cals yesterday and today. Going to have a low carb day tomorrow. I moved my run to tomorrow and I am going to go for a walk too. Hoping for a STS on Monday as I have eaten out so much. Hope you guys are all having a great and successful weekend!

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[sparty]

Time to face the music! 3lbs on over my holiday.

Tbh I think that's fair as I have had a lot of booze over the week and rich (although not unhealthy) food. No regrets - back on it now to work it off. Red days for me this week to kick start things.

 

[conlou1]

Time to face the music! 3lbs on over my holiday.

Tbh I think that's fair as I have had a lot of booze over the week and rich (although not unhealthy) food. No regrets - back on it now to work it off. Red days for me this week to kick start things.

oops lol, no music to face if your ok with it hun, your not whining about it, you know what you did wrong and are getting back on with it, well done on being positive and facing upto it, im sure youll have it back off by next week.

i had a couple of glasses of wine with the hubby last night...all within cals of course and boy do i feel shocking today, i used to be able to drink a full bottle but i had to tip the last glass away i felt tipsy but not in a good way. think my body is rejecting bad food lol....i am soooo swollen today aswell, got a friend coming for tea so ive bought lots of salad and chicken and new pots, ive also bought some multivitamins, cod liver oil, starflower and evening primrose and started taking my green tea caps again, and i bought some dissolvable vit c and zinc tablets....im determined to feel healthier. ive got lots of fruit, activia yogs, salad, veg, fish etc...i fully expect this week to be hard but im determined to get back into that positive frame of mind i was in before july's madness set in...i think a lesson needs to be learnt here...whilst its great to socialise i think control needs to be maintained cos its totally that that has sent me off course, although i havent gained, ive wasted nearly 2 months of more or less sts...i could have been at target now. but thanks to you guys i havent gained, if i wasnt coming on here i think i would have easily put on 7 pounds. im actually craving healthy foods, the thought of fatty foods makes me feel queesy. hurray.

 

[Cat Lover Sue]

Hi All - 3lb gain on hols Sparty is what I did, and over last Christmas as well. Reversed both the next week.

Its a STS for me this week so still hovering on the brink of goal. To be fair it has been lady fun week. Mind you I will have a massive strop if I don't get to goal next week!

Enjoy the weekend peeps. Peeing it down up here.

 

[AliGal]

I'm off line for a while and come back to find Bassers steaming towards 200 pages. You guys and the big fish rock!

I'm phasing off - Alizonne speak for re-feeding or route to maintenance. I'll not go to the goal set on here as I think that will be too far. So we'll see where I get to.

I'm size 14/16 down from 26/28 so happy to be svelte. I'm now an expert bargain shopper. TK Maxx and charity shops much better is smart parts of town. My wardrobe is now a lovely mix of primark, labels from charity shops and TK Maxx and an M&S jacket and 3/4 length t shirts.

I'm still shedding more slowly so expect to maybe loose 4-8lbs before being signed off, with a medgem to give me my BMR and a calorie allowance.

Hope you have stayed dry during the thunderstorms,