TaraTeal
Silver Member
Hi Everyone,
Well, it's 2012 and I get married in 5 months time. Panic is slowly setting in. Most of my days are consumed by thoughts of diet, exercise, the thought of the poor woman who will surely dislocate her arm trying to lace up my dress, and visions of my arms (my least fave body part), pale and flabby hanging over my dress, the list is endless.
I started on my journey just before christmas, losing 12lbs on slimming world in 5 weeks, christmas came and went, santa left me with 5 extra pounds of lovely fat on my body to lose before the wedding. Well I say it was santa, it could of been the chocolates and trifle and christmas tipple.
Anyway I am counting it as back to sqaure one. I would love to lose 5 stone to reach my ideal weight, but I am realistic and would be happy with 3 stone before the wedding, putting me in a comfy size 14 in clothing, and ensuring my dress fits with room to spare. So I am back on slimming world and my first week back on and I've lost 2 lbs. Not bad, but I really struggle sticking to things with slow results.
I do however quite enjoy slimming world as I can freely eat all my fave foods, like roast dinners, spicy chicken and veg's and have the odd bit of chocolate.
I am fairly confident I can get to around 1.5 stone lost by the end of feb/early march, but have been putting alot of thought into trying exante diet. One of many food replacement VLCD's.
I have come to the decision to do this either for the month of april, or starting next month and see how I go on it. I struggle being busy making food around my work schedule so this would eliminate that problem, however there isn't much variation, and I don't have the best will power. So this is why I am thinking, do it the last month before dress fittings, maybe lose a stone to boost my overall loss.
Sorry for rambling on and writing what appears to be an essay, but I think this will now become my wedding weight loss diary from now until my wedding, and I would like other slimmers, particularly you brides to be to follow my progress and see if we can keep eachother going!
I currently weigh 234lbs :-( having hovered between 220-240 for the last year and a half. I look quite well at around 170-180lbs, I am 5'6 and have a fairly large frame, with an hourglass shape, so my weight distributes fairly well across my body. I am quite lucky that I carry my weight well and probably look about a stone lighter than I actually am.
So today is my second week of slimming world, I've had my usual 2 weetabix for breakfast and a muller yoghurt, dinner I had a small tuna and cucumber bun with an apple, and tea I did slimming world egg, chips and beans. I never really ate chips before slimming world, now I eat them probably twice a week.
I have done no exercise today as I've been cleaning the house and working 7.30 - 6.15 today.
I hope to keep this diary and update regularly as a bit of motivation to keep going, it seems to work well for others using minimins.
I will be totally honest and say I am a yo-yo dieter, I have struggled for a long time, but I keep telling myself, If I can't do it for my wedding, when will I do it? My H2B has gained weight since we first met and he is losing weight too, he can eat mountains of food and still lose weight as he does it mostly through exercise, he is fond of chocolate and likes big portions and that troublesome takeaway food. He is in the navy and is away sometimes weeks at a time, and I must admit, I've used food as a comfort in one way or another since my early teens, now it's on an evening, when I'm alone. I know I'm not alone in that behaviour and it's all about breaking the cycle.
If you've managed to stay awake whilst reading this you will be happy to know I've come to the end of my first diary post and just want to say good luck to all you other slimmers out there, it's not easy but it's not impossible and that's what we have to keep telling ourselves. It can be done.
Thank you for reading and I look forward to hearing from the rest of you!!!
Tara xxx
Well, it's 2012 and I get married in 5 months time. Panic is slowly setting in. Most of my days are consumed by thoughts of diet, exercise, the thought of the poor woman who will surely dislocate her arm trying to lace up my dress, and visions of my arms (my least fave body part), pale and flabby hanging over my dress, the list is endless.
I started on my journey just before christmas, losing 12lbs on slimming world in 5 weeks, christmas came and went, santa left me with 5 extra pounds of lovely fat on my body to lose before the wedding. Well I say it was santa, it could of been the chocolates and trifle and christmas tipple.
Anyway I am counting it as back to sqaure one. I would love to lose 5 stone to reach my ideal weight, but I am realistic and would be happy with 3 stone before the wedding, putting me in a comfy size 14 in clothing, and ensuring my dress fits with room to spare. So I am back on slimming world and my first week back on and I've lost 2 lbs. Not bad, but I really struggle sticking to things with slow results.
I do however quite enjoy slimming world as I can freely eat all my fave foods, like roast dinners, spicy chicken and veg's and have the odd bit of chocolate.
I am fairly confident I can get to around 1.5 stone lost by the end of feb/early march, but have been putting alot of thought into trying exante diet. One of many food replacement VLCD's.
I have come to the decision to do this either for the month of april, or starting next month and see how I go on it. I struggle being busy making food around my work schedule so this would eliminate that problem, however there isn't much variation, and I don't have the best will power. So this is why I am thinking, do it the last month before dress fittings, maybe lose a stone to boost my overall loss.
Sorry for rambling on and writing what appears to be an essay, but I think this will now become my wedding weight loss diary from now until my wedding, and I would like other slimmers, particularly you brides to be to follow my progress and see if we can keep eachother going!
I currently weigh 234lbs :-( having hovered between 220-240 for the last year and a half. I look quite well at around 170-180lbs, I am 5'6 and have a fairly large frame, with an hourglass shape, so my weight distributes fairly well across my body. I am quite lucky that I carry my weight well and probably look about a stone lighter than I actually am.
So today is my second week of slimming world, I've had my usual 2 weetabix for breakfast and a muller yoghurt, dinner I had a small tuna and cucumber bun with an apple, and tea I did slimming world egg, chips and beans. I never really ate chips before slimming world, now I eat them probably twice a week.
I have done no exercise today as I've been cleaning the house and working 7.30 - 6.15 today.
I hope to keep this diary and update regularly as a bit of motivation to keep going, it seems to work well for others using minimins.
I will be totally honest and say I am a yo-yo dieter, I have struggled for a long time, but I keep telling myself, If I can't do it for my wedding, when will I do it? My H2B has gained weight since we first met and he is losing weight too, he can eat mountains of food and still lose weight as he does it mostly through exercise, he is fond of chocolate and likes big portions and that troublesome takeaway food. He is in the navy and is away sometimes weeks at a time, and I must admit, I've used food as a comfort in one way or another since my early teens, now it's on an evening, when I'm alone. I know I'm not alone in that behaviour and it's all about breaking the cycle.
If you've managed to stay awake whilst reading this you will be happy to know I've come to the end of my first diary post and just want to say good luck to all you other slimmers out there, it's not easy but it's not impossible and that's what we have to keep telling ourselves. It can be done.
Thank you for reading and I look forward to hearing from the rest of you!!!
Tara xxx