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Ho hum, back again...

by Bluebirdie on 30 Jul 2015, 17:39

I didn't last very long, 18 months ago. About a couple of months of fasting. Since then I rejoined WW for a whole year, lost a stone, then bounced around putting on, and losing the same 3-7lbs. I return here alsmot EXACTLY the same weight as when I first joined, but a couple of hundred quid lighter!

So. I must make this work, one way or another. I guess I should be a little grateful for being no heavie in 18months, which is a reasonable achievement for someone who is already considerably overweight, has food issues and is staring down the barrel of 50 years (not quite yet though, so that's a good deadline, right?!)

One fast day almost completed, though I feel a bit cheated because I have eaten something dodgy and have horrid cramps and no appetite.

I'd like to have a plan. I'd like to be able to say to myself and the world, or at least this forum, that I am going to lose half a stone quickly then a pound a week, blah blah blah, but I know it is pointless. The real thing is to find...

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However....

by Bluebirdie on 28 Jan 2014, 21:28

...although my first proper weigh in with my new scales was higher than I'd guessed, when I weighed myself this morning, naked, as I will do from now on, I was really pleased to see it was over a pound down on the night before weight. And coming to then end of a feast day where, after advice from this forum, I decided to try to stick to my TDEE to see how I could balance out eating when not fasting. So today I recorded everything on myfitnesspal and so far am under my TDEE. And that is because I realise it is fairly generous, given I'm, er, pretty large... I know I will have to recalculate this as I lose weight but it gave me confidence. I even had chocolate today and two MIDWEEK *shock* glasses of wine at a work do, and still came in under. Very happy.

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Reality check

by Bluebirdie on 27 Jan 2014, 19:17

So the new scales arrived. A little bit of me, of course, hoped that when I stepped on them, even though Xmas, husbands 50th and various other parties have happened since the last time I weighed, somehow I would be lighter than I remembered. I posted my first guess in on here as 213lbs. Of course, it was higher. But - and I am focusing on the positive here - only 4lbs more. It could have been much, much worse. And I am grateful just to have a little way to go before I am lower than my last weigh in.

It has been a crappy day today. Fallen out with one of my kids who behaved very badly on the way home from school. I immediately wanted to eat, preferably chocolate. But having to be resolute and roll with the punches. So I had a cup of tea instead.

I am also going to weigh in again in the morning, since the naked morning weigh in is my preference for consistency.

The scales are the body monitor type. I know they're not completely accurate but I am hoping it will be relatively accurate,...

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Next fast day: feeling resolute

by Bluebirdie on 27 Jan 2014, 11:38

I remember, physically, how I love the Fast Day feeling: strong, resolute, focused. I remember, coming back to this WoE again, how EASY it is to just decide, for one day, to limit my intake. I remember how grateful I am that I know that my hunger won't kill me, that it will subside, that I can drink something, or walk, or get busy with another class to teach AND STILL COPE. I am remembering how marvellous a body is that can cope with little food and little sleep: no excuses needed, just get on with life!

Yesterday, I had the most wonderful dinner of Camembert, crackers and some chutney made by a friend of mine, washed down with a glass of Malbec. No fuss, just raw pleasure, knowing I could savour it ahead of a day of cleaning out today. And after a weekend of wonderful eating: steak and chips with the youngest kid, lovely soup; I know I can go back to savouring and delighting in things, even indulging in things tomorrow, if I need to. But because it is midweek, and midweek is taking...

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More a new life resolution than a new year one...

by Bluebirdie on 24 Jan 2014, 18:16

It has taken me to the end of January to get here, but here I am. 15 stone something. I don't even know what the something is because my scales broke before Xmas and there has been, er, Xmas in between. The new scales with body fat monitor are hopefully arriving tomorrow though so I am looking forward to facing the music and beginning to track things better.

I have had a lifetime of poor eating habits, and since having my kids and developing a low thyroid, I am my heaviest ever. I know exactly what is wrong, it is the changing that is hard. I have used the fasting method before and found it really helpful, mostly because it worked more on my head and my heart than my belly or thighs. In other words, it helped me deal with my cravings, overrating, sweet tooth and other bad habits.

I am, officially, middle aged, and fully aware of the risks of getting older carrying so much fat. But I have also spent a fair old time over the last 18 months trying to sort my head out. After some depression,...

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