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I must be the ONLY forum member who's tracker shows weight-loss as a minus figure thanks to the months of being in carb and sugar hell! I felt really ashamed of my weight gain so decided to make my tracker stats invisible.. But as from today i'm putting them back up there cos i'm more focussed and motivated than ever now and hopefully having them visible will keep me that way! But ohhhhh man, how embarrassing! That -7.71kg is how much I put on, minus 2kg that I've recently lost (again) so I'm working backwards now, need to get that -7.71kg back to 0kg

OMG. .....How can we help?

Congrats on being brave and bearing your stats. Now kick up the butt and get back on it.
We're all watching!!


Good luck we are all behind you cheering you on x

So the positives are, that you are still a healthy bmi, you know what you are doing wrong and putting it on here for us all to see means you want to fix it. We're all here for you so onward and downward.

I was inspired by Moogie's earlier post

I was tempted to make my tracker invisible again cos I feel a bit exposed now, but sod it! hiding/avoiding is something I need to work on changing in myself anyway

Thank you for the support; I'm terrible for (never) asking for it when I need it my friends are saying they haven't noticed the over A WHOLE STONE gain, but I don't believe that cos I'd got to a point of urgency for bigger clothes - but I absolutely refuse, not gonna happen!!

Anyway... I've done it before, I KNOW I can do it again and at least it's not the whole shabang of poundage back on!

I've spent the last couple of weeks de-carbing and detoxing from sugar and I already feel some control coming back and my appetite decreasing (slowly!). This is just the start and a massive lesson about complacency under my belt (not that I need a belt at the moment )

Chichi I spent all last summer wearing the one and only pair of pants that fitted. Was rather awkward when they needed washing but was a great incentive to lose the weight.

Chichi I spent all last summer wearing the one and only pair of pants that fitted. Was rather awkward when they needed washing but was a great incentive to lose the weight.

Yea.... I'm relating to this

Don't worry Chichi! I'm in exactly the same boat! I've got about two months to go to get back to where I started on 5:2 back on 13 March. Over a half a year or more to get back to where I was when I went off the rails in May.

So when I came back, I was tempted, don't you worry, to either:

1. Create a completely new profile and leave The Fishbaum behind. I was thinking I could reinvent myself as 'Captain Fishbaum' or 'The Scarlet Fishbaum' and no one would put 2 and 2 together. That way my new losses would actually show up on the stats and I wouldn't have to see the big climb on the progress chart from May to November.

or...

2. Contact Moogie and get her to reset my start date as 31 October instead of 13 March, thereby erasing the past and keeping my identity.

But...The past is the past. It is what really happened...So...In the end, I decided to be true to myself. Every day when I enter my stats, I look at what happened to me when I fell off that wagon. It is incredibly sad but I HAVE TO FACE IT. 5:2 is the only thing that took weight off me WITHOUT AGONY and WITHOUT ME FEELING DEPRIVED.

So don't worry about your stats because I beat you. I put on 14kg in 5 months off 5:2. I have learnt, however, that it was not a failure, just a lesson.

Chichi, please don't feel embarrassed. You and The Fish, should feel really proud of yourselves for being open and honest with us and giving us the opportunity to support you both on your new journey.

You both know what you have to do...... So do it!
We will be with you holding your hand (or behind you kicking you up the but).

Lesley.

Captain Fishbaum, naaah nobody would have guessed! hehe! Thank you so much for sharing that; It's reassuring not being a solo sailor in this whacking great big boat! Yea, I had the same decisions to make and also thought about deleting my profile. It's disheartening not to see the weight-loss on my stats display but y'know what, that's not what this is about is it... and like you, I have to face it. In doing so, I'm reminded of what happens when I lose focus!

I suppose, yes we've put weight back on but unlike soul-destroying diets, we're able to come back to THIS WOE/WOL which we KNOW works. It is a forgiving WOL too.

I think I might put my stats in my signature like you've done actually...

Thank you again...

Thank you to Chichi and Captain Fishbaum for sharing your stories. I think that honesty with yourself is absolutely essential and I wish you well now you are back on the wagon. I also think that there will be a number of others in the forum who are in the same situation as you but have either left or are not sharing their data which is a shame as it is helpful for all of us to share experiences, good or bad.

I'm in maintenance but I can see a bit of weight creep now that winter and (for me) the associated carb cravings are here so I need to be careful.

Well done to both of you for coming out. I remember reading on the forum that new fat is easier to get rid of so it's all good. Wishing you both luck and sure you can do it otherwise you know who will be round with the wet fish! You know what though? Isn't it a fab thing not to have to think oh I'll start on Monday/new year or whatever. You can just jump back in any time. Get those stats up so we can keep an eye on you

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you two! I had a patch of bad stuff in the family that out my fibro into a flare and rather lost the plot in my fight against sugar and carbs. I knew from experience it was all down to the FMS and the fact that my brain interprets exhaustion as hunger but I never learn!

I was luckier than you in that I only put back about 4or 5 lbs. I know some can lose that in a week but it takes me months so I have undone a lot of hard work. I'm sure that keep reading the messages kept me on track along with a couple of people who actually missed me and PMd, thanks for that ladies, you know who you are!

It would have been easier to chuck in the towel until after Christmas but common sense has prevailed and I just finished a full week of really hard core 16:8 and LCHF. The carb cravings have been shocking and are not helped by all the adverts for Christmas food and having to shop surrounded by mince pies and chocolates but that's a week down and I know the cravings will soon drop off now.

We never learn do we?

I'm pretty much in the same boat as you two! I had a patch of bad stuff in the family that out my fibro into a flare and rather lost the plot in my fight against sugar and carbs. I knew from experience it was all down to the FMS and the fact that my brain interprets exhaustion as hunger but I never learn!

I was luckier than you in that I only put back about 4or 5 lbs. I know some can lose that in a week but it takes me months so I have undone a lot of hard work. I'm sure that keep reading the messages kept me on track along with a couple of people who actually missed me and PMd, thanks for that ladies, you know who you are!

It would have been easier to chuck in the towel until after Christmas but common sense has prevailed and I just finished a full week of really hard core 16:8 and LCHF. The carb cravings have been shocking and are not helped by all the adverts for Christmas food and having to shop surrounded by mince pies and chocolates but that's a week down and I know the cravings will soon drop off now.

We never learn do we?

Well done for not chucking the towel in it's dealing with the cravings that's the hard part isn't it but once they're under control it gets easier. I'm like you, LCHF. Took about 10-14 days for my cravings to subside and THANK GOD they have. I'll just have to be vigilant over christmas and not let myself get talked into "aw go on, just a little..." or "aw go on, I made it special" and all that!!!! havin said that, I reeeeeeeally don't have any inclination towards anything sugary or carby so long may that continue