Just signed up at 'My Fitness Pal'. Any advice, experience, or desire to join me?

[worriermum]

I read about the website, myfitnesspal.com on MN. Am truly desperate to stop the ever rising weight gain - I have just topped my full term pregnancy weight. I've never really been a dieter, or even believed in diets, but I Have To Do Something. Would love to do it with some other Mumsnetters - anyone interested in joining me?

All the weight loss threads seem so bloated, if you'll pardon the metaphor. I'm intimidated by 537 messages, or 219 messages. Feel I cant be arsed to read through all that and I will never be part of the club if I dont read the history. Advice please?

Hi Betty! Sounds like you've been manic!! Poor you!! Hope you get the school place you want - what a pain for you.

Back on the wagon tho, eh? As forever says, eating more wont get your DCs into school! (I like that way of thinking!)

Went out on my new bike last night. I was wobbling around all over the place, you should have seen me!! Even DP was a bit that i would actually make a trip without falling off! The bike needs a few adjustments, i.e. the saddle raising and i think a new handlebar too because the edge of the handlebars were digging in to the outer pads of my hands, and I didn't feel like i had full control because of this. I think road tyres are needed too. Then i'll be sorted properly. w00p!! :o

Hi betty - get back on it ;) you know you want to.
Sorry to hear about the school places though. nightmare!

RG- well done on the bike ride. ive not been on a bike in years and years. I reckon id be very wobbly. My mum gave me her old one, needs a bit of tlc but i should sort it out. Thing is id i have to take DD with me.. yeah. actually. sort of makes in impossible. arse!

Am wearing my size 14 skinny jeans today ;) little bit muffiny, but cleverly discuised with a long cardigan. Few more weeks and they should look fab!!

have just had to eat a bloody cinamon roll thing though. had a new lady come in to meet us all and she brought them. We all sat down ( all 5 of us) and it just was not the right place to say no. i would have looked really awkward.

But it was only 140cals and i picked the smallest, almost half the size of the others one...so not too bad... and i just ajust my daily cals accordingly.

Red - How about trying one of THESE?! DP was lucky enough to get one given to him for nothing by some bloke he happened to be working with! DD has been for a ride round the block on it and loved it! We have yet to go out on a proper trek in it yet tho. Think what we might do is go to a country park or something with all 3 bikes and let DD ride around for a bit til she gets tired. Then we can go back to the car and swap her bike for the trailer so we can carry on riding and she can rest for a bit!

Well done on showing some restraint on the cinnamon things! :o

haha. DD is 5 and the size ( height and weight ) of an 8 year old. id most likely die from the effort and she would be having none of it!!! lol

am pissed off about the cinamon things. meh.

Thanks all - good way to look at it, certainly won't help with schools. Plus I'd like to look a bit more trim for when I start the new job.

Have just made my food diary public too! I hadn't realised how long I've been away for. Ok, today is going well so far... Onwards and upwards :)

Oh man, had all the mums around today and they took me by suprise - had lots of biscuits out and didn't have breakfast am so cross with myself as logged it and then realised that that is almost it for the day. Even with doing loads of exercise I don't think I am going to be better off. Bugger it.

Oh bugger Red. That's that idea scuppered then!!

Betty - that's the spirit!

Figgy - I hate it when the day starts with all good intentions but then completely goes to pot! Hope you have a better day tomorrow. :)

Just had a horrible vision of myself. Went to a kid's birthday party at DP's friend's house last weekend and didn't realise that someone had taken a picture of me. Good grief i look enORmous! I thought i looked ok when i left the house that day but i look awful!! Oh well, i am never going to show my arms again or where any other colour but black! Arses. :(

RG that has happened to me so many times. I feel your pain and sympathise. Don't do what I did the last time that happened and console yourself with a Snickers - stupid stupid stupid!!!! Take that picture and use it as your reminder as to why you're doing this - I lift my top up and look at my flabby stretch marked super-size stomach when I want to eat crap. It doesn't always stop me but 9 times out of 10 it does the trick.

Meant to put a on the end of that - didn't mean to sound like a lecturer!

I had steamed fish for supper though so I am being quite good, and I took the dog for a walk but the goal for Monday's weigh in is 183lbs and I am not sure its I suppose better than putting a bit on though if I stay the same!

And hypocritical bitch of the year award goes tooooooooo..............

GILBONZO!!!!!

Yep, I'm a total nob.

'Ooo say no to chocolate, use negative images to spur you on' she says. Alternatively, eat the kids' easter eggs when you've completed your food diary for the day and pretend the calories don't count. Believe me, after 4 days of this I can announce that they do, indeed, count.

I'm so depressed at the moment. I hate where I live, we're totally skint, I've just found out that the business I wanted to start up is a no-goer from the start, a good friend has let me down, I'm the sounding board for all my friends who have (some of them quite major) problems and I didn't lose weight while really really trying and being good last week

So I decided, without acknowledging I'd decided, to eat my way out of misery. Well that really worked didn't it?! An extra kilo to lose next week as well as all th others. Fuck.

Hi everyone, nice to be back. Wow, hasnt our thread grown and grown - I wonder how much we have lost collectively. Actually Gilbo that last sentence means I can challenge you for hypocrite of the thread award: how much "we" have lost is utterly misleading as I suspect I have gained, or at least stayed the same. But sorry you're having such a hard time of it Gilbo - hope you feel better soon.

What can I say except that food is Sydney is utterly delicious...and I will start again with new resolve tomorrow.

Congrats to those who are losing, and thanks for all the inspiring pep talks and motivational tips. I aspire to providing some, one day, when I have some success stories to share.

Hi all - worriermum hope you are having a good time and sydney, and are getting back on wagon. gilbonzo big un-mumsnetty hugs, you sound sad hope you feel more motivated tomorrow. princess i hope too that mondays weigh in is good!.

Right I have printed off my cycle map and I am going to get up early tomorrow and go for my maiden bike ride. Am thinking 7am on a sunday should be a quiet time on the roads!

I ate too much at lunch today had friends round, and made v healthy food - smoked salmon and melon (dead easy!) for starter, cold meats and loads of salads for mains plus potato dish that I avoided... but then ate too much date cake and chocolate cup cakes..... well still am not hungry and its 10pm and didn't eat the 600 or so exercise calories I had yesterday - and I guess now I maintaining ok to slip up. But why did I not stop at one piece of cake like normal person????

you see forever, that's where your thinking wrong, only normal people wouldn't have just one pice of cake

Right ladies, I am going to boot us all up the backside -
a) this is not a race
b) we are human and allowed a few slip ups
c) we have done SOwell so far, and have completely changed our lives and outlook in a month a MONTH ladies. Not many people do that

The other thing I wanted to say was, we have done it, and we can do it again, it isn't as hard as we thought and although we have had are slips we haven't fallen yet and we aren't going to.

Saturday night leture over, am going to have a bath and a glass of wine, it is saturday night and one large small glass is not going to hurt me. Tomorrow is another day.

pice I mean Piece

normal people do slip up on nice cake - do not beat yourself up!!

Hi everyone

I dont think anyone is truly normal if they only have one piece of cake (unless they are buying it in a tea shoppe and dont want to look like a pig!)

I went on my second bike ride today and surprised myself at my stamina! Not sure if it was a mental thing or something but i managed to do 8 miles today!! We did change the handlebars on the bike first tho, as the original ones seemed to be really short so that they dug into the pads of my hands. Quite painful! The new handlebars tho are much much better! :o I feel so sorry for DP tho - he spent the entire 90 minutes riding his bike - and pulling the trailer with our 3.5 yo DD in it! It was hard enough pulling my arse around on the bike, let alone a child too!! lol!!

Starting afresh again on Monday so will check in with my weight then. Erk. Wish me luck!

And it was yummy warm date cake. Supposed to come with sauce but didn't make sauce as its cream and sugar!

I think ate too much as haven't eaten cake pretty much since October.... didn't even have any cake on DS1's first birthday or DS2's 5th birthday.

Yes you have reassured me, normal people are allowed a slip up!

Talking of cake.... must make a yummy banana bread/cake tomorrow!!

Its Ds1's birthday party tomorrow - joint with other May birthdays from his class. That will be fun 30 reception children. Will not eat anything though and luckily don't have to make cake.

RPPargy have baked quite a lot whilst on diet and have had remarkable self control to basically not eat any of it.

But today was different, normally would look at dessert and not have any but thought one slice ok and then ate about 5.

lol Forever!! Sounds like me - all or nothing!

When i made my teddy bear cakes i didn't eat a single bit of it, except for when i had specifically saved one for DP and I to eat. Even then tho i didn't really want to eat it but just wanted to coz i'd made it, IYSWIM!

Forever - lol. bless you. Normal people do eat more than once slice of cake!!! BUT you are in maintance now, its ok. Dont worry about it and just make sure you dont eat 5 slices of cake everyday.

To all those who have ' slipped up' or whatever, you know. we are all human, life happens. FOOD happens. Sometimes there is no getting round that. Its just getting back on it, starting again and carrying on. Again, that blog ive been reading . took the girl 2 years to losr 50lbs. but she did it, and is doing it ( still another 20 to go) It kind of changed my way of thinking about this, its not a sprint to get there quickest... its a lifestyle change and it will happen, but, because we are human, not robots there will be slip ups :) and thats ok.

Gilbo - :( oh dear. but you know what, DONT beat yourself up about it, just dont. You are doing really well. think of all yoiu have learnt from MFP already.

figgy - fab post!

Worrier- sounds like you are having a lovely time. quite, quite jealous!

rg- fab on the bike front. amazing!

Well, not officially my weigh in day till tue, but seeing as im having a meal out at lunchtime and dont expect to lose a lot tomorrow i wanted to see how id done so far...... < drum roll> 2lbs in 5 days :) taking me to a grand total of 15lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15lbs in 2 months and my bmi is now officially out of the ' obese' catergory and into the ' overweight' one. wooohoooooo.

So - going out for lunch today. 3 course meal. To counter act this and to make a vain attempt to stay within my cal goals, or for them not to go way off the scale im just having berries for breakfast. and probably no tea as really, the meal isnt until 1.30 so im not going to feel like eating come 6 am i. Its my cheat meal, but im still going to attempt to make some good choices ( until of course some cheesy thing is wafted under my nose).

Hi all.

I don't think it is possible to go a whole week without a slip up. I decided to get one of those Asda curry meal bags for 2 for Friday night. BIG MISTAKE never to be repeated. 1200 calories!!!!! I nearly cried and DH had to tell me to get a grip and eat the bloody meal!

We are sanding the hall today so I am hoping the manual labour may burn off a bit of the chicken tikka

Gilbonzo- dieting is difficult enough, never mind when you are feeling low. I am personally stuck in a rut so deep it is a canyon at the minute. It is difficult to stay on track and I can confirm that following extensive research the thorntons eggs were nicest

oh and another thing. Does anyone have people always trying to ruin their diet?
My mother noticed friday that i was looking thinner and i told her yes, i had lost almost a stone ( hadnt weighed in then)

Her first response ' well, why dont you treat yourself with a big takeway later, you have had a hard week ( i have had a SHIT week, fecking awful glad to see the back of) and it would be lovely to have a curry and some rice and some nan, and get a few side dishes'
!!!!
I said, that i didnt want to seeing as we are all going out for this big lunch today and that one i couldnt afford it ( gilbs- im skint as a skint thing too :) ) and that i didnt want to eat one when id be eating such a lot sunday.

She got all humpy with me and told me i was being pathetic.

So now i think ive hit that place where people start to notice and then are CONSTANTLY watching what you eat and telling you you are too thin ( even though you are still overweight) or that you arent eating enough and will make yourself ill ( nope, im eating 1200 and thats just fine thank you!)

Does anyone else get this and how do you deal with it?

red yes had people constantly saying "ooo you are getting too thin" especially my mother in law but other mums from school.

My responses, depending on person and phase of diet:

• well according to my BMI I'm still overweight
• well my pre-pregnancy clothes still don't fit
• well I'm not as thin as you yet
• (to MIL) - well would love to be as thin as SIL (ie her daughter)
• yup, doing well, but not at target yet
• yup, only a couple of pounds to go

etc.

In terms of the comment about eating out I would say something like

• are you mad, why would i waste 1000 calories on a take away and sabotage my progress. ie get humpy with them before they could get humpy with me. or to my mum "just because you can't manage to loose weight doesn't mean you should try and sabotage my weight loss progress".

Money never an excuse, as wouldn't want to eat the takeaway even if someone else paying.

peg wow am amazed so many calories in the meal bag.