myfitnesspal.com support thread all welcome, part 2

[foreverondiet]

New MFP thread, as old one is full....

Support for those doing MFP, if you are new post your MFP user name so we can befriend you there, and introduce yourself!

Some of us doing low or moderate carbs alongside MFP.

We were doing Monday weigh-ins but thats very flexible!

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I'm Sloth45 on mfp

The nutrition booklet details 5 separate meal lists - each day you choose one meal from each of the meal lists, totalling 5 meals per day. Each meal list has 10 options to choose from, with each meal containing approx 300 calories, and has instructions about how to scale it up to either 400 or 500 calories, depending on your individual caloric needs. This is for month 1 - in month 2 the workouts are harder and you can add 100 calorie complex carbohydrate snacks if you wish.

Looking at the food, it seems to consist of lots of protein (egg, egg white, turkey, chicken, fish etc), also meals including a whole grain muffin, whole grain wrap, slice of bread with peanut butter, veg and some fruits. There's a really good choice of meals. I won't be eating 5 meals per day (no time!) but as I've been trying to follow the clean eating principles, this seems to pretty much fit in with that.

Good luck with the duathlon! Has your training been going well? You certainly seem to be flying with your running!

Hi guys. Not been on mfp much last few days as asthma got really bad. Beathless just walking up stairs or talking. hope you all doing ok :)

Interesting with diet, as thats very similar to how I eat - although not 5 meals!

Yes duathlon is soon! Am v nervous of the hills in Richmond Park.

I just went and got myself a goal. I have join a Tri Woman series. 3 dates-
6th of November 100m swim, 10k bike, 3k run
4th December- 150m swim, 15k bike, 4 k run
29th January- 200m swim, 20k bike, 5krun

The swim is fine as I love swimming and its in an indoor pool and the run will be fine as Iam loving my running and will be finished the C25K by then so well timed but the biking?? I don't have a bike and last summer I borrowed my friends bike and it hurt my fanny .

Get cycling shorts for training (and tri-suit which has some padding for race -its good for swimming and running in) and also get padded seat for bike.

Febes, great! I agree the bike bit is the hardest, swim should be no problem at all as the distances are v short and its in a pool. Even 750m in a lake only took me less 17 mins. The bike leg is my worst bit ? partially because I get scared going downhill fast. You just need to practice! The gym does help (spinning ) with the muscles but not with the balance and downhill aspect.

My duathlon is on Sunday (eek!) (10km run 20km cycle and 5km run) and have another triathlon on 25th sept (750m lake swim, 20km cycle and 5km run). Have done no swimming since my last triathlon in June so will be doing lots of swimming next week and the week after! Then it will be back to the gym all winter, unless I decide to do the London Marathon. A bit tempted but would mean a huge amount of running over the winter. Plus its impossible to get a place unless get sponsorship.

Thanks for the tips Forever. I'll look into padded seat for sure!! I have mapped out a 10k route near my house so I'll cycle that twice a week and then run 3 times a week with my c25k. We all go swimming every sunday when me DD has lessons so I'll jump in a do a few lengths each sunday. I also want to do NMTZs or another strength workout each week. Hope I can fit all that in! I'm not joined to a gym so its all training at home or out in the neighbour but the triwoman people do training sessions each week so I'll try to join in. I think the biking will be all flat.

Hello!

Just got the app and wondering if anyone else does it and here you all are! Woo hoo

My username is mikaelas85 and would love some friends on there to keep me motivated.

I would like to loose 1.5lb a week and would like to be able to get back to kickboxing so need to build my fitness and loose weight to get into my clothes.

hi mikaela - have added you! good luck! this week i've been able to wear some clothes I havent worn for over a year and people at work have really noticed the difference - it's great and motivating! I think it's been harder for anyone to notice recently as I've still been in my "big" clothes but now I have a real shape - just another 7lbs to go.

I hope you really enjoy mfp - I've found it invaluable and really easy to use. Also you dont feel you're depriving yourself of anything as in principle you can eat anything you like but you're naturally going to have to make choices about what and how much. I found it really helped me see that my portion sizes were way out of control!

Hi all. My username on MFP is carryonslimming if anyone would liek to befriend me I started MFP on monday and was doing so well until yesterday when I ate the contents of the kitchen. I put it down to only having had 3 hours sleep the night before. I weighed myself yesterday and I am 2lbs more than when I last weighed in. I ahve two choices though: give up and get fatter or really throw myself into it. I am going for the latter option. So, poached egg on toast for breakfast and salad for lunch. Also going for a 5k run today.

Hi, I've just joined MFP and have noticed how much easier it is to stick to a diet when you log everything - DH is even on board now! My username is HannahT78, so if people would like to befriend me on there and give me a kick up the bum occasionally I'd be really grateful!

I aim to lose 11lb (target is 8st 13, oh to be in the 8s again) by the end of October and then I am going to go out and treat myself to a new wardrobe in the hope it'll give me the incentive to keep the weight off - I got down from 12st4 to 9st7 last year, and then crept back up to 10st5, mostly because I was a bit too thin for all my clothes under 10 stone!

I'm trying to stick to 1200 calories a day, although have a few more when I exercise - either running, gymming, swimming or cycling. I have a half marathon tomorrow and I know I won't get round it if I don't fuel effectively so will probably have around 2000 calories tomorrow.

febes - it might be worth looking at how your bike is set up if it hurts your fanny. If you're reaching too far towards the handlebars your weight will be too far forward on your pelvis - onto your pubis rather than your sit bones. I didn't get on with padded saddles but ended up with one from Specialized which comes in 3 sizes to fit different seats (you sit on a piece of foam and they measure the distance between your sitbones) and has a cutout in the middle to stop pressure on anywhere delicate.

forever - are you doing laps of Richmond Park? There's only one bigish hill, and I find singing to myself "just keep spinning, just keep spinning" a la Dory from Finding Nemo helps get me up it. That, and getting into a lower gear at the bottom of it (just as you get to the roundabout). Good luck in your race!

a friend told me that you should compare your slimming approach to your car. If you get a puncture (i.e. if you go off track on your diet one day), you get it fixed and carry on. You dont slash all the tyres and smash the windscreen in!
I love that analogy... hope it's helpful to others

good luck for tomorrow Forever - looking forward to hearing your race report!

(ladydeedy - fab analogy!)

Just going to add u afishcalledmummy. I have a similar goal to get back to pre preg weight although I've 18lbs to loose. I'm bridesmaid at the end if oct so it's gonna be hard work!

afish yes Richmond park although no idea of route! TBH not worried about getting up it, more terrified falling off going down other side!!!!!

Yes will report back tomorrow. Have eaten quite a lot today but thats ok as no brekkie tomorrow or I'll have a stitch (will drink apple juice though).

Think 15km run and 20km cycle is over 1500 calories! (although will have to ingest some yucky lucozade gel plus apple juice.)

I picked up a bike from my friends place this morning and then went for my run 1 week 4 (16mins of running in all) then took the DCs for swimming and jumped in and did a few lengths so a good training day.
Forever- What do you think I should do training wise just the distance I will be doing for the tri or more? Eg I have planned out a 10k bike ride and plan to do that twice a week until the first race and then up it to 15k before the second race and then 20k for the 3rd race.
The swimming is 100m so thats all I did today I think I'll try to do more as I will probably only get one session in the water each week. I'll be doing 3/4 runs a week as per the C25k programme.
What would you suggest for me forever?

Forever - that's like me. I am always hanging on my brakes coming down big hills! The one in Richmond Park is quite easy to descend as it's wide and the corners are long and sweeping so you can maintain speed through them. Have lots of fun with it.

Febes - the thing I found most beneficial when I was tri training was doing brick sessions. That is, running straight off the bike. You need to get used to the heavy leg feeling that lasts a few minutes as you switch disciplines as it's very dispiriting the first time! It's probably not worth going over distance on the bike unless you need to for confidence reasons but do get some bricks in!

Looking forward to my half today - am completely undertrained but that's definitely better than a teeny bit overtrained!

Thanks I'll do one brick session every weekend! Great tip.

Anyone having any problems using MFP at the moment? I keep getting something about a server error?

Well I survived, actually enjoyed it! No sign of official time yet but was 2:20 on my stopwatch. Did 10km at start in good time and bike a bit slow...

Febes suggest brick training even if start with short distances, as running feels totally different after a bike run (even more different after a run and a bike like today). I wouldn't bother going over the distance on the bike, might be worth going over the distance a bit on the run if you aren't doing it combined with a bike ride.

Well done Forever - I know nothing about cycling but those running times are great on their own, let alone as part of a duathlon. Good luck with your training Febes

Afishcalledmummy - how did your half marathon go? Your weight is very similar to mine - I would LOVE to be under 9 stone by the end of October...but am not sure I can see it happening, not at the rate I'm going anyway. Please keep us updated with your weight loss, it might inspire me

I'm on to day 6 of the Insanity workouts now - they are really tough! I love the workouts, and especially that there's a different workout every day. They are only 30-40 mins long but I sweat like a pig find it tough.

I haven't lost any weight yet though :( and am wondering how successful the program will be - I have managed to do a workout AND a run on one day, and an additional 20 min abs session another, but otherwise I don't have time to do this dvd every day, plus something else. So I'm actually giving up most of my running/body pump etc to do a 40 min workout. The people on the dvd all have 6 packs and look mega toned - and I'm sure they work out more than 40 mins per day. Still, it wasn't cheap so I'm going to make sure I finish it, and just add in extra if I can. DS2 is teething so I got less than 3 hours sleep last night - and in the middle of that DS1 woke up, so I certainly won't be doing any more than the 40mins tonight.

Hi Wifezilla - I won't lie about the half yesterday, it was difficult. But I did actually enjoy the whole thing. There was an enormous 1 1/2 mile hill between miles 8 and 9.5, which I ended up walking up as I wanted to enjoy the day and not vomit, and we were rewarded with wine at the top which made up for the slog. As it was hilly and off road, and I was completely undertrained, my time was rubbish but I think I have rediscovered my running mojo. Have overeaten a bit today as I'm starving, but am still below my BMR so still have a deficit, but I expect that my body needs some extra fuel to replenish the glycogen stores in my muscles and heal my achy, achy legs.

I will weigh in tomorrow, but at my weigh in yesterday I was a fraction under 9.10, so I'm still going down. It's just such slow progress when I'm under 10 stone, I guess because my diet is mostly good when I'm this weight.

Are you using a tape measure Wifezilla? I do measurements as well as weight and sometimes when my weight loss plateaus I still lose inches which stops me going crazy.

We have people over for supper tonight, so I have been scouring the internet for diet friendly entertaining food. We're having filo wrapped salmon with tomato & ginger jam, sugar snaps and new potatoes followed by a chocolate and cardamom mousse. The whole lot comes in under 500 calories, which I'm quite impressed with. I may even be able to have a little glass of wine...

Official timings: Run 1 (10km): 51:44. Bike (22km): 1:00:58. Run 2 (5km): 24:25. Total Time Including Transitions 2:21:24.

I ache a bit this morning, so did a swim instead of a run!

fish I also had very very slow progress under 10 stone until I went low fat and low carb and it came off quickly again.

Hi All

Everyone still going strong which is really inspiring me to keep going.

Have now lost 11ibs in 4 weeks and actually ran 1.5 miles on weekend, which I cant believe I done.

Am now in panic mode though as I am seriously overweight but friends in work trying to inspire me to set a personal challenge of completing a 6 mile run in March!!!! OMG nightmares already.

Any tips greatly recieved.

Am Bexsy on MFP if anyone would like to befriend.

Brilliant work Forever whats your next challenge??
Thanks for the tips. I'll have a go at brick training this weekend. We get daylight savings in a few weeks so I'll be able to do more in the evenings. Today I'm going to do circuits 1-5 of NMTZs and run 2 week 4 of c25k tonight.
I'm now 14st 8 (lost 4st 10!!!)

febes am doing a sprint triathlon on 25th september - 750m swim, 20km cycle and 5km run. And nothing lined up after that!