myfitnesspal.com support thread 3 - come join us!

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New thread since the old one is full :)

Bexsy, my DH is a keen cyclists and regularly cycles 12m to work in about 50mins. I would have thought 5m would take you between 20-30mins depending how fit you are.

Hmm the wagon has run off without me again, dreadful few days over cals + loads of booze. Not bad so far today but visiting the rents and my mum has cooked lasagne followed by cake and icecream for dinner followed by a pub lunch tommorow. Tricky. Will try and do the best I can and start again properly when I'm home tommorow evening. Eek.
Well done everyone who has more willpower than me

Can i join? Just started mfp yesterday in an effort to lose baby weight. Dd2 is 8 weeks old and am fatter now than at 8 months pregnant. Last time don't think i managed to lose weight til i stopped breastfeeding, but can't bear being 2 stone overweight all summer.

Am going for 1200cals plus 500 for ebf. Do you think this is too little? Am not doing exercise other than walking as am a) lazy and b) have baby attached to me.

Also any advice on snacking? Find i really want a biscuit (or 3) or chocolate or cake, particularly mid afternoon, low fat yoghurt or fruit doesn't cut it.

Forgot to say my username is stokey2012

Stokey walking is fine as an exercise, even better with baby attached! I'd be tempted to decrease weight loss goals to increase calories as it is very soon after youve had your baby! As for snacks, I do think the healthier you eat the less you crave sweet processed foods but I know what you mean, I still have chocolate or biscuits but only small amounts. The Cadbury small bars you can get in multipacks are only 110 calories or go for lower calories biscuits like rich tea.

Mfp has just recalculated my calories and I've lost 60 :(

Bexsy, you are probably looking at 30 minutes initially.

Hi everyone. May I join, please? I have well and truly fallen off the fitness wagon recently having started 2012 well. This weekend has been particularly bad

Anyway, I have about two stone to lose in total, and would like to get most of that off by the end of the year when we plan to TTC DC2.

Lots of weddings coming up over the summer- too late to lose much by the end of July but I'd like to shift a few pounds by then!

ffs bloody hell really don't know what's wrong with me. Keep starting off with right intentions and saying I'm getting bank on it but it quickly disappears!!!

I am truly becoming lazy again and hate myself for it and for not being able to get back in to it. I know I can do this as have lost 3 stone since October so why can I not keep doing it and lose the next 3 stone to my target weight?!?!

May have to go back to the beginning and look at what I was doing before I started to become stale mate with the weight coming off .

Everyone else is doing so well and good to see that MFP does work though

Sorry for mini rant am feeling quite bleugh and defeated at moment

Oh bexsy, I'm with you. My motivation is shot. I started logging again today because the weekend had been spectacularly bad :( Have managed ok so far (ok, apart from syrup sponge and a bar of chocolate) have been for a run too. I've been thinking of starting the shred again, do you want to do it together? I need a kick too, not going to meet my June goal :(

Bexsy, you've done amazingly well losing three stone, perhaps lower your target so just think about losing maybe another stone so the goal doesn't seem so far away? What do you enjoy doing exercise wise? I've just been for a cycle, I was so unfit, I was practically going snails pace up a hill, so am going to try and do the route at least three times a week so that I can see improvement in my fitness.

How about a photo of you pre-weight loss on your phone or something, I took a hideous photo of myself side view not breathing in, if I am feeling like hitting the stodge I look at that!

At least this time of year the weather is allegedly! good and the evenings are light, so it's easier to get out and do something.

Awawaw, this rainy cold weather is not helping...
I don't want to drag the dog out in the rain so my exercise is reduced. And I keep eating stodgy sweet things.... Luckily I am restricting myself to special k bars and weightwatchers cake slices but still

Bexsy, you have done brilliantly, 3 stone is a fab amount to have lost. Don't think about the next 3, only think about the next 1...

Hello to new joiners, my name is petd on MFP, please add me, I need all the motivation I can get....

3 stone is a brilliant achievement, I would like to lose half a stone, a stone would be brilliant, but have actually managed to put on 2 pounds over the weekend. I really need to get better at this.

Thanx guys

Just seem to be in a proper slump at the moment and it's making me feel even more low than I do already

Fed up of saying will start again tomorrow and then failing after 1 day it seems any excuse at moment not to do anything and I grab it

Well not sure how to get out of it but hoping I will soon will continue to read logs and MFP threads and hopefully that will inspire me

jchocchip I have heard lots of people mentioning the shred DVD but don't really know a lot about it? What do I need to start this? Which dvd is it? Does it work?

Hey guys ! Well we had a long weekend at Disneyland Paris I have been doing MFP and being healthier since Jan have lost 2 stones but knew this weekend would be tricky as not the healthiest of places ! Well all the walking meant I lost a pound even though I ate a couple of yummy puddings!

Now I have 5 weeks left until my holiday would love to lose another 4-6 pounds. I currently do a 5.5 mile walk one evening a week and a zumba class one night and walk around a mile most days .

Can't do my zumba class this week because of a work function couldn't get anyone to walk with me tonight so just found at the back of the cupboard a dusty copy of 30 day shred so just did level one !
Has anyone managed to actually religiously do the full 30 day schedule and see some good results -I have 35 days until my hols and think I could fit it in most days for a final excercise push ?

I think we're on the same track Magenta I'm off on holiday in five weeks too. I walk the dog twice a day, but I've taped some zumba things on the fitness channel, I don't know what they're like but I'm going to try and slot something in every day.

I have an MFP question - with regards to the weight of things like rice and pasta, when you're entering it onto your schedule is the weight that you're entering the weight of the dried pasta/rice or cooked. I gave myself 50g of cooked rice tonight, it was about the same size as a thimble full, but then I noticed one of the things on MFP gave the rice in dry and then cooked weights.

I'm not sure I can be much help bexsybooboo I think you have to be mentally ready to lose weight. Something has to change in your mindset to be able to do it. I lost weight at 23 when I was 18 1/2st and got to 13st where I was happy so just carried on eating as I was. I have been unhappy with my weight most of my life but not enough to do something about it, things changed for me in November and I'm not really sure why but am glad that I have maintained my momentum as I don't think it's easy to it get back.

I think perhaps you should think about why you're losing weight, why you are eating too much (is it because of the stress from your job, because you're hungry, bored etc), tell someone (us, friends etc) when you plan to exercise to get you to go or go with a friend and perhaps vary it to keep you interested. Make sure no matter what a day throws at you you make that 30 mins to do something active.

3 stone is a massive achievement and perhaps that's the problem that you see those 3 stone and see it as another 3 stone/7 months of doing this and you can't see it happening. Perhaps have a week where you don't think about weightloss at all and if you put on a bit so what? Are there things you could cut out/decrease to allow you treats so you don't feel you're so deprived? I personally would rather have small portions so I can have snacks and found that a few weeks after cutting those portion sizes I wasn't hungry anymore. Perhaps you could go out and treat yourself to something in your new size to remind you why you're doing this and to help you feel better about it all?

On a practical note don't have snacky things/junk in the house if at all possible, plan meals before you shop so that you know what you're doing and don't get to the point where you don't know what to have an end up binging on what you find. Try to find something that you like, that's low calorie but fills you up, I love cherry tomatoes for this. Hot chocolate is good for sugar hit that fills you up and isn't too many calories. I have found that they less junk you eat the less you want to eat, you just have to get over those initial cravings.

Sorry to ramble just typed things as they came into my head, really hope you get back on track as 3st is a great achievement and it would be a shame to go backwards. At least you are maintaining rather than gaining though, I know it's not the greatest comfort at the moment!

It usually says whether it's dried or boiled aliciaflorrick you just need to chose the right entry. I found a boiled one and as it remembers what you've put it I use the same one every time I eat rice. I give myself 3 dessert spoons when cooked and it weighs 85g when cooked.

cinnamongreyhound thank you.

Like you something clicked in October that this is what I wanted, only took 15/16 years to get to that point lol but I knew it was right. That's why I don't understand why now i can't find that same motivation but still want to lose.

Am going to have a quiet week but attempt to start planning for next week, of I manage to do exercise this week then it's a bonus

Thanx everyone again for taking time to respond it is appreciated

Ps will try not to sound so Blimmin miserable in future. You know when you just feel bleugh but you don't know why, well that's the feeling I have at mo and need to shake it pretty quick

Ah bexsy I so know where you are coming from. Cinnamon has given you some fabulous advice here. It's definitely all in your head as to why you can/cannot start the ball rolling and continue with your weightloss. I tend to get a bit complacent once i start losing weight and then wonder why the scales aren't moving. I really really have to be strict with myself in the early days/months so as not to slip back onto the slippery slope of crap food. You definitely have to be in the right frame of mind to do it. Are you scared of life at 3 stone lighter? Try and think what is mentally stopping you from getting cracking with the final leg of your journey.

I keep having to remind myself that ok, i might be missing lovely crap food, but "good" food will ALWAYS be there - it's not suddenly going to disappear and so i really dont need to think that i should eat as much as possible now before it all goes!

I'm going to have a difficult day tomorrow foodwise as i am going over to my friend's house for lunch with a few of my other friends (we rarely meet up these days!) so i am not only missing out on my gym sessions tomorrow, but she is also cooking a pasta bake (erk - mega carbs!). Obviously i will try to limit the damage and have a tiny bit of pasta but i think i will have a huge breakfast so i am not hungry when i get there lol.

Right, am off to bed now. Still so exhausted from Saturday so need a decent night's sleep.

N'night all!! :o

bexsy I thought you had done the shred, must have got you mixed up with someone else. It does work but I've only ever managed to do it for 11 days and not the 30...

I've not logged tea yet, and how to account for scraping the pan when I made jam earlier, i don't know!!

bexsy - the shred is the 30 day shred fitness dvd by Jillian Micheals (though on MFP there are plenty of links for you tube videos). Basically it is a short workout with 3 levels and you do each level for 10 days. It is a tough workout but gives good results. I am on day 18 and am feeling fab.

I am titanuim on mfp if you want to add me as a friend.

Well am rather chuffed as have lost 4 lbs in 3 days. I know the first bit is generally easiest and then you plateau out but seeing a difference immediately is great for my motivation. Have got a wedding on 23 rd with lots of old friends who i haven't seen since before dd1 so would like to get a little bit nearer my old self.

Losing 3 stone is amazing bexxy, am sure you'll be able to do a bit more.

Does anyone know if there is a stone and pounds setting? 14 times table is not that good...

Hi, can I join you? I have been on MFP for two weeks and lost 5 lb. Kind of lost the plot over the jubilee weekend (went away) and haven't completed my log but was doing it religiously before that and am back on it today. I have been kindly befriended by another mumsnetter on there, but need more of you! I recognise some of the names so will request you - I am clairetwoboys on there so please add me!

stokey - well done! Great loss! :)

Harrietlichman - hello and welcome!!

Had an horrendous awful awful awful day today (foodwise). I went to a get together at my friend's house today and unfortunately she served pasta bake, bread and salad for lunch, followed by cakes for dessert. I didn't want to sit there and bleat about how i dont really do carbs and so ate them just to be polite . Have to say they were very yummy tho!!