Getting healthy and losing weight through the power of MOTIVATION

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Motivational Monday - where we are motivated to stick to our diet and exercise plans for the rest of the week.
Progess logged on Kato's spreadsheet (if you want to of course)
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Well lunch went ok. I had scampi and mushy peas but gave all my chips to dd. I had coffee for pudding and the smallest piece of birthday cake ever. Happy with that as I was full and didn't feel I was missing out. :)

How's everyone else getting on?

Date night, pasta with tomato and red pepper sauce, no pudding, 1/3 bottle of wine. about to spoil it all with a seashell chocolate though
Night all

Bonkey nooooooo not ill again. How are you now?

lollipop wow, well done you. Keep us updated and hope it all works out for the best.

Hair to the french shelves comment

IMST I love sea shell chocolates! Although tbh I'm not sure if they've got cheaper tasting or I've got less oily tastes now but I only ever want one or two as I find that's just enough as more and it's too greasy

Busy day today kitchen planning. We're knocking through the dining room and kitchen together hopefully in spring so a complete facelift. Is anyone any good on colours in a kitchen? We're currently looking at shaker ish style creamy cupboards, cream range cooker, hopefully teak worktops and these tiles (see the next photo if you are interested enough to look as it shows all of the patterns). Also a very light limestoney lino. Wondering if it will look to meh and wishy washy. We can have painted walls and jazzy curtains though. If anyone is any good on this please let me know your thoughts as we are useless and don't want to make a very expensive mistake.

Can anyone help with MFP? I was fiddling around with the settings, and looked to see how many more calories I could eat if I do my shred, so put in 5 20min sessions a week. Nothing changed - it said i was still on course for 1.2lb loss a week, I'd asked for 2. nd then I upped the exercise to a ridiculous amount - 5h per day, and still nothing changed, 1200 cals for a 1.2lb loss. I don't knoiw why it is doing this and tbh it's making me question my faith in it.

It won't let your calories go below 1200, in fact it tells you off if you don't eat 1200 as I do most days
Perhaps you've hit that hurdle. I don't use it to set targets really, just to keep track of calories. Log stuff and see what the scales say. No app will accurately predict weight loss as people are all different.

but surely if I'm eating 1200 and doing loads of exercise (which I'm not :o) then I shold be able to do my requested weight loss of 2lb per week? Yet the 1.2 never changes?

It won't let you net less than 1200, but every calorie extra you exercise you can then eat. Ignore the prediction, it's fiction anyway.

Morning all.

I can't be any help I'm afraid Stealth. I used MFP for exactly one day before it did my head in.

reastie I think it sounds lovely but I think you could use a strong colour on the walls/ curtains. Perhaps a deep sky blue or something in the pink/red side? I also think yellow should be avoided as your units may end up looking a bit grubby. The other option could be a type of grey with colourful kettle and other accessories to give it a lift.

I'm dreading the weigh in tomorrow again. I've not been paying attention so I've no idea if I've done well or not. Also I know it's totm soon so that will affect things.

I quite like it, apart from this :) I need artificial willpower it provides!
I have found that the weight I put on quickly over Christmas has come off quickly too - ridiculously quickly. Does that mean it was bloating? I went up to 11s9 whenever I weighed, am now back down to just under 11s2! So feeling good as hopefully I'll be soon back to 10s13, which was where I was on Christmas Eve.

Wow that is quick. It would be great to be back where you started in what feels like no time at all. It could have been bloating or water retention from such a quick change in your diet. You're body is probably sighing with pleasure now things are back to normal.

I bet Shred helped too.

Not managed to motivate myself to do it again :(

I made meatloaf today, with boiled eggs buried inside.
It was yummy, filling and healthy (made it with lots of onion and oats)
I almost followed a recipe too! well, I looked at the ingredients and put most of them in before free styling
All set for tomorrow's weigh in, once the DCs are at school. I feel I'm doing well even without MFP to guide me any more.

Wow, no Mfp! That's brave

I've been trying it this week and it seems to be going well. I reached my target MFP weight, I want to see if I can self-regulate my diet. Time will tell.

That's brilliant, not sure I realised you'd reached your target...did I? I know you talked around Christmas and new year anout maintaining but I just thought you were close. Yes maintaining without Mfp would be the ideal wouldn't it?
Shouldn't we have had a virtual party and presents? The first graduate!

I had slightly different targets, so hit them at different times. 11st was way before Christmas so I revised it to 10 st 8 and hit that on Christmas Eve.
Wii fit target was BMI 29, MFP target was 67kg, hit those on 30/12/12.
My long term target now is 9st 3 by the summer, that puts me at the top of "healthy weight" with a BMI just below 25. If I can do that without MFP I will be able to maintain long term.

Thats fab IMST!

Did you get mfp sorted SPB?

So, still feel coldy but better! Had a doc appointment fri and she wants to do some blood tests so I have that to look forward to on Friday . Its a fasting one which makes it worse because I get quite faint and dizzy from just the needle alone so no food will not help.

I am back on MFP as of today!
I'm really going to try and start healthy eating again not just sandwiches so i am hoping mfp can help keep me on track!
Ds has gone back to school today so I am enjoying the peace!

How are we all? Good weekends?

Morning everyone.

Well the holidays have finished and it's finally caught up with me. I knew it would. 2lbs on so back up to 11st. I'm not too upset though as I originally thought it would be worse.

Back to routine now though so hopefully it won't be too difficult to get back on track. Also back to lacking every day so I'm sure that will help.

Happy New Year!

Been awol due to the new house and all the festivities! Had a few knocks from those RL crappy friends I've told you about before so purging these as aprt of new 2013 start! - Also determined to keep the new house tidy, organised and clutter free!

I've decided to give myself a swift kick up the arse and stop moping about the Xmas weight gain. It's no small wonder considering I wasn't exercising and was scoffing anything in sight!

Back to the gym tonight (BodyPump) and will be weighing in on Friday... I also went for my first couch to 5k run yesterday morning which was thoroughly enjoyable!

Will go back and re-read, but wanted to wish you all a HNY

I maintained this week, which I'm happy with, like Hair I am back to walking this week, which should help tone up a bit. I worked out I'm 25% off my start weight .
I am sooo glad the DCs are back at school, it's so quiet here [bliss] and DH is at work, not snacking all day in front of me!

Can I join?

I weighed myself just after christmas and, after having a good cry, have thrown away all the christmas chocolates and sweets, even DS's (he's one, he doesn't know, need them, or care about them, I'm not some heartless hag stealing chocolate from a child!). I've eaten healthily so far today, but need help and motivation sticking to it.

welcome aboard, we're a friendly bunch, mostly supporting, a little bit of "boot up the bum" where necessary!
Think about the reasons behind your overeating and poor food choices, addressing those is the best way to lose the weight and more importantly keep it off.
Do you have a target weight or a timescale?

Welcome hazel :o werll done for throwing out all chocolate

Hi again Kato

2lb on doesn't seem too bad Hair, hope you're back on track soon

Bonkey, I didn't, ahve given up on it! Good luck for Friday

Hello, can I join in?
I weighed myself this morning and I am 1 stone heavier than last time I weighed, which was already several stones too heavy and I really need to get moving.

I did it 18 months ago, lost 1 1/2 stone, then plateaued for a while and then broke my ankle and since then I haven't exercised and have put on loads.

So, as of today:

1. No snacks. This is my downfall, nibbling biscuits and chocolates all day long
2. more veg. adding veg to all meals (for kids too) eating fruit, but not adding it, replacing things with fruit.
3. exercise. find my tummy dvd and try to go out running (very long time since i did that, may not be possible,may be brisk walk!)

so it is nearly 2 pm and I haven' snacked yet and had healthy lunch - well it is a start!!!

Would like to add on to the spreadsheet, but don't know how and bit embarrassed as I am more than anyone else

I want to lose as much as I realistically can before October as that's ideally when I'd like to start trying for DC2. I don't want to have to go to the 'fat clinic' during my next pregnancy and, in an ideal world, would prefer not to experience pre eclampsia/failed induction/crash section which I largely attribute to me weighing 14st at the start of my pregnancy (and much, much more by the end).