Bloody f**king nora. Just weighed myself and I want to die.

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I can't even bring myself to type in my weight because I am so ashamed :(

I need to lose 3.5 stone before the end of May (going on holiday with a thin friend) I am doing My Fitness Pal (calorie counting) and I am going to do 1200 calories a day. It's brutal I know but then so was the reading on my scales this morning.

Effing Nora :(

Saintmerryweather, for a minute there i thought you were 31 stone...

I'm wondering if I should increase my daily calories goal from 1200 to 1400? Especially as I'm really going for it with the exercise. I have at least 10kg to lose, which google says is just under 2 stone. Or am I just trying to find excuses?

I'm going to a wedding in Australia at the end of Feb and I don't want to be the fat bird on the beach - DP and I are staying near the beach for the week before the wedding and we'll definitely be at the beach every day. We leave in 5 & 1/2 weeks. I'm hoping to lose 6-7kg by then. hope being the operative word!

I have just completed my food entry on MFP and just under my cal limit, but it says 'in 5 weeks you will be 139 lbs' which is what I fucking well was when I weighed myself the day before I went on holiday on 13th Dec. Grrr.

animagic i deserve to be with the amount of biscuits I eat!

Just got back from a different Kettlecise class to normal and can confidently agree with Shiney now - exercise alone does not shift the lbs. The instructor had a big gut and bingo wings .

And we had to exercise in front of a mirrored wall

I am massive, I look like I work the door at a dodgy nightclub. All manly and big.

Can you buy bulgar wheat in Tesco??

Well I've just signed up to MFP it's brill! I filled in all of what I ate today and I've eaten nearly twice of what I should have!!! Lard arse!
Wish I had of started yesterday cos I had much better day then. One of our hauliers in work gave everyone in work a box of milk tray, I'd resisted until today and then ate 6 of the feckers which opened the flood gates of snacking! Bollocks!
Have caught up with this thread now, am re-inspired so am not going to let a (v v v ) bad afternoon get me down, onwards and downwards!

I'm not hungry at all, just feel headachy and sick and all round a bit shit really.

You know, this is the approx. eleventy millionth thead about weight loss/healthy eating I've been on in my many MN years. I'm still a close approximation of Mr Stay Puft from Ghostbusters

Right, am going to re-read thread and add people on MFP

GetOrf - Was you under even with the chinese?

I'm on MFP too and love it! It's shown me how unhealthy my diet was so as well as loosing weight im getting healthier too and it's the first time in years that ( sorry TMI to follow ) that i have been on the loo more than once a week!

Yes - I only had chips and curry sauce though. Just under 1000 cals somehow.

No, I am not Kerry Katona.

Wow that's really good GetOrf!

You've made me crave chicken chow mein with all this talk of Chinese

toughas I'm doing a bit of a detoxy few days, no sugar, no diet coke, no white carbs, lots of protein and veg. I was expecting to feel shocking tbh, I'm riddled with Bad Stuff and it seems to be trying to climb out of my eyes.

Even just the thought of doing exercise has brought my left leg out in aches and pains (the diodes down my left side...)

So not only am I a revolting fat munter, I am broken and crap.

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1200 calories is too low for most people. Remember, you are not losing weight for that holiday, or that wedding, you are losing weight for YOU.

You need to make sure you eat over your BMR (basal metabolic rate) or you will create a whole world of pain for yourself.

You need to eat a wee bit under you TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). Do this and you will lose weight. A calorie is a calorie, doesn't matter what you beat as long as you maintain a deficit (for weightloss).

Protein and fat will keep you fuller for a lot longer than Carbs, but there is nothing wrong with Carbs.

This thread on MFP is really worth reading and applying.
www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

Thanks ItsAll - I had a feeling 1200 calories was just a bit too low to maintain for several weeks/months. I think I'll up my goal to 1400. Thanks for the info, I'll have a look at the link

Thank you all for the friend requests, lovely to feel wanted

Not been very active on this thread or on mfp today, too busy nursing a humdinger of a hormonal headache and stuffing myself with dry Jacobs cream crackers...(crave carbs when having period...)

So all in all being crap allround really, not supportive, not chatting and most of all not dieting...

Arf

Need kick up bum big time!

Hevak, I've just upped my calorie count from 1200 to 1300

Just got on the scales.

15 shitting stone. Have had ridiculously painful joints for the last few years, and various other symptoms including early menopause. Just had diagnosis of lupus, so pleased to know I haven't been a malingering tart, but still...

I remember being nine stone (a fair few moons ago) and having everyone tell me how ill I looked.

Bastard. My first target is a stone.

And I'm having Pinot's cauliflower soup for lunch tomorrow.

I nearly cried at work today because I wanted a can and I wouldn't let myself buy one. I found giving up smoking less painful than this.

Tomorrow will be better I'm sure

My BMR is 1800... but I feel like that's too high so I've been aiming for 1500, am I doing it all wrong?

Ive just put on the dress i want to get into and i could cry, i.look horrific. ive got back guinea pigs never mind back hamsters! I need a beautiful flat back to be able to wear it properly and it feels like such a long way away. everyone feels like that at the start i guess! Also put on a bikini and took a picture without looking i knew i wouldnt like it!

Can I be a chief too please? Have requested a few of you on mfp. Nice to see a thread with a bit if humour about being a biffa instead of hand holding and " there there you're beautiful as you are". The weight has been slowly creeping on me for about a year and I am finally pissed off enough with myself to lose it. I've been getti g my meal plans from tescodiets.com as I have no imagination and can't shop effectively without a list. I'm sxarasxara on mfp.

I knew I should have stepped back from the boards, I just ate 8 chocolates I am so cross with myself. Grr.

Oh, th weren't too bad only 200 cals over. Hopefully it not cause too much of a weight gain!