Calling all Chiefs who Choose Their Hard

[DoubleMum]

Carrying on from the old thread here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1663963-OI-CHIEFS-OVER-HERE?pg=40

Bssh don't leave us
Bambie glad you're feeling better. DD's 8th birthday here, and we went to see Oz the Great and Powerful (utter tripe, please don't waste your money) and her lunch choice was Yo Sushi, which isn't too bad calorie-wise. Birthday cake too, but since I didn't need much apart from lunch I could fit in.

Glad you had a lovely day! I have never been to yo-sushi, is it any good?

Thanks for the heads up on the film I wanted to see that but won't bother haha

Bssh we'll miss you! You're the reason I'm over here in the first place.

Glad you're feeling better now Bambie. Hope you kick Jillian's ass tomorrow!

DoubleMum Yo Sushi is delicious - your DD has excellent taste! Though I often find I can rack up quite a bill in there, just grabbing plates off the little production line thing. Dangerous! Sounds like you kept things well under control though :)

In other news, bloody hell, I just found out there are 444 calories in one Tesco naan MFP is an eye-opener.

I hardly ever get to eat Japanese, so Yo Sushi, although far from the best sushi, is a treat for me. They now do some set menus where you get a bundle price so it can be reasonable (and those are calorie counted), but DD and DH like the expensive stuff and as it was DD's birthday I let her pick what she wanted.
Tesco naan must be very buttery Kettle, I'm sure the Sharwood naans aren't that much.

Yeah I'll be choosing my naans a lot more carefully from now on.

Oh I didn't know that they did set menus! I'll have to go back and check them out. I bet you had a lovely afternoon :) I hardly ever get to eat Japanese either - the Boots Shapers lunch sushi things don't count!

Thanks Chiefs for all the wise pieces of advice. I have thought about what you've said over the weekend and it boils down to trusting myself to stay at target. For some reason, I don't trust myself to stay here. So as Bssh highlights there is fluctuation on fasting I will, hopefully, go down a bit more to accommodate the fasting fluctuation and then move to 1:6 and see how that goes. I hope you don't mind if I stay. So I have a new target of 5lbs.

Double - hope you're feeling better.

Wise as my Glaswegian father always used to say when returning from being away "Hame'il dae me"

Kettle Gosh. I've been there. I felt I'd lost my mojo for a couple of years after my DS was born but it does come back with bells on well, it if you count "with bells on" as shouting at people to put their bloody shoes on whilst trying to make sure everyone's got their stuff for school, then it does

I had a bad weekend for calories (which kind of explains why I don't trust myself) but a good weekend for fun and food and friends. And booze featured heavily. Gah. I was inspired by the thread to run on Saturday afternoon before the worst happened to try and keep it under control. And I enjoyed it!

Fasting twice this week as off to St Maarten on Thursday and I suspect that jet lag, a wedding and rum will see me stuffing my face for the four days I'm there.

Right off for a job interview

Gah Bambie not Kettle ... oh, feck this interview's going to be challenging

Tea well done for enjoying your run! And glad you had a lovely time with friends. That's a good time to eat a bit more - far healthier when food indulgence is just once in a while with friends, than when it's every single night as a stress reliever like I used to do.

I'm planning to go out today with my newly-working running watch but it's just SO grey and miserable... not particularly inspiring weather!

Overdid it yesterday too - saw some friends and we all went a bit mad with cake and G&Ts. It was lovely, but went over my calorie allowance (though not by too much). I might try fasting again this week, just to see how it goes.

Hmmm sushi!
Hmmm rum and sunshine!

Well done on doing and enjoying your run Tea.

Have eaten lots this weekend, but also exercised a lot too, reining it in this week though. Hoping for a quick 30min run (well not v quick, more of a lumber!) after work, if the bloody snow stays off!

Tea you'll be fine if you just stay aware of the balance - so have fun, enjoy, but balance it for the rest of the week/month. Definitely have fun at the wedding celebrations!

Bambie you're doing fine, the first year is really hard for everyone. Anyone who says it isn't is a liar. It's the reason I'm fat! I lost my baby-weight in literally hours and came out of hospital in my normal clothes; then preceded to pile on 3 stone in the following year by eating crap

(Although H having an affair and us separating when DS was 4mo certainly didn't help!)

Bssh good luck!

Tea I can totally understand how you feel, you've lost so much it must be terrifying to actually stop dieting. You can do it though, one day at a time.

Double I've never actually been to a Yo Sushi. We don't have any here because I live in the arse end of nowhere. God I'm so provincial!

Lizzy you're so impressive with all your exercise. You put me to shame. You too Kettle. Once I shake off this cold I'm going to get the wii set up and get Zumba-ing. If I don't make sure you kick me up the arse.

I may have had a little blow out on Saturday celebrating the 6 nations with friends but reined it back in yesterday so managed to stay under for the week. We'll see how pissed off the scales are with me on Wednesday!

Onwards and downwards chiefs

Thanks Randall

So fed up with this grim weather! Have downloaded week 2 of the c25k but it's just foul here. Had intended to do it this afternoon while DD2 at pre-school but people have kept phoning and dropping round and now don't have enough time before I have to collect DD1 from school, plus it's pouring with rain. Will have to do some exercise this evening indoors and tackle the run on Wednesday.

Tried not to go too mad at the weekend and will hopefully be good this week Am definitely more toned in the legs but sadly it's my stomach that's really awful and I think sit-ups are really the only cure.....

Just been for a run with Dh. Sooo cold, took your breath away. But done now. We are going to go every Monday whilst we are childfree for an hour.
I had proposed another fatburning pastime. Dh declined as he training for a triathlon. Ho hum.

Sooo cold and sleety and miserable today. I was going to go out for a run but I just couldn't face it - things got on top of me and the weather is just vicious. Freezing and windy and wet and the kind of sleet that just goes right down your neck. Horrible. Just checked BBC weather and it looks like it will stay that way for the rest of the week too :( so I'll have to brave it at some point. Maybe first thing in the morning, to get it over with.

Randall gotta have a blowout for the 6 nations - we did too. Just have to be sensible the rest of the week I suppose!

Kettle, yes lancashire same. We were lucky that no sleet when we went out. If it wasn't for dh I wouldn't have gone. No fear!

Lizzy, MASSIVE respect to you and DH for braving it!

Kettle, DH was very much the driving force. I was ready to get PJs on and snuggle up in front of the fire!
My natural state is sloth-like, which is why I do exercise that I am forced to finish, like an exercise class or Parkrun. Too embarrassing to quit!

Aargh, I have put 1/2 lb on. Too many treats this week and not enough vegetables. Back on it Chiefs.

1/2 a pound's nothing, a teeny tiny blip.

It's a marathon not a sprint chief, onwards and downwards!

Double, Randall is right. 1/2 lb is not even a poo!

Did you watch Paul Hollywood kneading bread last night? I think I burned off another couple of 100 cals swooning

Morning chiefs! Thanks for kind words on MFP. 4lbs lost last week - I'm amazed. As I've said it's because I'm just eating about a third less than I used to, so being An Ordinary Eater instead of a monster. Not even dieting yet, I don't think.

But anyway - is 'water weight' an actual thing? Or a made-up thing?

Normal fluctuations Double - I was 2lbs up yesterday but only 1lb today - some weeks I work hard to stay still - others it jumps. Bet next week is a big one! Loss not poo

OK I need to do a poo.
My (smaller size) trousers are actually feeling slightly looser this morning.
Kali that's brilliant!

Tea I'm not sure what I mean really It's just that 4lbs seems a lot and I'm wondering if it's for some other reason than me being so good, iyswim. Don't know why I'm casting around for it to not be because I've stuck to the diet etc, and so ready to 'blame' something else.... bleh