Chiefs Randalling on to svelteness

[Lizzylou]

Hola.
Thought we needed a new thread
Last day at work for me

Well done Bssh on only gaining 1lb holiday weight, am hoping to emulate this!

Not a chance are you 'bingo-wing-tastic', I don't believe it for a second. You lift bad-boy weights for crying out loud! (I don't know what metafit is but it sounds grim.)

One of my friends once told me I have 'lunch-lady arms'. I'm not entirely sure what that means but I'm pretty sure it's not a compliment. I don't wave in short sleeves put it that way

I'm still maintaining somehow. Managed to get down to 135.6lb at one point and have been hovering at 135.8lb since then so happy enough with that. My goal was 140lb so I wanted a nice 5lb buffer which seems to be working so far. It makes my BMI 21 exactly and puts me at a size 8-10 so that's good enough for me for now.

I do really need to get my arse in gear and get exercising though. All you action women make me feel very lazy!

I'm very jealous of all your exercise regimes but I guess lugging a 12.5lb baby around all day is good exercise, right?

Pudding, yes a 12.5lb baby is a good workout! Awww, I want to squish a baybeeeee! My boys are growing too fast.

Randall, I am definitely toning up but the scales aren't moving May be the extra weights? or the all you can eat buffet? Must be supergood this week.

Oi, anotetofollowso, stop lurking and start posting!

Make yourself comfortable and tell us all about yourself

Erm. A lady what lunches has lovely arms ... she goes to the gym in the morning and then has a salad for lunch with her friends and then champers and shopping. I think Randall your friend was complimenting you. And excellent maintaining. Really is brilliant I'm still between 2-5lbs up on my lightest weight

Lizzy I bet you have lovely arms too from all that exercise. I just don't think your head's caught up with what you look like. The reason being, I think my arms are bingoy still too, and my arse is large and so is my stomach. Photos sometimes suggest otherwise, and looking in the mirror I mostly look normal, but I am uber-self critical having spent years being bigger and looking at every fault I have. Are you still measuring inches as well as lbs? The reason I ask is I'm in the same position as you. Whatever I do I don't seem to get any lighter but the inches are still going very slowly, the clothes get a bit looser except around my arse and thighs and my %body fat is still reducing. I do think the exercise makes it harder to loose lbs but I really like the feeling of being strong and being able to "compete" with the boys even though their getting older.

And Pudding yes. Having just lunged and squatted with an 8 lb weight ... 12.5lbs is a hefty weight to be carrying and pushing around. Walking with the baby either in the pram or a sling burns loads of calories which is probably why you're so hungry. Well done on maintaining. I managed to put another stone on when BFing my first! And it was only the fact I was getting married with the last that motivated me to put down the cakes and wine and stuffed myself with protein and gin instead!

Back today doing gym work after a month's break. Feck it's hard. I almost sat-up my innards out. Actually I only did sets of 12 three times but it hurt and I ended up grunting in the gym like a pig! I sweated so much I could smell ammonia [mmmmmm attractive emoticon]

helloooooooo anote is that you?

Hello hello!
Someone shout at me to get my backside to the gym today. It's rainy and can't be arsed, but am fasting so should go from work in my lunch hour.
Re arms. Have ALWAYS hated my arms, always avoid sleeveless dresses. Weights at the gym have slightly helped but they are still crap. My sister always calls good arms, baguette arms... I want those elegant slightly tanned baguette arms. But without gym. Sigh. >

Oi Dinky GO TO THE GYM! It won't be raining inside the gym will it? Besides, imagine how great you'll feel afterwards. I expect a full report from you afterwards!

Hello...not been on this thread for a few days but I see that there has been lots of physical activity going on...great stuff.

Having completed the 20 min run of the C25k yesterday and therefore decided that I am obviously a runner (even though I still don't particularly enjoy it, but it seems to be toning me up a bit), I have just gone and blown the last of my birthday money on some ridiculously priced running shoes. I had my gait analysis thingy done and I've now worked out that I have got to keep running so that I actually get my money's worth out of the blessed things...

Evening Chiefs. I too am very impressed with all the exercise going on, what an active bunch you are! I however need a good boot up the derrière at the moment as, 3 weeks in, I've lost the will! A combination of coming down with the lurgy and exhaustion through work being manic has seen me dodging any exercise and eating rubbish. Think I'll have to write the rest of this week off as we're going to stay with some of DPs mates at the weekend and we're off to a food festival. Will start afresh on Monday - honest. and I haven't just ordered a Domino's with a side of wedges

I went! Hooray. Can I get a gold star bssh? And fasted like a good un too.
Wine and nice food for 3 days ahead yippee!
carikube I have heard those push trainer things are fab, you will be 4 minute miling this weekend then!
happylass just start again next week, all,of us chiefs have little breaks here and there
Have a good weekend all

Yay Dinky, well done for not phoning it.

Cari, well jell of the running shoes. Though like you I am not feeling the love of running. Maybe fancy pants running shoes would inspire me?

Up early, busy day off. Speed awareness course

Happy, it is a narathon, not a sprint! Perhaps write down why you want to lose weight to keep you focused? You can do this, believe in yourself and stop scoffing pizza! Unless of course it is still within allowed calories on mfp

Weigh-in Friday for me and 1 lb down. Happy with that cause it's been TOM week and I also haven't done any exercise all week. Also very happy because I am officially the lowest weight I've ever been (since my teens) :)

Well done bssh! Not one solitary lb off here! But can see difference from weights so all good.

Hellooo - new round here. But just re-joined MFP and very keen to have and give a bit of support.

Currently trying to work out how many calories to allow myself. 1200 is a joke as far I'm concered but maybe that's how I got this big in the first place.

How many cals do you all eat a day?

Hellooo - new round here. But just re-joined MFP and very keen to have and give a bit of support.

Currently trying to work out how many calories to allow myself. 1200 is a joke as far I'm concered but maybe that's how I got this big in the first place.

How many cals do you all eat a day?

Welcome anoteso! We've all found different calorie amounts to suit us - some eat 1200 cals and are fine, others need a bit more, most of us cycle through low and high calories across the week (eg lowish on the weekdays and high on the weekends [we like to call this Randalling :)]).

I lost 3 stones last year by working out my TDEE (calories required to maintain current weight) then eating at around 15% less. It gave me a bit more than 1800 cals a day which worked really well for me. I used this calculator:
scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

Then I manually adjusted my daily calorie goal in MFP. I didn't eat back my exercise cals (not that I did any last year ) as TDEE takes activity levels into account.

This year I've lost a further 2 stones doing 5:2 fasting and eating roughly 2000 cals on my non-fasting days (though I no longer log on MFP). I do alot more exercise nowadays.

I want to lose another stone to get to BMI 21 (currently BMI 23, started at BMI 36).

There's great support (and a load of laughs) on here so WELCOME :)

anote, hello!
Bssh has described it all very well. Randall eats tiny morsels of lush M&S foods during the week, then feasts and boozes it up all weekend It's bloody worked a treat as well

I tend to just try and stick to 1200 a day and exercise lots. I am currently doing heavier weights and less cardio so no loss on scales but everything is getting firmer and tighter.

Just find what works for you. One thing I will say is don't try and cut out all of your favourite foods/drink, find a way of still having a little of what you fancy. You will soon get to grips with mfp and it's not hard to quickly see what goods will keep you full for longer and not eat up your allowance.

Anote helllooooo, very glad you have emerged from lurkdom!

I would love to say I am very offended by the way Lizzy has described my dieting ethos but unfortunately she is totally right . I can't stop eating my favourite foods. Well that's a lie, I could but I'd be bloody miserable! So basically, I haven't.

I've taken a rather by-the-seat-of-my-pants approach and basically made it up as I went along. I set my MFP goal at 1200 a day but looked at it as a weekly rather than daily goal. So I could have a really fat day but I'd have to take my punishment in the chin and have a shitty salad-only day to compensate for it. Kind of a combination of ordinary calorie counting and 5:2 I suppose. A hybrid if you will. Basically as long as I came in below my total calorie goal by the end of the week I was happy.

It's definitely worked for me, I've lost 74lb and gone from a BMI of 32.3 to 20.9. I'm at the maintaining stage now but it's early days so I'm still logging everything, I'm way too scared to stop just yet. That way chocolate lies (or cheese in my case).

Lizzy, you will see, is a machine. Her food diaries are just fab and she works out like a bad ass. She is a far better example to follow.

Our Bssh is also a great example, she's lost a shed load of weight and done it really healthily. Well done, another fab loss this week.

You'll meet everyone else soon enough! Onwards and downwards Chiefs

Well done bssh and welcome anote. Feel free to add me on mfp. My username is the same just with 14 on the end. I'm only aiming to lose 0.5lbs a week (definitely going for the marathon option Lizzy!!) so my calorie allowance is a generous 1700. I usually come in a bit under this though and I lost 4lbs in the first 2 weeks on there.
Managed to get my pizza in to my calorie allowance yesterday and I'm off to the gym tonight so feeling more positive today. Back on it properly next week though after a bit of Randalling this weekend!

You go Happylass good losses and Randalling. Excellent work!

Forgot to say, I'm RandallFloyd on MFP so feel free to add me.

Am I allowed to join this thread :)

I am currently about 1.5 stone overweight. I am going on holiday next year and would love to be able to feel confident about my body in a bikini and summer dresses.

I am 11 st. 2lb and would like to get down to 9st 10lb. I plan to increase the amount of walking I do. Although I do quite a bit I would like to do about 5 miles more a week. I also plan on swimming about 50 lengths, 4 times a week.

Hi shade
Sounds a good plan!

I hope so. I have found a bikini that I love so I am hoping that it will be my inspiration.