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!

Just checking in as haven't been on here in a while. Welcome to the newbies. Feel free to add me on MFP. I'm happylass14. Need all the encouragement I can get. Only 4 weeks in and the exercise has already gone out the window and the healthy eating is going rapidly downhill. Just so busy with work and then so knackered I've not got time for anything! Will make a big effort to get the exercise back on track this weekend. As long as I don't put any weight on this week I'll be happy. Well done to all the other chiefs. Still amazed by your fitness efforts and self control!

happylass do you forward plan all meals? I find that planning the week's meals at the weekend then doing all the shopping for it realy helps me keep on track rather than reaching for crap. I keep our fruit bowl stocked, for example, so I can easily grab something on the run or when I get the munchies. Keep unsalted nuts or healthy snacks in so you don't automatically reach for the junk...

I'm fine thank you, the car is fixed (thanks to my lovely BIL) nerves are settled (brownies work magically!)

does anyone know if the MFP prediction of what you'll weigh in 5 weeks time is accurate?

I will just add, we pick 7 meals on a Sunday to eat during the week although we don't set them on a certain day.

I don't purposely plan for them to be low cal I just make them as normal then adjust my day accordingly.

I'm way over for sugar again today (as always) fruit and brownies saw to that!

What happens if I add people to mfp? Can we see each others progress etc?

Not eaten much today as Ds teething and taking up my time! Which means ill either be way under cals for the day or I can have a big tea!

Tits when I used MFP my daily calorie target was high (1800 cals) and MFP used to admonish me saying I would lose 0.5 lbs in 5 weeks. I think I was losing 1-3 lbs a week .

Why oh why did I blow a really good day's eating this evening!!! It's almost impossible to eat carefully when I'm out with DS. Let's just say the meal at friends ended with vast amounts of tiramisu....and the meal was hotdogs - yes even for the grownups !!!What's a girl to do ?>

On the plus side, I did a good gym session this morning and I wasn't bad until I went out for supper. Tomorrow is another day ... Hope it's a good one for Chiefs everywhere.

I also mostly plan 7 meals for the week but I don't really think its the meals that are causing the problem. It's that I generally get home from work around 4pm (usually starving as don't get much chance to eat whilst I'm in work) but we don't eat until 9-10pm when DP gets in. It's during this time that I snack. Find that fruit etc doesn't fill me up enough so end up reaching for the junk. Think maybe I need to factor in a healthy 'mini' meal for his time rather than picking on lots of different things. Maybe a bowl of cereal would do the trick? Some days almost half my calories come from snacks so I really need to sort this out!

Hello. I'd like to report a missing "self control." I seem to have lost the ability to fast and I seem to have a compulsion to put everything in Bath in my mouth

I've not had a computer for the last six days so I need to catch up on Chiefly action.

OMG ..... how exciting so many new Chiefs and Chiefly news. So much I want to say but so much has gone on.

Anyways. Helloooooo. I'm WillStillNeedTeaAndGin on MFP.

Happy that sounds tough ... having to wait until that late ... can you eat earlier by yourself for a few weeks just to loose the weight? could you split your meal in half? What about having carrots, celery, rice cakes, some almonds and a couple of squares of chocolate earlier? That's really hard. I think the only way I could eat that late is to perhaps shred at 6pm or something ... I find exercising and mint tea suppress my appetite.

Randall wow .... 7lb buffer? That's brilliant. I'm sure I lifted one of those in the gym yesterday

I think I need a new set of goals now I've done the half marathon. I seem to be up 2lbs on my lowest weight after that training. I think that once September is done I'm going to have a little weight loss target to take me into Christmas so I have a bit of a buffer too. I need to think about my non-weight loss goals too ...

Morning all. Weigh in Friday for me and no change in weight. But still at my lowest ever adult weight :)

lowest ever adult weight deserves

Excellent maintaining dude

Hi chiefs, been missing in action. Suddenly whacked on 5lb, which I don't think was fair , and then couldn't bear to post - because that will obviously make it all better, won't it?? Had people staying, ate out and just general unchiefliness. Got a bit of a handle on it now; I'm 1lb up on my previous low (all together now, that's just a big poooo)

Welcome to all new chiefs. I'm shrewvole on MFP if anyone wants to add me. Yesterday's diet was ridic if anyone wants a look. It reads like the diary of a toddler on Christmas Day when all the adults are too pissed and knackered to exert any dietary control.

I haven't run for nearly 2 months now, although I have been keeping up swimming as far as possible - missed a couple of those recently as DH was out or I was ill, but went Thursday. It really makes such a huuuuge difference to my whole attitude towards myself and my diet. I have sworn that Today I Will Run (though it'll just be a lumber/waddle)

Tea may I also at pearl necklace.

randall still losing! Amazing work.

happylass I have the exact same problem with DH coming home late, which he doesn't do all the time but does a fair bit, and snacking. I also have half my cals in snacks some days. I swim on Mondays and Thursday evenings so have started eating early with the kids on those days, would it be possible for you to do that a couple of nights a week? It still leaves 3 nights a week some weeks. The other thing that sometimes helps me is to cook one meal for everyone and then DH and I help ourselves to something already made, rather than me putting the kids to bed and THEN starting to cook, which is a guaranteed 9.30pm mealtime at least.

It is bollocks though, I know. Mine also never tells me when he is coming home late and when he isn't tbf he doesn't always know himself but I don't let that stop me ranting so I can't even plan! Or I'll get a text at 7.30 "just leaving" - great but I'm now in the middle of bath time so what use is it for me to know now? oh it gives me THE RAGE I tell you

Bssh go you, slinky chief and super maintainer! Still at lowest adult weight, brilliant

Blimey tits hope you're ok and your car is fixable. The MFP predictions are rubbish btw, ignore them. They either bollock you for not eating enough or tell you you'll be the size of a whale if you don't calm it down.

Bssh lowest adult weight is definitely worthy of well done you!

MrsB when you 'add' people on MFP you can see their food diaries and weight loss logs. You can also comment on their stuff. It's really helpful because it gives the impression of a sort of accountability iyswim. Seeing it written down for your own eyes is sobering enough but having other people see it too takes it to another level.

You are amazing Tea, you run a half marathon and still you're not happy!

The wagon pulled over the wait for you buzzy don't worry. Only 1lb up so no harm - no foul. Jump back on and we'll say no more about it. Get yourself out for that run, it'll get that poo shifting too so double the benefit

I went Randall I looked like this when I got back. The GPS isn't working on mapmyrun on my phone, but I managed a very slow waddle in a running motion for nearly half an hour, and felt great afterwards!

Well done buzzy - I think starting again is the hardest thing and 30 minutes is a brilliant first run back. Really, really good.

Randall you are vair wise.

There are some great losses recorded on MFP this week that don't seem to be on the thread. If you're reading dudes. Well done. Brilliant work.

Feeling the need to share two NSV for me in the last two days.

I went and played a proper game of hockey, for a club team, in a club kit, with 10 other players. First time in 20 years. I managed the full game, was fit enough to play midfield and I didn't look out of place either IYSWIM. So my other Chiefing objective of playing club hockey for a season has commenced.

I can't believe that I couldn't run one single kilometre on 26th December!

In your face my lardy arse of 2012

Oh. And most exciting was buying my kit. Tis a size 8

In your face my size 16 trackie bottoms of 2012

Honestly Chief dudes. I couldn't have done either without you. I genuinely am so very grateful.

Right I need booze!

Bssh huge congrats on the lowest ever weight. Tea congrats on all the hockey playing. Buzz I can empathise with the on not knowing what time DP is coming home. Had a massive row with mine about it this week. He's self employed so doesn't have a set finishing time and is often far later than he said he'll be but doesn't let me know until it's too late. Thursday he didn't get in until 10:45 and said he wasn't really hungry and didn't eat the food I'd made him or seem bothered that I'd waited to eat with him. Rage isn't the word!!
Anyway the snacking doesn't seem to have had too much of a negative impact as lost 6lb in the 4 weeks that I've been doing MFP which is more than I was hoping for so all good. Quick question: how do you calculate calories if you've eaten out (say a pub meal) or a recipe at home you've made from scratch? Do you just estimate? Or input all the ingredients seperately?

Brilliant loss Happy. And sorry to hear about DH's rather inconsiderate behaviour. i know, from experience, that a supportive partner/family/pals is the only way to succeed with something like this. Hopefully the grumping will mean it doesn't happen again.

A lot of pub/restaurant food is already on there. So, for example, wagamamas. If there isn't an exact match I tend to go for a prepacked alternative - the assumption being that they're more likely to use a similar amount of fat. If I'm in a fresh, fresh food pub having a salad with no dressing and fish, I'd tend to input raw ingredients. I know I tend to be under but will try to move for 30 mins to give me a bit of grace for guessing.

Got an Indian takeaway tonight and accidentally tipped a load of vinegar over most of mine so much of it was inedible . Great way to save calories though!

Great loss happy. In MFP I used to look at a range of similar meals and take the average then add on a few extra hundred cals to be on the safe side.

I've not recorded anything this weekend (end of the week) I've been awful, chocolate pudding, Chinese takeaway etc. I'll still weigh on Monday and hopefully seeing the actual numbers telling me I've gained will push me into not being such a greedy wotsit.

Tits if you follow the Randall method that many of us here do - undereat weekdays and overeat weekends - then you should have nothing to feel guilty about. I regularly logged 3000 calorie Saturdays and 3000 calorie Sundays on MFP but it was fine cause over the course of the week it all balanced out.

I usually under eat all week anyways so I might be ok ignores the week of baking I had this week

[Runs into thread waving box] Randall I got a yellow stickered goats' cheese canapé kit! Looking forward to that, I can't imagine it'll be a problem if I leave it a couple of days.

Tits agree, Bssh and Randall are proof the chuffing all weekend approach works if you balance it out.

Tea enjoy every moment of the hockey for a proper side, in your slinky kit!

That 5lbs seems to be back, I don't really know why