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!

Hello! Im new and fat... can I join you?

I have my final dress fitting in 8 weeks. Get married in ten.. Have just discovered cos im still a size ten in my head that im 13 st and s size 16 and I feel fucking awful.

I want to do the best I can to get a nice bit off before the wedding and hopefully it all off eventually.

Pass me a

Hello ..... I'm old and dimply around the arse despite a 2 stone weight loss!

Jump on board dude. We'll shuffle up.

Have you got an MFP account? I'm WillStillNeedTeaAndGin.

Sooooo do you have a plan? We seem to cover all bases for weight loss here. Some are daily counting with 1200 goal, some are weekly counting, some of us 5:2, some of us exercise like loons. All of us seem to eat more at the weekend. And most of us seem to like cake, booze and cheese.

You sound like my kind of guys!

I had a brief affair with mfp but couldn't get used to it. I just downloaded weight watchers online and im snooping around there. I think the 49 weekly points to spend on treats might be what I need right now.

My main issues revolve around distinct willpower issues but mostly work. Its really tricky. I leave at 6:30 return at 7pm and always have my toddler with me. My days are unpredictable. I take food with me but sometimes my plans get disrupted and I get stuck somewhere unable to access anything that constitutes good food. I found with mfp if this happened I couldn't budget kcals and got a'the days ruined anyway' mentality. I wander if knowing I have those points will allow me a buffer in which will save my day if I get stuck?

definitely need to resume some regular exercise. I just have no energy reserves right now but I need to do it.

Do you guys weigh at home? I have some expensive devil scales ..can we update our process here.

I might name it Mission lace up. lol

tea 2st is awesome. . how long has it taken you? do you intend to loose anymore?

I'm not sure - the bulk fell off relatively quickly. I had previously lost a bunch of weight ... (I was about 200lbs in 2010, about 148lbs in January 2013 and I'm about 129lbs now).

For me what worked was reducing calories over a couple of weeks to about 1200 and walking more. Then about four weeks in I started fasting to allow my weekly total to count IYSWIM. I started running in March ... it was more of a shuffle and I've started playing hockey again and ran a half marathon last month.

WW sounds good. I find MFP quite good for thinking about exercise. I tend to record that more than anything else in there. I think you have to choose the thing that works for you. If your life is unpredictable you might want to look at what Randall has done.

I want to shift another 2-4lbs but clearly not enough to have the willpower to avoid a bottle of prosecco yesterday! And all the signs are I will give in to cake to deal with the hangover later.

That's awesome. Im off to meal plan.. eep.

hello, can I come and play? I need to shed a stone or maybe two please while still eating chocolate and drinking alcohol.

The Plan so far is to do more exercise- I will cycle to the pool, swim for half and hour and cycle home- gives me an hour altogether.

Chester is a must. If you want fancy cheese go to the market, there's two of the best cheese stalls ever in there! Also, if you like nice little delis but don't want to go as far as Llangollen (although it's only 20 odd miles from deeside) go to Bellis's in holt. Lots of delicious things there, they stock patchwork pâtés and snowdonia cheese etc.

There's loads more but I'm one lunch break so I'll be back later!

Hello new peeps, I'll introduce myself properly later

Oh oh oh lots of new Chiefs . Welcome all. Feel free (old and new) to MFP friend me as I'm back on it now. I'm Bssh there. Lost 3 stones on MFP alone last year (no exercise) and a further 2 stones this year in 5:2 and exercise. I still have just under a stone to go to get to BMI 21 so still chugging along (it's going much more slowly now but I'm a patient girl).

Hello to all the lovely new Chiefs. I'm RandallFloyd on MFP if any of you want to add me, nuts lease near in mind that I really am not a good example to follow

I've lost 5 1/2 stone since we started back in January.
Was 200.6lb now 133.2lb (still sounds high I know but I'm 5'8")
BMI was 32.3 now 20.5

It's been a very much ad hoc technique (as the rest of the chiefs will attest) but it's worked for me! I set my MFP goal at 1200 per day but as long as I was under for the week as a total I was happy.

I'm trying to maintain now so I've reset my goal to 1600 but am still sticking to the same basic premis. It's working so far but it's far too soon to get complacent!

Wow you are impressive! Have today been told I am massively anaemic which explains why exercise is so hard for me. Hoping to get a proper routine going and lose a stone. Still lurking on diets rather than actually doing it...... Thanks for the nice welcome :)

Well today was spectacular in rubbish foodness!

Woke up to no milk and mouldy bread so grabbed a bacon roll, lunchtime, nan ordered everyone ribs and chocolate sundaes (she has dementia so we generally let her go with what she wants) then I arrived to pick the kids up from after school football training to discover a very pale DS2 with a very broken wrist. He's just finished in a&me so we grabbed a mc Donald's on the way home.

Hey oh, tomorrow's another day, I did at least have a 30 min walk and fruit foraging sesh this morning.

Blimey tits what a day! Poor DS, hope it heals quickly for him.

beast, I assure I am far from impressive! I am a terrible chief but somehow I seem to have lost despite my rubbish-ness, it's far more fluke than technique.

(I have no idea what that typo in my last post is trying to day btw. 'Nuts lease near in mind'? Absolute gobbledygook. No clue what I was trying to say )

happylass I second the idea of going to Chester. I grew up there and also got married there and it is so lovely (though by the sounds of it, I have not done enough investigation of the cheese stalls). I'll be back there with the DDs in half term as my parents still live there.

Welcome newbies, please feel free to add me on MFP...I love looking at other people's food diaries as it quite often gives me inspiration.

I went out for a 3 course lunch today that included canapés (and Pimms ) and have absolutely no idea how to point it on WW or on MFP so at the moment I'm just ignoring it and today just looks like a very weird food day for me. What does anyone else do in this sort of situation?

I had a job interview first thing and although I've been proud that I am only 5lbs off target, and currently the lightest I've been since I got married, I have realised that I am still considerably larger than a few years ago when I first bought my one smart suit as I had to get DH to help do the zip up on the skirt. I didn't own scales when I lived on my own so have only been conscious of how much I weigh since being with DH and using his scales. I'm now thinking that maybe my target weight isn't low enough and I need to take a few more pounds off (just when I thought I was nearly at the end of the diet...). In the meantime I am impressed that anyone could resist a cinnamon bun as I think that would be the undoing of me...

Weigh-in Friday and 2.2 lbs down this week :)
So that's a grand total of 73 lbs lost since February 2012 (27 lbs of those lost since Feb 2013 starting 5:2)
12 lbs to go to hit BMI 21.

Off to indulge on a weekend of Randalling (my usual type of weekend! and my weekends always start on Fridays eating-wise).

These posts are so inspiring. Your losses are great!

Im going to weigh myself this morning. :-( ..report backin a mminute. .

oh fgs!

So I bought expensive proper scales. Just jumped on.. said 12.8.8.. that can't be right. weigh several times to check, says the same. . move the scales. . 13.2.4 weighed twice said the same. Moved them again ..13 exactly.

how am I supposed to know!? I know its not possible im 12.8

bigknickers I always weigh in exactly the same spot: placing the scales on the same tile in the bathroom so the figure is consistent week to week then I double check that figure on the scales at the gym. Could you double check at Boots or on a friend's scales?

Could have just lost 10lbs over night then ;) I wish.

Im So busy it would be really difficult to try and find somewhere reliable at a regular time to double check which is why i bought ££ scales

either way this is all a bit shit

does anyone weigh monthly? I feel like it often goes to pot as soon as i weigh, even if i've lost. Im not sure why?

bigknickers I used to weigh monthly (sometimes I'd wait even longer) all of last year and it helped take the pressure of weight loss whilst still being good and dieting correctly. I'm a weekly weigher this year - just for a change.

Nuts lease near in mind'

You were saying "but please bear in mind" that I am a very bad role model.

which I dont think is true.

Welcome newbies. Feel free to add me on MFP - I'm happylass14. Although I'm not the best example to follow as I taking the very slow and steady approach! Having said that I've shifted another 1lb this week and hit the half stone mark yey!
Bigknickers I'm also aiming to be slinky for my wedding, but mines not for another 10 months hence why I have a rather relaxed attitude to the weight loss at the moment. I'm sure that'll change as the big day approaches!
Thanks for all the info on North Wales/Chester. Will hear to Chester for some retail therapy tomorrow I think. The place where DP is working has a very lovely looking spa so think Sunday will be spent there for some much needed R & R
Hope you all have a good weekend and that lots of Randalling is planned!

So it is/was all going beautifully. I'm loving the exercising, finding it easy to limit and log my food (going over my 1500 calories but exercising to make up for it) and I dropped a whole kg (2.2 pounds, I think) overnight.

And I panicked. I think it was the sight of the scale bearing the good news that did it. And I ate vast amounts of (deeevine)almond brittle and chocolate covered salted caramelised pecans (also divine, since you ask) last night. And was a little up this morning (.2 of a kg).

I'm not so worried about the fluctuations - I know there will be lots of those. I'm worried and amazed at my reaction to my small success. I began thinking 'what if its not so easy, what if my metabolism slows down, what if I lose all the weight and then put it on again, what if I rever to my former binge-style eating..' and then consumed vast amounts of junk - presumably to allay my fears ...

Is this just me? Have any of you experienced this? It's not something I would have predicted or expected. DOES it get harder as one goes along or is that just my fearful prediction? Please, talk some sense into me.

And thank you reading all this !

Bssh that's a great loss Chief. Well done. And may your weekend involve cheese and stuff.

bigknickers I weigh daily most weeks but don't post often because I haven't lost weight in fecking months. I do the same as Bssh though. Put it in the same place. If you try again tomorrow and pick the one that is closest to that. I kinda think it doesn't matter where you start. It matters which direction. Don't get despondent Chief. I remember weighing myself in January and jumping off to check whether one of the boys was on it with me. In my head I was still a size 12 but I'd reached a size 16. I started with just one good day. Just did one day. Then did another day. And so it started. Do it one day at a time and even with the occasional wheel of cheese slip up it'll work. Do a week. See how you go and then you could perhaps set a 10-14lb target for the Big W.

Randall was actually trying to explain a major contributor to her success has been renting men's bollocks. Testosterone helps. That's the theory anyway.

whoooooop happy that's great. Well done. And great milestone.

anote ahhhhh. yes. I ate a whole loaf of fig and walnut bread a couple of weeks ago. The key I think is to look at it as a weekly total. It allows you to binge madly but still make progress. And importantly don't feel like you've lost the war. I think this is the essence of the Randall. For example, I will drink booze this evening so have collected calories throughout today and yesterday to allow me to drink more than a couple and still have a good fast day. Fasting might also help you if you like a good scoff.

On the fluctuations. Lizzy and I are the queen of fluctations. I don't know how old you are but we are fortyish and fabulous. We find we fluctuate more than some of the youngsters on the thread. So we might have a couple of weeks around AF when we'll stick and maybe even gain but the next two weeks we'll make good progress.

Have I experienced the worry about putting it on again? Yes. i'm still here because whilst I've got to my target weight really though I do want a couple more lbs I don't trust myself. And I've still got to get through Christmas which was responsible for at least a dress size last year. Bastard Christmas.

Hi Chiefs. I joined on Monday so thought I would give you a little progress report. After religiously logging everything on MFP, keeping to 1200 calories or slightly below and not having any booze at all, I have lost...one pound. Now I know it's only been five days, but I am a bit disappointed seeing as it's my first week and I would expect to lose some water weight (which I know is only an illusion of weight loss anyway but it's such a boost to see the scales come down).
Ah well. Chicken and butternut squash curry and the first ever episode of Breaking Bad tonight. Onwards and downwards... Hope you are all getting on well, some of you are so inspiring!