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!

anoteto I don't panic when I see a loss on Friday weigh-in but I do celebrate by eating loads more than my daily total and then that continues through the weekend. But like Tea and Randall I take the weekly view and it all balances out. I've been Randalling right from the beginning and it's worked very well for me. Well done on the loss though!

Monkey well done too! 1 lb is great and it definitely adds up as the weeks progress. Do you have much to lose?

Thanks Bssh. Three stones to lose to get back to a healthy BMI. About nine months at this rate. Still, as someone wiser than me once said, the time will pass anyway, so we might as well do something useful with it!

Very wise words indeed.

Right. Here we go. My first day. I want to take the opportunity to begin changes in other areas of my life that im not happy with too. I knew last night was pizza night at work so knew today would be the day. Im feeling (physically) awful for the pizza though. . my poor tum! Actually makes this much easier since im craving light fresh foods now.

My first bootcamp in 8 weeks tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Be the change ..be the change. ... I will be a happy confident bride!

Im guessing im starting at 13 st. 3 .. I'd REALLY love to be 11st somthing. .even if its just 11.13 on my wedding day. Now.. thats like 1st 4lbs ish.. I've got 8 weeks till my dress fitting and 10 weeks till my big day. Its a really really tall order but I'm hoping not impossible with hard work.

need all the support I can get X

We're behind you bigknickers! Keep reporting day's activities if it helps you and we'll kick you up the bum if you flag .

lol! I've just had two eggs on toast with spinach. . just grabbed salmon from the freezer and will have that with salad and some sweet chilli sauce at lunch.. I think I've pork medalians this evening. . think ill grill them with lots of peppers and onions in harrissa and perhaps some wild rice if I fancy it. Will go log it all in the ww app and see how that pans out.

I've got a family members birthday this afternoon. . I will not eat any of it..! Will grab some fruit for handbag.

bigknickers - all that protein should keep you nicely filled up and knock any cravings on the head. But don't beat yourself up if you eat cake etc at the birthday - just try and be moderate and cut back tomorrow.

OK you've convinced me I'm a lardy arse on MFP and I'm back. It's a shockingly bad week to be back mind you so I might not be around much as I have some rabbit-bonding to do and might be too busy breaking up fights to surf the interweb.
I have no idea how much I've put back on - not all of it as am still in smaller trousers but they are tight! I have been mainlining peanut butter icecream which is not well-known for it's weightloss properties. On the plus side it probably contains more protein than other dairy products.
I am not going to attempt to read back so apologies, but I have so much to do already this weekend it's stupid. I shall assume you are all domestic and fitness goddesses as usual. And that Randall is still losing weight despite astonishing cider and cheese binges which would floor a concrete elephant.

Double how dare you besmirch my good name in such a way?! I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. I'll have you know I didn't eat any cheese at all yesterday.

(There's a chance I may have had a little cider but that's neither here nor there)

Really good to see you back chief, we've missed you x

doublemum your posy made me chuckle!

interesting. . mfp says my food log for today (assuming I eat what i have planned. . ) is exactly 1000 calories and my exact 29pp allowance. ..

Welcome back Double :)

Can I sneak back in please?

After a fab weekend away showing my boobs to Belfast, I fell off the diet and exercise wagon all week
Just one bodypump session this week. Just lost my mojo a tad and life in the way.

Hello to all new chiefs and welcome back to Double.

Sounds great bigknicks. I luffs a bit of protein. And that's a really impressive first day menu. Spinach and eggs for breakfast. YUM.

Double you got it right on the nose there matey. She's also eaten all the yellow stickered items at M&S in the whole of Wales and is still managing to maintain goddess status with flicky hair and the like. It is as Randall says good to have you back. Well done on staying in the same trousers. Now WTF is bunny bonding? And have you set up a fight club over the summer?

I fasted yesterday and managed three gins. Today there is a beer in the fridge with my name on and a cake somewhere in Bath that I will fall on with my mouth open. I was meant to go and play hockey this morning at 9am but it seems that if DS4 pisses on my foot at 4am in the morning it removes my powers to get out of PJs by 1221 on a Saturday morning.

Hello Chiefs, you are the most inspiring - and the funnest - thread on here so I'm hoping some of both elements can get me back on track. After taking 9 months to lose 2 stone - starting at 16 stone 4, I've been faffing around losing a few pounds and putting them back on since July. I blamed the holidays and marvellously extensive 50th birthday celebrations but can no longer get away with that and need to shake things up.

My plan is a Randall and Bssh style weekly approach to allow for my alcohol needs but it will require some stricter days. So I'm thinking a dipping a toe in the 5 2 world. But am a snacker. Any advice? Do I have to just go cold turkey and accept I'll feel hungry and not be scared of that or are there suitable low calorie ways to have a little something every now and them and keep within the 500 or so. I think I know the answer but don't want to hear it....

Nice to see a few other newbies on here. Hoping we can all keep each other motivated.

Lizzy I thought your norks were such an attraction in Belfast that you weren't allowed to leave as you'd affect their tourist trade . Lovely to have you back too.

Greetings Apples and welcome to the thread.

Fasting. It's easier than you think it'll be. I go through to dinner with hot drinks and sparkling water. And then have dinner for about 400 calories and save 100 calories for gin for a snack if I need it in the evening. You will get waves of hunger but they are temporary. They will disappear if you have a drink. It's good to remind yourself that you can have whatever you want tomorrow on a fast day. I'd recommend reading the book if you're going to have a go because it gives you the extra motivation of the health benefits and talks about fasting over time and it's role so you don't feel alone. It also talks about hunger as being a temporary thing. And they're right. I get hungry about 11am, 2pm and 4-5pm. Peppermint tea is a life saver at these points. Protein is good in your meals to fill you up. Chicken breast and fish are two favs of mine on a fast day.

Well I pooed and weighed. My fasting this week has me 2lbs down on the gain I'd made so I'm back at my target weight (which for some reason I've neglected to record on MFP ... must be my age) which is good news for me because I think my hidden AF (I'm on the minera coil) is around this week as my boobs are sore. So hopefully, if I can keep it up the next couple of weeks, I can get back to My Lowest Adult Weight. And then onto the 3lbs I want to work on so I get my BMI to 22 and into the 8 stone zone. God, I'm so fecking short!

That said Apples in the book the two authors take a different approach. The chap does spread his calorie allowance across the day. The Mimi lady does what myself and Bssh do. You have to find the way that works for you. Try both of them but make sure you have peppermint tea.

Oh. And great loss prior to coming to the thread. That's great Chief.

Thanks Tea - but OMG 8 stone zone in sight? That's truly impressive, whatever height!

And I think you're right. I just have to give fasting a go and see what works. Don't think I can be doing with peppermint tea though. All tea tastes pretty gross to me. Black coffee all the way.
So Tuesdays the day. Karaoke Monday night will require more than 500 calories in alcohol alone. But Tuesdays do- able.
Off for long walk in Richmond Park ths pm.
Have a good weekend all.

What is this breast-baring of which you speak? Any particular reason your norks needed to be on display Lizzy? Are you in fact Katie Price?
Tea bunny-bonding is getting my 2 (little) rabbits into a trio as I'm taking in another from rescue. His name is Paul(?!). Bunnies are very territorial so there's likely to be some fur flying before they become all loved up, if indeed they do. Best place to do it is in the bath, apparently, neutral territory and all that. Plus you can't leave them and at least I can sit on the toilet all day.
So far today I have had 4 slices of wholemeal bread so that's not off to a good start really is it. On the plus side there is no peanut butter icecream left.

Randall, sorry about your good name. Obviously you never actually allow a crumb of cheese to pass your lips, and you are in fact completely teetotal. And you help old ladies across the road all the time on your days off and you have won the Nobel Prize for Physics 6 times.
There, that should do it, reputation right back on track.

Double
No, Tea and the other brazen hussy Chiefs talked me into wearing a black lacy top with just a bra underneath. So I did, I am very obedient.

My Dh is called Paul

Yes Paul is not a very rabbitty name but he's 3 yrs old so he might be a bit confused if I start calling him Parsnip.
I'm glad your norks had slight coverage. Never good to get cold norks.

A 22yr old tried to snog me.
He will not be launching himself at old ladies again after the verbal battering I gave him. My friend said she was surprised I hadn't given myself whiplash the way I threw my head back from his slobbering assault.
I could have birthed him!

OMG imagine what he might have done if your breasts really had been bared?! Which makes you sound like Boudicca by the way.