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!

S'alright Double about ten seconds after I posted it remembered that I actually had a pot of cottage cheese for lunch yesterday

I had cheese for lunch today too. Some delicious yellow-stickered M&S cheese. It was deflippinglicious. Like a really ripe Brie. God I love cheese.

Glad you and your tits had a good time in Belfast Lizzy. I wouldn't worry about this week if I were you, I'm pretty sure your idea of falling off the wagon and mine are very different. You were probably better behaved 'off the wagon' than I am when I'm on it!

I'm reckon a pissy foot definitely absolves you of any early morning exercise responsibilities tea. My morning had a similarly toilet themed beginning. On entering DS's room I discovered he had not only shat up his back, he'd also had a good rummaged around in there and smeared it all over his bed, blanket, sheet, face, baby, and Special Agent Oso.

Apples, soz mate but fasting sucks. It sucks big fat rotten eggs. It's totally worth it but you will be hungry, there's no getting around it. I find the best thing to do is to just have one meal in the evening, tiny snacks make me more hungry. I just try and keep really busy all day so I don't think about it. It's a small price to pay for the 'feast' days though

Snogged at by a young maaaaan
Get you foxy lady!

Welcome back Lizzy's boobs .
Hello Apples, I 5:2 too and find it really refreshing not to stress too much about my non-fasting days. I think of it as depriving myself just twice a week then eating 2000 calories daily of yummy food the rest of the week (though as mentioned upthread I take a weekly view - so undereat weekdays and overeat weekends; also 2000 cals is right for me to still lose weight but you'd need to work out your own TDEE). I've been 5:2ing for 8 months now and the hunger no longer bothers me much. Easiest way to lose weight as far as I'm concerned :)

Thanks Randall. I like the straight talking. I'm getting a clearer idea of what's involved. And it won't be pretty. Especially if norks have to be bared but hopefully that's optional - although I am going to Belfast in November. Worrying.

Bssh 2000 sounds quite generous. And as I'm fat I may well be allowed more. Will work it out. So I just need to do the fasts. Piece of cake. Whoops. Bad start. ....

Apples my TDEE is generous because I exercise. Use this TDEE calculator and only pay attention to the TDEE total for your non-fasting days. Join the current 5:2 thread if you feel like it - loads of newbie and oldie fasters on there and the advice and support is amazing - a really nice bunch of people. Of course, we can support you here too - we're a smaller group (just 4 of us are fasters?).

Apples I did actually have a slice of cake on one of my fast days - it was all I ate that day and it was heaven :)

Thanks Bssh. I'm relatively new to exercise but did some C25k before it got too dark to go before work and am now 2 weeks into shredding. So hopefully that will all help. Knees are a bit shot though.
Will check out the link and have been lurking a bit on the 5:2 thread so may well dip in there.

Oh buggeration I just wrote a long post and lost it. Nice to catch up how you've all been doing these last few days. Thanks Tea and Bossh for the wise words and very reassuring experiences. I love hearing how you all Randall your way slim.

Nice not to be the newest newbie any more. Welcome apples and doublemum.

I'm love love loving the exercising. Am amazed that this is me. It really does become addictive, doesn't it?

accidentally fell asleep while putting small one to bed last night. . so I had no dinner! had a tiny slither of cake at party so I probably went to bed on less than 1000ckal and way undee my pp's.

up for bootcamp. .shitting it.

Has anyone seen this double scan of two women, one 250lbs, the other 120lbs. Look at the visceral fat, the joints, the enlarged liver and heart... I used to be over 200 lbs and felt fine. I had no idea! I will never let my weight creep up like that again.

:-( im so close to 200lbs. My highest was 204. am 190 now.

Shit. .today has been awful food wise. I can't get focused

Blimey, I was almost 210lb. That's really scary.

I'm guessing both woman are quite short though as 120lb would give me a BMI of 18.5 which is underweight and I'm only 5'8" so not massively tall.

I've read on a bit more and there's a more detailed pic.

They're 5'5" so the BMI's are 40.3 and 20.

Stick with it Bigknickers. Tomorrow is another day. And I'm 200 pounds so you've got a 10 pound start on me but I shall try my best to catch you up!

I was just shy of 200lbs. And I'm 5'5''. Ye Gods. Shocked about the heart but I'm sure my arse was larger

I'm over half a stone away from the second picture. I don't think I'll ever got to a BMI of 20. Infact, I know I won't. I run too far and play too much hockey too cut back on proper food further and I like beer, chocolate and cake too much to stop it entirely

Don't despair new chiefs. I know it seems like an insurmountable journey but weekends are bad days to think it's possible. Monday is a new day.

big look at the weekly total dude. How was the camp for boots?

randall soz about the shitting on a Disney character on a Sunday morning. Things like that should come with some sort of parental warning.

Lizzy love that you have been educating young men to show respect for females. I give him a week before he declares himself a feminist. but poor you. He sounds like a knob.

I ran today. I declare moulds and spores hayfever open for autumn .... I managed 4.2 miles and it was the hardest run I've done this year. I had to have a lie down in my bed with some real ale and Bill Bryson.

I was offered a job on Friday. I start on Tuesday. I have one day to sort out the lives of six people before it all goes a bit Pete Tong. I thought I'd have a month. Oh. My pants don't fit. i have no bras! This may be the worst couple of months ever! Gin. Tea. Exercise. On-line shopping. They will all help!

tea

Congratulations on the job!

Tea hurrah for new job!
bigknickers weekends are for Randalling eating, Mondays are for starting over. Many of us old Chiefs were around 200 lbs but look where we are today? Keep chugging on. Of course you're gonna fail some days/weeks but the key is to start over the next time... over and over and over. Patience, consistency, the bigger picture, the longterm view.

Tea! New job is fab
In an ironic twist, I am handing in my notice tomorrow.
Need to get me some classroom experience pronto.

I have a 'food baby belly'

Lizzy I shall be watching your teaching journey with mucho interesto. I'm certain it's my vocation. Dead excited for you. Do you have a school lined up for teaching?

Thanks Chiefs. Has been a hard few months of finding local work rather than working in the big smoke. Phew. Just in time. I was thinking of selling one of the boys.

Chiefs!! I'm still here...

Internet still not fixed, apparantly it's all the fault of Wessex Water so lots of digging up the road and waiting...and waiting. My 3G signal on my phone is rubbish so times are tough. How did I ever cope pre internet days? BT have promised movement by the weekend but I'm not holding my breath.

Well done on the job Tea, you will be fab and soon have all the plates spinning at the same time. So pleased for you.

More new Chiefs! Fantastic! Once I get my internet sorted I will be able to catch up with who everyone is.

I've been doing ok, it's tough without popping on here and mfp though. However I went jeans shopping and fitted a 14 with abit of room too (12's too tight but do up able!). I ended up with a straight leg and slim boot...no more slouch/boyfriend cut needed to cope with my ass! Very bloody happy, haven't been in a 14 for years. Didn't spend much as I intend to get into those 12's soon.

Will try to get back on tomorrow....seem to get a one bar signal if I lean out the window and the wind is going in the right direction!

Onwards and downwards!!

Fuck you boyfriend jeans

Fuck those boyfriend jeans right in the ear

And mahoosive whoops for new jobs.
Whooooooooop!

(My BMI is now 20.5 but I am more than sure that I have way more body fat than that picture. BMI isn't the be all and end all. I couldn't run to the end of my street never mind a half marathon!)

Argh! I'm such an idiot, I weighed on Thursday (naughty) and I was 3lb down but after a weekend of eating crapola again I'm back to what I was. My weekend binges are clearly sabotaging my in week goodness.

Tits don't weigh more than once a week. I always weigh at the end of a virtuous week and never after a Randall weekend. That way I never know how much I gained after the weekend and by Friday it's usually gone anyway (on average) and then some. I hide my scales under DD's cupboard in her room and unearth it every Friday morning.