Chiefs Randalling on to svelteness

[Lizzylou]

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Last day at work for me

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

OMG tits. Just don't weigh on a Monday. I weigh Thursdays or Fridays. And weigh after a poo!! What goes on the weekend, as Bssh says, can be a distant and pleasant memory.

Sylv helloooooo. Nice to hear from you. Damn internet. And great news about the sizing and style of jeans. It is hard when your support isn't easily accessible so extra points for you for keeping on going

Tits I am so glad someone else has the same problem - I was just coming on to post about this. I know I should only weigh myself once a week and a Monday probably isn't the best day, but that is the start of my WW week so it has become the norm. Anyway, I am one of those sad obsessive people that weighs myself regularly during the week so I can see if things are heading in the right direction. Thursday morning I was looking good for a 2lb loss for this week (ie I could go a bit mad at the weekend but still maintain) but only just managed to eke out a 1lb loss this am after I had been to the loo, been for a run and sweated buckets and before I'd had any water to recover from said run where I had ended up looking like a tomato through exertion. I did go slightly overboard with beer and curry on Friday evening but actually ate sensibly most of the rest of the time so I am quite traumatised that it had such a bad effect on my weight.

For those who are now maintaining, did you gradually increase your calorie allowance or go straight back up to whatever MFP gave you? I have been on 1200 cals/day for 2 months and this has been working well but having seen the impact of Friday evening on my week, I'm concerned that when I do finally get to maintenance mode and eat more than 1200 cals, that I'm just going to pile weight straight back on again. Advice/reassurance needed please!

And congratulations to those with funky new jeans and new jobs. Waiting to hear whether my interview on Thursday (first for over 7 years!) was successful...

Dear lord people, don't weigh on Mondays! I always weighed on Wednesdays, I figured half way through the week was likely to be my most true 'average' iyswim.

Maintaining-wise I've gone straight to my TDEE but stuck with my usual 'take it as a weekly average' tactic and it's working so far.

Monday weighers you also have to allow for the fact that there will be more food and water sloshing through your digestive system (even after a poo!) after an eating weekend so obviously that will be reflected on the scales - it won't be actual increase in body fat.

Carikube I hit my goal weight at the end of April and managed to maintain it successfully for a month or so (before deciding that I could aim for a lower weight). But my strategy won't help you unless you're a faster cause I wasn't logging in MFP at all then and maintained by fasting one day a week and eating whatever I wanted the rest of the week - what they call 6:1 fasting. It worked for me as I wanted to continue fasting as well as eating like a greedy pig. That'll be my strategy when I reach my new goal weight.

Randall if your BMI is in the lower region of "normal weight" yet you think your body fat is still a bit too high then short of liposuction you're gonna have to bite the exercise bullet and start doing some weight training exercise - "convert" some of that fat to muscle. You don't wanna be skinny fat.

I'm glad it's not just me then!

I think a Wed weigh in day is good, I'll stick to that.

I did eat vast amounts of cheese and baked goods at the weekend though.

I am pretty skinny these days tbh, gap between my thighs, collar bones, hip bones, all that jazz. I'm just a moaning old fart!

I'd love a six-pack instead of a jelly-belly but I'm just so very lazy

I think I've found a good fat 'before' photo actually. If I can find a decent 'after' one I may bite the bullet and post them. (If I feeling brave enough!)

Randall did you ever dream you would one day be describing yourself as skinny ? Happy days! I still can't believe I have collarbones and no double chin.

Ah Randall. . thats amazing (and im insanely jealous. .that used to be me.. sob!)

Feeling better today. Trying to think about what I want etc.

I feel like perhaps I need to consider a dreaded class.. so I feel committed to somthing. . Im finding it too easy to 'start tomorrow' ..I dont have time to keep fannying about like this. ...

It still sounds faintly ridiculous in all honesty.

All my clothes are sizes 8 or 10 yet I still look at them and think 'no way will that fit', even things I know I wore yesterday! It's bonkers is what it is.

Right, once my free WW period is over (in about 4 weeks) and I'm just going on MFP alone, I will switch to a Weds weigh in so that I don't get too depressed...WW shouts at me on a Monday until I've weighed myself...

Randall I figured that a six pack was something for the young 'uns as I'm not entirely sure that a post-DC jelly belly can really be got rid of, short of tummy tuck or some such (that's what I'm telling myself, anyway...I bet someone will come along in a minute and tell me that if I do several hundred crunches a day and eat spinach, I'll be able to use my stomach as a washboard )

its very encouraging to think that people who were my weight are now sporting gaps between thighs etc and its been achieved with occasional Randalling along with all the hard work.

Monday weighing has to be crazy - I go for Friday as my official day but am a daily weigher so I know Mondays have a lot of potential for misery

Bigknickers if a class is what it takes then a class you should do - the whole thing with losing weight/getting healthier is finding the tricks that work for you. Structure and monitoring seem to help me - mfp, mumsnetting and shredding with Gillian are my cornerstones now - they keep my head in the right place and then I stick with it. If they slip and I lose the obsession focus then it goes down hill fast.

Welcome new chiefs! I'm shrewvole on MFP if anyone is doing that and wants to add me.

SDP well done on the jeans! Fuck the boyfriend jeans up the nose

Tea been for a lie down with Bill Bryson hmmm? I'm not the moral police or anything, but are you not both married?

anote oooooohhhhh yes, I can totally relate to what you describe. I can best explain it, for me, through my strong self-destructive streak. It's like part of me doesn't want to be thin or to achieve my weight loss goals - I have faffed on and faffed on and only lost about 9lb since January. Randall, Tea, SDP, Dinky and LLL have lost stones and stones in that time.

I do it with exercise too, even exercise I enjoy. My internal monologue goes: "Nope, not doing that [run, swim, whatever]/But you enjoy it. You'll enjoy having done it and you'll enjoy doing it/Nope, not going/But why? You'll be back home in an hour/No, I don't have to do it, I don't want to, you can't make me do it/You'll feel so much better afterwards/NO, I AM NOT GOING."

Anyway! Hoping to be as good as possible this week. Went for my longest run yet yesterday - the gps thingy on my phone wasn't working, but I did 45 minutes and ran all but 3 minutes of that, and was buzzing all yesterday and all morning as a result. Swimming club tonight.

The only flies in the ointment are that it's DH's birthday tomorrow and the kids want to make chocolate cake (which tbf I am not keen on), I'm taking DH to the restaurant in the Shard on Weds (I keep snurking to myself that I am taking DH up the shard on his birthday, ho ho ho), I'm out boozing on Thursday and I'm off to Glasgow for a weekend of fun with two friends on Friday lunchtime, returning Sunday night. We're going to see the Proclaimers so maybe the shouting along will burn a few cals... So obviously nothing can go wrong with my diet this week

And Bssh ! Bssh has gone all slinky yet still gained entry to the men's bit of the gym since Jan.

Bigknickers if you are someone who procrastinates about exercise then a class or club does really help. It's sort of like the 5:2 diet in that you know when you'll be exercising and you can stop beating yourself up about it/nagging yourself to go out the rest of the time.

Apples occasional Randalling? In my case, ahem, it's weekly Randalling (frequently starting on Friday morning!). My refrain is: it's all about the weekly view .

Tea I missed about your job, fab work chief!

Buzzy hope DH enjoys being Sharded :)

buzzy enjoy the Shard...we went thus summer for MILs birthday and it was lovely (albeit needing a small mortgage to pay the bill - couldn't believe it when I saw what looked like an NCT group meeting up in the bar for lunchtime cocktails, babies in tow...why didn't I make the most of the DCs being that young and portable to do something similar?). Anyhoo, the whole point is I had a great time there in spite of being on a diet...

bssh, I think occasional Randalling was more of a note to self.
am now on way to karaoke having just left a school governors meeting. challenging wardrobe decisions this morning that's for sure. but I do believe its the law to Randall at karaoke so I will def need to initiate the planned start of 5:2 tomorrow

Apples I forgot you were starting 5:2. Good luck! And remember the mantra: I can eat it tomorrow.

@ up the shard. Well jell about the Proclaimers Buzzy.

It is official, I am unemployed. To celebrate I did an Insanity workout as I had to miss bodypump as Ds2 had a school thing.

I am a bit of a layabout/procrastinator too. Though I do do loads of exercise. Just want this last stone off.

Sigh...what is this poo of which you all speak? A distant memory in Note Land. And yes, I'm eating lots of fibre, exercising virtually every frigging day. Not drinking much water I admit but still - I shouldn't have to alert the papers and throw a party every time I actually manage a poo, surely?

But this is just idle chatter to distract myself and you from the fact that I weighed in today and GAINED. Bugger. I came in a 71kg (156.5 pounds), slightly up from last Monday. I should have listened to my elder and wiser Chiefs from the start and weighed in on Friday, when my weight was down. But Sunday was a brunch (yes, MOUNDS of blue cheese and dips) and an a delicious Indian meal for supper. From now, I'm joining the Friday weighers.

Those scanned pics are very, very sobering.

And knickers yes, yes to the self-destructive streak. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Fear not, the gain is just backed up poop, you mark my words.

We conducted a tremendously scientific experiment a while ago and discovered that the 'average' crap weighs 1.8lb. (Some only 1lb but some over 2lb )

Get drinking a lot more water and chug some fybogel if things get serious, but trust me, poo is your problem.

anoteto I find lots of lentils and beans help move things along a little.