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!

As we're sharing I've gone with before-ish and after-ish photos too. They too will remain in place for a short time.

I have put normal after-Chiefing me in and wearing a frock after-Chiefing me. And shame on me in my before photo using a 3day old baby to try and hide behind. My norks were so massive though much of me wasn't hidden.

Flipping heck tea! You look gorgeous and skinny too! Is this thread suddenly the gorgeous models thread And fabulous dress darling!

Nooo! I can't see profiles on my tablet! you buggers!

tea you look really good. I am envious of your very flat sotmach

Oh behave you lot, there's no need to take the piss! (Swishy blonde locks indeed!)

Tea, you look a right fox in that dress, all leggy and lovely. Very classy.

Lizzy you should still be able to see profiles on a tablet but you'll have to use the normal site rather that the app.

(I too am totes jealous of Tea's abs, you could bounce a ball of those bad boys!)

Haha! I went on the non-mobile site, you are two hot, svelte , slinky sex goddessses!
Amazing!

God. I was only thinking how I still look like a fricking male shotputter in the mirror at bodypump!
I am a giant compared to you waifs

You're not a giant you loon. You're a health and fitness machine! (Plus I've seen that MFP pic you sly minx you.)

Body pump? I'd struggle to pump up a beach ball.

Is that everyone now? Can I take it down? If I ever find a 'before' shot I'll put it up, promise. However it seems I'm a ninja when it comes it avoiding the camera

Tea what a stunner you are! And I would kill for your abs!

Hello, can I join too please?

Been on MFP for ages without actually logging anything (username there is also Carikube) until I joined WW in August and decided to take up the C25k as well. Have lost 7lbs so far of the 20 or so that I need to lose and have made it in to week 4 of C25k but am feeling a bit friendless on MFP .

I've added you on MFP. Good work on C25k
I really can't wait to get signed off to run again. Stupid labour, stupid tears
GP tomorrow for 6 week check so should get green light for normal exercise I hope...

Erm. Thanks

Lizzy You complete nut my friend. I would bet that we look similar in RL as you've been doing a similar amount and type of exercise to me. And honestly, I'm not tiny really, I'm just far away and I think that t-shirt is flattering but WTF at my odd shaped boobs?

That frock cost me a tenner from a second-hand shop. Love it.

Hellooooooooo Carikube friend away .........

Odd shaped boobs? I didn't even notice that. Let me go and have another look......

Only joking

And you really are tiny, you look properly toned. Well jel.

Hi carikube, I'll get on to MFP in the morning and add you. Sounds like you're doing great so far.

(Soz for being a tad ungracious earlier. You're all so very lovely. I'm not good at taking compliments, can you tell?)

Thanks for the welcome...will try to find some usernames from this thread to add on MFP otherwise please feel free to find me!

Wooooo! Loads of new chiefs - welcome all!

Randall and Tea you look amazing in your after pics. Really, really amazing. So slender and healthy - you both radiate it! And, along with Lizzy and Bssh you just show how weight loss gives you an amazing youthful radiance. Just gorgeous all of you.

OK, I've not had the best few days - been scarfing choc like there's no tomorrow - I brought about a kilo of the stuff back from France "to ration it out" FFS when will I learn ?

Cals have been - well not exactly ok but within my tolerances for a weekend or a bad week, I mean I've not binged or anything despite intense provocation from 5 year old DD1 But I've really noticed that the sugar is not doing my energy levels ANY good at all - I went back to my swimming club (Monday is club, Thursday is a lesson, which is easier) last night after 5 weeks away and couldn't seem to get any power or speed through the water not that I get much anyway

Also haven't been for a run in 5 weeks - planning to address that this weekend. [kicks own arse into gear emoticon]

I may stick pics of Tea, Randall, Bssh and Lizzy all over my fridge and workout stuff!!

Rationing out French chocolates! Pah haaa ha ha

You've done well to make them last any time at all. I'd have been face down in a truffle induced coma on day one! Clearly you have more self-control than you give yourself credit for.

I fear I may have given an inaccurate impression with my photo. I think maybe it's more flattering than I thought it was. I really am a very plain looking 34yo in RL. I'll swap it for a different one I think!

Having seen what some of you are doing in the way of exercise etc on MFP I am seriously impressed - my 30 mins of C25k 3 times a week pales in to insignificance.
Fortunately I live on a hill so I am trying to walk the DDs to school/pre-school as often as possible (doesn't work when they have to be in different places at the same time) so that I get a bit of exercise that way. I have a Fitbit and it keeps telling MFP that I have done lots of calorie burning that I'm not really aware of, so MFP ups my allowance for the day. I'm ignoring it (so MFP keeps telling me I'm under my calorie goal) but does anyone else use one of these and have the same problem? I've hardly done anything this morning apart from a teeny bit of gardening and according to MFP I have earned another 127 calories

Some of these Chiefs are hardcore when it comes to exercise. Tea and Lizzy especially. Although there are others who have their moments!

I really want a fit bit just to see how active I am in a normal day, but I'm a bit scared it would shout at me (I don't exercise properly at all). How much are they?

This thread is moving so quick what with our new chiefs and photos!

tea and randall you look fantastic. What with the pics of bssh a while ago I fear I am so unglam next to you beauties.

I promise to post photos when I get to December and have my posh frock for the Christmas do. That in itself is motivation to push a bit harder.

Impressed by all the running action going on here! I'm limiting myself to the 3 or so miles that mapmyrun has given me. Would prefer no crapping incidents around the village here, everyone would know about it before I got home!!

Well impressed with the randalling tea, glad it's not just me still trying to recover on a Monday.

Hi Carikube. I think you'll find the hill walking you're doing is very beneficial. I have much better overall stamina and endurance when I exercise on hills. Okay, so in my immediate vicinity it's quie flat but I power-walk up steep inclines on the treadmill three times a week; combined with some weight training it leads to nice, strong, sleek blatantly ignoring the wobbly bits I am legs and bum.

Very much looking forward to seeing you in your slinky Christmas dress sylv , well done on the running.

Randall I've got a Fitbit One which cost me about £70 I think. MIL gave me some money for my 40th this summer and as I decided it was time to sort out my weight & shape, I've so far invested it in the Fitbit, an iPod Shuffle (so I can have the C25k podcasts) and will shortly be going out to buy some cold weather running gear.

The Fitbit is great and although it posts messages on its screen, I never see them as I wear it on my bra so I have no idea if it is shouting at me when I don't do anything. It's definitely helped me try to be more active, but I think I'm possibly being mean with it as the DDs are only 4 & 3 and so all the walking up and down hills is actually pretty tough for them (I've recently ditched the buggy) and they are exhausted. Once DD1 is in school full time (she's still doing half days at the moment) there won't be quite so much to-ing and fro-ing so it will be a bit easier for them.

Bssh when we moved in to this house last year I suddenly realised that if I was ever going to go out without the car, I would end up with buns of steel as our house is on the steepest part of the road and the whole area is rather hilly (which has made finding a route for C25k interesting). Still some way to go before I am actually toned but I'm hoping that a few more weeks and we'll be getting there.

A NSV (no scale victory, for the newbies) today, Chiefs. I've made it into the "men's gym"! For context, my gym keeps all the heavy dumbells and barbells in a section that is 99.9% filled with men. Moreover, this section of the gym is right in the middle of the room overlooked by all the cardio machines - so, in others words: highly visible. I've always been intimidated by it, which is rationally quite silly as the men there are not Neanderthals but quite friendly. By hey-ho, I'e always stuck to the ladies-only section, which has a good selection of free weights.

But last week I reached my max weight for dumbells there and the only way to progress is to move over to the dark side. Which I did today! Fortunately the gym was quiet and I tucked myself into a little corner and did my routine. It was completely fine. I got looked at, yes, but then everyone checks everyone out don't they...

Hurrah! Now I've done it, I can do it again tomorrow.

My GP has signed me off for exercise and said I can start running again c8-10 weeks post partum so end of the month I can start again

Hoping DH can keep up his end of bargain and take DD 3-4 x per week while I get out for a run...
I have a Jawbone UP but haven't worn it since DD arrived, I may have to unearth it!

You chiefs are an inspiration!