HotMamas - Five years on, are we fit or are we fat???

[FjorGynAndHotWater]

New thread, this one WILL work!!!!

Woohoo sazz is back you did an amazing amount of exercise yesterday I take my hat off to you you probably did more in a day than me in a week

Did cardio and abs this am, really gave it all I had for 6am I think the abs is starting to make a difference she hopes

Just over two and a half weeks til the swimsuit comes out eek however looking after two manic dds, a still very injured SH and my dad I reckon there won't be much relaxing!

Woke up this am so not in the mood! Laid in bed for 10 mins felt guilty so got up and did fat blaster and abs.. Scales are rubbish so wish I hadn't bothered I keep gaining and losing the same pound and need to break the cycle... Ideas??

Hope your weigh is better than mine fjorny

Hope you are still on track sazz

Did my 10 mins this morning and food good yesterday so staying on track. Weekend will be the test.

LOTI can you do the clothes test rather than scales test. Your exercise regime is manic so I'm sure you are more muscular and toned which does make a diff to weight?

Stayed within calories today and am treating myself to a glass of

Just went and logged in FF and 150ml of red wine is only as many calories as the 150g (large handful) of red grapes which I had at lunchtime

Went to gym this morning

5.5k run with weights/sprints, 2.5k row and 10 mins powerplate and then took DDs swimming.

food ok so far.....

This week I have mainly eaten cabbage soup, roast chicken and fruit/veg so a good detox if nothing else.

Weighed at gym and was 10.12 so moves in the right direction . Scales have now been ordered too so there are no excuses.

Hope you ladies are having a good day

Well done for all that training good diet and weight loss sazz

Couldn't sleep so tried out a new DVD I bought. It's one of those 10 mins solutions called knockout body workout. Did the knockout blast the kick box cross trainer and the killer abs. Only 30 mins but and literally drenched in sweat and have started aching already

Wow LOTI - I would have stopped after the first 10!!! you must be SO toned after all this daily blasting. Bikini ready most definitely

Stayed within calories yesterday (albeit used the exercise ones) so just today to get through and then will be ok on weekdays.

Scales apparently due for delivery between 2.33 and 3.33pm so will start proper weigh ins next week. God only knows what the comparison will be like to my old (dodgy) scales. Hopefully they will be aligned with the gym ones as 10.12 I can cope with

Missing you Fjorny , although I can't berate you as I was MIA for such a long time........

Ooh just looked back on last year and found these stats:

Thurs 5th Sept - 11.4
Thurs 26 Sept - 10.13.0
Thurs 17 Oct - 10.10.25
Thurs 5 December - 10.7.5

So, depending on weigh in on Fri I am in the same ballpark which is good. Would love to be 10 1/2 by Dec. I know what I have to do, just need to keep it up.

That sounds promising sazz and bikini ready em don't think so!

We have had this thread for over a year lol

6.5k run just now

Roast dinner in the oven though so swings and roundabouts lol

It wasn't the scales delivered today but a book for dd1's birthday

Within cals today and I even had 2 roasties. Yum . Glass of red to accompany Downton already factored in

Fingers crossed the scales turn up today. Sounds like you are on a good roll

Me not so much. Have had a bad headache for a couple if days and not sleeping very well. I am sitting here trying to muster the enthusiasm to do some exercise but it's just not happening!

Hopefully will try and attempt some later if this headache ever lifts!

Oh boo LOTI :( hope you feel better later. 10 mins exercise done here.

Not good. Um 12 9. BUT

I start a new job in a week and a half and I will be cycling about 10 miles a day as part of the commute.

Hopefully. Bike ready, so fingers crossed.

Wow DrG - 'cycling 10m as part of the commute'. Are you working in Scotland

Are you doing anything in particular food wise or just hoping the scales will suddenly be kind to you?

Been good again with food within cals and went for a walk at lunchtime despite it blowing a hoolie so pleased with that. Scales should arrive tomorrow . Oh, and booked our Xmas party places today so operation Xmas dress is in full swing!!

LOTI - how's the head?? Have you been drinking enough water? I forgot to take a big bottle to work and ended up only having a couple of glasses. Must do better.....

Um, just hoping. You are right. Nothing will happen unless I actually do something. Sigh.

On the up side re: food instead of 1 bag of pears Tesco substituted 12 bags of apples in the delivery yesterday so we do have plenty of fruit at the moment.

No the cycle is 5m each way - the car option is either a massive motorway loop or the ring road in the city - according to google, driving to the park and ride and then cycling is pretty much the same.

I think that I will see how the cycling goes and whether exercise helps. I currently do very little.

But if you do have suggestions for nice snacks for watching TV in the evening that would be great - mostly I eat crisps and chocolate.

Wow Dr G that will be some impressive exercise re snacks at night time I am in the same dilemma! Thinking popcorn (the 100 cal bags) I guess grapes from the fridge or even some veggies and hommous? I have yet to try any of these

Up this am for my 30 mins of the new DVD... Hoping all this punching is going to help . Headache still there but not as bad, I am suffering very badly from insomnia recently so I am guessing I am just one very very very very tired lady!

Well done on the exercise yesterday sazz and keeping in with the cals. It did not stop raining here yesterday and not looking great today

Have re downloaded my fitness pal to try and see where all my calories go...

Blimey you two early birds. Slept in solidly today so no exercises thus am. I WILL make up for it later.....

I don't tend to snack in the eve as once DC are in bed I have a long bath with a large glass of squash and don't eat dinner till 8.30/9 ish. Against all diet 'wisdom' but works ok for me.
Just careful on fruit snacks as they are calorific (albeit healthier) - see my point on grapes v wine earlier in the week. If you want to actually lose weight and not cut out food groups then I'm still convinced you have to calorie count . Interested to hear where yours do go LOTI & make sure you put in your exercise too.

I hope you don't mind me joining in. Sazz sent me a link to the thread after helping me on my own thread on Sunday.
I have 3 stone to lose. I've decided to go with calorie counting using My Fitness Pal and today is my second day! I did well yesterday I seem to be getting obsessed with a number of health apps on my phone
I really want to do it this time, I need to learn to deal with the well meaning diet saboteurs in my life and get on with it, but bloody hell it's hard

Hello Agent, lovely to see you come and check out our motley crew . I too am now obsessed with my app gadgets, so recently have purchased a fitbit and fitbit scales and am logging on Food Focus! As you can see we randomly post but have been at it 5 years - in that time I have lost 4+ stone and never been more than 1 and a bit stone heavier than my lightest so I'm calling that a success

No run this morning as weather was vile so came home and dusted off the shred and did Level 1 with weights. No problems but got very sweaty so def can't do before work without washing hair.

Fitbit scales duly set up and say 11.4 and 48% body fat. . However there are a fair few reviews which say it takes a while for them to calibrate so I bloody well hope this is the reason for such scary readings. Will try again in the morning after first wee

I tried my work dress on today and just about squeezed in, so hopefully in a couple of weeks I can wear it without risk of seam splitting.

mmmm. those bags of popcorn are an idea. I could even make some.

Hello Agent Bartowski. Everyone here is quite good at advice. I am less good at following it, but still appreciate the advice!

Welcome Agent

Managed the double school run walk today hurrah

I too have logged everything on fitness pal, I think logging make you question if you really need that treat

Thanks for the welcome.
Double school run here too, have logged everything on my fitness pal for the last two days and feel pretty happy if a little bit hungry.
I have an app called Human which tracks my movements and then feeds the results into MFP, this way I can't exaggerate my exercise and justify a packet of crisps.

Christ things are getting worse here - just checked my phone and my weight has uploaded from the scales via wifi and it has gone on as 11.5. Gahhhhh.
Fat % at 40.8 rather than 48% so must have misread that. So if scales are correct then I have a stone to lose rather than half a stone so I need double the commitment now

How far are school runs for everyone? Ours is 1.25 miles (hilly, natch) each way so good when I can do it.