52 weeks to lose 52 pound. Anyone in?

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I am 4 stone over weight and it's making me very unhappy. I've been saying I'll lose weight for the last two years! Instead I've just gotten fatter.

I know most people don't keep up their new years resolutions but I am hoping having a thread on here will help.

If anyone is interested please feel free to join me. I will be using weight watchers but I would love anyone to join.

I intend to start on Jan 1st. I've bought
a nice diary to write my food in.

I'd love it if people could share meal plans and recipie ideas.

I've had a pretty good start it the day, need to up my water too. I drink around 4/5 glasses a day at the moment but need to get it to 8.

I'm going to make dinner in a mo so it only has to be chucked in the oven later, it's the fish pie from the change 4 life app. I've also bought the hairy dieters cookbook to help with next week's meal planning.

I'm off to ikea tomorrow and I've just looked up the calories for their meatballs. Not as bad as I thought, and walking round ikea for 2 hours has to count for something i guess...

hug upping my water consumption has done wonders for my skin and for my late afternoon bloaty feeling. Am quietly very impressed, but I do feel this is something I should have discovered before the age of 35!

I'm in. I'm the wrong side of 50, 5ft 5ins and the scales this morning tell me I'm 13st 7lbs. I've put that half a stone on over December.

I have yo-yoed for years and this year I have to crack it. I'm going no alcohol / low carb / lots of water for January and take it from there. I feel that slowly and steadily is the way to go.

Good luck everyone.

Woohoo! Lovely 1 hour walk with the kidlets and DH up to the country park. Properly blew away the cobwebs in time for tonight's girly drinks. And 300 calories towards my red wine and nibbles :-)

Has anyone else been taking advantage of the good weather? Assuming it is good near you, that is...

Hugandroll
the 8 glasses of water a day thing is a myth linked to mis reading of an old medical paper : if eating a normal healthy diet, at least 4 of the glasses are included in your food.
BUT
( my posts usually include a but )
if you are restricting intake - fasting, staying within TDEE, changing your pattern
it is very very easy to become dehydrated - many teenagers permanently are
so drinking at least two pints of water a day is a good move
try to cut down on ALL fizzy drinks - especially diet ones as they actually make you gain weight

In my house we treat fizzy drinks the same as alcohol - so only with meals or special occasions
and 48 weeks a year no alcohol or fizzy is consumed during the week ...

woodburner
Too right. Went out and caught some sunshine.

I'm thirsty, I won't drink the water at work so decided to try a Red Bush Spiced Tea! I can honestly say never again! It tastes like dish water after washing the plates after a curry and hits the back of your throat like the eggy farts do the day after! Sorry for the description but its horrid!

On a good note I'm resisting the big tub of Celebrations well so far!

Dont know if this wilk help anyone but I baked four chicken breasts in balsamic vinegar in the oven and once cool stuck them in the fridge. Over the last few days Ive had them in a salad, in a wholemeal wrap etc, just reallyeasy to grab one and useit towards a quick lunch. Tasty too.

talkin I'm not fasting I'm doing regular calorie counting but I do find I'm more thirsty. I went off fizzy drinks over a month ago and am not a massive fan of squash so I only really drink coffee and water.

myname I had chicken for dinner last night but cooked two breasts so I had chicken salad for lunch, it's a great idea.

Are you all eating the extra cals freed up from exercise? I've had dinner but according to mfp I still have over 700 cals to eat!!! My daily limit is 1500 but it added on another few hundred after the exercise!

Im not but my excercise consists of two zumba classes per week so not much tbh. Plus anything extra I burn off is a bonus.

MummyDuck
NEVER add back exercise calories.
as the counters for exercise were not looking over your shoulder.
And
exercise acts as an appetite suppressant.
Take advantage of that.

On a fast day I am regularly at -500 calories intake if I counted my exercise.
So I don't

1500 is a very low TDEE - are you petite?

I'm trying very hard not to add back the exercise calories, as I think this is the mistake I made last time I used mfp. Not that I've actually managed to do much exercise so far, but once I do I'll be treating those calories as a bonus, not to be used up.

My TDEE seems very high (2200), but I suppose it must be because I'm very overweight at the moment and quite tall?

Talkpeace, I wasn't planning to use them up anyway, but was curious about others!
No I'm far from petite . The 1500 was set by mfp when I details in

Going by online, my tdee is 2189 a day. I'm not doing 5:2 though, prefer just low cal/no junk

Mummyduck ... sorry, yes, posting on two types of thread at once!
1500 if that is every day makes more sense.

justonemorecake
2200 for a TDEE is perfectly sane ... its the amount of calories you need to stay where you are
so if you are using MFP alone, you let it calculate.
If you are using MFP and fasting, the fasts create the deficit.

Not doing to well. I'm ok till the evening and then because I'm not a work till Monday I nibble. Originally I would start on 6th cos my birthday will be over and I'll be back at work. Have done lots of cycling

loopybear
keep nibbling till you've eaten what is in the house then do not buy any more snack foods
what do you DO in the evening?
change your routine so that the mental triggers are not set off.
and if needs be, brush your teeth with REALLY minty toothpaste right after supper as all food will taste foul for an hour!

I guess seeing that at the moment I could 2200 calories and maintain weight, it makes me wonder how much I was eating to put on all this weight?!

I'm just using mfp for now and that gives me 1820 calories a day if I want to lose 1lb a week. I'm sticking with mfp now and trying to make healthy changes (cutting out fizzy drinks, unnecessary snacking and huge portions) and then I'm going to think about starting 5:2.

talking as I have a low calorie intake, I am hungry quite a bit, but doing the water drinking etx...will this adjust as I become used to eating less?

KenAdams
Definitely.
If you teach your system to expect two or three decent meals a day and nothing at all outside of those times it will adapt within a couple of weeks.

90% of hunger is in your head not your tummy.

And - as we have discovered doing fasting - hunger comes in waves and they pass. I can be UTTERLY ravenous. Have a glass of water and a cup of tea and its gone and I then do not eat for another six or seven hours.

If you get into the habit of drinking a glass of water each time you'd have otherwise reached for a snack, your system will learn to use the calories stored on your hips rather than asking for new ones.

Real hunger is interesting - and does not kick in until at least 24 hours after the last batch of food. When you do eat after waiting that long you notice flavours much more.

I have approximately three hours until bedtime. If and it's a big if I get through those three hours without finding something sugary I will have managed my first sugar free day in about nine months.

I find if I can break the sugar addiction then I feel more alert and can concentrate better. I even went to co-op and to Aldi today in my quest for dinner and avoided the sweeties.

Stay strong welly

I failed. Three little

Pfaffernasse biscuits needed eating up. But I haven't gone over my daily calorie limit even with them.

I've just tracked for tomorrow and can't believe how much food 1500 cals actually is. Am I doing something wrong?!!