MFP to lose weight - Part 2

[Emz449]

Thought i'd get the next thread started as we have reached capacity on the other one :O

That's brilliant imust, 5 pound a month sounds very acheivable.
Came home starving after a day's work and snaffled around 350 Cals, and I could easily keep going Anyway, time to stop the messing and carry on.

I hate that not2-I come home ravenous and that's when I reach for dh biscuits! It's so Hard. Somehow I managed to not today but I wish I did as I wouldn't be feeling so hungry!

i'm terrible when i get home from work, if i'm not eating within half an hour i'm not happy! Good day on plan for me, just hope those scales move tomorrow! So glad that this week is coming to an end, can't wait for the weekend so i can have an amazing sleep!

emz you surely deserve good news with those scales.

Yes the munchies at the end of the day are a bugger.

What I need are filling low cal suggestions for meals and snacks. I am veggie so that makes it a bit harder, as I believe protein is meant to be more filling. I would need to eat a lot of beans to equate to a fillet of chicken I think!

Anyone want to share their top meals or snacks?

Emz when I had my stall last week I fasted for one day. I had about 100 calories. It was all drinks and I didn't eat anything at all. I'm sure that isn't a good idea to do regularly but I needed to see a loss to keep my motivation. I did lose the next day - I think it was a couple of pounds - and I have continued losing since then. Don't know whether you would consider that?

For the munchies I tend to try to ride it out. I am really trying to avoid snacking and I don't have enough calories for snacks anyway. I just observe the feelings and know that they will pass in a little while.

Skimmed latte fills me up and is 60ish cals!
Also with half a naked bar makes me feel like I've had a right treat! (70 cals)

Otherwise low fat fage Greek yog with blueberries about 150 cals for a small bowl but v full after as its all Protein. Fage stuff is no extra sugar for the zero fat stuff. So it's good for u too!

But otherwise nothing really fills me up, I just drink loads of herbal tea!

I'm not sure i could Imust, it admire your determination but i physically don't think i could! Perhaps at a weekend though

Hmm interesting. imust do you practice mindfulness? that just sounded like a "mindful" thing to do. I like the sound of just "noticing" the hunger and moving on. I work in mental health and mindfulness is everywhere at the moment.

Wonder if I could do it? The hunger is a bit overwhelming though, I always think if I don't eat I will pass out, is this just my disordered thinking?!

When I am starving (check out my melodramatic choice of words) I drink black tea. Earl Grey tea is my fave.

trying I like the sound of the Greek yoghurt and blueberries, might try that. Thanks.

Was really hungry today - blaming it on TOTM and riding the horse this morning!
1700 cals total which is my TDEE so not horrendous but above what I wanted

good sounds like you did well to manage the hunger pangs and not go totally off piste.
It is hard on the "hungry" days, all we can do is try and get through with minimal damage!

My BMR is 1200 so I try to keep around that :/
Still hungry argh

Drink something with no or minimal calories. May fool your stomach into thinking it has been fed!

Morning all. Got back and weighed in this morning and now I'm having a grump. I was really pretty good whilst away apart from one meal out, but scales say I've put on 3lbs in 3 days, so instead of hitting my target I'm actually 4lbs heavier!! So annoyed, I've been near this weight since end of July, it just keeps going up and down and not actually making downward progress. I'll get past it and keep going but right now when I'm knackered I feel a bit flumpy. (Fed up and grumpy).

What a bugger Jonty I feel for you, hopefully it'll come off as quickly as it went on.

10'13 here today but no celebrations until I drop another pound or two. At least a my body dropped a pound to start the new month off well

Whoop whoop Emz that is fab news, I have not weighed but all my Knickers are getting too big

Jonty that is a bugger I'm sure it will come off quickly but I would be grumpy too

ugh I've not weighed myself in 10 days and put on 4 pounds?! i have been naughty some days but i was excepting 1/2 pounds not that much

jonty its so depressing isn't it! I'm planning on going mental till my holiday next week and loosing it all! its so hard but if i stick to 1100 religiously everyday i do loose 2/3 pounds. no wine for me this weekend :(
AGH!

It's probably not physically possible to make three pounds of fat in as many days?! it must be water or food weight I bet it will be gone in no time!

My new scales say I'm starting October at 145.2 lbs which is kind of them! Especially as I went over by 600 plus yesterday to almost 2500 I'm probably not tracking my intake very accurately but got some digital salter kitchen scales and measuring spoons and cups on the way. I think I've read every "getting started" and calorie counting 101 thread there is on MFP community now and have wrapped my head round the challenge!

This thread moves really fast lol

Great news emz don't want to jinx you but the 10's are back!
purple good work on the big knickers!

Commiserations jonty and trying. How frustrating, feeling your flumpiness!

I don't believe it's real, try not to let it get you down. The weight will come off, just not to our timetable.

Peace and patience to you all.

Morning! 11st 6 this morning - it will go up after the weekend but 2lbs thus far isn't too shabby. Interesting point about mindfulness and hunger, I remember reading about how it's ok to be hungry sometimes, it won't kill you or make you ill, you have fat stores to deal with it. I used to do the 16 hour fast, still do some days, where you don't eat for 16 hours then eat normally for the other 8. I did find it easier to feel satisfied during the 8 hours and it got easier to feel hungry. I like to imagine my fat being eaten away when I feel hungry!

Well done for being back in the 10s, Emz. Jonty I'm sure that will be water weight/bloatage, I find the sudden lbs on seem to disappear just as quickly! Purpleknickers Will you need to buy new purple knickers or go for a name change?

Good luck for the October goals, we can do this!

Congratulations mrsdlh 2lbs is a good loss.

Yes I have been mulling over the mindfulness approach since last night. One of the things I have been thinking about is working on "accepting" the hunger. Like you say it won't kill me, I have plenty of fat stores to keep me going for months!

I have been remembering some work I read about people who lived with chronic pain. And the gist of it was, not about denying the pain or trying to pretend it didn't exist but about acknowledging it and accepting it. Even chronic pain can be variable, so not all days are as bad as others and sometimes tracking this can be helpful. One suggestion was too grade the pain on a scale of 1 - 10, with 10 being the highest. So if Monday was an 8 but Tuesday was a 6. Well 6 is still bad but you know you can survive an 8 right, so you will get through a 6. Because you have already proved this to yourself.

And the more this approach is practised, the more knowledge of your own limits/abilities to cope you have to draw upon at hard times.

Not sure if any of this is making sense? I am trying to work out why being hungry is so scary/uncomfortable for me?

I am going to practise accepting my hunger!

This could be the answer to the obesity crisis

Just put a dollop of houmous with my lunch and it is SO calorific. It was just a dessert spoon and it came to 179 calories .

irishe what you say reminds me of when I worked with alcoholics and addicts and the technique of urge surfing. You can put off the decision to give in to an urge or craving for a certain amount of time, and then you observe that the urge reduces like a wave.
Eating is so habitual though, that's why it's hard to be mindful. I am often not even thinking about a craving or being hungry, but just eat because food is available. I blame evolution. It must have once been advantageous to eat when food is available rather than when you're actually hungry.