MFP thread 5

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New thread as the old one was nearly full!

That's a pity hope but I sure it'll be gone in a day or 2. I feel the same, bloated and rubbish. It's coming up to my totm (well pill break, taken it b2b for 2 months, need a break) I'm going to need to find some determination this week, I go graze mad around totm. I wish I could stay in bed today, my knees are aching. Obviously I can't - I think I'll try nod off for another hour. Not ready for it to be Monday

I can't even post what the scales said to me today. I found comfort from this!! Hope you might too!

Monday morning WI's are always bad news - and yet we do it every single week don't we? Me too. I'm the same as I was last tuesday, so any good I did last week was ruined by cake. Oh well. Am absolutely shattered - tried to fit too much in at the weekend, visiting friends in Dublin as well as the party. But have to grab opportunities as they come.

No exercise for me today - have client meeting later, & I don't have time can't be bothered to have to do the whole hair wash / dry / style business later as it's not looking too bad today. Maybe tomorrow...

I still have my headache. Grrrr. I wonder if it is down to the sudden consumption of sugar, which I have avoided 100% since beginning Sept?

Hope we all have a very positive week, sticking to calories, making good food choices, exercising / toning, and generally being kind to ourselves

sugar . Can't seem to find the "clutching at straws" emoji ...

I hear ya sugar, I did a quick weigh in last night (to prempt the fear of doing it this morning!) Lets just say me & the scales are now studiously ignoring each other, oh yeah & the elephant in the room is me! That article does make good sense & I think we could all be part of that research. Ate a bit more for breakfast in the hope it will keep me going until my later lunch, have to collect children & do a little food shopping after my 5 hours work. Might get a few steps in if I can dump the car and do collection and shopping on foot. Don't want to stress my achy knees too much.
Bath sounds like you had a good weekend too and very well behaved on the gargle considering you were in drinky Dublin. Hope the headache lifts soon

Bath did you enjoy Dublin? It's a great city, I often miss it! I'm way behind on everyone's messages. My hangover seemed to last 2 days (I'm obviously old and out of practice now!). But despite my mean scales I'm feeling motivated and positive. Knee still not quite right so going to start a 30day shred programme again tonight. And maybe look for some Pilates videos.

Meal plan today:
Oats+chia seeds with a chopped date and a teaspoon of chopped nuts (200cals, was lovely)
Waitrose chicken+cauliflower salad (191cals) followed by an apple and 2 plums (120cals)
Dinner- chicken, broccoli and quinoa bake with some mashed butternut squash (600cals)- making a big portion so no cooking tomorrow. This is delicious by the way!

Haven't planned rest of week but going shopping tonight so open to ideas?!

Love Dublin thanks sugar. Love Ireland full stop. I'm 1/2 Irish & proud. Your food planning sounds great. I've just put in all my food onto MFP for the last 3 days. Even though I didn't eat much (compared to my pre-diet days) I have over-eaten in calories quite considerably. So it's no wonder there wasn't a loss today. So easily done isn't it, just eating what everyone else are eating? I'm def not going to make the stone loss in Sept. I'll be doing well if I get to the 11's as planned. So 5 lbs to loose in 11 days.

WI this morning and 1lb on. Not at all surprised, totally screwed up. I just can't seem get past things go wrong = eat crap. I know full well it's only going to make things worse. Feeling ridiculously sorry for myself and that's a trait I can't stand. I need to pick myself up, forget what's going on around me and focus on what I CAN control, what I
bloosy eat!

So, hope everyone had a good week. Ill be back on later hopefully posting under 1300 calls for the day! Good luck everyone.

You had a great week 1 weigh in didn't you call? If you split that over 2 weeks you're still in a much better position than you were when you started. If I knew the key to keeping the motivation going I would be slim & rich. All I know is that in the same way you can turn a bad day into a bad week, you can do the same with a good day. Focus on the day in 3-4 parts & get through them as best you can. I'm really cross with myself, I didn't fill in a medical questionnaire form completely & now they've written to my gp for a report. There's nothing damning but the gp made a wild jumping conclusion about a genetic cancer which was NOT relevant to the forms questions and now I'm in knots about being refused a scheme because of it. I was already traumatised last year because of f'ing potential cancer and a bereavement. Feel very low, hadn't even seen the question (in patient/out patient procedures) as I did have them. Then trying to remember what year etc. My f'ing doctor was useless last year & did nothing to help. Arg cross & low.

for Not - that sounds dreadful. And for Call. Be strong. You CAN do it.

That's awful Not, is there anything that can be done about it? Can you explain you filled it in incorrectly?

And yes, I did have a good week 1, so still 7lbs down, I just need a kick up the arse!

Thanks guys - I've completed it now and I'll pop it in the post, just mad at myself. If I'd done it right the first time instead of rushing there'd be no need for them to request gp report - no telling what's in that, the way the gp recorded the details without (imho) due diligence is worrying. Ahh f*ck it, who needs a pension! The gp had me worried I wouldn't live long enough to see that day.

not that sounds really difficult, if you explained you filled the form out wrong surely they'd have to do something? It must be so frustrating. call onwards and upwards, as my old group leader used to say when I did SW - "It's better to stop a mars bar into a binge than carry on eating, feeling hopeless" - basically everyone lets themselves go, and no matter what you've eaten it's best to stop at that moment than keep going. Every day is a new start too.

I weighed in today, lost 2.5 pounds this week, am very pleased with that. Weighed on home scales though, and they are becoming more reliable (seems standing on them every hour was too much for the poor things) and correlating with the gym ones. Am going swimming this afternoon in a different leisure centre, going to spend 2 hours there I think. Todays meal plan is
Brunch - 1 scrambled egg on 2 peices tiger bread (small loaf) with 10g butter (tiny amount ) and ketchup, 150ml semi skimmed milk to drink. That came to 389 calories.
Snack before swimming I'm planning on 3 dairybox chocolates - we hardly ever have 'nice' chocolates in the house and I figure if I watch my calories there's no harm in indulging especially after I've weighed in, 3 chocolates will be 150 calories.
Tea is 4 slimming world meatballs in a sauce of peppers, onion, mushrooms, cherry tomatos, passata, tinned tomatos and herbs. Since I've started making my own sauce again I find shop bought too sweet. I'll have that with 75g pasta, which will take me to 525 calories. Going to try and not have cheese tonight. With a cuppa in the evening that'll take me to 1095 for the day so room for maybe a banana in the evening.

Glad you've sent it off Not, hopefully that's the end if it.

Well done made, 2.5 lbs is great!

Thanks made, I think I have to wait & see if there's any follow up, just keep feeling a bit tearful but it'll pass. What a great loss! 2.5 is a super solid number.
Keep, no my Fitbit is only used for step counting, never tried using it for food counting. Mfp has probably a better db.

So I kept reading over the w/end but hate posting from my phone so waited - you all had such amazing weekends!

cora wow 7 inches off your hair! Do you like it? In terms of exercise, all I can say is I haven't moved a muscle for almost a week now and I feel awful - fat, stodgy and completely meh. I thought I would love a break from walking the dog, but I can really feel the (bad) effect on my body. So even though it's always so hard starting exercise, I think it definitely makes us feel better afterwards.

madein well done on the loss . That's fantastic but your calorie counts have been excellent!

Loli so glad you have a lovely holiday - well deserved and thrilled that you got a surprise loss esp with no scales . I would echo what Not2B said - if you feeling any bit hungry or off after exercising then eat something, but don't force yourself because of MFP.

Hopefully and Not2b you are wicked ladies with those scrummy cakes. Parties sound like they were great fun - glad you had lovely weekends. They don't come around v often though so you can both be kind to yourselves and make a fresh start with the new week.

Hope there are some niggles with MFP that really annoy me - one is the fact that even if you log retrospectively it doesn't recognise it - so disheartening but you know the truth!

Not2b hope your knees get better soon, but maybe it's no harm there's no sign of the bootcamp until they're ready. If it's any consolation with some (complete) rest mine are slowly improving thank God. Sorry you are having to deal with such crap but well done on dealing with it so well and quickly

Sugarandsalt that recipe you linked to looks lovely - I have never bought quinoa but I might actually try it. And at that study - I imagine it applies to me but I think it's more about me scoffing yummy stuff at w/ends.

Cinder hope you're having a lovely day today with DD birthday. Well done on the loss on Saturday!

Sesame a size 10 skirt wahoo! Wow you are almost in the 9s that is brilliant you have done so well.

daily would echo what Not2B said (again) a lot of us here try to ignore our exercise calories it's probably safer that weay.

Bath hope you had a lovely time in Dublin and again, it doesn't happen very often so you can start fresh today.

Keepon I only use MFP for logging too - the fitbit app reads the calories but find MFP much better for that.

I know I've forgotten and missed some posts - you are all great at updating and it's not intentional I promise .

Not a bad w/end for me (for a change). Did have pizza on Sat night but had a v light brekkie and lunch so even with 850 for pizza only came to 1370 for the day.
Yesterday was much worse - had dinner at Mum's and a G&T before bed (stressed about work) so it came to 1740. My one small win was that we went out for lunch to Costa but I logged my cals before I ate and I actually cut my traybake in half b/c it was too much. Next step will be not buying it in the first place ha ha.

Anyway, today is better again 1280:
B: Porridge 190
L: Egg, bread and biccies 630
D: Sweet n sour turkey & rice 460

My current avg is 1390 for the week so will have a soup day tmrw to try to bring it down. As mentioned, feel v meh though without any walking. Haven't been to the loo in days either even with lots of coffee. Not sure if I will lose any this week at this rate but I'd rather my knee gets better so I can get back walking at least.

Well done on such a restrained weekend dawg, don't think having a drink & still being under 1750 is bad at all - that's very well behaved (work stress sucks big time - hope it's ok now?)
What are we like with the dodgy knees, I feel ancient today!

I am up to 1,700 and haven't had dinner yet. Argh. On the bright side, it has been almost entirely nutritious food , which I needed after the weekend of cake!

Just cooking some soup which will put me up to 1000 for the day. Might have a banana after my run. (If I get out for a run!)

Just got back from the pool and did 44 lengths! Ate a chocolate cookie from cafe which wiill mean I finish the day on 1542 which factoring in my exercise calories means I'm just in my limit so OK isg. Don't feel bad becauseof the exercise and also have a week to be good in.

Oh I just typed a long reply, but it wouldn't post!

I'm definitely going to miss people as I'm on my phone on the tube, standing far closer to fellow humans than I would like!

Well done made on the weight loss and the swim. And cora well done on even planning a Monday run! Hope I love caramel waffles. I hope you enjoyed! Not I hope you are less stressed, might be worth having a chat with your GP to make sure things are clarified for the future. Dawhead well done on the good weekend. Call I am definitely a stress eater, I wish I was a "oh I was so stressed I forgot my lunch" type of person- I'm more likely to be a eat 3 mars bars and have a 10000calorie meal type instead.

I spent my lunch break trying not to think about how hungry my 300 calorie lunch left me and did some meal planning! So this week is: Monday/Tuesday the quinoa bake (which is delicious and filling, and a nice alternative to pasta). Wednesday- vegetarian chilli, Thursday- a little green spoon buckwheat paella which is lovely, Friday- chicken and mustard casserole in the slow cooker with leftovers Saturday (planning day trip), Sunday- sweet potato topped shepherds pie. Haven't sorted lunches though, was looking for new salad recipes?

Omg I haven't heard of quinoa bake before but they look so good! Going to try one. Also interested in way to spruce up salads.

I'm 128 calories under goal today but still a bit peckish so probably going to have seconds now the baby is in bed. Slow cooker beef stew :) will take me about 200 cals over up to 1400 cals for the day, so still ok :)