MFP thread 6

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New thread as old one's nearly full

Haven't posted much today as I knew that would happen! I've been at the top 3 pages in a row now. Perhaps I need to buy lottery ticket this evening?

Yesterday got away from me at work so couldn't post .

Anyway, first to catch-up.....

Not didn't want to go past it without saying sorry about what happened with your Mum you are an amazingly strong lady.
Well done on resisting the burger today! And I am v impressed that you are thinking of signing up for that gym plan - that is great self-motivation. And huge Woohoo for the scales - 3 lbs is fantastic ! Have a fantastic time tonight!!!

Bath you are a brilliant Mum and I am so sorry for what is happening with your DD. I don't have any real advice to offer, but are you getting RL help, or are there any threads here on MN where you could chat to someone?
You are doing amazing that you are sticking to your calories so well. And yayyyy that you're in the 11s !! I told you it would happen ! I think you should buy that lottery ticket and if you win remember all your MFP pals

Loli I'm so glad you're starting to feel better. I don't know if anxiety can be genetic - although there is evidence of it in my extended family too - but I do know it's incredibly common nowadays. It's great that your DD went to the GP and as Not said, you are such a fantastic Mum b/c you can help her find her way through this much quicker than if you hadn't battled it yourself.
You are doing brilliantly with the exercise and calorie counts!!

Sesame I'm so sorry for you as well and what you've gone through . I do think it's no surprise that so many of us have had such awful different battles and also struggle with food and weight.
Pizza out is also my mortal enemy - more on that later.
Yippeee on reaching the 9s ! I'm sure it is goodbye to the 10s - go you!!!

Made sorry to hear about the plateau but that sounds like a good plan to resist the takeaways and see if it makes a difference.

Hopefully so sorry you're still under the weather - here's another and it's great you're managing to maintain during this.

So, I was up 100g on the scales today . It's only ~3oz but it still means I'm back out of the healthy BMI range again. How can I gain (or even maintain) on a daily average of only 1275 cals . Theory #1, is that TOTM started today, but I've never really had a weight gain with it before. Theory #2 is pizza. Went to pizza hut on Sat - only had 2 slices and guessed it at 526 but maybe that's way under what it should be.

Trying to stay positive but if I don't lose next week I'll be gutted. I'm going to weigh every day this week to see what happens. Coming in at 1240 today - took all my willpower not to have a big hot chocolate this afternoon. Bloody hormones.

Thank you dawg, I don't feel that strong, I guess you live with it for 40 years, 20'odd under a dysfunctional roof, you adapt. I don't like saying it, cause it seems crass, but life is easier now she's gone. Not for my dad but I'm convinced he had Stockholm syndrome. 100gr is a poo or a piddle, don't be worrying, you're doing fab. Waiting for my gig to start (like I'm the one playing haha!)
All good in my hood😉 Cals on course for 2000 max, hurrah for too spicy thai, stopped me eating too much

How was last night then Not? Hope you had a great time. May have even burnt off a few calories foot-tapping?

I had a great day food-wise yesterday, until I made the mistake of having a glass of wine when I eventually sat down at 10pm. Which led to another, plus choccie. Not the halloween stash, so it wasn't all that bad. So now have sugar-hangover this morning, feel bleugh, and cross with myself. All self-inflicted.

New day. Will be a v light day for me. Just had berries & 0%yoghurt. Will soup at lunch. I'm making thai curry for kids for dinner - I'll have the chicken & veggies, with tiny bit sauce, and spoon of rice.

Where's everyone gone? Hope all is OK ....

Hello everyone, I've had a mad busy few days. Been marking endless assignments which I want to be finished with by the weekend! Not fantastic food wise, averaging 1450cals a day, and having dinner out tonight. Not often DH and I have an evening out though so I'll take advantage. Have visitors until next weekend so I'll probably be needing some space and/or wine by Monday!

Marking sounds like a chore sugar, but once it's done, it's done. Have a lovely dinner out this eve. 1450 cal average is v good. Hope there is room not to worry to much tonight. You & Not with your date nights makes me realise it's been a loooong time DH & I have been out, just the two of us. I think I'll get something planned that hopefully doesn't involve food.

Waves from tropical South Wales! I'm here trying to convince myself I'm getting better. Dogs are shattered I've been walking them at least 5km every day! DD isn't great which is a real worry and now I fear DH is having an auto-immune flare up.
Bath I'm really impressed your kids eat green Thai curry, where did I go wrong when mine were small??
Sugar enjoy your date night.

Concert was great but super exhausted today, back from a 200km trip with my dad & I am starving. Just waiting to collect the kids and then home for lunch/flake out before a 5km or so Halloween walk. I no more want to do it but since I sold it to the kids, I'll have to follow through. Yesterday came in around 2300 which is acceptable for a night out. Scales showing 11.5.4 again this morning but that's understandable as the Thai was v salty. Another big walk on Saturday so I'm getting the steps in at least.

My kids eat anything and everything Loli. The more exotic the better as far as they go!

Am glad you have escaped for a few days. Walking in the outdoors is great for the soul. Am so sorry to hear about your DD though. Am sure that is underlying some of your anxieties too. Is there someone that she can talk to professionally, and to try and tease-out where her sadness / anxiety stems from? I'm sure her nursing course is v full-on too. Plus not the easiest of professions. Hope you are feeling you are resting and recharging. Have you got a good book on the go? Have you seen Bridget Jones's? If not, take your DD. You'll both have a great laugh.

You'll be needing a new pair of walking shoes soon enough Not! Your day total was very acceptable.

My DD swiped my soup, so I had left-over veg stir fry for lunch, with rice noodles. V bland, so I covered in chilli flakes and sprinkle of chia seeds that I found lurking. They are supposed to be v healthy!

Hello all

I have been lurking for a while, hope it's OK to join you as you seem a friendly bunch!

I started a new medication a few months ago and in that time have put on quite a lot of weight. I've been really lucky to not have previously struggled with maintaining a healthy weight so all this calorie counting etc is a bit foreign to me! I think I have around a stone to lose to be back within the healthy BMI range (probably a stone and a half to be back to my 'normal weight' but I think a stone is a good first target.)

I'm hopeful that having a place where I can be honest and some people I can be accountable to will help to make this a bit easier!

Welcome pyjamas! Did you start today?

I only said that as I like to start things on a monday. But starting today - or tomorrow - will give you 3 more days to get in the swing of it all, and 3 days sooner to loosing the stone! Good luck.

Thanks Bathsheba Funny you say that - I feel similarly and therefore started on Monday this week!

Hello pyjamas, welcome! Had a lovely date night. I ate and drank around 2000cals + my usual 600 or so beforehand! Am a little merry now so will just deal with the calorie excess tomorrow. Don't need to be up til 8 so looking forward to a good sleep!

Welcome pay - best of luck with the losses.
Sugar glad you had a lovely night, hope you're ok this morning - no dreaded hangover. Well my 3 pound loss is no more, either a glitch or dehydrated, at 11.5 this morning but it's still 1.8 over 10 days which is about as good as I get (considering I'm not that strict all the time)
Main thing is I squeezed into my new size 10 jeans, bit tight but looked good, no obvious bulges. So even if the scales isn't showing much progress, the clothes are.
Bath that is brilliant that you're in the 11's!! Well done you😁
Anyone doing anything nice this weekend?

Thanks Not but short-lived. Back up to 12 this morning. I've been yo-yo'ing 1 lb all month.

You're in good company with me then bath - whatever it is about breaking those stone brackets & staying under, seems impossible 😩

Back up a lb after my binge last night. Had a croissant for breakfast too. I don't know why it's so hard to stay under 12 bath, I'm the same (it might be the few days of eating everything in sight each month though!).

Hi pyjamas! I'm down to 12.10 today which is great but away for the weekend with DH and the boys so I might let my hair down a bit as I've been so good recently. If I put on a couple of pounds so what, I know I can work them off!!

Thanks for the welcome!

I have a question - which is possibly a silly one so please forgive me. What do you do if you aren't eating at home? I mostly cook from scratch and am finding it fine to work out calories when I at home but unsure what to do when I am elsewhere. I rarely eat out in a restaurant but I sometimes have dinner with friends and I am not sure how to calculate the calories in what someone else has cooked. I tried guestimating but it could surely vary quite a lot depending on portions sizes and how they have prepared the food?

Not a silly question, thing to do is probably to do your best on estimating but moreover to exercise restraint where you can. So don't have a bread roll, leave a little on your plate - be a sparking guest rather than a guzzling guest😉 It's really the day to day you need to watch, the odd meal out shouldn't derail you greatly.

That's really helpful, thanks Not . I am really lucky in that friends tend to feed me a couple of times a week with their families so it is a reasonable amount of my day to day eating if that makes sense?!

I also am wondering about buying some scales as clearly it's going to be hard to keep track without any but I am a bit worried I might become a bit obsessed with weighing myself...

Well as a total scales obsessive, I can't comment but there was another thread when the op used to weigh weekly at boots. That's a good option too? You are a lucky one getting fed, but if you're good 80% of the time 20% off track shouldn't matter. What sort of food you bring fed?

Being fed even! You could also tell them you're working on the weight & have a smaller portion

I know I am very lucky, definitely not complaining!! Generally it's reasonably healthy/run of the mill family favourites - probably a bit more carb-y than I would do for myself but nothing terrible. I tend to politely decline dessert.

There are some scales in the big Tesco near me which I imagine are similar to the ones they have in Boots (they measure body fat etc too) but I am fairly sure they give you instructions out loud and so I'm too embarrassed to use them! I've been in there 3 times this week to do it and chickened out every time...