MFP Thread 7

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Continued chat for those using MFP as a weight loss tool

not glad you had a good time and looked good in your dress. I'm really impressed with the new found motivation. Well done you!

need hope you had a lovely time at your do?

bath sorry about the family drama. I'm sure the dog walk will have helped curb some of the calorie excesses though.

Better day yesterday. Finished on 1811. Would've been less if I hadn't pigged out on 200cal monkey nuts before bedtime..... Really need to rein in all the snacking. I haven't quite figured out how to do this - but that would make all the difference. Also - random question alert - I seem to be getting quite a lot of calories from milk in my tea/coffee everyday. Is there a way to cut this down? Should I try to wean off altogether? Or switch to skimmed? Or is an alternative like almond milk a better idea? I am veggie tho so at least the milk helps be to score protein points.

Better day today, as I went for my weekly run. Hopefully that will mean as least one day ending in calorie debt. My weight's going up and down at the moment - 9st9 today, so 1lb up. I guess that's what maintaining will do, but I do still worry quite a bit and I'd much prefer to hold on to 9st8.

Gosh sesame how much tea/coffee are you drinking if it's using a lot of your cals? Full fat is I think around 64 cals per 100ml, 42 for semi skimmed - are you having tea in your milk or milk in your tea😉 I think you're still finding your feet with maintenance- a pound either way is nothing, but I guess you're probably still in the stage of accepting you're at goal and any increase may worry that it's going back on. Or I'm talking b*llox😜 I drink black tea so no helpful suggestions, although if you reduce your cups by a couple a day just from the pov that too much caffeine isn't good for you?

I'm sloping in quietly and sitting at the back so no-one will notice me as I hang my head in shame. A weekend in London where I drunk and ate to gleeful excess. I have no idea of the damage but it was fun!
Back onto it with a vengeance tomorrow but at least we walked loads!

And what time do you call this loli, sloping in all fed & drunk'ed up? Eh?? Haha, glad you had a great time, do you good to let your hair down and relax. I'm sure your dh was pleased to see you go with the flow, imagine if you'd been all salad'ey with sparkling water - that would be something to be sloping in about. I drank soft drinks at the cocktail part of my party & was accused of being pregnant! Oh how I laughed, on one hand I was told by some they'd never seen me so slim, then accused of doing a Cheryl😉 Of course I made up for it at the dinner so that was the end of that chatter

Glad you had a good party Not and yes DH was definitely glad to have his wine guzzling, cocktailing embibbing back if only for the weekend. Oh and the joys of smaller calves...I bought myself a pair of Fly London boots. I could even sleep in them I'm so chuffed with them!

not I've been drinking 2-3 milky mugs of tea before I leave the house in the morning, then 1 or possibly 2 americanos with milk during the day. If I count the maximum here I'd estimate this as 300ml of semi skimmed and 140cals. If I have porridge with milk too then that would be another 60 cals. So it's not exactly crisis point, I just wonder if I could either get more pleasure from those calories else cut back a little leaving more wiggle room for mince pies...

loli welcome back! Glad you had a nice time! And smaller calves too.... I've discovered the same! Who knew.....?

Better day today. I've completed my diary on 1704, and that's without counting all my exercise cals from my run this morning.

Morning all, hope everyone checks in this morning & fills us in on their weekend. I want you all to bear witness to my very own Christmas miracle, I've lost weight since Friday!! Down .6, and I'm delighted. Now 11.4.8 - v pleased😁
Sesame, no other suggestions on how to cut back on the milk bar just cutting out half of your tea/coffee consumption but then what will you have with the mince pies (yummm - only got to like them in my latter years, now I'm craving one with all this talk!) I love my tea and get through 6-8 cups a day, but as I take no milk it's not a concern.
bath how are things now? Have the storms subsided?

Not. Hurray hurray hurray. All your good work does pay off - it just never plays ball when you need / expect it too.

Thanks for all the support folks. Much happy campers, thankfully. Although I think I snapped as I am just exhausted with keeping the ship afloat. But carry on we must hey? Sorry to hear no-one thought to give you a lay-in at the weekend need.

Glad you had a fab weekend Loli, with some shopping thrown in too!

Slightly fuzzy headed this morning, on 2 very large glasses wine. I really mustn't. Eggs * spinach for breakfast, soup lunch, and prawn stir fry planned for dinner.

Here's to a good 5-days

Another one shuffling in head held low in shame...

Wedding weekend- 3 days of endless calories. Don't dare look at scales but my trousers are distinctly tight this morning.

Well done to the rest of you!

3 days off plan sugar is nowt, I have a theory that it's double the time to get it off so if you stick to plan you'll be back on target by Saturday! That doesn't sound too bad does it?
I'm working hard to listen to my body, only eating when hungry and then just eating enough to fill me, keeping an "ear" out to the full message. It's pretty strange, really shows up how much of my eating had nothing to do with actual hunger. Sounds so simple, let's hope I can keep it up🙄

So much good news to come back to !!

Need well done on all the exercise as usual you're amazing. Glad you had a good time at the Sat night out but boo-urns about having to walk the dogs next morning. Hope someone has been spoiling you since to make up for it?

Scandi Did you survive the weekend ok with DH being away? Funny I think I would be the opposite if I had a weekend to myself . Hope family drama has subsided you've been doing great to stick to the plan.

Not well done on the losses ! So delighted for you with everything - the fab night out, your mojo is back and you're on a losing streak !

Bath it's so good that you're able to have a good idea of cals without MFP. Glad things have settled down at home but I bet the hound loved the long walk - silver linings eh .

Loli well done on the loss and so thrilled you had a fab weekend! And yay for smaller calves from someone who was asked if she'd done Irish dancing in Clarks b/c of her big calf size

Sugar agree with Not those 3 days will be worked off in no time - great you were back at 11.9 last week - well done

sesame I only drink skimmed milk and don't miss full fat at all. It does take getting used to but the calorie savings are great. Great to see that you're having better days - I wonder if you (all of us) will always have a tiny bit of fluctuation at the maintenance stage.

Don't think I posted since Tuesday, so I did go a bit bananas on Tues night and finished with a weekly avg of 1330. Was up v early on Wed for trip to Dublin, so didn't pay much heed to the scales, but checked again on Thurs and I'd lost 1.5kg ~ 3lbs! I really don't understand it. Does stress burn a lot of calories? There's some bad crap happening at work, I'm not anxious per se but my mind is racing all the time trying to think of how I get through it all. I never really unwound on my days off since then.

My cals are an absolute disaster so far this (weigh-in) week - been tearing through my gins (no Pinkster yet Bath but there is a sloe gin which I'd never seen before ) so my average (including a v gd day of 1100 today) is 1800 so far.

Would love to maintain but very much doubt it. I was 64.6kg (~10st 2) last Wed so if I'm close to that this week I'll be happy.

As bad as work is the silver lining today is that I'm back in my routine and eating less b/c of it.

Onwards and downwards to Christmas .

Oh we have all been 'off plan' then! Ah, it's Christmas but once a year.

Wow Daw, 3lb is amazing. Fab, well done. My take is that we when we have so much other stuff going on, we concentrate less on food. Maybe eat only when we are hungry or when we remember. I can hardly eat at all when the shit really hits the fan. In any event 3lbs is great.

Coconut water in porridge is lovely Sesame, it doesn't sound it, but it is, I promise.

The excess will go in no time Sugar and Loli, think how much fun you had.

Back to normal today. Had a run and ate well.

Brekkie - Egg on toast.
Lunch - Bagel with gammon.
Diiner JO pasta with tomato sauce, veggies, chorizo, rosemary and balsamic vinegar.

That's fab dawg, 10.2? Do you have much more to lose to goal? I'm doing pretty good today although flip all exercise, I must get to class tomorrow and get my WI done. Of course it'll be heavier than my lovely empty belly first thing WI but I need to accept what the scales says. Just hoping it's under 73kg so I'm showing some progress. Bit bunged, excuse my vulgarity. If I could "offload" that I'd be great!
I can't believe I was good this weekend - there must be a blue moon (polishes halo😇 like a smug bat)

Yippee Dawg - great loss! Weekly average of 1330 is nothing btw .

Yes, I do believe stress burns up significantly more calories, hence my extra losses over last couple of weeks too. Quite a noticeable churning feeling for me. Sadly all undone over the weekend & yesterday. I didn't brave the scales today. If I had I would have 'fessed up, but didn't want to add any more guilt on myself - have a pressured few days with work. Liquids, fruit & soup today. Well that is the plan.

Hope the scales said happy things to you this morning not?

Anyone else see the thread yesterday in chat I've eaten the Xmas nuts ... again? hilarious. Will try and link if I can www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2801971-Ive-eaten-the-Christmas-Nuts-AGAIN

Didn't weigh in until I'd eaten bath so it showed a small up (.4) on yesterday but that's to be expected. Still no major movement, tmi as usual, only minor. I know if that would shift I'd be laughing. So guzzling filter coffee now lol! Same advice to you as to sugar, if you'd 2 days off track, 4 days on will fix you. Sorry works a pain at the minute, seems to be a common theme

Weigh in at the gym, down another kilo to 72.1!!! Yah, 2kg since I started, around 4.5lb and I'm delighted 😁 Last weigh in next week for the challenge, hoping to get 1 more down to make my target. I would have loved 1kg a week over the 6 weeks but it wasn't possible without wayyy more effort than I could realistically give. I am shattered after my class but really pleased I went. Sorry for the me me me😉

I'm glad you went too not, and that you sound back on form, and raring to go . The extra loss is just an added (well deserved) bonus!

Not sure I'll manage any exercise this week - pressing work deadlines. So antisocial. Plus usual plates all spinning away, a few tottering. And can't even power walk the dog as he had an op and has stitches.

I am declaring to you all that I have 2 huge tubs Hero's on my kitchen top, both awaiting to be taken into school by DCs. Extra will power needed this week!

Well done not! Bath I've got lots of spinning plates this week too. Work Xmas lunch tomorrow. That won't be low calorie!

Replace the word roses with heroes - don't go backward, you're doing so well

Need yippee for a good Monday your food always sounds lovely.

Not woooohoooo another kg that's brilliant . Well done - and for doing the class too. Like Bath said it's great to see you on form again.

Bath for the stress and churning too - so funny about the Xmas food thread .
Stay. Away. From. The. Heroes.
Also, for DDog but you are so busy, you will be burning cals without realising it.

Sugar for you as well, but have a lovely lunch tomorrow! Please come back and tell us about it - isn't there something about imagining food is almost as good as eating it (she says in hope ).

Good day for me today. Soup day so I should come in at about about 1050 - still getting waylaid by the TUCs in the cupboard - had 7(!) last night so my weekly average will come in at 1,720 .

Not you were asking about my goal - I really don't know. The lightest I've ever been as an adult is 9st 5lb but I did have a bit of a lollipop head at that weight. I definitely want to get into the mid 9s and stay there. All being well next year, I'm going to try to fix my knees and then maybe join a gym to get rid of all the excess fat. I can still grab handfuls of the stuff in my udders - sorry TMI .

Oh poor dog Bath. See how I hone in on the dog talk before real people on this thread. . Is he okay? Hate it when mine are in the wars.

Woop woop not. You are allowed to be 'me, me, me', extra weight loss is brilliant.

Damn those TUC biscuits Daw.

Such a busy time here. Extra hours at work, Christmas, Blah blah. Anyway, I've done the usual work, grab dogs, walk 3 miles, in house, do a bit of housework, grab the trainers, run. Cook tea, tidy up and FLOP.

Brekkie - avo and toast.
Lunch - chicken bagel, massive pile of berries and grapes.
Tea - sausage, rice, veggies and tomato chilli sauce.
Glass of wine.

Exercise - 3.5 miles with dogs. 5 mile run.

Don't talk to me about excess flab dawg, I had a bath last night and let's just say flab'gate! I have my own built in floatation device😉 If you're a lollipop head at 9.5, maybe 9.8-9.10 would look better. Can't forget the old adage now we're around the 40's, face or figure.
Hope your furry baby is ok bath, and you too of course. I'm sure the sweets remained unopened and went to school as planned. I got given a lovely boxes of handmade chocs today, they'll be lovely for Christmas Day but I am determined to ration them. Achey enough today but not as bad as before so even though I had a week off, it didn't put me back to square one. Looking forward to my dinner, steak & homemade chunky potato fries (well bakes really but ykwim)
Gosh it's quiet here, lots on the missing list. We won't be able to move come Jan 1st for people joining us! Having been on this thread for ooh over 2 years I think (hardly an advertisement for success am I😳) it always gets really quiet up to/over Christmas then goes mad after. Come on kids, tell me your news!

Hello everyone. It's getting really busy here in the lead up to Christmas. Hope everyone's doing ok and not getting dragged off course. Well done on weight losses Not and Dawg, and sorry if I've missed anyone. Even maintaining at this time of the year is a huge achievement, I think.

I've been ok. I'm down a bit on exercise because I've been so busy but managing to stay below 1200 net. I've also managed to lose about 1.5 pounds, so I'm down 5.5 pounds. I was hoping for 7 pounds before Christmas and that is achievable if I manage not to get too side tracked by social eating. Am out tomorrow but a relatively quiet weekend planned, so hoping I can recover from any excesses tomorrow.

That is really good scandi, 7lb is perfectly acheivable with 1200. Don't be too worried about the exercise, if your diets good you'll fly it.
need I was sooo jealous of your wine in your food plan, having 1 or 2 tonight, Wednesday is now dh & me's TV night after kids activities. Now the missing is over, we've started watching "This is us", saved it from last night. Only seen 1 episode but it's brill, quite a change to the missing! Treated myself to a lovely top today, size 10😁 Very slimming if I say so myself. Delighted to have turned the tug boat of misery