MFP Thread 8

[Not2bObvious]

New thread for those using mfp to lose/maintain weight

Have you calculated your tdee? You probably know what that is but if not, it's the amount of calories you burn daily. I only burn 1700 if I do no exercise so I try to "earn" another 300-500 with exercise daily so 1500 or so gives me a 500 deficit a day, 3500 or 1lb over a week. In theory. I think
1400 would be perfect, don't try save calories for treats every day - try use 1300 over the course of the day with good filling nutritious food, don't be scared of carbs, they keep you full and give you energy. Porridge is a great example and a great breakfast. Wholemeal/wholegrain bread more filling than white. Maybe keep 100 for the evening but try reach for fruit rather than chocolate. That way you'll get some fibre/vitamins in. If you eat feck all earlier in the day, you'll binge later. Day in day out consistency.
Having a pretty ok day so far, did an hour walk as I'm too full of cold for anything else. On track to stick to 1500-1600 today

Sorry to hear about your cold not. Hope it clears-up quickly.

Thinking about food all the time today. Scales down to 11 9.5 this morning. I also weigh every day dear, as I am very impatient, and not very motivated at the moment. I'm out this evening, so who knows what will happen. Will eat fish main-course. But it's a smallish-do, for 5 hours, with complete strangers. Nerves will keep me drinking. Better make sure I have fizzy water on hand....

Not2be thank you! That information is really helpful. I had no idea what a TDEE was. I've calculated it as 1800, I've also realised that breastfeeding my toddler probably burns a bit too. So 1300 would be a 500 cal deficit plus any BF and exercise on top. I'm going to give myself 1,300 for healthy balanced meals and then 100 if I need something to fill a craving. I love tropical fruits like mango so I'll try and turn to that rather than chocolate.

This week has been kind of complicated because I decided to calorie count after we'd done our weekly shop so I wasn't prepared for it at all and had to just have tiny portions. This week porridge, white meat and fish and lots of veg will be in the trolley. We had a chicken breast with veg and oven chips for tea which was lovely and only about 500 calories.

An hour walk sounds like bliss. I need to make more effort to get out and walk on my own.

Bath I think I would have to get rid of my scales to prevent me weighing so bloody often glad I'm not the only impatient one. Enjoy your evening.

I'm ending today on 1,188. I'm full and had a slice of toast after dinner so I'm just going to leave it there.

dear I know breastfeeding a toddler is much less intensive than a baby, but you should be careful not to cut too much and jeopardise your supply - unless you don't mind it stopping? You could end up vv tired too so decent nutrition will be very important.
Scales fluxed the flux up to 11.10.4 with absolutely no reason, 1400 yesterday, an hour long walk, only 1 glass of wine, lots of water. So there's a lesson there, weight loss isn't linear as I bore everyone rigid saying, and the scales is a lying f b*

not. Had a nice evening. Food was all served-up and mean portion-controlled, so no chance of over-eating. I did have a couple of yummy cocktails, wine, then more cocktails. but it was a party. Hungover, but could be worse. Just been out for lovely hour-long walk, blown-away the cobwebs. Then going to have lazy day.

NO PICKING THIS EVENING LADIES. I will be in watching BGT, so if anyone similarly boring chilling-out this eve, come post here if you need to keep fingers out of crisp bags. I'll be doing the same!

Sounds like you did alright bath - handy that the choice to overeat was taken out of your hands, pity about the hangover. I'm still feeling rough so no exercise done, although I would like to drag my arse out for a walk - up since 5.30am watching tv and have cabin fever! Food popped into mfp so now just to stick to it

I spent the day volunteering for a young chef competition so I'm totally shattered and didn't have much time to eat. I'm having a bowl of porridge with banana and blueberry for dinner. I've also had a fair few olives.

Not2be I'd be pretty happy to stop the BF to be honest. But I do have to keep my energy up to run after the kids so you're right that nutrition is important. I hope you start to feel better soon.

Bath your night out sounds almost worth the hangover. I'm going to be lazing around tonight trying to avoid the rest of the olives (they're in olive oil so probably really calorific but I can't tell from the packaging)

Stick with it not. Feeding a cold as the saying goes, doesn't achieve anything.

I'm doing Ok food-wise today ..... so far .... Won't start on the sugar as I won't stop. Huge tuna salad for lunch, scraping of mayo, and one tortilla wrap. Would normally have had 2. Thankfully read calorie count before I reached for second. 198 cals each! for such a flat piece of bread. Curry this evening, but homemade - well, sauce out of a jar, but being made by DH. Cannot wait, especially as I do 99% of the cooking!

Did anyone look at Pippa's wedding pictures? All lovely, but I just imagined I was there, in figure-hugging dress I'm planning on wearing to wedding in 3 weeks, and it wasn't flattering . I need to keep that picture in my mind to keep off the sugar, and actually stand a chance of not looking like a hippo!

X-post Dear. Busy day on your feet, and low cal intake too, except olives. The one food I can't stand in the whole wide world. Have my share too !!!

Bath I was really shocked at the calorie content of wraps too. I used to eat three fajitas easily. I'm exactly the same with sugar. It's just easier if I don't have any in the house.

I saw the pictures, I have a bit of a soft spot for the royal family and thought they all looked lovely. My motivation is shopping for my holiday. I'd really like to be able to wear this sort of outfit without a whole lot of lumps and bumps sticking out over the top of the shorts.

Wraps are a dreadful calorie bomb, although they work brilliant as a pizza base. Sounds like lots of very good moderate behaviour in the mfp weight loss house right now😉 My scales has dipped down a bit to 11.10.2, so that's encouraging. Also feeling a bit more human this morning so I might just chance a light jog, and if the jogging doesn't work out I can easily switch to walking.
Three weeks to a wedding bath, if you keep going the way you have been, you could easily shift 5-7lb. I'm on a countdown too, I have a party to host next Sunday. I had to buy a new dress 2 weeks ago as I just couldn't fit into dream dress (grrr) without major lipo. Anyway the new one is lovely and fits but I want to be trimmer than I was when I bought it. I've lost between 3-4 pounds since then. My weight loss is v slow at the moment but at least I AM losing and it feels sustainable.
Hope everyone has a lovely Sunday.

Not2b glad you're feeling better this morning.

10st 12lbs this morning. I'm finding it hard to up the calories when I'm seeing results. I keep just thinking oh I'll do it tomorrow. 5lbs to goal. Maybe it would be okay to up the intake when I reach my first goal and then lose a few more pounds slowly before going in to a maintain.

I had a tuna Niçoise salad from Aldi for lunch. It was absolutely amazing and all for just over 300 calories. I have my new favourite lunch.

Was a good day yesterday. Shame about the evening though. I should have come on here & got you to talk me out of my snacking. oh well. Not worth dwelling on.

Much better day today, and yet to sit down. Find I am better keeping busy - less chance to think "what can I eat", plus it stops me worrying about DD.

How much party planning do you have to do not? Exciting or daunting?I bet your dress looks fab. I'm entertaining this week too - drinks party thurs. I even weeded the garden today, as if that is high on my list of priorities !!!

May brave the scales tomorrow morning, which will be the 1st monday in a while! You are on a roll dear, but do keep blood sugar up!

Hope your dd is ok bath, yes keeping busy is the best defence against the munchies. Here's your sister on Saturday night snacking but we're definitely doing better as time goes by. I honestly have v little to do, it's in a venue, foods provided, I have the cakes ordered, balloons are the only decoration as it's going to be simple. I think I suffer a smidge from social anxiety. I can't wait for what should be a lovely day, to be over & done. I did the same kind of function in our house around 4 years ago and that was much more work, but I was younger😩 I'm afraid I have a bad case of my diamond shoes are too tight

Whispers - is it ok if I sneak back in .

I think I've been awol for about 8 weeks . I'm so sorry, but life just went crazy - you were all very good to keep asking for me.

I won't dare try a catch-up but you're all brilliant and welcome to the newbies. Hope my co-absentees are doing ok too.

Weight-wise I'm not doing great. I came home from first US trip only up 0.3kg so was ecstatic. But then I went off the rails when I got home. My new work is enjoyable in some ways but intense and I'm now working across 3 time zones so v early to v late. Also ended up working a few weekends in a row to catch up. So I really struggled with tiredness for those first few weeks and ate all round me to compensate. In parallel my idiot boss has a new boss who apparently doesn't see the value of our team (or value of him more likely) so we are all on eggshells.

It was my birthday over Easter which sent me into another spiral. I felt v let down by my family, but especially H. Ended up buying myself 2 boxes of choccies and gobbling. Just didn't feel one bit appreciated by anyone. Also, H has not mentioned starting back at counselling since my first trip which has p'd me off hugely.

I also found a breast lump which turned out to be a cyst, but I had a few weeks of waiting which I think added to my overall stress levels.

I've been completely cheating on MFP and just putting in one meal a day to keep my streak going. So no idea of averages really. So as of Weds 10th I was up almost 5lbs to 10st 1.5 (64.4kg).

Then I ended up having to go back to the US again last week at v short notice. We literally worked 15 hour days each day so I just ate as much as I could when I could. Got home Sat night but wide awake now since 2am with jet lag (but at least I finally caught up). And I'm supposed to be working today

But it's been a real eye opener. My clothes actually felt tight this time and as a result I felt so less confident and capable at work. It was really interesting how it affected me. So I'm trying to get back on the wagon already, counted everything yesterday coming to 1650. Haven't weighed myself yet.

Not sure how often I'll get to post while work is so crazy but I'll read whenever I can. Mind yourselves and I swear I'm thinking of you all, all the time.

You've had a very rough few weeks dawg, I'm not surprised you haven't been around. What a level of stress and pressure you've been under, it sounds vv tough. Can you see any end in sight? TBH I think I'd run away! V sorry to that your dh hasn't mentioned the counselling - I'll play devils advocate here, could he think you've enough on your plate without adding that to the mix? Wrt work, any chance you could get a new job, this sounds horrific. I know I'm being v simplistic, but sometimes you're in so deep, so under pressure that everything isn't always clear. I really really hope things improve for you on all counts
Usual Monday morning bloat but only 2lb up this week instead of nearly 3 which was last weeks Monday morning reward! Funny week ahead. Working this morning, lunch with an old work colleague, work from home tomorrow as helping family with childcare (sadly it's in their house which is full to the brim with junk food) Not sure what I'll manage exercise'wise, should have done an hours walk this morning but thought it would rain. Of course it didn't so that was a wasted opp. Ahh well, I'll manage something. Let's make this week a good one, under 7 weeks to my beach holiday. Game on😡

Game on indeed Not. Mine too.

Huge wave to Dawhead - lovely to hear from you, but life sounds crazy, and life-work-balance is all wrong . Everything sounds very stressful. Hope you can get over the next hurdle OK, but then please do book some time off and rest, and catch-up with yourself. No-one can keep going at that pace for too long. And I bet you're not being paid enough for the stress / responsibility you are carrying too. Really feel for you lovely lady .

The weight-loss will happen in good time when you have time and space to put yourself first.... Hopefully sooner rather than later. Come back and chat to us when you can ... take good care

Hopped onto the scales very hopeful this morning, especially after a 1200 day yesterday, and a very long wee. LOL to see 11 10. Stupidly thought I'd be seeing 11 7. Ha ha !!! Conveniently forgot about Friday & Sat eves.

Dawn I hope your tough patch is over soon.

Not2b, Bath mines in six weeks. So we are all game on together! Let's do this.

RedDahila my scales also give me it in quarters so I just found up to the nearest decimal. So 10st 12 and a quarter I put in as 10st 12.3

Posted too soon.

I was doing really well today, I had porridge for breakfast and then made myself a tuna salad for lunch. Then I met my mum for her lunch and she grabbed some chips for us to share. I told myself I would have a few and then ate half a bowl . But I've added it to my food diary and I can have a very small portion of soup for dinner and keep under my calorie goal. So all is not lost.

half a bowl is better than a whole bowl dear. Welcome red and well done on 1st week loss. It does work - stick to your calorie limit and you'll loose weight. Problem for me is willpower in sticking with it. So far so good today, am up to around 600.

Bath that's very true. I find junk food is such a slippery slope.