Starting 1st January - who’s with me

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I have just polished off a galaxy bar and a Lindt chocolate teddy bear in preparation for the new me tomorrow 😂😂. Plan is to eat healthily and exercise for the next 7 weeks. Anyone fancy joining me and helping motivate each other?

I'm in too - stone by half term would be fab have been trying and failing to do this for five years. I have just signed up for a six week package with a personal trainer to try and stay focused. Starts tomorrow - I have to do photos and measurements and bloody terrified.

Iv had 3 healthy meals today and 2 L water now I'm craving because I'm sat watching Telly I'm not even hungry 😂

Can I join? I've got 2 stone to lose and I'm 12 weeks post partem. I've binged for 12 weeks!

I'm in too please! I've joined WW and the gym. Hoping to loose 4 stone. A stone by half term is a great starting target.

@tibni - that soup sounds lush! Do you have a recipe?

@Chesterado - 6 weeks of PT sounds really good. I may look into that too.

Well done to everyone who has started and good luck to everyone starting tomorrow.

Like a PP, I'm not weighing myself and having a WI day as that leads to a binge and starve weekly cycle.

My menu today

B - scrambled eggs and coffee

L - 60g dried pasta, 5% mince made into bolognese with pasatta and herbs, 3 slices of garlic baguette and salad

D - Indian takeaway - I know!! But I ordered a sizzling chicken dish in dry sauce, 1 chapatti, onion salad and a poppodom. But when my dish came it was in a sauce and not dry! So I picked out the chicken so fingers crossed it wasn't so bad.

I had one chocolate out of my advent calendar.

Back to work tomorrow so back to routine which will help!

@twinkledag I used the recipe in cooking on a bootstrap by jack monroe.
Roast 3 carrots a drained can of chickpeas and 4 cloves of garlic for 20 mins coating with a little oil. After 20 mins add a sliced onion, 1/2 tsp cumin and pinch of chilli flakes and return to oven for 20 mins. Remove and squeeze garlic pulp, add ingredients to blender with 800ml of weak veggie stock and blitz. You can keep some roasted chickpeas for garnish if you like.
I added extra water as I found soup a little thick for my taste and had run out of chilli flakes so used a bit of powder. It was very tasty.
My first small goal is to get into lower stone bracket (doable as it's a 2llb loss) I know after first week I will be a slow loser and that's when it will get hard to stay motivated.

Going well so far. Got MFP back downloaded. Calorie goal of 1300. 1 Piece of toast for brekkie plus 2 x cups of tea, mucked out and ridden horses, now going to do 30 day shred before lunch. How is everyone else doing?

So far so good on day 2😂😂. Although I had some prawn crackers last night. Signed back into mfp too - really helps me keep on track. Best of luck everyone

Brother treated me to a Chinese takeaway last night, would have been rude to say no 😳 as he's away home today and I won't see him again until easter. Only had 1/2 a meal, and said no ✋🏼 when mum offered me crisps, onion rings, cake, chocolate and the prawn crackers . So while not good not a complete disaster either.

Visitors are all away home now so should be able to get back into a new me normal routine starting today!!!

Sounds like a lot of us had the same challenges yesterday! One day doesnt mean the week is ruined!! Back on that horse today! (literally for Cheeseandpickles 🤣)

Having crackers with a small amount of cheese for lunch. So according to mfp I’ve exercised enough so far to have earnt back all my calories so I’m currently still on 1300! Do I eat them all back?

I'm in. I'm 5'7'' and about 62kgs so I've not got loads to lose but I've developed a belly aged 25 and I'm disgusted. It's crept on since the summer when I moved in with my OH who is super fit marathon runner but snacks like the devil and has dragged me down with him. I neverrrr did that when I lived at mum and dads.

I'm cutting the booze, fizzy drinks and snacks. My meals are generally pretty healthy and if I just stuck to them I'd be fine. Also reducing my tea drinking.

And my biggest contributor - I need to MOVE MORE. Never been a sporty person at all but did exercise a lot more back in my uni days than what I do now.

So yesterday I went for a mile run (all I can manage but hoping to improve this), went to
my mums for dinner but we walked there and back (about half hour each way) and I hit my 10,000 steps on my little fit bit Today I've done a Boxercise class, just had some fruit and a glass of water for my breakfast, and just about to have a small portion of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for my lunch (made in the micro with no butter or anything).

Also making some carrot and butternut squash soup for lunches this week and have a low calorie tomato chicken dish in the slow cooker for tea tonight to have with veg.

We will do this and we will feel better for it! Of course I'd like to look better with the exercise/tonight etc but I just keep thinking about diabetes, various cancers etc that are more prevalent amongst the obese and determined it won't be me if I can help it. Also want to get into good habits before I have DC so can pass them on

Ok is anyone else starving!!??? I'm breast feeding so struggling to work out my calories as MFP doesn't take that into account. It's set for 1590 calories but I could be burning 500 with feeding my son!

Starving! I could eat the leg off a scabby horse! I've brushed my teeth so I am not tempted to eat.

You could add breastfeeding into mfp as a new 500 cal exercise?

Yes! I went to bed at 8.30 last night to avoid raiding the biscuit cupboard. I can be good all day and then cock it all up in 20 mins on an evening. Need to find a way around that but will be easier in summer with light evenings and can be outside.

Lazy late breakfast this morning - (smaller than my usual mammoth) medium bowl of Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (60g) and a chopped banana with semi skimmed milk - checked calories after and OMG 465 kcal !!! No wonder I'm a bloody hippo!

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes will be removed from shopping list. Need to find some better breakfasts. Will be easier next week when back at work and I can have a takeaway tub of porridge with a spoon of raisins or scrambled eggs from the canteen instead!!

Been good today! One slice of brown toast and cup of tea. Lunch x 2 poached eggs and 2x grilled bacon rashers NO bread. Salad for tea planned. Lots of exercise done doing all animals / riding and planning on shredding later. Come on ladies we can do this!

I'm doing good so far!

Back at work (I'm a garden centre and building manager) so my job is physical!!

Fitbit tells me I walk 6 miles plus a day but not today as it's an 'admin day'. I love my Fitbit, also tracks my sleep etc on the app. I've set up new Bluetooth scales and I'm OBESE!!! I'm doing daily weighing to start with and I'm 3 pounds down already.

Stocked up on some slimming world meals from Iceland,and just having some fruit for lunch.

Those running/walking.... bad weather will hit soon, what's the contingency plan?

So tempting to avoid the icy paths and stay in on the sofa

Just had apple and peanut butter for the first time soooo nice

I don't understand MFP. I'm logging everything completely honestly (although I'm still trying to figure out adding exercise as my Fitbit is broken) and it's saying I'm not eating enough so it can't create an entry or track my weight loss?!

Today, I had a small bowl of shredded wheat and semi skimmed milk for breakfast, a large smoked mackerel and lettuce/tomato/avocado salad and an apple, and tonight, I'm cooking a pork stir fry with rice. I don't snack between meals and today's food is typical of my usual day, but it's saying it's not enough calories. (I've put on so much weight over Christmas because we've drunk SO much alcohol and eaten HUGE portions, so I'm hoping that by reverting to a more normal pattern and not drinking in January, I will lose weight).

I also walked the dog for an hour, although my plan to 'stride it out' was foiled by it being the first day back walking without children so I bumped into so many people and had a million catch ups, so I didn't walk as far or as fast as I planned!

Can someone help me with MFP - what am I doing wrong?!

I'm starving and now also aching post first PT session. To make things worse on the gym scales I'm 5lb heavier than at home

On the plus side I'm feeling massively better for being of the booze and sugar and practically bounced out of bed at 7am this morning to get breakfast

So far I've cut down on snacks - although my diet could still do with improving - and I'm making sure I do 10,000 steps every day. Next thing is to start running again.

Put on the runners today and did my first run in a while. Very very slow - did about 6k - will be stiff as a poker tomorrow. It boosted my calorie allowance on mfp - so just had some toast - yum!!! We have this girlies!!!!!!!

Well done to all the walkers/runners out there burning off those pounds 💪🏻, I've got a while to go before my old knees would take anything like that so the dog 🐕 will need to put up with extra walks instead!!

Managed to keep off the snacking even while dh and ds munched away watching a film tonight.

Logged 3 days on MyFitnessPal and actually am thinking about portions rather than mindlessly overeating as it's there.
Well done everyone - those of you running I'm in awe. Started couch to 5k a few months back but got such hard skin build up and pain in feet I had to stop - good trainers and more padding and strapping than you can imagine! If I do get brave to start again I will go to specialist shop for advice / gait analysis.