Frugaleers talk food/fitness & weigh t loss - 2020 part 1

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New thread for 2020 since we didn’t finish the old one by year end

That’s a good move rosie, and now you’ve a 100 in the bank if you “overspend”
Beautiful day here - food in the garden again, the kids are baking a cake for tomorrow so that’ll keep them happy for a couple of hours. I really hope there’s some flour available soon, not a lot left here

Not it's not a bad idea!
Up to now my extra steps have been balancing out my extra eating. Today I've decided these 3 weeks are going to be my 21 days to make a difference.

I'd have to take all my wrappers with me to track on mfp with 3G so I'm just going to keep food diary instead.

Today
45g bran flakes with strawberries and almond milk
Seeded bread sandwich with chicken spinach one slice lighter cheddar cheese and extra light mayo with veg soup made in pressure cooker
Dinner will be a turkey burger in burger bun with a bacon medallion, chilli and garlic sauce & some extra light mayo and some actifry sweet potato chips

Tomorrow's Easter though so I'll be having Easter egg 3 courses for dinner and a lovely long walk with dc & dog

Curvy lovely to 'meet' your friend, I came across some acquaintances/friends today & had a catch up

Yes it was happier. She only lives a 7 minute walk away, but we have purposefully not told each other when we have been out, just in case! It's like I'm missing a limb

Happy Easter all. Purposely leaving out todays weight as there was an incident with some chinese food that caused a 3.2lb spike, add that to the pound up over the last 2-3 days and no, just no. It’s not real but it’s sure as hell would really mess up my figures. Flipping heck though, that’s some water retention. Probably going to be Tuesday before I can safely weigh without fear. So on 5 weighs, I’ve .3 gain. If I hadn’t added Monday’s bloat weight, I’d have probably maintained. Going to check that now
So, anyone started on the eggs yet? I was up at 6’ish to do a walkie talkie & start my slow cooker prep. Nearly 6,500 steps done

It's really hard isn't it? Such a normal response to want to have physical contact with friends & family.
21 day plan is a good idea but Easter with all its chocolate, a tricky start! I'm happy, after my loss in the first week of isolation, I've maintained and that's all I'm hoping for at the moment, which would be a 14 pound loss so far this year. Less than I'd have wanted by now, but fine given the circumstances.

I'm still managing to exercise regularly with live streamed classes from our gym. It's hard to motivate myself sometimes, but I'm always glad I've done it afterwards.

Actually on 6 weigh ins it’s a .3 gain, if I’d left out Monday and had 5 weigh ins it would have been a .1 loss.
I think it’s a good idea happier, if it’s 21 days from Tuesday we can relax today & tomorrow. Go hard for the 3 weeks. We could be a shadow of ourselves emerging from isolation 🤣

I haven't weight today but will tomorrow and restart. Managed 11 k steps yesterday. Will start tracking again tomorrow too.
No chocolate here but I was greedy Friday and ate it all at once.

Not, I weighed today and wished I haven't, I've put on 2lbs, so now weigh 11s13lbs. All my own fault. Celebrated losing half a stone since joining SW with too much food! Bloody typical of me!
I'm eating really well during the day, then just ruining it in the evening.
The 21 day thing is a really good idea!

I don’t believe you’ve put on 2lb curvy anymore than I believe I’ve gained 4.2lb in 2 days. It’s just bloat, I promise😉
Wow, half stone off is excellent. And you’ll see 11.11 again in a day or 2 - the plan seems to suit you

Bloat curvy. Plenty of water and back on plan today for you.

I weighed after multiple cups of tea and a bacon roll. Didn't like it but what did I expect. .
2 classes today for steps. Very low level as still a bit washed out

Thanks guys, yes lots of water today. I have done some groove for half an hour.
Life, hope you feel 100% soon, after all my symptoms went I still didn't feel 100% for a few days after.

Jeans feeling snugger today than yesterday, I guess that’s the pounds of retained fluid.

Weighing after eating & drinking isn’t going to give anyone good news life. I had in the recent past contemplated going back to some sort of slimming club but the evening weigh in with a days food/drink, full clothes & shoes would be an instant gain of a fair few pounds so that wasn’t happening.
Got himself to put all eggs out of sight, and hence out of mind. Going for a walk to drop provisions to relative, hope it lifts my spirits. House is in bits & kids slobbing around - don’t blame them, that’s what I’ve been doing since I finishing my walkie talkies at 8am

I’ve put on 1.1 pounds since Friday, oops! It’s all my own fault though, I haven’t tracked calories the last two days and completely overindulged. Yesterday on top of my three meals I ate, 100 grams haribo, creme egg, handful of mini eggs, an 80 gram bag of popcorn, a 100 gram Easter egg and a large serving of a home made mini egg cookie bar. Putting that in writing has hit home how greedy that was.

I’ll go over my calories today because I’m having another Easter egg tonight but I MUST track the calories anyway.

Not sorry if this is a stupid question but what are walkie talkies? Is it a walk whilst having a phone call?

A few of us on here were/are part of a online fitness group & some of the members do Facebook lives which are basically just chats. You walk/jog on the spot while you listen, just a way to get your activity up.
I think I’d kiss my scales if it only showed 1.1 up from Friday - don’t be worried, it’ll be gone with a couple of days back to normal. Bloody Easter eggs are lethal. Only a suggestion but could you allow yourself enough egg that you stick to your cals? Save the rest for another day?
I’ve decided this is a normal Monday, no BH eating here. Off to boil my egg my brekkie, back to normal non choccie eggs!

So back on the sad step and 130.5. this is 5.5 above my lowest weight.
So not making 15k steps so will go for 1600 calories and take it from there.

1/4lb on. Given the excess of banoffee pie yesterday this is not a surprise and I think the increase in exercise since lockdown is helping - with my normal work schedule it's too sedentary and any weekend food/booze normally immediately goes on my thighs.

Pilates done this morning before the session gets replaced with a new one, which I will aim to do on Wednesday.

Not sure whether we are going for a walk or not today I think ds is bored with them but it does him good

If you can get him out for a walk without it becoming an issue I’d do it wolf, my teen has become resistant to walks and tbh as it’s the only peace I get so I’m to blame for it. I think I’ll drag her out later, my littler will not even consider it but she’s a calmer kid so not in as much need of it.
Another Monday, another ploy on my never ending battle to drop this bastard weight. While I’m a big believer in mfp, I think I’m inclined to eat just because I have cals and then sometimes I trigger overeats that way. So in line with my 21 day plan (Tm pending haha!) I’m going to write down what I eat and only put it into mfp after I’ve done eating for the day. Today’s Day 1 and I’m upping water, attempting to eat to appetite leaning towards nutritionally denser food. Last week I started writing down 4-5 goals daily, like get 10,000, do some reading, get an extra 2,500 - stuff like that. It’s helped me a bit, gives me a small sense of achievement.
Best of luck life, no bother to you

I let go yesterday & had half bottle of merlot with my dinner it was fabulous, i also ate egg ds got me too. It was half Belgian choc half white caramel flavour.
Ex bought an egg for me from each of them a birthday card for my birthday would've been a better use of his funds.
Plus pack of hunky dorys while watching movie
Scales obviously showed a 3.5lbs flux this morning. Here's my loss for last week 0.1lbs

Today I had a fried egg with 2 bacon medallions on two slices of homemade brown bread. Lunch was a picnic, made cous cous feta salad & had it with 3 falafels, Skyr yogurt & protein boost peanut bar & water

Whose fucking stupid idea was it to restart when the weather turns colder and my taste/small starts to come back. Pass me aaaaalllllll the calories.

Sounds like a lush day of yum yesterday happier, and you had a loss, nice one.
Writing down the food is interesting, not tried to calculate calories so it’ll be interesting to see at the end of the day where it lies. But there’s a lot of day left....

Hi all.
Started off the day with a walking video, that got my heart rate up.
Had plain yogurt and mixed berries for breakfast and coffee.
Lunch was a quorn chicken salad sandwich with a bit of plant based salad cream. An apple, orange and a pear and a coffee.
Have drunk lots of water too.
Popped out to wilkos this morning to get some compost, I bought some herbs the other day and would like to give them a chance to live and got some wonderful advice from the other thread I'm on.
For dinner I'm thinking hassleback potatoes, pie or pastry and lots of veg.

Not it's a real eye opener when you write down every single thing that goes in your mouth, when I did it, I realised how much I mindlessly snacked, so I now put fruit on the side, as that is the first thing I see when I go in the kitchen, I find I reach less into the cupboard.
Happier, well done on the loss, your day sounded lovely.
Life, yay at getting your taste and smell back! Just eat what you want, you deserve it, you have been poorly. Draw a line and start again tomorrow.

It’s truly eye opening curvy, although I’ve been tracking for years I’d say I’ve gotten a bit lax - hence the inevitable creep of the last year+
Your fruit intake is great. I’m a dreadful fruit dodger, I have to make a real effort to eat it.
Just finished burger & homemade chips. Delish 😋

Not, burger and chips, yummy! I do like fruit so that helps massively.
Do you like savoury more? If so what about making cheesy muffins that you can store in the fridge? Would that help?

I like savoury too, which can be my downfall. E.g. I would buy a share bag of crisps, because it was on offer, promising myself that I wouldn't eat it all in one go, well guess what?? I always did! Because the bag had been opened, I would have to finish it!
So now if I buy share bags, I will decant it equally into containers/ resealable bags and just eat that amount and feel satisfied because I had finished it. Does that make sense?

I did eat the treat. 300 over but I've been eating far more than 1900 last few weeks so all good. I'm not pushing myself as I know in still not 100%>