Losing 5st accountability, keeping my chins up and keeping sane.

[LostMyList]

I've hit my heaviest, I'm feeling my lowest and don't recognise myself.

Likely to be a combo of intermittent fasting and reduced calories.. Will play about to see what works but the main thing is my weight goes down and my life changes.

I would like to run about with the dc without being jiggly jelly or out of breath, I would like to not think about if things can take my weight or if my butt will fit on the slide... it would change a lot of small details about my daily life if I wasn't so self conscious..and add up to a big picture that I'm happier with.

Hope that makes sense, feel free to join me!

I would like to lose about 4 stones.Happy to join you. I will calorie count using mfp :)

I really miss the scan barcode feature being free on mfp, but I'm too tight to pay for it!

I started by wanting to lose 4 stone. I've just hit 1 stone off today 🙌 I'm counting calories and doing gym classes regularly. I'd like to join the thread if that's ok?

I have lost just over a stone using the 'NHS paid for ' Second Nature diet. I have been diagnosed with pre diabetes (HbA1c of 42.5mmol) and I need to lose another two stones at least.

I am stuck... I have been stuck for weeks. Not fallen off the wagon... yet.

I am trying to fast too and am doing the 17:7 timings. Also trying to keep to unprocessed foods.

Need a kick up the arse to keep going!!!!!

If you're not familiar with Louise on YouTube she is really inspirational, she lost 120lb (8.5 stone). She is very realistic and has great advice and tips.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QHr-FEr5qhU

Hi, I'm doing the fast800 diet - both intermittent fasting and 800 calories a day. Need to lose 9 more pounds for start IVF treatment but could really do with losing between 3 and 4 stone overall. Have lost 2 stone so far. Good luck!!

This is free on mine? I click log food and it's one of the options?

I try to walk 6000 steps every other day - I walk with a stick and it hurts but I am determined.
We could have a 'how far have I walked today' thread too.
I use Strava to map my walks

I'll join.

I need to sort myself out. Or die. That's about it.

What?! no fair I get a pop up eveytime I click the barcode saying its part of premium..

I have a job that means I don't sit down so I hit my step target most days... my problem is I'm all or nothing so if I have a wobble I throw it away and pig out like pumba. I can't get out my own way.

Sorry but that made me chuckle.. have you got a plan?

@LostMyList strange! There's two options on mine - a 'scan meal' which is premium and a 'scan barcode' which is free! I use it everyday!

Louise's losses in a year showing her body gradually changing - lots of photos. (I just find her really motivating!).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGLaVw-v6w

Is it not still free? I use MFP (have done for years) and I have never paid for it, I'm still able to scan barcodes.

Good luck, I need to lose 5 stone as well (although I don't know what I weigh in stones as it's a big trigger for me, I now weigh in KG because I don't know what it equates to in stones, I just need to see the number going down and I'm happy)

Barcode is still free on MFP!

OP it might not be for you, but I had the same amount to lose and chose semaglutide injections. 10 weeks in and I'm 20 pounds down.

Right it's a new week..behave yourselves!

I've deleted and reinstalled mfp, tried it on my ipad incase it was a android thing. Googled it and it says it's a thing so no idea why some have the scan feature and some don't. Madness.

Sort of. I've tried to lose weight for 30 years and have only succeeded in gaining a bad attitude.

I'm going to drink less wine (achieved already, I'd started to think of a bottle as a portion), try not to snack after dinner and not buy jars of Nutella. I've resurrected my nagging watch and am walking 10k steps a day. If I lose weight by Easter - even a pound a week on average, I'lll keep going. If not I'll get that prescription everyone's buying privately.

I need to move more but my joints hurt and I sleep badly. Being less fat would help everything. My main motivation is my blood pressure, I really would like to not die.

that's the prescription I was looking at, @OhpoorMe!

Have you found it motivating to eat better and do more? I worry I'd use it as an excuse and eat more and do less because I'm no the drugs.

You can't eat more @vivariumvivariumsvivaria, it works by curbing your appetite.

Yesterday I ate a small portion of chicken and veg, then a small portion of filled pasta and that was a big eating day for me! Approx 900 calories.

It's not for the faint hearted though - some people have more side effects than others and you have to use the time to learn what healthy food and portions are.

I think it didn't get removed from people who still had the app installed when they made the scanner premium. Unfortunately I had uninstalled the app when they did it, so when I installed it again I had lost it.

Ok, that makes much more sense, thank you for clearing it up

I have already had a win today and managed to resist the caramel eggs that were waving at me.. few weeks ago I bought some for the kids but then kept them in the car for me!

I'm joining please! I lost 6.5 stone in 2022-23 but got complacent and put a stone and a half back on again the latter half of last year. I want to lose 3 stone this year as a minimum to get back on track, but would prefer to to be 5 as that would get me to my goal weight. Doing it via fasting (7pm-11am) and cooking from the Fast 800 book, so sticking to approx. 1000 calories a day. And 10k steps a day.

I'd like to join please!
I started on Fast 800 in October, with a starting weight of 16st 7lbs.
I managed to lose 20lbs by Christmas and put half a stone back on.
I started back on the Fast 800 a week ago and have lost the Christmas weight gain.

Whats the scan barcode feature? I have 5 stone to lose.

I'm joining too, I have 5 stone to lose. I'm not weighing myself, I find it too depressing I'm going by clothes size. As you can imagine I have several different sizes in my wardrobe. I will take out the next size down and aim to fit into it and continue. The trouble with weighing is if I weigh myself after a hard weeks dieting and I've only lost half a pound I just give up so I think the clothes size thing will work better for me.
I have to get the weight off this year, my joints are killing me.