Let's lose a bit of weight.....

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 5 (day 5)

Breakfast: special k
Lunch: roast chicken & grated cheese salad
Dinner: half brioche corned beef sandwich, half Assda toasted cheese & ham sandwich
Snacks/treats: 2 biscuit, 2pts bitter, 1 med glass wine

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1411

Exercise: none

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 6 (day 6)

Breakfast: poached egg, 1 x bread, ww fromage frais
Lunch: half brioche corned beef sandwich, crusty roll with ham
Dinner: 4oz pork hock cooked & minced, courgettes, mushrooms, french beans, salad, spoon coleslaw
Snacks/treats: ww fromage frais, 1 biscuit, 1pt bitter, 1 med glass wine

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 1357

Exercise: cycle 22km (about an hour and a half), toning exercises per RC

[Dorothy rouse]

There can't be much of you left!


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[Hazel at the Hill]

There can't be much of you left!

It took longer to put it on that six days, DR, so it's gonna take longer than 6 days to take it off again!

Weights and measures tomorrow morning, so I'll see how the land lies then. My av. calorie intake over the last week will have been a shade over 1200 per day; and with cycling to the Hill twice, and one longer bike ride; three runs this week and each day's toning exercises - I am confident that the numbers will look good. I've had enough wriggle room for the odd biscuit and the (more than) odd drink or two as well.

[Dorothy rouse]

It took longer to put it on that six days, DR, so it's gonna take longer than 6 days to take it off again!

Weights and measures tomorrow morning, so I'll see how the land lies then. My av. calorie intake over the last week will have been a shade over 1200 per day; and with cycling to the Hill twice, and one longer bike ride; three runs this week and each day's toning exercises - I am confident that the numbers will look good. I've had enough wriggle room for the odd biscuit and the (more than) odd drink or two as well.

As you say, it went on slowly ,so best it comes off slowly and stays off, it just doesn't look like you are eating very much, and your exercise regime is also impressive, so well done!


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[Hazel at the Hill]

As you say, it went on slowly ,so best it comes off slowly and stays off, it just doesn't look like you are eating very much, and your exercise regime is also impressive, so well done!

I'm eating a solid brekkers, lunch and dinner every day, and 1200cals per day looks to be about normal recommended by various diet regimes for my weight/frame for 1-2lb a week weight loss.

I'm aiming for 2lb loss per week - that's a calorie deficit of roughly 500 from food per day (i.e. eating 1200 cals rather than about 1800 or so that I would eat normally) to make 1lb loss per week; and about 500 cals worth of exercise per day, to make up the other lb loss per week.

I also think that we are recommended to do half an hour's proper exercise three times a week just to be normally healthy - I have a desk job so don't do a lot of 'incidental' exercise, and so my 3 x half hour runs a week are what I'd normally do just to avoid turning into a slug; extending the runs, toning exercises and bike rides are my 'extras' in order to burn those extra energy which will result in the weight loss - and more importantly toning - that I'm after.

Edit to add - that all sounds jolly serious, but what I find in reality is that I go on my hols twice a year being 'light'; I gradually put some on over the next four months (half to one stone), then cut down/tone up for a month or two before the next roast in the sun.

I generally come on this thread to log each day, just to keep me on the straight and narrow.

[Feral007]

I decided I need to lose 4.6 kilo's last week. So I'd better get out and garden!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Week 1, day 7 (day 7)

Breakfast: bowl blackberries & raspberries, ww fromage frais - yum!
Lunch: slice of fruit cake, cheese
Dinner: lamb goulash, french beans
Snacks/treats: 1/2 pt bitter

Calorie tot (logging on MFP): 840

Exercise: toning exercises per RC

[Hazel at the Hill]

Weights and Measures

start: 10st 1/4lb
week 1: 9st 10 1/2lb

av daily calories this week: 1204

lost this week: 3 3/4 lb
total lost: 3 3/4lb

Target weight: 9st 7lb before the end of Sep
Left to go: 3 1/2lb in 3wks

[Greenfingerpaula]

Wow well done hazel, that's a great 1st week!!! People like you give me motivation, I also use MFP, not been the gym last 2 weeks due to silly working hours but going this week and am gonna go for it, I need to lose about 1 stone because I'm creeping up to the next dress size, which is NOT gonna happen!!

[Feral007]

Just jumped on the scales again and it seems it's 6.6 k's I need to lose. Or maybe I just need new scales!

[Greenfingerpaula]

Let's lose a bit of weight.....

I'm also aiming for 1200 calories a day, as recommended by MFP based on my daily activities.

So yesterday was day 1 of my new motivated week - here goes:

Breakfast - Golden syrup Oatso Simple, black coffee with sweetener

Lunch - 2 slices seeded batch, half tin tuna flakes, homegrown cucumber slices, Hellmans mayonnaise with black pepper. Muller light yoghurt, 1 plum

Dinner - Chicken breast, stir fry vegetables, coffee with sweetener

Snacks - 6 Jelly Babies, 4 chocolate fingers

Calories according to MFP - 1232

Exercise - 30 minutes cross trainer, 10 minutes stomach crunches, 10 minutes walking after getting off bus 1 stop early

Total net calories - 942


Feeling very positive this week

[Glutton4...]

Is there an MFP for Carb-counters? (Haven't looked... )

[Greenfingerpaula]

MFP is for everyone glutton, you put in your foods it will calculate everything for you, and tells you what you would weigh in 5 weeks if you did the same every day.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Yes, G4, Paula right - when you enter food into the diary (immensely tedious to start with, but the more you enter, the easier it is, as it remembers what you've eaten before), each item is split out into it's constituents, so you can see how many cals, carbs, fat, protein, sugar etc you have eaten that day.

On a 1200 cal goal, carb goal is 165g looking at my food diary thing - no reason why you can't aim for the same cals but fewer carbs.