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grannynise

Hi Margaret and welcome to the thread.

I think the thing that makes the biggest difference for me is recording absolutely everything you eat or drink. It's so laborious that sometimes I'drather not eat something as I can't be bothered to write is down. You can do it in a notebook and use a calorie/nutirent guide or online -- foodfocus.co. uk (I think that's right) is a free site, or nutracheck.co.uk which is a paying one. I know it's not MSE to pay for something you can get for free but food focus has been known to go down when too many people sign on .... and as I'm totally addicted to recording I now choose to pay.

All I need to so now is find a way to access the internet on the move so that I can record when away from home --- that would put a stop to the holiday gains! I know that theoretically you can so this via a mobile phone but I can't on my £10 Nokia!

victory

If you have an ipod touch you can do it on that or an iphone or tesco do cheap internet access on the move phones or a laptop or if you are in a wifi spot on your hols, I always forget that the ipod touch can gain internet access and only play music on it and never use the internet facilities:rolleyes:,

grannynise

Chuffed for you too Victory! You'll just have to go back to a boot sale and try to get something to go with the coral blouse now. I'm not a great boot sale shopper (too early inthe morning and until recently I wouldn't have dared buy something without rtying it on first) but when ever I have I only see really tatty clothes - you must go somewhere much grander. I've noticed that charity shops in 'posher' areas have much better clothes.

Not on topic at all -- astonishingly whenever I have to speak to parents about their children's bad language in school (and I'm thinking of children in Nursery and Reception here) they assure me that they never use it themselves and that the children must have picked it up in school. What they don't realise is that the bench they sit on, just outside my open office window, gives me a very good idea of how they talk.:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

'ipod touch' ???? This is granny -- what is an ipod touch? Wouldn't it still cost a lot to actually use it? I did take my laptop way but was never in a hotspot or a bt open access place.

Dinah93

I've been using Foodfocus for a month, never had an issue except it doesn't like the word 'gu' (guess I REALLY shouldn't eat them then!), maybe they've upgraded the servers. 1 lb loss for me this week, down to 10st 6lbs from a start of 10 st 11lbs. I weigh in on a Sunday usually, but will anounce on a Wed with everyone else.

Missy™

I prefer not to rely on a website for my calorie counting so I do mine partly the 'old fashioned' way

I record my calories in Excel - all my 'usuals' are on one worksheet in a list, then I keep another tabbed sheet (within the same workbook) for each week and it does the daily/weekly totals automatically. Exercise gets logged in detail too so that I can cross-reference the results etc.

A-Z of calories booklet was £2.40 when I bought it - 17,000 food items listed in there Granny - could this work to take with you on your hols & total up manually for a few days instead of bothering with mobile internet? (Which is always going to be a bit hit and miss if you're off the beaten track?)

VanyaHargreeves

I weighed in at 145 lbs exactly, so that's a 2lbs loss

Bananasplit

Missy™ wrote: »

Bananasplit, you're so lucky to have such a small gain at TOTM time! Mine is anywhere from 2.5lb to 4lb and always starts 7 days beforehand I'm dreading Friday's weigh in, it's the first TOTM-affected one since I switched from weekly to monthly weighing I suppose all the next few will be, until it gets out of sync again. Or perhaps I should cheat and change my weigh in date :rotfl:

I don't feel it :rotfl:.
I've actually only just realised that this happens to me recently! For the past few months this week has been 0.6lb gain. Odd :rolleyes:.

Change the date! :rotfl:

1HANNAH

hello all,

been awol all week again as I just aren't getting chance to log on much at the moment, this weeks reason being my eldest having chicken pox (so no doubt as soon as he is clear ds2 will start with it)
Lost 1 1/2lb this week taking me to 12st 0.8lb

Please can I be taken off the weightloss chart as I don't know when I will be back to reguallry updating on here. I will try and pop in when I can and hope to join in again once ds1 is back in school I hope!

Missy™

Bananasplit wrote: »

Change the date! :rotfl:

The more I think about this, the more tempting it is to push back the weigh in date by 7 days every 8 months or so, then I'll never need to stress about TOTM gains again :rotfl:

grannynise

Either change the date each time to avoid TOM, or take the amount you generally gain off the weight you record if it is TOM, oralways weigh in on the first day (for example) of your cycle.

Any of these just take out the variable - I think it would be considered a good scientific design if you were doing an experiment. And actually Missy you do treat your exercise/intake as a bit of a scientific expt - that's what I'm trying to do too but with less success. I've just worked out for instance that a pilates class uses claories at the same rate as walking to the station and back spending the day shopping in London. So I won't fool myself that pilates is 'good' aerobic exercise and just do it for all that lovely core toning. (Ooer, sounds as if I'm really getting into this exercise thing :rolleyes:)

The suggestions about a calorie counting book and and recording in a note book is a good one - I don't understand why it just doesn't motivate me when I do it that way. Ridiculous.:o