February is the new January - shifting debt and wibbly bums in 2010!

Birdie85

Blimey, burning 3500 calories for every lb lost? That's a scary thought!

I got Just Dance for my Wii on Saturday, I played it for about 40 minutes on Saturday night and was so knackered I had to stop! If I do that every night I'll be fit in no time, it makes my loony dancing to HSM Dance look like a gentle warm-up!

I don't want to think about what I ate over the weekend, it was a major junk fest! Oh dear, must do better or Dinah'll kill me! At least I stayed off the wine, had a lovely cold bottle in the fridge waiting for me on Saturday but I resisted, maily because I didn't think it was the best thing to have when I was gasping for breath after my dancing!

Cinny91

BenW wrote: »

Discovered that you need to burn or reduce by 3,500 calories for every 1lb weight lost! So for me, that will be 7000 calories less this week to lose the 2lbs :eek:

:eek: Blimey!!

Birdie - You're making me want my Wii back! I've got the 'Pump it Up' Dvd for this afternoon, + 40mins running on the dreadmill and 1hour of bouncing on a trampoline while watching Dickinsons Real Deal to look forward too

RuthG

I have just done a calculation for the exercise I plan this week, including housework (200 calories an hour if done vigorously) and can only come up with 4,600, so might only lose 1.5lbs, if that

There just arent enough hours in the day to do the job properly.

However, one consolation is that fat doesnt burn calories but muscle does, so if I increase the muscle by doing the exercise, then the weight will start to some off quicker - well, that's the theory. Now to go put it to the test!

Ruth

Dinah93

BUT are you planning to stick to 2000 cals a day? You can also reduce your cals through diet. Or is that taking diet into account? I don't know what the maths is, but I'm eating 1200 cals a day, and because I can't properly exercise I'm only burning 300 cals on weights 3x a week, and a few hundred elsewhere, but nothing huge. I'm sure the maths don't stack up to me loosing 3lbs in a week!

poddle911

Morning all!

Ruth, 2lb a week sounds like a good challenge to me! Don't forget that you burn calories just by being awake, walking around during the day (and actually while you're sleeping too - really!) so they will all add to your total.

Birdie, well done on resisting the wine and all your dancing! It's bound to pay off

Cinny, trampolining sounds like far too much fun to be exercise! Re: Slimfast - it is kind of tempting as it does work because it's simply lowering (and controlling) your calorie intake. But it is expensive and it's generally just as easy to have a 200 calorie breakfast/lunch of your choice. However, if you've already got shakes, it might be good to keep them as standby lunches for when you haven't got time to prepare something...

planning_ahead_2

Morning everyone:D

Lots of reading to do this morning to catch up with you all:o Still - I can honestly say I haven't had any more curries:D

RuthG

Dinah93 wrote: »

BUT are you planning to stick to 2000 cals a day? You can also reduce your cals through diet. Or is that taking diet into account?

I calculated the number of claories I woudnt be eating/drinking if I cu8t out the alcohol, then added the calories I would burn per hour of the activities I would engage in this week, worked out how long I would spend on each activity, then worked out the weekly total. If that makes sense (where did that smiley go? I thought it was one of the good ones!)

OK so using an online calculator (caloriecount.about.com), I have now worked out the number of calories I will be eating today:
Breakfast - muesli with nuts c. 172
Lunch - heinz soup 87
- 1 slice home made bread no butter/marge 74
Dinner tonight - homemade stew with pork, barley, carrots, peas, broccoli, potatoes and sweetcorn 345
TOTAL 707!

Now that is the kind of way I eat anyway, but I also snack on things like dry roasted peanuts (one handful a day) and have a glass of wine in the evenings. So is there something wrong with the online calculator? Or something very wrong with my metabolism - because I am putting weight ON even when eating only that much!:eek:

An added problem is that I have an enzyme deficiency which means I have to eat regularly and often or my blood sugar goes haywire.

Ruth

Dinah93

If thats all you eat normally then your body may well be gaining weight as its in starvation mode as those portion sizes are not enough for an adult, and you need to actually start eating more in volume, big veggie stirfries for example to up your minerals and also convince your body not to starve itself and you should find you have a lot more energy, and from a healthy place you can start loosing weight.

Check the can of soup too, a lot of processed foods are pasturised, this kills off many of the vitamins and minerals you should be getting and they use salt as flavouring which is a diauetic, so you'll be drinking more and filling up on those. Smoothies are terrible for doing this and are a personal bugbear of mine, they basically give sugary calories without the vitamins they should be giving, try to always make your own.

A healthy plate for ALL THREE meals should contain a little fat, then roughly even protein and carbs, cutting out any one food group completely is not sustainable and again triggers this starvation mode where we find we gain weight either when we reintroduce the food group, or throughout if you are starving your body and it is gagging for vitamins and minerals.

Its no use trying to get the minerals from tablets, on average only 20% of the vitamins in these are absorbed, in some people it is even less, they are only really of use to people on a severely restricted diet, most people should be getting them through their daily diet.

There are no drinks listed at all, do you only drink water?



(Brother is a trainee nutritionist, he gave the above answer below is me!)

Breakfast seems very low considering nuts are quite high in cals, either the portion is absolutely minescule with no milk, or there is somthing not quite right there.

Tete_en_l'Air

poddle911 wrote: »

Right, this weekend I need to:

*try not to slip into 'weekend eating' mode

Tete_en_l'Air wrote: »

Oh god I fear I've totally done this :embarasse Dreading weigh-in tomorrow.

Hi girls! Well despite the above I'm pleased to report that I lost 1lb this morning

However despite measuring out a measly 50g of pasta for my lunch today, my meeting overran into lunchtime and we ended up having cheese toasties! :eek: So pasta for tea I think... Also got meetings over lunchtimes til Thursday so won't be able to go to the gym as I'd planned... still, feeling blstered by my loss so that should keep me on the wagon!

And yes, where HAVE all the smilies gone?

RuthG

I'm not a big breakfast fan so I eat partly because I have to and partly because Ive been told it's good to start the day with something to kick start the metabolism for the day. I have a very small portion of muesli (dorset cereals - about 1/2 oz) with a few additional mixed nuts (not roasted or anything) thrown in and enough milk to make it all wet.

I do eat large stir fries - had one Saturday with a bit of tuna thrown in served on rice. I eat loads of veggies and fruit, but usually oranges or satsumas etc. I'm an 'almost vegetarian', so eat mainly veg with a small amount of meat added. On Sundays, my DH likes to have a roast dinner so that is the only day we eat meat as the main ingredient; otherwise it is more like a flavouring or just one of several ingredients.

Tonight's dinner is a cross between soup and stew - I make it myself usually from Sunday's leftovers in stock, with potatoes and barley and veggies.

Cant eat anything sweet (ie with sugar in, part of the enzyme deficiency problem) but occasionally give in and have a single square of chocolate as a treat.

The nuts on my desk are to stave off hunger so I dont go raiding the pantry when Im supposed to be working - they work out at about 600 cal per oz, which is a huge number, so I limit how many I have.

So, that's mainly why I think more exercise is the way to go for me rather than cutting down on the food intake. Usually I sit all day at work - at my desk, in the car, in the office - which could be anywhere in the country, to be honest. Not a fixed location.

It's also why I need some help!

Ruth