Lose Weight 31

lexa34

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and tips. I really apreciate them.

alliwantistosave wrote: »

Start off with a food diary, write everything you eat in the diary AS SOON AS YOU EAT IT!!! If you wait until the end of the day you will forget and that is where those few extra calories add up to a poor loss.

This seems like a really good idea- does anyone know a good online and /or phone app to do this? I nearly always have my Android phone to hand and this would be a briliant idea for me to get started just to monitor myself- even by doing that I bet I would be more vigilant not to each so much unhealthy stuff.

Confession- I think I am addicted to cake, and wholewheat Melts by Carrs crackers... yikes!

lolly101

lexa34 wrote: »

This seems like a really good idea- does anyone know a good online and /or phone app to do this? I nearly always have my Android phone to hand and this would be a briliant idea for me to get started just to monitor myself- even by doing that I bet I would be more vigilant not to each so much unhealthy stuff.

Hi Lexa,

It is a great idea. I do this and it really is shocking how much you eat without realising (or how many calories things actually contain!). I don't know of any phone apps, although I always have post it notes to hand, which is quite a quick and easy way of monitoring yourself. I keep a pad and pen out in my kitchen so everytime I go in for food I can just jot it down.

lolly101

Oh dear,

I really wished I'd weighed myself this morning... before I ate that huge English breakfast!!!

I started the day with great intentions, a banana for breakfast (no time to make anything), and a Biggest Loser bar for if I got hungry. Unfortunately we were out a bit longer than expected so nipped into morrisons for brekkie.
Beware of their breakfasts, the portions are HUGE! I couldn't believe how much there was, neither of us could finish it. I did play the good dieter and cut the fat off the bacon though, and I only ate half the fried bread (should have avoided it completely, really!). I also stopped eating when full, although I think the damage was already done by that point.

Dreading the scales now, I'm hoping that still I've lost at least 1 lb, as staying the same or gaining would probably make me lost faith in the whole process.

OK, what's done is done, I can't dwell forever so I'm off for a dancing and jogging session on the Wii to hopefully undo some of the damage!

Eric_Pisch

lexa34 wrote: »

Thank you everyone for your kind thoughts and tips. I really apreciate them.




This seems like a really good idea- does anyone know a good online and /or phone app to do this? I nearly always have my Android phone to hand and this would be a briliant idea for me to get started just to monitor myself- even by doing that I bet I would be more vigilant not to each so much unhealthy stuff.

Confession- I think I am addicted to cake, and wholewheat Melts by Carrs crackers... yikes!

I use mypersonal diet which is awesome but its not on android yet according to this

http://www.vidaone.com/vodf_win.htm

victory

lolly101 wrote: »

Dreading the scales now, I'm hoping that still I've lost at least 1 lb, as staying the same or gaining would probably make me lost faith in the whole process.

Don't loose faith, I can still recall Jan 4th 2007 started the first week of the diet, got on the scales 1 week later so excited to have lost...nothing...I was inconsolable but doubly determined and went on the next week to loose 4lb and over all 7 1/2 stone;)

victory

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grannynise

Your little one should start training as a counsellor or a career advisor NOW, Victory. Could I borrow him - I need to make some big decisions about work in the next month or two?

And PS - you know that BMI is a very unreliable measurement.

Eric_Pisch

victory wrote: »

According to the BMI online site my BMI is overweight, wow how did that happen? Well last year it was up two dress sizes, well one to be honest as the second when I was in it was restricting and had I been honest would have not got in it so one (I know what I mean:rotfl:)

Spoken to the kids about handing in my notice and the little one said 'mum you have 2 choices, leave with dignity or let them sack you and leave under a cloud' very insightfull for a 10 year old I must say:rotfl: the other one as he is a teenager went 'whatever ' shrugged his shoulders and walked off:rotfl:

option 3 - constructive dismissal

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2005/07/26/30921/the-qualification-for-a-constructive-dismissal-claim.html

Brighton_belle

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

option 3 - constructive dismissal

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2005/07/26/30921/the-qualification-for-a-constructive-dismissal-claim.html

The trouble is with going for constructive dismissal is that it is very very stressful: I know 2 people who have been ill with the stress of going through that procedure.
I think for Victory, better to get out and feel better away from that poisonous environment.

Hope you are both getting on ok vitor and Betty at your meetings.

Frogletina

Hi all

I'm currently using caloriecount.about.com as I'm doing a calorie control diet

I have previously been with weight watchers and slimming world and have lost weight with both of them. But for me, as soon as I stop going I put weight back on.

I did find it hard to keep to either of their diets, and when the date, time and leader of slimming world all changed I gave up, although I hadn't been losing much for the last few months

I used to be very slim and weighted 6st 7lb at 16 and only put on a stone with each of my first pregnancies and 1st 7lb with the last one. And it all came off straight afterwards, but I was only 17, 19 and 22 then!

I put weight on in my thirties and yo-yo dieted for years - I used to be able to lose weight easy, it's harder now but not impossible. I just need to find something that I can easily maintain, as I am determined (crossed fingers) that this time I'll not put it back on again

Good luck to you all what ever method you are using - with everyone's help and support I'm sure we can make it