Wedding Diet Thread....

johannalf88

Welcome Kelbag! Sorry wrote last post while waiting for the train.

sugarwalsh

I have four kids so I know how hard it can be! I walk when they are all at school/nursery as walking with them is painfully slow. They run around everywhere but the direction I want to go!
Dig Paul out - he may help you remember some fo the more simple things.
My fitness pal is a calorie counting app - It is very useful. It seems to encourage most people to eat about 1200 calories a day, but you can also work out what your base metabolism is - ie the number of calories you use without doing anything and I stick to that because obviously I move around all day. I haven't made amy major weight shift yet - about 8lbs in total, but as long as it is not going up - then I feel I can control it!

kelbag_2

sugarwalsh wrote: »

I have four kids so I know how hard it can be! I walk when they are all at school/nursery as walking with them is painfully slow. They run around everywhere but the direction I want to go!
Dig Paul out - he may help you remember some fo the more simple things.
My fitness pal is a calorie counting app - It is very useful. It seems to encourage most people to eat about 1200 calories a day, but you can also work out what your base metabolism is - ie the number of calories you use without doing anything and I stick to that because obviously I move around all day. I haven't made amy major weight shift yet - about 8lbs in total, but as long as it is not going up - then I feel I can control it!

Lol I have 4 as well, eldest is 16 so she's kind of off on her own but I know what you mean about directions, I dread taking them shopping as guaranteed one of them will throw a paddy and one will get lost.

I do a desk job so am extremely inactive, my fitness pal looks very interesting. It looks very much like the weight watchers tracker.

Thanks johannalf88 for the welcome

daisiegg

kelbag wrote: »

I'm planning on having a wander around the business park where i work at lunch and just eating stuff I can hold in one hand fruit, wraps etc while I'm walking..

Careful, you can hold a chocolate bar in one hand...or a donut...or a cupcake...or a pastie...or a sausage roll... oh I just made myself hungry!

kelbag_2

daisiegg wrote: »

Careful, you can hold a chocolate bar in one hand...or a donut...or a cupcake...or a pastie...or a sausage roll... oh I just made myself hungry!

Oh no don't tempt me, its bad enough that every week at work it's someones birthday, promotion, they bring in Jamaican jerk chicken or we have a food festival where everyone brings in a dish of something. Yesterday they had doughnuts just because it was Monday.

My will power is terrible with all those temptations.

Lentil Dahl for tea tonight I think and looking at my fitness pal I can have a glass of wine as well to wash it down :j

daisiegg

Hi again everyone... I think I may have posted on this thread when I first got engaged two weeks ago but I then happily buried my head back in the sand.

I weighed myself yesterday and eeeeeek it was not pretty

So I really want to lose 3 stone. I'm getting married April 2013 but I suppose I need to be fairly close to ideal weight before that, for dress shopping. In theory if I only lost 1 lb a week I could do it by mid December this year...and that allows for hopefully most weeks being a bit more than 1lb, and then some weeks where I don't lose or even gain (I'm thinking of Easter eggs and summer holidays!)

It sounds so simple written down, doesn't it?! I weighed again this morning and have already lost a lb and a half since yesterday...I know it must just be water, but it's nice to see the scales go down at the start anyway.

I have no excuse not to exercise - we have a treadmill at home, a weights bench, and a Wii fit lol. I have got Zumba for the Wii and also something called MyFitnessCoach, which is basically aerobics and is very good.

So I will not be counting calories (I so easily get obsessive and it's not good) but I will be keeping a food diary every day, and aiming at first to exercise for 30 mins 3 times a week (I'm just recovering from a long illness and only back to work part time this week, so if I even manage three times a week over the next few weeks it will be an achievement) and then upping that to more times a week as I build my strength and energy.

I hope to post much more on this thread if you'll have me, as I don't think I can do it on my own!

johannalf88

Welcome (back) daisi! Post all you like! we all try to help each other, talk each other out of bad choices and to the gym!

Em88

Oh what a shame you couldn't use the gym Jo. Did you get a feel for it there though? Were they friendly? I have this awful vision that if I were to join a gym they would all be really skinny with super model looks and there would be me in the middle sticking out like a sore thumb with everyone whispering about me :rotfl: good work on the extra passes too :T

hello and welcome (back) to kelbag and daisie

daisie 3 stone before next year; in the last year I have lost 3 stone and I haven't even been trying that hard for a lot of it. I have just increased my exercise (by walking to and from work) and made sure I have healthy meals. I try to limit my snacking but that is my downfall.

johannalf88

Yeah, I had been there before though, so know what it is like. It's quite family orientated, so not full of supermodels!

I get to go tomorrow though!

Em88

Haha that's good then I know that in reality it would not (or at least almost certainly not) stick out like a sore thumb if I did go to a gym but the thought of being embarrassed is too big to make me give it a try. I would rather do a dvd at home.

Just had pasta with garlic bread which was yummy tempted by the thought of some chocolate but will be good. Had a couple of biscuits earlier so they are my treat for today.