Lose Weight 34

lcparkinson

I've just spent the last 4 weeks on weightlossresources.co.uk and have found a way of losing weight that seems to work for me. Question is - which online site is best value for money?

I'm thinking of moving over to the Tesco Tracker which is free, as the only bit of the online business I really use is the calorie counter to include my exercise and also calorie intake. Does anyone else use it? Does it include stuff like a recipe maker so you can cook yourself and then add portions to your food for the day? I cook a lot, and it would be tricky adding the individual components of a 6 portion curry/stew/chilli each time I take it out of the freezer (and whether I can remember them is even more dubious!)

Any others that can be recommended that offer calorie counting and the ability to input both new foods not in the database and own recipes for foods?

I currently pay £9.95 per month, which I don't mind, but obviously if it can be done cheaper.................(I was a bad girl and didn't research before joining up but am not tied in - needed to act in the moment when I decided finally to get rid of 5 stone).

Eric_Pisch

lcparkinson wrote: »

I've just spent the last 4 weeks on weightlossresources.co.uk and have found a way of losing weight that seems to work for me. Question is - which online site is best value for money?

I'm thinking of moving over to the Tesco Tracker which is free, as the only bit of the online business I really use is the calorie counter to include my exercise and also calorie intake. Does anyone else use it? Does it include stuff like a recipe maker so you can cook yourself and then add portions to your food for the day? I cook a lot, and it would be tricky adding the individual components of a 6 portion curry/stew/chilli each time I take it out of the freezer (and whether I can remember them is even more dubious!)

Any others that can be recommended that offer calorie counting and the ability to input both new foods not in the database and own recipes for foods?

I currently pay £9.95 per month, which I don't mind, but obviously if it can be done cheaper.................(I was a bad girl and didn't research before joining up but am not tied in - needed to act in the moment when I decided finally to get rid of 5 stone).

If you have an iphone/ipod touch/ipad or an andriod phone you can do all this with the app that i use which is only a couple of quid

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

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

Eric_Pisch

world_of_tights wrote: »

Hi everyone :j

Low carbers - I need your help! I made soup today and I really don't know if it's any good for low carb or not.

Serves 5

40g Marigold stock (29.4g of carbs in 100g)
1 tsp mixed herbs
a goodly amount of pepper
2 medium onions
2 medium leeks
3 celery sticks
250g carrots
200g mixed beans (pinto, cannellini and haricot)
2.5 litres water

I keep getting mixed messages about carrots - people seem divided about whether they're ok for low carb diets or not

What do you think?

I know the stock would be better if it was homemade, but we don't tend to eat whole chickens, we buy bits and pieces instead.

carrots are fine, low GI

http://ginews.blogspot.com/2008/02/food-for-thought.html

The soup looks fine providing the stock does not have sugar added to it

Occy

lcparkinson wrote: »

I've just spent the last 4 weeks on weightlossresources.co.uk and have found a way of losing weight that seems to work for me. Question is - which online site is best value for money?

I'm thinking of moving over to the Tesco Tracker which is free, as the only bit of the online business I really use is the calorie counter to include my exercise and also calorie intake. Does anyone else use it? Does it include stuff like a recipe maker so you can cook yourself and then add portions to your food for the day? I cook a lot, and it would be tricky adding the individual components of a 6 portion curry/stew/chilli each time I take it out of the freezer (and whether I can remember them is even more dubious!)

Any others that can be recommended that offer calorie counting and the ability to input both new foods not in the database and own recipes for foods?

I currently pay £9.95 per month, which I don't mind, but obviously if it can be done cheaper.................(I was a bad girl and didn't research before joining up but am not tied in - needed to act in the moment when I decided finally to get rid of 5 stone).

I was recommended foodfocus it is free and does all what you want, can't comment on the make a meal section as its not something I have used but it is there, the site is free so no harm in trying.

Occy

jess444_2

I was recommended foodfocus it is free and does all what you want, can't comment on the make a meal section as its not something I have used but it is there, the site is free so no harm in trying.

Yes Foodfocus has a meal making section which is great, I use it all the time. I usually add in all of the ingredients for the whole meal the first time I cook it, then when I log it in the diary just log the percentage of the meal that I eat.

You can also add new foods into the database and it keeps track of the cals that you 'gain' by excercising.

A few people have found that when they set up their profile Food Focus has recommended quite a low daily cal intake. If it does this for you just set your goal a little lower, (I have changed mine from 2 lb loss a week to 1.5 lb a week) until it gives you the daily cals you are used to.

As Occy says, it's free so just have a play with it and see what you think.. Good luck.

Jess

trigirl1979

Morning guys, well as you may have guessed my silence suggests I didn't beat my time, not even close.

It was a harder course and very windy and raining but I still thought I could do it. In fact I was a minute and a half over the time I wanted.

However on a positive note, when the results came back a woman who normally beats me by 2 mins or so was actually only 20 seconds ahead of me, everyone's times were off by about 1.40 mins to their PBS so I am going to try again at a wednesday night race.

On another good note have lost another -1lb now 10st 4.5lb only 1.5lb off my ideal weight. My size 12s are now loose though my eeerm lady lumps are still rather large but I suppose I shouldn't moan about that!:rotfl:

So will log 1 hour for Saturday nothing for yesterday as I had the hump!

world_of_tights

Well, low carb isn't working for me - I'm not losing weight.

I have been good as gold this week, both in eating and exercise so I was expecting a pretty decent loss this week. Nope.

I was losing FAR more weight eating pasta, bread, potatoes etc - I was even losing more weight on weeks when I would have 'slip ups' like take away, cake and binge drinking.

I guess what works for one person doesn't work for another.

I am extremely disappointed, and actually pretty angry. Although neither of those feeling are very useful, so I'm trying to move past them.

I also think that I'm going to move my weigh in to a Wednesday morning, so I'm not posting my loss until then.

Right, back to the drawing board!

jess444_2

Trigirl, I know you are dissappointed but it sounds like you did really, really well. :T Don't be so hard on yourself.

WoT, I feel your dissapointment. There are so many ways to lose weight I do think we just have to find a way that works for us individually. After reading some of the low carb forums keep being tempted to lower my carbs further. I have to stop myself and recognise that what I am doing (about 125gms to 150 gms carb a day) is working so why change. Go back to what was working for you - good luck.

Jess

Matryoshka

Fire 45 minutes
Stretch 10 minutes
Crosstrainer 30 minutes (3k; 284 calories)
Treadmill 30 minutes (3.29k; 192 calories)

Total: 1 hour 55minutes

Eric_Pisch

world_of_tights wrote: »

Well, low carb isn't working for me - I'm not losing weight.

I have been good as gold this week, both in eating and exercise so I was expecting a pretty decent loss this week. Nope.

I was losing FAR more weight eating pasta, bread, potatoes etc - I was even losing more weight on weeks when I would have 'slip ups' like take away, cake and binge drinking.

I guess what works for one person doesn't work for another.

I am extremely disappointed, and actually pretty angry. Although neither of those feeling are very useful, so I'm trying to move past them.

I also think that I'm going to move my weigh in to a Wednesday morning, so I'm not posting my loss until then.

Right, back to the drawing board!

with out seeing a food log its hard to say i am afraid