Lose Weight 10

beanielou

Lois Lane
Thank you for all your hard work with the chart.
Glad that you are back again.
We all fall off the wagon sometimes be it the weight losas one or the DFW one!! Or even both!!
Take care & enjoy the rest of the weekend.

keatergreyhound

Hi all
I think part of my problem is the fact that I work from 1 in the afternoon till 11.15pm usually.
I dont really eat breakfast as by the time im up showered and dressed and my DD as well its almost luch time (12n oon on a work day)
Lunch is usually a ready meal or jacket pot with sweetcorn and low cal cowslaw. Or something m really inot at the min is pot waffles (less than 100 cals each and divine)
When im at work I get peckish at about 4 so its something like some snackajacks or an apple or 2
Then a ready meal and more fruit or my favorite tinned fruit cocktail for pudding or yogurt.
On a non work day its ready meal (I like them) for lunch snacks of fruit then veg and chicken that sort of thing for tea with fruit and yogurt for pudding and snacks.
Exercise is always being on my feet at work with lifting of deliveries etc (am a shop manager)
I also walk everywhere ( no car) I also have astepper and exercise bike.
Im 5 foot 2 female and need to loose 2 stone really but 17 pounds would be my goal
My breaks at work ate timed but I try not to eat after 6.30pm. I also suffer fro IBS so I dont 'go' as often as id like.
Drinks are nas juice oe nas fizzy drinks
I admit to be Gillians worse case!

honey28

Welcome back Lois I had posted a few days ago that you were missing quite a lot and had noticed your entry on the chart wasn't changing. Good to have you back with us :T

If you are finding the chart too much work we could just go back to the old way of each just posting our losses/gains etc. as they happen I'm sure noone will mind because we all appreciate its not an easy task.

Been off the wagon all week because of a series of things so def day one round here too!

honey28

I should also have said Welcome Back to Cotsvale :wave: Sorry I hope you didnt think you had come on here and we hadn't noticed you. Don't punish yourself about falling off the wagon and putting the weight back on, read throught the threads and you will see that we have all done it. Start afresh with a positive attitude and you will soon see the pounds drop off again - you did it before and so you CAN do it again.
Stop thinking about your death and instead concentrate on your life. We are all going to go at some stage so stop worrying about it and focus on now instead.

Consider that your motivational kick up the backside :rotfl: Good to have you back.

consultant31

Lois I agree with Honey, don't feel you have to do the chart. It must be a huge task which takes you ages, specially since we all get weighed on different days. We can still post our results and get/give support where needed.

Beanie, my mum is disabled (mind you, she's nearly 80) but when she was told to exercise following a heart-attack, she was given arm exercises to do (lift arms in the air, wave them about etc, add a can of beans in each hand if you wish). The point is that even a little bit is better than nothing. Your 200 yards walk is an excellent improvement on doing nothing. You should be very proud, it takes you equally as much effort to do that as for an able-bodied person to jog a mile or two.

Mable could there have been a mistake made in the readings? It seems almost impossible for your fat rate to have gone up with all that exercise, unless you're getting hungrier because of it and therefore eating more (no offence, just a thought). Has it made any difference to your inches? As ThriftyK says, your body shape should be altering for the better. Hang in there, you must be feeling fitter and healthier whatever the scales say.

Keater would it be possible for you to knock the ready meals out of your diet? I know it's not easy when you work and have a family too, but they are often full of sugar/fat and other nasties, and IMO they're not bulky enough to fill you up.
It would be better to give yourself an extra 10 mins in the morning to have a bit of breakfast, even if it's only fruit and yoghurt. It gets your metabolism working and if you eat regularly after that (every 3 or 4 hours) it will keep working and therefore burn more calories.
I can see you eat plenty of fruit but what about veggies?
You don't seem to have much fibre in your diet and if you could add more vegetables it may help your IBS - or you could have bran flakes for breakfast perhaps with a sliced banana on top.

Went to see the 'Cavern Beatles' last night with my daughter (early Mum's Day gift). They were brilliant and I sang along with every song (now you know how old I am :rotfl: )

See you later :wave:

cotsvale

Hi Again

I'm not quite ready to jump back in yet. I'll lurk a bit and get inspired by everyones posts. Money is tight and my husband's job under threat so I can't afford to throw out the bad stuff in the cupboards. I have done a meal plan for the week and shopped for it, half the days are good and healthy and half using up what I've got but adding in lots of veggies and good things. I'll look up the receipe links and gradually plan in more healthy meals. I may not lose any weight for a few weeks but it's a start.

Lois_Lane

Morning all :wave:

Thanks for your kind comments. I actually enjoy doing the chart each week, and it isn't as time consuming as you might think, so I'll continue, although I may go back to just doing it once, on a Monday, to give me more time to go to the gym!

It's a beautiful day here, so I'm planning to do some exercise in the fresh air this afternoon - a long walk, or maybe we'll get the bikes out.

I hope everyone else has decent weather too, enjoy the rest of the weekend.

LL

Lois_Lane

Me again! Just remembered I intended to post the following, as I thought you might find it interesting:

When it comes to working out, many people believe that fat burning and weight loss is all to do with aerobic exercise and that resistance training is really only for muscle building. But resistance training (muscle-strengthening work using your body or equipment as resistance) is just as important for successful fat loss. There are several reasons for this: -

1. Muscle is your fat furnace. It is where body fat is most effectively burned, and resistance training will increase your lean muscle tissue.
   
2. Muscle burns more calories than fat. A pound of muscle burns around 50cals a day, while a pound of fat burns 5 calories.
   
3. Muscle takes up less space than fat so it helps us to look slimmer and leaner.
   
4. Resistance training increases your metabolic rate. This enables you to burn more calories all day long.
   
5. Resistance training helps stop muscle loss as you age, this helps to prevent weight gain as you get older.

Generally, men tend to combine aerobic and resistance training during a workout. Women are more likely to do cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise and are more reluctant to do resistance training for fear of getting bulky muscles. But they needn’t worry, as women simply don’t have the testosterone levels necessary to build big muscles. Instead, they develop leaner and stronger muscle fibres – with less fat between each fibre – which results in more slender muscles and greater muscle tone.

7 Great Reasons to do Resistance Training

1. It increases your metabolic rate
   
2. It makes you stronger and increases muscle endurance
   
3. It makes you lean and slim and gives you better shape
   
4. It strengthens bones, which is especially important for women
   
5. It helps you avoid injuries
   
6. It helps improve posture
   
7. It helps improve confidence, self-esteem and body image

LL

Gpuk

Thanks for that Lois thats an interesting article I used to love going to the gym but with son and work I gave it up but I never did weight's as I did worry about becoming muscle bound (better than the present fat bound I suppose) lol. I am having a day one today too as last week started out badly and only got worse as the week went through somehow I managed to maintain so I am going to really try this week..good luck to everyone!! :j

victory

It is the most fantastically sunny shiny happy day here and the rugby is on soon what more could one ask for?:D

Oh and the kids are out playing so I am just relaxing reading the paper;)

Bliss:rotfl: