Lose Weight 35

jess444_2

A STS for me this week please Fred.

1 hour Body Attack tonight - now feeling shattered and feel the need for an early night. I am waiting for the day when the exercise gives me more energy.

Welcome Samantha - as Sary said we all have different approaches to losing weight. For me I signed up with Food Focus which I found really useful for keeping track of what I eat. I also cut back on the carbs by changing a few of the things I ate regularly. I now have an omlette for breakfast rather than cereal and a salad for lunch instead of sandwiches.

Is there is any exercise you can do - walking, swimming? If so join in with the challenges as this really seems to help.

world_of_tights

-1.2lbs for me - thanks, fred.

Frodobaggins

jess444 wrote: »

Welcome Samantha - as Sary said we all have different approaches to losing weight. For me I signed up with Food Focus which I found really useful for keeping track of what I eat.


Jess- what is food focus? Is it a phone app as I have been thinking about getting something like that but not sure whats available.

fredsnail

Frodobaggins wrote: »

jess444 wrote: »

Welcome Samantha - as Sary said we all have different approaches to losing weight. For me I signed up with Food Focus which I found really useful for keeping track of what I eat.


Jess- what is food focus? Is it a phone app as I have been thinking about getting something like that but not sure whats available.

Food focus is a site where you can log all the food you eat on your account - it's free to set up an account and use.

I use a similar site called myfitnesspal - this one has a mobile app which includes a barcode scanner so you can scan the bar code on products and it brings up all the details for you to log.

I don't know if food focus has a mobile app - I couldn't find one on the andriod app site.

fredsnail

Here's this weeks chart:



Congrats to our SoTW lissarria.

Well done to all our losers and STSers this week and commiserations to our gainers - it doesn't matter how many times you fall down - just the number of times you get up again.

Here's the latest siblings challenge chart:



Well done to the 2+ siblings team who've won this week.

Here's the latest chart for the Eurovision Pub Crawl:



Congrats to everyone taking part :T

This weeks quote is from Richard D. Rosen
"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want"

Keiko_summer

Hi there everyone Can I join in with your challenges please? I could really benefit from the motivation as I'm going it alone and have a LOT to lose!

sarymclary

Hi Keiko,

Join right in with any of our challenges. As you can see from the weekly chart Fredsnail does, there's an exercise challenge, a losing weight challenge, along with a monthly 5lb challenge.

If you want to be included in any, just let Fredsnail know.

Good luck!

franby64

Thanks for the charts Fred.

I've done another 3 km walk/swim/walk so total is now 16 km.

jess444_2

Jess- what is food focus? Is it a phone app as I have been thinking about getting something like that but not sure whats available.[/QUOTE]


Samantha, as Fredsnail has said Foodfocus is a website that allows you to track your calories and exercise, etc. I also try to keep a track of my carbs and keep them below 100 a day. It is a bit time consuming to start but you can use the 'create menu's' function to build up a collection of the meals you eat most often.

Myfitnesspal looks great and as Fred says does have an app. Unfortunately I only have a very basic phone so decided to stick with Foodfocus.

lolly101

Hey Everyone,

Sorry I missed weigh in, will catch it next week I've got 2 hours 40 mins of Just Dance 3 to add over the last couple of days - nearly killed me , lol.

Not feeling very well today so haven't moved much, and have been eating lots of quick and easy junk food . I hope that it doesn't affect things too much, and hopefully I'll be out and about, and back to the diet soon!