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[Food] Lose 7lbs in November
- Thread starter Couldn't Be Hyypia
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Yeah.
When I had become properly fat a few years back and was on my "I need to get this sorted out" mission over the course of seven months or so, I used MyFitnessPal to track calories. In the same way Matt was describing, I quite enjoyed the gamification of that. Essentially no food was off-limits, I just needed to keep to my daily calorie target.
I particularly enjoyed it when I was working away from home. I've never really been one to go to a restaurant and ask for a table-for-one, so would generally head to a supermarket and, again, enjoy seeing just how much food I could gather for the evening and still keep to my calorie goal.
He can ramble a bit - his podcasts are unscripted - he just wanders around his basement, in which he has installed his own microbrewery, getting his steps up and just talking as he does so.
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Day 1: 16st 4.0lb
Day 19: 15st 12.4lb
- 5.6lb
Definitely back on track. Big danger today and tomorrow - two days away working in London.
Typically, a slap up feed in the evening that my wife would be horrified to know about plus biscuits, crisps etc back at the hotel. Pastry breakfast tomorrow (Ole & Steen
) and two M&S sarnies plus more biscuits probably for a late lunch.
No one would know, no one to tell me off, no one to be disappointed in me.
Other than you lot. I'm hoping that a very honest pre-confession here will help me find a bit of backbone and self-respect.
Day 19: 15st 12.4lb
- 5.6lb
Definitely back on track. Big danger today and tomorrow - two days away working in London.
Typically, a slap up feed in the evening that my wife would be horrified to know about plus biscuits, crisps etc back at the hotel. Pastry breakfast tomorrow (Ole & Steen
) and two M&S sarnies plus more biscuits probably for a late lunch.No one would know, no one to tell me off, no one to be disappointed in me.
Other than you lot. I'm hoping that a very honest pre-confession here will help me find a bit of backbone and self-respect.
darkwolf666
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Cut out the biscuits, crisps and definitely the etc. in the evening and only have one M&S sarnie - might help!Day 1: 16st 4.0lb
Day 19: 15st 12.4lb
- 5.6lb
Definitely back on track. Big danger today and tomorrow - two days away working in London.
Typically, a slap up feed in the evening that my wife would be horrified to know about plus biscuits, crisps etc back at the hotel. Pastry breakfast tomorrow (Ole & Steen
No one would know, no one to tell me off, no one to be disappointed in me.
Other than you lot. I'm hoping that a very honest pre-confession here will help me find a bit of backbone and self-respect.
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I reckon you can lose calories if you have enough etc., but otherwise, good advice.Cut out the biscuits, crisps and definitely the etc. in the evening and only have one M&S sarnie - might help!
14st 3lbs, which is pleasantly surprising after have had some fairly non-diet friendly meals on Thursday and Saturday with the family.
Also, fans of measuring in lbs will note that it takes me below the 200lbs mark.
cjd
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A major milestone smashed. Well done !14st 3lbs, which is pleasantly surprising after have had some fairly non-diet friendly meals on Thursday and Saturday with the family.
Also, fans of measuring in lbs will note that it takes me below the 200lbs mark.
A bit of well intended tough love here (!).
You know what you’re eating and the quantities you eat when you are away. You also know how hard you’ve worked to lose the weight you have lost already.
You will be disappointed in yourself. How about going for a walk or using the hotel gym/pool if they have one rather that bingeing on crisps and biscuits? We’ve all done it but in a few minutes the taste has gone, the cravings remain and you’ve added a lot of bad calories.
Not meaning to preach
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Thanks. Totally taken as it was intended.A bit of well intended tough love here (!).
You know what you’re eating and the quantities you eat when you are away. You also know how hard you’ve worked to lose the weight you have lost already.
You will be disappointed in yourself. How about going for a walk or using the hotel gym/pool if they have one rather that bingeing on crisps and biscuits? We’ve all done it but in a few minutes the taste has gone, the cravings remain and you’ve added a lot of bad calories.
Not meaning to preach
cjd
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Thankyou for the heads up on that.
I have just looked online and Waterstones have 5 in stock. It looks exactly the sort of thing I want. I'm not back in the UK until 16th December but I shall ask my partner to order one for me or pick it up on one of her frequent trips into Brighton.
dannyboy
tfso!
replying to myself here but after dropping my food intake ive dropped 0.9kg in 2 days !! that is 2.8 kg in 16 days . Way too quick and risking muscle loss. it looks like i jumped the gun on dropping food and will put it back up on monday . Having a cheat sat as out for beers and alcohol so will see how that goes
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No scales in my hotel, so no weigh in. But I channelled this thread and picked up salad from Waitrose last night and having yogurt for brekky. Thanks for being on my shoulder.
Yesterday morning I was feeling quietly confident of hitting a 7lb loss by the time I stood on the scales on the morning of 1st December, but since then...
1. My sister is now coming down to stay Thursday - Sunday this weekend. This is a great thing. However, when she's here and we get home from our mum's, the evenings are largely spent drinking a lot of wine, eating a lot of crisps and watching classic 80s/90s films. Three nights of that sort of behaviour will hit hard.
2. There seems to be an old Scars and Stripes pub/curry thing taking shape for next Thursday night around Soul Finger's book signing.
3. 1st December is a Sunday, meaning Friday and Saturday's family fun food will have happened. I've been partaking in that this month despite my weight-loss aims. I suspect, stripping out random fluctuations, my weight goes down Monday to Friday afternoon and then goes up again from Friday to Sunday evenings. Sunday morning is probably when I'm around my heaviest in any weekly cycle.
And to compound 3, we're at home on the Friday night so there will be football cider/pie temptations, as well as my ususal post-match chillout on here with wine.
TL;DR - I'm significantly less confident of hitting the target now!
1. My sister is now coming down to stay Thursday - Sunday this weekend. This is a great thing. However, when she's here and we get home from our mum's, the evenings are largely spent drinking a lot of wine, eating a lot of crisps and watching classic 80s/90s films. Three nights of that sort of behaviour will hit hard.
2. There seems to be an old Scars and Stripes pub/curry thing taking shape for next Thursday night around Soul Finger's book signing.
3. 1st December is a Sunday, meaning Friday and Saturday's family fun food will have happened. I've been partaking in that this month despite my weight-loss aims. I suspect, stripping out random fluctuations, my weight goes down Monday to Friday afternoon and then goes up again from Friday to Sunday evenings. Sunday morning is probably when I'm around my heaviest in any weekly cycle.
And to compound 3, we're at home on the Friday night so there will be football cider/pie temptations, as well as my ususal post-match chillout on here with wine.
TL;DR - I'm significantly less confident of hitting the target now!
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You'll be fine @Bozza . Could you involve your sister and your family in this and get them to root for you to hit 7lbs? Don't forego the family fun, but give them the job of keeping you on the straight and narrow. Enlist a load of supporters. Report your weight loss to them - they'll want you to "win" I would think.
Nah - what will be, will be.
Losing seven pounds in November isn't actually important - enjoying good time with family and friends very much is.
I say that knowing that I'm very much in the right frame of mind now - I'm not hitting the wine and late night snacks a a matter of course, and generally making better decisions most ()not all) of the time.
This thread has helped me get back on track. That would have happened anyway, but probably not until the New Year when I'd have piled on more weight, and would be commencing Project Weight Loss from an even heavier starting point.
My aim now is to get back to my regular weight of around 12st 7lb, and doing so by the end of March feels like a realistic timescale given the festive period and how weight loss will slow once the first easy pounds come off.
I'll weigh in this Friday, next Friday and on the 1st of December and post the result here, but I wouldn't be surprised if this Friday is the lightest I end up being in November.
If it’s self respect you’re after. Just have a Pot Noodle and a w*nk, mate.Day 1: 16st 4.0lb
Day 19: 15st 12.4lb
- 5.6lb
Definitely back on track. Big danger today and tomorrow - two days away working in London.
Typically, a slap up feed in the evening that my wife would be horrified to know about plus biscuits, crisps etc back at the hotel. Pastry breakfast tomorrow (Ole & Steen
No one would know, no one to tell me off, no one to be disappointed in me.
Other than you lot. I'm hoping that a very honest pre-confession here will help me find a bit of backbone and self-respect.