Team UK - March 2010

Afternoon all and a Happy Friday to you.

I have lost 1lb :bigsmile:

No all I have to do is concentrate keeping it of this weekend Red wine & French Cheese may be my downfall !!

Have a good weekend one & all - whatever you are up to

Karen
xx

Brilliant stuff. Well done.

I'n new to the site, but have been using the iphone app for a couple of months.

Looking forward to chatting with some UK peeps!

Hi
I'm a newbie to MFP, although been using the iphone app for a couple of months. I didn't appreciate how much there was available from MFP until this week and I'm hoping the message boards continue to deliver the mutual levels of support and companionship it has so far.

Its great also to find 'Team UK'.

I was diagnosed with diabetes in late November and this was the wake up call to sort my life out. 5 days of total fear, living on tomatoes and carrots!!

Since then I have been dealing with my diet on willpower and my iphone app and have now lost 3 stone - yippee. A long way to go, this is around a third of what I need to lose but I'm please. I joined a gym on 1st March so have added that to my routine 2-3 times a week.

Its not easy, is it. There is only me and my nearly teenage son. He's great most of the time, and keeps the sweeties away from me.

Looking forward to getting to know some of you.

Mandy

Hi there welcome.

Hi all. I'm actually an American living (permanently) in the UK (near Thame in Oxfordshire). I've been on the site for a bit now but have only started taking it properly seriously for about a week. In my 20s I lost 100 pounds and kept it off for a long time but over the course of about six years now it's almost all crept back. So here we go again... hopefully for good this time.

I'm trying to start running again but it's going to take me a while... I'm so unfit! But made it to the gym 4 of the last 5 days so hopefully the habit part will kick in soon.

Welcome friend requests - I'm hoping the community spirit here will keep me on track.

Happy saturday everyone! I hope you have all had a good work, well done to those of you who lost weight, thats fantastic! Hello to all those newbies out there. i have had a great start to my saturday as apparently I lost 1.7kg! I am not sure how accurate this is but have logged it as a loss anyway! That now means I am out of the 52kg range which I've been stuck in for the last few weeks! I am off to the gym this afternoon and need to make it a good workout!!

I hope you guys have a great day and weekend. xx

Well done Lady C, that's a huge loss!

I've made it to the gym and burned 800 calories before the girly evening later today. Should take care of some wine and some pizza (home made).

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Erika x

P.S. Katherine - the lasagne was gooooooooooooood!

Lol, thank you, I haven't lost anything in a few weeks though so I think I kick-started my metabolism by having a few days off last week due to a cold, then doing 2 classes this week that I have not done in ages!! Oh and thank you for the message and the friendship add. :-) Have a lovely weekend.

I have just got back from a 1 1//2 hour workout and burnt 866 calories!!!I am shattered and going to go and have a lush shower, as I treated myself to some goodies from there yesterday. :-)

Hi and "happy" Saturday evening to you all. Just back home after having laser vision correction and I am not happy. Not with the laser work but with the fact I cannot go to the gym for a week. I knew I would have to rest for a couple of days but not a week.

This week will be a challenge to lose weight. I'll have to try and be extra careful with what I eat.

I hope you are all having a good weekend.

Take care all of you Steve.

Morning everyone. I hope you are all ok. I've decided to compensate for my enforced week away from
the gym by agreeing to do the tea runs all week in work. And as we are on the 2nd floor of the building I have four flghts of stairs to go up and down. It's not much but it will be something. Enjoy the remainder of the weekend.

Hi all

Didn't realise there was a UK thread I'm fairly new to the site - have been keeping a track of my food, exercise and weight loss, and only just starting to contribute tot he boards.

Anyhoo, I've had a good March so far, a bit of a blip this week having been ill, but I'm hoping i still make my 1lb weight loss this week.

Now that I know that this thread is here, hope to see some of you around on the other threads!!

Hi, I've joined this site a few weeks ago. I've bored the pants off everyone around me, raving about mfp, so thought I'd better start talking to people on here as my friends and family are starting to walk in the opposite direction when they see me :ohwell:

Ha! Glad to see I'm not the only MFP Bore ..

Good morning everyone, old and new. I hope you all enjoyed your weekends?

Lorro - Welcome back
Kendrafallon, superpup, AnnieeR, Jennanostyle, Ragster and Carakkm.. Hello!! Thanks for joining the group! So good to see so many new members joining up! :flowerforyou:
What are your goals of the week?

Mimi - Im with you - this week HAS to be perfect - i have gotten myself into a little rut and need a serious motivation booster to get myself on track... i've probs puton about 3lbs over the last couple of weeks and its starting to annoy me because im not stopping myself from attaking any bad food that comes my way - pick n mix, cookies, biscuits, crisps, nuts.. blerggh the list is endless!
Oh no mimi - he didn't, as soon as i got there he was right back to sleep agin.. little s**t.. im breaking up with him next week! well thats the plan! :grumble:

Here's to having a perfect week!! :drinker:

Katherine x

K!

:noway: Oh no he ditn't!!! :devil: Omg the lazy ungrateful toe rag, if your hotness can't get him out of bed then he's mental! You never know he might make an extra special effort this coming weekend...man oh man! If you dump him there'll be beaus all over the country linin up for ya! :bigsmile:

Your week will be perfect I know it! Pick n mix are evil, I can't resist them either!

Mmm chickpea soup haha!

Mimi

Afternoon everyone :happy:
welcome to all the newbies that have appeared over the weekend :flowerforyou:

What a weekend !! The weather was lovely so we managed to get a lot of walking around in. The walled fort in Boulogne was very pretty. The museum interesting. Went for a long walk along the sea front which was bracing to say the least. Fascinating tour around the bunker where the Germans built the V2 bombs. So did a lot of exercise
BUT
oh dear, the food and drink :drinker:
I had no idea there were so many calories in Brie ( never really looked before if I'm honest) I started to fill my meal plans in but it scared me. :embarassed: Lets just say I was hugely over my allowence.
Trying not to let it worry me and will just have to be really good THIS week.


Mimi - I am also a sucker for Midget gems - have been known to polish a whole pack off :laugh:

Katherine - Sorry your weekend wasn't the best, but don't let that knock you off the straight & narrow

Scouser - Im sorry but I don't know your name, hope the eyes are feeling a little better today.
Have a good week everyone

Karen
xx


Have a good week everyone

Hi everyone,
Hope you don't mind me joining, I'm from Yorkshire, I've been on this site a week now and need to find some motivation I'm fine during the week but then its the weekends that get me down. I'll have my first weigh in tomorrow but no matter how hard I try I can't seam to shed the pounds. Hopefully this site will help me.

Hi guys, hope you all had good weekends!!!

Well thank god Mondays done.... its all down hill to the weekend now!!! :laugh: :laugh:

Had a bad weekend for my cals, my fella was away all weekend, so had a very girlie weekend, which was great, but involved a lot of wine, vodka, chrisps, pizza, not to mention the McDonalds breakfast, Scone with butter and jam, and full on sunday roast (completley unhealthy version - was gorgeous) and a chinese....... I actually feel worse for writing that down!! Ha!!! :sad: :noway: :sad:

Oh well!! Am back on here, and deteremined to do well this week!! Going to get to military training at least 3 times this week.

Got a quite weekend ahead so will hopefully make up for last weekend then with a detox and healthy eating!!!

Was 10.12 1/2 on my Friday weigh in, and going to our friends wedding at easter and would love to get to 10.10 so got to try and be really good!!

Hope you guys all have good weeks, and keep on track.