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DarrelBirkett
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Seemed a lack of Northerners so thought I'd make a new thread to say hi.
"Hi".
See ya.
Ok, j/k. Used the app for a while on and off but never bothered with the website. Bit of background:
Last about 2st in last 12 months (from 15.5st to 13.5st currently). I'm running intermittent fasting so I eat 12noon to 8pm only. Sensible eating and hard work mostly.
Say hello!
"Hi".
See ya.
Ok, j/k. Used the app for a while on and off but never bothered with the website. Bit of background:
Last about 2st in last 12 months (from 15.5st to 13.5st currently). I'm running intermittent fasting so I eat 12noon to 8pm only. Sensible eating and hard work mostly.
Say hello!
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hi i am from manchester and its my 2nd day on here
i wanna lose around 48 lbs after weighing myself and seeing some horrendous photos of me
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hi i am from manchester and its my 2nd day on here
i wanna lose around 48 lbs after weighing myself and seeing some horrendous photos of me
More than doable. Just takes time. The problem people often have is expecting overnight results. I'll list below what I think the main changes to my diet were and maybe some will help you :
- Started drinking coffee black
- Cut out all breakfast cereal
- Stopped eating bread and pasta
- Only eating white rice on days Ive been training
- Other carbs are from veg and the odd bit of fruit
- dark green beg is best
- Protein from fresh meat mostly Chicken, Tuna and Salmon but also beef now and again (fresh, not battered, breaded, or so on)
- Fats mostly from nuts and cooking with coconut oil rather than olive oil
- no ready meals
- no cakes (boo!)
- no costa latte and muffin (boo!)
- Let myself enjoy someone like a cheat maybe once a week. Yesterday I had a skinny latte and a bakewell slice. But then Ill be 100% strict the rest of the week.
- Only eat between 12pm - 8pm (might be better to do with with a trainer if unsure)
- Using this app, Im eating around 1800cals per day
- Weight training 3 days a week and Cardio 2 days a week
Theres a lot of things there and it was tough at first but as I started to see results it made me more determined. You need that willpower and will to do it and stick to it. Again why this place or people to do it with and encourage can be useful.
Well worth it though, good luck!0 -
Hi
I'm from Cheshire (although living down south!)
Good advice - I too have ditched (largely!) the refined white carbs - boo! I eat fairly well my big issue apart from the carbs is portion control..
As you say, the weight didn't come on overnight and we're not going to lose it overnight either, crash dieting doesn't work - it needs to be a complete lifestyle change that you can maintain moving forward.0 -
Hello from Manchester............
Just joined a few days ago. Well done on your weight loss :-)0 -
Hello from sunny (actually it's raining) Scotland.
I just joined up last week after my cliche new years decision to loose weight and get back to feeling good about clothes shopping and feeling confident about my body again.
I'm 5ft 2 and currently just over 13st eek!! not sure how that happened. - red wine.
So im going low carb and having a no wine january. Got myself an exercise bike and I aint afraid to use it.
so far so good, I have no problem ditching bread, pasta, cake, crisps and all that rubbish I don't eat anyway, but learning a lot about calories in fruit juice and things like that, I thought were ok, but were secretly my enemy! so any good low carb advice, recipes or tips welcome
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hi i am from manchester and its my 2nd day on here
i wanna lose around 48 lbs after weighing myself and seeing some horrendous photos of me
More than doable. Just takes time. The problem people often have is expecting overnight results. I'll list below what I think the main changes to my diet were and maybe some will help you :
- Started drinking coffee black
- Cut out all breakfast cereal
- Stopped eating bread and pasta
- Only eating white rice on days Ive been training
- Other carbs are from veg and the odd bit of fruit
- dark green beg is best
- Protein from fresh meat mostly Chicken, Tuna and Salmon but also beef now and again (fresh, not battered, breaded, or so on)
- Fats mostly from nuts and cooking with coconut oil rather than olive oil
- no ready meals
- no cakes (boo!)
- no costa latte and muffin (boo!)
- Let myself enjoy someone like a cheat maybe once a week. Yesterday I had a skinny latte and a bakewell slice. But then Ill be 100% strict the rest of the week.
- Only eat between 12pm - 8pm (might be better to do with with a trainer if unsure)
- Using this app, Im eating around 1800cals per day
- Weight training 3 days a week and Cardio 2 days a week
Theres a lot of things there and it was tough at first but as I started to see results it made me more determined. You need that willpower and will to do it and stick to it. Again why this place or people to do it with and encourage can be useful.
Well worth it though, good luck!
This is good advice ,and I'm doing all these thing, apart from eating a sneaky bakewell slice and weight training and eating between 12 and 8pm. Can I just ask? why not eating before 12, I thought it was good to kickstart your metabolism with breakfast?0 -
Hi from the midlands lincolnshire you need to eat first thing in the morning before 12pm. 6 small meals a day to keep you ticking over. Then just work your *kitten* off each day. Eat less move even more 0
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Hi
I live in Newcastle-under-Lyme (North Staffordshire). Lost 21lb in 2011 with WW but have put a few lbs back on so decided to give MFP a go.
Lost 2lb so far so am pleased with that. I'm a runner, try and run 5k twice a week if I can.
My downfall is alcohol! Love wine but it causes me weight gain!
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hi i am from manchester and its my 2nd day on here
i wanna lose around 48 lbs after weighing myself and seeing some horrendous photos of me
More than doable. Just takes time. The problem people often have is expecting overnight results. I'll list below what I think the main changes to my diet were and maybe some will help you :
- Started drinking coffee black
- Cut out all breakfast cereal
- Stopped eating bread and pasta
- Only eating white rice on days Ive been training
- Other carbs are from veg and the odd bit of fruit
- dark green beg is best
- Protein from fresh meat mostly Chicken, Tuna and Salmon but also beef now and again (fresh, not battered, breaded, or so on)
- Fats mostly from nuts and cooking with coconut oil rather than olive oil
- no ready meals
- no cakes (boo!)
- no costa latte and muffin (boo!)
- Let myself enjoy someone like a cheat maybe once a week. Yesterday I had a skinny latte and a bakewell slice. But then Ill be 100% strict the rest of the week.
- Only eat between 12pm - 8pm (might be better to do with with a trainer if unsure)
- Using this app, Im eating around 1800cals per day
- Weight training 3 days a week and Cardio 2 days a week
Theres a lot of things there and it was tough at first but as I started to see results it made me more determined. You need that willpower and will to do it and stick to it. Again why this place or people to do it with and encourage can be useful.
Well worth it though, good luck!
This is good advice ,and I'm doing all these thing, apart from eating a sneaky bakewell slice and weight training and eating between 12 and 8pm. Can I just ask? why not eating before 12, I thought it was good to kickstart your metabolism with breakfast?
Its a program called intermittent fasting. Read more here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_fasting Im doing 16/8.
Also worth reading : http://www.shape.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-strategies/ask-diet-doctor-truth-about-intermittent-fasting
and answers your question as :
Won’t Fasting Crash My Metabolism?
I am often asked this question when the topic of fasting comes up. For years “cheat meals” during periods of dieting were touted for their ability to keep your metabolism elevated due to some fuzzy logic between calorie intake and thyroid function. Just as one high-calorie cheat day isn’t going to fix weight-loss-induced thyroid issues, not eating for 24 or 16 hours isn’t going to crash your metabolism and render weight loss impossible.0 -
Hi guys,
I'm from St Helens. I've been on here for 12 months and lost over 5 stone. I have reset my data for the new year after having christmas "off" (I only gained a total of 5lb, eating fairly "naughtily").
My main strategy was the obvious, irrefutable one.
- Eat fewer calories than your body burns
- - I was at around 1700 a day. I cook the majority of my own meals, keeping an eye on fat content but not obsessing over it, and walking about 4 miles home from work monday-friday
I also stopped drinking alcohol except on very rare occasions (fewer than once a month, and even then only one or two).
The only thing that it takes is discipline and a good motivator. At the end of the day, the pics speak for themselves.
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Thats a great weight loss and about the amount I need to shed, I've done ok in the past only to slip back. I've given up alcohol completely this time too.
I'm from Rossendale in Lancs. Good site this and free! I used Weight Loss Resources 4 years ago and tried it for 24 hours last week but I think this is better and easier to use0 -
Hey, I'm Michelle from Southport. I've been on here just over 6 weeks so far so good, had a great start and lost just under a stone. I hope to lose around another 20 pounds. Feel free to add me guys need all the support i can get i'm always happy to give support also. Good luck all 0
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Hi, I'm from Greater Manchester. Started on MFP 356 days ago according to my log and lost 6 stone so far (put 4lb on over Christmas but lost 3 again this week) Love this site, it's helped me get my 'happy' back! 0
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Hello
I'm from Manchester - hoping to lose 40lbs - started a week ago and lost 3 already.
Really really pleased I discovered this website (I feel a bit sad and geeky that I like filling in all the charts!) and hope I can stick at it.
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Hi guys,
I'm from St Helens. I've been on here for 12 months and lost over 5 stone. I have reset my data for the new year after having christmas "off" (I only gained a total of 5lb, eating fairly "naughtily").
My main strategy was the obvious, irrefutable one.
- Eat fewer calories than your body burns
- - I was at around 1700 a day. I cook the majority of my own meals, keeping an eye on fat content but not obsessing over it, and walking about 4 miles home from work monday-friday
I also stopped drinking alcohol except on very rare occasions (fewer than once a month, and even then only one or two).
The only thing that it takes is discipline and a good motivator. At the end of the day, the pics speak for themselves.
David that's excellent progress mind. Well done indeed.0 -
Hi, I'm from Greater Manchester. Started on MFP 356 days ago according to my log and lost 6 stone so far (put 4lb on over Christmas but lost 3 again this week) Love this site, it's helped me get my 'happy' back!
Incredible numbers there and that's in one year!! What an inspiration for anyone on here.0 -
I'm from South Shields, that's pretty far North..and East. Lost about 22lbs and down to goal, put a couple on over Christmas, but back on track now, just need to up the exercise again!0
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Hi I'm from Newcastle upon Tyne, just joined yesterday....and am doing an Intermittent Fasting programme...early days yet obviously....but I'm up for the challenge and looking forward to getting to my goal weight. and maintaining it from then on. I've been heavily involved with LighterLife (the VLCD) over the past few years, but my counsellor left the business just before Christmas so I've decided to look for something new to motivate me.0
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Hi from Cumbria,
I have been using MFP since mid August 2012 and have lost 26 lb, but put 5 back on over the Christmas period.
Back to it now, to lose 8 lbs to get to my goal0 -
Greetings from Northumberland - you folk from down south will be wondering where that is
I used the site to drop a stone before Chistmas. I am back on the site to get rid of the weight I put on over the holidays.0 -
Hi. I can relate to the alcohol bit.. Its killing me not having a drink at weekends!!0
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Hi all - I'm from Sunderland but live abroad. I joined mfp last year and lost about a stone, then I gave up (as usual) and have joined again this week as I have my wedding dress to fit into, I purposely ordered it smaller so that I would make myself do it!0
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I'm from Teesside 0
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Hiya! I'm from York - originally Doncaster but been in York for the past 3/4 years.
I've lost 21lbs so far and hoping to lose about 36lbs before June 15th.
Anyone feel free to add me x 0 -
I'm from Teesside
Your already on my friends list but I didn't actually realize that you lived so close.. I'm from Bishop Auckland, 15-20 Minutes from Darlington x 0 -
Hey.
I'm from Northumberland (North East - 30 mins from Newcastle!)
I joined last year and lost 22lbs but then with some crap happening in my life and Christmas and indulging I gained 12lbs back!!!!! (Why did I do this to myself).
Anyway I'm back on it - New Year, New Me!!!! I starter Jillian Michael's body Revolution programme on Monday and hoping that I will see some good results with that.
good luck everyone on your journey. x0 -
hey all, im from manchester!
second time on here, after just having a baby im looking at loosing around 60lbs..
taking it a stone a time otherwise it sounds SO daunting!! x0 -
Hi peeps,
Im from Sunderland originally - ive been living in Oxfordshire for the past 8 years but im 6 months pregnant with baby number 1 and moving back to Sunderland next month for at least my maternity leave and then maybe longer. I have been slowly picking away at my weight for years going from my heaviest at 15 stione 2 to my lightest at 12 stone. I was still down at 12 stone 8 mid 2012 but then I got pregnant and I have since gained 24lbs (although granted, some of that is the huge bump and boobs I now have).
I was using MFP until halfway through my first trimester when I started getting really sick and pretty much could only stomach crisps, chips, bread, ice cream etc - I just did not feel like logging all the crap I was eating so I stopped. Im now just in my third trimester and finally seem to be wanting to eat healthily again. Also a bunch of the girls on babycentre are on here and I have just added them and it has motivated me to start getting back on track now rather than waiting another 3 months. If I can go the rest of my pregnancy without gaining anymore weight I will be really happy as 24lbs is plenty to gain and I was already 30lbs overweight anyway.
Looking forward to being a yummy mummy in 2013! x0 -
Hi, I'm Janice from Burnley in Lancashire looking for new friends to motivate me to lose all this excess weight. Please feel free to add me, the more the merrier ????0
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Hi. I can relate to the alcohol bit.. Its killing me not having a drink at weekends!!
I'm from Lancashire by the way!!0
