Team UK & Ireland - May 2011

Hi Team UK
I joined MFP this week and am really excited about finally losiing weight!
I've cut out alcohol since I started - I need those cals for food! - and would like to keep that up at least until I go on holiday to Wales at the end of this month. I'd also really like to lose 7lb by then, but any loss is a move in the right direction!
I'm also on week 3 of C25K, and I'm starting to find it tough - I'd love to be able to keep that up, which would have me running for 25 mins by the time I go away, and I will be able to go for morning runs along the river!
My final goal is the most important - I'm supporting my teenage daughter in her bid to eat sensibly, and I'd like that to be a habit by the end of the month for both of us.
Feel free to add me as a friend, especially if we share goals. It would be great to share successes and struggles!
Good luck with your aims everyone
Lindsay :flowerforyou:

Hi all,
another who is new to the boards, though have been using MFP for a little while. I'm 29 and from Gloucestershire. Would love to find some friends on here for support and advice.
Also another who needs to loose the weight put on over Easter and Bank hols!!
Got on the Wii yesterday and it told me I'd put on 4lbs!!
I started off ok using MFP and lost 9lbs, so that obviously is reduced to 5lbs. Would be nice to hit the next stone bracket by end of May which means loosing 12lbs.
Been ok this week. Back to the gym and eating sensibly. Though yesterday was a bit of a struggle because I felt really hungry all day!
Working nights tonight and tomorrow so trying to think of something healthy I can take to munch on.

Hi, I'd love to join Team UK (England) too!

My mini-goals for May are to lose at least 5lbs, drink less diet coke & increase my exercise - I definitely don't do enough at the moment, which is partly due to being away during the week and then lacking motivation at the weekend!.

Feel free to add me as a friend as well, the more support the better!

Just had a healthy breakfast (I even weighed my cereal would you believe), so onwards and upwards from now on again. I WILL reach my target this month. There.

I pretty much always weigh my cereal because even when I think I've got it sorted and test myself I still give myself too much. Or maybe I should just get smaller bowls - what they think is a portion only just covers the bottom of my bowl!

Yeah I couldn't believe how small the portion of cereal actually is, before I started weighing it I was definitely having at least 2 portions!

Hi guys!

Good to hear some banter from the UK!
Is it just me or are people from the UK on a completely different wavelength to those in the US?
I read other chats and think 'Oh god I'm not taking this seriously enough'
I do my 20 min bike ride and feel pretty chuffed with myself but then read other people seem to be seriously working out for hours!!
Don't get me wrong I'm serious about losing the weight and I can see how addictive this can become, but just good to read some nice 'down to earth' banter and also not read about low cal snacks that sound delicious but we can't get hold of!!
Am loving how everyone supports each other on here from all over the world
My short term goal is to get down to 10 stone for holiday with my skinny daughter at half term b ut long term to try and reach 9 stone again. Profile pic is the 'old me' and my inspiration!
Oh and another goal is to survive a 5 day working week after all these holidays!

Good luck everyone with your goals. :drinker:

hello from south yorkshire!

i'm only 1 pound off my goal weight but i want to tone up and spend more time at the gym, i also want to get back in to weight training.

feel free to add me

Hi hows everyone doing?
I survived my 1st weekend with replacing beer with barcardi breezers, so i could count all my calories and still stay under.I lost 2.4 pound this weekend, but my real challenge comes next weekend when im going to football(Arsenal) and i normally have a beer there.
staying positive to surving next Sunday.
Hope your all doing well and keeping up the good work....

Hey hows everyone, any of you lot from Co. Durham?

me!!!..Haha!

Hello all

I've been a little bit absent of late... for a number of reasons! I've still been logging (or at least trying my best to) so it's not so bad!

Got moved into the new house, and really well settled even the whole cooking for myself thing is going pretty well! Kris is really enjoying his new healthy diet, and rather than spending the evenings watching nonsense on tv, we've been quite active (and competitive) and have been playing on the Kinect... the Michael Jackson game is AMAZING!

Our new scales arrived yesterday, and the reading is about 3lb of a difference to the ones at my mums, so I've inputted my new (heavier) weight :grumble:

Anyways, I hope everyone is well

Hi all,

Can't believe it's almost the middle of May and I'm only just getting around to posting!. Hope all's well with you all and that you are now on your way to meeting some of the goals you've set.

Now i'm through silly season - I had an old friends wedding last weekend on top of all the bank holidays etc - I am back on the wagon (along with the rest of you!). I have gained 2lbs over the festivities but am determined to shift them and some more. I'm now looking forwards to my summer hols in August and looking forwards to being a little lighter. The hols are 12 weeks away which should mean I could another stone off by then.

Good luck to all x

Bump!

How's everyone doing? Weather has really turned here, windy and showery, yuck! Hope it'll improve, sure our summer isn't over already before it's even begun?

Had my weigh-in this morning and the weight that I had gained over the last 2 weeks is gone again, plus some more, so am delighted. Only 0.7 kg away from target, should be doable before the end of this month.

Good too hear you lost the weight you gained!! I finally hit my goal of being under 168lbs and as of this morning I was 166.2lbs!! So Happy!!

May had been hard work so far, been poorly with stomach flu but just about kept going with my exercise plan.

Gonnabeskinny20 - congratulations that's a great start - well done you! Keep doing what you're doing it's obviously working.

I have managed to shift the 2lbs this week that I put on last week after my excesses at the wedding the weekend before last. So I'm back at 10% of my starting weight now lost. This is the lightest I've been in a while but I have been bouncing around here for a couple of weeks now so need to kick on. If I can shift another 1lb I'll be at a stone and a half off which is a mini milestone in itself. Wish me luck for next monday's weigh-in!