Motivation, Success and Frustration Sharing!

Nichole @ngolden3320 Sorry to hear Happy Scale was messing with you! It's good you figured it out early and temporarily kicked it to the curb

Welcome Debbie (@tdjna)

Joy (@bluepoppies777) Not eating feelings is sooooo hard not to do! Any time I get anxious (especially social anxiety) I immediately want to shove all the food into my mouth. You're not being a downer at all. I love the idea of the note card.

Jen (@ChangeisaDecision) Not all weekends have to be healthy in my book, especially ones with amazing wine

Shy (@ShyCush6) Your posts make me laugh out loud! You find some of the greatest memes

Please help! I'm looking for some motivational friends... I feel like I'm getting stronger but haven't lost much weight. Would appreciate any advice you all have!

Hi everyone -another newcomer here! I'm Helen, 28 and living on the outskirts of London. Need to lose at least 15 pounds (conservative start goal) but more importantly feel healthy and strong again. Since starting a stressful desk-based career the weight just slowly creeps on - have tried MFP with some success in the past but I tend to run out of steam. With a move across the country and hopefully a new job imminent, I'm going to need all the motivation I can get!

Feel free to add if you'd like and Iooking forward to supporting your successes!

Hello new people, jump right in and join the club, feel free to add me as a friend.

(Changels) Jen – Home brewing competition? Sounds like my kind of festival!

(jkhoffe) Jen – I know right! Would be great to have another running buddy. Maybe we can do transatlantic running swaps, you can come to the UK for a running holiday and I’ll come over to the States – how cool would that be! Lol Going to a Casino with friends at the weekend sounds like great fun, enjoy.

June – I run at a snail’s pace, it doesn’t matter, you go as slow as you need to. My coach says over time you build up the mileage and your pace will eventually just get quicker naturally. My next goal is to increase my pace. Your Apple Bacon BBQ Pulled Pork sound absolutely delightful.

Amber – Well done on getting out there and getting some exercise in, once you start doing it regularly it will just become habit, and before long it will just be something you do as part of your normal routine.

Gill – That’s interesting that you’ve had a small loss already, I’m intrigued because I’m wondering whether I should up my calories slightly now I’m doing so much more exercise. I do try to eat a bit more on days I know I’m going to be running, I might start playing around with mine and see what results I get.

Joy – Totally get you, I was like that yesterday, I just wanted to eat everything in sight, I managed to keep it under control until dinner time last night, but we were both so tired that we ended up having a ‘quick and easy’ dinner which wasn’t particularly nutritious, but it’s what we both wanted (craved) when we looked through the fridge/freezer, so it was fish and chips and beans which took me over my calories, but it tasted good! Then, after I’d completed my dairy, I ate a bunch of Oreo’s and some chocolate, I just couldn’t seem to stop once I’d started. I think it was because I was so tired, and I mean really tired, like ‘walking dead’ tired (I slept for 11 hours straight last night!). Hopefully today will be a better day, so far so good...

Debbie – See the above post haha. You’ll love our Monday posts then, most of us struggle with weekends, but it’s about acknowledging those blips rather than pretending they didn’t happen, and moving on.

Nichole – Ok, so you weren’t feeling the cardio, but good job on getting onto the strength training instead. I have no idea how to measure that in calorie burn terms, does MFP not give you a general idea somewhere? Might be an idea to look for some threads about it.

Thanks to everyone for the wonderful messages and memes regarding my Running Club achievement, I am so happy about it. I’ve now got to figure out a training plan to keep moving forward with it as I’m hoping to get my time down, but I’m not entirely sure how to do that, I guess I just keep running 5k until I find it easy and move on from there. If anyone has any suggestions let me know I’d be grateful of the input.

Rachel I am right there with you. There are some days where I would like to skip the gym and just lay around and eat. I always feel better once I have completed everything. We are making progress, The old me was easily able to talk myself out of going. And I don't know about anyone else, but I feel now if I skip one day that makes it easier to skip the next day. I usually don't go on the weekends but hubby and I are starting to go to the parks on Sundays for a hike now that it is getting nicer. And on Saturdays I am up and down the basement steps a min of 10 times doing laundry, and more then that depending on how many of my 3 kids decides to bring their dirty cloths down. I can't wait for summer when everyone wears shorts. A lot less cloths.

I concur, it is quite a challenge to not give into cravings, to stop at a certain calorie count, to get up and move when we don't feel like it, to not eat after dinner, etc. This is amazing to me when I think about how good we can actually feel when we do eat healthy and exercise! It is so simple, and so easy to forget. Over time, our new healthy choices will become our norm... I'm inspired by you all!

Good morning everyone & welcome to all the newbies! I haven't been getting my daily steps in lately so I really need to at least work on that. I don't know why, but if I don't go walking at the track directly after work then I usually wont go after I get home unless my husband comes with me. Last night he was more into cleaning up our back yard and patio, so I guess that is better than nothing. But I did get out and play a little basketball with my son. Darn kid! I used to play basketball in high school (way too many years ago) and he kills me every time! It's not even a competition! He is the kind of kid that is incredibly athletic and pretty good at most sports, but he wont play on a team at school or a rec team. He just likes playing with his friends in the back yard. It's going to be a busy couple of days trying to get caught up on housework and laundry, then we are heading back to Florida this weekend to work on the house again. That seems to be a pretty good workout! We usually work from about 8:00 in the morning until probably 8:00 in the evening most days. We are exhausted by the end of the weekend! Usually not great food choices, because who wants to stop and cook a meal when you are busy working? But we have been trying to do a little better and at least bringing food with us instead of eating every meal out. Halfway through the week! Hope everyone has a great day!