gillie80 Member

cry! I might try harder at school, learn the value of money a bit better, try out sports and defo not quit the violin

I'm in, sounds like a good goal. Ultimate Starting Weight: 206 Challenge Starting Weight on Easter (April 21): 204 Goal weight July 4th: 194 April 26: 201.5 May 3: 199.5 May 10: 199 May 17: 198 May 24: May 31: June 7: June 14: June 21: June 28: July 4:

Hey so i've been quiet on here so far. i weighed myself on monday 15th april @ 206lbs. at weigh in this morning i am 203. only got about 21lbs to go! :)

as tavistock toad said it's still a loss. take it as a small win and move on up. don't dwell on the negatives. i have finally found my mojo after who knows how long. have managed to avoid all temptations today, apart from a single mini egg which was almost forced down my throat. i hope it continues so will weigh in at the…

I'm in. so fed up bouncing up and down :( I want to drop 1 stone by end April and another stone by summer.

I agree with the other 2. Don't panic. the first few weeks tend to be amazing, cos you lose a lot of water. give it another few weeks and it'll start to move again. weigh in the morning, in your underwear or less, after a potty break. well done so far. x

we're a bunch of renegades here today haha, stubborn, disobedient renegades.

if i dont obey my husband, not likely lol :D

138shade's pic 11, because wow, gorgeous ink!!

I was tested for Fibro before my lupus diagnosis. it's not fun. for whatever reason, be it just how my body functions nowadays, or the meds i take, but i really hold onto weight. it's taken me since march to lose 2 stones, but hey, i've lost 2 stones. i'm 188 now an would love to be 180 for christmas but i've stalled the…

the point of these forums is to offer advice and support. support comes in many forms, such as offering a similar situation to show the OP is not alone. plus she didnt waffle, it was 2 or 3 sentences. OP, men always lose faster than women, it sucks, but it's the truth. if you are still losing, great. if you've stalled,…

I understand the frustrations of trying to get a GP appointment. My surgery is quite large and i still struggle. These days i only ring up if i think it's lupus related (i'm a sufferer) and as son as they hear lupus i'm usually lucky enough to get the Nurse practitioners. try and be a bit more forceful. "i've phoned every…

I usually do, in grams, however last night my husband served and i had already dug in by the time i remembered. oops lol. i usually eat ice cream from a local shop that's 97% fat free, but i still log it and weigh it.

I drink 1.5 litres of flavoured water MacB every day, along with a zero sugar energy drink, cos they're yummy, plus the odd cup of tea. Every drink counts towards your water intake for the day, you've just got to take into account the dehydrating qualities of things like caffeine and alcohol, which effectively reduce the…

as another immunosupressed buddy i get one every year. have luckily only had the flu a few times in my adolescent years, but if i got it now i'm pretty screwed. need to make my appointment soon for this years jag.

I know. i thought so too. i know my best mate, who is like a rake these days, is just over 60 minutes. i'm closer to 90 but the point of the app i think is it doesn't matter the time you do, as long as you can do it. i'd like to think come February next year i'm closer to my goal but i'm concentrating on improving my 5km…

Hi OP, i started running 5 months ago, to train for a 10K at the beginning of October there. i went too far too fast and ended up with shin splints; really painful and can be quite damaging if you don't let them heal. my advice would be be to go with a programme, c25k or or c210k, since that is your goal. it starts you off…

i'm on 1210 a day and sometimes, usually the weekend if i'm home alone, i don't make my target. that's because i don't really eat much if i'm in the house alone. if i do, it's usually something a few handfuls of mushrooms and baby tomatoes. i'll snack through the day on veg. i can go through a cucumber without much…

I've lost almost 30 and my tum it still very present. I've kind of accepted that it's probably going to b the last to go and justs to wear spanx (or tummy control leggings) in the mean time lol.

Legally being married makes things a lot easier, but really, as my husband said, it's just a piece of paper. marriage was always important to me. I'm a bit old fashioned that way. it was less important to him but he understood why it was important to me. we've been married nearly 10 years. it hasn't changed our…

haha, my mind went straight downward there. nope. have you ever... pole danced while drunk round a street light?

ooh yes ;)

[/quote]At first I thought it was pretty rude too. But don't you think he's right in a metaphysical way? the only way to lose weight, or maintain weight, is to resist in general. It's like saying, "If you don't have the willpower to balance, you're not ready to ride a bike." So as kids we took off the training wheels, and…

Learning to control ourselves around food is all part of the journey imo. it's through realisation and learning that we lose. if we were all perfect around food there would be significantly less obese people. i know personally, a lot of my own weight issues have been around self-control and portion control. like OP i cant…

My husband bought me a box of Milk Tray as part of my birthday. I was like, really, chocolates, are you trying to kill me haha. i've since lost them. i have no idea what i did with that box of chocolates, and i want them. i may have blocked out the memory of moving them as we had a huge argument that night (also made up…

yeah, i've found a few discrepancies when i've imported. i usually go through the ingredients and replace with the stuff i actually buy. a lot of the items on the MFP database have been added by members, you're going to get typos and weight discrepancies, like the 2000 calories for spinach. really annoying though.

This made me chuckle, and a little bit jealous lol.

All of the above. Have you any idea how much 1lb of fat is? Pick up a 1lb bag of flour or sugar and hold it for a bit; that'll give you an idea of the weight you're now not carrying about with you. losing 1lb of fat is a big deal, well done you. Follow the flowchart Sued0nim posted and see what it tells you. But cut…

it's totally a vicious cycle and it's a tough one to break. But you can break it. I agree with everything everyone has already said, especially justsomegirl. it's not going to be easy, and it's not an easy fix. start small; go for a walk in the park or round the block, make eye contact with people, smile, say good…

I had horrible pains in my feet, still do sometimes. When you bought new shoes did you go and get fitted or just buy new ones? I did the latter thinking that would help, but I went along to a local running shop after I bought them, hopped on their treadmill and got an analysis of my gait. It's all about pronation…