mandy_godfree Member

Here we are 10 months on from my original post, I got down to my target weight just before Christmas 2023. Finally learned the foods that are good for me so don’t have to refer to the cook books anymore I just make up my own recipes understanding so much more about nutrition, I indulge in the odd cake or pudding at…

No, looking for more tips on how to get it to heal quickly so I can get back in the pool sooner rather than later.

My standard hours are 10 hour shifts but the truth is I only have a start time, and a time I'm not allowed to go home before. I never know how long my days are going to be. So I just don't exercise on a work day, and if I work a particularly long shift or quick turn around between shifts I usually give myself a recovery…

I've found this article from MFP. I think it's quite useful. It gives some really good information about why you plateau even though you're not doing anything different to when you were losing. I think what hit home to me is that the smaller you, takes less energy to move around and so may need to recalculate in the goals…

I'm not sure surgery is the "easy way out". Even in the Western World surgery is not without risk and danger, then of course there's recovery. I haven't had surgery to lose weight. I just use this app to calorie count, and I upped my exercise regime. I drink more water and see this as a long haul for permenant lifestyle…

Keep your goals small and take it meal by meal. Find an activity you really enjoy and decide whether you want to be active alone or with others. Do you want to be part of a class or will you be motivated to be active yourself? Do you think you could look after a dog? Not for everyone because they're a huge commitment but a…

Do what you want to do. If you want to wear a bikini wear one. I've spent a lot of my life around pools, either swimming or as a lifeguard when I was younger. When I see someone who is of the bigger build turn up in any sort of swimming costume I just want to applaud them because they don't let size dictate their lifestyle…

I live there too.

Have you tried hopping on the scales up to three times in 10 minutes to see if there's a problem with the scales? 12lb in one week seems like an awful lot to me. I know my scales can be out by 1lb sometimes, but it's not enough for me to consider replacing them just now.

When you realise you will have to leave your job if you don't get in shape, and you're the only wage earner because your husband is disabled.

3lbs in one week is awesome. I only ever lose 1lb per week. You don't want to lose too quick or else you don't know if you're losing fat or water. You doing really well.

It's more when people are trying to compliment me that I end up thinking "Was I really that big?" I knew I needed to lose some weight, and more importantly I needed to improve my fitness. But when people are trying to encourage me I get comments like "You've lost loooads of weight?" Or "You're half the person". Well I'm…

Has anyone tried an Old Testament Moses diet? Nothing with cloved hoof, killed kosher, no blood etc. I've always been tempted but never quite had the will power because I really really like most meat that comes from a pig. I have tried a "Daniel Fast" a couple of times, but that was more for prayer and fasting than…

I agree with those who say it sounds like your wife has depression. I really feel for you, you sound like you love her so much and are really scared for her. What does she do for her, just for her and no one else? I understand your concern about her physical wellbeing but motivation is going to be really hard for her…

My scale hasn't moved for the last month, but I've lost an inch from round my waist. As long as something changes, that's the main thing.

My excuse was always that I didn't have enough time.

Oh I forgot to say, men often measure themselves wrong for this. It's not you're trouser waist size, that's more your hip measurement. It's that bit between your the top of your hips and your rib cage. Ladies find this easier because it's a measurement we often need for clothes shopping and it's also where we're supposed…

5ft 4, have lost 28lbs since August and around the 40lb mark since I first started with MFP. I've always had the problem of weighing heavier than I look. Normal BMI charts have had me in the red since I was about 12 years old. Even when I was a UK size 12, I was still in the red. Last time I was in the green I had an…

Do you have any clothes from when you started? I keep a pair of trousers I was wearing for work last year at this time. So when I start to feel like I've made no progress, I post here, and then I go try the trousers on. Then I feel much better.

I looked up online. Obviously it's online so how true it is I don't know, but according to some sites, it's possible for some people to burn an extra 300 per day in the week before a period which is what the cravings are about. It's the week before mind, not during. Maybe there's someone on here with medical training who…

I used to say the same, I work full time shift work and work anything between 10 - 20 hour shifts, and get directed to work on some of my days off. I'm an emergency service worker so I work all times of day and night. I am also a full time carer for my disabled husband. I do everything at home, clean, cook, shop, finances,…

The great thing with calorie counting is that you don't have to limit your foods. Just be mindful that if you eat high calorie food it reduces the amount of food you have. I haven't cut anything out of my diet. I still have my 4.30pm Cadbury Twirl and we buy cakes for each other at work. It's like having a daily calorie…

Do you have a friend who will go with you? Or for me I paid for a swim membership I was tied into for 12 months. That way when I don't feel like going I just tell myself, "I've paid for it so I have to use it." Times I struggle most is when I am out of routine, so when I've done a lot of overtime at work or when we've been…

The worst thing you can do is beat yourself up. As someone else has said, take it one meal at a time. Struggling with logging here and there, or missing an exercise class, or putting a couple of lbs on is not failure, it's a minor lapse in concentration. Everyone loses consentration from time to time, that's how car…

The way I see it, is that if you eat deficit more than maintenance you'll still lose weight, just more slowly than if you eat deficit every day. So how can it be cheating. The aim is to lose weight in a way that's manageable for you. It's not a race to see how quick you can lose it. I see it a bit like a credit card…

I'm the wife of a disabled veteran UK Armed Forces, disabled as a result of his Service. We don't really have any links to current serving, but do link in with several U.K. Military Charities like Help for Heroes. I was never an Army wife though, we met after he left the Military.

It helps if you have a specific goal. My biggest problem is when I've hit my goal and then fall right back into bad habits. I lost around 50lbs in 2011 - 2012, and then after the event I slimmed down for, I just went back to my old ways again, and most fatally stopped the exercise. Then came medical problems. But this…

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I weigh myself every four weeks generally, I tend to maintain for weeks then dump the weight all at once, so can only assume it's water retention triggered by hormonal changes, so if I weigh myself at the same time every four weeks it seems to work out ok. I do occasionally weigh in between if I've particularly change my…

I read up on this because I always crave chocolate. Apparently in the week before we burn up to 300 extra calories per day. I try and stick to the calorie count but often give myself a week off exercise over that week. I figure the extra burn the week before makes up for it.