sundaygirl85

Cagney and Lacey were awesome! And Starsky and Hutch! (I love me some 70s retro! :laugh:)

I'm a vegetarian too. I don't really use any sites for recipes, but I use MFP to track my protein especially. This is actually pretty easy to get as a vegetarian - from beans, yogurt, milk, eggs - and by eating a range of these foods daily I easily hit my protein target. I do take a multi-vitamin for iron though - I like…

I'm going to jump in too - I'm aiming for 133 by Christmas, which is 7lb down from where I am now. I'd settle for a loss of 5lb though! First check-in for me will be Monday.

Start of day 3 for me! Well done everyone and keep up the good work today!

I'm goining to join this today (better late than never!). I'm just happy right now to discover that I'm not alone in having these self-sabotaging binges! This post is a great idea, and will hopefully help me keep my eyes on the prize! So I'm interested to know what triggers other people's binges? For me it's usually…

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that picture! :laugh:

Check out this link to a survey done a newspaper here in the UK. It's an interesting illustration on the differing ideas between the sexes as to what the 'ideal body' looks like. (For reference, UK sizes are two smaller than US ones i.e. UK 8 = US 4).…

0! But I'm glad to see I'm not the only one! My excuse is that I'm pear-shaped and have strong and naturally muscular legs (my dad played rugby - I have his thighs!) but zero upper body strength. I'm working on it though, doing 3 sets of 10 'girly' press ups 3 times a week so I'll get there some day...

Blueberries! I usually stir a handful through mine - they warm up and it's really yummy (plus packed with antioxidants)! This is my staple breakfast!

Thanks guys, I knew I could count on encouragement from the great people on this site! :happy:

Thoses memebers of MFP who've been here since before 2008 may remember me, although I didn't post all that much. My original goal was to lose about 14lbs because I was going travelling to Australia and wanted to be fitter and more comfortable in my own skin. A couple of weeks before leaving in early March I achieved my…

I do this too, it really works beacuse I don't want to spoil the nice minty-fresh feeling!

I guess your best bet would be to use a similar green tea from the list. I drink green tea every morning as well, and personally I don't count it. I think that if you drink it without sweetener then the calories are pretty negligible.

Oatmeal! If I ever eat anything else like cereal for a change, I'm starving by 10.30 -11! I throw some berries in there too as they are high in fibre and so keep you feeling full (blueberries are especially good).

40g porridge (oatmeal) with a handful of blueberries stirred into it and with 1tsp brown sugar green tea 175 cals

On MFP you can just adjust your goals to maintain ('maintain' is in the drop-down menu along with 'lose 1lb a week' etc) like at the beginning and it will give you a pretty accurate figure for cals (from my experience). I've just moved on to maintaining after losing 15 lbs and it really is not too hard so long as you bear…

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1/2 can Stagg vegetable chili slice of soya and linseed toast 150g pot of Fage Total 0% fat Greek yoghurt with a handful of strawberries and raspberries black coffee 340 cals :drinker: Have a good afternoon everyone!

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Yep, I'm a Kathy Smith devotee as well. Her workouts get you burning calories really effectively, but the choreography is easy to follow (a necessity for someone as uncoordinated as me!)

I have a variety of dvds that are mostly dance-based for cardio and I just enter them as aerobics in my log (the MFP database has both high and low impact aerobics listed) so I choose one of those. This gives you a ballpark figure at least.

Hi, and welcome! I'm from the UK too! You're right about this being a great community - all the motivating comments etc have really helped me. In the past 2 and a half months of using this website I've succeeding in losing the stone I've been trying to lose for about 4 yrs! Good luck!

Thank you everybody for your input :flowerforyou: I have decided (I think!) that I will not try to lose any more weight just now, rather I will concentrate on toning up a little more to see if that makes any difference to the bits of my body that I'm still not happy with (mainly the little bit of jiggle under my arms!). So…

Ok, so when I first joined MFP in mid-November 2007, my goal was to lose a stone (14lbs) and as of this week I made it! I'm now 133lbs, which at 5' 7 1/2" is a comfortable UK size 10 (US 6), a size smaller that I was wearing before. I've been trying to lose this weight since I first went to university four and a half yrs…

This is all true, but it depends how much you want to eat. Look at it this way: exercising lets you eat more. If you don't wanna exercise, and are happy eating 1200 then that's fine. Or, if you want to lose 2lbs a week, but don't want to cut 1000 cals a day, then you could cut 500 cals, burn another 500 exercising and not…

I'm Catholic too and the rules I follow are that you can have one full meal a day on fast days (Fridays during Lent and I fasted Ash Wednesday too) and two smaller meals as long as together they don't add up to the main meal. Also no snacking outside of this and and no meat. So yes, this is basically my diet anyway, apart…

1 stone = 14lbs. Funny how we both use pounds but we split them into stones and you in the US don't!

This is exactly it. I just want to feel comfortable and confident with my own body, and to do that I'd like to be nearer the bottom end of the 'healthy weight for height' range than the top. So I've lost about 14lbs already (my original goal), but now I'm here I'd like to lose 5lb more. I'm single, so my main problems come…

My guess re: the cycling is that this site is referring to cycling outdoors, which would be physically harder than stationary cycling (in the same way that running outddors is harder and burns more calories running on a treadmill, due to the work your body needs to do to actually propel you forward when you're on a static…

Well done!