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Hi! I'm 46, in the UK & keep trying to get the same MFP success I had in 2011 - but keep giving up. I'm hoping having some friends and a busy newsfeed will keep me here.

Yogi Tea - Mayan Cocoa Spice is really lovely and would make a good substitute for the hot chocolate as it's got ground cocoa shells and definitely tastes chocolatey. http://www.yogiproducts.com/products/details/mayan-cocoa-spice/

My weight was up 1 1/2 lbs yesterday and I'm sure it was totally down to ovulation - I feel better today and weight is gone! I'm very aware of my cycles and ovulation is definitely worse than pmt time for me in terms of weight and bloated-ness. So basically I have a week of being a nice person then I bloat, gain…

I'd never heard of Taubes before reading this interesting thread but having read this thread and looked him up, I would say this comment is extremely unfair. Taubes: Studied physics and engineering, then journalism...then develops an interest in nutrition and writes a book. Campbell: Spent entire career as a researcher in…

Totally this! When I saw week 5 coming up, I Googled like mad seeing if it was possible, if others had struggled etc and I read a load of posts that said to trust the programme. You've built up your strength and your stamina enough to be able to do it. Oh yes you have!! Run slooooooowly.....so slow you're almost walking if…

I've had a look at the last week of your diary and I'd say you need to be more consistent. Over the last week, last Wednesday was over, Thursday was incomplete (what happened there?), Friday and Saturday were not filled in, Sunday you had 154 cals left, Monday you had 162 cals left, but then Tuesday you were 978 over. I…

That's a wonderful thing to do :flowerforyou: I've done two lots of IVF and don't recall weight gain being an issue (other than the subsequent pregnancies :happy: ). It will certainly make you *feel* like you've gained weight before the eggs are collected as you'll likely feel bloated, but I think that will be short lived.

I do the same as mowu and meerkat70.....I weigh every day but only record Tuesday weights. I often seem to weight less on Wednesdays and Thursdays then it goes up a bit after the weekend, so recording just on Tuesdays give me an accurate idea of what's happening.

I didn't realise mine was so expensive! Mine is £44 per month and that's at the reduced corporate membership (although, I think anyone with a job can get that as they seem keen to put you on it). It's in a four star hotel with a nice pool, sauna, steam room, cardio and weights room. I've been running outside a lot lately,…

Hmmm, interesting idea - maybe I'll download a book! Thanks.

I found the same! I did week 1, day 1 and found it quite hard to stop and start again. I do plan to carry on with the programme, but I think I will be doing it very gradually rather than three times a week (mixed in with some 30 min runs when that is all that time allows).

My goal was 135, which I reached last week. I've now changed my goal to 133 in the hope that those 2 lbs will come off my stomach, which could do with being a little smaller!

Mine is Mikado biscuits (11 calories each!)

Thanks for all the lovely comments....while I can ignore labels to some extent, I think L was their largest size, so I'm too big to shop there! Oh well, I probably looked like mutton dressed as lamb even considering it anyway...:laugh:

I started in January, and I think on my first two or three days I went way over calories - partly because I was trying out how it all worked while eating up Christmas chocolates! I agree with the PP though, it's a case of learning what is good 'value' for calories...what will fill you up without 'costing' too much. My…

I do almost exactly what you said most weeks! I try and go a little bit under each day because I know that most weekends something happens (we have a meal out, we have family to stay, friends over for a meal, a take away) that requires more calories. On my ipod app, you can look at a weekly summary and most weeks my net is…

I bought a pair of Nike running trousers that have a little pocket with a zip just under the waistband on the back of them. I think it's meant to hold your ipod, but I wear my ipod on my arm, and put my key in the pocket. It's great and is now a requirement for any more trousers I buy.

Thanks! That was interesting - I've told people that walking a mile and running a mile are the same calorie burn....but looks like I was wrong.

This is all about the difference in time it takes to compete the mile. Imagine 2 people travelling a mile - one jogging, one running. The jogger should finish first....so her work out is over....she worked hard, so burned XXX calories. The walker keeps going for another XX minutes so is burning calories for longer. When…

I know you don't want the 'not going over calories' tip...but I just thought I'd draw your attention to this that I only worked out a few days ago: I am 5'3 and 138 ish lbs - so only a little bigger than you. My 1lb a week loss goal is to eat 1200 cals. My maintenance calorie goal is 1590...so only 390 more. So when you…

jilld76 and acidaloha - thank you both.

Thanks...that does look more like the bridge to 5k plan....wasn't the OHR more like 30 min runs twice a week and increasing the length of your third run? I think that was why I liked the look of it because there is only so much time I can give up to running each day!

I only have a basic phone without those kind of capabilities - I've been using an ipod touch for my C25K app, but I can't 'do' GPS with it.

Ooh, yes the Garmin 305 does look just the job. The first review on Amazon says, "OK, first looks - you are thinking to yourself "But what if someone tries to land a helicopter on it's enormous surface while I am out running?!" LOL!!! It does look extremely large - do you (women?) find it ok?

I finished C25K yesterday :drinker: Yay me! As I've got a 5K coming up in approx 3 weeks, I thought I should try and increase my time before the race (my 30 min runs aren't 5K!)...but I thought I'd use the OHR programme to write myself out a plan........BUT....the link in the original thread doesn't work anymore. Could…

I really really love 'Get Running' - you can play your music and a *lovely* lady interrupts to tell you when to run and when to walk and in the earlier runs, she'll let you know when you've got 30 seconds, or 1 minute to go.....she gradually backs off as you run for longer times. It's been prefect for me - I have 2 runs to…

:smile: Thank you! I think I want to follow the OHR plan because I have liked having the C25K plan to follow - I like to see my progress. Having said that though, I have entered a 5K which is in around 3 or 4 weeks and I don't think I can actually run 5K yet....I am guessing I'll be doing it in around 40 mins....so not…

I'm on the last week of C25K and am thinking of doing this (having read this thread)...and I'm bumping it for a friend too :smile:

I have always logged it as XX minutes of walking and XX minutes of running (whatever speed you go at). Both of them are in the database. It is nice to see the calories burned increase as you go through the programme. Good luck with the programme!