ElizabethFuller Member

I like running, I don't particularly like strength work. When I get to my target weight I think I may have to start some strength work to get the shape I'd like but at the moment I just like to run. It builds a good calorie deficit, means I can eat pretty much the same as the rest of my family and leaves me nice and…

It's really hard to get back on track with the Christmas goodies still lurking in the cupboards. We have a huge Thorntons santa that calls me every time I open the fridge:wink: If, like me, you have trouble with portion control, (I really admire people who can eat just one chocolate) then you have a number of choices,…

I love them too and we grow them in the garden in the summer! Yum, nothing nicer than freshly pulled beets for a salad, the greens are really good too. (The loading picture on the updated ipad MFP has a very tasty beet/bean salad!)

It's only 6 weeks away and I'm fairly close to my target so I don't think that I'd manage 14lb in that time but 10lb would be fab!! I'm in!

It doesn't make me bloated but it gives me heartburn. Which is odd because the only other things that do that are really high fat - fried chicken, curry, Domino's pizza to name a few.

OK, no food for the rest of the day, herbal tea, as much exercise as you can fit in and STRONG underwear. Or, wear a different dress :wink:

You have a lower BMI than 77% of females aged 45-59 in your country You have a lower BMI than 55% of females aged 45-59 in the world If everyone in the world had the same BMI as you, it would add 8,799,714 tonnes to the total weight of the world's population You're most like someone from Laos I'm so bad at Geography, I'm…

At my heaviest weight I suffered from knee/ankle/foot pain almost constantly. When I went to my doctor he said that it was just age-related wear and tear :grumble: Now I have lost over 20kg, (in 2 goes, my ticker is the current weightloss) those pains have almost completely cleared up, I did the C25K in the summer and can…

My son bought me a HRM for my birthday, until then I had no idea! My resting heart rate is 49, when I'm running (enough to make me breathless and want to slow down) it's about 160. My running easy heart rate is about 140. I'm interested to see if it changes over time with more exercise.

Weighed myself this morning and I'm 2kg up :sad: I'm not panicking (yet), I really didn't overeat that much - isn't it about 3,500 calories for every pound of fat? So that would be over 15,000 excess calories? I have logged right through the holiday and I think I probably only ate an excess of about 6000 calories, so I…

We do it purposely, it's the only revenge we moms can take :laugh:

Click on "groups" at the top of the page (next to "message boards") then enter "say no to sugar" in the search bar. It'll be the first group on the list, this is a group specifically set up by people with the same weakness for the sweet stuff. Then just click "join group". Good luck!

Oooh, me too. I wish I was braver and actually could say something :grumble:

I do quite a lot of cardio at the gym and I use the treadmill and the rowing machine. I can achieve a higher calorie/hour burn (>1000 calories/hour) on the rowing machine but I can't keep that up for a long period of time, on the other hand I can run for an hour on the treadmill burning >600 calories/hour. I do cardio…

I don't log individual cups of tea but I do log the milk that I put in it but as one entry. I did weighing/ measuring checks to work out how much milk I have in each cup and I just add the whole day's amount in one go. Sometimes it may be an underestimate, sometimes over. I think it works out in the long run. I entered a…

I was slightly over yesterday. Today I'll be over by about 2000 and I'll probably be over tomorrow.:blushing: However, by the weekend I'll be back on track and soooo over-fed that I'll not want to eat anything fatty or high calorie!

Think of 4oz feathers and 4oz lead. The feathers would be a bucketful, the lead would be a couple of tablespoons. Don't eat either of those though! If you weigh 4oz of anything on scales weighing in ounces they will always weigh approx 112g when weighed in grams, there's 28g in an ounce (give or take a bit). However, if…

Come on, share! I need the magic fairy dust today! I've pre-logged my food and I need to magic away about 2000 calories :laugh:

Merry Christmas to you too!:drinker:

Hi there! Don't be discouraged, you can do this! I am 58, post-menopausal and have hypothyroidism. I have spent about twelve years losing 10lb and putting on twelve. I was convinced that a combination of age and hypothyroidism made it impossible for me to lose weight. :sad: Then I joined this site, I saw how so many people…

So many success stories! Wow, you have all done so well! Inspirational! Have a great Christmas everyone!

A few years ago I gave up adding sugar to my tea and coffee and no longer eat chocolate regularly. Giving up sugar in drinks was hard, particularly coffee, but if you persist you will get used to it! Someone gave me coffee with one spoonful of sugar the other day and it was disgustingly sweet - I used to take at least two…

I make my own pasta sauces with no sugar, minimal fat and controlled amounts of cheese. You can have vegetarian pasta dishes that are low calorie (butternut squash and sage is one of my favourites) and you can add bacon or chicken for other family members. Yes, you do have to be careful about portion size but a 3oz (dry…

^^ This. My food diary is a record of what I've eaten, that's all. If I spend two days using all my calories on panettone and chocolates then that's my decision, might not be sustainable long term but isn't going to harm me. If someone makes a "naughty, naughty!" comment I'd just take it as gentle teasing!

Black Panettone Kind of dark ops Italian fleet, mostly seen at Christmas :glasses:

I have an open diary, sometimes I don't eat tons of fruit and veg but none of my friends are ever as judgemental as OP. We tend to comment if we've had something particularly yummy! If we've had a day of high calorie food or missed targets we just encourage each other to keep going. Not sure I'd want OP as a friend if her…

My weight this morning is 152lb So that's 9lb. It's true I have another 4 days to go but I have a feeling that I'll be lucky to maintain this week :wink: Sooo close!

That seems to be a bit low, even if you have very small bones. I had a look at height/weight charts and they seem to indicate that too. See http://www.healthchecksystems.com/heightweightchart.htm Can you get an honest opinion from a friend? Sometimes it's hard to be objective when looking at yourself.

Yes. It'll be a BIG number though!

I have been told that the machines read high. I have a MFP friend who does a lot of her cardio work on the elliptical and wears a HRM. She told me that the machines read far higher than the monitor, so, only eat back half of your exercise calories to be safe. I wear a Fitbit and have the same problem, on a really busy day…