CARNAT22 Member

I cook most meals at home but I do tend to have one meal a week that is either dinner at a restaurant / bar or a microwave meal or a take away or my OH cooks. (so basically one meal a week that I don't cook and that I tend not to worry too much about calories!) I am so used to eating healthy now I tend to go for healthy…

Are you eating your maintenance cals + exercise cals?

Normally i am OK on the weekends, I may have one night that I go out for a few drinks / meal but other thna that I exercise, I keep within my calories. This weekend was acomplete mess though! I have been off plan since Thursday and I need to reign myself in. In fact my body is crying out for it's usual healthy food!

It wasn't on here but someone on another message board I look at was advocating that if you gain weight after giving up smoking you should start smoking again!!!!

Wow - 500+ days!! That is astonishing. Although if I had a working laptop I probably would have logged in every day (currently I am weekdays only!)

I was 500 over yesterday and probably the same today!! I will reign myself after today though. It was either be over calories or miss a friends Borthday [yesterday] and a friends leaving lunch [today] This is with exercise!!

Venice is fab - and it would just be plain rude not to partake in the glorious food whilst you are there !!! I portion control my carbs (weight pasta etc) but I couldn't cut them out totally. Cyprus is also lovely. We are off to the Canaries (picked a quiet resort on Lanzarote) for a week of sun and relaxation!

Chicken Jalfrezi - with new potoatoes, broccoli and green beans.

1lb away from GW, 1210 calories per day plus eat back exercise calories so I eat between 1300 - 1500 cals a day depending on how much exercise I do! [Going on holiday in 3 weeks]

I can only assume you are messing?? Otherwise this is a really rude comment!

What do you mean by negative calories? I eat a lot of these and they all still register on my food diary!

Rocket is what I use instead of lettuce (I hate lettuce LOL) It is very low calorie! http://advanseed.com/default.aspx?pageid=187

Half a bag of rocket leaves!

I am off on the 11th September (just booked it yesterday!) I am pretty much at goal weight but I do need to tone up. I have a Birthday tonight and leaving drinks tomorrow but after that I plan to eat as clean as possible. I will ban the booze, make sure I drink lots of water, exercise every day, cut back on carbs and…

shower gel shampoo conditioner facial scrub cleanser under eye cream face cream Toothpaste touche eclat vaseline for my lips deodarant perfume So that is 12 for me. Although I don'r wash my hair every single day! If I am going 'out' add various make-up items to this list!

I'm almost there and the difference between losing 0.5 per week and maintaining is just 240 cals! Once I shift those last few lbs I'll up my cal's by the full amount. PS - congrats OP - well done you!

I tend not to comment too much on other peoples diaries {I may point out the obvious if they ask - IE they are not eating enough calories etc...} I did 'de-friend' someone as I was so concenrned about her eating habits though !! I am sure you can eat MD every day and lose weight, you wont be healthy though and for me this…

Mine have shrunk (again - it happened last time I lost weight back in 2006) and I am realy starting to get self conscious about them!! My boobs have always been my thing LOL! However I am 21lbs down, nearly at goal weight and my OH still seems to like them so I am not going to stress. I am off on holiday soon and will…

I log everything that is out of my ordinary routine (IE a big mammoth clean) I also log everything that is exercise (IE I walk for an hour a day - with my trainers on purely as exercise - it would take me 20 minutes on a bus LOL so I count that as part of my exercise!)

If you have a fair bit to lose then it is incredibly normal to see a big loss in the first week (or even first few weeks!)

Happy Birthday hun!! xxx

I love the nude ones (#2) but I think #1 look better with the dress!

New potatoes (I have them instaed of rice and pasta quite a lot these days!) Chicken (I rarely eat red meat now) Wholemeal bread - I have two small slices a day Peanut butter Humous Olive Crackers Children's Petite Filous yoghurts - only 52 cals and they are delish! Rocket Cucumber Red onions Pepper Radishes {all of the…

Dried herbs and spices Sea salt Pepper Balsamic vinegar Ketchup Soy Sauce Oxo Cubes Pasta Cous-Cous Rice Tinned spaghetti hoops Baked beans Passata Soup Curry paste Cereal Peanut Butter I do tend to do a weekly online shop and pick up bits when needed so we always have fresh salad and veg. I also buy meat as and when it is…

PS - It is an figure I hear bandied around a lot but the "average" person gains 10lbs when they give up smoking OP so your gain is totally normal!

Well done OP (and everyone else) who has managed to kick the filthy habit. I had my last cigarette on 8th May 2011 and can honestly say I have not looked back. Stopping was the best thing I ever did and I am incredibly proud of myself. I had smoked for half my life and it is liberating to no longer smoke!! I have been very…

I agree - your calories are set too low! Unless you up them eventually you loss will stop altogether.

Make you pizza on a wholemeal pitta bread! (so smear a pitta with some tomato puree, add your cheese and toppings and hey presto!)

x3 30 minute cardio and to hopefully weigh the same on weigh-in day as I did this morning! Watch this space as weigh in day isn't until the end of the week!

5ft 1in, 114lbs, UK size 10 now too big for me so I am UK size 8.