Weight loss 2020

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Another 3 pund off this week. Chuffed at that cos had a few drinks at the weekend.

have made a switch from hi Carb beers over to gin/ whiskey etc. Only had one pint whilst I was out. More importantly blood glucose didn’t spike either :cool:

don’t know if it’s wishful thinking but the complications that sent me to the docs in the first place when I got the type 2 diagnosis seem to be easing.

roll on the next stone:cool:
 


2.5 down this week and now 10.5 down for Jan. over the moon with that return, off to Oslo for 3 nights tomorrow with the missus so will be going slightly off track for that but a decent reward after a month of being pretty much on it every day.
 
Month end weigh in, 13.5lb loss in total which puts me at 14 stone 2.5 lbs, happy enough with that as a starting point and my running is really starting to improve again, cracking on for 13 stone or thereabouts now and then hopefully maintaining!
 
Only lost 4lb on the scales in January, but I got measured at the gym and I've lost 7.5 inches off my body :eek:

Didn't train as much as I wanted in January due to a chest infection so I'm over the moon with that.

Plans for Feb: still working on sleeping better, start running again and continue with weight/fat loss.
 
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Can anyone who uses myfitnesspal, and thinks its easy, please help me out?

I'm trying it for a second time, and I literally cannot even put a single meal I've had today in it.

1 - Half a "takeaway container" of home made steel cut oats - made with milk and a full (smallish) bag of Aldi mixed dried fruits and a tsp of sugar. I make it in the instant pot - 4:1 ratio of milk to oats. It comes out very thick, which is better for freezing (takes up less space), and then I add a splash of milk when I heat it up.

2 - 3 slices of white, seedy bread - Cannot remember the brand & it was the last slices, so I binned the bag - 4 slices of chicken (last of that too, so binned the pack), some olive-oil type marg and a little mago, with a few slices of cucumber

3 - A decent sized bit of home made cottage pie - beef mince, carrots, onions, stock. With a few frozen roasties (needed using up, generally hate the buggers personally, but everyone else likes them), so peas, brocolli and white cabbage

I'm absolutely fucked if people think I need to be weighing stuff like "portions of veg" out. Even when it comes to a chicken breast, surely from a smallish crap quality (filled with water) to a larger, high quality one can be double the actual nutrician.

People always bang on about how this app makes it "dead easy". HOW???? Do they just scan ready meals or something?
 
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PTR said:
Can anyone who uses myfitnesspal, and thinks its easy, please help me out?

I'm trying it for a second time, and I literally cannot even put a single meal I've had today in it.

1 - Half a "takeaway container" of home made steel cut oats - made with milk and a full (smallish) bag of Aldi mixed dried fruits and a tsp of sugar. I make it in the instant pot - 4:1 ratio of milk to oats. It comes out very thick, which is better for freezing (takes up less space), and then I add a splash of milk when I heat it up.

2 - 3 slices of white, seedy bread - Cannot remember the brand & it was the last slices, so I binned the bag - 4 slices of chicken (last of that too, so binned the pack), some olive-oil type marg and a little mago, with a few slices of cucumber

3 - A decent sized bit of home made cottage pie - beef mince, carrots, onions, stock. With a few frozen roasties (needed using up, generally hate the buggers personally, but everyone else likes them), so peas, brocolli and white cabbage

I'm absolutely fucked if people think I need to be weighing stuff like "portions of veg" out. Even when it comes to a chicken breast, surely from a smallish crap quality (filled with water) to a larger, high quality one can be double the actual nutrician.

People always bang on about how this app makes it "dead easy". HOW???? Do they just scan ready meals or something?
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I reckon people weigh food and take note of brands.
 
D.A said:
I reckon people weigh food and take note of brands.
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I weigh everything. It’s a fuck on to start with, but becomes second nature. Eventually you can estimate a weight of something by eye. I’m pretty accurate, and only 10-20 cals out
I also use the recipes function. Make a big batch of low carb chicken curry, record everything that goes into the pot, then tell it how many portions it made. Works it out per portion
 
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This. It doesn’t take long, especially if you scan the barcode. You can complete several days in advance.
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Most of the stuff I use doesn't have a bar code. That's the problem.

I did assume this was what people who like the app were doing though. Scan and log.
Whereas mine is going to be a total fuck on.
 
PTR said:
Most of the stuff I use doesn't have a bar code. That's the problem.

I did assume this was what people who like the app were doing though. Scan and log.
Whereas mine is going to be a total fuck on.
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my missus makes a fair amount of our gear from scratch, I just ask her to write everything down that she puts into stuff, and weigh it out. If you just use a set of scales and zero them out after you add each ingredient it’s really not that bad. Tbh, this isn’t a fault of the MFP app, any cal counting has you doing this.

maybe you’d be better suited to a slimming world/weight watcher type diet, where some things you don’t have to count/weigh you can just cut out the things you have to count?
 
PTR said:
Most of the stuff I use doesn't have a bar code. That's the problem.

I did assume this was what people who like the app were doing though. Scan and log.
Whereas mine is going to be a total fuck on.
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Apart from the stuff you buy from the sandwich shop (which, TBF, if you’re trying to lose weight buying stuff for lunch which you don’t have a clue what’s in it isn’t perhaps the best idea), what doesn’t have a barcode? Fruit and veg there’s options of weight or even “1 Apple”, “3 cherry tomatoes” etc. Meat from the butchers - “1 chicken breast”, find out what % fat their mince is and there will be an option for “100g of 5% fat mince” etc.
 
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my missus makes a fair amount of our gear from scratch, I just ask her to write everything down that she puts into stuff, and weigh it out. If you just use a set of scales and zero them out after you add each ingredient it’s really not that bad. Tbh, this isn’t a fault of the MFP app, any cal counting has you doing this.

maybe you’d be better suited to a slimming world/weight watcher type diet, where some things you don’t have to count/weigh you can just cut out the things you have to count?
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I can't be doing different meals to the rest of the family. That's totally implausible.
We have just about time to make 1 meal per night, nevermind 2. She's said she'll try to write some stuff down for me, but I won't push it - she works so f***ing hard looking after 3 kids, 2 of them twin babies - AND she's back at work now (3 days a week).

By the time we've got everyone to bed, then sat down and eaten our tea its usually 8pm. We go to bed about 9pm as the kids have us up through the night and we're both walking zombies 6 days out of 7.

Also, at this stage, I'm not especially trying to "diet". Id just like to get a handle on what I do eat, and possibly make some small adjustments. I don't want to go full WW / SW. I'm miserable enough as it is without that shite.
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Apart from the stuff you buy from the sandwich shop (which, TBF, if you’re trying to lose weight buying stuff for lunch which you don’t have a clue what’s in it isn’t perhaps the best idea), what doesn’t have a barcode? Fruit and veg there’s options of weight or even “1 Apple”, “3 cherry tomatoes” etc. Meat from the butchers - “1 chicken breast”, find out what % fat their mince is and there will be an option for “100g of 5% fat mince” etc.
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I bought my oats in bulk, and they're in sealed containers.
A chicken breast can be, I'd say, 100% difference between a small shit one and a large good one.

If I'm stuck at work, and haven't made food - quite regular in my position, then I have 3 choices. Greasy Spoon place, Greggs or a "healthy home cooked meals" place. Tell me, which is the best out of those options.

Its about making choices, not about being Mr f***ing Perfect.
 
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Sorry like, but you're being a complete fanny about this. You have on your phone an incredibly easy to use and powerful tool to log your food intake. It couldn't be more simple to use but yes, it requires a small amount of effort on your part to weigh portions and calulate bulk batchs of food.

You eat things that don't have barcodes? Your oats for example. Google "rolled oats" it'll bring up a bunch of brands, pick one and input that into MFP. Sainsburys taste the difference rolled oats. Done. Veg? Search on MFP for the veg and use one with the green tick. Done. Chicken? Search on MFP for chicken breast raw. Done.

You say you have no time but if you're posting on here then you have time to track your food and use the app. Stop reading up about your gut microbiome and track your cals. You can't see the wood for the trees. IIRC you're over 20 stone? When you're that size you arguably don't have to be obsessing over if you had 75g of brocolli or 80g. It's a guide. Your portions must have been grossly overindulgent in the past. MFP is the perfect app for gaining back some control.

Stop twisting and looking for reasons it won't work and make it work. Tell your wife you want to lose weight and you'll need her help as your partner to weigh things as cooks, it takes 2 seconds longer putting it on a scale before it goes into the pot. Or if she's following a recipe, ask to see the recipe.

Losing weight takes effort, it takes time and it takes dedication. On the plus side, it's never been easier to make informed choices.
 
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