Healthy New You: Your Change For Life

Will be spending all day in the library today - got my lunch from Tesco to help me survive the day haha.

Breakfast: two little pancakes (grabbed them on the way out)
Dinner: Tesco Light Choices roast chicken salad sandwich, a fruit bag
Tea: not sure yet
Snacks: diet coke, Mentos

Reply 9562

aliphatic

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Been really naughty this week and Kettlebells yesterday was unfortunately cancelled, so I'm booked on for an aerobics class and then a hula fitness class straight after one another today. Might be dead at the end of it.

Reply 9563

caiitlinz

Been a while since I checked my weight, but I checked today and have now officially lost 11lbs!

Feeling so much stronger and more toned. Now only 20lbs to go, haha XD

Reply 9564

OP

Original post by caiitlinz

Been a while since I checked my weight, but I checked today and have now officially lost 11lbs!

Feeling so much stronger and more toned. Now only 20lbs to go, haha XD

Well done that's brilliant! Not far to go now eh :-).

Reply 9565

Flo[ProActiv]

Just been on a ling walk through the snow with my boyfriend :smile:

a quick google tells me 270 calories an hour burnt for walking through snow, and we walked for and hour and a quarter, and will be doing the same walk back (currently in Costa having lunch). I feel less bad about my giant breakfast now :tongue:

Reply 9566

*GoLdSeQuIn*

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Original post by marmalady

It's under 300 on days where I don't do any cardio beforehand for some reason! At the moment I use green+yellow (so about 7.5kg altogether) for the warmup, lunges, chest and back track, and just green (5kg) for shoulders, biceps, triceps. Orange (10kg) for squats. I think those weights are right! Will check when I go this morning.

Edit: Decided I'm not going this morning now. My lower back's still really sore from doing a long run on Friday (at least I think that's the culprit...) so it's probably not the best idea!

That makes me feel optimistic that maybe I do burn more than 200 and i always do cardio before. Thanks :biggrin:

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It's too snowy to drive to the gym which is on a massive hill...oh well :wink:

Reply 9567

OP

Just taken my Mum for a walk for 20 mins (don't know if you remember but she's had her knee done and she's going back to work on Wed.. but still can't walk very far so am trying to ease her back into it) therefore feeling slightly less guilty for hardly doing anything! I have to get my exercise bike out today. I've been saying this for weeks. HAVE to do it.

Reply 9568

tumbling

Just had a massive hot chocolate and feel a bit guilty about it :frown:

But it's snowy outside, I had to have one!!

Reply 9569

Chrisateen

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Original post by tinktinktinkerbell

i must have been really lucky at school because i had none of that :eek:

in fact i must have been quite lucky in life because aside from comments on the net ive never really had comments about my weight

I didn't get bullied about my weight either. I got bullied for being crap at PE and just got bullied in general

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Hate the snow and the cold in general :mad:

. Making me want to sit in my room and eat junk all day. Just want it to be summer now

Reply 9570

belligerent ghoul

Hi everyone,
I just wondered if I could have some advice. One of the biggest problems I have (especially with counting calories) is school lunches (which are compulsory). Just wondering, from this menu, what you think the healthiest options are. Thank you!

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Reply 9571

caiitlinz

Original post by belligerent ghoul

Hi everyone,
I just wondered if I could have some advice. One of the biggest problems I have (especially with counting calories) is school lunches (which are compulsory). Just wondering, from this menu, what you think the healthiest options are. Thank you!

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Is it compulsory to eat everything? I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to download MyFitnessPal and try to log what they give you, and work from there. School lunch portions tend to be big so take that into account.

Personally, I'd say the baked potatoes look the least calorific. I'd skip on the desserts all together, if you're allowed to. Fruit, salad and soup are also all good options. Those main meals all look so calorific, though! I'm so glad I don't have to eat school lunches anymore XD

Reply 9572

Flo[ProActiv]

Walked for a total of two and a quarter hours in the snow :smile:

definitely feeling it in my legs, the internet tells me it burnt ~600 calories, which is great :biggrin:

Back at my boyfriend's warming up - we bought some of the flavoured options sachets, so think I'm gonna have a caramel one :smile:

dinner tonight will be something grabbed from the station, probably an M&S fuller longer thing that I can eat on the train.

Reply 9573

OP

I've starting planking a bit more to try and improve my time, but what would I be able to log that as on MFP? Anyone? xx

Reply 9574

belligerent ghoul

Original post by caiitlinz

Is it compulsory to eat everything? I'd say the easiest thing to do would be to download MyFitnessPal and try to log what they give you, and work from there. School lunch portions tend to be big so take that into account.

Personally, I'd say the baked potatoes look the least calorific. I'd skip on the desserts all together, if you're allowed to. Fruit, salad and soup are also all good options. Those main meals all look so calorific, though! I'm so glad I don't have to eat school lunches anymore XD

I can't wait until I'm done with school lunches haha. We're allowed to pick and choose of course! There's some things I know to avoid (roast, pizza, chips) but otherwise I'm not sure. It doesn't seem healthy to be eating potatoes and pasta all the time but I'm not sure if that's the best option. Thanks for the advice :smile:

Reply 9575

Flo[ProActiv]

Original post by belligerent ghoul

I can't wait until I'm done with school lunches haha. We're allowed to pick and choose of course! There's some things I know to avoid (roast, pizza, chips) but otherwise I'm not sure. It doesn't seem healthy to be eating potatoes and pasta all the time but I'm not sure if that's the best option. Thanks for the advice :smile:

You could go for the mains with just veg rather than potatoes as well (e.g. the pie, the roast lamb and the fish)

Generally, key things to avoid are things like creamy/cheesey sauces, desserts, etc.

I'd probably go for:
Jacket potato and tuna (Monday)
Pasta with chicken (Tuesday)
Pie and veg, no potatoes (Wednesday)
Lamb and veg (Thursday)
Fish and veg (Friday)

And then fresh fruit :smile:

Reply 9576

OP

1 minute 20 seconds for my plank incase anyone's interested. I have to improve this!

Reply 9577

tumbling

Original post by xoxAngel_Kxox

1 minute 20 seconds for my plank incase anyone's interested. I have to improve this!

That's about the same as me :smile:

I managed 1 minute 30 yesterday, it'd be pretty cool to reach the 5 minute mark one day, but I think that's quite a way off!!

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OP