Calorie counting my way to a bikini body...

[TamaraAbi]

Hello all so a brief introduction my name is Tamara I've been on here for a while but over on the dukan forum I dropped from 14st11 to 10st5 following that plan and I loved the strictness of it all but then last year after coming off it I started calorie counting and dropped to 8st12 unfortunately I wasn't eating enough calories to maintain that weight and had a few silly health problems from it :/ and after a bit of bad news at Christmas I slowly put the weight back on last week I was 10st4lbs that's when I decided enough was enough and I have lost 3lbs since then but I decided Dukan wasn't for me anymore and I want to give calorie counting a go but this time making sure I hit my 1500 calorie a day goal estimated by mfp, I'm off to Tenerife in 11 weeks time and if I lose 2lbs a week by then I can be at my goal weight of 8st7lbs for the holidays so fingers crossed

 

[TamaraAbi]

So it's Day one and I weighed this morning just to double check my starting weight and yes it is 10st1lb and my official WI will be on a Saturday morning from now on I haven't planned my whole days meal yet but I'll be having special K with skimmed milk for breakfast if anyone has any good suggestions for nice low cal meals please feel free to let me know? thank you x

 

[TamaraAbi]

So rest of today's food diary goes like this

B: special K with skimmed milk
L: ww beef lasagne
D: butternut squash wedges, broccoli, swede, steak
Snacks: handful almonds
Drinks: 1.5L Water, 2 black coffee, 1 coke zero

I still have 600 cals left to make 1500 but ill try and make it to 1200 by adding more snacks later on and of course hot chocolate haha

 

[LilEm]

Mmm BNS wedges sound yummy. Im addicted to sweet potatoes Todays diary looks great so far, im here to subscribe x

 

[TamaraAbi]

Aww thank you LilEm yes I'm also partial to sweet potato haha!

 

[KMD]

Here to subscribe! Looking good! Love hot chocolate! especially with some extra light cream on top and a few mikado's. Nom nom. That's one of my naughty treats but the whole thing is only 100 cals! xxxx

 

[Lisa123]

I gave the same goal as you. I also have a holiday coming up. Im 9.13 you can do it.

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[TamaraAbi]

Here to subscribe! Looking good! Love hot chocolate! especially with some extra light cream on top and a few mikado's. Nom nom. That's one of my naughty treats but the whole thing is only 100 cals! xxxx

OMG that sounds amazing!! xx

 

[TamaraAbi]

I gave the same goal as you. I also have a holiday coming up. Im 9.13 you can do it.

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oh brill do you have a diary I can take a look at we can inspire eachother on xx

 

[TamaraAbi]

Yesterday's Menu:
B: Special K with skimmed milk
L: 2 wholemeal toast with 30g cathedral city light cheese
D: homemade chicken fajitas with wholemeal wraps
S: had a naughty toffee sundae from mcdonalds opps :/

 

[Lisa123]

Hi tamara
No I just log using mfp. My user is lisamjs1 feel free to add me tgen you xan see my diary. I do eat a lot of sweet stuff though

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[KMD]

OMG that sounds amazing!! xx

It is!

Hi tamara
No I just log using mfp. My user is lisamjs1 feel free to add me tgen you xan see my diary. I do eat a lot of sweet stuff though

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Glad I'm not the only one that uses calories on sweet stuff! xx

 

[TamaraAbi]

So my diary for today goes like this:

B: Porridge
L: Prawn mayo sandwich, apple, grapes
Dukan Stew

So my bf decided to start cal counting with me yesterday and joined mfp and that made me reevaluate my goals on there because they were wrong and my calorie allowance for my goal is 1200, also yesterday we decided to be a bit naughty foodwise before starting properly soo first weigh in tomoz prob won't be great but I'm still going to weigh because i'll know what I've lost in a week for next Saturday then

 

[Dietninja]

Visiting congratulations on the great weight loss. How long were you on dukan for?

 

[TamaraAbi]

Visiting congratulations on the great weight loss. How long were you on dukan for?

Hello erm about 5 and a half months x

 

[TamaraAbi]

Morning all so it was official WI today and im a pound down not bad considering I hasn't been the nest of starts so I'll be on it properly as of yesterday

 

[TamaraAbi]

Morning all sorry I haven't updated over the weekend been at my partners I'm hoping to be in the 9's for Saturday as it's my year anniversary with him on Friday and we're celebrating Saturday night as we both have the Sunday off so I'm planning to be extra good this week xx

 

[TamaraAbi]

Yesterday's Menu:
B: Porridge
L: none :/
D: steak, sprouts, carrots, broccoli, 2x stuffing balls
Snacks : 2 x alpen bars 1 x hot chocolate

 

[KMD]

Looks like you're doing well (except for skipping dinner hehe) Keep it up! xxx

 

[TamaraAbi]

Looks like you're doing well (except for skipping dinner hehe) Keep it up! xxx

Haha oh I know I didn't have a chance on Monday :/ working strange shifts isn't good x