Monday 9th July weigh in

Found it, thought it would be under 'messages' but all it says is that I have done things like excercise and how many calories I have eaten. I still have 928 to go today!

Who's a clever girl then.
Nice argument starting on prison thread!

Yes, Jeni just looked and added my little comment!

I'm not really clever jeni this is the way I normally eat or I would be huge, think it is hypothyroidism.

I,m not sure this app is foolproof- it's given me 16 g of sugar for a pear and 0 g for a nectarine. Yesterday I had the same problem with the sodium amounts in slices of bread?

That's probably why it's free Grannylin. We'll find out soon enough if we all put half a stone on next week!

I think it overestimates the sugar content.

I think it overestimates the amount I eat.

Does anyone actually measure the quantity of wine that you pour into the glass in the evenings? I am beginning to think I should - this magic app asks you whether you have 125ml or 250ml and I have no idea. Don't really want to buy a special measure as that seems a bit OTT but feel I should be more concious of the amount in the glass!

yoga 125 ml is the size a glass of wine was a very long time ago, nowadays it is always at least 250 ml. I hope that helps.

Wine glasses have got much bigger haven't they? After some gentle nagging from DD2, I bought some old fashioned smaller wine glasses from a charity shop. They hold the same amount as a standard pub measure....not much! They are re-fillable though.

I'm still sticking with the app even though as jeni says, it's not foolproof. I'm focusing mainly on total calories and not getting too hung up on the breakdown into carbs, etc etc. I finished yesterday having consumed 6 calories more than they recommended....I find it's a good way of being disciplined about what you eat.

Sewsilver

notso I'm the same. Years ago oh and I went to a wine festival and were given a glass each that was marked with the 25cl! I still have both of them and am using them while calorie counting

Has everyone continued using the My Fitness Pal app/site this week? I've become quite addicted!

I find it really helps me to be focused (and honest!) about what I'm eating, but the proof of the pudding will be at the next weigh-in!

Enjoy the rest of the week-end everyone

Ditto

Yes, I have Notso and my eating habits are changing - substituting things like agave nectar to sweeten my morning porridge - a tiny amount is all I need, and fresh fruit like bananas and strawberries instead of dried fruit. Eating more veg, keep getting told I'm not having enough carbs and fat! My calorie intake has reduced day by day and I had 1400 calories yesterday. I now realise that my sugar intake was too high, despite being really careful - today I will be under the limit on sugar for the first time. Feeling more energetic.

Looks like I have lost at least 2 lbs in this last few days - will report in on Monday.

I'm still doing it but am not bothering with things like adding housework as an excercise, just things that are sort of extra. Also can't be bothered to add 4/5 cups of coffee per day as there is only a little milk and that is semi skimmed.

I am however erring on the heavy side when guessing the weight of things so am not giving myself any leeway at all. I am rather bothered that I am being so good and still not really losing weight though. I'll keep it up until I go on holiday and see how I feel about it when I return.

What has it said is your calorie allowance?

1200 but then it puts it up if I add excercise. What is yours? I wonder if we are all the same.

That's what I was wondering? Mine says 1200. I'm 5' 7" and 13 3

You can adjust your calorie allowance and it tells you how much you can expect to lose if you stick to that amount for the next 5 weeks.

I wish you could change to lbs and stones!

The calorie allowance seems to be based not only on your height & weight, but on how much you said you wanted to lose each week. I'm a bit taller and a good bit heavier than you jeni, I set my weight loss at 1-2lbs a week and have a daily calorie allowance of 1320 with more added if I exercise.

I'm not getting too hung up about whether I'm sticking to the numbers in all the separate categories, but I'm making sure I don't go over the total calories.

Like you when, I've changed a lot of eating habits. I only have 1 coffee with my breakfast now and drink green tea during the rest of the day. I use Truvia anyway for sweetening cereal etc, which has no calories. I always used to eat loads of Extra Strong Mints when driving (a habit picked up when I stopped smoking), but I'm limiting them now as each mint has to be entered in the food diary.

You can change to lbs and stones, jeni. Just tap on that section in your profile and you can adjust it.

Not in the iPad one.

I'm writing on an iPad, jeni and my profile is in stones and lbs. you tap on the bit where you edit your profile and you can choose lbs or kilos.

jeni if you go into the 'more' section to the bottom of the home page, you'll see 'edit profile' and when you go right down you'll find 'preferences' where you can choose under 'unit preferences.' Hope that works!