My Firsts:

[welsh dragon]

Anyone trying to lose weight, I can highly recommend the app 'MyFitnessPal'. You put in your current weight and goals, and it recommends a daily calorie limit (which you can change). You can log all your food from its database, and if it's in a packet it can scan the barcode with about 99% success rate. Best of all, you can put in your exercise, and it totals it and adds it to your allowance, so you know exactly how your food intake and exercise output is doing at any time. If you eat too little in a day, it will also tell you off. I love it (it's free, whoopee) and I find it very motivating. Ideal for me, as I was a person who snacked without thinking, and it forces me to be honest about what I eat. One drawback is that it is very American and most things are measured in cups, which is foreign to me. Sometimes you have to look around a bit to find a near-equivalent which has the weights in grams or oz. But overall, it has worked really well for me, and I recommend it. OK for iPhone, iPad and PC, not sure about Android.

It works well on android as well. I use it every day.

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Offer will always be there. As to the weight gain don't stress over it. Try taking some measurements every week. When I diet (which is often) I go by them. I lost 8 1/2 stone 5 years ago and my method was smaller portion sizes but no restrictions on foods. Moderation and regular exercise. I noticed a big difference in my shape before my weight. I measured bust, Under bust, hips, belly button and thighs. It's a fantastic way to physically see your progress.

8.5 stone...wow well done that's fantastic, its life changing and life saving

 

[MissyR]

8.5 stone...wow well done that's fantastic, its life changing and life saving

I was always a skinny runt until I hit the big 30 and totally ballooned. Size 8 to a size 28! It took me a about 2 years in total to get back down to a size 10 (my avatar pic is the where I was. Size 10 fit, health and just completed the Glasgow to Edinburgh bike ride for the first time). Since then I have unfortunately put about 3 stone back on with bad eating and NO exercise for a while. I'm back on the bike (even got a new one to spur me on) and hoping to change that attitude again.

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Lots more firsts for me today........

1) A ride out purely for photography on a sunny morning
2) Fist time I have took camera on my bike. Photography is my absolute first love (after hubby of course...cough.....). I have a really decent DSLR and sell some of my images as wall art and greeting card's
3) I photographed a concrete boat ( yes, a boat on a river made of concrete). It had sunk mind lol.......
4) I got up a hill 2 other cyclists were pushing up. That was a fantastic boost for my ego and progress
5) No sore bum!

So you see, lots of firsts for me today.

Miles today only 7.5.....I had forgotten my helmet and didn't want to go too far
Total miles to date 138
Bum - not too bad at all
Flies swallowed today - 0
Total flies swallowed to date - darent count!

Will post a couple of photes once I have downloaded them

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Missy R you are an inspiration!

 

[MissyR]

Missy R you are an inspiration!

Ha ha no I'm a woman who has found herself in the same position as many others struggling with her weight. Its a battle but as my partner will back up I am a stubborn bugger and will get there again. Posties just delivered me a lovely new Fat lass at the back jersey. How fitting (no pun intended of course)

 

[si_c]

I don't have an iphone just an android one.

Congrats on the efforts so far I think they app in question is probably MyFitnessPal ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myfitnesspal.android&hl=en_GB ), which I've found quite effective in terms of tracking weight and so forth, I started trying to lose weight last year after hitting 20 stone, I've since lost about 5 1/2, did it largely through cycling and watching calories. If you are using your phone to track your rides (e.g. Strava) then it should update the app with the estimate of the calories you've burnt, which is quite nice.

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Will look into it but as I'm doing Slimming World I still have to stay on plan. Out on the ale tonight so that's my whole weekend of syns on alcohol!

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Did another mini ride. Instead of driving to the in-laws I rode. Only a mile but......a mile each way but 2 mile is 2 mile. Brings my total mileage to date to 140!

 

[Cannondale Lady]

Giving the knee a rest from the bike today. Going for a swim instead. My body looks bad enough in Lycra on the bike but in skimpy Lycra....oh my! I will have to do the great towel dash.........

 

[Cannondale Lady]

OK, swam 40 lengths and decided the taste and smell of chlorine isn't very nice. They weren't gonna let me in 1st, as I wasn't 'on their database' but they made me fill in a form. I'm guessing it's to keep known 'offenders' out. Gone are the days when 'public baths' were 'public baths'.

Can anyone remember the days when you took talc to put on after you dried off? The floor of the changing room used to be slimy, it was V I L E! And the smell of rubber from those awful bathing hats with flowers on (women's, not mens...lol).

Remember the foot baths you used to paddle through to get to the pool? When I was a kid, I had eaten some chocolate I found 'hidden' in the medicine cabinet not realising it was laxative chocolate. We went swimming with the family and I did something terrible in the foot bath.....I tried to get to the toilet in time but I was only 4................!

 

[ColinJ]

I suggest that you change your forum name from 'CannondaleLady' to 'Cannondale Lady' so the forum software can wrap it to the second line in the box on the left of each post. On my tablet, I just see 'CannondaleLad' which made me think you are male! PM Shaun (a.k.a. as the CC Boss) to request it.

Keep up the good work!

 

[Saluki]

OK, swam 40 lengths and decided the taste and smell of chlorine isn't very nice. They weren't gonna let me in 1st, as I wasn't 'on their database' but they made me fill in a form. I'm guessing it's to keep known 'offenders' out. Gone are the days when 'public baths' were 'public baths'.

Can anyone remember the days when you took talc to put on after you dried off? The floor of the changing room used to be slimy, it was V I L E! And the smell of rubber from those awful bathing hats with flowers on (women's, not mens...lol).

Remember the foot baths you used to paddle through to get to the pool? When I was a kid, I had eaten some chocolate I found 'hidden' in the medicine cabinet not realising it was laxative chocolate. We went swimming with the family and I did something terrible in the foot bath.....I tried to get to the toilet in time but I was only 4................!

I never ate the 'chocolate' in the medicine cabinet. I did feed some to my loathed little sister though. She got the day off school and everything. You had to be near death in our house to get a day off school. She sat all day in the bathroom, doing jigsaw puzzles so as to be near the loo. My parents are long dead so they'll never know unless they have wi-fi down below.

I remember the slimey floors, footbaths and the smell of rubber swim hats
We had these funny frame hangery things that you put your shoes in the bottom of and hung your clothes over the top of. Then you handed them in and swapped them for a wristband with a number on. The slightly cross looking woman, with the over plucked eyebrows, bad blue eye-shadow and lipstick that was a shade too red, took them and scowled at you with a ciggy hanging out of the side of her mouth. If she had cause to tell you off she jabbed the cigarette in your general direction as she was making her points. My Mum said that she was called Margeret and she was a proper cow when Mum was at school with her. Thought she was destined for great things. Mum used to engage her in chit chat and remind her of the 'great things' from time to time.

 

[Cannondale Lady]

I suggest that you change your forum name from 'CannondaleLady' to 'Cannondale Lady' so the forum software can wrap it to the second line in the box on the left of each post. On my tablet, I just see 'CannondaleLad' which made me think you are male! PM Shaun (a.k.a. as the CC Boss) to request it.

Keep up the good work!

I have messages Shaun. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[Cannondale Lady]

My parents are long dead so they'll never know unless they have wi-fi down below.

Wi-Fi down below - that would chafe in ya cycling shorts!