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Multivitamins, and make sure your diet is rich in vitamins and minerals. I have small improvemts from sulphate free shampoo, and avoiding any body wash products except water and a little soap in key areas, and not more than a few times a week. Mine is there, but I don't get scales anymore really (a massive improvement),…

Keep going, you do you. From the perspective of feeling criticised and defensive - while I was pregnant, and then when the kids were small, the friends that I used to go running with got into loads of other sports and running groups. They basically eclipsed my fitness by 100%. At a time when I was tired and sore all the…

Sending hugs, and it's natural to be down if you've built up the expectation even more in your head by avoiding the scale. Confronting yourself (not the scale, that's a piece of metal) is a really hard thing to do, and it takes courage to accept where you are, and say OK, so this is my starting point, let's move forward.…

I stumbled across two packets of sweets given to me, for my kids, in my coat pocket. I've just thrown them in my handbag (from which nothing is ever found again) and not eaten them despite having a bit of an anxious afternoon in work. I writing this so it's already in my mind as a victory, and then there's no chance I will…

I'm eating much more protein and fibre atm, and I've been having a bit of trouble with indigestion because I'm still working on listening to my body to tell when I'm full. Late tea tonight and I wolf down my portion of our toad in the hole, with beans and kale (all things I absolutely love) and then stare at the kids…

I bought a new work suit 4 months ago, and then the holidays happened and I went off script - today I can fit into it again! Feeling very well put together today. @holli1ch today I GET to go for a short run on my lunch break and I feel pretty blessed by that.

I've decided that it's a myth that anyone can get to goal weight and then just relax, realistically people who maintain their weightloss (this I what I struggle with) have strategies in place to help that and haven't been miraculously cured of the desire to overeat, they just don't broadcast it as much as people losing,…

Larger batch prep - so sometimes I chop all the onion I need for the week and store it chopped in the fridge, and the peppers, meat etc. And large batch cooked meals input as a recipe and then assigned portions, so the soup I made for lunches yesterday will be copy and pasted in for the next three days. It's easier for me…

Thank you :smile: A it is!

Wear it for a month and compare your average calories consumed over a week, with your calories burnt over a week and see if the rate of loss is consistent? I was surprised when I first got mine, but my average rate of loss just under a kg a week is roughly in line with a 800-1000 cal deficit most days, which leaves me with…

Mint tea! Lots of mint tea. @BlueSkiesM It never occurred to me before to think of tracking and planning as self-care/ self-love before, and I'm a little blown away now.

Two nsv this weekend :smile: I managed my first run after 3 weeks of sickness and came back in exactly where I'd left off on my training before with no problems. I was all geared up to scale back the intervals, but the strength training last week has obviously woken my cv system up enough to manage OK. Feels really good…

@mmccloy12 sorry for over reading into what you wrote, and I completely get the need to rant every so often. I've been listening on my laptop in work and making notes while I listen on moments that resonate with me. I feel a bit stupid talking about these things in real life, especially with people who just don't have a…

@mmccloy12 I'm sorry things are so stressful, but it sounds like you're doing great in anticipating where it might be a struggle and trying to prepare for that rather than just react. I'm working on saying to myself, yes, this is going to be a tough situation but that's not going to be my excuse to fall apart. I absolutely…

That I'll never maintain any significant loss because I'll get lazy and stop exercing and logging (slightly influenced by experience). So I'm also working on acceptance that just like diet should be governed by moderation, so should exercise and there's just as valid a place for moderate lazyness as activity, which I enjoy…

@got2bjb I'm not sure if it's influenced by age, but I'm my experience from losing weight before at 28, your body takes fat from the easiest places for it first, which is really noticeable when it's your face, where looser skin is really easily seen. I have some properly haggard pictures from then including my passport…

I had a conversation a while ago about the fact that I wasn't giving up having pastries for breakfast, only recognising that as it wouldn't fill me up for the hours until lunch it wasn't worth eating a stale pastry right now. Good for you @aliciap0116 :smile: I have had a very rough plan to build a brick pizza oven in our…

Have you tried spending some time tracking at maintenance calories? Given the amount of exercise you do it kind of sounds like you're trying to cut out too much too soon and both your body and mind are rebelling and going for the quickest solution to make you feel better. Set the tracker to maintain, logg your exercise and…

Have you tried spending some time tracking at maintenance calories? Given the amount of exercise you do it kind of sounds like you're trying to cut out too much too soon and both your body and mind are rebelling and going for the quickest solution to make you feel better. Set the tracker to maintain, logg your exercise and…

I assume you're in the habit of batch cooking meals that you do over and over? At the start it's more of a faff yes, but when you've saved the recipe or meal you can just repeatedly add it in. Most of my family meals I've done before by now, or a make a big batch of things for lunch in one go and copy and paste in day…

Hot bath usually works for me or a hot water bottle. A certain amount of soreness is to be expected if you haven't been doing the movements before. If any of it is actual pain that doesn't fade after a day or two then check you haven't strained something, otherwise I'd expect that it would fade. It's easier to keep your…

With the calories your tracker says you've burnt off, this does (usually, I don't know for definite with yours) include the calories you would be burning off just being alive, that mfp have already allocated you. Please don't assume that if it says 600, you add in 600 extra calories to your allowance for the day, because…

Your body is weighing at that point in time, as a combination of the food you've put in your mouth, the food that was already in your intestines, the water you've drunk, how hydrated you cells are, where in your cycle you are. As research, so you learn not to over think the scale numbers too much, why not spend a few days…

I have just started incorporating these into my routine, and I'm embarrassed to say it took until seeing his video from your recommendation here, to realise that most people find it uncomfortable and use a pad... I thought I was doing something wrong! That's what I get for just reading instructions and not watching a video…

Eat back something, for any exercise that is outside of normal living ie. Don't log that you burned x number of calories walking from the bus stop to work if that's a general part of your day and you would be doing it normally . Mfp isn't set to mbr calories, so there is an assumption in there that you are moving and not…

1. Being outside and on my own. I struggle if I don't get some time without people around frequently, so it works to de-stress that way, as well as the feel good factor. 2. Setting a goal and knowing that for the most part it is within my power to achieve it with a well formed plan.

Congratulations! This is such a heart warming story :)

I'm the same age and I really hate feeling like you know you body could do something, only it can't. Two things I've realised personally that may or may not apply to you: 1. My normal diet throughout the years (usual breakfast, lunches, dinners) were geared to a calorie and macro content for someone about 30 pounds smaller…

I went to a very smart boutique today, where a lot of the dresses are one size because they don't make a huge number of them. I fit into everything I tried on, meaning it's pretty safe to assume I'm average sized right now.

@theleadmare the main problem was that I'd already planned for the week where that food would go and my lunches are already prepared. My normal reaction would be to use it as a reason why I couldn't eat reasonably that day and go completely crazy for days after as well. He's normally supportive he just didn't think because…