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Hi ! I'm also starting over and looking for motivation and accountability. I live in Paris (France) and have 80lbs to lose ... slowly but surely is what i'm aiming for !

Hi night_watcher, is there any way of entering ? I really need this kind of support to start off again ... Thx !

Low fat gree yogurt isn't as nice as the full fat yogurt (I find). The fact it's full fat is generally more filling too, it's just more nutrient rich and "hard" to digest (this may also be my opinion). In France, it's so hard to find low fat and the only nice one that is low fat is Fage. But it's like 2€ for a 170g pot ...…

A lot of people say : Focus on the journey not the destination. And it's honestly the best advice out there. You want your weight loss to last, you want your general health to improve, and that's what happening thanks to the changes you're making. Just focus on that. The weight will fall off, or not. Take pictures…

It's not surprising. You can eat mcdonalds and be at calorific deficit and lose weight. However, your general health would go downhill. I read a french article not so long ago about a guy who ate some snack all day long (I think it was mars bars ?!). He lost weight but he suffered terrible migraines, heart burn, and…

Ha I'm thankful I've seen this post and seen I'm not the only one. I'm WAYYYY off my goal weight, I've been at this for 96 days to be precise, I have lost 5.6kg of 30kg. So it's not like my body is happy at its weight. I have not lost weight in the past month. But pictures show a massive difference. Usually I take a…

Hi, I would suggest getting a slow cooker, if you don't already have one. They're very cheap in the supermarkets in the UK, I got a small one (not enough for a family of 4) for 10£ in Tescos. You can probably get a big enough one for 20£. And if public transport is a problem, you can get cheap ones off amazon. There are…

And for people like me reading this and wondering about exercise calories and why you should eat them back, this is explained so logically here : http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/eating-back-calories-burned/

indeed. I set it to 0.5kg which is about 1lb instead of 1kg (about 2lb) and it gives me 1580kcals again. So now I'm on 1580kcals + my exercise calories on workout days. Thanks for clearing that up, it seems obvious put that way !

Thanks for that. In that case, if I put sedentary job, MFP only gives me 1200kcals for the day. Which is way under any other calculations I've done (be it BMR, TDEE, or what have you). If I add my exercise calories to that, I'll end up with just under 1700kcals which is what my actual BMR is on the other calculators.…

Right so my TDEE - based on the IIFYM calculator as its seems more accurate - is 2487kcal. If I deduct 20% I get 1990kcal. On MFP, if I indicate that I am active (which seems to be what I'm supposed to put with 5x60min workouts/week), I get 1620kcals. I also indicated an average weekly burn of 2300kcals into MFP (I have a…

Yes, I sure was, but on a high sugar / high fat / high carb diet. So very hihhigh calorie diet. At the moment my lunches are healthy and filling : for this week I've prepped creamy chicken with carrots and beans + sweet potatoe mash so that adds up to about 500/600kcals (I still have some of the recipe to log). I wouldnt…

Ok its clear now, I get it. Thanks :) So my TDEE based on 5 workouts/week (ie 3-5 hours per week) and a 20% weightloss ... it's 2171 kcals. To be honest I dont think I'm capable of eating that much :o I've taken into account your advice and what I have read and set my goal to 1600kcal with an average calorie burn/week of…

To Ana3067 : Ok, I think I get it. So ... MFP is giving me a number that doesn't include my workout calories. I thought that you weren't meant to eat back your exercise calories when you're trying to lose weight. So I haven't been. When I was on 1580kcals/day I didn't eat back my exercise calories and lost weight weekly…

To Sheldonklein : I don't want to take into account the TDEE value as that's over 2000kcals, and it's assuming I burn about 1000kcals in workouts daily (and I'm more on an average of 500kcals, I only have one workout / week that's 1000kcals +). I want to take into account the BMR value which is 1700kcals. However, I have…

I was going to answer Shock Absorber ... I find they're the best, because they're also pretty comfortable. I don't think there are that many brands out there. Maybe look on the Bravissimo website what brands they have and find it in your country. Bravissimo is a great shop for big chests.

Fantastic job ! I'm sure you can tell the difference but you can't really grasp it. Remember how you felt when you walked up a flight of stairs ? And now ? It's all those little things that you need to think about and you'll get where the difference is. And obviously those pictures ! Huge difference !

I love Nutella. I've learned to love it in moderation. I've had it since I was a little kid (in France pretty much everyone has Nutella in their home). It's very true that there is Palm Oil in Nutella. And a lot of it ... Check out this video. It's ok to have a little every so often so long as you don't splurge on it.…

Hi. I hardly ever hit my protein macros. Most days I get to about 50-60%. I'm not a vegetarian but I'll only have a little meat in the day because I'm just not a big meat eater. I try to source my protein else where but I'm not brilliant at that. I was given some Chocolate Whey as a gift a few months ago and haven't…

Wow ... Actually. I've lost 2,5kg since being on MFP. But since the 1st of January I've lost 3,5kg ! That was really confusing. I'm going to track a weight chart on excel too ...

You guys are great support :) (I find MFP is great for that, which is so important when on this journey). This is my first free weekend since december, the show I was working on has finished. I'm going to focus on meal prepping. I make my dinners, is it bad having the same thing for lunch the next day ? Thanks guys !!!

Hi, thanks for all your advice. I am used to an average of 4 kg a month, which is about 9lbs I think. Sure, it had slowed down as I got closer to 90kg but when I was around this weight it really was melting off, yet I was doing less exercise. I'm not going to give up, I just don't understand why I've lost so little. But…

I do more weights (TRX) than cardio. You burn more calories during the workout with cardio. However, building muscles will make you burn more calories during the day, as using the muscles will be more of an "effort" (kinda). The amount of sweat isn't really an indicator. Some people sweat more than others during the same…

The first thing I did when my knee started hurting bad last year was go to the foot doctor to have fitted sport insoles. So I've been wearing Asics (which are considered the best for support), with my insoles and unfortunately that has done very little to help. However, footwear and seeing a foot doctor is the first thing…

Hi, no I have 30kg to lose ! That's 66lbs. I don't think I'd even be able to do more than walking with 70kg ... I've been working out regularly for over a year now, I just havent been consistent with food here and there. Americans love lawsuits. That's the reputation in european countries. This kind of article makes me…

Oh and it's really tendinitis I have. Far more in the right knee. Left knee is "alright".

Wow, thanks for your answers ! I think I wasnt precise enough in my initial message : I'm overweight. My knees are not straight (X shaped legs, but only slightly). I have very muscly legs according to all the doctors. But I'm overweight and therefor putting a lot of strain on my knees. I have been told to avoid running all…

I LOVE spaghetti squash and it's so hard to find in France :( I just cut it in half length wise, spray the surface with olive oil, line my roasting tray with parchment paper and roast the halves down faced for about 45min to an hour. Then you scrape it out. It tastes like really buttery sweet-ish spaghetti(-ish). It's…

Ok, I'll give it a try. I don't have protein powder so I'll go for a banana and see how I'm feeling about that. One website suggested that if you don't eat you're not going to put your most in the workout, which is why I started to wonder wether I had been doing it right the few times I worked out early morning. Thanks for…

Hey all ! I'm 220lbs and would like to be at 150lbs sometime in the next 12-18months. I've been on my journey for a year but have gone down and back up on the scale :( I workout 3 times a week: cardio, TRX, etc. I'd like to have lots of MFP friends with the same goals so we can share our successes, struggles, etc and keep…