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I know how you feel, last week i started back at swimming after an 8 week break and i have been so cranky all this second week. I love swimming in fact it is one of the few exercises apart from walking that i enjoy and can afford so i guess my body has got get back into the swing of things before the crankiness goes and…

Been there done that, lost about 85 lbs 8 years ago but put it all back on plus more as i decided to eat what i wanted and stop going to the the gym. I started again last January (2014) thanks to a medical problem (had and operation in January this year to sort it out) and now i am nearly 70 lbs down again but i would like…

If it's not in my house or garden I include it. It takes me about 15 min to take my daughter to nursery and come home and the same to pick her up again. I do have to catch a bus but I actually walking for 30 min on nursery days which I am happy to add as it is exercise as some days it is all I get to do.

I am 5'3.5" and my personal ideal weight would be 160/165 lbs, i did get down to 144 lbs about 8 years ago but i didn't feel right that low as it was a little bit too thin for me and i was quite unhappy.

See i don't like it when i am pregnant (have been twice in my life) and nobody notices because i am fat. I like the attention it brings.

I am 5ft 3 1/2, weigh 205 lb (14 st 9) and I have just become a UK size 20.

Sorry about the spelling mistake i made in my last post i obviously meant self harming not shelf harming. Thank you to the person that pointed it out and hopefully there have been none made in this one.

I am just going to put my little view on things, i like looking at things a little different and sometimes that can be in a negative way (yes i am 'that' person). When i read about bulking and cutting i just think of someone throwing up and shelf harming. Yes i know what both words mean in the context of muscle building…

Just using my experience so it may not be the same for everyone else. I have used Orlistat in the past to lose weight (8 1/2 years ago) which does stop some of the fat being absorbed the side effects are not pleasant if you do eat a fatty meal. I lost over 7 stone in 18 months. The reason i put the weight back on was…

I have thunder thighs, cankles, huge calves (i can not find knee high boots unless i pay a lot of money) and fat knees with a big square bum (although once it is in jeans it looks more round) they do go down as i found out when i lost weight the first time but they are always big without shape however i am not bothered…

I have PCOS and i have never done low carbs but i do low fat and count calories (although i only started to count calories since January but i lost 3 stone last year by just doing low fat) and that seems to work for me.

I want to look good in what ever i choose to wear on my 40th (in just over a years time), the other main reason is that i would like another child but i don't want to go through the pains of a healing caesarean scar with a large belly overhang like i did last time as that causes all sorts of problems.

I have read many posts on here and there are a few rude, in considerate people that think it is amusing to be impolite, I like to think of them as 'mean girls' even though some are male. Most of the time I shake my head and ignore their posts, sometimes I read what they say to amuse me and sometimes I want to slap the…

I am the same but my clothes are getting baggier so think I am losing weight where I don't measure (rib cage, bottom shoulders and knees). This might be the case for you as well.

If you would like to eat (i personally never get my 5 a day as i am lucky to hit one a day) them then you could always chop them up really small and 'hide' them in sauces e.g pasta sauces etc that way you will get the nutritian but not necessarily the flavour if that is what puts you off.

My partner has joined this journey with me however he is not quite as dedicated (for the want of a better word) as I am which has shown that he has not lost any weight in the last few weeks but I have left this all up to him as it is his body however he has now come to the conclusion that he does want to lose more weight…

I don't go every day most of the time (some days i go twice a day and then i might not go again for the next few days) and i have been like that since i was a child but my weight has been steadily going down so i don't see it as a problem for losing weight.

Both my partner and i are on MFP so we do discuss it a lot especially at meal times however our 3 year old has starting saying about calories and grams so i think we are going to have to make sure she is not in ear shot as i really don't want to have her thinking that it is all right to get fat as long as you count…

For some strange reason i don't gain before or during (lasts 7 days) but just as i am coming up to the last day i might put on 1-2 pounds which is just odd, last month i didn't put on anything i just stayed the same and then a few more days later i lost, i am hoping this is the case this time as well.

My motivation is to annoy people (there are a certain few) who pay a lot of money for slimming world and boot camp type exercises/personal trainers by losing more weight then them in the same time scale by doing it secretly and for a lot less money.

I do this in the mirror all the time just to make me feel better, at first i stand all slumped over with my belly pushed out then i stand up straight and then i use my stomache muscles and clench my buttocks that way i look better and better in the last 2 shots. I was thinking of putting some photos of me doing this to see…

I hate losing my boobs, when i did it the first time round they went from an F cup to a D cup and although they still looked good in my bra they looked awful out of it (I have never had pert boobs) as they just looked like tennis balls in long socks, when i put all the weight back on i was happy to get the girls back…

The reason behind this (and i am not saying it is true) is not that it helps burn calories but apples supposedly swell in the stomach helping you feel fuller therefore eating one before a meal is meant to help you eat a little less of what ever is on your plate. I am no scientist so i could not tell you if this is true or…

I have in the past, when i lost a lot of weight the first time round so i decided to put some more back on unfortunately a little bit more led to a lot more and i ended up bigger then i started, this time round i am going for a higher weight goal as i know when i was at my happiest, look good weight even though it will…

I am seeing it come off in some odd places, at first it was my face but now it is from my shoulders, knees, ankles, rib cage (but waist has not lost inches) and some around my groin (sorry if TMI) which means my clothes have not got any looser but i am sure they will get there.

I am on just over 1800 but most days I eat less, feel free to add me although I am not very alkative, by the way I live in the UK.

I have this same problem i have gone down one and half clothing size (UK24 to a UK22 and sometimes a UK20) since i have lost 45 lb (most of it before starting with MFP) and the same pair of trousers have been tight even though i have lost another 13 lb since i managed to get into in the first place. I was hoping that…

Congratulations you look fantastic and your meals look so appetising, i might have a go at making some of them myself.

Obviously i am just a fluke of nature.

I went on a low fat diet last year due to my gallstones and i didn't count calories, i managed to lose 3 stone in that year but because i became stuck at that weight for a couple of months i found my way to MFP to help me lose some more by now looking at the amount of calories i eat. And yes i was eating plenty of Haribo…