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I had a similar experience. One night as I was settling into bed I was laying on my back and rested my hand on my lower chest/upper stomach and felt the xiphoid process on the bottom of my sternum sticking out!! I only then realised that I'd lost enough weight that my stomach had started to actually drop below my chest…

So your target is 1800 calories. You've consumed 987 so far today so have 813 calories left you've also done a 1 hour weights session so we'll be conservative and say you burned an extra 500 calories and just to be safe you can eat back 1/2 of those so you have 1063 calories left. Now I don't know what sort of food you…

Is dessert a snack? These are the important questions we tack on the MFP forums =)

In my experience the extremely rare occasion when someone in the gym is judging you it's actually a good thing. 99.9% of the time the judgement is how impressed they are that you've gotten off your butt and making an effort to better yourself. It's a positive judgement =)

Yep. I've pretty much written off all those additional measurements as little more than gimmicks used to let companies jack the price of scales up.

Yep and it bit me in the backside =) I stepped on scale and the scale read 116.3kg but had the low battery indicator so I went and changed the battery. Stepped on again with fresh batteries and the scale showed 117.6kg. LOL! Would much prefer my scale over-report when the battery starts dying but what are ya gonna do?

What is your goal? What are you trying to achieve?

I'd need to look back over my data to be sure but off the top of my head I'd say probably 3-4kg so what's that like, 6.6-8.8lb. That said it was gone less than a week later.

I'm a natural night eater. Never really that hungry during the day so I save my calories and eat like 80% of them between 8pm and bedtime. The only valid reason I can remember hearing against eating late/before bed is that it disturbs some peoples sleep. I sleep fine after eating. Well, that's not entirely true. I do…

Those data points, graphed with a trend line. Looks like a download trend to me =)

I found out on Friday after work that I can get drunk now... I rarely if ever drink and one of the main reasons is that I would have to spend a kings ransom on drinks to even get a buzz let alone actually get drunk. I'd be knocking back drinks at twice the speed of everyone else and usually it was me that had to take…

Do a search for a home callisthenics programs. That should give you some ideas about where to start. They usually involve no equipment, body weight exercises only to start and there are simplified variations that make the movements achievable for pretty much anyone (wall push ups, bent leg raises, etc). All the movements…

How diligently you need to track your calories will vary from person to person. Some, like myself, seem to be able to get away with tracking pretty roughly and still manage to lose weight. Others need to be very particular and complete with their logging in order to see results. For example someone who has a very large…

My moobs were about a full B cup when I started. Reckon they're down to an A cup now maybe even an AA :D :p

I have lots of stuff that I don't bother logging. For example at work meetings there are often lollies (Mentos) on the table and I'll usually have a few of them and not log them, or if I'm with the kids and I steal some of their chips or whatnot I'll not bother logging that either. I'm finding that I can log fairly…

M/44yo/183cm(6'0") - Started in Jan 2018 at 160kg (352lb) - Passed the halfway mark 120kg (264.5lb) this Jan. - Currently 116kg (255lb). - Expect to pass my next milestone of under 100kg (220lb) towards the end of the year (probably around Sept - Nov) - Expect to get to my healthy Height/Weight target 83kg (182lb) some…

Just hit your calorie target any way you can. Try not to avoid anything that you won't be avoiding forever, just try to eat normally (ie not 'on a diet') and choose foods you genuinely enjoy and crave. If MFP is "only" allowing your 1350 calories it sounds like this isn't enough for you to feel satisfied. Reduce the rate…

The longer I use the app the more convinced I am that the calories added via activity is so wildly varied that it can't be relied upon to be even close to accurate. That's not to say that it's not useful, but it just can't be taken at face value and needs a bit of work and experimentation on the users part. What you need…

Your other half has no weight issues because he's doing the one and only thing that works. Eating the correct amount of calories. If he's maintaining a steady weight it's because he's eating approx the same number of calories that he's using. So my top two 'tricks of the trade' would be: 1. Focus on what really matters and…

I created the following graphs to explain things to a friend of mine. Hopefully they'll be useful to you. Keep in mind that these are representations using dummy numbers to illustrate the point, not real figures. The blue line on the graph shows a linear 2lb per week loss of fat. Keep in mind that fat loss isn't linear…

y/m/d would be equal (and possibly superior) option a d/m/y as it still follows a natural, if downward, trend. But y/m/d is still closer to d/m/y as they both at the least share a common month position

Takeaway/fast food isn't necessarily the enemy or as evil as some would have you believe. I like takeaway food AND I hate cooking, so I'm going to make takeaway food work. I think a much better strategy is to develop approaches and strategies to enable you to enjoy the things you like than forbid them, deprive yourself and…

Silly Americans! It's Small/Medium/Large not Medium/Small/Large =)

OK, pretty much everything about this post is just incorrect. Your metabolism is your metabolism and will (more or less) burn through the same amount every day. 'When' you provide your body with the required energy doesn't matter, just like the time of day you put petrol into your car doesn't matter. If you're not burning…

As far as I'm concerned if it's working (safely) and you're happy, then it's right. For some reason people seem to think that losing weight needs to be an arduous undertaking and if they find it too easy they go looking for problems where there aren't any.

I don't/can't/won't cook. I'm really time poor, I'm bad at it and I don't like to do it so I choose to eat prepared or take away foods for dinner pretty much every night On a usual week my dinners will be: pizza (yep, a whole pizza) x3 Burger/Kebab/Take away meal x1-2 "Man Size" frozen dinners x2-3 All of these meals are…

I never have cheat days or cheat meals. Never. Can't cheat if there are no arbitrary rules to adhere too.

Woah. I've been eating 'unhealthy' and snacking for the past 15 months and have lost just shy of 100lb. Can't wait to see what happens when I get back on track!

It does require a little bit of space and some upfront costs but I am so happy I set up a home lifting gym in my garage at home. I started with: - Squat rack - Flat bench - Olympic bar - Plates (2x1.25kg, 2x2.5kg, 2x5kg & 2x10kg) - Rubber floor mats All up this cost me about $550AU, so comparable to approx 12 months of gym…

I was, not anymore I started 2018 at 160kg (352lb) I'm currently sitting at 116kg (255lb) This was achieved following one and only one rule. Eat fewer calories than I use. That's it. No special diet or foods, no gimmicks or gadgets, no restrictions and no deprivation. I just made sure that more often than not at the end of…