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Aww glad I made your year! You really have done super super well and have an enviable natural defined waist which many sculpted ladies do not.

Thinking about the advice in this. I can completely see that if your goal is more about body composition, building muscle, it would help to have a break so the exercise gets more surprising again and therefore effective. But if you want to lose a stone of belly fat, and you don't have a huge daily allowance anyway at 5ft…

I second that!

Wow that's amazing! Incredibly well done!

I really must do the weight training. I worry about more muscle though, I don't want any more I just want less belly fat! However the thought of being able to maintain a slight weight on a lot of cals is very alluring!! Congratulations on your journeys both ARGriffy and RunRuthee run! ARGriffy I checked out your success…

Thanks for the replies. Good luck white zombie girl and take care on those low low cals. You look beautiful in your profile pic and at a lovely weight. I also find that low cals gives me persistent infections and poor immunity but that may be the endometriosis which is known to weaken immunity even when you're strong and…

Fabulous Rupert - thanks for your reply - I see you're coming back from injury, I know how that feels, I wish you well. We can do this B) I've got no intention of quitting! I'll see 8.7 even if I have to be 56 yrs old and lose just one lb a year by god I'll do it! :D

I do take your point Rupert and when I started tennis and cardio tennis in April 2014 I lost wonderfully well - I lost 16 lb in a few months actually. And now I dash round that tennis court with way less effort and I do billions of squats and lunges and my body is strong and tireless. I went on a skiing holiday for the…

How many steps are you doing Whitezombie? I would lose a pound and a half on 1100 I'm sure. I am active! Thanks for your reply Rupert! I have the ketltebells in my home gym and have never used them :s I am muscly as I do cardio tennis which is lot of squatting and planking and throwing medicine balls at the wall and the…

I think a lot of people just don't get that for some of us there's an over production of a hormone driving our hunger. Some of us are just hungrier than others. It doesn't matter that the deficit is tiny, that I'm careful to eat regularly and eat filling things, I could permanently eat a very hearty meal. Even an hour…

It also could be indicative of endometriosis, which is so incredibly difficult to diagnose until it becomes severe.

It will! But you're a lucky lady as a pear - jealous as I'm a very definite apple. Just keep going with this. It may be that increased activity is altering your weight with increased muscle, and the number may take time to adjust down. Keep photographing your behind! And as rabbit says, the weight lifting would really nail…

The green days are like fast days! OK if you want to do that - not really very different to the 5.2 diet. I couldn't do it!

I get the 3lb Jean, I'm your height. That can very easily be the difference between an 8 and a 10, or an 8 fitting tightly round the waist and an 8 suddenly being comfy. There's nowhere to hide 3 lb at that height. However, a whole dress size is probably closer to 7lb at our height. Your diary looks great. I'd see a GP -…

All credit to her for her bravery and strength, I couldn't. I've made my peace with it - age 42 it isn't going to happen, and my husband has never been bothered for children and isn't remotely interested in adopting or fostering - in fact he's appalled by the mere suggestion of babies!! Not having them, I don't know what…

OP - I agree with your concern that SW is targeted to the higher BMIs. I have attended SW and stayed to group for 14 months now, and during that time have built up an extensive picture of the typical patterns. Larger people lose well, as did I initially as it clearly was a big calorie cut for me. But after I'd lost a stone…

I hope you can undo the damage. That's a tough regret.

I could have had a baby - possibly. My weight got so out of control that instead I grew a 10 cm endometrioma. I could never face IVF as I knew it wouldn't work with such a high BMI, even if I had found a clinic to take me on. The pain of this infertility made me depressed and actually fatter. I decided finally enough was…

Fine wine!

Aww, thanks, actually I'm cheating as my photo is of many years ago. But you look sunshiny and kissable too!

Sunshiny!

It's ever so dependent on muscle tone though! I'm 7 stone in the pic in my profile and no one ever said I looked emaciated - I didn't. I'm just really tiny - (my frame is around 32, 23, 32,) and I had no muscle tone whatsoever in my early 20s. Now I'm 42 I really can't imagine being that light - perhaps I will be, again,…

It's so interesting reading these replies - we might all be a similar height but such a variety of shapes and sizes! And wouldn't it all be dull if we were the same!! I'm 5.0 and have been all sizes from only kids' clothes fitting at around 7st (100 lb ) to UK 18 at 12 St 7 (176 lb). 176 lb made me extremely ill and so…

I really do think that's ingenious. Such an idea would never have occurred! However, how you cope on your water days is completely beyond me! I think my life is too physically strenuous to make it viable. But what a clever plan. I'll certainly be thinking more about recording and working from the bigger picture of a week…

Hi! I started in late November 2013 and in the days before Christmas I was excitedly buying a new dress size - so 1 month, and around 9 lb off. It came off very quickly because I had a lot to lose at that point and I went at it hard. To be honest my tummy looks better instantly when I switch from stuffing it with 3000 cals…

Happy Birthday fellow 12th Feb lady. Xx

Thanks for that - so useful. I'll be sure to have a play!

Wow - amazing planning and manipulation of CICA - love it! I still haven't figured out my maintenance calories or how to see the weekly deficit. Just learning the more advanced points of MFP really.

I'm so sorry to hear of your accident Timothy and hope you have some good pain meds. What a piece of bad luck. I'd agree with eating at maintenance. I lost major amounts of weight whilst healing from surgery - and the crashing off of weight, compounded with the wounds, left me weak as a kitten and prone to infection. Your…