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Indelicate question - are your trousers/skirts large enough around the waist? I've always had occasional trapped wind, but when I put on 14lbs last year, I got it every day. It was eating in clothes that were too tight around my waist that seemed to cause it. Really painful and I took Rennie Deflatine to clear it. The gas…

Not if you just have lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onions, tomatos etc. Unless you ate a salad mountain! Adding protein (meat/fish) adds up to a few hundred. The potential killer is the dressing - some are horrendously high in calories - but choose carefully and you're fine.

I have grapes most days - 67 cals in 100g. Salad bits are good as above - lettuce, cucumber, bell peppers, celery. You can have a plate of salad so big you get bored eating it for very few cals. :smile: I eat a lot of snacks and have smaller meals - that just works for me. Some people have three larger meals and little to…

As above, you already know the answer. The only way to do it is to stick to your calories. Sounds harsh but you'll do it when you want it enough.

True... My mum has always eaten really healthily - she loves fruit and veg, lean meat and fish... Her problem was just primarily portion size. I'm still upset that she can eat a pasta mountain. My 75g dried portion-size for pasta looks so stingy in comparison! I know that all the different diet plans actually just boil…

Slimming World is some sort of crazy sorcery. My mum has lost 20lbs so far with Slimming World. She can eat unlimited pasta and potato. Just WTF?! She phoned her leader to double check that point in her first week. She's not doing green/red days - the latest version doesn't have those, though you can choose to follow a…

On the website on a computer, or in the app?

I weigh first thing in the morning, but the most important thing is to weigh at the same time of day, each time. Lots of slimming clubs meet in the evenings and do weigh-ins there. Most people are a couple of pounds heavier by the evening, but if you're comparing like-for-like from week to week then it's fine. :smile:

Nuts!

Hey, can I friend you? I'm also 5'8, just got back down to 140lbs which is about my goal. I plan to lose down to about 138lbs to have a bit of a buffer, then maintain around that. :smile: We can make sure we both keep logging. :smile: Maintenance is possible! I lost 42lbs in 2009-10 and maintained until late last year when…

I lost 42lbs on 1200 a day in 2009-10, and maintained until late last year. I piled 14lbs back on last Autumn following medical treatment, when I was sad and unable to exercise! So since Jan I've been back on 1200 cals and am now nearly back at goal. Maintenance is do-able and the MFP cals are about right for me. You have…

I think you should start with the meals you want to eat, not the ingredients. You could buy the items listed above and then get home and think "What am I going to do with these?". Look for healthy meal recipes that you'd like, then list the groceries you need for them. Might be an easier approach?

I eat all of my daily cals and all of my exercise cals. I log food with OCD accuracy - everything is weighed. For exercise, I only log my running and cycling, which I track using apps, so I have an accurate record of my distance/time/speed. I don't log things like walking 2 mins to the local shop! I had a goal of 1lb/week…

You've met someone through online dating, lied about your weight, and you're meeting them face-to-face in two months?

I actually disagree re "diets", but it depends entirely on what you mean by "diet". I just take it to mean "a method of losing weight", which MFP is. The key point is that any diet is a lifelong change. People think they can diet (ie eat at a deficit) and then go back to eating the same way they did before, which they…

Weight Watchers is nigh on identical to MFP, but you have to pay for it. So if WW works then so does MFP! I lost 3 stone with WW, then switched to MFP when I realised it was the same thing for free. WW has a database where they've assigned 'point' values to all foods. They do use a formula that doesn't just take calories…

Just to add, if you're still recovering from major surgery, you shouldn't eat at a deficit yet. There was a thread on here recently about someone going in for surgery and the number of calories they should eat afterwards - it was higher than maintenance. Your body needs energy to heal. Not sure where you are in the healing…

Congratulations on your amazing weight loss! The exercise burns are an eye-opener. I used to eat a large Dominos pizza by myself. MFP taught me that you have to cycle 60 miles to burn it off. :open_mouth:

I have a chocolate mousse for dessert every night (90 cals per pot), and two good quality chocolates from a box later in the evening (100 cals). I couldn't give them up. :smile: With good quality chocolate, it's so rich that you won't want to devour loads of it! (unlike cheap bars where a 200g bar can disappear!). I plan…

1. Change your goal to "maintain current weight", see what daily cals it says, then put it back to "lose 1.5lbs per week", and make sure the cals go down. Just check that the app hasn't glitched. 2. Is your logging, both of food and exercise, really accurate? Are you weighing everything you eat on a food scale? Do you…

I just do MFP the way it was designed - using the cal goal it gives me and not worrying about TDEE, BMR or any of the other acronyms on here that confuse me. I eat 100% of my exercise cals and have lost 11lbs in 11 weeks, with it set to a goal of 1lb per week. I do log both food and exercise with an OCD level of accuracy.…

Yes, apologies for any confusion. There is the weekly chart in the app, but day-to-day MFP will reset every day, and show you how many over/under you are that day. I did also then say that I usually go over my cals on a Friday and under on a Saturday and it's working for me. :smile:

Each day is a new day! You can't carry calories forward from one day to the next. You should have eaten those 319 yesterday. You get your normal daily allowance fresh today and can then earn cals. That's the way MFP works. In reality of course, weight loss can work with a bit of carry-forward or back. Weight Watchers lets…

I always hit my protein goal. I'm usually slightly under on fat and slightly over on carbs (the carbs coming from the sugar, I'm sure), but not horrendously out - within 5% most of the time.

Most items are listed in the database in both raw and cooked weight, so just make sure you're using the right one. An entry should state whether it's raw or cooked weight. I vary. I weigh rice cooked (weighs a lot more than raw). This is because I cook rice for my husband and I in one pot. I'm not going to bother having…

Oh, and I'm not recommending this as it's no doubt bad for me, but 150-200 cals of my daily cals are chocolate, and I've lost 11lbs. Including bad food isn't slowing me down.

I haven't cut out any food entirely. As soon as I do, it makes me miserable. I have smaller meal portions and fewer snacks, and many fewer alcoholic drinks (hard to make room for them on 1,200 cals a day), but nothing is off limits.

I don't think there's a 'correct' portion. You'll find your portion sizes as you start logging. Eg when I planned my first day that included roast chicken for dinner, I logged 150g of meat. I started weighing it onto my plate and went 'Woah!' It was a lot of meat. I now have 100-125g. There's trial and error when you start…

I'm sure you've got it right, but people should be careful of the difference between raw and cooked weight with rice and pasta. 70g raw (dried) weight = about 210g cooked weight, as it absorbs water. So it can be easy to massively under or overeat!