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A little bowl of salted and chilli peanuts, yum!

Tried it for the first time a few weeks ago with barbecue chicken, bacon, peppers and goats cheese with some garlic butter, it's amazing! And half a pizza keeps you full all night compared to a whole carby pizza and snacks later!

When having a mini cheeseboard for lunch is keeping on track (with cucumber and radish instead of crackers) :smiley:

This has made my day :# love pears and raspberri!

When you raise an eyebrow when your coworkers say 'I'm trying to be healthy so I'll just have some fruit' :tongue:

I bought ground almonds from asda in the baking aisle.

This is my first post on this group so hello and prepare for a long post! I tried low carb sometime last year but gave up a few days later when I read that any time I eat carbs I'll get the keto flu again and I thought it wasn't worth it, obviously I wasn't that invested in it. Then a few months ago I bought the Lean in 15…

I dislike when the people I work with ask what diet I'm 'doing', the eat less diet?

My problem is when something only tells you the calories per 100g then doesn't tell you how much the whole thing weighs, the wraps I like do this so I had to scan it with the mfp app in the shop to see if they were worth buying. What's the point in that!

I felt a bit bigger so wanted to lose weight with a few online friends as a support group, so we all did a first weigh in, I thought I was coming up to 12 stone but I was actually 12 stone 13 so a tiny bit under 13 stone and just thought my god I need to fix that! Heaviest I'd been in my life and am now down to 11 stone 4!

If it's just one week I wouldn't worry, a few months ago I ate at a 2lb loss for a week and the scale was the same as the week before (when I was consistently losing a pound a week til then) but then I lost four pounds by the next week, it can be anything really! Just give it a bit more time

Another Melissa here, usually I get Mellisa or Melanie but I just ask people to call me Mel, unless someone in work asks for my name on the phone, then I say Melissa because Mel's too short to hear on the phone. I once went into a dominos and had to give my name: Me: Mel Him: Bell? Me: Mel Him: Bell? Me: M E L Him: M E…

My confession today is that I didn't exercise because I'm still achey from yesterday's work out and was feeling a bit lazy, and instead of eating some bran for my fibre macro I had doritos and maltesers, all within calories but not my best choices :p

I don't work in the same office with her but there's a woman who walks the same way into work that I do and she does the same thing! Constant coughing but not even a good cough. I've been wondering what it would be like to work in an office with her all day every day!

Week # 1 – March 30 - 180 minutes: Mon: About 5 minutes weights with kettlebell Tue: T25 ab intervals 25mins and 5 min cool down Wed: 30 minute walk at lunch, T35 cardio and cool down Thur: 30 minute walk at lunch Fri: None Sat: None Sun: 1 hour 47 minute walk Total / min left: 232 / 180 (yay!) Week #2 - April 6th - 180…

Week # 1 – March 30 - 180 minutes: Mon: About 5 minutes weights with kettlebell Tue: T25 ab intervals 25mins and 5 min cool down Wed: 30 minute walk at lunch, T35 cardio and cool down Thur: 30 minute walk at lunch Fri: None Sat: None Sun: 1 hour 47 minute walk Total / min left: 232 / 180 (yay!) Week #2 - April 6th - 180…

Week # 1 – March 30 - 180 minutes: Mon: About 5 minutes weights with kettlebell Tue: T25 ab intervals 25mins and 5 min cool down Wed: 30 minute walk at lunch, T35 cardio and cool down Thur: 30 minute walk at lunch Fri: Sat: Sun: Total / min left: 125 / 180

All my fat is in my belly, I'm down a stone to 11 stone 13 and my belly is still here, I remember having less when I was 10 stone but it was still there then, I think it just takes a lot of work! But well done on your progress so far! :D

It's not that it's not enough as I put it in my diary (and goal is set to sedentary) but seems like cheating to already have half an hour everyday that I have no choice about. But that's a good idea to try going faster instead, I'll try that on the way home tonight!

Week # 1 – March 30 - 180 minutes: Mon: About 5 minutes weights with kettlebell Tue: T25 ab intervals 25mins and 5 min cool down Wed: Thur: Fri: Sat: Sun: Total / min left: 35 / 180

Don't blame you!

It's made mine a lot softer and shampooing second means I know I've washed out all the conditioner :p Haha that's fair enough!

I had to have my hair thinned too as it's so thick and frizzy! It's much better now that I condition first then shampoo. I've just put my calories to maintain this week, we're having friends over at the weekend for part two of a Firefly marathon which includes dominos, alcohol and shots so have been worrying about fitting…

I have a smoothie for breakfast every work morning, this week I have one with frozen rhubarb, frozen blueberries, greek yoghurt, banana, orange and sunny D (small amounts of each, you can see my diary) and for some reason it tastes like lemon cheesecake! Last week I had bigger portions of rhubarb, blueberry and banana and…

I aim for about 1200 on weekdays then eat within the rest of my weekly allowance on the weekends, much easier for me!

I'm in! I don't do anywhere near enough exercise and am starting small. I walk half an hour a day to work and back but I'm guessing that's not included as intentional exercise as it's not by choice? Week # 1 – March 30 - 180 minutes: Mon: About 5 minutes weights with kettlebell Tue: Wed: Thur: Fri: Sat: Sun: Total / min…

This is what I'm trying to do, when I lose a stone I'm buying this expensive face mask I really want instead of a big pig out like I usually would do to reward myself. I like your idea of doing it when you feel bad too!

Oh haha so everyone knows you haven't lost, like when it just says mellb completed her food diary and you can tell it's over the calorie goal :p

Oh and last confession! I made a MFP profile years ago and put in 140 as my weight even though I most likely wasn't because I didn't know it, so when I started using it again this year it kept saying I hadn't lost anything even though I lost almost a stone because I'm still way over 140. So I made a new profile with my…

I don't want to sound judgey but everyone in my office seems to be on a diet all the time, when asked about my 'diet' and 'which one are you doing?' I got funny looks when I said 'just eating less'. One of them asked last week how many calories she should be eating, I said it depends and another one said 'well when I'm…