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I'd like to have a thigh gap, even though I know it might not be possible. My legs brush together when I walk and on a hot day it's uncomfortable and often painful. I don't think it's that shallow to want to change that :/

I do :) After past boyfriends making me feel lucky they ever even looked at me, I couldn't appreciate this one more. Yep genetics are a pain! It's annoying because I feel like I finally got to a stage in my life where I'd realised it doesn't matter, and then I started down the weight loss trail and so many of the…

No sorry I worded that wrong - I meant I do try to eat 1200 calories - so I eat 400 calories under maintenance, not 900 calories under maintenance! I definitely want to talk to someone, but I just have no idea how to go about it! I live in the UK and getting a doctors appointment is impossible - I tried to get one a few…

Thank you so much for your message, it was really kind and a lovely and supportive thing to read :) I think I definitely do eat enough - normally too much! I do have a stupid mindset where I see my target (1200 cal/day to lose approx. 0.75lbs a week) as a challenge, and I should try to get as far below it as I can. I did…

Lost another 3lbs, taking me down to 132lbs - I've only weighed this little at one point in my life before (apart from childhood), so any weight I lose now will make me the slimmest I've ever been :D And I got my running up to 11km, which means I can eat loads more snacks and it be ok!

Sorry I always get confused with them! My TDEE is about 1600 and my BMR is about 1300 :)

Hi all - thanks for the great advice! I've made my diary public as a few people have suggested. I also have about 15lbs I want to lose (I'm 5"4 and weigh 135lbs), so I have a BMR of around 1500, so eating at 1200 gives me a deficit of about 300, so I'm on track for losing 0.5lbs a week as a couple of people have suggested.

Thanks for all the help guys! So happy that everyone's advising that I should eat more fruit - that's exactly what I want to hear. I'll also try to add at least one extra portion of veg into every meal - at the moment I get about 2-3/meal, and 2 a day in snacks, so definitely want to up that! Just to clarify a couple of…

Thanks! I have a banana a day and if I eat any more fruit than that I tend to go over my sugar limit, but I think I should probably listen to my body and give it what it wants because it's clearly not good!

I didn't realise how much sugar is in everything! I can eat a banana in the morning and then that's pretty much it! No more fruit, no chopped tomatoes in my dinner (which rules out a lot of nice food!)... I don't stick to this at all and tell myself that the sugar hit is worth it for all the good stuff in fruit, but it's…

Starting weight 143, current weight 135 - Would like to get down to 120 but don't want to beat myself up to do it, going to aim for 126 and go slowly from there

Most days I have whole wheat couscous with 50g turkey breast, 2 tsp reduced fat pesto and kale - 293 cals with 21g protein

6 mile walk, 5 mins of ab work, 5 mins of leg work, 30xpress ups, 30x tricep dips, 30x wall press ups, after work gonna go to the gym and do half an hour of weighted circuits and maybe a little cardio

I added 1km onto my running distance so hit 10km this week and it only took me 3 more minutes than running 9km :D Had a big slice of birthday cake to celebrate!

Love beans and pulses! Use them as a nutritionally dense + high protein substitute for pasta, rice etc. If it wasn't for lentils I don't think I could cope with life!

I get really horrible pains that make me feel like I'm going to pass out so I let myself have treats on days where it's awful, like a bag of malteasers - only 187 cals and they really hit the spot for me :) but then so does guiness...

Anyone doing this can add me! I'm really keen on trying to find new ways to stick at 1200 as it's a right pain.. I miss cheese!

Thanks guys! The only things I don't weight properly are things like kale, fruit and yoghurt which I just think of as a bit of a faff for something that probably won't make a huge amount of difference, particularly when I'm getting such large calorie deficits (plus I really don't want to worry my housemates by being the…

Awesome, thank you :)

I'm on a 1200/day goal because I'm short and about 140 lbs. It's so annoying, particularly eating with friends because you can't have anything like they can! On the upside, one lb of weight loss on a shortie (which I'm assuming you are!) looks like a lot more than on a tall person - I have to keep reminding myself that!…