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This is nearly everywhere in the UK because it's all so old, town planning pretty much wasn't a thing post Roman Britain and the Romans didn't get everywhere. Then there's those two Scottish exceptions I mentioned, very pioneering us Scots.

Well I am officially back to logging and dare I say it's almost a relief. Mostly because I need to not feel this overstuffed and bloated and logging helps me rein it in. I don't want to look at 4000 calories logged so I'm not tempted to eat as much. All the food is gone now except cheese. And cheese is easy to fit in…

Did not log. Did not care. I estimate a bajillionty. There were chocolates and bucks fizz for breakfast, Pringles for snacks, dinner of steamed sprouts, roast lamb shoulder, duck fat roast potatoes, pigs in blankets and yorkshires. Cheesecake for pudding. 1 glass of red wine. I was so full I had to nap off the sore tummy!…

I'm the same but in the long term it makes no odds, even if you're constantly bouncing up 3lbs, you're still also bouncing down. As they say, it all comes out in the wash.

Useless fact. Edinburgh (New Town) and Glasgow (City Centre) were the second and third European countries to be built on a grid. Well, partly, because old AF. It was adopted by America who took it next level because they obviously had a lot more new cities to build.

I also think block comes from American cities being newer and built on a grid system. So a series of blocks. Hence using it as a reference.

I weigh daily, or at least generally speaking, for the same reason. Both get the same goal. I won't assess the real "damage" if there is any until a couple of weeks into January, I hold onto water like nobody's business.

I'm sporting about 9lbs at the highest over the last few days. It's as much about volume of food as salt and carbs for me. I feel like a stuffed bloated pig and the scale and stomach puff agree! It'll all sort itself out. You may hold on to a little just by virtue of the fact you're not low carb, that would equalise if you…

I grew up with all sorts of weights and measures, I was that generation that had shops stop selling in pounds and switch to grams and kilograms. I'm a seamstress who prefers to measure a human and ready made clothing in inches but pattern cut in centimetres for better accuracy. In the UK, as seen here, we use stones and…

By that logic then even US based posters should have to preface their posts with where they're from because again, this is not a US site and a good proportion of veteran posters are not in the US.

I think you just demonstrated, in one post, one of the things that bugs me most about a lot of MFP users. There are a huge number of outside the US users. Many veterans, myself and Nony included, are not in the US. It's English speaking, USA isn't the only country in the planet that speaks English. In fact, it could be…

I am already in possession of silver glitter boots. I love them and someone always comments how much they love them when I wear them. But then I am all about ridiculous clothing.

Well, technically, all stretches also feature in yoga. Just go on Youtube and do a search. You can specify stretching as opposed to yoga. I'm assuming you don't want to "flow", so a stretching video will cut that out and just move stretch to stretch.

I'm up a bit more than that after two days. It's literally water and food in my guts. Chill. You can't undo much in two days. I'll just get back to a normal intake and then see what the scale says in a couple of weeks (which is typically how long it takes before I'm back to "normal" weight wise. For some people the water…

I went hard yesterday. So hard I had to nap the tummy pain away. Oops. As for calories. We'll just call it eye watering. Didn't log but I got through a lot of food and booze and orange juice which I normally rarely have. Pretty much just at Christmas. Will wind things down now and go back to normal portions! I do still…

Three years and I've indulged every Christmas. And birthday. And holiday. Still 63lbs down. Still losing. I like my way and it is key to my sanity during the holidays. Different strokes. I like my way. Because festive food.

Pretty much identical situation to me. It's water, glycogen replenishment and more food in your system. Don't sweat it. Assess any "damage" after a week or so of being back to regularly scheduled programming.

It's worth bearing in mind 1220 is net, so as above, exercise and extra activity "earns" you more calories. I am the same height as you and currently 10lbs lighter, I am also pretty sedentary for the most part out of purposeful exercise (about 45mins a day 4-5 times a week). I can lose 1lb per week at 1500-1600 calories…

Me too. Life isn't about never having the donut, not my life anyway.

I shall share a picture of my feast tomorrow. I always cook as if there are at least 5 people being fed. But it's just me. Meat is currently marinating, spuds are par-boiled, bread sauce (should really be eaten with poultry but meh, I make the rules) made during the week, everything else will happen tomorrow! And (bought)…

Probably a good thing you're not a fly on my Christmas wall and it's all my own doing as I don't have family!

Absolutely all of it comes down to personal preference. And I do the above of making sure to hit my protein goal which is in grams for me. Make sure I get the majority of my fat goal and then everything else lands where it lands. I do like to have a starch with most meals as it's the most satiating for me to have all three…

I'm feeling a disconnect between the time period of this advice and its intentions vs the discussion of what fat people are eating too much of (and I'd wager the answer to that is everything including a lot of nutrient dense foods, certainly was for me). That video was likely some time in the 60s? When obesity was scarcely…

And I am probably not going to go up to my friend for Christmas day, the combination of a two hour round trip and putting on a face (to very lovely people who don't bat an eye at little orphan me gatecrashing family gatherings!) mean it's just not something I can do and guarantee I am safe doing that driving. But I have a…

I am very very jealous of you seeing Hamilton. If I wasn't a horrible agoraphobic public transport anxietyer I'd make a much more concerted effort to see it but hopefully I'll get there eventually! I finally got to see Book of Mormon and Curious Incident so there is hope.

Absolutely the same, especially given we are not a nation designed for giant cars given the age of our roads, they were not meant for ridiculous oversized vehicles! And yet they grow ever more in popularity, never seeing so much as a muddy puddle.

I had the same negotiations with a parking lot on Wednesday. The kicker being they had blokes at the entrance directing people in when clearly there weren't enough spaces. And I pissed someone off because I think I nabbed their space by swinging down a one way system the wrong way for a space two in from the end (so I…

My body is glycogen replenishing HARD. Or I failed to moderate that giant box of chocolates amongst other things and now have some impressive bloat going on. You decide. Pass the detox tea! What? I need to be nice and clean for all the roast tatties imma eat on Monday.........

Could be some logging inaccuracies too as that is a slow rate of loss for size/age/calorie intake.

If you have your own data use that instead of a calculator. Take the last eight weeks of loss, work out what that means in calories and add to what you have been eating on average. Real world trumps guesstimating calculators. Macro splits are personal. But as you've been low carb when you return to "normal" carb you are…