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I just drink when I'm thirsty, usually a few cups of tea or coffee, glass of water with my tea (dinner) and whatever I sip when running. There's no need to drink a proscribed amount, as others have said it depends on weather/exercise/what you've eaten. Your body will use the power of thirst to tell you when you need to…

Maybe go up half a size?

Where else are you getting protein from? You will need a mix of sources to get all the different amino acids you need. I wonder how many calories you are eating, because it sounds like your diet is mostly fruit and veg!

They eat all sorts of things on I'm a Celebrity...

Er, I know I'm British and don't really know what half and half is, but doesn't it contain milk and cream? That both contain milk sugars?

Oh my word, I find it hard getting up at 7:30 since my son started senior school, 8am is when I'd really like to get up! I am definitely *not* a mornings person, I do my exercise during my lunch hour, though I have also been in a running group that went out at 7:30pm which also worked well for me. I am quite happy to go…

We got an enormous bag this week in our box, I swear it is half a metre long. It's taking up half the fridge.

Good advice from the poster above - 8 stone would only just be in the healthy range, so if you find you have been under logging then you might want a higher calorie allowance. 1200 is quite aggressive for someone already in the healthy range with not much to lose.

Don't stress it now. Your wedding day is about celebrating your love for each other and making a commitment to each other in front of your friends and family. One of the best things about our wedding was feeling bathed in the goodwill of all the people who came to share the day with us. They don't care what the number on…

If it helps, here's my weight graph, if you look over the long term, it's consistently going down, but I stay the same for many days in a row and quite often bounce up and down - https://trendweight.com/u/e0e97f94f81540/

I weigh myself once a day, but I know that my weight will go up, down or stay the same depending on what I've eaten, whether I've got sore muscles, what time I last ate, when I went to the toilet and a million other factors so I use TrendWeight, which smooths out the bumps. There's no point in weighing yourself more than…

For me, it seems spot on, in that I log accurately, eat all the extra calories that my Fitbit gives me and I lose at the rate I am expecting to. But I have a Fitbit One and wear it on my bra and my exercise is pretty much all step based (running/walking), so it's a good fit for me. I think it's best to maybe eat half your…

So do all your cows live indoors? Cows over here in the UK are outdoors most of the year eating grass and supplementary feeds, then come indoors in the winter and are fed on silage instead of grass.

I've lost weight by putting less on my plate at mealtimes and snacking less. I think I was generally eating a bit too much, not vast amounts, but consistently too much. I was also snacking too often in front of the telly with a glass of wine. I still have my wine, and occasionally *measure out* some snacks if there are any…

I don't buy clothes that are too small any more. I recently donated a dress that had hung in my wardrobe for years, but when I finally fit into it, I realised it was *never* going to be flattering. I've also just tried on a pair of trousers that I loved and grew out of, but a) they are now slightly too big and b) they are…

Ha, make it a shish and you'll be alright ☺

Wine's not too bad, around 100 kCals for a 125ml glass (or 140 for a 175ml bucket) - or spirits with diet mixers, but I think I would drink them down too quickly. I do like a gin and tonic. I don't remember cider being outrageous, especially if it's a dryish one. To be honest though, I would just do some extra exercise so…

When I ran the London Marathon (admittedly it was in 2002!) I came in at 5:51, I wasn't last(!) and I still got a medal and a goodie bag.

You're coming up as having accepted hyg99, so seems to have done it despite itself :-)

When I first started running I lived near the Thames and "didn't do hills" - since moving to Devon I've had to learn to love them! It's definitely made me a stronger runner - even though I'm 15 years older!

I read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. You smoke while you read it - by the end I was desperate to grind out my last cigarette. I had a brief relapse about 6 years in, but read the book again and it must be over 15 years altogether now. I was a 20 a day Rothmans/Embassy smoker...

So wrong. Plain for cream teas, cheese scones when you need something beautifully savoury, raisins in a fruit scone if you must, but anything else, no no no.

No it's still CICO, the more calories out, the more you can have in, as long as calories out - calories in is your desired deficit, you're good. If you didn't eat the extra calories you burnt, your deficit would just get bigger and you'd get hungrier (and perhaps start using muscle for energy)

I've just bought some new scales that do negative weights, they're ace!

Boo! Look after yourself and hope you recover quickly.

Ouch! I'm paranoid about falling over and hurting myself at the moment, don't want to lose any weeks training!

No, I'm wrong, I think it is the same spelling, except I guess you don't often get just the one!

Err, that's a pastie (spelling matters! ☺) I think it's pronounced differently, not paste-y, but pasty with the a like in that. Unless you are from Cornwall too (or the West Country in general) when it's much longer.

Looking at your diary, I bet none of the people that you are comparing yourself to eat as well as you do - your menus look really delicious and nutritious. You could start making your own soup instead of buying fresh, expensive, Covent Garden ones, but do you really want to add the extra time to do that? I spend a lot on…

It's *always* beef in a proper Cornish pasty, skirt, I think. You can get all sorts of flavours these days (beef and Stilton, swoon! Or chicken and chorizo) but a proper oggy is always beef. Is pie dough really a thing? Do you not use the word pastry?