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Choose foods that give you a larger volume for fewer calories such as low-fat high-protein yoghurt, fibre-rich veg like celery sticks, baby carrots, red and yellow peppers; fruit like all types of berries and melon slices. Or choose a very high protein but lean snack such as a can of tuna or other fish. When I eat a can of…

I live in the UK and get them from Amazon. I love my Quest bars. The first time I ordered them I got a box that contained all the flavours. My favourite is Cookies and Cream followed by chocolate chip cookie dough. I also like strawberry cheesecake which is a little less calorie dense. I often use them as meal…

Thanks for this :)

It's refreshing to see so many rational answers :)

OMG wouldn't it be wonderful if the calories we drink didn't count! I would drink soda and put sugar in my coffee :-P

If you're doing cardio and Pilates your should probably start thinking about strength training and lifting heavy if you want to recomp.

There's an app called Fitlegit. You enter your weight daily and total calories. It gives you very useful analytics and graphs. I think it's only for iPhone but I use the web version on my android.

I can totally relate to OP. I understand what you mean by "mourning". To me, for the first 10 months of my journey, things were easier. I wasn't "hungry" and creating a deficit was simple. Now I am trying to lose the last 5-7 lbs and it's OH so hard. Like you, I am very petite and no longer overweight. I'm at a healthy BMI…

After losing so much weight (congrats!) your body needs a lot less energy because it's a lot smaller. At this point small underestimations of what you eat, which before did not greatly impact progress, can now be very significant. It is important to be as precise as possible in weighing food and not overestimating exercise…

I swim every other day. I bought a "sun, gym and swim" shampoo/bodywash/conditioner and that's all I bring with me and use it for my hair, body and swimming costume. I take about 5 minutes in the open showers right after leaving the pool. I do not dry my hair (I have never ever in my entire life owned a hair dryer!), just…

This video is very interesting and shows how easy it is to underestimate caloric intake by eyeballing/not weighing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU

I don't track black coffee or herbal tea. Very often I forget to track ketchup (I use the reduced sugar and salt variety) and mustard. When it comes to things like a few leaves of lettuce, spinach, few slices of pepper, or one tomato wedge, I just estimate or use generic measures, I don't weigh. I lost all the weight doing…

This. Also, many people overestimate their exercise calories and eat them back. That does hinder weight loss.

You need to choose foods that provide the most protein with the lowest calories. I found these to be fish and seafood in my case. Crayfish and shrimp for instance are packed with protein and are so lean that you basically cannot get better value for protein! Another option is using supplements such as protein bars. I do…

This. I have never used MFP to estimate my calorie burn, but according to my HRM I burn about 400 kcals during a 5k (3.1 mile) run. My guess then is overestimation of exercise calories. I wouldn't recommend eating back the calories, as exercise already helps little to create a deficit, but if you really need to do it, keep…

I really liked that analogy, very helpful!

Planning is usually the best way to avoid imbalances: prep your food ahead of time, if not for a few days at least for the next day, pack your meals weighed and measured, log all your food for the next day and know how many calories you're going to eat, whether or not you're going to hit your macros, etc. That way you know…

I eat 1200 too. At this point I only have a couple of kilos to lose though. I use a heart rate monitor to track calories burned. I don't pay attention to the gym machines much but those that have heart rate sensors (such as the ellipticals) tend to give me a number that is quite close to my heart rate monitor. Without a…

I shared a lot of the information on nutrition and fitness I was acquiring. My partner learned about calories, how you can get more volume for fewer calories by eating wholesome foods and how terrible it is to be sedentary (and have fat around the waist which used to be his case). I told him that sitting is the new smoking…

6000 kcal is a lot. You're eating for 3 people. As they said above, try to get professional help, log your food, start exercising and get back on track. No food in the world tastes as good as good health and fitness feel.

When I feel stuck I go to my spreadsheet with my weekly total intake, expenditure and deficits. I rely on MFP for the calories in and my Garmin for the calories out. These are estimates, but I do weigh all my food and my tracker has a heart rate monitor. That's how I found out why on one week that I thought I was eating…

As others said, calories in/calories out is the core formula of weight loss. That said, the problem with so-called junk food is that it's usually very dense in calories, meaning that a little amount of food, which probably won't fill you up, can take up a great portion of your calorie allowance, or even all of it! Nothing…

Splenda (sucralose). No after-taste and it's probably one of the most widely researched sweeteners. You can find it in packets and mini tablets. I use one mini tablet plus 1/3 unsweetened soy milk in my coffee every morning. Further cups of coffee go without milk though!

I get up at 6h30, weigh myself (unless I'm not home and a scales is not available), help my partner get the kid ready, and get ready myself to go to either the gym or the pool depending on the day. Take the bus. By 7h30 I'm working out for about one hour. By 9h00 I am having breakfast, by 10h00 I'm at work (I'm a full time…

Saying that a calorie is NOT a calorie is pretty much like saying that 1 square meter is not 1 square meter. Sure, maybe a square meter of garden has a different function than a square meter of cement or is more expensive in London than in Mexico, but that doesn't change the fact that the measure is the same. I've heard…