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What I find works for me and got me out of my latest plateau (admittedly, it was only a month, not five like you) is to have a weekend where I eat what I want. I don't track, I don't weigh, I don't obsess, I literally take the weekend off as though I'm on a holiday from dieting and don't have to worry about what I eat. I…

Not me personally, but my friend weighs once a month. She would obsess over the slightest pound gained, and found that once a month is the best for her, as she can see a positive result every time she gets on the scale - she lost over 3 stone doing it this way. It's also the best way to not freak out over water weight at…

I agree with this. I've binged on foods I don't even enjoy in the past, just because I want to eat something, even though my stomach is protesting and I feel sick. For me, it's more about the ritual of eating than the foods I'm eating, even if it starts with a craving for a specific food. As for advice on how to beat it,…

Same. I lose weight off my waist fairly speedily, but my arms and legs are another story completely. Last time I lost weight, I actually went down 3 dress sizes, but it felt like I didn't lose enough to go down a single dress size for ages, and then it was more or less all at once - which probably isn't exactly how it…

First of all, congrats on the weight loss! I just had a cheat weekend of sorts. I went to a wedding, and didn't want to limit myself for the whole weekend. I'm still waiting to see if it's had a positive or negative impact long term (I've put on a kilo, but that's almost definitely mainly water weight) so I'm not stressing…

Omg this. There's a Krispy Kreme on each end of my local shopping centre and I have to add invisible blinkers on my way in and out of there. One of them is right next to Pret as well, where I get my lunch most days. It's... a struggle.

I'm a daily convert. I used to log weekly, but decided to follow my own advice on one of the threads here and try out daily for a week and see how I fared with it. I'm finding it really useful. I track my weight on Libra (for Android) and it's interesting to see how much my weight fluctuates throughout the week. And some…

I'm surprisingly okay with cheese. In fact, it's become my distraction snack. If I'm craving something sweet or salty, I'll have a 25g chunk of cheese and find that curbs the original craving and satisfies me, whereas if I gave into temptation and had a bag of crisps, I would find it difficult to stop at one. I'm…

I agree with this. Try it out for a couple of weeks, and if you're not seeing the results you want, then you can look into lowering your calories/raising your activity level. I'd maybe consider changing your activity level to sedentary though. I always think that the activity level correlates with how you spend the…

Hi, You've got pretty similar stats to me, except I'm 5'4 and a year older than you. What have you set your goal to lose? And what did you set your activity level to?

I'm on 1200, and tend to have a small breakfast and lunch, and a largish dinner. Calorie split is usually 200/400/600. I aim to eat back 50-75% of my exercise calories, trying to allow for overestimating my calorie burn (though on the flip side of that, I try to overestimate my calorie intake when I can't measure/weigh). I…

Clearly it varies person to person. I'd say invest in maybe two really good bras, and save the money for more later down the line just in case. I lost 40 lb in the past, and I didn't even realise my cup size had gone down at all until about 38 lb into that. Even then, it was mainly my back size (I went from a 38E to a…

I've got a short(ish) term goal of 76 Kilos (168 lb) for which I'm on 1200 net a day. That's another 12 kilos (26 lb). I chose that weight because even though it's still overweight, it's out of the obese category and I have pictures of myself at that weight where I look fit and healthy. After that, I'm going slow and…

I was aiming for 70 and have lost just shy of 10 so far. Feel free to add me :)

A bit of both really. I tell my boyfriend and my immediate family, because I know that at some point they're going to cook for me and I know that on the whole, they'll be supportive enough to make an effort to put less butter/sugar/lard in and give me smaller portions (joking on the lard...). At work, my manager knows…

Desk Diva here. I do spend most of my day sedentary, but I walk to and from work (it's only 15 minutes each way, but still) and always take the steps two at a time during my many trips up and down the stairs. I'm on the first floor, the coffee machine and water cooler are on the ground floor, stationary and other equipment…

I bought some wholewheat noodles the other day. The package said they were 275 grams. Before I got a food scale, I would have accepted that at face value, maybe added an extra 10-20 grams to be on the safe side. I got home and weighed it, and it was 340 grams. That's a difference of 65g, which added an extra 108 calories…

Total Daily Energy Expenditure. Basically how many calories you burn in a day. https://www.iifym.com/tdee-calculator/ This site does a good job of explaining it, and also has a calculator.

My appetite sky rockets, I get bloated, and I want to stab anyone who looks at me funny with a rusty spoon.

At 2lb per week, you should be eating 1000 calories less than your TDEE, which I'm assuming is where the calculation has come from - Though MFP will always cap the lower end of your calorie intake at 1200. When you've been doing your calculations elsewhere, have you been looking at just the TDEE as this could be where the…

I think it varies person to person, so there may be some trial and error while you work out how to spread out your calories. For me, I'm always hungry in the evening, no matter what I eat for lunch, so I prefer to have my biggest meal in the evening. For lunch, I usually grab something low-calorie (usually about 200 - 400…

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Have you tried the BBC good food 'Healthy Recipes' section? They actually have a recipe collection dedicated to dinner's under 400 calories: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/low-calorie-dinner Unless I plan in advance, I find sticking under 500 calories so hard. The other day I bought some stir-fry…

I try to weigh myself once a week. I debated weighing every day and adding the data to a trend app, but I find that I'm one of those people who is actively motivated by the number I'm seeing being smaller than the last number I saw. I think weighing every day, even knowing about natural fluctuations in weight day-to-day,…

Female, 1200. I'm aiming to lose 2lb a week as I have some big events coming up over the Summer (weddings, holidays,etc.) but will likely lower that to 1lb a week after that - maybe even 0.5lb over the Christmas season as I know that being too strict with myself at that time of year can end badly (like falling face first…

I've had to work to gain this attitude. For the longest time, every time I had a bad day, I let it get to me, and I'd start to question if I had the strength to lose weight if I couldn't control myself, which in turn led to me believing that I couldn't control myself so I might as well eat whatever, which then made me feel…

Me! I'm on 1200, and will be until at least after my Summer holidays in September. I'll probably stick to it after that too, as I lost almost 4 stone on 1200 calories back in the day, but if I do go up, the most I'll go up to is 1500. It is hard, and I find that for the first few weeks (where I'm at now) I get so low on…

It's so hard. I've just started again and I know this burst of motivation won't be around forever. Feel free to add me for additional support. We can help each other out!

I'm in the same boat. Moved to a foreign country, ate better, got active, lost almost 4 stone (about 56 pounds) in two years, moved back to the UK, slowly put on weight - had a bit of a health kick in between where I lost 14 pounds again - but now I'm the biggest I've ever been, and I'm noticing the same health issues as…