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Thanks for the advice, people. I tend to think my diet is pretty well rounded, but looking back I could definitely do better with the fruits & veggies, and could definitely benefit from swapping some of the higher calorie snacks for something more substantial size-wise. Hopefully that'll help, so I'll keep a check on that…

Search for coffee, choose the entry and hit save.

Strawberries and blueberries with breakfast. Melon and pineapple with lunch. Brussels sprouts and a carrot, potato, spinach, broccoli & cauliflower bake for dinner.

I've used Hello Fresh and Gousto before, but only because there was a good deal on them - like more than half price. Otherwise, no, £4-6 per portion is way too much for a basic weekday meal. They seem to mainly cater to people who can't actually cook, or people who don't have much imagination. You're better off spending…

No. But I was talking about over a week, not a day.

Precisely this.

From what I've read - though I can't speak from personal experience - the losses tend to slow down the nearer someone is to the goal/ideal weight. I'm assuming it's because a 3500-7000 calorie deficit might be feasible when someone has 60 odd pounds to lose, but when it gets closer to 10-20lbs a more reasonable deficit…

My kitchen scales are too little and my fryer too big to even contemplate that. My scales only weigh up to 5kg and the oil in the fryer would weigh close to 3kg. I'd end up with broken scales and still none the wiser on my journey to pickledom.

Some of those extra calories will come from the batter though. I checked a few recipes and lots of them use flour or breadcrumbs, with egg or milk or sometimes buttermilk. So it's not 170 calories from oil alone. Which is why I wanted an estimate of how much oil I should account for, because the calorie estimates for deep…

Lol, I actually can't tell if you're joking about weighing a fryer full of oil just because I know how obsessive people on here can be about their kitchen scales and weighing everything to the very last gram. I think "screw the calories" is the best advice. Though I will put something in my diary just because I would feel…

Do you mean October 2016? Because 10lbs before October 2026 should be a cinch. 10lbs in, what, 7 weeks? Set MFP's target to 1.5lbs a week, eat what it gives you, weigh & log your food accurately, track your weight and if you get stuck, you can find good advice on the forums.

That's for like, a whole pickle or whatever. I want to use the little slices. I would die of sadness if 1 deep fried pickle slice came to 200-300 calories.

Most of the time I have overnight oats - 50g oats, 20g chia seeds, 200ml coconut or almond milk plus either a banana, some strawberries, PB2, Choc Shot sauce, Nutella, whatever works calorie-wise. But for the past couple days I've been having yogurt and fruit. Mainly because I forgot I had yogurt in the fridge and wanted…

I also ate almost 400g of strawberries. I'm now over my calorie goal for the day. Oops. Well, that could be down to the two mint chocolate ice cream bars I ate, BUT I AM BLAMING THE STRAWBERRIES!

I had two apples and a banana with breakfast, and lunch was egg salad with about half a large diced red onion, a handful of capers and a whole jar of sliced gherkins. Do capers and gherkins even count as vegetables though? I dunno. For dinner I'm having some pork & chorizo sausages with a big bag of salad. It's about…

True. But at least it would follow their own guideline of not supporting/encouraging dangerous diets to keep the numbers from being set so low.

I'm bad with logging licks and tastes. I just don't do it. There are a few other things I don't bother logging as well, like gum and vinegars and low calorie soft drinks and cooking oil, and it hasn't stopped me from losing. But I have more wiggle room for error given that I have so much weight to lose. If the losses slow,…

Why does MFP think you've only lost a few lbs? If you're down 13lbs from your starting weight then it should say that, even if your weight fluctuated in between.

Do you count one strawberry as a serving?

I want/need/am going to lose 200lbs. I've added some of you. Anyone I've missed is welcome to add me.

MFP really needs an eye roll emoji.

Ok?

I'd double and triple check the food entries you're using are accurate. I think a lot of people use the lowest one they can find - like, I'll see people logging 2 tbsp butter at 37 calories or whatever when in reality 2 tablespoons of butter would be over 200 calories. Do that a few times a week, plus a few other…

See the thing on the right side of the search bar? That.

I don't trust the entries on MFP's system, so I have started creating my own. It's a bit of effort to start with but at least I don't have to worry about them being wrong. I either use the info on the package or I use the USDA nutrient database. I *think* you can edit entries if you go through to the webpage but I'm not…

Start from last picture and work back.

Maybe this will help.

I had a banana with breakfast and a bag of salad with lunch. Dinner's veggies will be whatever is in the soup I'm going to have. And then it'll be a couple of apples in the evening.

You should be eating as close to your calorie recommendation as possible. It doesn't matter if you're a few calories under or a few over, just aim to eat as close to the recommended number as possible. So if your MFP recommendation is 1200 and you burn off 350 at the gym, you should eat 1550 so that your net amount is…

I tried using LoseIt but honestly, it's such an ugly app that I hated using it. Everything was just so big and the ugly little food cartoons they add to everything. Just no.