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Bobotie. Or moussaka.

If it's only two weeks that you've "stalled", that's easily part of natural fluctuation. You won't see a reduction every week, even if you are losing at a fairly rapid overall rate.

Human flesh is a great source of protein, but the mass-produced stuff can be very fatty. I suggest you hang around gyms to find the leanest meatiest cuts.

It can almost be a relief - I look at the scales, and my weight has increased - oh noes! But the BF% reading has decreased - ah, that's ok, that means it's probably just water.

How did you measure the BF%? If it is with bodyfat scales (BIA), that is a normal effect of differences in hydration levels. They are highly inaccurate, and water retention has a strong effect on them. The more water you are retaining, the higher your weight, and the lower your BF% reading. Therefore I typically find that…

Sadly, this ratio is largely genetically determined. It is a good descriptor for apple vs pear fat deposition, which does affect your risk, as it indicates visceral fat, but beyond a certain point, you may not be able to alter it. If you tend to have a high waist:hip ratio, it may be more important to make sure the other…

I can't help on precisely the right place to measure - I think I'd need to look into it more. There are a number of different calculators around. But as for the BHF recommendation, health recommendations are frequently ridiculously simplified to give an easy number to remember - 2000 calories for a woman, 2500 for a man,…

Yes, that's a good point. But I think the 32" waist figure is an example of the over-simplification of health guidelines. It'd be relatively stout on a 5' woman, but not unreasonable on a 5' 10" woman. Waist:Height ratio is probably a better measure, along with Waist:Hip ratio. If those are both okay, then you probably…

I think it fairly unlikely that most normal women will be at their healthiest outside of the prescribed range. Where you fall within it will depend on your body type. But it could be that you just don't find it worth the hassle to lose those last few lb - no-one has a perfectly ideal lifestyle in every respect. Maybe there…

Dehydration would be my first thought, to be honest, because your calories and carbs don't sound too extreme, and you haven't cut out caffeine. Apart from the headache, how do you feel? Tired? Cold? Hungry? If you get those along with the headache, then you could just not be eating enough.

Trim Healthy Mama sounds unbearably twee and unnecessarily complicated. You know you've made a form of calorie counting work in the past, and it allows you full flexibility to prioritise your preferred foods, and is much easier to deal with when eating with other people.

Meh. If tea worked, then we British would be superslinky, instead of the nation of lardbuckets we are.

The Next where I live normally has 30" Chinos in regular fit, in different lengths (I get them for my partner - also a muscly-thighed cyclist, but a shorty). If they don't have them in stock, they will normally order them in for the next day, with the normal policy of being able to return them if they are not right. They…

10lb since the start of December is not slow, it is the upper end of reasonable, even without the complication of Christmas.

No. Some are native, or cultivated forms of native species. Others are, indeed, originally from Europe and the middle east, or hybrids between natives and other European species, but most of Britain was part of the Roman Empire, and they introduced many food plants. They even cultivated grapes here. We have a long, long…

What is in your coffee? If you had a lot of added stuff in it, that might have been quite a lot of calories without a very good nutritional balance, so she might be trying to address that - have you eat a more balanced diet through the day. But if multiple small meals make you feel rubbish, and if you've given it a try for…

Crikey. If you are 6' 6" and doing a physical job, and walking your dogs, I should think you will make yourself feel very ill on that. You'd probably lose at a good rate on an accurately measured 2000 calories.

Basically, bread varies within quite a small amount per 100g - seedy breads will be a bit higher due to oils in the seeds. All the low cal breads work by basically giving you a smaller slice - thinner, and/ or a few square cm smaller face size. Also by a lighter fluffier rise. So my go-to dense seedy loaf when not dieting…

I would fully expect bread to quote per slice, myself. That is the lowest unit in the package. Also, gross error check - 65 calories is already quite a low calorie count per slice, compared to the average bread. But I would check before logging, not after.

"the English had the world’s most productive network of sugar-producing colonies – is that they lacked any succulent native fruit, and so had little previous opportunity to accustom themselves to sweet things." WTAF? I must be hallucinating all the apples, pears, plums, cherries, blackberries, bilberries, carrots, parsnips…

@RunRutheeRun Yeah, I was just expanding on your absolutely correct point. Their profile could be wrong, of course, but OP needs to give a bit more detail if they want any advice tailored to their situation.

Profile says OP is male, 34. If that is correct, he'd have to be a very tiny male to be medically defined as overweight, let alone obese, at 140lb. A 5' 3" person would have a healthy BMI of 24.8 at 140lb. He'd have to be 4' 9" (or less) to be medically defined as obese at 140lb (BMI=30.3). For sure, a person can feel that…

I think the important thing with weight loss is not to make it harder for yourself than it need be. I like a dessert, but don't "crave" it, so I have one a few times a week. If you do crave it, then make space for it within your calorie allowance. Research different sweet options - some (as detailed by other posters) can…

Remember, once you've gone on to your sweet, you can't go back to savoury. https://youtube.com/watch?v=L8eh72REd_s (Actually, I often just keep enough calorie allowance for a small pudding of fruit and ice cream / yogurt / custard)

Some will certainly be water, but when you are feverish, you can lose weight much more quickly than usual, too. That's how I started this weight loss cycle. It was only a bad flu, but my fever was very high for quite a while, and it took some time to get fully better. My nails have growth arrest lines from that time. The…

Third choice - maintain and stay fit for a few years, then re-evaluate. Many people report that it takes a while to bounce back. Fourth choice - put the weight back on, and fill up the loose skin. Not recommended. The OP is young - she has a good chance of minimal issues in the longer term.

I'm a grazer throughout the day, with a main sit-down meal with my partner in the evening. There are a lot of different small snacks I can work into my allowance, and I try to vary them between food groups to maintain a good overall balance (fruit, yoghurt, nuts, houmous etc...).

0.9kg up from my lowest recorded pre-Christmas weight, or 0.5kg up from the weight I was when I went on my holiday diet break. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

We normally have a NYD bird counting walk, but the weather looks dreich, so, dunno.

I'd take a packed lunch to work - as much for economic as dietary reasons - but never for a social occasion. I will nearly always be able to find something that I like, and if I'm being disciplined at home, the occasional calorific guesstimate won't hurt me. If I'm dieting, I have preferences for certain restaurants whose…