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Motivation is unfortunately fleeting. No one feels motivated to do anything over the long term. The trick, I think, is to use the motivation you have in the initial stages to build some really good, solid habits, because at the end of the day, it's your habits that drive what you day in and day out. This can be something…

This may be obvious, but have you been using the MFP tracker to track and plan your meals? I enter all of my meals for the day ahead of time so that I know exactly what I am eating, and that I will be on track. I tend to eat fairly healthfully most of the time anyway, so get in lots of veggies, some fruits, lean proteins…

I do a lot of meals where I do a protein, chicken breast for example, and I weigh out my portion and keep it separate, then do different sides for kids and hubs as for myself. Where they might have broccoli and oven chips, I'll have broccoli and roast butternut. Or we do, like fajitas so everyone can add what they want to…

Eat an earlier dinner. Listen to your body regarding when it wants to eat. I'm not an evening eater, and if I've had a big enough lunch, I can happily skip dinner altogether. Often have dinner at 4:30, and don't need to eat again until morning.

You are already a healthy weight, so you likely won't lose it "quickly", nor should that be your goal. Aim for a half pound loss a week at most, as any more than that will be unhealthy and unsustainable given your already low weight. Especially if you are breastfeeding. Be kind to yourself and your body, and enjoy your son.

I don't think I have anyone like that in my life. If I do have haters, I guess I respond by generally just not noticing them. Focus on the positive people in your life. When people show you who they really are, act accordingly.

My husband is 5'11 and a surfer and gym rat, so pretty lean and muscly. He's around 76kg - so like - 165 ish?

Sauna, sweat it out.

We are going to need more information, or you'll need to open up your food diary for people to look. How tall are you, and what do you weigh now? How much do you want to lose? How many calories are you eating? How quickly are you losing? How long have you been doing this? Are you exercising? Are you accounting for exercise…

I'm more of a wine girl myself, but get it. For me, I know that I will be having a couple glasses over the weekend, so I plan for it. Lower calories during the week, and higher allowance over the weekend. Plan for it and track it.

I'm another who doesn't track sugar. I try to avoided added sugar, but mainly just because this adds calories generally, reducing the amount of other yummy things I can eat. Fruits are fantastic for you - vitamins, minerals, fibre, antioxidants etc. And as long as you are in a calorie deficit, you will be losing fat.

For me, there's no time like the present - in fact I just got back at it this week after months of letting it go. Luckily I've only gained about 1kg in that time, but my fitness has definitely suffered, so time to get back to work on those muscles. There is nothing magical about the new year, and I figure if I don't have…

Holidays won't hold back your progress, even if you eat alllllll the foods. A single day won't matter. It's what you do on the other 300 plus days a year that are not celebration days that matter.

I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine how painful that would be, using food to cope is so completely understandable. I'm a financial adviser as well :) Congrats on your journey so far, and good luck as you go forward

If only we could choose where the weight goes from! Unfortunately it comes down to genetics largely. Last on is generally first off - so if your abdomen is the first place you tend to hold fat, this will be the last place it comes off. Anyone who tells you differently is trying to sell you something ;) It will come off…

Welcome and sounds like you are setting yourself up for very reasonable, sustainable changes! I have to echo what AnnPT77 said re motivation - the motivation definitely won't last forever, eventually you will need to rely on habits to take over. You don't feel motivated to brush your teeth every day, right? You just do it…

Your organs will probably preclude you losing that much from your waist from where you are now. Uterus, bowels etc - they take up space. 26' is very small already. If you want your waist to LOOK smaller, I'd recommend building some muscle in your glutes and legs.

Which vaccine, do you know? Pfizer has had an impact on the heart in a very small percentage of people - particularly younger men. I would get it checked. Even if it is all in your head - better safe than sorry, right?

Agree with the majority, timing of meals is insignificant - as long as you are eating in a deficit overall (the one set my MFP is usually fine) you will lose weight. Fasting/keto/eating-whilst-exclusively-standing-on-your-head are not necessary.

Yes, weigh everything, but weigh it raw, don't weigh again cooked. Just start the habit, don't stress if you aren't doing everything perfectly, no one does to start with, we all started somewhere, and good luck :) Don't know what you weigh now, but if you are over 300lb, then 2lb a week is a reasonable weight loss goal.

I'm similar, I'm super hungry up until lunchtime, so I eat my big meals early in the day and have a fairly light dinner. Sometimes I've eaten enough early on that I barely even want dinner.

Agree, nothing beats a pen and paper. The apps tend to be clunky and not as convenient as just glancing down at your notebook. I've been known to create my own spreadsheets as well, for easy entry and easy to see progress, but messing around with my laptop is still more annoying than just jotting it down.

Eeeeehhh taking all lifts to failure is sitting wrong with me, and seems like a recipe for injury. You do not need to lift to failure to progress or to gain strength; so long as you are employing progressive overload you will be progressing.

If you've set it to lose weight, and have entered the appropriate activity level (sedentary etc) then you will lose weight if you eat the number of calories it sets you. Best thing to do is give it a few weeks to see what happens - if you are losing at a good rate, perfect. If you aren't losing, make sure your logging and…

MFP is designed so that your daily activity is set based on what you do daily excluding exercise, then you add the exercise in on top of this. So if you are an office worker or student, for example, you would set it to sedentary, then add the exercise each day, so if you life for 45 minutes you would add a 45 minute…

Yep, hi from Lake Macquarie! I'm 163 cm and about 66kg, have been working to get down to 60kg, but have been struggling with consistency lately. Congrats on the loss, that's huge!

The whole point is that it's not borrowed - I'm not Christian, but was raised Christian and live in a traditionally Christian society, therefore it's actually a part of my culture as well as yours. Just because I choose not to believe doesn't mean I exit the whole culture.

No. Why would our bodies evolve that way? When protein was SOOOO hard to source during our hunter/gatherer days, why would your body just stop using it after 30g, and convert it to storage when calories for energy and protein for muscle building/repair/million other things were in short order?

My German Shepherd tries to help with pushups. Definitely adds to the challenge with a 40kg beast on my back :|

Means there and back again, so total.