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Do you guys use a different app to log weight?

I went to have some baked beans with my dinner last night, for the first time since I have started logging my foods and was shocked at how many calories are in a tin of baked beans! 352 for the can. There would have been many days I would have had a can of beans, a jacket potato with butter and beans for my lunch. It would…

Do you bring toilet paper and hand sanitiser? And a doggy bag to scoop it up after?

So if you are happy with the 1lb a week loss, then try and eat your calorie goal each day/week and up to 50% of your exercise calories? Thanks, that's really helpful. I find myself eating to hit the 1400 goal but I have noticed I am trying to hit it with snacks - I look at my MFP after dinner and feel I have 300-400…

Sorry to hijack this thread but a similar question on this theme... You enter all your details on MFP - your height, weight, goals etc... You want to lose 1lb per week so MFP gives you the calories you need to stick within. If MFP give you 1400 calories to eat for the day and you do exercise and burn 300 calories, you…

Once I got to the around a 42lbs loss, I felt really similar. I had so much more energy and the days I would walk home from work I felt like breaking into a jog, even when wearing heels! That is when I started the C25k programme - I worked myself up to running 5k and then participated in a weekly Parkrun event. I then…

Snap! It feels like a real lightbulb moment. I have started to loosen the corset, so to speak and allow myself to come away from the plan i.e if I have a cereal for breakfast and I want to use some wholemeal bread for another meal on the same day then I will do it. I can really start to see the benefits of CC and how they…

Thank you... :) Yes, slowly coming round to that realisation! Just trying to take it one day at a time, or one meal at a time! I notice a real difference in my clothes that isn't mirrored on the scale, which still feels fantastic. I still have lbs to lose so I will continue to count and log until I get within my ideal…

I have lost just over 3 stone on Slimming World in about 18 months. I lost most of that within 14 months and have spent the last 3-4 months not making much progress... which lead me here to MFP and calorie counting. I believe if you have a lot of weight to lose then SW is very good, as it encourages you to cook from…

I did it about 3 years ago - gave up chocolate, sweets, cake, crisps. But I fell into the trap of substituting it as I must have been craving sugar or something bad, so I would have a can of Coke or allow myself to have takeout more often etc... I remember eating a lot of yogurts! I was surprised I managed to achieve it…

Has anyone got any advice on how to make relatively low calorie pancakes? I see the mashed banana, oats recipes etc... but something that sticks closely to the normal flour / eggs / milk recipe?

I didn't think about the SW meals, to be honest. Just had a quick check and some of them don't appear to be too high in calorie count. I wouldn't indulge in them often, but I found when I needed a convenient lunch or dinner they were perfect. I tend to batch cook now and and I still have a few of those batch meals in the…

Hiya Really sorry to hear you are feeling at a loss. I can't give too much guidance around the science of logging calories and how your body responds, but I was in a similar position to you as to feeling lost and thinking my progress had stalled. The only advice I can give is to keep going and stick with it - if you do it…

As someone who has been following SW for about 18 months, sat in many SW groups and participated in conversations facilitated by SW, I would say for me as a normal, paying member a 'syn' is something I consider to be bad. And that is because it is restrictive. I cannot eat my preferred amount of 'synned' foods, whilst…

Wow...! Congratulations on your loss and managing to maintain it! I am slowly trying to find my feet with finding the right ‘plan’ for me, mainly due to trust issues with calorie counting and moving away from SW but I feel like I am in control and I recognise that something needs to change with me in terms of what I am…

Hiya I agree with a lot of what you are saying and that is learned from my own experiences. Do you find that you completely stopped following the SW plan and went 100% to MFP or did you try and combine them? As I mentioned above, I am finding it difficult to break away from the plan. I think it’s because I trust it and I…

Thanks very much for your words of advice and your kind compliments! I think for me, this is only week 2 of calorie counting and I still feel quite unsure about it all. For example, trusting how many calories I burn with exercise before allowing myself to ‘eat back’ my calories, allowing myself a sugary snack if I have…

Hiya I think we are in a similar phase/boat. I fully agree with the principles of SW being a fantastic starting point for anyone with weight to lose, especially a great deal of weight - it is incredibly comforting for people starting out, thinking they can eat as much as they like and still lose weight. But when you lose…

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I can see what you are saying but I like to think of myself as ahead of the curve in this instance, having spotted issues with Slimming World and instead of quitting and reverting back to how I was, I am determined to make the changes necessary to get back to losing, so I don’t think I…

Thanks for your encouragement! I appreciate what you are saying, and it is good to hear as I feared there was some kind of imbalance or combination I needed to hit before losing again but I suspect it does come down to calories in > calories out, as I see so many hidden and unnecessary calories now with SW.