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I personally dont find measurements that accurate. I know I swell up from time to time, I can tell because my shoes are tight or my socks dig in but more accurately I wear a small thin bracelet and sometimes its all loose and falling up and down my wrist and other times I can barely budge it. Its just water but because I…

Longley Farm, full fat cottage cheese. I wont eat anything else.

This is a good point. I dont think of foods as 'good or bad', or 'naughty' (which is my pet peeve), but I will say that I have eaten 'badly' since Thursday this week. So why would I use a word like that to describe my intake? Because Ive eaten things that have made me feel physically 'bad'. Tired, lethargic, my joints are…

I have to abstain. I do it with foods that usually for no rhyme or reason will have me eating my way through everything in the house. Some foods are just triggers for me to eat and eat and eat. So stay away from them. I assume its just different for different people. Perhaps OP finds it helpful to use the term junk food,…

I suffer from IBS and have found over the years that I just cant digest certain foods easily and comfortably. My mum was a big believer in the F plan diet when I was a child, she was into all the health foods, lots of wholemeal and whole bran type things, It was a killer for me.

I have almost 2 freezers full of frozen fruit, veg, meat and fish. It has saved me wasting food and money from buying fresh.

That post didnt mention MFP though, you can track calories without this website, or any website in fact.

I cook up some rice and weigh it dry. I then divide it into portions (say about 4 or however many it makes) and put it in my recipes and have it as 'one serving' each time and the calories are already calculated for me. I dont weigh the cooked portion.

What would lead you to say this?

I wasnt just referring to the article I posted (I found that after I posted), I was writing from memory of various bits and bobs Ive read over the years ( I love history and read an awful lot about social history). My point wasnt that 'low carb' was the only method of diet ever suggested from those days but that 'lower or…

https://www.bbc.com/timelines/z9nfyrd

Its true that they have taken the blame for general overeating. But its not true to say that its a modern thing, way back in the 17 and 1800s, people who wanted to lose weight were advised to cut out the bread and potatoes.

It must be breaking several bylaws and international treatise. Its a no from me.

I used to get that after porridge too, it just doesnt suit me.

Theres nothing forgotten out there. All the food we eat is frozen, frozen meat, fish, veg and fruit. I have a virtual greengrocer in one of them. Actually while Im typing this I know that there is a bag of broad beans in one of them, I HATE broad beans and dont know why they're there. They can go.

Well we've got 2 fridge freezers anyway and theres only the 2 of us, so I think another one would be excessive!

I would take the bone out and weigh them and use an entry for chicken thighs, skin on, per 100g and put in whatever weight they are.

Its just normal isnt it? Its why breakfast is called breakfast, its the meal that breaks the fast.

Yes I currently have this problem, I cooked up some lentils recently and put them in the freezer, that took up space. I have tons of frozen fruit, veg and meat in the freezer so there is not much room. Then last night I spotted loads of half empty rice packets in the cupboard (this is my partners fault, opens something,…

Depending what the meal is, I find it really hard to cook the same thing for lower calories and taste 'ok'. I dont really eat a lot of 'ready meals' as such but for example I have recently made myself some coronation chicken, the sandwich filler type. I couldnt make it for much less than the calories of ready bought so I…

Yes I pointed this out further up the thread. It seems a bit extreme (and unrealistic). It puzzles me that some of these threads in the challenge section seem to advocate quite fast losing and yet all over the rest of the forum people instantly jump on people who are losing about 2lbs a week (generally speaking of course)

I agree because everyone knows they are courgettes anyway!

That is not the great British kebab. A kebab in the UK is an elephants leg turning around hour after hour in the kebab shop. It contains a mystery ingredient, in that no one knows for sure what its made from, could be your next door neighbour for all you know. That is then sliced up and put carefully on a cheap pitta bread…

I think I see it like this.... in the UK after the war people went mad for sugar because they couldnt get it (or much other food) during the war and so people of a certain age here were used to having quite a lot of sugar in tea, jam, biscuits, cakes etc etc, it was a real thing with the older generation (when I was…

You've done really well and should be proud of yourself. There is nothing wrong with your progress, however I worked out your average loss to be more than 0.5 lb a week, but even if it is, its great

I quite like the little prediction, it gives me hope!

Is this in america? If so, is he likely to make money out of referrals etc? If its not about money, is he quite fatalistic as a person perhaps and only sees a quick fix as an option for things (which would be odd for a medical person perhaps but not unheard of)

It has certainly helped me see how my own body seems to be working itself out. Although having said that, what I would have seen is 3 weeks at more or less the same weight and then the 4th week down 4lbs so I suppose its much the same

I forgot to say on this thread, that here is a classic example of manufacturer amounts not being correct I have 2 brands of frozen jacket potato in the freezer, one is Mccain the other is Asda own brand. They are clearly the same potato, manufactured/baked in the same factory. They are all 200g each (give or take a very…

I think everyone loses weight in a linear manner but it doesnt show on the scale like that, the 2 things are not the same. Ive had about 3-4 weeks of not really seeing much difference, bouncing about between a couple of pounds, perhaps a pound off, then this week, in a matter of days the scale shows 4lbs off. But those…