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I thought this group was about eating MORE to lose weight? I've been eating at a deficit for a year and have stalled.. no weight loss but only 3lb off goal and goal date is 6th June. I've been told to up my calories but that would mean I'd gain and there's no way I'd make the goal date in just over 2 weeks. Looking at…

where did you see the study that showed the more you work NEAT into daily life the more it becomes automatic (habit)?

I've had that very intense chest pain but I wasn't sweating, doctor thought it was just muscle spasms as I also have a neurological disorder which causes muscles spasms and involuntary movements. My Ataxia developed after my body started producing Reverse T3 in 2002.

I went low carb and cut bread, pasta, rice etc, no cereals.. just piece of fruit for breakfast, small bowl of salad for lunch and vegetables with lean white meat or fish for dinner (nothing battered or breadcrumbed) it was bland but lost 7lbs in the first week, 18lbs in first month! I slowly re-introduced them and only…

I have a neurological condition that means I get involuntary muscle twitches at rest and get intention tremor when trying to use hands to do stuff. I have noticed that I dropped the weight quicker in the last year than when it first started and they weren't present (2002) when reached 16st.. took about 4yrs to get to 11st7…

What is a 'stack' out of curiosity? I keep seeing this word and phrase popping up 'EC stack'?

Well done I was 12st 7 last year and got down to 9st 6, but few pounds are creeping back on!.. I'm trying to get to 9st 3 to finish my Wii Fit game! my original goal date was June 6 (my birthday!) to get from 12st 7 (same date last year) to 9st 7 by my next birthday this year. p. s. I'd be happy if my tummy was as flat as…

I will try and eat more today I usually do sundays anyway as I like bacon or sausage with scrambled egg in a corn tortilla for brunch and have sunday dinner later. so I may as well take advantage of that! I'll stay off the exercise pedals but had to do my physio stretches otherwise my muscle spasms get worse (especially in…

I can eat more but problem I'm having is I end up exercising until I've worked them off so I don't feel guilty about eating more. I'm guessing I need to eat more but not exercise so get at least 1400 net calories?

Great story but I've been on 1200 cals for about a year I've stalled so tried a spike day when got chance to go to Pizza Hut. Problem was once there I couldn't stop thinking about how many calories were in it I chose lowest cal pizza, I wasn't gonna get a pudding but sister in law insisted and I didn't want to make it into…

When I first started out I read something that when we first wake up our bodies are in a natural fat burning mode and if you exercise then you are burning off fat reserves as you haven't eaten since the day before, whereas if you had breakfast first you would burn that off first before you got to burning stored fat. so for…

If it goes off that fast it has to be water I think, have you changed something?, your diet? break from exercising? drinking more water?.. TOTM ending? I put 4lbs of water on when my TOTM starts and up to recently when they ended I was dropping another 2-3lbs extra so getting a 6-7lb loss in one week (although I didn't…

4st since January is great!.. I've got under active thyroid and its taken me a year to lose 3 stone I started last June when I found I had gone back up to 12st 7 on my birthday! Just keep trying, sometimes the weight doesn't change for a bit but the inches are coming off so measure too... or the workouts are making you…

so when you have your spike days don't you exercise at all that day? or only burn half of them off?

It worked for me, but in the time I have been dieting I have become fitter so can now exercise for longer than I could when I started. I'm not eating as low carb and even occasionally having wheat (went to Pizza hut today for lunch) I will probably have gained some water tomorrow but I'll keep carbs low for a few days and…

I've been hypothyroid all my life as was born with it underdeveloped so I've never known anything else. I was a chubby baby but they didnt find it until I was nearly two once I was more active child I soon lost the weight and didn't have any weight issues until I hit my early thirties when I had problems with mine making…

I used to gain 4-5lbs daily then went low carb and wheat free and weighed morning and night and was only gaining by 1lb when I didn't eat any bread, pasta, potatoes, rice etc and dropped 7lbs of water in the first week. I found from weighing twice a day for a while which foods seemed to result in the most water going on…

Have you been tested for diabetes?

what did you eat between the two different times weighing? does seem alot to go on in one day, unless you TOTM is due in which case weigh again after they have ended.

my local pharmacy not open its sunday and as I said I'm housebound and in wheelchair. There's no pain so I'll wait to ring doctor tomorrow I can get into local surgery with powerchair, ambulances won't take them so when I come out how do I get home? Sometimes doctor will send community nurse if weather bad or chair broke…

Thanks.. I never really understood the macro thing, but I'll try and eat more. I do have an actual wheat intolerance (and severe nut allergy) but having what I call a spike day for a few days had rice krispies for breakfast then just had rye bread with melted wensleydale on when got back from dogs walk... i had got a left…

well I was a pound lighter last night and again this morning, I suspect only cos of been sick and having the runs yesterday, from the dodgy chicken on Thursday night! I had weighed day before and had only gone back to what I was before TOTM started, so its depressing that I only lost 1 lb the whole month and that was only…

Mine goes up the week before by 4-5 lbs, once period starts and I'm in and out of loo for next few days, peeing huge volumes, then it kind of goes back to normal levels as they are ending. Once they've finished I weigh again and usually have lost a few pounds besides the water that went on, however this month I didn't!…

Thanks to everyone for answers and I'll check out the links to core exercises and see if can find that DVD on YouTube for now, see if there's any new one's on there that I'm not already doing. I'll check my weight again tomorrow as it seems I ate some dodgy chicken last night as was sick this morning and spent most of rest…

Hi AJ I think you have to find what works for you. I was born with my thyroid not working and have always been on synthetic T4. I was also never told by any doctor in my 42 years with it, to not take calcium with it or to avoid certain foods. My mum used to crush them in weetabix when I was very little to get them down…

I know what you mean and gluten free bread is so expensive like £2.50 for a small loaf, but when I ran out and local shop doesn't stock it I just went back to weightwatchers and can see the difference if I have it for more than 2 days in a row my tummy bloats and I've put a few pounds of water back on. I found i get away…

Thanks... a personal trainer isn't in the budget I'm afraid!.. I'm been changed over to new ESA benefits in UK and haven't had any money in my account since March! ... spent all week trying to get through to someone on the phone to tell them I didn't get any money paid in in April and all my bills are going out for a…

I'm not sure how healthy soy is, but I read its not good if you have underactive thyroid. I have Hypothyroidism and found also wheat intolerances are common and I never knew this, once I cut wheat I lost loads of water and inches from around tummy and lost weight. I still treat myself occasionally and have to deal with…

I have neurological condition and been wheelchair since 2005. I've used Wii Fit for gentle physio for years and gradually built up to been able to do more active games with faster movements like boxing which then has helped me to lose weight. It's also helped my co-ordination and balance, relieved back pain and I've had no…

use cling film and go to bed with electric blanket on all night its cheaper than those body wraps and you'll still be lighter for your weigh-in, also if you make sure you've been to bathroom (BM) before you get on the scale, you probably get your lightest weight but it will go back on again as you eat food throughout the…