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Well done! Your start and goal weights are the same as mine, and I'm at around the same point you are at too so big coincidence there! I don't think I have starting pics, I did too good a job of avoiding those. Your work is paying off, keep it up :-)

Another mother of 2 here, time is my enemy!! If it wasn't so easy to use mfp site and app to track everything I would not have got this far! Been losing since October, my baby was just about 2 months then. It's slow, and fitting in any exercise at all in the week is an achievement but even keeping my food intake under…

Oh me too! He's at my goal weight but is 8" taller than me and complains about wanting to gain! What's worse is he had a great habit of splitting our dinner exactly in half on our plates. Have had to hammer it home to him that it isn't as generous as it might seem to do that! :-) It works for both of us to increase his…

I actually increased twice, from 1200 to 1300 after loss stopped and I started gaining and then to 1650 (before exercise) when I worked out my BMR and TDEE and figured it all out a bit more accurately for myself. My BMR is 1342, I'm eating at my lightly active TDEE to cover my normal day and add in exercise when I manage…

I do them this way, or individually wrapped in tinfoil instead of the baking dish. I only cook for 25 mins though, but they don't dry out as they are covered anyway. Individual parcels just means I can do different flavourings, either for variety for myself or to make some a little less spicy for the smallies in the house.…

I feel the same way Collidoscopekid, I don't remember being lower than my current 178 and have no idea what my goal weight is so have initially set it at 144 as that will put me in the bmi category of "normal" - I'll see when I get there what seems to fit me best. I'm also hoping that I won't be a different person, just…

Hi, just found this group! I'm from Louth, living and working in Dublin

Well done! It's a great feeling, just hit it myself recently (unfortunately I hovered either side of it for a few weeks before settling under the cutoff!) and it is amazing to no longer have that obese tag on your shoulders. Keep doing what you're doing, I keep telling myself that the slower I do this the longer I have to…

I reckon it must be the hemp. It's funny cos the tiniest bit of nutella masks it completely and the rest of the mix is actually yummy! They have a smoothie mix too, just hadn't the time to put the effort in to make a smoothie so might come back to that one!!

Thanks for this post Lyra, been considering trying these for a while now and wasn't too sure. Will try to grab a bag next time I'm in the shops! I went to the health shop a while back looking for an energy boost and the girl recommended a breakfast topper that includes chia seeds along with goji berries, hemp and some…

I find it a whole lot less time consuming to eat at my "lightly active" TDEE and not add in anything that is part of my normal activity in a day. I add on when I do any conscious exercise, using my HRM to estimate calorie burn. I don't always eat all of my exercise calories, but I do stay at a level where my net is at a…

With my 3 yo I tell her daddy'll finish it! Sounds awful, like I'm sabotaging him, but he is underweight and trying to gain so it's all good! Other than that, or if she's left a really messy plate, I bin it before I'm tempted to touch it myself. Hate wasting food, but want to be healthy more! My worst is when she wants to…

I also think I would be tempted to continue on MFP to track but in a different way. I found MFP after my second pregnancy and I think it might have been useful to make sure I was eating enough, eating the right things for nutrients, and gaining in a good way. I went into both pregnancies overweight, at least, and only on…

Please don't, we all have to start somewhere! I felt extra ridiculous as I hadn't lost weight after baby #1 who is 3, and really it wasn't even baby weight, but this time it is going to work and is already working. Once you start to see and feel differences it's a great motivator to keep going. Zumba 2 that I use on wii is…

What cals have you set your limit at? What are you eating? May be you have your limit set to low, may be that you are eating foods that are using cals but don't fill you for very long...

I'd say get some probiotics, always try to take some after an antibiotic to restore natural order in my system and they also boost the immunity. There are some in some yoghurts, but easiest is to take some in tablet form. I get udo's choice ones. The candida diet should also help, and an anti fungal treatment might be…

Hi, I also had a baby by section in September so am having to be careful about what exercise I am doing. I had to push on earlier though as for health reasons I had to start getting the weight off! I've been doing zumba, before that I did wii fit (too easy) and my fitness coach dance workouts (similar to zumba intensity…

You can! If I can anybody can, hadn't even made the progress of a yo yo dieter up until I joined here! Start by making the best choice you can for each meal, then start to look at each day as a whole and as others have said make sure you're eating things that you like or you won't stick with it. I had a few weeks where I…

Ah yeah we're similar height too, I'm 5'4.5". And I'm still a bit shocked that they even mentioned surgery to you! Thank you for saying! I am starting to feel good about it now as I can feel a difference and even starting to see some changes! :-) The girls are my biggest motivation really, being able to lift the baby and…

Well done, you are looking really great and I'm sure you're feeling better too! Can I ask how tall you are, your start weight is just 2lbs different to mine so I would imagine we're on a similar path. I can imagine the shock you got, I also knew I was big but didn't actually realise I was into the obese category or how…

I eat oatibix with lf milk, a spoon of superfood breakfast topper and a small bit of nutella. If I'm not feeling like the oats I make a 1 or 2 egg omelette with some smoked salmon or a tiny bit of chorizo. Definitely feel better if I eat something, but I do try to eat mid morning rather than early as otherwise I'm looking…

I recently had a couple of weeks like this, started with my daughters being sick and being unwell myself. I was up and down each week between overweight and obese on the bmi scale and when I went up the last time said I was quitting, hadn't the energy for it all any more and was sticking where I was! Then I decided I'd…

I am so angry that they thought it was ok to treat anybody like that, so sad that anybody should have to listen to it and so proud of you and your son - your son handled it with more maturity than those older than him, and you didn't let a few idiots deter you from your journey - physically or metaphorically! You can't…

Oh me too, was much harder to learn than I expected. Maybe try different types of dance, I find some of them harder than others to keep up with. And realise it doesn't matter how much you're keeping up with them, just that you're having a go, having fun and moving. The rest comes after a few goes at the same song (or more…

I love it! It will burn about 10 cals per minute, even when you're just in the part where you're trying to learn the steps! You can do a song from a choice at different intensities and then classes at different lengths or intensities - and you can set up your own playlist if none of that suits! I did a high intensity song…

I did 35 mins on mine last night and burned over 400 cals as per my hrm, finally found a way to use it that I can maintain for that long which works me hard but doesn't make me want to crawl off it after 10mins! I used a program that alternates between lowest, middle and highest levels - L1x2, L5x2, L9x1 - I used the level…

Is that intake net after your exercise calories are deducted? Because if not then even on your highest intake and lowest exercise burn your net is under 1000 calories per day. If you have the lowest intake and highest exercise burn you're down to 700 cals - people on 800 cal diets are advised to only do so for medical…

Would it be down to the fact that most of us while losing weight think about what our goal is, but not too much about what we'll do or how things will be when we get there? So you haven't formed a plan to deal with being the weight that you want to be? I'd also suspect that if you are at your ideal weight but still eating…

Having had to follow a diabetic diet while pregnant (up to 8 weeks ago) I had to go for completely sugar free breakfasts and the only options that worked were oatibix or weetabix. I prefer oatibix, and it's what our other daughter eats as it's better for her skin so it's in the house and easy! Anyway, it tastes BLAND by…