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I have so much chocolate and sweets hanging around (since before Christmas) and I just cannot understand how MFP stops me from eating them! I do have a tiny bit every now and then, but normally, I would back and forth, back and forth and it would have been gone within a few days. It is actually quite bizarre to me how…

Have you got some digital scales? They really do change your life regarding counting calories!

Oh, OK, well its really unlikely that you'll eat 100g of cheese by yourself and when you see the HUGE impact that has on your calories and sodium, it might be an idea to decide how much you are going to have and then just stick with it. As I mentioned for a small cheese toastie (burgen size bread) I use about 15 - 20gm…

Hope you don't mind, I just had a peak at your diary. Did you really eat 100g of cheese in one meal or have you logged that wrong? (Or am I reading it wrong, quite possible). I know most meals where I sprinkle some on top I would max out about 25g, and even a cheese toastie is only about 20g, so I'm imagining a pretty big…

Fruit and vegetables LOL. Plain nuts (lots of calories there, and you don't have to eat many).

I'll stop worrying about being overweight. My Mum died of cancer last year, and although of course we can never know, it seems likely that her obesity was a factor (although I never thought of her as 'obese' until very recently when I really understood what it was, I thought she was just a bit overweight). She was only 60.…

Nice one! Good luck with the baby making.

Mine dropped from 1400 to 1330 and that was enough to make me irritable, so I moved it back to 1400, and I'm still losing weight. I'm not bothered if I lose slightly slower, as long as I'm going in the right direction. With little kids to look after it is more important that I'm not an irritable grump all the time.

Hear hear! I agree, I've lived far too long with the myth that babies ruin your body. A dramatic change of lifestyle has more effect, but we're not doing our girls any favours perpetrating the myth that you're doomed to be overweight after babies, and you may as well just accept it. You look great, will watch out for your…

Oh good luck then :) If you've just started and you're sticking to your calories you should see a loss soon. I think how sedentary you are makes quite a difference, but if you're already eating healthily and exercising then hopefully a small adjustment will be all that you need.

That's great that she has slimmed back to a healthy weight. I've heard that kids shouldn't lose weight as such but grow into their weight (as they get taller), but not sure how true that is. How do you calculate kids BMI? I presume it isn't the same as calculating adults. Do you reckon your own diet changes have had an…

I'm sure eating a whole avocado is absolutely fine if it works in with your calories. :) Back to your OP, are you sticking carefully to your calorie limit for a couple of weeks and seeing absolutely no change?

Teehee, yes. My *new* portion size of avocado is 1/4 of one (but I could easily eat the whole thing!) Mmmm, we're in avocado season atm, so always have some on hand. Will be making avocado and cucumber sushi for dinner tonight (and lunch tomorrow - that's one benefit of MFP, leftovers LOL).

Wow! Awesome job. Could you have done better and lost more? You look super slim to me, and fantastic. Very timely pictures as I just finished calculating that I want to lose about 33lbs all up (I usually work in kgs, and I have changed my goal weight downwards a couple of times). Very inspirational, thanks for sharing.

Totally agree with the first bit, but (despite our rising obesity problems), humans are living longer now than ever before, and certainly longer than long, long ago when they lived off the land. A life expectancy of 20 - 30 years is typical from caveman times (but they died from illness, infection, accident etc. not heart…

I'm in the 'a few kgs to shift' (well actually more like 12kgs, but not obese), and yet I have struggled for 20 years with anything from 5kgs to 12kgs and never been successful. So I still reckon a 'rest of your life' diet is better than any particular fad diet. I don't think a short week or two diet is what works (from…

In respect to Quorn, as far as I know its not available in NZ, so my meals never contain processed meat substitutes and I am always over on my protein. It makes me laugh to think I was one of the people thinking "But what about your protein?" about a vegetarian diet before. I don't even think about making my protein target…

I'm not vegetarian but I probably only eat meat/fish/poultry about two times a week total. On the days that I don't have meat/fish/poultry I am no more hungry than usual eating cereal +/- fruit/yoghurt/milk for breakfast. Usually a few prunes for morning tea. A sandwich, baked potato or similar for lunch, then an egg or…

My normal diet using MFP, which has basically meant very little change to the amount of fruits, veges and meat/chicken/fish that I eat, but a big reduction in starchy carbs, sweets, baking and diary etc. I still have everything that I had before, but in better proportions. Not sure that's what you're looking for (i.e. not…

Thanks for posting! What a transformation. I never tire of looking at people's very encouraging success photos.

Oh Lucyhoneychurch, great to see your pics! I'm also 5' 2.5" and 38yo (but only for another week LOL). Your success is very inspiring. Great to see all the other pictures as well, and to hear your success stories :) Thanks.

I remember Mum telling me about some medical professional who took a seminar at her school talking about fluid intake and she said it was really simple. Not including first thing in the morning, if your urine is pale and plentiful then you are doing fine with your fluid intake, if it is anything else, then you need more…

Well, that's really interesting because according to those measurement methods I am actually small-boned. Eeep, better toss that out along with the other myths I've had stashed in my bag for years!

I'm so sorry about your son. I lost my Mum last year too (and we had a long, sad journey with her illness before that, partly because she lived in another city and I have small children, but mostly just because dying slowly is painful for everyone), and I did a lot of comfort eating over the nearly two years of her…

That's a really interesting question, because I know I am fairly broad across the back, and I've always thought that even if I lost weight I would still never be super slim and slight like some girls, but I am interested to see how much of that is just myth and how much is reality. I know broad isn't the same as big-boned,…

We had tortilla pizzas*, roasted veges and salad. My plate was HUGE LOL. *Tortilla pizzas I make as follows (one each) 1 smallish tortilla (ours are about 46g each) 2 tbsp tomato paste/puree avocado sliced zucchini olives cherry tomatoes mushrooms 25g edam cheese dried herbs

Most of the year the only time I drink plain water is if I have to take a tablet LOL. Also, when we go out I take a water bottle, but at home its pretty much hot drinks all the time. I drink tea, herbal tea, coffee, and the occasional milo. So, yes, you definitely can lose weight, 'cause I've lost 15lbs and I'm still…

I live in NZ :)

That sounds a bit odd to me. Unless the 8 pieces are enormous! I make my own sushi, and I have entered the ingredients very carefully, and I normally eat 2/3 of a roll (4 pieces) and that is about 28g of carbs. Two pieces of fairly average wholemeal toast bread is about 34g carb, so unless those are big old pieces of…

Adding my thanks, I LOVE reading the success stories and seeing the pictures. Makes me very excited to think that I really can achieve what I thought was an impossible dream, as I see so many who have lost so much more and look fantastic!