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Your diary looks OK to me and as long as you are not hungry carry on with what you are eating, just start eating a little more as you approach your goal weight so when you get there you are maintaing it..

Looks great. My mouth is watering!

I made this soup off the cuff the other day and it was delicious: Bacon, Tomato and Lentil Soup. 4 Low fat bacon medallions 1 Large onion 5 Large on the vine Tomatoes 1L Veg stock 1 Can of Lentils 2 Bay leaves 1 Tsp Dried Basil 1 Tsp Dried Parsley Pepper Fry the chopped bacon and onions (no oil) for a few minutes. Add the…

The only way to get better at something is practice.

+1

I find cooking food from scratch helps. I take satisfaction when I make a meal that tastes good and can say "I made that and I would pay good money for it in a restaurant!".

You are talking about Net and Gross calories. See below link: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/articles/net-versus-gross-calorie-burn.aspx If you know the Gross calories (which it sounds like you do) you can calculate Net using this:…

Olive oil is a good source of fat. Use the recipe section of the app and make it with and without the oil and compare the figures per slice.

I think the bars are good if you don't have access to proper food for a prolonged period of time - effectively a stopgap. I work night shifts so I am asleep for x hours, wake, go the gym, work. Having a proper meal before the gym isn't feasible because I don't want to be bagged up doing cardio. I eat a bar after my cardio…

This website is a handy alternative: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx#

I try to avoid beer/ale and drink wine or whisky instead.

Nice work sir. Really digging the Blue Steel pose in the after pic too.

Nice work girls!

If your target calories set by the site is 1700, eat 1700. If you are not losing weight try lowering it to 1500 or exercise more. You need to feel good whilst on this journey to maintain it - starving yourself on a 1200 cal diet is not going to be sustainable. Slow and steady wins the race.

Nice work sir.

Most of the people you think are judging you probably are, but not in the way you think. People who take exercising seriously have a lot of respect for overweight people going to the gym, because most overweight people don't make a positive change like you have. It takes a lot of guts to go in the first place and a lot of…

Beef version but you get the idea.

I made this last week and it was delicious and quite filling: Stuffed aubergines with Moorish spices and Manchego cheese 4 aubergines 6 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, chopped 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 large red pepper, seeds removed, chopped 1½ tsp freshly ground cumin seeds 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp freshly grated…