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Car-less, and pretty happy about that. I moved to a city last summer, and found absolutely everything I needed within easy reach, either walking or by regular and reasonably cheap public transport. That goes for local amenities and travelling into the city centre too. I found myself spending £50-odd a week just to keep the…

01 Feb: 7.26 miles* 02 Feb: 8.05 miles* 03 Feb: 4.06 miles TOTAL = 19.37 miles * = non-work day (if you get those things in my job - I was still working for hours on both Saturday AND Sunday) ...

Where can I find this please? Someone has distances for Middle Earth?

15.31 miles so far, between today and yesterday. All outdoors and averaging 13:45ish mile splits. I got 126 miles last month. I doubt I'll do quite as well, but will be disappointed if I don't get 100 miles for the month ...

Woohoo - 126.21 miles. All outdoors, all at a minimum of 4mph, and most of that between 6am-7am on weekday mornings!

Soundtrack to Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers.

Last night I made a large batch of tomato and red pepper dahl. 239 calories per portion x 6 Tonight I am cooking flatbreads. 203 calories per bread x 9 So that is some tasty and healthy lunches sorted for the week, plus perhaps a dinner if I have to bring a lot of work home with me ... Tomorrow's dinner is also made -…

I drink once or twice a week. Often on those days I nudge a little over my calorie allowance. Over the week, quite simply, if I burn more than I consume, I lose weight. Cutting stuff that you enjoy out of your life because it may or may not slow down weight loss is not a recipe for lasting success. Moderation is.

It's not about weight loss for me. It's about biology. We are built - evolved - to readily, easily, dare I say 'healthily' consume stuff we can pick, harvest, etc. That does not include some artificial ****e cooked up in a lab. It really doesn't. I don't have any kind of sweet tooth, but unrefined sugar, hey I won't sweat…

This ^^^^^^^ a million times ...

Jeez, honesty, moral code, etc. etc. You don't dig him. Don't get his hopes up by going on any kind of date with him. Going Dutch means sweet FA (this may be lost in translation). Do not see him if you have no intentions of the kind of relationship he wants. FFS ...

Don't sweat it - if you don't win this week, you probably will next week. One day won't be a massive issue. On Fri 10 January I logged 4821 calories - and loved it :) [Edit, that's 2800 over calorie budget for the day] On Monday 13 January for my weekly weigh-in I found I had lost 1.5lb over the preceding week ... Your…

01 - 6,428 (but was out with SO) 02 - 16,317 03 - 15,077 04 - 15,069 05 - 20,080 06 - 13,031 (first day back at school) 07 - 13,502 08 - 13,121 09 - 13,557 10 - 17,708 11 - 15,414 12 - 19,225 13 - 15,030 14 - 19,357 15 - 17,079 16 - 19387 17 - 16,072 18 - 19,217 as at 4pm Total so far - 284,671. [Edit: Daily Average -…

Recipe for this, please ... :)

Out and walking (in the rain) at 6am this morning, whilst my pupils were all still asleep. They think I'm a madman :)

Jakidoodles - I pretty much started with a mile or two per day last year. 500 miles is actually less than 1.5 miles daily - how about that?! x

Thanks - partly because I'm a teacher and so was able to get some miles in before I went back to school. But I have walked before school every day since we got back (my pupils think I'm crazy, doing my walk whilst they're still asleep), and I'm currently at 38.6 miles for January. Last year, with a couple of injuries that…

Giving up entirely feels like a 'diet', not a 'lifestyle change' - not sustainable; well at least not for me. But I have gone from drinking most days to drinking maximum twice a week. You have no idea how bloody good the first sip of ale on a Friday after work tastes nowadays ... :)

Home-made veg soup. I roasted a LOAD of veg at the weekend and blitzed it with some stock. This particular batch included: garlic (lots of) carrots leeks potatoes swede, and celeriac and came in at 296 calories for a large bowlful, including the oil I roasted the veg in to begin with. How's that?

I don't watch TV - has saved me a packet (and preserved my sanity). I started off by cutting out all short car journeys that I could reasonably walk, but now I don't run a car at all - it's got me fit and saved me a packet (may not be practical for you, but I live in a city with great public transport links, and moved to…

28 miles so far this month ... :)

Up two pounds between 23 Dec and 01 Jan. No food logging, and hardly any exercise. Plus some pretty ****ty stuff happening in personal life over Christmas. So all in all 2lb is nothing. It happens. It will come off :)

My Goodreads 'Currently Reading' shelf looks like this: - Iain M. Banks: Matter - Ursula K. LeGuin: The Dispossessed - Larry McCaffrey: Storming the reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction - Margaret Atwood: In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination - Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let…

How are you finding the book? I've not seen the US version of the film - I'm not a movie-goer anyway, and I was worried I wouldn't like it ...

God yes, so many books, so little time. The Pratchett series is an absolute joy, and you will definitely find it gets better as you go along. I'm also a big fan of Shakespeare and ****ens ... :smile:

That's an awesome book. And the Swedish version of the film is definitely worth checking out too.

I do. In fact, I'm an English teacher and, depressingly, I own just about as many books as my school has in its 'library' ... Last book I read for pleasure rather than to teach at work was Henry James' 'The Turn Of The Screw'.

^ this. One bad day - or two - doesn't negate a lifestyle change. Over Christmas I will definitely put on weight at my parents'. But that's fine, no problem, when I get back home I'll be back in my usual routine ... Don't beat yourself up!

Being harangued by my SO's mum that I had lost too much weight?

My 'quick and easy' is nearly always something I 'made from scratch' another day when I had more time. And, 'made from scratch' is consistently cheaper than fast food too ... as well as being tastier (at least cooked to MY taste) and with no hidden nasties (to the best of my knowledge - we can never know for sure, of…