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I just eat the protein and the vegetable- I'm lucky in the sense I'm not a big lover of carbs so yeah maybe I'll take a fry or two but I'm not too fussed. I'm just glad I have more room for something I do like- say steak or chicken and some veggies. And I'm getting better about eating till I'm not hungry instead of…

Hey there! I can only give my personal experience but for me, changes in activity level don't automatically lead to a change in eating, if anything if I exercise it's like my body thinks I earned more food so I had a horrible tendency to do an hour at the gym and cancel it out by eating junk food on the way home! The…

Hey, I had my watershed moment at 26... I'm now two years in and yeah I've had secret binges. And been so SO creative about how to fit them in sometimes I feel like if I could channel all this talent and frustration into something more positive I'd be a millionaire! Absolutely sympathise- My weight issues stem from…

Love this mentality. I feel like we're so used to instant gratification in so many areas of our lives we find it hard to deal with it when something we want to happen doesn't happen right away... well I know I definitely have less patience than I should. It's the direction I'm moving, not the speed that counts here.

Hey, just a suggestion but is it perhaps because before you started paying attention you never realised you weren't hungry? Like before I started trying to be more conscious about what I ate and why, I just ate because I wanted to. And I never thought about why, I just figured I was hungry so yeah... this led to me being…

You cannot have any idea of how human biology/ chemistry works, if you had even the slightest clue you'd be embarrassed to be caught out saying this stuff. Not only does nothing you say make sense, but you actively contradict yourself with the most basic things. Sugar is fatty? Don't eat any flour based foods but then…

Hahaha! This is exactly what my sister said when I let her try some of mine. I think I'm one of the few people who really likes these. To the point where I got those big blocks of konnyaku to chop up into my salads. Yea I'm weird. :embarassed:

I want to clarify, I'm not shaming anybody or any way of eating that works for people. I'm putting forward something that the OP may not have thought about to consider and it's based on my own experience. If you have a certain number of calories, dividing them into three meals will always give you more per sitting than…

You don't need snacks. Chances are you're not actually hungry. You just want food. And why wouldn't you, you graze on it all day. I would advise you to keep some discipline with meal times and don't let the "eating" part of the day be the whole day. Think about whether you need to break the habit of bringing food to your…

Good luck! I have 30lbs to lose also but it is s...l...o...w going for me. Wishing you more success than I'm having right now!

You don't care and you're happy where you are. OR You can't be bothered and don't feel like making the effort anymore. I don't mean to sound harsh, OP. In my case every time I told myself I was happy with my weight I was saying I don't want to do this anymore, I don't feel like it. A few weeks later I'll catch somebody at…

Why not have a late breakfast? Say at 10:30am get yourself something small like a poached eggs on toast... or a few pieces of fruit and some nuts. They travel pretty well and you can prep the night before and thow into your bag when you leave in the morning. It doesn't matter when you eat. Just what. So don't worry too…

Yuh but we're all born with a corset, it's called your core and it can change your shape miraculously. And you can eat! And you can breathe! You never have to take it to the dry cleaners. It can get out of shape but it will always fit you, besides with a little work you can resore it to its former glory. It won't warp your…

Weight fluctuates. That half a pound could be a coffee that you had or a salty snack. It's not linear, you will retain water, eat meals, get constipated, have different hormones coursing around your body, all of these things will do different things to your scale weight. Half a pound gain after that kind of loss is really…

Less salt (try low sodium stock cubes in the soup next time for example) More water- the amount you're drinking is fine but let your body do what it needs to do, don't freak out about temporary fluctuations. Protein - Your body needs to survive day to day, it is not your enemy. So help it out and give yourself some high…

This is brilliant! Thanks for sharing! My resolution for next month is to start paying attention to WHY I'm eating each time and really get down to the roots of why I keep stuffing myself. I know for a fact it's not hunger and I know I eat too much and want to lose weight. I can't understand why I eat so often. Food notes…

Until you can control your ice cream habit you will have a problem. Really you need to get some perspective on this. This is ice cream, it is not a predatory stalker or agents of a military dictatorship. You have to actively go out there an buy it and eat it to perpetuate the problem. You know what you need to do. Nobody…

Oh people can retain a lot of water, I lived with somebody who was deliberately "inflated" with almost 30lbs of water so that it would be easier for doctors to perform surgery on her. It took months for her to drop that weight. But that's not what is happening here. I think you need to be upfront and honest with yourself…

This sledgehammer appears to be far too subtle for the job at hand here. I got nothing.

Would gum work? Or maybe something like sipping at some flavoured water, diet soda, something like that? I have an issue where I just keep moving my hand from food to mouth. I started by changing what I was picking up and eating (so from cookies to veggies) but now I feell like it's not the content that's the issue, it's…

One time I skipped a workout and the next day I'd gained 13 pounds. I thought I my friend looked at me in a bad way the next day because all 13 pounds had gone directly to my face. I felt so bad that I bought a Versace handbag AND a Dior lipgloss. Now I feel worse because the lipgloss only emphasises my huge face, plus my…

A quick "why are you saying this to me? What do you think will happen as a result?" I find that when I engage my hecklers, it usually disarms them.

This sounds cruel and hurtful, I'm so sorry that your mother made you feel this way. But if I can show the other side of somebody who behaves in a similar way- just not towards me. To be clear, this does not defend anything your mother did or excuse it in anyway. Nor do I want to try and explain away or trivialise…

In! :sad: this is me. So tell myself, however many times a day it takes... No more eating when we're bored. Or think we should eat. Or know that we shouldn't eat. Or eat because the food is there. Or eat because it's convenient. Or eat because somebody else is hungry. Or eat because it's your favourite. Or eat because is…

I moved to the states a few years ago and couldn't get on board with how the chocolate tasted different. I basically didn't eat chocolate for at least a year as even when I'd got back to the UK I'd sort of lost my taste for it. Unfortunately about a year after moving back, I re-remembered my love of chocolate and I'm back…

You know what you need to do, you're just looking for people to give you excuses so that you don't have to do it. If you're going to take the doctor's phen, take the doctor's advice. Eat what you've been told to eat and stop filling your body with supplements that the doctor did not tell you to take. Seriously. You get one…

Actually that sounds like a really good idea! I'm going for a snack-free May... I want to break the hand-to-mouth habit of constantly putting food in my mouth when I'm not even hungry- especially calorie dense stuff like crisps or chocolate! I think I'll join you!

Oh I feel your pain. I don't know exactly how or when I went off track yet but I did... so a year ago I was down to a weight I was reasonably happy with- like my first goal weight. So I got lazy and slacked off. For like... 10 months. And the only surprise I had was that I'd ONLY gained back 7 or 8 of those lbs. So back on…

5 feet- aiming for 110. I'm an extremely pear shaped girl, no matter how fat I get it all seems to go directly into saddlebags- no boobage at all I'm afraid. I was at my happiest at 110. At 100 I was ok but to be honest I just want to keep it realistic. I want to get in shape more than I want to see that number on a scale…

Eat when you're hungry, not because you can/ because you're bored.