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Surely this is perfect then because you're not planing on keeping them. ;)

1200 is a very low amount of calories; it's also my daily target. Sometimes you'll feel hungry and sometimes not. Look at what you're eating as well as the calories - loads of salads and veg will help. I'm guess the 1200 per day is the minimum MFP has given you to loose the maximum amount of weight each week. When you go…

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If you do gain then you already know why and can move on. Last week was a work conference (free wine and food all day anyone?) and then a weekend of being taken to wife organised events which involved to much food. I just started today by drawing a line under all that and carried on. There isn't any shame in it because…

It started locked then I thought the worst someone can do is look and send me a message to either offer advice or laugh at how boring it is.

vodka or rum with soda water for me and since I know what nights I'm going out and how much calorie wise a night out costs then I try to do more exercise during the day to earn those drink calories . For me this is about learning to enjoy myself while losing weight. It's not about maintaining a strict diet at the cost of…

Cheese on toast, pizza, Chinese takeaway - especially the sticky sauce ones!, cakes, a steak and kidney pie, a pork pie, a large cheese board with biscuits, crisps, original Pringles, a mint aero; oh to have a mint aero. What prevents me from having all or any of these? The number of calories at the bottom of my diary…

I gained in two stages. Seven year ago I changed jobs and it involved travelling; hotel food Monday - Friday with little chance for any exercise. Yes the hotel might have had a gym but by the hours were long in the office and when you got back to the hotel room so it was pretty much whatever room service did. Full fat,…

I'm doing around 1200 per day and I'm fine. Water helps but the whole thing has made me look at what sorts of food I was eating. For example, I cut butter and a slice of toast from my morning soft, dippy eggs with soldiers. I looked at what I drank. I looked at the ingredients I was using and thought about whether they (a)…

1600 isn't bad at all. You BMR is around 1550 using the figures you gave based on you do nothing all day so if you log 1500 calories you're still under your maintenance figure.

^^ This.

Mine should be open for a peek - and any comments, criticism or suggestions people have!

I've been aiming at 1200 for three weeks now and it's starting to come together. I cycle on days I know the family want to get a take out or I know I'll be having a drink. Most of it has been cutting the high calorie ingredients from things like salad and replacing them with more fresh fruit or veg. example - In a chicken…

I found that I get different calorie counts from two different websites using the same cycle data; one shows around 450 and then other 650. I did worry a bit but now I just go with the lower value and hope that it's somewhere in the middle :)

Thanks

Two dippy eggs with un-buttered soldiers because I can't find anything else I like for breakfast that doesn't feel like I'm eating crap.

Don't change the seat to a softer one. Get a couple of pairs of padded lycra shorts - even if you wear them under regular shorts and don't make the mistake of wearing underwear. This link is an example of what I mean but have a look around your local shops for them:…

Honestly? I use the board on my Wii fit and it does the job nicely.

I used to suffer from these every time I tried to walk any distance at speed until I spoke to a running guy at work. Basically, it was foot ware and stretches. (The same thing Sparren mentioned) Once I changed from a pair of trainers with go faster strips which are just a fashion shoe into a proper running trainer which is…

Thanks for the reply. It was a case of apple or cake, I was more curious to how one plan can claim you can eat as many as you want when they clearly have an impact. For me, breakfast is worst. I picked up a bowl of fruit, glass of orange the other day thinking I was doing the right thing and nearly fell over when the…

Cheers for the replies. I'm grazing cherry tomato's from the greenhouse as these seem low.

Thanks for this.. Just need to find some of those steel cut oats here in the UK.

How do you stir this every hour if it's an overnight recipe? It does sound lush though and I plan to try this at the weekend!