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Lovely!! Thanks for that! We're descended from the people who were lucky and whose bodies held onto every calorie it could.

C25K - that's all I need to say. If you can walk you can start this, it combines walking with a teeny bit of slow jogging, emphasises going slow and builds up longer periods of jogging mixed with walking. You move on when you're ready to. Give it a try. You'll be a runner soon, don't rush it

I love lentil/ split pea/ bean soups - so yummy I could eat them every day! LaurenStephaine - Baked beans are OK on a diet, so long as you count them, the sauce makes them a bit higher in calories, but you can still fit them in. I mean, I fit CHOCOLATE in. Eat what you want, but count it!

Make sure you cook those beans at a full boil for at least 10 minutes before you put them into the rice cooker or slow cooker. Uncooked beans have toxins in them that will make you sick unless they're well boiled. Otherwise, enjoy your beans. :smile:

Of course you're allowed ketchup if you want it! Just count it into your calories - it doesn't come to much anyway. :) You can have anything you want as long as it fits into your calorie budget and fits the other macros you want to watch. Life is full of choices, you just need to make reasonable ones most of the time. I'm…

Glad you got through the asking her out ordeal & that it went well. Flowers deffo OTT on a first date - don't be so intense, so quickly or she'll run for the hills. You've got to give her a sense that she has some control, don't rush things. Have a great evening on Friday & ask her out again if you want to see her again.…

I assume you already cook as much as possible from scratch. if not, that's the first place to start. There's a very good website featuring cheap to cook recipes - http://agirlcalledjack.com/category/recipes-food-etc/ Google £1 a day for more useful recipes and ideas. I find Lidl and Aldi have some fantastic bargains. I…

This is what I do. Or when cooking for non-dieting husband AND adult son, I make 5 small portions and have just one while they have 2 each.

Do you still have the receipt etc? Contact Fitbit's customer service - it's awesome, and I don't often use that word. You may well find that they'll send you another one :happy: - how cool is that!! I lost mine in the garden & managed to find it the next day, but I could have had a new one if it didn't turn up. Good luck!!

Bump, I love soup!!

I logged, am on about 4500 calories so far and I'm sitting next to an open box of chocolates..... may add another one if I eat it! That's the most calories I've ever eaten I think. I copied over last Christmas's meals and adjusted it for this year. Didn't take long! Tomorrow is the start of another campaign to lose the…

Anything you want!! :wink: Provided you measure and log it and it fits into your allowances. Who says eating bread, granola, fruit, nuts or brown rice is bad for you? If you don't have diabetes, coeliac disease or other allergy you can eat anything you want, as long as you count the calories, get enough protein to be able…

Well, I have to confess I'm one big failure at this! I was tempted to just delete myself from the list and slink away into the twilight, but here goes. I lost four pounds over the first half of this challenge - not a lot and not fast, but still a loss. Then we hit the party season and other over-indulgences and I gained…

Oh yes! I'll be logging! I'm going to copy 25th December 2012 using the quick tools (as I itemised everything I ate last year) and adjust that if anything is different. I expect to be about 2800 calories over on that day :-))) Yummy!!

This makes three of us! * I'm almost the same,but instead of maintaining, I've gained over the last 2-3 weeks. I'm aiming to maintain instead of gaining until Christmas, then get back on track after the holidays. I think I've been looking for comfort foods (homemade soup is a good one here), not doing as much exercise…

How old is your baby? The number of calories she takes will increase as she grows, then decrease as she is weaned. I agree that around 300 calories is a figure often given. Have a look in the food database - if you put in "breastfeeding" there are a lot of entries. Pick the one that matches your situation as best you can…

This post makes no sense to me. You can split up your calories and eat them at intervals during the day, save them for one meal - taken at any time to suit you - or do whatever you want with them. Personally, I don't find it hard not to eat breakfast, so I skip it. Sometimes I skip lunch too, sometimes I have a cup soup or…

I'm jiggling up and down the same couple of pounds too! Ah well! Might as well keep going - the alternative is to gain again and I don't want to do that!!

If there was just one "magic" thing I guess we'd ALL be doing it. "Meticulous measurement of activity & intake with a suitable calorie deficit - not too large & not too small." would be my answer. What's yours? Edited to add - "and patience"

I eat back all or most (at least half) of exercise calories - working so far!

I could eat lentil soup and / or ham & tomato sandwich for lunch every day of my life if I had to! So - split red lentils onions ham bread tomatoes apples carrots No room for coffee :sad: or chocolate :sad: :sad:

You can change which nutrients you track. I didn't like being in the red every day from eating fruit, so I got rid of "sugar" and track fibre instead.

Looks to me as if you're listening to your body and adapting how much you eat to your activity level. As someone said earlier, humans evolved on lean times and times of plenty and your body is adapted to work on fasting and feasting. It's only in relatively recent times in the First World that most people have been lucky…

I'm planning to go over by at least 2000 calories on Christmas Day, but to counteract it by having 500 calories on Christmas Eve and / or Boxing Day. Bring on the turkey, pigs in blankets, sausagemeat stuffing, bacon rolls, roasties, sprouts, chestnuts, carrots, roasted parsnips, cranberry sauce, gravy, Christmas pudding,…

I hope this will help if you want to know more about what is called "The Fast Diet" or the "5:2 Diet" (because you almost fast, eating very low calories, twice a week) http://thefastdiet.co.uk/ There's a book about it as well, maybe available cheap in a supermarket, or from your library. Research is beginning to suggest…

I'm in my 60's and it's working well for me. My usual fasting days are Mondays and Thursdays but I change them if necessary to fit in with my social life. I find it's easier to eat really low on 2 days a week and have more calories to "spend" on the other 5 days.

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That's the effect tins of Heinz vegetable soup have on me too - and I suggested vegetable soup! You'd enjoy homemade soup, blended so it's smooth more than that tinned stuff. I gave you some recipe suggestions - it's really easy to make. If you don't have a blender make it smoother using a potato masher. If you threw up…

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This works in reverse too! I have a 38" ribcage and measure 42" round the boobs, making me a 42AA. Do you suppose ANYONE makes 42AA bras? I can tell you they don't. So I have to go around in 40A or 38B bras with half-empty cups. At least sports bras are almost unnecessary for me.