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I'm only recently come back to MFP. I have been doing intermittent fasting for a few months now. I think of it as a light food day and ordinary food day (as eaten by thinner people with an off switch). I aim for 500 Cala on light days-home made veg soup if I'm desperate and the remaining Cals on dinner. Not lost much…

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dagoth - lift things up put things down - you made me smile! I go to Curves three times a week which i enjoy but i want to speed up reducing my bingo wings. one of the girls there suggested bottles of water - hold it up high and then take it down behind my head - repeat. I am using a bottle of laundry detergent as it is…

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I am with you - I have a cone with vanilla and toffee ice cream most days. it is within my calories but I do not count it as nutricious. I also usually have it after dinner to avoid the potential of blood sugar spikes. I have noticed if I have a biscuit at work - within my calories I enjoy it but feel very hungry when the…

Hi I usually celebrate by having scones with jam and cream for an afternoon tea whether at work or home. Not this year - I don't even want to begin adding the calories in it!!

hi I sometimes sabotage myself but i am learning how to stand fast when that little voice in my head says "one won't hurt" but I know I will eat the pack. I have less high calorie food available, I try to speak about the feelings which are pushing me that way. I tell myself I can have something unhealthy I want to eat but…

I am useless at remembering user names and passwords. I joined MFP on the advice of my daughter who is a member - although born in southern uk Surrey, she lives up north where it is common to call mothers our Mam. Ros is the short version of my name. Simples!

thank you for taking the time to share your journey in such a brilliant post. You have helped me feel bolder in considering sharing my diary - i am aware some of my choices may well be frowned on by those more disciplined than me - but i know i cannot ban goodies or I will end up bingeing on them! thank you

Hi I do love my fitbit as it encourages me to move more. However i synched it with MFP and between them they are baffling me. I have had several days where i have synched them early evening, get told i have so many calories to use. However when i look back on it from the next day the numbers will have changed and it will…

Hi I had the Nokia 3310 and loved it, got talked into an upgrade which was a Samsung. Family were getting IPhones and although i liked the apps they were things i did not NEED so i did not bother to change. March 2011 son gave me an IPhone 3. I like the apps, games etc and learnt how to use it but never felt I needed all…

I try to weigh once a week and as I started to diet on !st March which was a Wednesday that is when i should weigh. howver that is a work day and i usually forget so weigh on a weekend. I also weigh first thing after loo before breakfast. I sometimes weigh more often if I feel I have lost or gained weight weirdly I am not…

Missjay, I am so sorry for your loss. It is okay to feel the way you do but you are amazing in trying to deal with it all without giving in to the comfort eating. I am sure your friend would be proud of you.

You go girl! I am four weeks in from walking as little as possible, being glued to that couch. I now walk two stops futher to get the bus to work. Instead of collecting things to take upstairs I go up for each one. Today i noticed the stairs are easier!!! The little things like parking further away and going the long way…

hi You are doing great. You don't have to go it alone - there are lots of competative people on MFP. Check out the groups - some of them create challenges. i have also heard some make their diaries public so others can see what they eat. I am not one of them yet, but it is the first time i have really recorded everything i…

Wow, well done your 102 is my goal. I started on 29 Feb 12 and have lost 7 so only 95 to go. thank you for sharing - you help me believe it is possible. You are looking good.

hi our Tesco stocks cottage cheese of all kinds: with chives, with pineapple, and other stuff - I am not keen on any of it so don't pay much attention to it. It is usually in the chiller cabinets near dairy near the soft cheeses. Your are talking about the stuff that looks like polystyrene bits in runny white stuff?

I am def both. i am learning to ask am i really hungry or is something eating me? I also try and focus and enjoy what i do eat more. I sit up at the table and try and take longer to eat. Then the tricky one for me - stop eating when i have had sufficient - not a clean plate, not when I am stuffed, just had suffiecient.…

Hi you are doing so well with your lifestyle changes, don't let scales sabotage you. You are losing inches so things are, yes really are, going well. I believe muscle weighs more than fat so I think that is why it is not showing on the scales. I know it is hard to stay off the scales but when they bring you down just check…