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I'm happy for anyone to add me, particularly people who are in the UK timezone (I'm in Nottingham) and actively logging their food. I'm back on mfp for the third (major) time, doing it all again. I'd love to get some support and to be able to do what I can to support others. Cheers - Neil

But how to log it?

This is what people who are maintaining need to hear. Live the life of a thin, healthy person.. even after you've reached your goal weight, it is still a mental leap to see yourself as a thin, healthy person.

Go to Settings at the top of the page, Diary Settings, then change diary sharing to public.

You run 40-50 km a week, you cycle 20 km, and you do high intensity interval training three or four times a week, and yet you are putting on weight? Could you open your diary please?

Good logging! You eat out a lot - lunch, dinner and breakfast on some days. You end up eating a lot of carbs and sodium that way. I found lower carbs and higher protein to be helpful for losing weight. Are you any good at preparing your own food - can you make some time to do that? It is time-consuming but it is very…

I get head rushes quite a lot, I did while I was fat as well. I have learned to stand up slowly, in stages, The primary treatment for low blood pressure is to drink more water, so you could try that, if you haven't already.

OP is in the middle of the healthy weight range for her (?) height. She is exercising up to 8 times a week, talking about eating 1000 calories, and has no specific weight-loss goals. Suggestion, if she is not a troll, that is - think about maintaining your weight, and recompositioning - increasing your muscle mass, by…

My favourite Tesco snack when I'm on the move, and I am too disorganised to sort things out for myself in the morning, is their little cottage cheese pot, with crackers and sweet chilli sauce. 200 grams, 260 calories, 34 g carbs (20 sugar), 18 g protein, 5 g fat. It's an indulgence that I am able to fit into my macros on…

Very interesting indeed. There's a lot more to this dieting than meets the eye. It just goes to prove that you have a fairly big window to aim at, if you have a lot to lose. Once you get down to the final pounds, recompositioning, gaining, etc, there's a good chance that you know a lot more about how your body deals with…

If you're struggling to eat enough food to cover your daily needs, jogging sounds unwise to me, at least for the time being, unless it is really something you want to do, or if you need to increase your stamina for some reason. My advice is to plan your food out for the week. Enjoy preparing your food in the evening for…

wefuih wow, everything's f-ed up in here

You say that you don't think you sleep enough - this is probably the case. Have you tried to change this? I notice that you're working out after work. Could you try swapping things around, eating a light meal after you get in (or nothing at all, having eaten enough separate meals while working) and then just go straight to…

Randomly, this group is listed in the sidebar for me at the moment - http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/22041-no-nighttime-eating-support-group It might be a fairly obvious point, but is there anything you can do to sabotage your night-time eating self? Such as, to hide the food you're likely to want, put it under…

1. Where were you born? Maidstone, Kent, UK 2. Where do you live at the moment? Nottingham 3. Where else have you lived? London, Lancaster, Newcastle, Norfolk 4. What is your current occupation? Speech therapist (for children). // Dream occupation? - Speech therapist, academic, toyshop owner 5. Tell us any 5 things about…

here it is: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

It is easy to log homemade recipes. Weigh the individual ingredients, add the recipe using the 'old recipe calculator', work out what proportion of the whole you are eating, and then add it as a certain number of servings. If you don't log everything, how can you know what you're taking in?

Now there's an idea to push the BF% that little bit lower!

Well done. It's great that you're building your body back up - I see that you got down to a very low weight, and it must have taken a lot of work to build yourself up, putting on weight, and not putting on fat. You must look great! Couldn't you update your profile picture now so that you show your progress? The picture you…

That's pretty impressive :)

The idea of calling egg whites mixed with an egg yolk 'egg substitute' is too confusing for my tiny mind.

I've been logging for a while, and I still get very muddled over different entries for meat. Fat removed, skin on, cooked, uncooked, different cuts, different brands or shops - they are all different. You have to be very careful to reflect what you are actually eating, and make comparisons between different entries. Having…

My bananas need this recipe.

Some snacks from my recent past: vegetable "batons" (carrot, cucumber, pepper, celery, sugar snap peas, even fennel) with a dip of cottage cheese, greek yoghurt with lemon/lime and spices, houmous); rice cakes with cottage cheese and thai sweet chilli sauce; low fat protein shakes (I use phd diet whey); low fat greek…

When it comes to un-scannable foods (meat and fish bought over the counter, and veg from the greengrocers) the key word is usually 'usda'. It gets you to the basic nutritional data for that item. The usda entry is a very useful touchstone. Ironically, in the UK, the 'asda' entries are also usually very good. So - usda and…

All of this "tough love" is making me feel a little ill. Enough of the medical considerations. How about how it feels, being overweight vs being a healthy weight? Please excuse the generalisations, but this does represent my experience at least... Being overweight is extremely uncomfortable. In hot weather, fat legs chafe…

Your basic calorie intake, as set out in these entries, looks really good to me. So anything else I say has minimal relevance when it comes to improving your actual weight-loss chances, but it might help you stick with it in the longer term (as long as you introduce changes slowly and thoughtfully). In general, you eat…

It does sound as though you are weighing things accurately to me. On that basis, and because you're using a HRM, you are probably eating at enough of a deficit for 1 pound a week weight loss (3500 calorie deficit per week). 8 pounds in 8 weeks is a good, sustainable level of weight loss. The most recent week's maintenance…

You log 750 calories a day, give or take. That is extremely low. You should talk to someone about this. :(

Well done on your incredible transformation. It's so nice to see someone remember to thank mfp for providing these free tools. It's easy to take it for granted.