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My goal is to wear this one specific dress to a family gathering at Christmas this year. It's little and black with gold lace all over it, nominally a UK size 10 but it was always a bit tight as it's a very slim fit. This year I'm going to fit into it comfortably for the first time ever!

Cheers all! Today is my first running day after finishing C25K, I was going to just run for half an hour but felt a bit uninspired. I've read in a lot of places that the best way to improve your speed is to run longer distances, so today I've downloaded a 10 K trainer app and am excited about jumping into the next leg of…

Great job, dude!

A few NSVs today: It would have been so easy to get complacent and lazy after finishing Couch to 5 K, but I've just downloaded a 10 K trainer app! 10 K seems totally mad and unobtainable, but so did 5 K nine weeks ago... I wasn't seeing any progress on the scale for a while (up and down over the same pound). This morning I…

When I'm writing a shopping list for the weekly shop, my process generally goes like this: Plan dinners for the week, work out what I need to buy for those, then add lunches/snacks to the list (things like tins of soup and yoghurts), before adding general things I need to top up (household items, coffee, sugar etc). I then…

Sorry to hear that those issues resurfaced for you Kitty. Good on you for putting your fight out in the open - I've found that for me in the past, secrecy only fuels the demons. You are strong, and you will defeat them! Sending good vibes x

Thanks all! Now the challenge is to make sure I keep on with running every other day. Should be fairly easy as I'm firmly addicted now! Dinner last night was excellent, I meant to take a photo but forgot - butterfly chicken with a hot marinade, peri peri chips, spicy rice, a quarter avocado and small slice of halloumi.…

5 ft 4 137 lbs UK size 10

Finished C25K and ran 5K in 29.32! Boom! Nine weeks ago I could barely run for 60 seconds. Oh - also, I put on a dress that I hadn't worn for a while and it actually fits like it's supposed to!

Still been having OMAD plus a snack, finished Couch to 5 K today! Ran 5 K in less than 30 minutes so I'm chuffed. Seem to be up and down around the same pound at the moment but I did up my running speed from 4.5 to 6.1 for the last two runs so have been working muscles a lot harder and I think that TOM may be coming up so…

Jumping in on the fish theme, I had a spicy tuna wrap yesterday! Your meals always look so yummy Kitty!

I graduated today! My W9D3 time was 29:32, which I'm very proud of as it was my goal to run a sub-30 5K before the end of the year. I'm going to keep running every other day, and work on gradually improving my speed.

When I was vegan I liked to fry up chickpeas with onion, garlic, spinach and plenty of harissa paste. Meat free bolognese is easy to batch cook.

What a fab website! Apparently I'm 7.5% smaller than I estimated. My NSV is that today I did W9D2 of Couch to 5 K, ran for a tad longer, and ended up running 5 K in 30 mins 40 seconds! My goal for the end of the year (!) was to run a sub 30 minute 5 K, but I think I might be able to crack that on my final C25K run in a…

^ This just fixed it for me too, after days of it being messed up! Phew!

If she loves chocolate and is likely to expect some, maybe a smaller box of expensive, high quality chocolates would be a better choice than a huge selection box.

I've been pondering this too - 5 ft 4, 25 year old woman, 23 lbs down and 17 lbs left to go. I've been losing over the last 11 months swapping between 0.5 and 1 lb per week depending on what I can manage at the time, and I've been at 1 lb a week for a while now but not stuck to it as well as I should. I'm wondering if my…

Week 9 Day 2 done - I ran 5k in 30 minutes and 40 seconds! So pleased.

If I hop on the scales before bed I'm usually a good 3 lbs heavier than my morning weight.

40-29.5-38. Would like to get to a 27 inch waist ideally!

I'm down 3 lbs since I last posted here, which is encouraging! 17 lbs left to goal. I'm on Week 9 of Couch to 5 K which has been great at motivating me to stay active! I'm currently on a 1 lb a week deficit but I'm wondering when to switch to a 0.5 lb a week deficit...

I make a lazy snack version with a tortilla folded over, a small amount of tomato puree, jalapeños and about 25 grams of cheese, toasted on a grill. It ends up being about 350 calories, it's not exactly authentic but it satisfies the craving!

The chills afterwards - what on earth, body? How running faster is easier on my body than jogging slowly, even if I get tired more quickly.

That's the key thing really - if they taught portion control and sustainable weight loss they'd probably go out of business because they'd have no repeat customers.

When your partner is eating cookies because they fit into his calories but they don't fit into yours so you're studiously ignoring them and reading the MFP forums for an extra willpower boost...

One of the best purchases of my life! Got mine new for about £130 about two months ago and I've used it every day since (apart from when we were moving house and unpacking). I've got to Week 9 of Couch to 5 K on it which I'd never have done without it because like, ew outdoors and weather and people. It fits into my lazy…

When you have already looked up the calories of, and pre-logged, the All You Can Eat Full English Breakfast buffet you're going to on Saturday morning, and figured out exactly what's worth the calories and what isn't. (Bless Toby Carvery for having item by item nutritional info!)

- Finish Couch to 5 K - Build up speed until I can run 5k in 25 minutes - Get to 130

In England we just put milk in coffee, about 12 calories for 25 ml of semi-skimmed. When you guys talk about putting cream in coffee, is this the same sort of cream that you'd pour over a bowl of strawberries or some cake? That seems amazingly decadent if so - over here single cream is 50 calories for 25 ml and double…

I'm really glad to hear that he's back :)