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Not relevant to your post, but I love the name :bigsmile: (there is no geekyface so I had to go with the smiley one hahaha)

I'm eating about 1600 calories a day and losing about 1lb per week. So if you were a little bit heavier than me to start with, it'd give you a little bit more calories than me for the same amount of loss. 1700 is a reasonable number if you want to lose weight slowly. The "average recommended daily amount" for a woman is…

My motivation has entirely fizzled out.... I think I've done it twice in the last week :ohwell: Will try again in a couple of weeks time when I'm not trying to cram as much revision into my brain as possible in the next 2 days...

Hey there! I'm Alex, I'm 23 and a student in London. I'm 5'10" and I started off weighing about 170lbs. I basically noticed that all of my smart clothes I had to wear every day for uni placements were getting too tight to be comfortable, and there is no way I could afford to buy a whole new wardrobe! So I was whinging…

I'm studying at the moment, and while it is easy to put on weight (which is why I need to lost it now!) it is not really that hard to lost it either. I find it much harder when I go back to my parents' house, because while I'm at uni I can make decisions about my own food, grocery shopping etc, but when I'm at home I eat…

I live in London, and I would choose Paris! But to be fair, it would obviously be very different as a tourist to living here every day. London has been done up a lot with the Olympics coming here, but it also means that at the moment there are SO MANY PEOPLE. EVERYWHERE. But even on an average day, from my own experience…

This is what I was going to say - Options hot chocolate works as well for my chocolate cravings as a strip off a huge dairy milk bar, or possibly better actually as I can never be bothered to go downstairs, boil the kettle and make some more after the first one!

Hypothyroidism gives you general symptoms of things slowing down in your body. Some of the main ones that would lead you to suspect hypothyroidism are weight gain, feeling really cold, hair loss/thinning, loss of the outer 1/3 of the eyebrows, dry skin, slow heart rate and low blood pressure, irregular and heavy periods,…

Only problem with this is, at least in the UK, joining a sports team is an incentive to spend your entire Wednesday evening looking at the bottom of a pint glass that somehow mysteriously just emptied its beery contents into your stomach!

I definitely put weight on in my first couple of years at uni, and I 100% blame the alcohol. The first month or so I didn't cook very healthily either but I definitely got better at that pretty quickly, and I didn't eat a ridiculous amount of takeaway or anything like that. I've found that this year I don't have the time,…

I think twice about potatoes, mainly because I've realised how much tastier and lower calories sweet potatoes are as an alternative. For other things I think twice about how much of them I eat - i.e I weigh my pasta instead of pouring what LOOKS like 100g into the saucepan... Beyond that, as someone already said, I WILL…

Thanks :D You'd think so... I also got confused when sweetener says "if measuring volume use the same amount, if measuring weight use 1/10 the amount".... I definitely had the wrong amount last time I tried to bake anything. I mean, the muffins were still tasty, but only because I like really bitter dark chocolate!

I know EXACTLY what you mean!! It probably doesn't help that I don't even have a set of measuring cups - but that is mainly because I have never ever seen one for sale in the UK, and I don't intend on paying a small fortune for one in a specialist shop. I have tried measuring stuff using a coffee mug before - but I have a…

I don't think it will really matter that much, as long as you record everything that you eat so the total calories is in your diary, I would guess that would be fine. Sorry I can't be any more helpful than that but I really don't know.

I can't believe that I actually missed reading out when I posted before.... that is like all I spend every day doing. A Kindle a couple of years ago is the best birthday present I've ever had. Amazon has SO MANY free books! Some of them are rubbish, but most are actually quite good!

I tend to workout in the afternoon, and don't generally eat anything between lunch (at around 1pm) and going to the gym at about 4 or 5. If I eat anything before working out it makes me feel like I am going to projectile vomit! So I agree with what someone already said, try working out having not eaten anything for at…

I have getting on for a half of my calories between getting home at 5ish and bedtime, in a snack and then dinner. But a lot of the time I am busy all morning and don't get long off for lunch, and because I'm not just sitting around thinking about it, I don't actually get that hungry during the day. It's the evening when I…

What is this spare time you talk about?! Haha seriously though, I play hockey from September-March with my uni team, when I'm back at my parents' for summer or whatever I horse ride (sadly no room to take the ponies to London!), and the rest of the time I've been getting into knitting and crochet. The problem is that I…

I am thinking about moving up to level 2 too. I did 6 days, had 2 planned rest days, and then I've only managed to find motivation for it once in the last 3 days! The exercises are getting easier, but more than that they're getting boring. Maybe trying level 2 will give me some more enthusiasm for it!

Heya! I've been on here about 3 months now and lost nearly a stone, which I am honestly pretty impressed with. I started off a bit half-heartedly , filling everything in but not actually expecting to see so much difference. And it's not really any extra effort, with the app I can just fill it in while dinner is cooking or…

Hey there, I'm from Norfolk originally but living in London at the moment :) happy to be added if you fancy it!

I forgot about doing this until after I ate dinner this evening... trying to convince myself I should do it morning and evening tomorrow to make up for it .... that is never going to happen :laugh: But on the plus side, yesterday when I did it after a 2 day rest, it was so much easier than the last time, that time off was…

I always end up just getting angry in threads like these, but hey ho I'll wade in anyway :wink: I would get annoyed if someone just tried to promote something to me repeatedly, just like I do with some of my friends who have just started running Ann Summers parties and use facebook to spam about their availability…

I've honestly never had a protein shake so I don't know how that'd affect it, but if I only are fruit for breakfast I am pretty certain I'd be starving after an hour or 2. I tend to eat a bowl of cereal or a slice of toast in the morning, it keeps me a lot more satisfied for a lot longer than fruit does.

Sounds amazing, I love broccoli, and all things resembling chicken satay!

There are several things that you can make into different dishes with the leftovers. I live with 3 others but we rarely cook together as our tastes are so different, as are our ideas of a healthy amount of food :P Personally, I just cook something for 4 and then eat near enough the same thing for 4 days in a row, but I can…

Heya :) it seems to be working for me so far, and also seems to have worked for a lot of other people on the site. I have lost about 12 lbs so far, in just over 3 months, with it set to losing 1lb per week. So I guess it is going at about the rate it is supposed to! How many of my exercise calories I eat back really…

Ooo this sounds awesome, thanks! I don't normally bother to walk as far as my nearest Lidl but I might make the effort for this!

I had 2 days off over the weekend and finally found the motivation to do it again today - which makes day 7 for me. Seriously, those 2 days off were amazing, it was so good to start the workout this evening with recovered muscles that didn't complain at every single exercise before I even started it! And I even managed…

They are definitely the easiest parts for me! But then I have been going running a lot recently before starting this, so cardio fitness is far from my biggest problem! I've given myself 2 days off over the weekend as I was away, but now struggling to find the motivation to start up again this afternoon...