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Not to mention that work style is not at all indicative of "lifestyle". I see what MFP is trying to do, but its just not a perfect system. For example,ignore weekends, and take person A.), has an active work (say, walking tour guide, walks 6/7 working hours a day, then she goes home on the tbus (2X1 hr), then spends 5…

Calorie count is useless? really? you're on the MFP website, in case you didnt notice. This iste is ALL about calorie counting. You got lost? :D:D:D

Your lifestyle, is not just "work lifestyle". normally a person works around 37 hours a week, or 7 hours per working day - the rest of the hours in the week are also part of the lifestyle! :):):) My question to you, if a person sits at a computer 7 hours monday to friday, but walks the dog twice every day and every weekend…

Excellent point and a very healthy way to lose weight. I was very afraid that once I up my cals I will end up gaining back.. so what I did was to start upping by 50 cals every two weeks until i got to 1500 cals , which was 12 weeks later. Maybe I could have jumped back up to 1500 straight away, I dont know. but this way…

Lol @ destroying food. I normally stay in business hotels a lot. First thing i do when entering my room, is destroying the complimentary biscuits so that they are unedible. If I dont do it as i enter, they will call out at me before bed.... this way all the temptation is gone!

Starvation mode is indeed a myth. The idea that intaking less calories than you burn and not losing weight defies the laws of physics. So is the idea that eating more will make you lose weight, what kind of nonsense is this? Same as the whole "breakfast kickstarts your metabolism", my other pet hate. Your metabolism is…

If you are at your goal weight, then first of all, huge grats!!! then slowly start moving your calorie intake up to your RMR rate. For me the cals are 1200 now, and my rmr is 1470. so the moment i hit my goal weight (soon soon) i will eventually want to spend the rest of my life eating around the 1500/day. which is soooo…

Sweet tooth can be cured, can be trained. I know because i was the opposite. Never too crazy about cakes and chocolate. Always eating savoury snacks - crisps, chips, pretzels, etc. A cupcake or a muffin did nothing to me for 25 years! Then, while on MFP, at one point i had a lion bar. and next day i wanted another. and…

crisp bacon (ready to eat) from M&s or sainsburys. odd choice i know, but hear me out: 1.) its not too big in terms of quantity so wont make you full. 2. its so full of savoury flavour that its immensely satusfying 3. no carbs, some fat, lot of protein 4. for some reason only one packet makes me feel like i dont want to…

black dior bikinis that look amazing... size 6 jeans... very low cut jeans where there is no lovehandles bulge... already reached a goal, which is to be able to wear strappy tops and dresses - arms and shoulders look lovely and thin already - this has been a biggie and now i am there, so great motivation :)

Before eating it, ask yourself: "This is going to delay me. am I OK with that? Yes? No?". works for me EVERY time.

I had a 5 week plateau which i actually didnt realise for weeks! I decided to go back in my MFP records, and record for each days if i had bread, meat, refined sugar or alcohol that day (or all!). what i found is that bread and meat was almost a daily thingm with increased refined sugar (ie choc bar) in the last 3 weeks on…

Please, not the "you must eat breakfast" myth again. Fact: eating less makes you lose weight. Fact: eating when you don't feel like it, makes you full, heavy and less likely to lose weight. The reason these so called "studies" say that "people who eat breakfast more likely to lose weight" is because it's about people who…

Best thing for me, when i am facing these excuses or temptations is just to simply ask myself: "this is going to delay me. am I ok with that, yes or no?". Usually helps. Not yesterday! I ate a lion peanut bar because for some weird reason, i am craving peanuts kike crazy. Only went 56 cals above my allowance, still!

aye to that.

Me too. I was like - whats the point of eating if you dont enjoy? Then I started doing it myself and realised i enjoy it more than stuffing myself with chips and be heavy and bloated afterwards.

Did you guys know that The Real Greek now has cals next to every item on the menu, and also they have put all their foods on MFP too?!?! Heaven!

Canning town, very close :)

I can only echo what others said here. Water and other "stuff" inside you can easily add up to - yes - 3 kilos! These days i am 55 kilos in the morning, and in the evening, with three meals and 3 litres of water later (of which only a percentage got peed out by then...), i can easily hit 58 kilos. Don't weigh yourself…

Lorraine, some cinemas have it on their website, for example, cineworld ones are already in the database here. Cineworld is one of the best actuallz - small salty popcorn = around 400 (acceptable for me as its yummy), versus vue small which is around 1000.

I may be controversial here, but I think the only thing you're doing wrong is the cheat day/rest day; not even that, but the attitude this implies. It impliest that it's a diet, its a temporary thing, it's a bad thing, so I have to cheat on it to feel good. You may think I sound really dodgy, but your head can make…

For me, it was just the quantity of food. I didnt eat unhealthily, at least not on biscuits and mcdonalds. But Once I started eating I was unable to stop, I didnt feel satisfied until I was full and overspilling. The most important thing was an attitude change that I picked up actually from my french boyfriend's family.…