traceytoo

Just a thought and Im no expert, but your diet seems quite high in carbs and also takeaways in one form or another, which probably means high in salt, which ultimately means you are retaining water, try and eat clean as best you can for a week or so, and drink loads of water, if you can really lower the salt ie no crips,…

My god at 5 3 there's no way I could ever get down to 115 ... I'd look anorexic lol :laugh:

:happy: I usually drag my motivation up by the scruff of its neck - I usually find it walking a few feet behind me grumbling like a school kid about how it doesn't want to do anything would rather be laying on teh sofa than running and eating chocolate than lettuce leaves lol .... but I know how good it feels to feel thin…

I hear ya ... I've tried for months, years to get below the 140s, where I was pre-pregnancy and in my twenties, and though every now and again, I get a peek into the 130s, I never stay there, and head back up to low 140s .. truth be told my body would be happier at 150, it's a struggle to stay in the 140s .. I think our…

You look amazing, like you have already had a make over .. keep it up :-)))

I'm the same hun .. I get down to low 140s and no matter how hard I work I can never get into the 130s not since I was in my early twenties pre-pregnancy. I sometimes get a look into the 130s but it's a glimpse and I jump straight back up ... I've come to the conclusion my body just wants to stay where it is, in fact if it…

wow - that looks like a different person ... I did that programme and it did not make that much difference .. WELL Done !!

I think you can do whatever your body is capable of doing - however, it's easy to get super involved with the whole fitness thing when you're dieting, but what you have to consider is - in real day to day life is it realistic enough to continue once the fad wears off - will it realistically fit into your life, if it…

ok Mel, you know Im in - today Im going to take control and stop letting it control me ... Im going to do your detox for a few days, but not so strict, so a variation of it, to attempt to get back on track. It seems I was super strong until I had my hen weekend then it all went out the window - I should still be strong cos…

oh god, I had mine taken out a few years ago, the pain was unbelievable !!

That's the same for me, but doesn't make sense, cos clothes are much looser .. weird :grumble:

It's my 100th day today ... we could almost be twins :laugh: I can't do anything to commemorate because I weigh in tomoz so today has to be super strict. But, I do have the joys of taking 5, 13 year olds away for the weekend for my son's 13th birthday, so maybe, just maybe I'll be a bit more lenient with myself this…

I tried eating my exercise calories for a couple of months, and all I did was put on weight then maintain .. as soon as I stopped eating them I lost weight and have continued to do so .. if I increased my calories now and ate my exercise cals, when Im 5 pounds from goal, I would put on weight, it's as simple as that. I do…

I got to about day 12/13 then got so bored, I nearly fell asleep and completely lost the will to live .. I think you would get results from it, but if I were to carry on doing it, I'd prob do it 3 times a week or every other night and not at weekends, even though it's only 20 minutes, when it's every night, it takes up a…

think it really depends how much you have to lose, I lost 6 stone a few years ago, nobody really noticed until I lost abut 4 stone of that, then the whole world suddenly noticed. This time I've lost 22 pound, nobody has really said anything much .... :grumble: I can see results myelf, but not drastic ones .. clothes def…

I hate exercise, it's a real chore ... but a necessity, my advice would be .. whatever you do, however much you do it, make it realistic enough for real life .. if you exercise 2/3 times a day 7 days a week, you'll never sustain it .. this is real life, so make the exercise fit into it, don't fit your life around it…

That's a really nice dress !!! you go for it, it will be wicked to see that hanging up every day knowing that in the not too distant future, you'll be able to wear it !!

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It does, I've tested it before, it'll change if you finish your diary and then add in a piece of toast and do it again .. or add exercise in, it will change, so it really is dependent upon what you do with your diary

Hem, I think the MFP database has a lot to answer for .. gonna stick to 250 mls per day in both tea and coffee, don't think I'll need that much actually - easier to work out, then go black if I use it all :-))

Hi Amaris .. have tried the route you are taking and unfortunatley it does not work for all of us - I've tried a couple of months eating back my exercise calories and all I managed to do was maintain my weight and fluctuate between a couple of pounds here and there .. believe me I've tried everything, my body is as…

ooohhh Juliapurpletoes, now that's a good un, I really have very little skimmed milk in my tea cos I like it strong AND I have more in my coffee, but could cut it down. Many thanks all .. I think my best option here, and middle of the road is to have black tea / coffee 0 calories, and allow myself a cup of skimmed milk a…

I don't take sugar in either tea / coffee .. it must be just the milk, even that is skimmed .. but it still says 30 cals for a coffee and I think it's 90 for 6 cups of tea .. but I drink 2 teas and a coffee before I even leave the house in the morning and I leave at 8:20 am ... I tried green teas, but after a while they…

with skimmed milk .. in the MFP calorie database generic coffee with skimmed milk is 30 calories, I drink up to 6 a day and countless cupos of tea, also with skimmed milk ..

have a look at what you eat every day as if it were the first day of your diet .. are things creeping in, a mouthful of htis a mouthful of that, one or two treats too many - it's so easily done, take a fresh look at it and your exercise, you might see where the problem lies if there was one .. ask yourself the question, if…

I don't go to the gym .. quick mile run, takes 20 minutes or a Jillian Michaels DVD 20 minutes, if you did the JM DVD everyday and a run 2/3 times a week, that would be enough ... wot's 20 minutes ?? you can do it ...

best advice I got was to look at my diet and my exercise and start as if it was day 1 of your diet - and put the scales away for a while, up the execise amazing how old habits, food and exercise creep in without you knowing .. done wonders for me, although I've not weighed, have really cleaned up my food and will weigh on…

Hey, I started at 174 just after Xmas, down to 154 now, though haven't weighed for a week, but I think I've lost more - Im 5 ft 3 & 3/4s :bigsmile: and I'd like to get to 141 by my hen weekend on 6th May and def for my weeding on 9th August. So we're similar .... no tips, jut keep to your cals, exercise loads, it's all you…

Hi, I had that for 6 weeks, scales up and down like a yo yo, so my BF has hidden them cos it's too depressing - I looked at my diet and exercise and went back to square one - like it was the first day of my diet, amazing what things sneak in without you noticing .. try that, start as if day one, exercise like mad, step…

Oh God :noway: Im half way through level 1 and dreading level 2 already ... :ohwell: