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So what's religion for?

So I have more or less the same question but I am not trying to lose weight any more but stay the same. I am 6' 4" male, sedentary (wheelchair) and currently weight in at 159.6lbs. I was trying to stay at 163lbs but even eating too much over Xmas, New Year etc. didn't help - I still lost a little. Now I don't do much…

I'd say sticking to the max cals each day is important. Once MFP has allocated the allowance eat that much but no more. It worked for me! especially don't try to be do better by eating even less - 1200 Kcals is well under your needs so weight has to come off at some stage.

Mid Scotland here!

Sorry, is this a trick question? I'm not keen on cooked cheese but am otherwise stuck for an answer here! perhaps I'm more like a "seefood" diet - anything I can see i can eat!

Its the pastry that's the real problem. Why not try filo pastry which is thinner and has less fat in it?

Get a caffetiere! It only amounts to a glass jug and special plunger. In the Uk they cost less than £5. To make coffee add ground coffee and boiling water and after a while push the plunger down and serve. Great and easy to wash afterwards. Get for juts for work.

Well, this is the first person I've seen here who didn't manage to lose weight. I've never dieted before, am a wheelchair user so exercising is tougher and yet I ma nearly 2 stone lighter in 3 months. Sticking to eating the calorie allowance every day obviously works for virtually everyone here. However..... OP, have you…

Well I set my goal at 12st - the weight I was, roughly, when I was married in 1976. I am 6' 4" and it seems fine. However, due to paralysis and hence not using my lower body, the muscle bulk is a bit less. I'm not sure whether to lose more or stay at 12st. If I go by BMI, I am at 20.4 a bit lower than mid-range for my…

you could always use https://www.fitocracy.com/ a site like this one where you record and are helped to find goals for lifting and general fitness.

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I'm 6' 4" but sat in a wheelchair about the right height. :-)

I was about to post this same topic. MFP seems to suggest one can eat the calories from exercise in addition to the daily allowance. However, I have never done this and have always stuck to my limit for the day leaving the exercise to reduce my weight. Am I doing this right?

help yourself! I hope some of my meals are good ideas.

I sometimes have this problem. I find I am under the 1200 Kcal limit I have set for losing 2lbs a week - sometime by quite a way. Given that the site 'tells one off' for under-eating I tend to resort to sandwich at bedtime to ''fillup'. MFP is certainly wedded to 1200Kcal minimum though I recall diets my wife used 35 years…

Strictly once a week on Saturdays. Weight goes up and down during the day and days depending on water and all sorts. It is best to choose one time and weigh at the same time and in the same clothes once a week. Anything else will mostly likely make one depressed as the wight might appear to be increasing.

here in the Uk the supermarket chain Aldi do packs of chocolate consisting of 5 small bars of about 150 Kcal each. the 70% chocolate ones are wonderful. Again, one can get low calorie hot chocolate drinks (I have Options Chocolate) which are around 40Kcal per drink. Either of these should fit in with the rest of the diet.…

OK, what you need is a fat-less sponge cake recipe and here is a link to one, though there are plenty on the we so juts search. http://www.azeliaskitchen.net/blog/how-to-make-whisked-sponge-fatless-sponge/

the fact is that we gain weight so slowly we hardly notice. I heard somewhere that people put on 1lb a year which is so slow no one notices but after 20 years it has become obvious. there is only so many times we can eat more than our bodies use up and what with cars and heating systems we don't burn anything like we might…

Yes, a 'quad belly' is sue to things, well er... sagging as the muscles around the stomach area and abdomen are slack Normally, these muscles hold things in as it were. Mine isn't that, though, it is juts plain old fat!

Same problem here - the roll of fat around the navel level. My problem maybe worse, though, as the underlying muscles as paralyzed (MS) so I can'r do the sort of exercise that might help. that said, the dieting has reduced quite a bit of my 'gut' so things are improving,.

Check out http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/bmr-formula.php This site gives you the formula to work this out. I'd use a spreadsheet so you can check the changes as your weight decreases.