GemskiB Member

I am wearing size 12 jeans from topshop and a size 12 vest from warehouse. That won't mean much to non UK folk but they are shops that I always dreamed of shopping in. It's well over 15 years since I was in a 12 (I was probably 13/14) and at my highest buying the odd size 20. The scales may not always be kind but I'm a lot…

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It's net vs gross. 1200 will already take into account a calorie deficit. You don;t absolutely need to eat back you exercise calories, but here's an *example*. 1800 is your TDEE (for maintaining). 1200 is the deficit you have been set/set for yourself. 1200 is what you've eaten today. -400 calories from exercise. =800…

Very true - I know my body can do without all the cr@p I think I like to eat!

This. People don't like to hear that it's hard work and that I'm not "lucky". On paper that sounds like a fun conversation but I'm bored with it now. Plus with losing weight I am more comfortable in myself, but when the weather is bad I am ALWAYS cold!

I do most of the shopping and the cooking, which is fine by me. I buy snacks that we both like that fit in with my calorie allowance, and also buy stuff for him that I know he likes. I don't often have bagels but most weeks I buy them for him. He likes that we eat a nutritionally balanced meal every night and when he cooks…

Very nicely put. I can empathise on many levels. We all face hurdles, and we can all get past them. Inspirational as ever!!

I would go for a tomato base with garlic and chilli and be careful of the oil. Maybe a touch of parmesan on the top :)

If you're doing strength training you should be measuring yourself. I have been static for a while andthen after checking my leasurements I'd lost 5cm on my wasit! Get the measuring tape out :)

The thought of exercising never filled me with joy - then I found zumba. Find something you love and can throw yourself into and you will soon want to go more often :)

• Gender: F • Age: 29 • Starting weight: 100.8kg • Current weight: 84.2kg • Goal weight: 69.7kg • What are your reasons for wanting to lose weight? to live a healthier lifestyle and be happier in myself • Tell me a bit about your past… weight gain probably began as a child when my parents marriage began to fall apart, and…

Always weight at the same time on the same scale in the same circumstances. For me it is first thing, after I have been to the loo and with no clothes on. I like to keep it consistent. And one pound is tiny, it's easily some fluctuation. It could be a salty meal the day before and holding water or TOM coming up, it all…

I think I was normal ish til around 7years old? That's when my parents marriage went down the tubes. Then I was living with my mum and stepdad and I look back and wonder how I never got bigger with what we were eating. I had good influences from my dad, and developed a love of cooking. I moved 500 miles away from home for…

If they call themselves pescatarians it winds me up less. The worst assumption is from a non veggie that you do eat fish. Sorry, non veggie here, but a few of my family are so I get the veggie rage ????

My friends on here totally make this worthwhile. When I have bad days or feel down, they bring me back up! Maybe you are motivated enough to go it alone, but I find my friend group on here makes all the difference :-)

I started this going to the gym a couple of days a week, and until a few weeks ago I was at the gym/classes 5 times a week. I lost around 26lbs doing this, and calorie controlling. Then I broke my ankle. I've upped my calories as I used to be based on a bigger deficit but eat back some of my exercise calories. Now I'm on…

Another vote for the FT4, got mine on Amazon and I love it :-)

I use it for everything, the battery died recently and I had to wait on delivery from buying a new one online. I was guessing my rice and pasta etc and when I got them back I checked... I was a good 30-50% over estimating. Yes it's time consuming, but it's way more accurate. Good luck!

The Core - I mean seriously, a drilling train to get to the centre of the earth?! Armageddon. I can't help but love this film, however bad it is, I went to see it at the cinema when I was about 14 :-)

I use my polar FT4 (when I am not laid up with a broken ankle!) when I am doing a workout. I had considered doing a 24 hour stint to see what my calories burned on a standard day are, but no day is really quite the same! I always wear it when I am at a gym class, or doing a DVD at home or something, and every now and then…

What an amazing feeling, keep at it :)

This. I aim to eat back around 2/3 of my exorcise calories, somethimes I eat them all. I try and do it with nutritional foods, i.e, more veggies/lean meat with dinner. Or just a handful of plain almonds. More nutrition to fuel your workouts but not stuffing your face. If you are anything like me it's the eating more than…

I just have a regular polar ft4 and for some things it's lower than MFP but for others much higher. I use the FT4 for classes and gym workouts, and justlog walking on MFP. Horses for courses, it will all balance in the long run :-)

This. So much stiff here you think is healthy, or at least vaguely light, and it's marketed in such a way. You really have to check the ingredients and calories on everything!

I now fit comfortably in UK size 16 jeans, TopShop ones no less! I was struggling to find size 18s that were generous enough, so this is a fairly big deal :)

More high end stuff that a) doesn't come in the bigger sizes and b) I can't justify buying while I am losing. I would love a Barbour jacket :)

Your diet looks varied enough, I would just say to do what some of the others here have said. Just a handful of almonds would get you there, or add half an avocado to your salad, or a bit more lean protein. Also (not that I do this very well but I am aware of it every day) do you drink enough water? As you don't seem to…

BMI is a good guide to start with if you are average, and that is what I have set my goal for; the top weight for healthy BMI. But because I have been doing strength training the nurse at my work says I should use BF% and I tend to agree. I am nowhere near goal yet but I will be re-assessing as I go. No point getting down…

Wow. Just wow. What an inspiration!

My goal for healthy BMI range is to lose nearly 70lbs. Feel free to add :)