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My only experience with WW is when my mother projected her dream to be perfect onto the rest of the family. I watched her lose and gain during her WW days. I would say she turned me off to the idea of paying somebody to help me look and feel the way I want to. MFP is free and you can find support here. Jean Nidetch started…

:) Are you imagining your pants falling down as was suggested? Maybe the bits you measured wasn't the bits holding up the pants?

So you work for a Dr but your concerned with what an app predicts and you are asking random app users? Are you not feeling good? I don't understand. Congratulations on the weight loss

Btw, I do my leg lifts without using weights. I don't think you should use weights with your knees. I just lift my legs up out straight when sitting on the couch while watching tv. Baby steps. Oh and jack la lane was not a weightlifter. All his muscle was made using his own body. Isometrics. I'm doing yoga which uses…

The mental aspect. The Change you need to make to keep weight off. It's hard but it's doable. For me there's only one way I can do it and I bet you will like this. You must like what you are doing. You need to enjoy the process if its going to be something you stick with. So take it slow and find what you like and totally…

Don't try dieting! Diets will never last. It has to be a change you will live with if its going to last. Change doesn't come easy. It's really hard to break old habits and no it doesn't take 22 days to start a new habit. It will take more or less depending on the new habit you want to make so persevere. It can happen. I…

Couldn't read all the comments because so much negativity. I know there are positive comments too. There are nice people here. You have every right to be here and ask for sympathetic support and those that feel differently should really keep their gobs out of it and not bother to comment. I have binged but I've never…

Are you hungry? If you are hungry, then eat. If you aren't hungry you can't be starving. Starving people are most definitely hungry. I'm no Dr. If you are really worried ask your Dr. But seriously, are you hungry?

Not a thing. Are you crying about not losing weight?

I don't follow anybody's diet plans. I prefer to pay attention to what my body needs. Diets are temporary. I weigh myself for the fun of it not to judge my self.

Cry for help? Do what you like. I had a look at what food you eat and from the brief peek I noticed a lot of processed foods. Processed foods are pretty much garbage. Potato chips and doughnuts came from the devil. Personally I would rather eat healthy portions of real food instead of small portions of garbage. Maybe you…

Relationships can get very sedentary. Marriage in particular. Getting home from work and sitting to eat in front of the television is how mine seemed to go. Our Sunday dog walk was always leveled by the pub lunch after. Then for an art project I decided to put myself on a starvation diet I called it 30 pounds in 30 days.…

I'm sure prunes have been mentioned but how yucky are prunes? Has anybody mentioned lentils? Nothing makes me poo more than lentils. Lentils are an excellent replacement for meat in chilli. If your a vegetarian now but once loved beef bourguinon then lentils cooked in red wine you will love love love. And then you will poo…

If the tuna is line caught legally the can will say sustainable. I appreciate that you get driftnet fishing is wrong. It would have been nice if you had expressed that instead of insisting that you would eat tuna till its extinction as in the other comment. It isn't funny you know, dating that angry fisherman was no treat…

Oh damn. I liked your post but this slightly defensive attitude that shows a lack of consideration for other species is a real downer. I think it was correct for somebody to point out the fishing problems and the problems exist because of the people just don't give a **** about anybody but themselves and what they shove in…

There is a lot of illegal tuna fishing going on, I dated a tuna fisherman for a while, driftnet fishing is illegal but it's being done and companies like starkist, chicken of the sea, bumblebee all buy tuna from the illegal driftnet fishers because it is so much cheaper. If you want to support sustainable fishing then look…

Yea, a lot of people don't get irony.

I'm not from the UK but I lived there for 16 years near Brighton and I really miss it, my daughter still lives there, and would love some UK friends (anybody?) if you can put up with an American. Where in England are you?

Yeah ya gotta look around but I know a grocer sells it a dollar a bottle and I buy a flat at a go for less a dollar each.

I think high fructose corn syrup is more troublesome than fat and sugar regarding obesity. People have been eating fat and sugar for centuries. And yes for centuries we've had obesity but not as ,ugh and I remember fat people being still somehow healthier than fat people today. Anybody my age will remember Jackie Gleason…

How bad is sugar? Not bad. Sugar is good. Back in the 70s and 80s sugar, white sugar, was bad. Then came high fructose corn syrup, which is in almost everything btw, and now sugar is good. Don't worry about sugar at all. Worry about high fructose corn syrup. That **** is evil. It somehow doesn't send the message to the…

I think the starvation mode warning on mfp might be misleading. Might be just something to cover their *kitten* if someone were to get an eating disorder or someone using the app that already has one. I don't know. But I do know that I get that warning sometimes and it is just bull****. I am no where close to going into…

I think this is a good idea to try. I spent last week eating avocados, like three a day, and I lost a couple pounds that week too and I was closer to the mfp requirement. My hair might be shinier too!

I found that as well when I first was doing this that I was eating too much and never feeling hungry even though i wasnt taking in more than 1200 calories so I now pay more attention to my body and don't worry as much about what the app says. If it tells me when I finish logging I ate too few calories I do not go and eat.…

Hi! If you are working it good and making some muscle then you will put on weight. Don't worry about it. You will lose weight too. Just remember that muscle weighs more than fat so putting on weight is normal. I am very impressed with your workout regime. I could no way do that now, maybe never? I bet that before long you…

Hi. I'm also new to the community and also am an artist/photographer. Please, feel free to friend me.

Me! Add me! And anybody else please?

Yes! Lets be friends and lose that stone for good.

I think it must help to start when we are kinder to ourselves. For sure you aren't alone, many people have cravings so no apologies for thinking you sound desperate. You sound normal to me. At 53 I can despair at belly fat and cellulite and I do. I'm also trying to love myself as I am, and everybody has sexiness potential…

I'm new here too so anybody please feel free to add me as well. Thanks!