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^ 100% agree! Apart from my OH who is doing this with me, nobody knew - until it started to show :-)

My favourite website for inspiration is the BBC Good Food site. Tons of recipes, categories to pick from, such as "healthy", "vegetarian", "low carb" or "200-400 cals" and out of the many recipes I have tried, I only had a couple that I wouldn't need to make again - the rest have become regulars on my dinner menu! Loads of…

The difference is in how you feel if you eat 1500 cals of chocolate per day as supposed to 1500 cals of healthy, balanced foods. (And I am a chocaholic, I have learnt this lesson the hard way!) First of all, spending your cals on calorie-dense foods means you get to eat less in quantities - making you feel hungry (which in…

Amazing progress, keep going!!! :-)

1. You also need to factor in the square footage required to grow and store its food. 2. Not necessarily, I have tasted some pretty nasty beef and some amazing lettuce.

The one that makes me scratch my head and think WTF have these people for brains: "Same sex marriages make a mockery of traditional marriage." I think traditional marriages make a mockery of traditional marriage is more like it.

Don't get off the soap box, was just about to join you! ;-) The last bit is exactly the point that makes no sense to the logical human brain - why grow food to feed animals to feed us? Why not just grow food?

Best ever answer to worst ever question!

With you on that one!

Lol! Wait ... you're kiddin, right?

To be honest, I don't think I would bother trying to figure ... check this link out: http://sizes.darkgreener.com/ It shows how hugely different sizes are, depending on the shop. With this sort of variation, my motivation has become "a size smaller than I used to wear" (I have, for the first time in my life, just bought a…

You look superb, awesome progress!!! :flowerforyou:

You just provided my excuse to go over my goal today. :flowerforyou:

Out of the many great success stories that there are on this site - yours is a very special one, and I take my hat off to you for posting it! Well done, and I wish you all the best for your future!!

an happy burfday to youz! :-)

Happy Birthday to you and me then!!! :-)

Geminis rock, my b'day is on Monday! Not even going to log my food! :-)))

I love you!! This made my day!!! :flowerforyou:

Yeh, I have recalculated my TDEE, scary how low it is and to think back to how much I used to eat! :-) Thanks, you're probably right with losing the last bit that way, will ramp up slowly and hope to kill two angels with one stone, lol.

Hey you! I'm no expert at amending clothes but I am getting ok at making them :-) I guess it hugely depends on how "fancy" the dress is ... Is it a single layer, has it got lining, lots of seams or is it quite straight forward? Is the fabric patterned or plain? If is is quite straight forward and no pattern to try and line…

Some cottage cheese, yogurt or low fat sour cream, a bit of lemon juice, capers if you like, black pepper and mix it with with mackerel to a pate - delicious on toasted crunchy flat bread!!!

I behave in my manor how I please ... my manor, my rules.

I am - and have been for over 8 years ... Don't quite know how my OH puts up with me, it must be my beautiful eyes.

See my ticker below? That is 99% diet. Although people are different and what works for some might not work for others, the basic principle remains: You lose weight if you eat less calories than you burn. Exercise helps in allowing you to eat more so you don't feel like you starve yourself, and in the case of stength…

Oh nooo! What if I can starve myself until I have a thigh gap? Would that make up for my hip dip? Or would you recommend plastic surgery to create a thigh gap and use the excess tissue from there to fill in the hip dip?

Very nicely sums it up!! :-)

Anyone?

Flash fried or grilled for me - also great on a skewer with chorizo and courgette, nomm!

Seriously? Noone out there making their own snack bars?

This!! I can absolutely confirm, is exactly how I feel. Once I got back into the "acceptable" range, I started to relax a little, went over allowance more frequently and started to treat myself a bit more often. I am fine with that, as I see it as slowly starting to move towards maintaining, and ultimately, the last couple…