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Firstly, well done on such a great start! I would imagine that having been poorly, your body is just trying to recover; don't worry too much; stick with the healthy eating and you will start to lose again. As a woman, hormones can play a part too, remember. Best favour I did myself was to start weighing once a month, and…

Are you weighing your food? Biggest change I made to my diet was actually weighing things like pasta and rice; its incredibly easy to add lots of calories by estimating them!

Anything that you enjoy enough to make it a regular 'thing'; because that's where you will increase your long-term fitness.

agreed, it could be accurate; but then if it was a baked potato measuring 3-4" that would be nearly 300 cals, without adding the chicken. Lots of useful info from everyone here OP; I think the message 'weigh your food' is really consistent, and the only way to track things properly.

How are you eating all that and staying under 1500 calories? There are nearly 200 in a ripple, and a couple of hundred in a bag of crisps. Are you weighing your potatoes? Are you weighing anything else?

I personally would try and avoid drinking vast quantities of fluid during the workout; Metafit's only 1/2 an hour, right? Possibly better to try and keep really well hydrated during the hours before and after, and just sip a bit during. A litre and a half of water sloshing around in your tummy is enough to make anyone feel…

Are you being absolutely and completely honest regarding your food intake? Are you weighing your portions, or guessing? MFP does work, but you have to be brutally honest with yourself....

If I asked my daughter (aged 16) what she ate today, she would not be able to remember, fact! She's a teenager and there's far more interesting stuff to worry about! My advice would be worry less about what they eat, and just look after yourself. Try and eat healthily, and weigh and log everything on MFP. Once you;re in…

Okay, you're not going to be able to change your entire life overnight; try and make a small change to start with, and stick to it; then make another small change. For the sake of your health, take a lunch break; and go for a short walk during that break. Even 5 minutes would be a start? The world won't end, and you might…

Yes. Which is we got fat in the first place.

The way I see it, I'm trying to educate myself to eat more healthily for the rest of my life. So, the changes that I make now are going to be sustainable ones. I like food, so the idea of drinking it doesn't appeal. I plan on eating food for breakfast for ever, so I eat food for breakfast now.

Don't think there would be any particular benefit IMHO. It's actually quite easy to throw a lot of calories down your throat in the form of a fruit smoothie; add protein to that and there are even more calories.... but then I've only used protein shakes after training exceptionally hard and when I can't stomach solid food…

Just a thought, but since you're in the UK, did you watch the three Horizon programmes about 'the right diet for you'? They may still be available on BBC iPlayer. Absolutely fascinating stuff, and they identified three groups of people, the reasons behind why they overeat, and a relevant diet to think about based on that.…

Okay, do you have a local greengrocer that you can shop in? Ours is way cheaper than the supermarkets. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall does some great veggie recipes in his 'River Cottage Veg' book (I got it on Amazon UK for £5 couple of weeks ago. Pulses, lentils etc are really filling and low calorie; his butternut squash…

Agreed.

'Exercise' doesn't necessarily have to mean going overboard at the gym. Maybe try introduce some gentle walking into your routine; you'd be surprised at how quickly you are able to increase the amount you do, and it will help hugely with weight loss. At my heaviest I couldn't walk very far, and that was exactly how I…

does rather depend on what you have already! Fitbit or other similar step counter might be one idea?

As far as I know there's no interface between the two, although it is something that people have been asking for. I just enter the info from my Garmin manually.

I'm so pleased for both of you! Here's to a long, healthy and happy life together for you both.

There's an Up and Running shop in Aylesbury. I used to live there and they were very good when I first needed trainers fitting.

My DH goes to more classes than I do! One of the instructors at our gym is a man, and so DH goes to a circuit class taught by him, as well as the BodyPump and Spin classes that we attend together. I like the social aspect of classes, as well as the fact that they probably motivate me to work harder than if on my own.

LOL, but you can say 'hello'. I ran in a different town the other week, whilst away for the weekend, and nobody said hello, it was actually a bit sad.

Being utterly honest and logging everything that I eat. Using a HRM to measure my calories burned through exercise (and eating most of them back). Other than that, weighing food, especially pasta and rice.

Probably going to do one...but need to recover from the one I ran last Sunday (my first) and then think about it!

Agreed! Do think they ought to stop now though; it was absolutely brilliant, but another series could spoil it.

ditto Cardiff/Swansea/anywhere in Wales!

and she had a go at Susan last week and said something along the lines of 'how could you not have known what was going on in your own home'; DH and I reckon that might come back to bite her on the bum. Roll on 9pm!!!

C25K is a great way to start. Stick to the plan, don't be tempted to do more than they say (because it IS tempting), and make sure you have your rest days too. If you need to repeat a week, more than once, it's all good too. Good luck! (non-runner for 44 years, until end of July last year, doing first Half Marathon…

Agree with the others; try and eat more for all your meals. Chocolate milk is a great post-run snack.

Am in no way medically qualified, but my understanding is that any chest pain should be treated conservatively. See a doctor.