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Good advice! I only began snacking when I started my diet and food became an issue. I never snacked before (just ate enormous main meals:laugh: ). Find a distraction around the time you usually feel hungry and avoid dwelling on food.

I do find a handful of nuts and three or four pieces of fruit do it for me, but I had to get used to it. Give it a little more time. For me it was a question of mind over matter. I kept telling myself I was full until I believed it. I also ate at least two slices of bread with my main meal. It filled me up and I still lost…

Me too! I am down 34 lbs and have reached my goal. I did it just like you - keeping to 1200 calories, exercising x 5 a week (cardio swimming) and only eating back if I was really hungry. Now doing muscle developing to gain back some of those muscles I lost. :smile: Good luck, you look great!

5 ft 3 in. Started at 147 lbs. Now 112 lbs. I hadn't worn jeans for years. My waist was 34 inches and I just felt I looked ridiculous. There are too many fatties in jeans and I didn't want to be one of them. Then, when I was almost at my goal weight, I bought a great pair of 31 inch Levi's. Now baggy! I probably need 28…

I've checked on other sites, e.g. Livestrong. MFP protein set compares more or less with them.

Over on fat: clogged arteries, heart disease; over on protein: can adversely affect the liver especially if you are not young.

No can do. Chocolate puts me over on fat.

I regularly leave 300-400 calories; not because I want to leave them - I could eat up to my limit - but if I do , then I am over the top on fat [and sometimes protein] so I just leave the calories. I've now exceeded my goal of 120 lbs and remain somewhere between 112 and 114 lbs. My food diary is open to the public so feel…

Saw a programme on TV last night about visceral fat - the dangerous 'internal' kind that is indicated by a fat belly. It said that once you start to diet seriously one of the first kinds of fat you lose is this visceral kind and that is good. As for me, it took a few months, yes, but eventually I have a fairly flat belly…

No regrets but I ate a lot of chocolate because it was my birthday. I did log it. I log everything, good and bad. Once in a while is fine. Just not every day. But then, if it were every day, you wouldn't be on MFP, would you. :smile:

Thanks for advice. Makes good sense that the less you weigh, the less calories burned. Just that I've lost 34 lbs over the past year, done exactly the same exercises for months, and nothing seemed to change until today, but I'll check on it and try the new goal weight.

Congratulations on your wonderful achievement! I understand utterly what you say. I am 71 years old, with arthritis, and have spent 2013 getting into shape like you. A year ago, I was being helped on and off buses. Today, I walk everywhere, swim six times a week, eat enough fruit and veg - for the first time in my life -…

You're doing just great! I started at 5 laps, then 10, then 15. It was quite a few weeks before I managed 20. Your time of 15 laps in 45 mins is exactly the same as mine. Keep chipping away at it, slowly but surely, and you'll be surprised how easy 20 will become. I could even carry on and do a few more laps but I think…

I am also grannie-aged (71). In my case it was a swimsuit that drove me seriously to tackle the weight problem. Oh, the shock/horror of trying on the largest size and the beached-whale image that stared back at me in that brightly-lit tiny changing room! I hadn't been swimming for at least 25 years. That was nine months…

I am down to five a day from 20-something. Smoke one or two a day and you are likely to die from something else.

Processed food generally is not cut out but cut down. I eat everything else including bread, pasta, sweets, chocolate, etc. But all in moderation now. I am not good at cutting out completely and feel there's no need anyway. Just control the amount you eat. Oh, yes, I have had to cut out alcohol - but for a completely…

Before I needed to! I now have a nice pair of Levis that are two sizes too big. Patience, patience...

Ha ha! Yes, it's 800 calories. I had one last night for dinner and that's what it said on the box.

The image we get overseas of the UK is of a nation of people with increasing obesity problems who sit watching TV gourmet chefs cook healthy food while they eat their ready meals. It's nice to hear it's not all like that. As an expatriate Brit, I envy the wonderful selection of fresh food available to you. Here ready meals…

I am from the UK but live in Hong Kong. My diary is open too and not a protein shake in sight. Feel free to have a look.

Good morning London from Hong Kong! I'll be in London and York in three weeks' time. So glad the weather is looking up! :smile:

I find most people are happy and congratulate me on my weight loss. A few are concerned that it is is a sign of ill health. Some think it makes one look older. Basically, not everyone believes it is good to lose weight, for reasons for their own and based on their own experience. Best to believe in yourself and rely less…

5.20 in Hong Kong

Nice post. I had a day like that yesterday - lunch alone was my entire day's calories. The fact that you feel a bit guilty is GOOD because it means you are aware, but don't let the guilt take you over. We need our friends and not all of them are dieting like us. I tested a few friendships when I began my weight-loss plan.…

I don't log housework. I think it comes under how active your lifestyle is. I do log walking, especially if it's a brisk walk, which is what I try to do all the time.

My goodness, that's terrific. You look wonderful. Congratulations!

Welcome! It's a great website that will help you along your journey. I've never dieted before so I was a real newbie. But I've now surpassed my goal and gone from 147 lbs to 116 lbs in 4-5 months. Stick with it!

Took me five months on 1200 calories to reach my goal of 120 lbs, down from 147 lbs. My maintenance calories - on the days I exercise - are just over 2000 per day. I average around 1700 a day and am still losing weight slowly. Need to up my calories gradually to remain static, but basically satisfied with the 1200 diet.

"Like", as in, "I was, like, running down the road when I bumped into my friend." I sometimes say it and hate myself for that.