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I used to get a lot of comments when I lost 30-40lbs. Now that I am a bit too light at 106lbs practically no one says anything. Theres only been one person (apart from my partner who is always saying I'm going to disappear lol) who has made a comment and asked if I was ill but they hadn't seen me for about a year so it was…

A fancy video camera. It cost a fortune and turned out to be inferior to my 15 year old tape camcorder. It's only seen the light of day about 5 times in 4 years. Also really regretting buying a tub of double cream and clotted cream the other day, can't keep myself out of the fridge now.

Glad I'm not the only one who's been baking for tomorrow lol. My profile pic is my homemade chocolate roulade with whipped cream and strawberry filling (see theres fruit in it! lol) covered with chocolate butter icing. I can't wait to try it.

I really don't know but you normally have a lot of carbs and I think it takes about a week of low carbing to deplete your carb stores enough for ketosis so I wouldn't have thought so. If carbs keep you feeling healthy then eat them. Low carb could have caused you to feel ill I suppose. If you are training hard then you…

Awesome job! Congrats!

I eat all times of the day and night and it has made no difference to my weight loss. If I have something heavier at night like a sausage sandwich or a pitta pizza then I weigh in heavier the next morning but it's only because the food hasn't digested properly. As long as you eat at a deficit you will lose weight. Some…

I don't know. Could you get a physio appointment to get some advice about the ab damage. I think that really needs to be addressed first and so you don't make it worse. There are websites with more exercises that should help bring your muscles back together as well so it might be worth googling. I seem to remember one of…

Any exercise will burn fat and unfortunately you can't spot reduce. Jillian Michaels dvds slimmed me down all over. Don't wish all your hips away though as I hated my wide hips and now I've lost 10 inches I miss them!

Just remember what nasty stuff is in most of those processed foods. They aren't going to make you healthy. Take the time to make up your recipes and things will get easier and easier. Stuff you eat regularly you won't have to hunt for as it'll be there in the few pages of food you've eaten recently. I think you just have…

This is a difficult one for me. I did lose weight eating a low carb diet once and I didn't regain after as I continued to eat healthily but I wonder now exactly what it was I lost. I caught the end of an interesting programs couple of weeks ago which looked at sugar vs fat. Two identical brothers ate either high fat or…

I tend to feel sick if I don't eat something before working out and I hear its good to have protein after to help your muscles repair and avoid DOMS. If you don't want to do it then don't.

Weight lifting noobies are a bit of an exception and can build a bit of muscle while in a deficit. Mainly lifting while in a deficit will help you keep hold of your muscles and make sure you are losing more fat than muscle while dieting. It's a great idea to weight train as I lost 60lbs but a 3rd of that was muscle as I…

Your muscles are probably holding on to a lot of water for repairs and this is masking your loss. Stick with it, three weeks is not a long time. Your weight on the scale is a really bad indicator of your progress anyway. Measuring body fat makes more sense. There are people who weigh 150lbs who look fantastic because they…

You aren't eating enough. You shouldn't be eating below your bmr (calculators online). If you keep eating low then you'll end up looking sick, you'll get sick, your hair will lose its colour and you'll barely be able to keep your eyes open and then your organs will start to shut down. I've been there and its not a nice…

Not to mention that the day before yesterday scientists were saying that global warming is likely to cause starvation and war because we can't grow the crops.

This is a bad joke. Most people are struggling to get food on the table at all and they come out with this just to rub salt in the wound. Potatoes, canned and frozen veg and fruit isn't included and we have no hope of being able to afford that much fresh food for the 7 of us. I'll just keep doing the best I can for my…

If you have different dinners from the kids are you doing theirs first? I don't eat the same dinners as my 5 and if I do theirs first I tend to pick quite a lot while I'm waiting for mine to cook after. You could try getting them all ready at the same time or doing yours first. Maybe you could have a portion of carrots or…

I've never managed to find it in store here in the UK and its really expensive online :( I keep hoping.

I love cabbage with cider and apple

Is full of beans :)

If you can lose weight eating more, then eat more and enjoy yourself

Looks confident

I agree with the above posters. I lost a lot of weight eating low calorie but 20lbs of that was muscle. I now weight 107lbs and I don't have a flat stomach. Currently eating 1650 to 1750 a day and trying to fix the mess I've gotten myself into. Wish I'd done things properly from the start and not made myself ill.

I bet they'll be amazed....once they realize who you are lol

This is completely normal. Once you get through the first couple of weeks things should settle down a bit and you should then start to gain very slowly (muscle). Many people who try to build muscle at this stage see the rise on the scale and immediately start dieting again end up yo-yo dieters who never get the gains they…

You can do it! I went for a size 16/18 down to a 6/8 in about a year and half.

Well done for quitting guys. I drink 2-3 cans of diet soda a day which is half what I used to drink but I really want to give up altogether. I'm just not brave enough yet. I suffer from bloating a lot especially in the evening. Do you think soda could be the cause then?

I think you need to get yourself on a plan eating a good amount of calories and give it time. You say you were on a plan for 2 weeks and didn't lose but you have so little to lose that it will take a while. Also if you have been eating low for a while then increasing your calories probably will make you gain at first.…

I do my own circuit/dumbbell thing at home and it takes between 30 minutes and 55 minutes usually. I try not to rest between sets.

In for pics and info. I have stalled with fat loss for what feels like forever. I'm now on my 2nd week of carb cycling between 125g and up to 200g. I've done quite badly with it this week due to birthday parties and pure lack of self control but last week my scale was starting to show a downward trend over the week (I know…