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I know I should, I'm just being a little intimidated for some reason. Travelling alone, eating in restaurants alone, etc, doesn't phase me at all but when it comes to a gym in another country, it's a different story for some reason... I've got a lot of travel ahead of me so I really need to get the hell over it :)

Hey there, I'm so sorry you're feeling so down :( I often feel the same way myself, and coincidentally was just re-reading over an old blog post I wrote about having 'fat days'. The thing is, how you THINK you look, and how you FEEL about yourself, is FAR more critical and negative than most likely anyone else would ever…

Off topic, but is there anyone hotter than The Rock? *sigh*

Thanks champ :)

I don't know how to post photos yet but here's a story that was done on me with some photos at the end. http://www.everydayhealth.com/columns/weight-loss-success-stories/61-pounds-lost-gen-defeats-the-sugar-monster/ Very happy to chat if anyone wants to contact me!

Nope, I'm in Aus too and I used exactly the quantities and brands that you suggested. Even went to Coles :) Never mind...

Just tried to make these and it was a fail. Too runny, like cake batter. Very yummy cake batter though...

LOL. These actually look really yummy.... in fact I might make them this afternoon since I am "working from home" today. Thanks OP!

You are NOT falling short on calories though! Your diet sounds perfectly balanced to me but if you're not weighing your food, you're underestimating its calorie content. There is just no way you can be eating the things you're saying you're eating and be so far under your calorie goal. Please take this advice from people…

Yeah, I agree that there's no way that you've only eaten 800 calories given that list including rice and peanut butter. Please buy a food scale. It is the only way to really have any accuracy with your food. If any of us were any good at guessing and portion control, we wouldn't have gotten fat in the first place...

Oh God.... please, people are being very kind and helpful here and I encourage you to take your time, read, learn and self-educate to save everyone including yourself a whole lotta trouble...

This is lovely news, congratulations :) Although is anyone else concerned that the OP's Mum used to photoshop her thinner...? Isn't that a tad body-shaming or am I being over-sensitive today?

Spot on!! This drives me crazy too. And I heartily agree with the OP. And now I want carrot cake. Damn...

Ha, very timely spotting this because I was just walking through my office and a colleague commented "you always have nice tops". Which is ironic because the top I'm wearing today I bought from an op shop (thrift shop) yesterday for $6. Like others I've been rapidly growing out of clothes and left feeling frumpy and…

Morning all, great to catch up on everyone's news. I'm also glad to see that where there've been little slip ups we're mostly just shrugging it off and getting on with it! Two steps forward and 1 step backwards. I've had a good week food and exercise wise. I've killed it at the gym three nights in a row, and I've been…

Just a quick check in to say that I'm here and cheering you all on, even if I don't have time to contribute much to this thread. I'll also have to vicariously watch the Biggest Loser through you, since I've just moved back in with my Mum to save money for travel (long story) and she and her partner are rabidly-anti TBL, so…

I'm feeling so good today, just really focused and motivated (although I have a sore tummy (TOM) and sore everything else (DOMS) - haha just realised that rhymes). TOM and DOM in da house!! Anyway so a few of my workmates have decided to join me on my quitting sugar mission from the 1st Feb. Going to be great to do it as…

Hi guys! I'm feeling pretty pumped for this too. I think I've got a good menu plan pre-logged (no dinners because I have to be a bit more flexible about that). I've also just been playing with my gym workout spreadsheet, Tomorrow is back/shoulders and biceps + cardio, Tuesday is chest and triceps plus cardio, and either…

Designer stubble - yummy!

Yay, more friends!! Reading this over has helped steer me away from the 7-Eleven... not that I was going to anyway... or maybe I was. Oh whoops, this is Intros, not Random Chatter. Just wanted to say Bravo, and Allie I particularly like yours :)

I like you!! :-D

Righto! I'll play - thanks for doing this Skim. Like many I had a pretty indulgent Christmas combined with a whole lot of disruption in my personal life so the combination of festive/comfort eating and drinking has set me back a couple of kgs. So I'm super committed to continue pressing on with renewed motivation towards…

I just fell out of love with her... *shrug*

Check out those cheek bones!! :)

Meow! Too cute ;)

Um, you look quite... Flexible?

Maybe you're just scared of girls...

Impressive head of hair you have there :)

Would the person above me date me? Yep, I reckon he probably would :) He looks like he has impeccable taste in women...

No, she'll be too busy dating Abraham, haha.