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I don't know about a euphemism for eating too many calories, but I imagine that absorbing too much of the light that is emitted from fridges when the doors are opened can be quite fattening :)

Most of the things already mentioned, but I can usually be pretty sure I'm mindlessly bingeing (actually, I'm not even sure it's always 'mindlessly' - sometimes I'm well aware that I'm behaving 'destructively') if I'm hiding what I'm eating from other people. That pork pie sneaked upstairs from the kitchen in my pocket…

I'm still as broke as I was when I started this, but looking back over the last five or six weeks I've been slowly spending the money I used to spend on cakes and excess food on exercise vids and little bits of home gym equpment like hand weights and a balance ball instead. Trying to get into the habit of not routinely…

Today I'm proud of contiuing to stick to the plan, despite seeing little movement on the scale all week - until it decided to budge upwards this morning to the tune of 1lb. I will not let this derail me - onwards and downwards :)

Loads of the stuff mentioned so far, particularly the clothes and camera-related ones.. In addition, I won't miss getting that sinking feeling when opening a gift, only to find that it's a new top or t-shirt which I know the giver will instantly expect me to try on. I'll either feel bad because it clings to me to the point…

My maths is so diabolical that converting stones to pounds before I could log my weigh-in on MFP every time has been driving me a bit nuts. Your post inspired me to examine my digital scale to see if it had a 'pounds' setting too, and it does. Thanks for taking the unnecessary mental arithmetic out of my day :) And well…

I know just what you mean. The other night I was sitting on the bed chatting to my daughter, and as I looked over to her I caught a glance of my face in the mirror behind her. It was just a fleeting glimpse of my face as I knew it to look a decade ago, but I've been seeing it more and more often since. It makes a welcome…

Thanks again to those who've responded since I so neglectfully forgot about the thread :) As to whether the balance balls are any good, I'm loving mine. I've not got round to using it to do much in the way of actual exercise moves yet, but I use it to replace my computer chair quite a lot, and every now and then I'll take…

I think you both look lovely, but if I saw that photo in a slim woman's home and realised that it was how she used to look, I'd think 'Wow. Not just enviably pretty, but she had the strength and determination to get fit and healthy as well'. Hang it on your wall - it's beautiful and how your friends and family already know…

I've always had a tendency to binge eat, but it's been such a part of my life for the last six years that the binges have been virtually end to end, and I'm amazed that I haven't binged once yet since starting with MFP. My food issues go back decades, literally, but I gave it some real thought over Christmas and did manage…

Yay! Thanks everybody, and well done to you all on your successes too :)

Great work. Love the dragon tattoo. Everybody has done really well. It's quite incredible when you think how much poundage this site must have seen off in total. Awesome.

Thanks. I've already got myself red-faced and exhausted with the new inflatable gym ball today. And now that I've pumped it up, I may even get round to actually exercising with it tomorrow :D

I was a dressmaker for years and so I could quite easily alter the 'fat' stuff I've got, but most of it carries such mental associations of self-disgust that I can't think why I'd want to. I imagine that close and honest inspection would reveal that a lot of it was straining at the seams and would not be long for this…

I was kind of lucky in that I started in the New Year (traditionally a 'bad' time full of people reckoned to be trying to lose weight because they're 'supposed' to, but great for me because I'm usually sick of eating seasonal junk by then), and so the first two or three weeks weren't too bad. This week, I've faced out more…

I'll only talk about it at all in real life if someone else brings it up, which is rare. I know from personal experience how mind-numbing it can be to be on the other end of it. The latest chapter in my mum's chequered 'Diet Hopping While Never Losing Any Weight' career involves paleo, and as usual, she bangs on for…

Have you thought about trying facial exercises? I bought the Eva Fraser book off of Amazon after reading nothing but positive comments about it (from real people I'd encountered on forums etc around the web who were just mentioning it in passing, without an affiliate link, which makes a change!). I think it was only a…

It's incredible how much weight we can carry on our bodies and not really realise what we're doing to ourselves. I was only thinking this morning about when I first got married and used to buy a 55lb sack of potatoes and made it last us all winter. I don't drive and so I always had to beg a lift off of someone whenever I…

Like a previous poster, I'm fairly flat-chested when I'm slim and barely bordering on voluptuous in the boobage area when I'm not. And as with almost everyone else, they're usually the first thing to go when I lose weight. This time round, I've let myself go so far that I had a roll of fat on my abdomen beneath them, and…

I lost 9lbs in January and am hoping to lose 7lbs in February. I've only been at this for a month, and although I've tried to build more movement into my day the majority of my efforts have been aimed at keeping my food intake in check. Now that I've got that under control, I'd like to 'up' the exercise factor in February.…

I think that's why I feel just as uncomfortable as I do flattered when people compliment me on weightloss. Part of me is thinking 'Ugh. You can still see the 'old' me (only you're prepared to alude to how gross she was now). I'm never really going to shake her off, am I?'

Funnily enough, I was just talking about this on another thread, and yes, I've decided to. I weigh every day though, and I'm not sure my confidence could handle looking at the gain (or even just lack of progress) that I would be virtually guaranteed to see twenty-five percent of the time if I were to weigh weekly.

I can't say I notice any increase in appetite, but what I do notice is a distinct decrease in energy. I almost lose the will to move entirely. My legs feel like they weigh a ton and my back aches too. It lasts for a day or so either side of the event (three to five days total), and I'm in the middle of it now. I'm…

I thought I was the only one that felt like this too. Silly, when I think that my husband has seen me giving birth - writhing around in agony and screaming the place down while looking like a beached whale - but he already laughs at my dancing (thankfully my youngest son is old enough to go to the odd gig with me now, and…

I wonder if it would have any effect on the appearance of stretch marks? Apparently Vicks Vapor Rub is supposed to have a positive effect on the appearance of stretch marks if applied consistently over time - something to do with the menthol or whatever it is boosting the circulation in the area of the skin that it's…

I've been 121lbs before and known it, and thought I looked scrawny, believing my 'healthiest' weight to be around 126. However, I recently found the clinic card that gave details of my first maternity appointment with my oldest, and I was amazed to discover that I was 121lbs at the time. Back then, I'd developed a…

I've promised myself a reward when I drop from the 'obese' category into the 'overweight' category (which is only a pound away now - yay!), but it won't be food-related. I love doing nail art (having wet fingernails is great for keeping your hands out of the biscuit tin too - bonus!) and so I'll be treating myself to a new…

I've had pretty much the same low spots as everyone else, including the optician spotting the cholesterol thing. Health scares, one particularly embarassing and horrific photograph, the odd cutting comment... so many wake-up calls, and I've slept through them all. It wasn't any of my own 'fails' that ended up motivating me…

Veering into TMI territory, probably, but even though I've only been here a month I've seen off enough midriff blubber to be able to see properly what I'm doing when I.. um... tend my ladygarden. Keeping the 'lower lawn' tidy has become much less hassle :D