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THANKS YOU- Can't wait to get to the gym tonight now!x:happy:

Hey- hehe- (shhhh) yes that's the one!!!!!! It's SO not guaranteed and I feel like I might have jinxed us by telling everyone and their cousin about the possibility hah. But fingers crossed! I will let you all know so you can watch. I'm not tiny. Perhaps that photo is decieving! I'm a size 16, 5"11 and very curvy (I…

Hey- thanks for your reply. So should I be doing heavy weight and lift until failure i.e. keep going til I can't do anymore. Or more controlled lighter weights. Sorry, I'm easily confused!! ;-) x

WOW- now this has made me very happy. I am a snug size 16 and ideally would like to be a comfortable 12 by the last week in August. So you literally did this by cosuming 1200 cals a day and using MFP and exercise 6-7 times a week? What particular exercises did you do? Any more advice would be brilliant as what you achieced…

HAH!!!! I LOVE this advice! Don't you worry- corsets, fat pants, pull-y-in everything!!!!!!!!! I am overweight- 5"11 in height and 13st 11lbs in weight. I need to lose around 2.5/3 stone really. I'm a size 16 and want to be a size 10-12 ultimately!!!! Thanks for the laugh!! H

I'm thinking about getting a trainer for the next couple months. But also, I can book in free for a training programme by one of the trainers there so going to do that asap. Maybe if I tell them the situation they can explain to me the best option for weights?!x

This is really helpful- funnily enough, my friend sells Aloe Vera detox plans and I'm going to buy one at the end of the month (pay day).... this healthy eating lark is really expensive. I used to eat far less (hence storing all this excess weight) so buying everything fresh is really expensive for me. So the detox will…

Thank you- what would you recommend?!?!?! Low weight high rep on all areas?!?! i don't do much muscle work as you can see ;-)

Thank you so much for this- really helpful. I tend to stick to classes coz for some reason I lose all motivation when I'm alone in the gym. You familiar with Body Pump?? Do you think that as a class would do the trick? Or do i REALLY have to get on the weights machines and free weights etc??? Shall i still stick to spin…

Thank you!!! Me to!!!!!! I will return to this thread and let you all know if it happens!!!!! Sauna suits?!?x

Thanks for the advice that's so helpful! xx

Thanks you for this- So if a dress size is possible in a month- maybe I could get down to a size 12 in 2 months!!!! That's hopeful!! I think if I just live in the gym for the next couple months I could do it? It's an hour roundtrip but maybe cycle to work 2-3 times a week and the dogs get walked twice a day anyway. I'm…

I mean my actual goal is 3 stone overall... but I know that's impossible. Ideally 2 stone would be amazing!!!! Unrealistic?? It's more about body shape though- toned and smaller in inches!

Hey... thanks for your suggestion!!! I don't know if VLCD would necessarily be the best thing to do then... I am a teacher and need to be mega alert at all times and don't want to be lacking the amount of energy I need on a day to day basis....!?!?! Hmmm... Thanks for the suggestion though. Am I being naive?? Is this the…

Yeah I should walk more- I leave for work at school at 7.30 and get back around 5.30, walk my dogs, go to gym / marking books and then bed!! Not enough hours in the day! I wish I lived closer to work so I could walk... that'd be ideal!

Well done baby.... All the hard work is paying off. I love that our fridge is wide open in the back of your weight loss post!!!!!!!! xxx

THANK YOU SO MUCH KAT!!!!!!!!!!!!! That really all made sense to me all of a sudden. Thank you. I'll try my hardest to do it right and hopefully I'll start seeing some changes soon! Holly

Yeah that'd be a good idea x thank you

Thanks for your reply. That's really interesting and will look into it. I don't drink the recommended water a day. I wonder if that would do anything? I do struggle to do it. I'm a teacher and so can't afford to drink too much as can't leave the classroom so go to the toilet... also not able to drink in class (I've got a…

Thank you so much. That really did make me feel better and you're right. I guess I want it so badly that I want to see it quicker. I will definitely stick it out because the working really hard at the gym thing far out weighs how awful I feel about my body right now and I need to change that. I can't remember the last time…

I did notice the overestimating thing with working out, but I did go from 0 exercise to 5-6 times a week and I'm really going for it like I did when I was really fit a few years ago so I know I'm working hard and would have thought I'd see some change. With food, I'm eating so much salad and veg and chicken breat and fish…

Hey I quite often eat less but making an effort now and yesterday i even went over by 34 cals. I know about the measuring thing and I haven't done it.. but I'm going by clothes and they don't feel any different really. As I say I just feel less puffy around my face and tummy because I've cut out bread and pasta and salt…

Hey guys I haven't lost a single pound and in week 4. I exercise 5-6 times a week and eating 1300 calories. Disheartening. It's been much easier to loose in the past but not this time? Tips?

Thank you. Hope so. Desperate to see a change to get my confidence up and really go for it!

I've only just started counting calories to be honest. I'm about 4 days into to calorie counting, but training solidly for 3 weeks. I think as everyone has been saying, it's just because I haven't been watching what I'm eating and so staying exactly the same weight is coz i've been eating the same (or more) calories i'm…

Hey.. I've been going to spinning literally every day and then doing resistence stuff. I guess the food I ate at Xmas means I've just been exercising to eat what I want and thus staying the same? H

Thank you that's so helpful. 38lbs! Wow. Well done! H

That all makes a lot of sense; thank you! I think maybe I have been expecting too much from the gym. There was about a 7 days period when I actually didn't calorie count at all and ate pretty much want I wanted and drank calorific alcohol. Perhaps as I get more into the calorie watching, I will notice more of a difference?…