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My preference is to set to lightly active and then add "deliberate" exercise - for example, suppose one day its raining and you use the car rather than walk, Or you hurt your knee and don't do the biking. You can always add back the exercise. I've had no problem with the estimates on here, you just need to be honest about…

They are fine. They are curvy, but they are not fat. Even as a teenager I had to buy wide leg riding boots as the ordinary ones didn't go over my calves - and I was not fat. before I lost weight I did have to buy wide-leg boots as nothing would go over my calves - not even stretchy fabric ones. Now I can sometimes get…

Congrats on the new baby! Mini pill is fine when feeding (Zeletta is a good one - no TOTM for most users). Weight should come off quite quickly when feeding. Generally though, weight comes on through over-eating! :o

Try Davina McCall's "7 to fit" DVD - loads of 7 minute workouts which you can combine (or not) depending on the time available, includes work with weights and really good abs programmes. Its a couple of years old now so I found it quite cheap on Amazon

Anything that needs to have clean hands. Games on the tablet are OK for this, otherwise scrapbooking. I used to do more knitting and sewing by carpal tunnel and needing varifocals has more or less done for that - I can sew but I need really good light.

Ironing, chatting. Long car journeys.

Seasonings (including salt and pepper), lemon juice. That handful of rocket leaves I put in my sandwich for lunch. I don't measure the milk I pour on my granola, but I weigh the granola in the same bowl so I know how much to put in as I did weigh it the first few times (it comes up to a particular squiggle on the pattern!)

Jumping jacks - knees just not up to it, even with strapping. (nor's the pelvic floor TBH)

I've never joined a gym (but I might have to for a short time when my bathroom is being upgraded). I started with DVD workouts and walks around the area, then discovered Zumba - which I love. Its not at a gym, its a class in a local school hall (hence need for a gym when I will have not bathroom!), its pay as you go so if…

I too found logging the answer - even if I'm on holiday, I log everything (sometimes its difficult when eating unfamiliar foods to work out what to log it as, so I usually go for about the middle of the calorie suggestions). So I know I've gone over, but its surprising by how little some days, as not only does logging stop…

Its not going to be easy. Easy is keeping on the way you are and saying you want to lose weight. when I first started losing weight, people would say "I wish I could lose weight, but I can't because I'm busy/have a bad leg/had chicken pox when I was a child" (OK I made that last one up!). The first thing to do is weigh and…

I couldn't eat once a day. Once I'm full I have to stop. Then a couple of hours later I would be hungry again. So I could easily eat my day's calories three times over with an extra snack or two if I wasn't kept busy! And I'm not nice to be around if I'm hungry.....

With the exception of your estimated foods, are you accurately weighing and measuring your foods? And how are you calculating your calorie burn from excercise? (fitbit can over-estimate by up to 40%. Although people say MFP is not accurate I've never had a problem using their calculations). Have you checked your physical…

Find something you love. Join a fun class like Zumba or clubbercise (its in the dark with glowsticks and disco lights, so no-one can see if you are going wrong!), go for nice long walks enjoying nature, find a friend to walk or workout with. But you must find something you enjoy.

You are doing a lot of exercise, so possibly need more of a rest, Or try changing the order, trying a new class. Do you ever go over your calorie goal - I'm not talking about a binge, but a day when you have three good meals, maybe a snack or two extra? Once a fortnight it can help to wake up your metabolism. Or try…

Another thing I find helpful is doing some exercise when I get in from work (especially if I'm in earlier than the rest of the family as we all have different patterns), then obviously I need a nice bath, do my hair etc. By the time I've done that everyone else is in and so I cook dinner. Otherwise I would sit down and…

I know some people who can't eat when stressed because their stomach is churning. I eat when I'm stressed - as does my mother, so it might be genetic (or learned behaviour). I changed jobs just before I started losing weight - if I'd been in my old job still I would have been vastly overweight and not exercising as it was…

Work out what makes you weak when confronted by certain foods. Is it comfort, are you "treating" yourself to make up for something going badly elsewhere in your life - boring job, high bills. Do you have trouble committing to exercise? is it because you don't feel comfortable in a gym, don't like exercise, are too tired…

I've lost and kept it off without any restriction on carbs or even cutting out anything. Cake, wine, chocolate all feature in my food diary on a regular basis, as do pasta, potatoes, fruit and veg, dairy, wheat etc etc. I am lucky not to have any dietary issues like diabetes or intolerances, so I celebrate that by eating a…

Make room in your calories for indulgence - do an extra workout, walk to the shops, whatever it takes. Or just buy one of those "Will run for wine" t-shirts :D :D

Start TODAY. Doesn't matter what you've eaten already, log it. You can easily shift that 15lb before Christmas, but you must be honest with yourself about what you are eating, and weigh and log everything (no finishing the kids' dinner so as "not to waste it" unless you log that half fish finger and three potatoes!). With…

Increase your exercise to get some extra calories to spend on what you want. But honestly, if you've only been going three weeks you're probably still getting a bit of sugar withdrawl. Once you educate your body in better habits you won't feel so deprived - once you're used to only one or two biscuits, you rarely want…

No need to be so drastic, no need to punish yourself. It will even out over a week or so with a bit of extra exercise and by maintaining your daily target.

I've just got a Davina McCall DVD "seven to fit" - its lots of 7-minute workouts (plus a 3 min warm up and 7 min cool down) which really work the core region - and most other regions, but the abs sections are awesome (she says nursing her sore muscles!). As there's 10 different sections you can really mix it up, and even…

I've been at maintenance (with the odd little lb or two here and there due to holiday indulgence!) for nearly 4 years, but continue to log every day - if I go over then I try to go under the next day, so I'm about average for the week. Or I do a bit extra exercise. I log my food for the day in the morning, then add…

Hubby and I LOVE spotting people in stupid footwear - especially in theme parks, agricultural shows (you get the picture!). Mind you, we looked like those daft tourists the day we went to Botanical beach on Vancouver Island - all in shorts, hubby didn't even have a sweatshirt, we had NO idea it was going to be cold (its…

Been to Vancouver but not done the grind because my friend (who lives there and has done for years!) said its actually not a very nice walk, and by the time you get to the top you're just hot and fed up so don't enjoy the mountain! So we took the cable car which was lovely, and did our walking at the top - there's still…

Keep drinking as much as you can, cranberry juice is good, but nothing really acidic like fresh orange juice. Avoid tea and coffee because they are diuretic, you're supposed to avoid alcohol for the same reason but unless your meds say not too you might find a small spritzer will help relax you. Try not to go to the loo…

1. Get a food scale and weigh everything, but especially hard to judge things like pasta and cereals, and things that are very high fat/calorie like cheese. 2. Measure yourself - you might be toning up and muscle is denser than fat so the inches can drop while the weight stays the same (or even goes up as it did with me -…

I eat at maintenance and continue to log everything. You can find most things on the MFP database - if you get several results go for an average one, not the highest or lowest. As others have said, with plenty of walking you should be fine even if you go over. My golden rule is, if I'm eating something and not particularly…