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popcorn and a mini-milk lolly (only 30 cals a lolly!)

Homemade Soup Red lentils - for quantity cover bottom of your soup pan, stop pouring once bottom of pan is covered in a layer. (rinse in cold water to remove starch first) 2 chicken / veg stock dissolved in 500ml water 3 carrots and 2 small onions blended with the stock in a blender 2 large / 3 smaller carrots cut into…

Best tip I was ever given. Take a sweet potato, wash, cut it up into wedges put them straight in the George Forman with either no oil or a couple of oil sprays, 25 minutes later you have really tasty sweet potato chips, which are not high cal and are a great complex carb. Also I like to pan fry a salmon fillet with very…

I find it hard to reach my protein goal every day even if I switch carbs to meat where I can, so a protein shake for me works, plus I like them. During work mornings I have one every day for breakfast, SmartTech FX Skinny chocolate cookie powder is the one for me, it's packed with caffeine to kick start my day and I blend…

Glasgow calling and need to lose at least 50 Ibs. Also I have an open food diary, feel free to add me.

I also pre programme in all my meals/snacks for the day around lunchtime each day , so I know I can have popcorn and a smoothie lolly and I space these out after dinner.

This is my problem too and for me it does align with the fact I associate relaxation with tv and tv with snack foods. The only one thing has worked for me in the past and I've started doing it again now is - the 14 hour fast. Every day I have my breakfast shake at 10am, this gives me until 8pm at night to eat. As I need to…

Me too, 60 pounds to lose this year (2015), yikes! That's just for starters as its about 80 I need to lose.

The fact that you equate weight gain or being overweight as an active choice people make to "let themselves go" is not actually a judgement on overweight people, but is more accurately a reflection of your own unhealthy relationship with your own weight. You say yourself that you developed an eating disorder and part of…

Hmmm... no need to be such a discussion facist, especially if you haven't read the whole thread! If I want to read facts, yes I'll Google and I will find a bunch of information that says no and a bunch of information that says yes, it's always the way, so sometimes it's useful to get feedback on how people feel it is…

I often wonder about the 5:2 fast, a lot of people I know have tried it, but I'm not aware if they sustained it long term. Personally I have no interest in starting off a habit I could not sustain permanently, as I would just be teaching myself a way of eating that when I stoppped after a few years could potentially pile…

Hot, I love bacon and egg bras.

I dunno, I think it's important to try hard and work towards your goals, but at the same time, I think it's important to retain perspective, as there are some things you can't change. Let's be honest, it's tough to look like the models in magazines and on websites because the models don't event look like the models! I…

When I read your post all I can think is that you know exactly what you did wrong and why it resulted in you feeling the way you do. At each point where you made a bad decision, i.e. not attending induction, not warming up, putting the machine on full pelt, putting the thoughts of others, who probably haven't even noticed…

You've been so brave, strong and fearless, keep it up, wish you all the best in your continuing recovery.

The face difference is astonishing you look about 10 years younger. I also started in January, I've lost 29 pounds so far so still a lot further to go, but your story inspires me!

Hmmm...I did mention my ex in support of another writer, you remember her, right? The one who was going through a difficult time in her own life and you decided to bascially verbally bash and make a rather crass comment about the divorce rate. Yeah, that's actually why this whole conversation started, or did you forget? I…

Urrgh, I told myself I wouldn't repond to this but here I am. I'm not saying you operate differently, (I can't actually believe that is what/all you took from my post, is life to you really that black and white?!) I was saying that you were making a rather sweeping statement earlier when you stated with 100% convinction…

You see I don't want to argue with you, as I truly do agree with the premise of what you're saying, people shouldn't have to compromise themselves to be in a relationship, their core belief and values especially. However, saying - "People should not have to change to be in a relationship" Is just a fallacy, you both have…

Hmmm.....within reason. It's a partnership, things have to be agreed and negotiated to make it work long term, untimately you both have to make sacrifices to make it work, it's complex. It was at the point where I didn't want to make changes or make any sacrifices for my ex, I didn't want his needs to be equal to mine,…

Ejean – that sounds very similar to how my life was, with my boyfriend for 9 years, lived together for 6.5, I became a different person, he didn’t, it was best for both of us to split and to be honest I should have ended it about 2 years before I did. He didn’t even seem to realise it wasn’t working out, even though it was…

Let's be honest, saying "You should leave him and not put up with it" and the opposite saying "you should stick by him and work it out" have as much merit as each other, it entirely depends upon the relationship, too many people put up with too much and don't leave their partners soon enough and too many people cut their…

Hmmm, okay, my advice is below, take it or leave it, clearly this is just me going on a tiny paragraph of your life and giving my interpretation, nothing more. I’m hoping the words below help you as opposed to anger. I think perhaps there are bigger issues here than him being unsupportive. There is the fact you feel you…

I was in the same position, I started this whole thing in January (I had never really tried to lose weight before and had got to the stage where I chucked out all my skinnier clothing) BIG MISTAKE ha ha. So when I started I really was into it, regular workouts, stringent logging, researching foods, calories and exercise,…

Does that include us Scottish folks too then? ;)

Ha ha! Love it!

Get your Mother told, that makes me so angry on your behalf. Tell her if she calls you that one more time you're relationship is going to collapse into dust, make her scared to even think it! Sorry that just really got to me, especially when taken into consideration with the other things you mention.

Having read a lot of these posts, it seems to be a huge amount of family members, family in law members and even partners who are making a lot of these really thoughtless, judgmental , hurtful and at times downright nasty comments. I must admit I've had a couple of comments from strangers, "you're fat, said by a junkie to…

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My sleep apnea went undiagnosed for a couple of years which got to the point where I was passing out at my desk and had to take time off work as I had to wait months for a sleep trial, at its worst point I was experiencing waking dreams, which were a bit like seeing things. (Once at work my keyboard turned into a plate and…