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Once again thank you all for your most kind comments, thanks to my fitness buddies and the best of luck on your journeys. ;-)

Thank you for your kind comments. Success would be staying In shape and keeping the weight off but the good results so far I put down to MyFitnessPal and some exceptional fitness buddies providing plenty of encouragement and inspiration. I started by mainly dieting and gradually over six months changed my food choices for…

'Dreamer'

There is a sauce but not overwhelming. :smile: I love the idea of seaweed salad ! I've had seaweed in Chinese restaurants a few times, I really like it.

I have tried to make it a few times myself and failed miserably. This is the original ; http://www.princes.co.uk/our-products/fish/tuna/tuna-salads/mexican-tuna-salad

I'm from the UK and I've just had a bath.

Wow, I know you've been doing well but when you see the photos it really hammers home what a great achievement you have already accomplished. You are on a mission. Well done, you look great ! :-)

Delighted for you and what an inspiration you are. Well done ! :-)

Probably, I don't know for certain but if you measure / weigh your food you obviously know for certain how many calories you are eating.

Brilliant post.

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I too would go for a stir fry, chicken with green peppers in blackbean sauce with plenty of bamboo shoots and stir fry vegetables. Both interesting and inspirational to see people's preferred ultra low calorie meals.

Nicely sums up what all of us are thinking ! :-)

All inclusive resorts are fine but I always make an effort to interact with the locals as much as I can too. It's a shame to wall them out of your holiday.

I weigh myself every morning and then repeat it OCD style two or three times straight afterwards. :-)

I have a repulsion, almost a fear of buttons.

Obviously I too had children later in life. It's the best thing I ever did. It's both an inspiration to get fit and stay healthy and also a reason why I find it hard to get fit and stay healthy. I wouldn't have it any other way though. :-)

Thanks for all the replies and I suppose those moments that made us all feel uncomfortable enough to avoid or psychologically block out have in the end proven to be our inspiration. Really I should be grateful that the camera doesn't lie because it has set me on an important mission which otherwise I would never have made.…

Dr Doolittle. The man must be as comfortable with your pets as he is with you.

Force yourself to go without it for a few days and eat healthily then try your favourite fast food as a treat. It won't be as nice as you remember it was and you will be all the happier to go without it.

Your reply struck a chord with me. I too appear in very few photographs with my young children even though my wife and I snap them all the time. I have avoided it, there is no doubt and that is such a shame for me and my children. What a great trigger to get in shape.