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Congrats for resisting! it's really hard to change some of those habits, but despite huge temptation you still managed it. Well done.

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Building up any sort of fitness that involves time on your feet will be helpful! Have you done any jogging on hills? In my experience hills can be a challenge if you don't have strong thighs, but I'm certain your jogging will make a difference, and you will certainly have improved your leg strength after going from 5-23…

Sounds good, I just had a horrible image of you adding an extra 50lb to your calculations 'just to be on the safe side'! Good luck.

Sounds like you've had some bad experiences. There are a few people on my friends list who are obviously intelligent, want to learn, and I look forward to reading their posts. Just because it's an internet exchange and/or you haven't met those people doesn't make some positive interactions any less meaningful in my…

Good to know you are a sensible poster! I shall look out for your posts in future :)

This is typical for diets high in protein. Some options are to take a fiber supplement, ensure that the carbohydrates you are eating are providing a significant amount of fiber (which generally means they are complex carbohydrates), and increase fruit and vegetable consumption. 'Normal' is different for everyone, in fact…

Well there's plans like 5:2 where you eat 500 calories twice a week and your TDEE on other days, and then there's three day a week total fasting. Given that a goal of any weight loss plan is to create healthier eating habits and develop a pattern of eating that is appropriate for weight loss and then maintenance, I'd say…

I'll admit I saw the number of replies to this thread and the title and thought it was going to be highly entertaining. I'm a little sad, but still a very interesting post, thanks!

My boyfriend has a vegan friend on his list who does the same thing. it's the food police (paleo/vegan)'s issue not yours. I'm all for trying to educate people about choices but sometimes born-again foodies can become almost evangelical in their promotion of whatever lifestyle they're following. My suggestion is adding the…

I second the weekly calorie tracking rather than stressing out about it on a daily basis. One day won't make you gain weight, just as one day won't make you loose weight. It is unrealistic to think that for the rest of your life you will eat exactly the same number of calories on a daily basis, what is importance is…

How have you set your calorie goals if you didn't enter a weight? I don't think embarking on any restrictive calorie diet is a good idea unless you can accurately calculate your BMR and TDEE to start with, particularly if you have set it to 1200 per day and/or are wanting to eat back your exercise calories. Eta: fair…

I always check their diary if it says under, and for some of my friends they're daily netting 900 cals. I won't 'like' it if it looks like a bad pattern. I think the fact that MFP automatically announces when it's under the goal is not healthy, I feel like it's giving positive feedback for under eating. It's a goal, not an…

Well I'm in Germany so maybe things are different but here the towels hang up near the door to the shower area and once you're finished showering you grab your towel and strut your stuff back to your bag where you get dressed. Wearing the towel during the strut across the changing room is optional.

Based on your weight and what your TDEE will be I am certain you will still lose weight eating at a higher intake. I am 5'5" and lost weight when I was 135lb by eating 1500 per day, including eating back all exercise calories. It am be scary to change your calories up but the benefits are you have a much more manageable…

Something I found really interesting about Atkins is that in the mid-2000s when it first became really popular many people lost a lot of weight on it. Then food companies cottoned on to the opportunity to provide Atkins-compliant foods and it stopped being the miracle diet. The thing that changed was that the available…

Read the very helpful posts above, particularly from Quasita, and you can answer that question yourself.

I don't when I'm going for a run but if I still went to the gym I'd wear mascara. I am extremely pale and when I don't wear any eye makeup I get total strangers coming up to me to ask if I'm ok because I look ill. Once I deliberately didn't wear mascara to work and had three people tell me before lunchtime that I looked…

I think intuitive eating combined with calorie tracking is a good idea for you. I don't have any experience with it myself but used to work with a woman who did a lot of research on the area, and there are some good resources online if you look up "Mindful Eating". That term is used interchangeably with intuitive eating.

Sorry! It was the Salad Additions, chicken and cranberry thing that caught my eye, but you're right they're not the meals. I didn't look carefully enough and thought I'd found the culprit! Keep at it, but see what happens when you weigh everything. I suspect you're eating more than you think.

Start slow. Walking, gentle bike rides, swimming, until you have got a bit fitter, then start increasing your exercise.

Well yep they moved on... and deactivated their account.

Hi, I've taken a look at it. for the last month. You're eating a good variety of foods but don't seem to be meeting your protein goal, however you aren't so low that it would be stalling your weight loss. Your sugars are great, but fat intake is often quite high and your sodium is very high many days. If you aren't…

Doses of caffeine over 300 mg have a proven diuretic effect, however this is ONLY in people who are not habitual caffeine consumers, and the effect is about 1.1 mL extra urine per milligram of caffeine. One espresso coffee has around 70-100 mg, a standard can of Red Bull has 80 mg, a cup of black tea has about 40 mg. Coca…

Do you do any regular exercise? If not then I agree with the comments about too much sugar, particularly because most of this isn't coming from fruit and vegetables but from Nutella. Also about 20-25% of your calories are coming from snack foods, which can be a pattern of eating that can contribute to weight gain. Having…

Well done for taking your health seriously. Based on your activity levels I personally (as a nutritionist) don't think the sugar is too concerning. Sugar can come from many places in the diet and if you are getting a good quantity of fruits and vegetables that can also push your sugar intake up. If it's coming from…

It is not surprising that you are losing strength, as you will be netting less than a quarter of your BMR on a daily basis. You need to look at ways you can replenish your body after doing so much exercise. I would imagine it means you will be spending a significant portion of your day eating. As a teenager I was burning…

I can't say I ever have.

50g museli with low-fat milk and some stewed apple (240 cal) If I'm particularly hungry, or on running days, I'll follow up with two slices of toast with some low-fat cream cheese spread (+ 230). I follow up with a light lunch and then a dinner around 800-1000 cals, plus other snacks during the day.

Noooooo, nooooo, noooooo. 800 is far too low!!!! OP if you amputate a limb you could achieve it fairly easily, but this is not a realistic goal and even if you do manage to achieve it you will almost definitely gain it back afterwards. Do you want your honeymoon to become a massive binge fest? No. You will have lots of…