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I lost a car tyre with MFP and an average 2yo with SW. I'm still going for the gold brick.

Thanks for this bit of advice, I'd seen the arrow but never clicked on it. One commentator on a question of mine had my child in tears because of the personal attacks. so thanks again.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my diary properly. I had a look back. I made a conscious effort to eat more veg (dont really like many fruit) as I had too many days without. I see that I am slipping and the cheese and biscuits are cropping up a lot. Thanks for the pointer.

Thanks for this. It was useful to see someone else's pattern.

I am used to a 1lb fluctuation very occasionally 2. I have never seen a 3lb fluctuation like that hence the question.

Congratuations on the weight loss. Its really impressive. I couldn't live without weighting myself daily. the fluctuations don't bother me but leaps like this one do. So far the daily weigh in has kept me on track but I have to understand what is going on with my body. Now I know this is just getting used to drinking…

Hmmmm interesting. For the first time I have proactively put things in place to drink more water. Thursday an Friday I drank 1.5ltrs water each day and this is the first time I have experiences a leap like that withou the memory of pizza chocolate or alcohol to justify it. And given the extra time on the loo!!! Including…

Diary now opened. Thanks for looking at it.

I have just found C25K and sadly am not yet fit enough to do it - yes I do mean run for 90 seconds. I am however doing the weekly park run (at soldiers pace just got my run up to 30seconds) so bit by bit, I hope to get there. Looking forward to being able to start the programme properly and RUN a 5K. I inspires me when I…

I beg of you DON'T follow MFP. I started on the MFP 1200 and within the week found the TDEE etc calc so went to 2160 cals per day. I was losing weight steadily with no exercise. But I am of the generation that grew up on 1000 cals per day diets and the less you eat the less you weigh so switched back to MFP's 1200 cals. I…

I just thought I would let you all know that after starting this thread, I took pains to try and eat up to my 1200 cals per day and also any extra cals through exercise and at the end of that week I lost 3lbs. I have now increased my cals by 100 and will continue to do so each week until, I find the maximum I can eat and…

Very selective

Thanks for your help.

Your comment is unhelpful. The point of joining MFP is to HELP me to 'take responsibility and learn to eat healthily'. I took their advice and put in the relevant details and guess what I am not eating sufficient. Duh!

YAH! Thats the conclusion I have come to. I have 30+ years of managing body; badly, but I know it better than any one. I know some of what works. Its not to say that I won't try anything else (after all my way got it in this state), but I don't believe in the dogma being spouted by some people because after all, there is…

Nope! 1200 Cals because with my info re lifestyle, age, height, current weight, gender, target, rate of weight loss rate to which I aspire, MFP suggested 1200 cals per day. I foolishly trusted MFP to guide me. This I think is a real problem for users of MFP

I could increase my calories in a heart beat: one Chicken Nambali followed by Nehari etc. I struggle to do it on lean meat and veg. I do not eat pre prepared food such as you suggest just about everything I eat is cooked from whole ingredients by hubby or I - hence my struggle.

Thank you for actually reading my posts so you can see my conclusion. I am working on hitting the 1200 (which I didnt before) and pushing it up a 100 cals per week. Im not sure if this is true, but I read on a link that the best way out of 'sticking' is to increase your cals gradually which is what I am trying to achieve.

While I appreciate the reply, please do not patronise me. I think that after 30+ years of dieting, my body does its own thing. Just like many people cannot sleep if they drink coffee at night, I always wonder how much caffeine I have to take before I feel any effect at all. Like wise, not eating till noon or 1pm does not…

Other than water retention, Im not sure what the sodium limit will do. Once I manage to get on an even keel I will look at sodium in terms of other health factors.

One of the best things about MFP is seeing what you are doing. I was miffed at your comment as my PERCEPTION is that I eat loads of cooked veg (albeit a limited range) and loads of salad. Actually checking, spot weeks and there are lots of days when I don't. Must do better. Thanks for the comment It was useful.

Thanks for your good wishes. As for finding out WHY I cant stick to a diet, thats a whole other thread.

I had a quick look at this. Yep he is saying what the guys in here are telling me.

I blame MFP (lol). Seriously, I think MFP really need to look at this. IMHI Given that we put our height, current weight,gender, age and a little bit about our lifestyle, the outcome recommended calorific guidance is way way way off base. It is my opinion that MFP put a little bit more effort into better guidance regarding…

The smoothie sounds vile, but the principle is ok. Actually I am not eating a lot of beef brisket. Barring minced beef, I probably only had beef twice in the last year. I bought a pressure cooker in the new year sales and the only thing I worked out how to cook in it was beef (you know how you play with new things) so have…

Not sure what your solution is yet, but =ly toungue in cheek, I will follow the chocolate and red wine diet. (probably the only 1 I havent actually tried and yes I do have a diet book about it.)

With you right there on Mother Nature and getting harder to lose weight. Did you know there is an increase in rickets because of the lack of vitamin D (from fats) in modern diets? Rickets had largely died out in the west until we labelled fat as public enemy number 1.

It would be halleluijah if I took in 300 extra calories per day in coffee: but I use semi skimmed milk so its only 150 per day max. I will have a look around at info about the mal effects of coffee though. Thank you.

I am not. Like I keep saying I dont eat breakfast simply because eating early and having to do things give me stomach cramps. I have come to the conclusion that I am under eating hence not losing weight.

Because I my case, I used the MFP calculation.