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Here we go again....................(yawn)............the "if you eat below 1200 calories you will die" and "Starvation mode..." 1200 calories is not, and cannot be a hard and fast rule, we are all different with different sizes, weights, metabolisms and amounts to lose, different levels of activity, etc, etc, so please…

I eat quite a lot of prawns, as you say they are low cal, have done for years, and have never had any ill effects, though I haven't eaten them every day............ I eat everything from the small North Atlantic prawns to king, tiger and langoustines (Dublin Bay Prawns).

It's worth reading this about that lady here - http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/ms-gillian-mckeith-banned-from-calling-herself-a-doctor/ Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who campaigns against bad science and snake oil salesmen of all types including big Pharma.

I didn't know your age, nor was I making sly digs, but it was obvious from your attitude you were barely out of your teens. Black and white is OK but you should try colour sometime. I know exactly why I got fat and I'm doing something about it, that doesn't mean I'm suggesting anyone else is to blame for my being fat, nor…

Either you're missing the point or you don't understand. Hopefully when you grow up you'll be less dogmatic and believe you know everything and everyone else is stupid. Sorry, but you come over like a petulant child who can only see things in black and white. Why get involved in the thread if you already know it all? For…

However I think the most telling comment was from the Weightwatchers woman who said that obesity was a chronic disease that had to be controlled, like AIDS or cancer, and one 12 week course won't do that, that's why people come back. Lifestyle change in other words. If you lose weight and eat so you maintain, you won't go…

^^ This. Totally agree.

I'm a hoarder and haven't thrown out clothes (that are in good condition) for more years than I care to mention. This has given me the bonus of working back in time as I get thinner. My profile pic is me trying on a shirt last weekend that I hadn't worn since 1998. It's tighter on me than it was then by some way but none…

I love mushrooms but preferably fried in olive oil with bacon and egg......... Sort of defeats the purpose though!

^^ This Of course there are no citations, it is pure bullsh1t centred around the starvation mode myth. I sympathise totally with the OP.

What's difficult? You eat less than you burn and be totally honest with yourself. The weight comes off. That motivates you to carry on. Eventually people notice. That motivates you to carry on. And on. And on. You don't even have to exercise, the calories in versus calories out equation still works. Exercise just means you…

Welcome Amy and Carolina (though I suspect Carolina is a location! SC sort of gives it away!), great, if currently small group here. Feel free to add me. @Carolina - get what you mean about fried food, I used to be an addict also, but I just realised, I haven't used my deep oil fryer even once since I started on MFP at the…

No-one could read this and take it seriously, it doesn't mention raspberry ketones. How could anyone take anything serious that doesn't mention raspberry ketones?

I track my sleep with an Android app (SleepTime) and also with my newish Fitbit. When I was really fat some seven months ago I had sleep apnoea, would wake up numerous times during the night, and, according to my wife, snored like a hippo. Since losing a chunk of weight I like the confirmation tracking gives me that I am…

Aw? Think how good this would make you feel, revenge is sweet!

You can and should. Nude with high heels and long legs, mmmmmm, drive your ex mad :)

Congratulations on your weight loss. Counting calories works, I'm 66 lbs down after six and a half months. I'm also over 60. Sustainable because I have changed my lifestyle and am eating much healthier, I have no wish to eat 'normally' if it is the way I was eating before I started this journey. I like fasting…

No, not semantics, science! I have, as I've said, no problem with intermittent fasting, I do it myself, but 5:2 is a strict regime concerning regular fasting, and is promoted as an 'easy' way to lose weight with the caveat " Success also depends on not over-eating on your normal days"..........ooops, there you go!! So the…

Suggest you read what I wrote. I have no problem with fasting per se, I googled 5:2 scientific research and found - "There does not appear to be any research evidence that looks directly at the 5:2 diet. However, unlike some other fashionable diets, there is some evidence that suggests the claims made about it may have…

Yes it's a fad until it has been proved in independent properly monitored scientific tests. I have no problem with fasting, I do it occasionally, sometimes inadvertently because of travel, sometimes because I want to, but to build it into a regime is just dumb in my opinion. It might work for some people but it depends how…

Don't like Marmite, but really 250 people complained about that ad? Time they got a life!

Am I the only one who gets weary of this type of post "OMG I ate over my calories". The second one this morning............ Get over it, we all do it occasionally, just pick yourself up and carry on as before.

So has the world ended because you ate fried food? Has anyone died as a result? If it bothers you, learn from it and don't do it again.

Totally agree OP, in fact I feel a bit of a fraud. People are impressed at the amount of weight I've lost but it has indeed been simple. I don't think I've ever been hungry, except when missing a meal due to travel but even then it's not that gnawing pain, just looking forward to having smething to eat. I get very few…

White bread is full of stuff to make it last longer on the shelves, so is not brilliant, nor is it good value nutritionally, the calories from a couple of slices of bread are better spent elsewhere in my opinion.

@Jane - as Meg says, the joys of dental work. After years of going for check ups and having no work, I failed in March this year and had to have about £700 of work mainly small fillings, but including a root canal............. Fortunately, after decades of Dental Phobia, I conquered that about 20 years ago with the help of…

It's not necessarily that slow. I have consistently lost around 10 lbs per month every month for the past 6 months since I started. It also depends how much you have to lose as to how much you can lose on a regular basis. But you're right, it is a lifestyle change and I think that is the most important factor for change. I…

OMG with family like that who needs enemies! I am now anti gastric bypass, having researched when I got to my lowest point/heaviest weight. Quite honestly what I read frightened me off, and I realised it was not the answer, the solution was to eat less and take it easy. I've now done that for just over 6 months and lost 63…

Welcome Subzero, just love your profle pic, but with the greatest of respect you don't really know how fast my couch is! I have the fastest couch in the South East of England!! Faster even than Jane's wardrobe, my couch is a turbo couch! If exercise is a problem, don't do it, follow my 'non-exercise' path, drink whisky,…

Hell, you look so much better in the second pic. Believe it, there is a BIG difference!