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Grill/Broil seafood. OR Maybe dry fry in a fast stirred stir fry of veges and seafood. Do you like rice? Precook some (preferably long grain whole grains) and dry fry a half cup full with seafood as you constant stir it over medium-high heat.

Lovely fixed gaze.

The subtle smile!

Tried them once 20+ years ago. The ingredients list did my head in. Not really tasty. Just sugary empty calorie nutrition.

I sense your pain in dealing with this. Your husband needs some advice about mutual respect in communication. Sounds like he takes a lot for granted (based on your anecdotal evidence). You might need to bring a counsellor into your situation ... someone who can verbally but the brakes on your husband. Good luck.

I was PND and Greenpeace in an earlier phase of this life (early to mid-1980s) but I am not anti-French.

No, I drive a Peugeot and speak French well.

I know where you are shouting from. My father, as good as he was to me in so many ways during my childhood and adulthood, had one really draining nasty habit - focusing on my weight, especially any increases in my weight. What I needed him to say and what I heard him actually say were poles apart. I knew my problem. I DID…

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A slice of fresh lemon or lime is negligible so I don't bother counting them ... barely one calorie. Created by MyFitnessPal.com - Free Calorie Counter

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Yes, seeing photos or videos of oneself taken by others can be a real eye-opener to the soul of an obese person. I tended, in the past, to be "inside me looking out". Now I study how I look in the picture/video evidence others send me of family gatherings or social events.

Ever so true. Here I am, about 19kg lost, and one of the negative pr1cks at my Tuesday night men's gathering said, last night, "Look at RW, He's consistent ... been fat for 20 years ... he'll always be fat ... can't help it." I was burning with anger. This bloke who has known me since the 1980s surely must have noticed…

Dead easy to fix. Use the my home tab. Choose "goals" then the green "change goals" button. Then pick "guided" and "continue". Make your adjustments on each page. Don't forget to save when you're happy.

When I am out with friends, I avoid the high sugar sodas and beers by buying a large glass (pint) of soda water (club soda) with a slice or two of fresh lemon or lime. Ups your consumption of water. Has the bubbles/CO2 of soft drinks. And only about one calorie per serve.

The thing that had the biggest effect on me as an occasional soda/soft drink consumer but a massive sugar addict was the book "Sweet Poison" by David Gillespie. Once the impact of how many wasted sugar calories made up my life became a reality in my thoughts, I began to make many, much better choices. I am almost sucrose…

I think that you need to adjust as best you can. Remove as many sodas/soft drinks as you can. Start each meal with a large serve of water or a skim milk. This will alleviate the thirst and dehydration factors. (SOda addiction is often, believe it o not, part of a dehydration problem. Your soda/soft drink consumption is…

I know what you mean about cheese, hard flavoursome cheese in particular. I just don't buy it now. I don't ask for it on food any more. I refuse it at Subway and sit-down meals. I limit myself to soft low-fat cheeses in the fridge ... light cottage cheese, lowest fat ricotta, etc. If we are having guests over, I make a big…

No ... it's good for you. Filling. High fibre. Helps lower your blood pressure. Knocks your bad cholesterol down.

Yeah, count me in. I'll aim for a 10500 average.

I am in Australia and I go to Jetts Gyms ... they are 24/7 places and I'm a night owl. Other gyms don't stay open past about 9:30pm or 10:00pm week nights and 6pm weekends. The other exciting thing is the $377 for 365 days plan. $26 admin fee. Comes out to about $1.20 per day. Good value. Good equipment. Not perfect but a…

Well I have lost 9.8kg in this round of slimming down. Was 176kg Feb 3. Was 168.2 last Monday. Started previous diet 2006 and went from 192kg to 150kg but then relapsed.

If you're counting your calories properly from accurate weighing of your food on good sensitive kitchen scales and sighting your liquid intake from a measuring jug, the only way you would not be losing heaps of weight would be that you're under 4' 9" and already about 93 pounds. Sure you haven't missed anything?

Just remember the old Weight Watchers mantra. "Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels." Write it on the fridge memo board. Put it on a flouro coloured stick-on label in the centre of your steering-wheel for a reminder at drive-throughs. (You can always say, "I changed my mind." and drive off.) Go drink a half-litre of…

In his book, "Sweet Poison", author David Gillespie says that over-processing of food has taken Australia's per capita consumption of processed/added sugar in foods from 1.1 kg (2.4lbs) per annum in 1855 to 55kg (122lbs) per person per annum in 2007. Just look at the amount of soft drink (soda pop) in supermarket trolleys…

Places like MFP and Calorie King are more finite to a more definite total calorie count. I remember my mother doing WW successfully in the early 1970s and back then it was more like MFP & CK. WW is a bit nebulous ... rounding things off to near enough points/numbers. I've done WW twice in my adult (male) life and I can say…

Impressive result to date. I tip my hat to you.

No. Maybe your body is not disposed to public gyms.

Yeah, I've lost weight many times before in the last 20 years (and put it back on with an "interest payment"). You can always expect the first 3 weeks to a month to be your most dramatic weight loss. It's after that that the hard slog starts. Without a doubt, the best process for me and 90% of other dieters is KEEPING A…

25 in a kindergarten class? Really? Here in New South Wales (state) in Australia, we have a 20 maximum. I presume 25 kids would come with a full time teachers aide in the classroom? No?