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If I did that (and I may start to make this a routine for myself too) then I'd pack something that can be eaten cold and bring it with me. My normal breakfast consists of cereal, fruit and nuts, so I'd just put some in a container and head out.

It irritates me a lot to see stuff like this. I work out. I do weights as well as traditional cardio. I'm not muscular and can't lift a lot and don't even WANT to look like those huge guys you see in the weights area. What I do want is to be fit and healthy overall. Lifting heavy things probably won't improve my stamina…

Nope, but based on your description and the fact that I love Pokemon games, it sounds pretty awesome.

Also YES. Seriously I have so much love for Katatonia it's unreal.

I like similar music myself. Rock/metal etc. Go listen to Gojira, they're an amazing band and their music is usually pretty fast.

28? hard to tell, can't see your face that clearly.

Yep, this has been my downfall. Since joining mfp, I've not lost or gained weight. I've joined a gym thoguh recently and hoping it'll give me something to focus on and something to do if I get bored, rather than ending up eating junk.

I still own my 'too small' clothes. But I've only gone up by one size and it's not like it's asking for a miracle for me to fit in them again. And if I do lose enough weight, I don't want to have to go out and buy them again. But if it's something new, I'd return it and get something that fits me now.

I do see a doctor of sorts, about an unrelated mental health issue. I said to him about this eating problem and he really scared me by starting talking about ED clinics and how he might have to stop seeing me because 'eating disorder needs to be treated first' and also told me I'd better not lose any weight. Seems to have…

Yeah she does, and so does my brother, but it's often left in the cupboards for days and I'll have it before anyone else does. Packets of biscuits and chocolate, and my mum's job is a baker so there is constantly cake in the house. I actually walk a lot. Rather compulsively, pacing back and forth around the house... I…

Yeah, I relate so bad to this. :( I honestly just walked a lot more. It didn't look like I was trying to exercise purposefully, which I feared people would make judgements about. A lot of the time if I'm watching TV or something I just walk back and forth in my room, though I still get nervous that people can hear me…

Mine's open to friends, and anyone can feel free to add me and I'll accept. I have no desire to ever use 'meal replacement' anything. I'm getting over binge eating behaviours so occasionally my diary may look a bit screwed up in the number of calories, but I normally hit around 1400. Also vegan.

'Clean eating' is necessary if you want to lose weight/see any changes. It's possible to gain weight on a calorie deficit. You need to work out like a madman to lose fat. Artificial sweetener is worse than sugar, END OF. -___-

Smaller portions of carb foods? And get wholemeal bread/pasta/etc. Carbs aren't 'bad', but some are better than others. Include proteins like beans, eggs, nuts, for example. You could make soups with lots of vegetables, salads, vegetable stir fry,

I think this attitude comes from people not wanting to sound like they're calling you fat. They don't want to make people feel more insecure about their bodies.

I get it too. I'm a guy but I'm barely 5'5". I get really insecure when people always seem to think I must be younger than I really am (I'm 20 but very often get mistaken for a highschooler). Even though I'm a healthy weight, I don't think I look slim, just because I'm not tall.

I've suffered serious depression over the past year, which has contributed to me gaining around 20 lbs and a lot of the time the last thing I'd ever feel like doing was exercise or eating anything healthy. The upside though, is when you get on top of your issues, the health side seems easier to deal with too and put right.

Some people are just going to be like this. Probably the same people would make a snide comment if everything you ate was perfect 100% super healthy too... trying to tell you to 'relax' and eat more junk. Some people just like to judge and comment and poke their nose into others' business.

sure. :) i'm on here all the time.

Focus on eating better then, if he isn't confident to start weights right now. Men generally have 'belly fat'. It's where the majority of men naturally store it. It'll decrease as he loses weight.

i'm on here all the damn time. don't live anywhere near you though (i'm in england) so i can't offer advice on that. feel free to add anyway, i'm a nice guy. :)

yeah, feel free to add and/or talk. warning now though that I'm stealth outside of lgbt spaces and i don't enjoy the whole political side of lgbt stuff at all. i'm a nice enough guy though - i think.. haha. :)

Thing is though, it's scary because I know I've lost a lot of weight before so it seems illogical why I can't do it again now. I'm not building muscle. Even when I work out a lot, I find it incredibly difficult to build ANY muscle tone at all. It's not my natural body type, so I very highly doubt that's what it is,…

Yeah I did think it could be water weight, but 8 lb of water seemed a bit excessive. I'll really have to start doing measurements to compare. I've not tracked them before, but I'm wearing a pair of trousers I know I couldn't fit into a month ago and they fit comfortably. Even though my liar of a scale tells me I'm at a…

hey. that's what my calorie goal is too and i generally average that sort of amount. feel free to add me.

someone losing weight because they want to genuinely and to feel happier in themselves is a good thing. surely fat shaming is a different concept entirely, when the person is made to feel awful by others for being overweight. progress pics are as much about a gain in confidence as weight lost.

I can't even run half a mile. Even at school, our 'long' runs that we had to do were 800m and 1500m and they both killed me. I'd love to be able to run - I actually enjoy it for maybe a minute or two before the pain starts and I can't breathe.

Hey. I hate this phrase but unfortunately it describes me pretty well. I'm towards the lower end of 'healthy BMI' and have a small build overall but no muscles or strength to speak of. I'm trying to do a lot of strength exercises. I don't go to a gym so it's just bodyweight stuff at the moment, but I do some exercises…

I'm 5'5" and as a 14-year-old I weighed around 170lbs, and lost a lot of it over several years to the point where I was considered 'underweight'. I'm now back in the 'healthy' range at 130-ish, and even now people say I'm 'too light' sometimes.. I'm not. I have a small build all over.

starvation mode 'I can't eat enough calories!!' the notion of 'treating yourself' with food 'I don't lift because I don't want to look like a bodybuilder' clean eating paleo 'I'm doing ____ diet' (replace as necessary with any sort of fad) oh and I have a LOT of pet peeve words surrounding food. Mostly when people talk…