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You're right - this isn't easy. Knowing what to do IS easy - make better food choices and fit in some exercise. It really is as simple as that. The hard part comes when you realise that you have to find a way to do this for the rest of your life. I wish I had the answer as to how to do this - but all I can suggest is that…

It's to do with US labelling laws. My understanding is that anything that has less than 5 cals per serving can be promoted as "zero cals". In reality, the flavours and additives they use do have a few calories, they just don't have to promote it. If you aren't drinking a lot of it the calories aren't going to be…

No. It's just food. If I eat more than I need to today, I try to make sure that tomorrow is more in balance. Life is too short to beat myself up over food.

Yes. If you burn more from exercise you get to eat more. Good isn't it? If you want to know more, read this: www.shouldieatmyexercisecalories.com

I eat many things, but I don't like a lot of seafood - not to the extent that it makes me want to vomit but I just don't enjoy the taste. I'll usually spit out anything that has smoked salmon hiding in it... but I do like fresh salmon, especially panfried - yum! I'm right off porridge (oatmeal) at the moment though usually…

Just keep logging. I find that the fact that I'm logging my food makes me more conscious of how much I'm eating, even if it's not easy to make good choices due to the circumstances that are happening. And if you find you are consistently over your calorie intake, maybe up your calories to maintenance for a month or so -…

Just do what you can, exercise is always good idea but don't go overboard. And don't waste your time and energy worrying about things that you won't remember years from now and that no-one but you will be aware of on the day. You're making a lifetime commitment to a lovely man in front of the people you care about - enjoy…

That there is no magic diet or exercise. Changing habits to eat a bit less and move a bit more is the only thing that will work in the long term. Of course, I already knew this, but I wasn't ready to accept that I was going to have to change my habits for ever. Not by a lot though, and not all of them. I still eat…

Use a teaspoon to help when you peel them - just crack the egg all over and take off a little bit of the shell to get started. Then slide a teaspoon around under the shell and it usually comes away much more neatly than if you do it with your fingers.

Hell yes. (Note: every calorie calculator I've seen suggests you eat more if you are more active. MFP just adds these extra cals in after you exercise instead of estimating them up front).

I suggest you go to your doctor for a health check and ask if there is any areas where you are deficient. Once you know what you are low in, then you can find a multivitamin (or better still, a real food source) to fill that gap. Otherwise you run the risk of creating very expensive pee and not getting any real benefit.…

Are you eating enough? Food = calories, and calories = energy. If you have a particularly full schedule at the moment, maybe you need to reduce your calorie deficit a little bit to support your lifestyle.

Play around with combinations of foods to see what makes you feel good. For me it seems that I need to have a decent breakfast - usually a bit of protein in there as well as carbs works best. If I don't eat much at breakfast I'm just hungry all day. Yesterday I had fruit toast with banana and cream cheese for brekky and…

It sounds to me as though you have set yourself up with an unrealistically low calorie allowance - that would be why you are always hungry. Here's my best advice: - go back to your goals and set yourself up with a 1/2 pound a week weight loss goal. Don't stress out and say "but I'll never lose weight that way, it's too…

Well done for not letting one dinner break you! I've decided that the key to staying healthy is accepting that sometimes you'll make a bad choice, but that it's not worth losing sleep over, the only thing you can do is to keep on logging and make the next meal a better one.

Hehehe, thanks for the giggle. I read this earlier this morning just after I'd decided not to comment on the latest "I DON'T and I WON'T eat my exercise cals" thread. Really, I don't care what anyone else does, they'll either quit or work it out for themselves sooner or later.

I like dark coloured bottoms and light tops - because it's cooler, I wouldn't wear a black top. I agree with the lack of pockets being a problem. I specifically seek out clothes that have a pocket for my iPhone - no pocket, no buy!

Almost every time someone posts this topic (about once a day) the answer is that they aren't eating enough. I can't see your diary so I don't know if this applies to you. If you have an unrealistically high weight loss goal then MFP will default to 1200 cals a day and that really isn't much at all for most people. If you…

MFP actually suggests that you eat 1300/day PLUS the calories you burn when you exercise. These two things together go to make up your total daily calorie recommendation. Most other calorie estimations include exercise already, but MFP asks you to add exercise as you do it, so your daily cals are probably going to be…

There are lots of ready to eat meals in the freezer and soup section - just start reading labels and look for options that have the highest amount of actual food and the least amount of fillers (starches, sugars etc). It's worth keeping an eye on the sodium levels too. Other suggestions if you don't want to cook but have a…

Huh, I must be waaaayyyyy off average then. When I started I was much slower than this, and I'd rarely do 5k in less than 30 mins even after 18 months of running. It is a bit hard to tell though, because I train for longer distances so I'm not really focussed on speed and I try not to go out too fast at the beginning. OP,…

Same place I run in the summer - outside. But, if I lived somewhere with snow, I'm betting I'd join a gym or buy a treadmill!

Yup, I'd bump up your activity level to account for your work, it's much simpler this way.

It depends on the job and the weather. I would feel quite comfortable wearing pants to an interview for just about any job I'm likely to be applying for.

They all look good - for a wedding I would pick #2.

Well... 27 degrees is getting a bit warm for me - I'd say 20- 24 is about nice running weather. Anything under about 12 degrees (centrigrade!) is too cold for me :smile: Can you tell I'm an Aussie? Your cold winters would kill me.

The idea of using the recipe builder is to make it suit you. That means you enter all the ingredients you use and you choose how many servings are in that dish. So, if you make a casserole and it makes 6 of YOUR sized serves, you put 6 servings. There is no right or wrong here, it's up to you to determine how many serves.…

Don't feel discouraged! It sounds to me as though you have made some really positive changes in your life. Keep doing those things (i.e. eating at a moderate deficit, don't drop too low, and doing some regular exercise) and the scales will catch up. Most importantly - be kind to yourself. Your body has done an incredible…

I'd pick oatmeal too - less processed, no added sugar. Of course, this assumes you buy oats (ingredient: oats) and cook them yourself. If you buy one of the little packets full of sugar and flavouring, then who knows what you are eating! Really though, eat what you enjoy, and what makes you feel good. And what fits into…

I wouldn't stress about 50 calories - all the numbers we use are estimates anyway, so if you are 50 cals over your calorie allowance for the day, just let it go and start fresh tomorrow.