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It's been pretty accurate for me so far. I eat my exercise calories back. The only way you'll know if it's the same for you is to try it for a few weeks - see if you get the results you want - and if not adjust it from there.

I'd be celebrating if my belt went down a notch in a week! You did a good job - congratulations :)

If you like swimming - do the swimming. In the end weightloss is mostly down to diet. Exercise - in any form - improves your health - so I'm a huge fan of doing whatever exercise you enjoy. That way you are more likely to keep doing it.

I'm glad I gave myself the extra day - I got up this morning and managed to sit on my desk chair rather than throw myself on it. So I decided today was the day I would go back into the free weights section. My muscles still hurt - but not unbearably so. Fingers crossed tomorrow will be a less painful day than the day after…

Ps. Congratulations on your terrific weightloss so far!

I've already had this - and I'm still 50lb over the high end of my healthy BMI weight!! I just smiled - told them I had a "pound or two" more to lose and carried on as before! I plan on repeating this comment as often as necessary til I get to where I want to be. It's my body - I've got a healthy target in mind. As long as…

I eat mine. The thought of the extra food helps gets me up and moving! I know I would lose weight more quickly if I are back less of them - but I'm losing and I get to eat a decent amount if food - both of which make me happy!

I let my fitbit calculate all my step based activity - I never log it separately. That it's job! I do manually add my swimming (because I take it off), pilates and now my lifting - it doesn't know what to make of them

Thanks for the foam roller tips - I popped out and got one at lunchtime. I'm going to go for a walk in a minute and will try it out on my muscles when I get back. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day and I can get back into the few weights section :)

I definitely tried too hard this time! But it wasn't my regular training plan - I had a session with a trainer to make sure I was doing things properly - I did a lot of squats before he was happy with my form - and more than my regular training plan will contain!!

This seemed sensible - I just tried this - managed to lower myself very slowly - could not get back up! Had to use the wall to drag myself up again - perhaps I'm not quite there yet!! lol

Sorry - it's not what you want to hear - but you need to listen to the doctor. Give your body a chance to recover - then pick up the training again as soon as you have the all clear!

I like fuller for longer too - always tasty - and seems to be nicely balanced :)

So I left work - I headed to the gym - and lived through an hour of lifting. I managed to convince the trainer that was strength training I wanted - although he did try to talk me out of it. I stuck my ground - and he did what I asked without any fuss (whoop!). Turns out Stronglifts isn't for me right now - I can't squat!!…

The exercises are good. But there are better options Not tried the nutritoal program's - but if what you want is to lose weight a calorie deficit is what matters.

I wanted to ask the men in there in the week - but I felt so out of my depth I didn't know what to ask! So I decided to go with a session or two first - after that I'm brave / silly enough to go for it on my own or asking a few dumb questions when using the right words!! When I learned to dire a friend taught me how to…

I've told him I've been looking at Stronglifts and want to do that. He's already tried to talk me into other (more feminine, pink and glittery) programs. I've made it clear I don't want that! He has said he can help me with Stronglifts (I would have looked elsewhere otherwise). If he doesn't do that it'll be one session…

Ok. I'll admit it. I wimped out. I got to the gym, I looked at the men (only them in there) in the free weights section. They were all huge, muscles all over the place!! I told myself they all started somewhere, so I tried to ignore them - and looked at the weights. Realised that I had no idea what the hell I was looking…

That's great - thanks everyone. I've been doing ok so far - I didn't want to mess up my progress by getting it wrong now! Will have a look at the 5x5 ice cream one - I've been looking at Stronglifts and New Rules of Lifting for Women, and was thinking of going for Stronglifts initially - but it's nice to have more options…

Find something you enjoy and are going to want to do often - do that. For me that means swimming and dancing. But remember weightloss / fatloss is the result of diet - you'll only do it at a calorie deficit. Exercise helps increase a deficit / means you can eat a little more and still lose fat, but it isn't likely to be…

Good choice - I love mine. It definitely helps to keep more active most days. I still have my lazier days - but as it tells me how much I have burned that day I know how much less I can eat than usual (I've found the calories burned bit is pretty accurate for me). Hope you enjoy owning one as much of the rest of us do!

Thanks everyone - so far I've managed to stay away from the freezer by losing myself in a few posts on here. But there are still several hours left in the day - I'm sure that more than one of your suggestions will be helpful in keeping it that way!

Congratulations on the weight loss so far. You're doing great!! To have have put 8kg of fat whilst on a 5 day holiday you'd have had to eaten a hell of a lot of pasta and an ice cream the size of Rome! So something else is going on - probably water. Believe me I feel your pain, I'm starting to realise how much water my…

Have signed up too. I'm just Cazmo on there if anyone wants to add me.

Been dithering about starting this again for a couple of weeks now. You've made my mind up - I'm in!

I've dipped in and out of weight watchers a few times over the years. It works for me initially - the few 2 weeks can show pretty impressive weight losses. Then I stop / slow down on the water losses and my weight stalls. I quite liked the points aspect initally, its smaller numbers to count than calories, and it sounds…

Hi Matt I have the same amount as you left to lose (I've been here a few weeks now and am already 9 pounds down :)) Just popping in to say hi and good luck with it all too!! C

It makes me much more aware of how to balance my eating and how hard I have to work if I want more food!! I ate a huge lunch today - I was hungry and couldn't stop!! But I logged it. I now know if I want to eat anything more than a letttuce leaf tonight then I better make sure I hit the gym on my way home from work. Before…

I've just started too. I finished my second fast this morning. For those that have been doing this a bit longer - does it get easier not to overdo it on the non-fasting days - particularly the first meal after a fast?

I've just started too - only day 2 for me. I'm pretty achy at the moment - and have yet to do today's workout - but I'm weirdly loooking forward to putting myself through it again. I'm thinking of doing it pretty late on tonight - only because it left me feeling good for nothing else when I did it last night (on getting…